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Posted: 1/8/2002 8:09:04 AM EDT
This is just a rant...but I really wonder sometimes.
[red][rant mode on][/red]I see people all the time not being able to use proper board code. The can't figure out how to post a pic. They can't figure out how to get a link to work right. Their smileys never work right. They yell at moderators for deleting post when the author deleted it(trash can). And they can't figure out how to properly quote someone(""). Are these people using 10" monitors were the red lettered words "Board Code" don't show up at the bottm of the posting page? Or are these people just freaking moron?? I mean really....how hard is it to follow instructions?? [?] I sure hope these same people aren't working on their own AR15. [red][/rant mode off][/red] sgtar15 |
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Quoted: This is just a rant...but I really wonder sometimes. [red][rant mode on][/red]I see people all the time not being able to use proper board code. The can't figure out how to post a pic. They can't figure out how to get a link to work right. Their smileys never work right. They yell at moderators for deleting post when the author deleted it(trash can). And they can't figure out how to properly quote someone(""). Are these people using 10" monitors were the red lettered words "Board Code" don't show up at the bottm of the posting page? Or are these people just freaking moron?? I mean really....how hard is it to follow instructions?? [?] I sure hope these same people aren't working on their own AR15. [red][/rant mode off][/red] sgtar15 View Quote smile [:)] big smile [:D] cool [8D] blush [:I] tongue [:P] wink [;)] clown [:o)] black eye [B)] angel [0:)] confused [>:/] freak [%|] abused [BD] sick [:X*] smart @ss [;D] viking [>]:)] alien [(:|)] skull and crossbones [X] hysterical crying [>Q] crying [>(] afro [@:D] bandit [):)] william wallace [%(] scuba [0j] afro [@:D] troll [:K] frown [:(] shy [8)] shocked [:O] angry [:(!] dead [xx(] sleepy [|)] kisses [:X] approve [^] disapprove [V] evil smile [}:)] evil grin [}:D] evil frown [}:(] goatee [:)>] king [+]:D] no smile [:|] thinking [:\] party [<]:)] santa [<|:d>] buck tooth [:E] pharaoh [[:)] hippie [8P] govtThug [(:)] knights who say NI! [NI] question [?] eightball [8] salute [USA] |
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Quoted: Quoted: This is just a rant...but I really wonder sometimes. [red][rant mode on][/red]I see people all the time not being able to use proper board code. The can't figure out how to post a pic. They can't figure out how to get a link to work right. Their smileys never work right. They yell at moderators for deleting post when the author deleted it(trash can). And they can't figure out how to properly quote someone(""). Are these people using 10" monitors were the red lettered words "Board Code" don't show up at the bottm of the posting page? Or are these people just freaking moron?? I mean really....how hard is it to follow instructions?? [?] I sure hope these same people aren't working on their own AR15. [red][/rant mode off][/red] sgtar15 View Quote smile [:)] big smile [:D] cool [8D] blush [:I] tongue [:P] wink [;)] clown [:o)] black eye [B)] angel [0:)] confused [>:/] freak [%|] abused [BD] sick [:X*] smart @ss [;D] viking [>]:)] alien [(:|)] skull and crossbones [X] hysterical crying [>Q] crying [>(] afro [@:D] bandit [):)] william wallace [%(] scuba [0j] afro [@:D] troll [:K] frown [:(] shy [8)] shocked [:O] angry [:(!] dead [xx(] sleepy [|)] kisses [:X] approve [^] disapprove [V] evil smile [}:)] evil grin [}:D] evil frown [}:(] goatee [:)>] king [+]:D] no smile [:|] thinking [:\] party [<]:)] santa [<|:d>] buck tooth [:E] pharaoh [[:)] hippie [8P] govtThug [(:)] knights who say NI! [NI] question [?] eightball [8] salute [USA] View Quote Ditto. [smoke] |
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Very few openings are left--we have the Grammar Nazi (Garandman), David Hineline is ?, and now you're the Smiley Nazi. LOL [:D]
Geez, I hope I did everything right--yikes! |
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Quoted: This is just a rant...but I really wonder sometimes. [red][rant mode on][/red]I see people all the time not being able to use proper board code. The can't figure out how to post a pic. They can't figure out how to get a link to work right. Their smileys never work right. They yell at moderators for deleting post when the author deleted it(trash can). And they can't figure out how to properly quote someone(""). Are these people using 10" monitors were the red lettered words "Board Code" don't show up at the bottm of the posting page? Or are these people just freaking moron?? I mean really....how hard is it to follow instructions?? [?] I sure hope these same people aren't working on their own AR15. [red][/rant mode off][/red] sgtar15 View Quote Lo siento mucho! Maybe the board code page should be printed in Spanish also [):)] for our "still-assimilating guests" [;)] Just couldn't resist one last poke. [:D] |
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but on my other board, :D is this [:D]
WTF?!@$ [}:D] Just me and my keyboard walking down that stupid avenue. |
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Quoted: Very few openings are left--we have the Grammar Nazi (Garandman), David Hineline is ?, and now you're the Smiley Nazi. LOL [:D] Geez, I hope I did everything right--yikes! View Quote How this for a new sig line? LOL (That means laught out load for you microchip challenged) Sgtar15 |
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Quoted: .. Or are these people just freaking moron?? I sure hope these same people aren't working on their own AR15. [red][/rant mode off][/red] sgtar15 View Quote 1) Speaking only for myself "I'm just a phucking moron." 2) I never work on my own AR-15 [smok:a} |
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[rant mode on]I see people all the time not being able to use proper board code. [u]The[/u] can't figure out how to post a pic. They can't figure out how to get a link to work right. Their [u]smileys[/u] never work right. They yell at moderators for deleting [u]post[/u] when the author deleted it(trash can). And they can't figure out how to properly quote someone(""). Are these people using 10" monitors [u]were[/u] the red lettered words "Board Code" don't show up at the [u]bottm[/u] of the posting page? Or are these people just freaking [u]moron[/u]?? I mean really....how hard is it to follow instructions?? I sure hope these same people aren't working on their own AR15. [/rant mode off] View Quote Nobody has yet pointed out that "rant mode" is NOT proper board code![:D] And I took the liberty to ding you on several spelling and grammar errors. [BD] |
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Geez, you act like anything that happens here actually *matters*!
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Quoted: How this for a new sig line? LOL (That means laught out load for you microchip challenged) Sgtar15 View Quote Hey, board code nazi - this is the grammar nazi, gently reminding you that "loud" does not contain the letter "a." [}:D] |
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And, last I heard, "laugh" is usually spelled without the silent "t".
Let he who is without sin, cast the first cow-pie... [:P] |
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How do you make those smiley faces work? They never seem to work for me... :-(
What do I have to do to post a picture? Oh yeah... 50 Cal [50] argue [argue] birthday [bday] toasting [beer] bouncing [bounce] chainsaw [chainsaw] death by chainsaw [chainsawkill] devil [devil] dracula [dracula] capping the flag [flag] flame [flame] frag [frag] grenade [grenade] heavy weapon [heavy] killing is fun [kill] marines planting flag [marines] moon [moon] newbie [newbie] owned [owned] peep [peep] pissed off [pissed] pistol [pistol] puke [puke] pyro [pyro] railgun [rail] rocket [rocket] roll eyes [rolleyes] smiley sex [sex] shock [shock] shotgun [shotgun] sleeping [sleep] smashing is fun [smash] smoking [smoke] sniper [sniper] soapbox [soapbox] spanking [spank] stick [stick] thinking [thinking] uzi [uzi] whacko [whacko] |
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[size=6]TEST![/size=6]
Nobody said anything about a test! BigDozer66 |
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[img]http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/mica/ranton.gif[/img]
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black, the moron who started this topic can't even get rant mode to work. [img]http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/mica/rantoff.gif[/img] [img]http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/mica/Cartangry.gif[/img][img]http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/Gif/WBtazani.gif[/img] |
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Quoted: How do you make those smiley faces work? They never seem to work for me... :-( What do I have to do to post a picture? Oh yeah... 50 Cal [50] argue [argue] birthday [bday] toasting [beer] bouncing [bounce] chainsaw [chainsaw] death by chainsaw [chainsawkill] devil [devil] dracula [dracula] capping the flag [flag] flame [flame] frag [frag] grenade [grenade] heavy weapon [heavy] killing is fun [kill] marines planting flag [marines] moon [moon] newbie [newbie] owned [owned] peep [peep] pissed off [pissed] pistol [pistol] puke [puke] pyro [pyro] railgun [rail] rocket [rocket] roll eyes [rolleyes] smiley sex [sex] shock [shock] shotgun [shotgun] sleeping [sleep] smashing is fun [smash] smoking [smoke] sniper [sniper] soapbox [soapbox] spanking [spank] stick [stick] thinking [thinking] uzi [uzi] whacko [whacko] View Quote ditto |
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Quoted: And, last I heard, "laugh" is usually spelled without the silent "t". Let he who is without sin, cast the first cow-pie... [:P] View Quote perhaps "laughed" [?] is what he didn't mean [?] |
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Forget Board Code, work on the basics: spelling and grammar!
[YGBKM]Laught Out Load![/YGBKM] [i]You Gotta Be Kiddin' Me[/i] How'd I do? |
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My spelling is fine...it's the pills that cause the problem.
I want that rant mode icon!! Sgtar15 |
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Quoted: My spelling is fine...it's the pills that cause the problem. I want that rant mode icon!! Sgtar15 View Quote MayBe if you had livd in a stat you culd spill ! (I want the "Rant Mode Icon" and the spill cker.) [smoke] |
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This pic says it all...
[img]madeyalook[/img] Couldn't help myself. No matter how hard I try, I can't take the grammer/syntax rants seriously in an open forum. [:D] |
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Quoted: This is just a rant...but I really wonder sometimes. [red][rant mode on][/red]I see people all the time not being able to use proper board code. The can't figure out how to post a pic. They can't figure out how to get a link to work right. Their smileys never work right. They yell at moderators for deleting post when the author deleted it(trash can). And they can't figure out how to properly quote someone(""). Are these people using 10" monitors were the red lettered words "Board Code" don't show up at the bottm of the posting page? Or are these people just freaking moron?? I mean really....how hard is it to follow instructions?? [?] I sure hope these same people aren't working on their own AR15. [red][/rant mode off][/red] sgtar15 View Quote [b]Well, [i]I[/i][/b] couldn't do [i]most[/i] of that either when I first logged onto [red]AR15.com[/red], but I managed to [size=6]FIGURE IT OUT JUST FINE, THANKS VERY MUCH[/size=6] [;)] |
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Quoted: Hey, board code nazi - this is the grammar nazi, gently reminding you that "loud" does not contain the letter "a." [}:D] View Quote Hey I'm no English major, but shouldn't the "a." be "a". ? |
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sgtar, help me out with posting a pic.
[img]sgtar15 is a whiney-boy. BBaaaaWWWaaaaaa!! Just kidding.[/img] |
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Quoted: Quoted: Hey, board code nazi - this is the grammar nazi, gently reminding you that "loud" does not contain the letter "a." [}:D] View Quote Hey I'm no English major, but shouldn't the "a." be "a". ? View Quote I was an English minor, and NO. Final punctuation always goes INSIDE the final quote. I think. [BD] |
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BigUp -
QUOTATION MARKS Rule 1. Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks, even inside single quotes. Examples The sign changed from "Walk," to "Don’t Walk," to "Walk" again within 30 seconds. She said, "Hurry up." She said, "He said, ‘Hurry up.’" Rule 2. The placement of question marks with quotes follows logic. If a question is in quotation marks, the question mark should be placed inside the quote. Examples She asked, "Will you still be my friend?" Do you agree with the saying, "All’s fair in love and war"? Here the question is outside the quote. NOTE: Only one ending punctuation mark is used with quotation marks. Also, the stronger punctuation mark wins. Therefore, no period after war is used. Rule 3. When you have a question outside AND inside a quote, use only one question mark and place it inside the quotation mark. Example Did she say, "May I go?" Rule 4. Use single quotation marks for quotes within quotes. Note that the period goes inside all quote marks. Example He said, "Mary said, ‘Do not treat me that way.’" Rule 5. Use quotation marks to set off a direct quotation only. Examples "When will you be here?" he asked. He asked when you will be there. View Quote [url]www.grammarbook.com/[/url] |
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Quoted: [img]http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/mica/rantoff.gif[/img] Talk about the pot calling the kettle black, the moron who started this topic can't even get rant mode to work. [img]http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/mica/ranton.gif[/img] [img]http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/mica/Cartangry.gif[/img][img]http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/Gif/WBtazani.gif[/img] View Quote Well Big_Bear you put them in the wrong order. [:)] Edited by garandman on 8 January 2002 15:34.5 |
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Hey, that wasn't me, SDavid.
I get myself in ENUF trouble, without you making it look like I'm going 'round editing other peoples posts willy nilly!!!!!!!!!! [BD] |
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Sgtar
Send me your address and I will send you some Xanax.[:D] cpermd |
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Joe Dirtbag here, I kant seem to gett any of yore cute lil smileeys to work for me and the posting piktures thang, well I got me a polaroid that I really wont to have put on this board. Should I use staples or taks? You kno when ya grow up in Louisisana, peple should just be happy that ewe manage to typ 1 werd rite out of ten.........
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Don't know who did that, might have been DarkHelmet. [;)] Did you notice how Big_Bear's rant modes are in the wrong position?[}:D]
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[size=3][b]WHERE ARE MY RANT MODES???? I CAN'T FIND MY RANT MODES!!!....[/b][/size=3]
Oh there they are... SDavid just shoved them up my [b]ASS!!![/b] hehehe... had me going for a second there. [;)] |
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hey keep it up, i am getting a nice little collection here....
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Quoted: Sgtar Send me your address and I will send you some Xanax.[:D] cpermd View Quote Man I want something alot stronger than Xanax!! I'm thinking of something more in the form from Mexico[smoke] Sgtar15 |
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OK folks lemme school you guys on a few tricks so that we can get away from Red X syndrome.
First and foremost: You would need a webserver to host your pics on the net. You cannot post pics from your HD. Some sites do not allow you to hotlink pics directly. The best thing is to dnload em to your HD and host em on a webserver. Such as: [url]http://photos.msn.com/Home.aspx[/url] [url]http://www.webshots.com/homepage.html[/url] Yahoo photo album does not allow you to hotlink from your album either. It may show up on your puter, but that's only cause you have the pic already cached in your system. If you are an AR15.com paying member. Goatboy has not set up a private album for you to use. Just go into your profile and create an album and mark as private. For those that are not paying members, you may use your own ISP free web page to host pics. All ISP give you a free space to host your own webpage. Its part of your monthly service. If you are all ready using this and it is full, use a free web hosting place. Here are a few: [url]http://free.prohosting.com/[/url] [url]http://www.freewebspace.com/[/url] [url]http://www.freeservers.com/[/url] Most of these host will allow for up to 50megs of space for free and up to 3MG of bandwidth free per month. Pics do not use up that much bandwidth and should be enough. So how would you upload your pics to be hosted. You would need a File Transfer Protocol client. The one I use is fairly simple. Just drag and drop. Download it here: [url]http://www.rocketdownload.com/details/util/937.htm[/url] Once that is done you can now host it and post it. So how can you do that. [b]For pics:[/b] You must use the URL addy where the pic is hosted ex: http://www.awesome-als.net/images/mickythanks01.jpg Make sure that your extensions end in .jpg .gif .bmp Those are the only pic files supported by this board that I know of. The best way to get the URL addy is to right click on the pic and chose "properties" a pop up window will then appear with the URL of the pic. Highlight this and then right click again and select "copy" then paste it onto your post. Once you've gotten the URL you would then need to parse it by enclosing it between [ [i] img [/i] ] and end it with [ [i] /img [/i] ] EXAMPLE: [ [i] img [/i] ] type url here [ [i] /img [/i] ] [img]http://www.awesome-als.net/images/mickythanks01.jpg[/img] [b]For posting vids[/b](Warning uses lots of bandwidth) Again you would need a webserver to do so. Sorry you cannot use a pic hosting server for this. Vid formats can be: .RM .MPG .MPEG .ASF .WMV .AVI .MOV To post, just use the URL ex: http://www.awesome-als.net/hotpants.wmv and parse it by enclosing the URL between [ [i] url [/i] ] and end it with [ [i] /url [/i] ] EXAMPLE: [ [i] url [/i] ] type url here [ [i] /url [/i] ] [url]http://www.awesome-als.net/hotpants.wmv[/url] Hope that helps. |
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Smilies apart, Garandman, the mysteries of English stem from the difficulty of trying to force a round Germanic peg into a square Latin hole.
Apart from the fundamentals, much of what we consider to be correct English grammar is the result of arbitrary decisions made by individuals based on no more than their own, personal opinion. And, frankly, some of the examples you quote are clumsy attempts to apply such arbitrary 'rules'. (You will note the period outside the single inverted commas – this is correct.) Ending a sentence with three inverted commas (.' ") is an example of such contortionism and the rigid application of arbitrary 'rules' that make things more difficult than necesary for the reader. For example: She said, "He said 'Hurry up.' " She said that he said, "Hurry up." He said, "Mary said, 'Do not treat me that way.' " He said that Mary said, "Do not treat me that way." If yuh gonna be the the grammar Nazi, read Mein Kampf. |
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Quoted: Smilies apart, Garandman, the mysteries of English stem from the difficulty of trying to force a round Germanic peg into a square Latin hole. Apart from the fundamentals, much of what we consider to be correct English grammar is the result of arbitrary decisions made by individuals based on no more than their own, personal opinion. And, frankly, some of the examples you quote are clumsy attempts to apply such arbitrary 'rules'. (You will note the period outside the single inverted commas – this is correct.) Ending a sentence with three inverted commas (.' ") is an example of such contortionism and the rigid application of arbitrary 'rules' that make things more difficult than necesary for the reader. For example: She said, "He said 'Hurry up.' " She said that he said, "Hurry up." He said, "Mary said, 'Do not treat me that way.' " He said that Mary said, "Do not treat me that way." If yuh gonna be the the grammar Nazi, read Mein Kampf. View Quote I see your point - the one on top of your head, I mean. [}:D] |
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