Early Risers.

[grandadbob]

Oh yes it does

 

and again 

 

Now it's OK

Edited January 12, 2023 by grandadbob

[BoD]

3 minutes ago, grandadbob said:

Oh yes it does

 

and again 

 

Now it's OK

 

See post by DaveF a couple before yours, Bob

[BoD]

Work has taken place to try and resolve dust issues which are affecting some lounge furniture.

 

[grandadbob]

Further to my earlier post and in case of any doubt or confusion MOG in my case means Miserable Old  Git!  🙃

[AndyID]

10 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

I believe that there is still a station on the glasgow suburban network called Singer.  I remember going past the factory on the train in the 70's.

 

Jamie

 

Yes, the Singer factory at Clydebank. You'd have been on one of the Blue Trains with the panoramic windscreen.

[PupCam]

2 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

If you hover the cursor over the rating box it sometimes says 'go to top' but if you click hard you will get the rating you want.

 

1 hour ago, DaveF said:

 

The up arrow to return to the top of the page, which on my PC is on the lower left, is actually not just a small arrow.  There is an invisible horizontal line from it right across the screen, clicking anywhere on that invisible line takes you to the top of the screen.

 

If you move your mouse slowly down the screen you can see the pointer changes to a hand where it reaches the invisible line.

 

You just have to make sure that where you are clicking is not in line with the arrow.

 

So it does.    That is just plain stupid behaviour whether by accident or design.   If I want to "Go to the Top of the Page" I should have to click on the icon for that function not anywhere on an invisible line covering the whole screen.    Just plain ridiculous!

 

Alan (also a MoG)

 

Edited January 12, 2023 by PupCam

[woodenhead]

Remember there are other options to get to the top of the page:

• Press the Home button on your keyboard
• Press the PgUp button on your keyboard for a more leisurely button pressy experience up the page
• Use the scroll wheel on your mouse if you have one
• Drag the slidebar on the right hand side of the screen to the top
  • Are click on the up indicator of the scroll bar
  • Or click just below the up indicator of the scroll bar and watch the page move down until you reach the top again.

There's much fun to be had finding your favourite alternative to the button 😀

[Tony_S]

I really must look at RMWeb on my PC to see all these RWWeb screen issues. I usually use my iPad in portrait mode so have seen very few changes or odd behaviour. 

Edited January 12, 2023 by Tony_S

[grandadbob]

If you were to look closely at me Tony you might find that I sometimes behave oddly!  🤪

[AndyID]

6 hours ago, Tony_S said:

It was SMD that made me end my membership of MERG. I saw a demonstration at an exhibition. The demonstrator was soldering surface mounted components onto a pcb. At an appropriate moment I asked a question about the solder. I got a terse reply “Go on a course”. I rephrased my question (very politely) and got the answer “Go on a course”. 

 

I pulled the MERG plug too. I got fed up trying to explain how to deal with the interference produced by model railways and its effects on digital electronic circuits.

[BoD]

21 minutes ago, grandadbob said:

If you were to look closely at me Tony you might find that I sometimes behave oddly!  🤪

In portrait or landscape?

[AndyID]

8 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

Not sure if this will show in a photo taken through the window, but the rain here is like a corny 50's Hollywood hosepipe job.

 

 

Literally in sheets bouncing back up off the waiting room roof etc.

 

In other news - it's raining, 8c and a howling gale here.  Baz tells its 35c plus in his neck of the woods....pah!

 

Referred to as "stoating" in Glasgow.

 

Also, a very attractive young lady might be referred to as "a wee stoater" 😀

[jamie92208]

1 hour ago, AndyID said:

 

Yes, the Singer factory at Clydebank. You'd have been on one of the Blue Trains with the panoramic windscreen.

Yes the first time would have been in September 73 though I might have seen it from a Mk 1 coach in 1970 on my way back from Mallaig after a trip on the old Loch Seaforth from Stornoway mind you my main memories of that trip took place on a bench behind the funnel.

15 minutes ago, BoD said:

In portrait or landscape?

He probably starts off in portrait then slowly subsides to landscape as the bottles get emptied.

 

Here it's been windy and raining but a minor miracle occurred.  Several itemscposted in early December in the UK turned up including a book for me posted 9/12/22.

 

Jamie

[Coombe Barton]

... Marking. Trying to say something different about each one is stretching creativity. And it's still an insomnia cure. ...

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2023/01/12/expected-variants-rural-china-and-the-eu-in-the-wake-of-brexit/

[Ozexpatriate]

4 hours ago, DaveF said:

The up arrow to return to the top of the page, which on my PC is on the lower left, is actually not just a small arrow.  There is an invisible horizontal line from it right across the screen, clicking anywhere on that invisible line takes you to the top of the screen.

Dave, your 'invisible line' is the top edge of a rectangular white stripe extending to the bottom of the window that contains three sections of advertising - they can even overlap when the window size changes:

 

Clicking in the region of the rectangle will link to advertised content when an ad is present. Ads are not always present. For me, only clicking in the area of the "Back to Top" arrow results in that action.

 

Strange results here are likely related to attempts to program ads/no ads functionality on top of software not designed for that purpose.

 

Sans advertising content it looks like this:

Edited January 12, 2023 by Ozexpatriate

[New Haven Neil]

I get the whizzing to the top when clicking the 'post' (OK, Submit Reply) button.  It is fair to say I am getting 'fair fed up' (other less charitable phrases are available) of all these glitches, especially as we now pay not to have the adverts we ......still have.  Not blaming Andy Y, it's the goons in their IT department that can't seem to test anything before ruining the live site.  Yes, it's a rant, and I am not apologising, it's been days.....

Edited January 12, 2023 by New Haven Neil

[iL Dottore]

24 minutes ago, Coombe Barton said:

... Marking. Trying to say something different about each one is stretching creativity. And it's still an insomnia cure. ...

https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2023/01/12/expected-variants-rural-china-and-the-eu-in-the-wake-of-brexit/

How about “I expected your work to be completely, inadequate, and – true to form – you failed to live down to my expectations”

 

or what about the classic: “your work is both interesting and original; unfortunately, the interesting parts aren’t original, and the original parts aren’t interesting“

 

Or how about: “The quality of your deductions clearly proves that ze little grey cells were definitely not agitated this time around”

[Ozexpatriate]

Starting out on my walk I heard sirens - more than for a 'normal' callout.

 

By the time I was heading home (45 minutes later) I saw the flashing lights of emergency vehicles parked on the street where I was walking. My first thought of "someone's having a very bad day" quickly changed. There were an awful lot of them - I don't know how many alarm call outs it entailed, but there were at least three or four fire stations' worth of appliances, including ambulances - not something you would normally see without a very big column of smoke. Streets were closed around a cul-de-sac and equipment was everywhere.

 

I've no idea what it was about though they had busted out "a lot" of oxygen cylinders. The tip-off might have been a van from the natural gas utility parked in the area. There was no obvious sign of a disaster and any urgency was over. Hopefully the response was an abundance of caution.

[Ozexpatriate]

7 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

It is fair to say I am getting 'fair fed up' (other less charitable phrases are available) of all these glitches, especially as we now pay not to have the adverts we ......still have. 

Ironically, despite the sucky page layout (of which I am no fan), everything is working 'nominally' for me, someone who is not paying a premium to avoid the ads.

 

The 'Back to Top' button (which I don't use) works as intended for me.

[Barry O]

Yes, it's not Andy Y he is as frustrated as everyone else about it. Seems better now than it was earlier in the week.

 

Ads have gone on my Samsung tablet...

 

Baz

[DaveF]

25 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Dave, your 'invisible line' is the top edge of a rectangular white stripe extending to the bottom of the window that contains three sections of advertising - they can even overlap when the window size changes:

 

Clicking in the region of the rectangle will link to advertised content when an ad is present. Ads are not always present. For me, only clicking in the area of the "Back to Top" arrow results in that action.

 

Strange results here are likely related to attempts to program ads/no ads functionality on top of software not designed for that purpose.

 

Sans advertising content it looks like this:

 

I hadn't had that problem as I don't get adverts as I signed up for Gold ages ago.  But it is good for people to be aware of it.

 

David

[New Haven Neil]

Yes I see now the Up Button works across the entire screen as if it were a bar, so can try to avoid it, but the Digitrains advert appears at the side partially covering posts, and in between posts jumping about as I scroll.  It is driving me nuts.

 

I'm off to Western Thunder to calm down.

[Ozexpatriate]

41 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

... the Digitrains advert appears at the side partially covering posts

Can you not close it? It has a 'click-to-close' button that works for me on a Windows/Chrome platform. (I don't remember if you might use some sort of mobile platform.)

 

Literally every time I scroll past the second post on a page I have to click the floating Digitrains ad to close it. It's automatic 'muscle memory' now.

 

Edited January 12, 2023 by Ozexpatriate

[Sidecar Racer]

55 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

I get the whizzing to the top when clicking the 'post' (OK, Submit Reply) button. 

This seems to happen when the submit reply button lines up with  the

up arrow ,just happened to me in another thread .

 

Edited January 12, 2023 by Sidecar Racer

[monkeysarefun]

14 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

It’s scientifically proven that @polybear may be on to something: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4285966/

 

Mind you, I think that an explosive charge might be a wee bit overkill. With the snake curled around the mechanism, it’s a sitting target. A 7mm dum-dum bullet to the head, a bit of a wash and brush up for the photocopier and you’ll be back xeroxing in no time…

 

Feathered or furred or covered in scales, they are all little Aussies!  and its against The Law to hurt them, at the cost of a $10,000 fine and a year in jail. Also, unless you are a member of a pistol-club or use one for your work, you'd be up on  firearms offences too....

 

All up, just pay the snake bloke to come and get it. They always have cool anecdotes about interesting places they've found snakes, and they'll take it away and release it closer to someone else's printer .

 

As a bonus, one that I called a few years ago turned out to be a lady snake catcher, early twenties, had come from a pool party so was dressed in bikini, unbuttoned khaki shirt thrown quickly  over the top and workboots. Was totally  awesome like I'd phoned up Lara Croft or something. , had to stop myself from spending the afternoon going "And I think I saw one over there earlier, and oh and I recall seeing another down by the shed..... " etc. 

Edited January 13, 2023 by monkeysarefun