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Questions and Answers - Part 3

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STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

01:30 / 11.04.06

Not quite in the Q&A spirit, for which I apologise, but since it's been brought up-

THE ROYAL FAMILY DRESSING LIKE POOR PEOPLE FOR COMEDIC EFFECT.

How many types of wrong is that?

03:13 / 11.04.06

ta metro... still don't understand 'wigga', but i get white trash... this is lower socio-economic folk attempting to be 'chic' or 'sophisticated', no?

does anyone know australia's 'kath and kim' - would that be 'chav'?

03:16 / 11.04.06

Approximately eleven billion types of wrong by my count.*

*This post has a margin of error of +/- 2.

03:38 / 11.04.06

um.. think i saw kath and kim once. not really that sort of thing.

Chav is more a term used by the middle/upper class people to refer in a derogatory fashion to a grouping of people who are usually lower class and poor. The 'chav' tends to wear clothing similar to the 'wigga' - that is a white person who takes on the style and affectations of what they perceive to be 'black culture' (or more specifically the rap culture and stylings as propogated by mtv and the like) the etymology of the word is pretty self-explanatory...

Your stereotypical chav will be poor, possibly committing benefit fraud, an alcoholic or a drugs user, and will usually have 'far too many' children at a young age. S/he will spend a large portion of hir wages on expensive sportswear and will hassle the rest of society (i.e. middle/upper class society) by being violent, playing music too loud from the back of their customised cars, asking to borrow "fifty pence for the phone/train/taxi/cigs" and so on...

Sites such as chavscum (i think that's what it's called) love to deride and mock the chav; as do most of the rest of british society. Apart from the chavs that is...

14:01 / 12.04.06

What hotel will let me book just Saturday night in Brighton? They ALL seem to be saying "computer says no" and that I have to book two nights. gr

ONLY NICE THINGS

14:09 / 12.04.06

Astrojax - there's a lengthy discussion, taking in a number of terms describing about the same thing, here.

14:10 / 12.04.06

ah yeah, I've had that problem with Brighton before. One solution, though it's a risky one, is to call late Friday/ early Saturday - if they have a room they'll be desperate to let it.

Otherwise we once stayed at the Sandpiper Guest House, 11 Russel Square, and managed to book for just a Saturday. It's a bit run down, but your basic B&B, and pretty cheap.

14:30 / 12.04.06

There are loads of B&Bs in both Brighton and Hove. Kemptown's full of 'em.

14:33 / 12.04.06

yes, but they do mostly insist on the two-night thing, purely because they know they can get away with it.

14:40 / 12.04.06

I really need a hotel. It's for a thing which requires hotel facilities. I found one but it's 150 notes a night. I need 4 rooms - and don't have 600 nicker spare.

20:13 / 12.04.06

hey, how does one checks one own number of posts & threads? I can see other people's by clicking on their names besides their posts, but when I do it to myself, I just go to the ficsuit changing page.

20:15 / 12.04.06

Go to the opening page of Barbelith, click the number of members. Then, click on the letter that is the same as the first letter in your current ficsuit. Then arrange the posters by post and scroll down till you find yourself.

20:16 / 12.04.06

7 topics, 1113 posts from you, DM.

20:16 / 12.04.06

Click your username, then click update. Mine then says:
"Topics: 26
Posts: 1411"

20:30 / 12.04.06

Thanks, guys

And I can't believe I already have 1000+ posts. Gosh, I do talk way too much, don't I? (don't answer that)

20:39 / 12.04.06

It´s not that much. You´ve been here ca seven months = ca 210 days.

1113/210 = 5.3 posts a day

All Acting Regiment

03:42 / 13.04.06

Does anyone know anything about the Isian temples at Southwark and Hadrian's Wall?

06:15 / 13.04.06

what's a good place to find out how much comic books are worth?
online for preference.

the comics in question are british, as is the person for whom they are a gift.

13:14 / 13.04.06

Are shops going to be open tomorrow? (Good Friday UK)

13:30 / 13.04.06

Shops should be open tomorrow. Well, in London at least - I think the big supermarkets will as well but the high street shops might only be open half days.

10:34 / 14.04.06

There was a snafu with my online connection, and as I tried to repair it I must have made it worse.

My problem:
I can still surf, but I can´t do online banking anymore. Those secure sites won´t load.

And my internet connection has seriously slowed down, too.

I use opera as a browser, and have a DSL connection.

16:55 / 14.04.06

is there any way for me to make barbelith save the PMs i send to other people, or do i just need to copy and save into a text editor before i send?

18:58 / 14.04.06

Mistoffelees - The lack of connection to secure sites sounds like it could be a firewall issue. Normal HTTP websites use port 80, whereas secure sites like the bank use SSL on port 443. Have you changed the firewall at all in trying to fix things? If you have, you just need to allow outbound connections on port 443 (no need to allow incoming connections to get to your bank's website). I'd suggest trying another browser briefly just to make sure it's not some strange proxy misconfiguration or something.

Slowness could also be a proxy issue (normal home network, nothing special between you and the 'net?), but could be any number of other things. Assuming you're using a recent flavour of Windows, try at the command line:

tracert www.google.co.uk

and see if any of the hops have a really big jump in the latency. If they're all slow, then it's probably something local to your machine.

19:37 / 14.04.06

Thank you, nameinuse!

20:31 / 14.04.06

metro;
compose > send > back button > change the recipient name to your own > send

13:56 / 18.04.06

Anyone know another way to search for photos than google?

I´m searching for a particular picture:
The news today told about The Sun publishing a photo of German Chancellor Merkel at the beach, and I really want to see it for myself.

17:23 / 19.04.06

Does anyone know what I can do with pak choi?

Preferably to feed someone with some suspicion of all things green, with very few taste buds thanks to years and years of smoking, drinking, and eating sinfully hot curries....

21:37 / 19.04.06

Chancellor at beach? Didn't see the Sun (funny that) but Flickr has one of her NEAR a beach.

Oh, and toksik, I stumbled across this site, Comics On Phile recently. I have NO idea how useful it is, but it might be worth a poke around. Valuing comics is a total pain in the arse. I think that basically if you have to ask it will cost you more in time and effort to find out than you will ever make.
I once stupidly thought some pristine copies of Batman: Year One might be worth over a pound each. Foolish me.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

21:45 / 19.04.06

Well, you can curry pak choi (sez the chilli fiend). Get some nice fishy (salmon or prawns say) or smoked tofu, and something else vegetably and a bit fruity like butternut squash and, I dunno, half a mango or some nice ripe mushy toms or summink.

In your tiny tiny frying pan that you never use for much else, chop a fresh chilli or two and fry with olive oil for a couple of seconds. Offer same as a relish for No-Tastebuds Person.

21:48 / 19.04.06

Thanks cube! The sun won´t let me see the photo on their page, because I they want me to pay for it.

(There were stories in every newspaper here about that beach pic, but noone dared to print it.)

22:58 / 19.04.06

So... i gotta risk it and ask...

Asscandling?

Do we get the candles in the post, or what?

23:40 / 19.04.06

Hey, guys. We missed one.

06:28 / 20.04.06

Does Heathrow close overnight? If someone is flying in from the US, arriving at 11, can they just sleep on a bench until 6am, and then get the tube into town, or would they get kicked out?

And would it be different if they were tranferring to another flight in the morning?

Tabitha Tickletooth

08:23 / 20.04.06

Don't know what the official policy is, but I've certainly slept overnight at Heathrow a few times - both when transferring and after arriving delayed. All the shops close (some quite early) but the airport itself never has when I have been there. You are definitely ok if transferring because you are in the 'checked in' departure lounge bit. On the open concourse, (after arriving severely delayed) I have been moved around and questioned by security but never actually booted out. Last time I overnighted there was about 18 months ago, so security/policy might have been tightened.

Someone arriving at 11 should be able to get into the city, though. Except for Sunday, the Tube runs until just after midnight and starts about 5.30am. For a few extra squids, you can get the National Express bus which runs until about midnight and starts again about 5am. The bus is actually much more comfortable and less of a mission if you have luggage struggles etc, although obviously has budget repercussions.

08:49 / 20.04.06

Thanks, that's helpful!

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