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    Deez
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      Bastards. Now its difficult to find reccuring threads such as ask anything/happy/rant etc.

      #1273522
      season.
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        Yarrrr Ye can swab the poop deck, but ye can’t poop on the swab deck.

        #1273523
        pyross.
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          #1273513
          General Lighting
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            @season. 547325 wrote:

            Yarrrr Ye can swab the poop deck, but ye can’t poop on the swab deck.

            no, normal sailors must go to the heads (which are at the head of the ship, so the pong goes downwind). One some craft the captain had his own private loo at the quarter deck.

            On modern vessels sailors of all ranks usually share the facilities (usually not all at the same time, even in today tolerant and non judgemental society good watchkeeping comes first or they might crash into a large container ship and all end up at Davy Jones locker for their sins.) Often they aren’t that easy to flush and a mistake can even result in the contents being discharged back into the vessel, so for number 1’s it was common to piss over the side of the ship. There are two sides to a ship, the windward side, and the leeward (or looward) side. Of course pissing into the wind isn’t a good idea, so sailors would use the looward side, which is one reason in Britain we call our toilet the loo.

            #1273514
            General Lighting
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              @DeezNuts 547324 wrote:

              Bastards. Now its difficult to find reccuring threads such as ask anything/happy/rant etc.

              PS: I see no pirates (and I have put in my contact lenses), either they have sailed up the Thames whilst the fed are trying to stop EDL versus “muslamic” folks kicking off, or you mean the change to a Google Custom Search. If there is anything you really think should not be happening on the site please let us know..

              #1273520
              MC G-Tek
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                @General Lighting 547333 wrote:

                PS: I see no pirates (and I have put in my contact lenses), either they have sailed up the Thames whilst the fed are trying to stop EDL versus “muslamic” folks kicking off, or you mean the change to a Google Custom Search. If there is anything you really think should not be happening on the site please let us know..

                I fart on Google Custom Searches! Bring back the searchbar forthwith! I would try and look for it, but there’s no search bar to try and find it with – it’s the net equivalent of losing your phone and not being able to call it to find out where it is cos you’ve lost your phone!

                Everything that was here when I first joined this site seems to be being phased out. Next thing there’ll be a removal of any mention of parties, vibes, or radios from threads and we’ll start the transition to being the internet’s no. 1 goose-trading website! Progress? I fart on that too!

                #1273515
                General Lighting
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                  @MC G-Tek 547343 wrote:

                  I fart on Google Custom Searches! Bring back the searchbar forthwith! I would try and look for it, but there’s no search bar to try and find it with – it’s the net equivalent of losing your phone and not being able to call it to find out where it is cos you’ve lost your phone![/quote]

                  I think this got changed because there is a lag between posts being able to be searched locally (this is to stop the part of the server that makes everything work getting overloaded and making the forum slow) and google search is in fact faster. psycross posted a link to the old search facility, which at present still works.

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                  we’ll start the transition to being the internet’s no. 1 goose-trading website! Progress? I fart on that too!

                  my mates have got about 14 Embdens on the farm, they’ve only just hatched but in a few months they probably will be wanting to sell some of them :laugh_at:

                  #1273524
                  pyross.
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                    @General Lighting 547344 wrote:

                    I think this got changed because there is a lag between posts being able to be searched locally (this is to stop the part of the server that makes everything work getting overloaded and making the forum slow) and google search is in fact faster. psycross posted a link to the old search facility, which at present still works.

                    Is the old search facility gonna be completely phased out then? :hopeless:

                    #1273516
                    sinner69
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                      I’m happy that it is gone, now i can use all the drop down menues on my iPad.

                      #1273518
                      Pat McDonald
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                        No pay ransom – no search bar.

                        That’s how piracy works, me hearty!

                        I am a very reasonably priced middleman in these sort of affairs, and if you want my rate card I’ll message it to you. 😉

                        #1273521
                        MC G-Tek
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                          @General Lighting 547344 wrote:

                          my mates have got about 14 Embdens on the farm, they’ve only just hatched but in a few months they probably will be wanting to sell some of them :laugh_at:

                          See? I knew it, it’s a conspiracy I tells ya!

                          #1273519
                          Pat McDonald
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                            Cheapskate! The search bar walks the plank tonight!

                            (assuming it’s got feet, of course, we might just have to throw it overboard).

                            #1273525
                            Dr Bunsen
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                              Click Search on the navbar and there’s a link to our three core searches below Google’s for anyone who prefers to use them. Google is a lot faster and much more accurate. The old search was fucking hopeless…

                              #1273526
                              Dr Bunsen
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                                And if it fixed a problem for ipad users thats great too. I didnt know that was the case but great…

                                #1273517
                                leveret
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                                  cheers for the maintenance dr.b ! :flowers:
                                  mind you it’s coming to something when google can index the site faster than a local server ! but short of running a local copy of hadoop, as an admin i can understand the trade offs 🙂

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