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Great - just tried to post the sequence and it didn't work!!!! This is the MacBook Pro version - slightly different to UT's
Go to GMB and open message bx
There you go - give it a go.Post edited by Appy61 at 2014-05-23 17:31:59What if the Hokey Cokey is what it's all about? -
Alison does her 'little teapot'
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ.
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit.
Shall lure it back to cancal half a line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. -
Ok. tried for 30 minutes trying to post the above on an IPad and failed miserably. Sure I have done this before but no go tonight.
On a PC, go to your Flickr photostream and click on the photo you want to use once, so it is the only picture on the screen. On the right appears a long black box with various options of what to do in it, one of which is three little circles near the right edge. Click this and a list of further options appears, one of which is 'download all sizes'. Click this and more boxes appear. Next to a blue rectangle with 'download' in it is 'view all sizes'. Click this and the available picture sizes pop up. I always select medium for the board, so click this and another version of the photo pops up. Right click on the photo and yet more options pop up, one of which is 'copy image location'. Click this and we are done with Flickr.
Go to the board and in the empty post box, type whatever you want to say and then click the 'post image' box on the top ribbon (looks like a TV screen). Highlight and delete the 'http://' which is already in there and then right click in the box and then paste. In goes the photo link from Flickr. Click submit and then voila, your photo should appear.
Here is a dog dressed like Yoda using the technique above.
Post edited by Urban_Tribesman at 2014-05-23 17:42:56The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ.
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit.
Shall lure it back to cancal half a line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. -
Flickr say this is not the way to do it and you should use the 'Share' button and use the 'image location' info. If you do it this way, bugger all happens except an empty rectangular box in your post so Flickr talk shite really.
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ.
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit.
Shall lure it back to cancal half a line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. -
So there you have it Kat. How to do it with a PC or a Mac. Kinky.
A dog dressed as Yoda and doughnuts that look like chesseburgers. You couldn't make it up.
Doughnuts. M'mm!
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ.
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit.
Shall lure it back to cancal half a line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. -
Urban_Tribesman said:
You used to click on the picture so it was the only thing on the screen, right click and then hit copy picture location or URL whatever it said.
This is how photobucket works currently.
If I were dead, could I do this? -
Thanks for all the above help and the time it's taken you all to post this. I shall endeavour again this as soon as I'm able. V busy weekend, my little exhibition starts tonight, cripes!
Love the Yoda piccy! And UT, we must get together, I do a mean Marg Simpson impression, you can be my Homie.
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Post edited by Urban_Tribesman at 2014-05-24 06:24:43The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ.
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit.
Shall lure it back to cancal half a line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. -
Ah the English language no wonder people have difficulty learning it.
http://www.tickld.com/funny/t/824613What if the Hokey Cokey is what it's all about? -
Didn't say it was - you need to read what is on the page rather than what think is on the page. All second languages can be difficult and people don't have as much problem learning English these days because of the globalisation of the language by the English speaking media and entertainment. People do have problems with the some of the nuances demonstrated in the Poem. Above all you really need to lighten up!What if the Hokey Cokey is what it's all about?
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Actually, about the easiest languages to learn are supposed to be Korean and Italian because they are both phoneitic. Each Korean character is actually a phonem. What's difficult? Depends on what you know. Chinese is a pain in the ass for a westerner. Pretty much abstract characters with little or no hint of pronunciation. And, you need to know about 2,000 different characters, relatively unrelated, to be able to read a newspaper. It's supposed to take six years for a westerner but I've known people who learned it rather fluently in a couple of years. I am so jealous of Benelux folks. They have a real edge over most anyone else in learning a language. Pretty easy for Japanese to learn Chinese since they use a similar character set. For Asians, English ranks right up there with pain in the ass. Has to do with the quirky idioms, I think. Or is that quirky idiots? I'm not sure.
A couple of other kind of interesting facts. You'll never see a western word adopted into the Chinese language. And, the Japanese will pick up and modify any old word from any old language, if they like it. They have a saying in Japan. They are born Shinto (Japanese religion), marry Christian (they like the ceremony), and die Buddhist. The Shinto gods are hilarious. If you go visit one of their temples, you have to bring a pocketful of change to thow in a bucket to wake them up. Cool gods.
Post edited by Whickwithy at 2014-05-24 21:08:09 -
The Appy's and the UT's have had many a discussion (well me banging on probably and them nodding saying 'yes UT) about English and it's flexibility. Like WW says for Japanese, English is a magpie language and will happily pick up any word or phrases it likes from anyone else's language (or just make words up) and pop it in their along with all the other words and no-one gives a monkeys about it. We spend a lot of time in France and they have a real bug up their arse about it and actually tried to stop French being infiltrated by other words; particularly English ones. Of course, the kids paid no attention what so ever and it is funny to read a passage of French text and all of a sudden, up pops a word or two in English. Appy's cousin who lives in France (having been married to a Frenchy) is a language teacher and was once asked to translate an article that was in English into French about the 2nd world war. She came to a part that included the phrase 'parachute bomb', as in a bomb that was dropped with a parachute attached to it, and without using about 20 French words, could not come up with 2 or 3 words to translate this original content. Don't get me started on genderising nouns. If you use the wrong gender with your nouns in French, no-one understands what you are talking about. Le or La? We go for the non committal Luh!
So enjoy English. The nearest we seem to have to a universal babel fish of a language. Mangle it, do not genderise the nouns, rearrange the order of words in a sentence, add whatever foreign words you like or even make some up; no one gives a shit, we all manage to understand! (Well, except Geordie's. What is that all about?)
I once stood in The middle of nowhere in Turkey and witnessed end a Norwegian talking to an Italian. The language of choice? Well English of course.
Viva la Week-End !Post edited by Urban_Tribesman at 2014-05-25 06:37:23The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ.
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit.
Shall lure it back to cancal half a line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
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