Chulla

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  1. Strange why Photobucket works OK to put my avatar picture in the right place, but will not insert a picture in the Reply box. I have had both pages on the screen at the same time - Nottstalgia and Photobucket. This way I did not come out of Photobucket, but the result was the same when I clicked Post - a message appears saying that 'Your post is empty'.

    By now I would have expected the schaudenfreude (sp)-minded members to have clicked the Like This tab!!

  2. Here we go again.

    I left-clicked the IMG code and then had to come out of Photobucket to get back into Nottstalgia - which I had left open. After clicking 'paste' I get a message that there is no image. It seems to me that coming out of Photobucket deleted the saved image. It is in this area where I am going wrong - I think. I have also put something in the message window on the Photobucket page and clicked on 'post' below it before coming out.

  3. I cannot find a way to post an image, despite following instructions. I call up Photobucket, click on library, click on view images, click on the image I want to send, then click on IMG (in right-hand column). The http identity next to it turns yellow and says 'copied'. I then go the test page Reply window, click on it, then right click and click on 'paste' Nothing happens. The file size is 33MB.

    katyjay says that when she opens her library in Photobucket it has the IMG under each picture - mine doesn't. Also, she says that when she clicks the IMG it turns blue (like me at the moment!)

    Where am I going wrong?

  4. katyjay. Er, - 78s were singles, but not having LPs we did not called them that! I bought my radiogram in 1961, so didn't buy any 45s until then. The Byrds record was issued in 1965, so could not have been that one. I have had a look at my 45s, but cannot remember which I bought first. Bought the Dean Martin record, and the radiogram, from an electrical shop on Aspley Lane, just up from the Forum cinema - think its name was Dabells, or something like that.

  5. I thought I would have a go at starting a new topic. In our lives we sometimes come across something that we cannot understand, like the example below, or the understanding of the answer to a cryptic crossword clue, or the reason why something in the past did or didn't happen. Another example might be 'what was that film where so-and-so played a .....' .

    I'll start the ball rolling with a popular riddle from many years ago that I never got my head around:

    Three people go for a meal in a restaurant.

    The bill comes to thirty pounds.

    They each give the waiter ten pounds.

    The waiter realises that he has overcharged the bill by five pounds.

    He keeps two pounds for himself and gives one pound back to each diner.

    So far as each diner is concerned they have now paid nine pounds for their meal.

    3 times nine pounds makes twenty-seven pounds, plus the two pounds retained by the waiter makes twenty-nine pounds.

    Where did the missing pound go?

    Obviously, the diners should have received £1.66 each back from the waiter, but the above mathematics make some kind of sense. Where does it go wrong?

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  6. Mick2me. If that is the Welsh national anthem (Bulwell version) then I am thinking of the wrong tune. The one in my mind has the words 'Wales, Wales, land of....' or something like that. They sing it at rugby matches.

    Ayupmeducks. Thanks for the words of the American one, but hope that they don't have to sing it all the way through.

    Bilbraborn. I know she is, but that doesn't make it right in my thinking. She isn't even ancestrally English.

  7. I think our National Anthem is miserable - miserable tune and miserable lyrics. It praises a person, not the country and its people. All this will change when we are a republic. By far the best I have heard is the Welsh anthem, the American one is good, too.

    As for playing anthems at sporting events, I think there should be a universal anthem, either for all sports or each sport having its own anthem. Play it once and its over with.

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