Heh heh! The good news is you now get to see a date on the comment timestamps (that's been buggin' me for years). Even better news is I relented and used the dd-Mmm-yyyy format instead of inflicting a European dd/mm/yyyy on the Yanks. However, in recompense I have decided we will all be in the GMT timezone. Gives me a better idea of when it's time for bed.
I'll check in on your blog from time to time Zeyad. Gimme back the old format and I need no substitute. Always liked your blog and it's the one I've kept with for the longest time.
That's not to say I disapprove in any way of how you have been speaking your mind more openly recently - hell that revived the comment section quite a bit for a while.
But, I find that the most recent changes with the bulk being in arabic, the strange formatting, the banning of (admittedly obnoxious) commenters, there's just not that much attraction there.
Why ban Lee? He's a mouthpiece for any US agenda. He stupidly cheers elitist pojects even though they will hurt him himself. He's obtuse and annoying. But he's fun to kick around when you feel like doing so.
OK, I get that Lee is pretty much immune to abuse. And that the only way to really "hurt" him is to cut him off. But that also deprives us of the fun in kicking him around in the future.
+1 on what Marcus said (the first bit anyway). We're just in a holding pattern until/if healingiraq comes back.
Re: Lee C, he's invited to come and comment here. You can kick him around with rational argument or ignore him, but the site policy is that there won't be any more gratuitous cussin'. That applies to everyone, me included.
I'm a pro at what? Well, Lynnette already found out that I am only a pro at adding tons of useless smileys to the wordpress plugin on my own blog. Sorry about that.
Lynnette has also shamelessly been promoting this here blog. So here I am.
*pokes around in a corner*
*looks under the rug*
*eyes snacks*
Hhhhhm-hm.
Oirish, hm? The Oirish really seem to love their "oi"s. I remember, way back when, I called this Irish Pub to find out about possible reservations and ticket prices for Skyclad. Ah, bw, they weren't so clear yet on what to charge, reservations weren't possible, but I was advised to get there "oily". Rrrrright.
That sounds more like a 'New Yoik' accent. In Oirland you'd get there 'urrrrrrrrly'. That's if we had a concept of urrrrrrrrly. A German colleague once complained that he left our office to catch the 18.05 bus, but it didn't arrive until 18.21. We tried to explain that bus timetables in Oirland are works of fiction, and that 18.21 had no special significance, being just the normal random selection between "late" and "very late". Although, "very late" could be just the 19.05 bus arriving urrrrrrrrly.
Anyway thanks for the smoileys :)
P.S. Lynnette may have slightly over-egged this two-post blog.
Hmmm...apparently Oirland runs on different time than does England. I distinctly remember having to run to catch the train there. Not easy to do when dragging one's baggage behind...
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Hi Petes. :)
Are you going to enable smileys? I've always liked those. I like the little Run for the Hills guy. lol!
I don't think I know how to do that. I'm new to this blogging lark. Only here under duress, as you know ;-/
Heh heh! The good news is you now get to see a date on the comment timestamps (that's been buggin' me for years). Even better news is I relented and used the dd-Mmm-yyyy format instead of inflicting a European dd/mm/yyyy on the Yanks. However, in recompense I have decided we will all be in the GMT timezone. Gives me a better idea of when it's time for bed.
I'm gonna just experiment with moving the comments to a separate page ... things may get a little strange for a short while.
That's always bugged me about the date no being there too. You don't have a good feel of how the conversation flows then.
I will try to think up a post if you want. We could do the science thing, or the music thing, or current events or all of the above. :)
I can ask Mel about how to enable smileys. She's a pro at that.
So ya guyz leaving me :(((
Found a new target to milk?
Bah, your turn to "milk" us. ;) Turnabout is fair play...
Not leaving you Zeyad. Just need somewhere to talk without the deluge of vile language for a while.
poor ting. got hiz feelingz hurt from da 'vile' Languijiez
go hide under MAma's skirt
I'll check in on your blog from time to time Zeyad. Gimme back the old format and I need no substitute. Always liked your blog and it's the one I've kept with for the longest time.
That's not to say I disapprove in any way of how you have been speaking your mind more openly recently - hell that revived the comment section quite a bit for a while.
But, I find that the most recent changes with the bulk being in arabic, the strange formatting, the banning of (admittedly obnoxious) commenters, there's just not that much attraction there.
Why ban Lee? He's a mouthpiece for any US agenda. He stupidly cheers elitist pojects even though they will hurt him himself. He's obtuse and annoying. But he's fun to kick around when you feel like doing so.
OK, I get that Lee is pretty much immune to abuse. And that the only way to really "hurt" him is to cut him off. But that also deprives us of the fun in kicking him around in the future.
+1 on what Marcus said (the first bit anyway). We're just in a holding pattern until/if healingiraq comes back.
Re: Lee C, he's invited to come and comment here. You can kick him around with rational argument or ignore him, but the site policy is that there won't be any more gratuitous cussin'. That applies to everyone, me included.
I'm a pro at what?
Well, Lynnette already found out that I am only a pro at adding tons of useless smileys to the wordpress plugin on my own blog.
Sorry about that.
Lynnette has also shamelessly been promoting this here blog. So here I am.
*pokes around in a corner*
*looks under the rug*
*eyes snacks*
Hhhhhm-hm.
Oirish, hm? The Oirish really seem to love their "oi"s.
I remember, way back when, I called this Irish Pub to find out about possible reservations and ticket prices for Skyclad.
Ah, bw, they weren't so clear yet on what to charge, reservations weren't possible, but I was advised to get there "oily". Rrrrright.
That sounds more like a 'New Yoik' accent. In Oirland you'd get there 'urrrrrrrrly'. That's if we had a concept of urrrrrrrrly. A German colleague once complained that he left our office to catch the 18.05 bus, but it didn't arrive until 18.21. We tried to explain that bus timetables in Oirland are works of fiction, and that 18.21 had no special significance, being just the normal random selection between "late" and "very late". Although, "very late" could be just the 19.05 bus arriving urrrrrrrrly.
Anyway thanks for the smoileys :)
P.S. Lynnette may have slightly over-egged this two-post blog.
Maybe he was an Irishman who spent some time in New York?
Heehee, I think I like the Irish attitude to time; I'm very un-German when it comes to punctuality.
Well, maybe she did. But only slightly. :D
Hmmm...apparently Oirland runs on different time than does England. I distinctly remember having to run to catch the train there. Not easy to do when dragging one's baggage behind...
Hi Mel!
*waves*
Oh, you have to run to catch the train in Oirland too. Murphy's Law states that no matter how random the arrival time is, you'll always just miss one.
Lynnette!
Fancy meeting you here of all places!!!!
*enthusiastically waves back*
(Sorry, Petes, for spamming around here.)
Spamming is the raison d'être of this blog. The articles are just paragraph marks between the comments, to allow breath to be drawn.
I think I already love this blog.
Unfortunately, this is bed time.
:)
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