blonde poker forum

Yipppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

I just clocked that, Had enough of my gramaticaly appalling posts?

Tough i'm not using it, i'm unique in my inability to spell, construct sentences with a modicum of proificiancy, or put in a comma for once in my life, you wouldnt pick on rolf harris would you?

You've got too many 'e's in that.

Said the Bishop to Brian Harvey

apalling 5001st post   :redcard:      he he

Excelernt noos.

Wow, that's made me feel absolutely effervescent!

u whot?

I must admit, Ironsides posts have recently become a lot better, spelling wise anyway.

year awl rubissh

Well makes me happy (yes need it more then most)

Thanks Blonde.

(Blonde not in dictionary lol)

Proberly.

It's a miraculous innovation for literairy discombobulation

Where is it?   Draw me a map, so I can find it please? 

When you make a Post Sark - go on, try it now - at the bottom where the "SEND" & "PREVIEW" Buttons are there is now a "SPELL-CHECKER" Button too.

No expense spared.

Fanks Tokay.  I haadn't scene thatt beffore .  Eye apppreciate itt  :D

I think it's a pi$$take and i'm offended by it as it could make my 5 year old paranoid about spelling mistakes

Are you for real?

Or are you just pissed?

Why would you think i was pissed?
I think it's daft personally.

holy canolis...

Luckily, nobody is forced to use the Spell-Checker facility.

But many will welcome it, most especially all those who asked us to install it.

I love it, I used to have to open word and copy stuff to there.

Something else has surprised me, because I check my spelling (most of the time) I'm actually learning to spell.

Me too

IFM,

i think that when the management decide on certain forum changes,  the emotional stress it might potentially cause to a 5yr old child isn't going to be high on the list of things that they consider... although I might well be wrong about this

However, in light of this emotional outburst, maybe next time Tikay wants to make an amendment to the forum, he should go to his local primary school and take a poll to see if the changes will be welcomed or not.. that way we can all be safe in the knowledge that 5 year olds who might potentially stumble on a poker forum wont be unduly distressed

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not wishing to mock ifm, I believe he certainly has a case.

I think his concern is that the presence of a spell checker will make it appear to posters that they are now expected to check their spelling, when there was a previous consensus that this was clearly not the case on blonde.

He may also be concerned that it may change the attitudes of those pretentious enough to insist upon proper spelling from all. They had previosuly been stifled, but now that corrrecting ones spelling has become easier, he may be worried that such poo pooing of peoples letterage may return.

The misspellings will drop in number, and therefore when errors do occur, they will stick out more poignantly. By exercising his right not to use such a facility, he may be anxious that he, and others who don't wish to use it, will be mocked because they are now fewer in number.

Speaking as one of the aforementioned pretentious types, you can have my word that I will never instruct anyone to use said facility if they choose not to. If anyone does, and I'm feeling so inclined, I won't hesitate to jump all over them for suggesting such a thing.

Personally I think the spell check feature is a good thing, and will save many people time. After thinking about it for a while, I am sympathetic to the concerns of any who believe otherwise (and their 5 year olds.)

When exactly was this new function added?

As some will know criticising people for spelling or grammar is a pet hate of mine, the original post however was a joke.
Then nem decided that swearing at me and asking if i was pissed was appropriate (another whoosh methinks).
You are right Tank, that's what i think will happen, i asked Nem if he would like to pay me £10 for every instance of someone mentioning spelling now there is a spellcheck, he wisely declined.

Tomorrow I resolve to make no serious posts whatsoever (unless they are directly related to poker.)

I'm so far up my own ass today it's unreal.

I second that, get over yourself tank.  :D

LOL.

TBH, How many times has a poster on blonde been mocked for mis-spelling? Only twice since I've been here. It rarely happens, and now that the spell checker is avalible for everyone to use, it is very unlikely to happen again.

To be fair Nem, I've seen it twice in the last week.

As it is ifm's right not to use it if he so wishes, any misspellings in his posts will make them stand out, and thus more likely to be directly targeted by such criticisms.

(12 smileys so that this post can't be construed as serious)

 :ironside: :dd: ;ifm; ;topofclass; ;shark; ;tracet; :respect: ;reallyamsorry; :tikay: ;karabiner; ;cheerleader; ;technophobe;

LOL

LOL ask Bolt!
There were entire threads deleted because some people went out of their way to belittle posters spelling.
Ironside deleted them, i tell no lies.

Nem

I beg to differ

Got me all worried about my spelling here.

I seem to remember there was a member that was torn apart about spelling and grammer, so bad so that someone even offered paying for schooling, this went on quite awhile.

 It made me use word for all my spelling and then paste to the forum.

 So you don’t remember the last time you saw someone taking the micky out of someone’s bad spelling? Try looking at yesterday’s posts.

That’s why I asked when this new feature was added. Not having a pop mate, just telling you how it is.

Here is a thead that was born from it.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=6852.0

This is an example of the criticism :-

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=6389.0

yes i think the second one is where it all started.

You needn't on this of all threads.

Any mistakes in your arrangement of letters can be passed off as an ironic joke.

Those are the 2 threads I'm on about ::)

I didn’t know we were allowed to joke on blonde, its all gone crazy ( I apologize to any real crazy people reading this)  :D

That's allright bundle, no offence taken. :)

Apology accepted  :D

In the last week.....

RedSimon to inthebelly on the Online Gambling Debts thread.

Tightend to M3boy on the Father's Day thread.

thetank to everyone on the fictional thread in my mind.

....and another I can't quite remember, but was sure I saw it somewhere.

your/youre was a joke on him being perfect.

Tightend slagging off M3boy's spelling?  Ineed proof for that one.

You didn’t have to remove that part nem. 8)

I have no problem with it mate. I use word to write everything, I have it set to English (USA) so yes it will spell words differently and who am I to argue with it, I’m lost without it.

Yes it was the father’s day thread I was referring to. That’s why I was asking when did we get this new feature?

Monday 19th.

(http://www.photo.net/photo/pcd1647/giraffe-head-55.4.jpg)

Thank you Nem. 

The day after M3boys post. 

For those who are against the new facility, type in the name of this forum (blonde) and see what the spellchecker does.

Some irony you could utilize for your cause can surely be derived from that.

yeah i went for this one:blender

What a waste of time and money!!! I see this thread, realize we have a new toy to play with until our hearts are content and so decide once and for all to end the age old argument.

blondite or blondeite

IT DOESNT ******* RECOGNIZE EITHER!!!!

stupid modern technology.........

 :D :D :D lol

Now all that is required is a sarcasm detector, a prejudice locator and an "add gratuitous mockery for flushie being effeminate" button and all blonde posts will be complete

no, there's also a general monkey abuse detector needed :D

No need for that squire, all you need to is just seek out any of the posts i've made on blonde and sure enough usually directly after the post is the general monkey abuse.

No detector needed there!! ;)

a monkey bull**** detector - now thats something completely different and probably well worth the £4.99 or however much they are now at most decent computer retail outlets..............

Although the new checker highlights spelling and may make members expect it from others, people who were mocked before may choose to use the checker now, therby resulting in less errors, and consequently less mockery. Therefore, the level of mockery will probably balance out.

nope, the level of mockery will continue at its usual high level, it will just all be aimed in your direction now instead........... ;)

It won't mark out the here   vs    hear



or



their   there   they're

Nor will it fry an egg.  ;tk;

No, it won't. because they are not spelling errors - they are the wrong words, but spelt correctly.......

and here's me thinking I was being facetious!

One of only 2 words in the english language to use all the vowels, once only, in the right order.

Pint of lemonade at BB3 to whoever can get the other one.

AERIOUS
Can i have a vodka in it?

Bugger - there's more than the 2.... there's 8.  ;goodvevil; To many smart-arses googlers on Blonde...

That wasn't the one I was looking for.... the one I'm looking for had a clue in the drink offer....

Have the headings on the forum always been scroll down?   I never realised if you hold your mouse cursor over the bits at the top of the page  HOME  ESSENTIALS  COMMUNITY  etc.  They have a scroll down bit. 

That is scary.  I have been here for 17 days and 10hrs and never noticed that before.  :D

I think that is also a "new addition"

I can see the reasoning behind putting them on, but they are driving me nuts already!

So that's two of us......

I can see the reasoning behind putting them on, but they are driving me nuts already![/color]
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me too

No, that's brand new.

The idea is that it makes it easier to navigate across to the Main Site which is something we need to get Members to do.

We want to carry ads on the main Site, & keep them to a minimum (BPL apart) on the Forum, but unless Members go to the Main Site more often, that won't work. So we are trying to encourage more traffic by making it easier to get across.

I had agreed with everyone that under no circumstances was the change to be implemented without me knowing in advance, so that I could forewarn the Members - they don't like the place altered without them being made aware. Clearly, there was a communication fauilure. My apologies.

I have no problem with them being in place, and understand why they are there, but It's making it easier to navigate anywhere but where I want to go!!! Is it possible to get them to change them from a "rollover" event to a "on click" event?

I find the roll over a pain in the @$$ when on the main site, cos you can bet your life it drops down and covers over what I really want to get to!!


I'm with Jane on this one - clickable not roll over please.

I will have to defer to the Techies on this - I have no idea what roll-overs & clickables are.

Quite simple Tikay, as they are now, when you hover over (rollover) the links they drop down automatically, "on click" means the menu only drops down... when it's clicked! lol

I've just noticed it doesn't look right when using FireFox either...

Elaborate please.......

It's been fixed now :dontask: