Lanarkshire FHS

[SarahND]

The policy of paid-up members only allowed to join the forum was short-lived, following the swamping of their old forum by spammers.

This is a real problem with many forums now. On Talking Scot the moderators and administrators used to spend a good deal of their time catching and deleting spam messages and watching out for new "members" with dodgy profiles. It is now taken care of at the admin level by manually checking each new member's profile before they have permission to post. The Lanarkshire FHS may just not have the resources to do that and I do understand their paranoia since it is very disruptive to be inundated with "spam" and completely spoils the forum. We are fortunate to have Admin members on more than one continent and time zone as well as dedicated Admin members who never sleep (you know who you are!) Unfortunately, it takes a lot of hard work to keep a "clean" forum these days.

Here's to the Talking Scot Admin team!
Sarah

[speleobat2]

Oh for the days when Spam was lunchmeat in a can!

Carol

[Currie]

Here comes some Spam that’s about as bad as it gets!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

Sorry about that,
Alan

[grannysrock]

don't apologise Alan. Any excuse to watch a bit of Python. I hadn"t realised till now that the sketch was the origin of the modern term of spam - to think we could so easily have been complaining about a mail box full of "dead parrots" , "bicycle repairmen" or "lumberjacks"....

Sally

[SarahND]

And now... an hour later, after watching all my favorite sketches, I'm back on Talking Scot
Alan, you have a lot to answer for!

Sally, one of my students once said the entire dead parrot rant backwards as a class assignment (don't ask what the assignment was).

Ah, memories...

Sarah

[Rockford]

(don't ask what the assignment was)

Awwww, c'mon............


Brian

[SarahND]

[ Awwww, c'mon............

............nom'c ,wwwwA


DNharaS

[Rockford]

!hguone thgir ,naidemoc a s'ydobyreve

gniksa rof thgir em sevres

[SarahND]

!hguone thgir ,naidemoc a s'ydobyreve

gniksa rof thgir em sevres

=D> Top marks! Now just say that so that when I play the recording backwards it sounds like you said it forwards

And now, I'd best keep quiet after shamelessly hijacking this topic All Alan's fault, of course, for introducing the Python motif

[grannysrock]

?sdrojf eht rof gniniP.

I met a parrot on holiday , or should I say I met a man with a parrot. And impulsively I asked if it was a Norwegian Blue. And then I felt daft , but it was too late.
But it did have beautiful plumage.