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Unfortunately I missed the Botham, Richards and Garner as I was too young to know what cricket was
all I got to experience was the noise and a very quick peak through the fence on the way home from sunday school.
The only good thing about sunday school was my brother could answer all the religious questions and got rewarded with sweets.
Jimmy Cook was my first cricketing hero, the only problem with the team he was in was that the rest of them were pretty much crap. Cook and Roebuck would weigh in with a 150 run opening partnership but the team would be all out not long after.
A Hughes loss to the forum, I’d say so
although I once had him foaming at the mouth with my “Pro County and Anti Test” thoughts
which I still hold
Don’t tell him next time you visit for afternoon tea and biscuits..Charles Darwin to conquer the World
Is there any point having a total posts assigned to a poster
they are dropping like flies…
Charles Darwin to conquer the World
Cricket is a country game,
like dots of sheep grazing on a far off hill, but rather uniform cucumber sandwiches on a china plate and teaspoons around a village green and down the lane.Bats bales and butter and chewing the cud and cups of tea and the village clock an hour behind and some second hand laughter.
Forums can be places of tranquility and quiet reflection….
As they chatter away in tbe clubhouse the clever ones are stretched out on the green steeped in the stupor of sounds of silence, bar the odd friendly buzz, their eyes peeling the fading rays of the s*n. Grace and heat inside, bliss and warmth outside, and on a traditional old lazy, roast and slippers, Sunday with a pair of bored wellies waiting at the bus stop but more usually, like Bill and Ben hearing footsteps coming down the garden path, like frozen sentries, by the front door.
Should be a committee on that one Nathan. Do you ever think to take a break and go down river ?
Remember, it was Razeen that established the rule, that if asked a question, just refuse to answer it. He also used to go off for three or four days at a time, sometimes weeks.
Interesting look back Drone on three days in the sun. I was always off at silly point but loved the slowness and sound of a cracking leather ball.
Mac said the lounge is not everyone’s cup of tea. Thank God for small mercies – the tranquility and slow moving pages are much appreciated.
Have some old, noisy bluebottles been swatted Nathan, do tell
Cormack’s recent decision to encase his bunker with fly-paper will prevent the babbity-bumble of troublesome former correspondents from gaining surreptitious re-entry through the cracked skylights, more’s the pity
You can check out but you can never leave
The posters are all well and safely tucked (fly papered) away for the day, as far as I know
The strange thing that is happening is to the total posts by a user under their name, I thought they went up after a post but they were going down the other day..
Charles Darwin to conquer the World
Had you accounted for the fact that at least one of your posts in here was removed and this may have been the reason your total count dropped ?
Total posts is a static number and like the flies in here do not move up or down. All part of the strange.
I do believe the personalised registration change was implemented after one inspired poster and the King of past posts opened his surprising palace to the public.
I did not realise anything had been removed gamble
I was a few away from 20350 but it went down to lower than what it is now
not too fussed but didn’t know whether it was a bug or something
Perhaps the forum were having a clear up on old posts/photosCharles Darwin to conquer the World
The reason that “manual registration” has been introduced is to stop the “Chinese spammers” infiltrating and bringing the forum down to a state that it is unusable.
A Chinese lady once gave me spring onions
I was in need of them for my son who was cooking at school and the shop and supermarkets
were all sold outCharles Darwin to conquer the World
They might threaten to sell us spring onions possibly old cars or some of your old canned four star Matron, but lets have us a reality check here – or at least enlighten me. Good of you to highlight the problem but please clarify after my twopenneth.
In my look back in time on here I read dozens of really old threads not just here in the fly jar but in the meat section. Only uncovered one active link to an advertised site that was still active and offering services for payment. That was from a man I came across on a tube station in central London many years ago holding a large bunch of flowers and he noticed I had a sly sideway eye on him and acted accordingly and moved away. He had a seemingly close relationship with Mac back in the day and his services were subject to some selective criticism – will come back to him in a min.
I appreciate these small group of disrespectful Chinese are clever and can use botnets to change usernames after a few postings, but would they bother given the size of our active membership – our forty or so productive diehards and possibly the same number of once in a whilers. There is only one poster of late that I have noticed might mimic a bot but he has plumped it for the time being in an armchair and has his feet up.
Of the ten biggest spam orgos five are US based and the biggest Canadian pharmacy is based in Ukraine. One big one in China and India has a couple etc…
Our emails are hidden are they not
You are the expert I am not good at forensically weighing up cyber threats. I thought it was a breath of feesh air to see King unburden his fine worded duplicity and surely the threat of clones is a Grade 2 while Chinese spammers, well they mright sell us some unworkable woks, but surely hidden in the very back pews of our humble church.
Well the highly acclaimed jockey Richard Dunwoody has the active link but it is so far buried in dust and time I doubt anyone would find it even after a day of hard scraping. Some tipster services can be good and it may be one of those – I have never used one but some probably do provide value and over time. I thought it was rather clever of him to get through the net. Haven’t worked out who the flowers were for – it was high noon !!!
I may be completely off the beaten track because I am not even aware if there is a time period to self edit or remove posts. Doesn’t seem to be any instruction I can put my finger on either.
The trouble with the “Chinese spammers” is they start topic after topic with the same content.
If “auto-registration” is on they will just automatically re-register with slightly different details if you ban them; as you are deleting threads another flood appears. (This is not just 3 or 4 posts.)
The only people that can see your email address that you registered with are the admin team.
I do know the the edit feature is turned-off when the competitions are running but, Cormack might have turned it off.
My thought yesterday was about chinks in the software and I spent time ruminating exactly why this thought had so amused me, and its significance as a lighthearted signpost on the road to racism,and how this now unacceptable humour, is still deeply ingrained in many – but outside the laughter halls – and largely I surmise in the plus 40 population 60% of which voted to seperate themselves from 26 other countries with different geographies and ways.
So these are malicious attacks and nothing to do with financial gain. Thank you for your input Matron.
I do mostly look through my posts and try to pick out errors – but they do seem to show up after I have posted.
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