Great Western Coffee Shop

Hi ... this is grahame with a test post.   I'm checking a couple of things with forum settings, for which I need to use an account that doesn't have admin permissions.  Sheepbingo is a long story that I'll have to tell you about some time ... except it doesn't relate to trains, nor the South West!

Just Googled it :P

Sound like a delightfully eccentric way to spend an English summer's afternoon.

When's the next game?  ;)

Being an old, um, duffer I use Alta Vista rather than Google (sadly no longer on Netscape, although I do have a Firefox skin for it when I'm feeling particularly nostalgic) as a result of which I tend to often come up with different and sometimes startlingly unexpected results. Like this one for instance...

http://www.fmount.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17053

I can probably find some sheep ...

(http://www.wellho.net/pix/lp1.jpg)
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/lp2.jpg)
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/lp3.jpg)
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/lp4.jpg)
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/lp5.jpg)
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/lp6.jpg)
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/lp7.jpg)
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/lp8.jpg)
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/lp9.jpg)
(http://www.wellho.net/pix/lp0.jpg)


What else can you recognise?

Graham I am very sorry but will have to refer you to this topic: http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=2957.0

;) :D

Don't be sorry - it's an excellent reminder ;) of why we cannot as of a general rule allow multiple accounts. It also describes - and it's been out there for two years - the reason for the "sheepbingo" account.


And you will note that I clearly stated as specified  ;D  ;D

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On a more serious note, Ollie, that thread shows a historic exchange where a registered member appears to be coming back on points in a pedantic way and doing just about everything that's possible for him to do to make the administrator and moderator's job a misery.  The moderator team has an incredible patience where a newer members actions unwittingly generate misery and heartache. We have rather less patience if a newer member settles into habitual ways that generate inordinate support work, in spite of polite explanations and requests to ease up / amend those habits. And we can have very little patience indeed with any member who decides to intentionally generates significant extra support work, especially if we know or feel that there's malice involved.

The software we run on the forum provides a very wide number of options that we can turn on or off, and there were hard decisions to make as we set up the site as to what to allow.  On one hand, we want to provide an easy interface that steers newcomers into good practise and doesn't give them lots of dangerous buttons. But on the other hand, we want some of those buttons to be available for more established 'hands' to be able to use on appropriate occasions.  Those hard decisions were made three years ago, and are kept under review.  The usual decision is "leave as is", but we do have a very different metric these days, and I (as the technical admin, if you like to call it that) have to be able to see just what the newcomer sees.  The alternative to "sheepbingo" is to make any changes (if necessary) without having tested them thoroughly first ...

Aha sorry I didn't read the whole thing, just remembered there was the topic about it, my poor attempt at being funny, will stick to my day job :P

Sorry folks - grahame trying something else out.    I know you don't want a whole lot of spam threads, so I'll merge it in a minute.

Edited to add ... now merged