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  1. Phil Deakins
    That's a currant tea cake
  2. Phil Deakins
    Really? Well I never lol.
  3. Phil Deakins
    TPVs are still the LL official viewer though
  4. Phil Deakins
    If they didn't do slight modifications, they wouldn't have a hobby, would they ?
  5. Phil Deakins
    In Alchemy, which I mostly use, they are sort of white smoke spheres or bubbles.
  6. Phil Deakins
    Nothing new there then.
  7. Phil Deakins
    It's not "the FS double-click". It's standard.
  8. Phil Deakins
    Chip butties are popular here in the UK. You can get them in any fish and chip shop, but not between slices of bread. Tea cakes are used (there are different words here for tea cakes so maybe not even all Brits will know the term). A tea cake is round bread about 1.5" high. They are sliced in two horizontally, buttered, with chips between the slices. At home, normal sliced bread is probably used more than tea cakes. About the Emerald viewer and LL checking code: Even if LL had checked the Emerald code, they wouldn't have found the skulduggerous bit. Apart from wotsisname, not even the developers knew about it because he compiled the routine without telling anyone what it was. It was brought to light by one of the developers who decided to figure out what it was, and Emerald was banned. I never used Emerald but it took until Firestorm before I felt I could trust their viewers, and I only use it for OpenSim because there isn't much in the way of choice.
  9. Phil Deakins
    But we've stayed bang on topic. The topic is either vs or, and chips vs fries is spot on.
  10. Phil Deakins
    Nope. England. That's another sandwich that I include some salad cream with - tuna
  11. Phil Deakins
    You don't know? Wow! Heinz originated it, and it's still the best. No copy that I've tasted gets near it. It looks like mayo but it's taste is sharper. It's why I often say that the taste of mayo is too bland. I assume that salad cream was invented to put on leaf salads - lettuce etc. It is good with all of the things that go on those salads, including cold potatoes. I also use it in tomato sandwiches, egg sandwiches, corned beef sandwiches, and salad sandwiches of course. But on fish and chips - no way! But some people do. See if you can buy a bottle. I'm sure you'll like it.
  12. Phil Deakins
    I am pretty sure that someone said "salt and vinegar". They are the standard things to put on fish and chips, although over here gravy is quite popular in fish and chip shops, as is salad cream. Utterly ridiculous lol. I like some tomato sauce as well.
  13. Phil Deakins
    You need something like my SpaceGuard, except it boots people out. Check it out in the Marketplace and, if you think it would suit you, I'll modify one for you that can be set to just list visitors to the house instead of kicking them out.
  14. Phil Deakins
    You're lucky to have some days off. I don't have any - none at all. When you retire, days off come to and end
  15. Phil Deakins
    Wrong thread?
  16. Phil Deakins
    They'll be open soon
  17. Phil Deakins
    I could be wrong but I have the impression that French fries are thinner that our chips. I make my own chips and I'm expecting a delivery of an air fryer from Amazon today. It has a tubular basket to rotate stuff in and I'm looking forward to seeing how does with chips. My current air fryer isn't geared to turn stuff, so I'm giving it away - along with my deep fat fryer that I've used for chips up to now.
  18. Phil Deakins
    Absolutely not - yeuch!
  19. Phil Deakins
    Ketchup, definitely
  20. Phil Deakins
    Well done
  21. Phil Deakins
    Firestorm IS the official viewer but with some tweaks. Yes there is advantage in using the official viewer. Because Firestorm is a modified official viewer, it takes them time to blend new stuff and their modified version. Users of the official viewer have the new stuff immediately, of course, but Firestorm, and other TPVs, can take "weeks or even months" (as someone put it in another thread) to get up to date. So the advantage is that users of the official viewer are always up to date, whereas users of other viewers lag behind. In use, there is no significant difference, except maybe that restrained love thing that some people seem to like. I don't know if that's in Firestorm though. Another question might be why there are so many users of Firestorm. The answer is not because it's so much better.
  22. Phil Deakins
    1024 free tier which can be used for a Linden Home or mainland, but mainland must be bought because it belongs to someone else. LL could give 1024 of the massive amount of abandoned land though. It wouldn't be ideal because desirable land would be in short supply, but I think it wouldn't hurt to offer it.
  23. Phil Deakins
    It could have been a timed ban that has expired.
  24. Phil Deakins
    👍 I agree with that. When the Lindens were hands-on moderating, there were one or two idiots amongst them who suspended people for nothing at all, both from the forum and from inworld. It seemed as though they did it merely upon complaints without ever bothering to check them out. I know that at least one of them is still active in the forum who should never be allowed anywhere near that capability. Such idiotic sledgehammer moderation was also sometimes overturned, but not until after the suspension when it was too late, because there was no way to appeal it whilst suspended. These days, the moderators don't, or can't, use sledgehammers like that, so the moderation now seems to be much more in keeping with what moderation should be.
  25. Phil Deakins
    You got around, and for many years, so you must have thoroughly enjoyed the life. I can't come up with the years but long before you . It would be in the region of the early 70s. Minehead twice (one of them a Christmas season) Ayr twice (the 'lovely girl' was in my second season there) Bognor once (at the end of my second season at Ayr) Skegness once Pwllheli once (at the end of my season in Skegness) Mostly in the Beachcomber bars. The only major camp that I didn't do was the nearest one to me - Filey. I considered doing it again in the 90s but the overall entertainments manager at that time told me that they do it differently. When I played in the camps, we stayed in the bar we were in for the season. In the 90s they didn't do that. Instead they had entertainers going around the camps daily, which wasn't my cup of tea. I did a few years in Portugal instead
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