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[Toast 16,141]

6 minutes ago, Paul Bearer said:

But, didn't he die before his time? 

 

That wasn't the question.  But I think you're trolling me now.

[msc 18,477]

2 minutes ago, Toast said:

 

That wasn't the question.  But I think you're trolling me now.

 

He's a Scot, its Hogmanay, I suspect:

 

[Paul Bearer 6,102]

19 minutes ago, msc said:

 

He's a Scot, its Hogmanay, I suspect:

 

How the hell did you get into my kitchen? 

[Lafaucheuse 4,051]

42 minutes ago, msc said:

Well, there is a grim one. Robert Lees was a screenwriter who worked with Abbott and Costello and withstood McCarthy era blacklisting, only to be gruesomely murdered by a spree killer on the verge of his 92nd birthday.

 

Also that Polish plane crash in 2010 that wiped out the entire government also killed a WW2 resistance leader vet who was in his 90s.

Thx that was What i was Waiting ! If you have some more I’d love 

[Toast 16,141]

This is probably just me, but when unread topics are displayed they are showing in the Expanded form instead of Condensed.

I have clicked the Condensed button, but it's not changing anything.

Anyone else got this?   I've tried in Firefox and Chrome, with the same result.

@Cat O'Falk  any ideas?

[Prophet 251]

18 hours ago, Lafaucheuse said:

Thx that was What i was Waiting ! If you have some more I’d love 

Frère Roger was murdered in 2005 at the age of 90 by a mentally ill women. He was the founder of the Taizé Community.

Rudolf Heß (last member of the Nazi Government) commited suicide by hanging at the age of 93 in 1987.

[Handrejka 1,904]

20 hours ago, Lafaucheuse said:

Thx that was What i was Waiting ! If you have some more I’d love 

 

While not  quite as old,  America actor Victor Kilian was beaten to death in his home by burglars. In a morbid coincidence one of his co-stars in his last television outing was another elderly actor , Charles Wagenheim who was also beaten to death in his home.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Kilian

 

Then there is Erich Loest, German writer who committed suicide by defenestration aged 87 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Loest

 

This guy was another who jumped to his death, aged 91

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirko_Ellis

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

3 hours ago, Toast said:

This is probably just me, but when unread topics are displayed they are showing in the Expanded form instead of Condensed.

I have clicked the Condensed button, but it's not changing anything.

Anyone else got this?   I've tried in Firefox and Chrome, with the same result.

@Cat O'Falk  any ideas?

 

I've always had it set to expanded and it displays it for a fleeting moment before displaying condensed. I've just toggled it from one to the other but it still displays condensed no matter where it's set. 

[Toast 16,141]

Still expanding for me, no matter what I press.

[msc 18,477]

21 minutes ago, Toast said:

Still expanding for me, no matter what I press.

 

[Sir Creep 7,070]

23 hours ago, Toast said:

Still expanding for me, no matter what I press.

I been having that issue as well when posting.  However when I come back to the site all my posts look normal.

[Death Impends 7,977]

On 31/12/2019 at 17:01, Lafaucheuse said:

Thx that was What i was Waiting ! If you have some more I’d love 

 

A few more examples of unnatural deaths of people older than 90:

 

Mario Monicelli, Italian screenwriter, jumped out of a window aged 95 after being hospitalized for cancer

Joe Rollino, bodybuilder who was either 93 or 104, died after being hit by a car

Scott Nearing, activist, refused all food once he turned 100 and died 18 days after

[ThePrematureBurial 224]

1 hour ago, Death Impends said:

 

A few more examples of unnatural deaths of people older than 90:

 

Mario Monicelli, Italian screenwriter, jumped out of a window aged 95 after being hospitalized for cancer

Joe Rollino, bodybuilder who was either 93 or 104, died after being hit by a car

Scott Nearing, activist, refused all food once he turned 100 and died 18 days after

 

Terminally ill people who die by their own hands are not uncommon. Some practice even in workshops organized by activists like Chris Docker. (Who wrote the useless "Five last acts". He recommends self-starvation & unobtainable drugs).

[Deathray 2,940]

2 hours ago, Death Impends said:

 

A few more examples of unnatural deaths of people older than 90:

 

Mario Monicelli, Italian screenwriter, jumped out of a window aged 95 after being hospitalized for cancer

 Joe Rollino, bodybuilder who was either 93 or 104, died after being hit by a car

 Scott Nearing, activist, refused all food once he turned 100 and died 18 days after

 

And I bet you'd have Scott Nearing for the DDP if it was around - exactly the kind of lowbrow, encyclopediac cancer mum knowledge pick that's up an undeserved winner like you's street. Cunstain. Ruining a good deadpool....

[Toast 16,141]

Here's another weird thing that's started happening.

If I copy a list from a spreadsheet and paste it into a post, the site treats it as an image. 

It still asks if you want rich text or plain text, but whichever you choose, it posts as an image, not text.

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

Mary	One	1	Edited
Had	Two	2	Edited
A	Three	3	Edited
Little	Four	4	Edited
Lamb	Five	5	Edited

 

@Toast  Re: If I copy a list from a spreadsheet and paste it into a post, the site treats it as an image. 

 

I just posted the first three columns and then edited in the fourth. No Problems.  

[Toast 16,141]

33 minutes ago, Cat O'Falk said:

Mary	One	1	Edited
Had	Two	2	Edited
A	Three	3	Edited
Little	Four	4	Edited
Lamb	Five	5	Edited

 

@Toast  Re: If I copy a list from a spreadsheet and paste it into a post, the site treats it as an image. 

 

I just posted the first three columns and then edited in the fourth. No Problems.  

 

Example here:

Windows 10, Firefox.

[Death Impends 7,977]

That happens for me too if I copy directly from Excel to the forum. What I do is copy and paste the spreadsheet section to Word, and then copy and paste it from there to the forum. Sometimes I use the "Keep Text Only" option if it's only one column that I'd rather not have display as a table.

[Toast 16,141]

38 minutes ago, Death Impends said:

That happens for me too if I copy directly from Excel to the forum. What I do is copy and paste the spreadsheet section to Word, and then copy and paste it from there to the forum. Sometimes I use the "Keep Text Only" option if it's only one column that I'd rather not have display as a table.

 

Glad it's not just me.  It's a new quirk though, has only started happening in the last couple of weeks.

BIB, that's what I've been doing.  I just left that last one as an example to demonstrate the issue.

 

And I still can't get the list of unread posts to display in condensed form.  That's recent too.

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

16 hours ago, Toast said:

Here's another weird thing that's started happening.

If I copy a list from a spreadsheet and paste it into a post, the site treats it as an image. 

It still asks if you want rich text or plain text, but whichever you choose, it posts as an image, not text.

 

This should solve the problem:

 

Cells Copied From a Spreadsheet Get Converted into an Image - Workaround

How to Customize Numbers Format on Windows 10

 

I've not tried it as I'm on Windows 8.

[Toast 16,141]

Thanks, Cat, I'll try that.

 

Doesn't seem to have worked, unfortunately.  Says it's a Firefox bug, so it may get sorted out.

[Toast 16,141]

Another question. 

Is there any option to add or change the post reactions?  'Thank You' is useful, and the like and laugh get used a lot.  I don't have much occasion to use the others but a OMG!  one and a FFS-type eyeroll would probably get more use, if such are available.

[Death Impends 7,977]

1 hour ago, Toast said:

Another question. 

Is there any option to add or change the post reactions?  'Thank You' is useful, and the like and laugh get used a lot.  I don't have much occasion to use the others but a OMG!  one and a FFS-type eyeroll would probably get more use, if such are available.

 

I have the power to add reactions so could look for a couple useful new ones over the weekend.

[ThePrematureBurial 224]

I wonder why so many Americans die of cancer, since it's so easy to buy a gun in this country. Does this disease progress so quickly towards the end, or does the last phase come so surprisingly that it's no longer possible to react? I can't believe that people prefer an agonizing death, if they have a choice.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

5 hours ago, ThePrematureBurial said:

I wonder why so many Americans die of cancer, since it's so easy to buy a gun in this country. Does this disease progress so quickly towards the end, or does the last phase come so surprisingly that it's no longer possible to react? I can't believe that people prefer an agonizing death, if they have a choice.

I see what you’re doing, trying to paint us Americans as big dummies.  
Everyone knows you’d LEASE the gun.