Non-standard power strips sought

mwatsonxx · 21 Feb 2018

bernardgreen said:
That is a powerful statement, from an incompetent would be educator

Explanation required

mwatsonxx · 21 Feb 2018

Is this about logs and wood chopping

ban-all-sheds said:
Before a moderator edited it for you it looked like this:

View attachment 136952

i.e. you made it look as if StephenOak had written all of that text - you made it look as if it was all "StephenOak said".

Now it looks like this:

View attachment 136953

Can you see the difference?

mwatsonxx · 21 Feb 2018

What does *£$^£*(%&%* mean? Cos I'm not very good at long words.

ban-all-sheds said:
This is utter *£$^£*(%&%* madness.

MODS - pack it in - it will do no good, and it will NOT change my attitude to incompetence.

Lucky Luke · 21 Feb 2018

ban-all-sheds said:
Before a moderator edited it for you it looked like this:

View attachment 136952

i.e. you made it look as if StephenOak had written all of that text - you made it look as if it was all "StephenOak said".

Now it looks like this:

View attachment 136953

Can you see the difference?

Yes, I see the difference. I don't know how it came to be incorrect. Perhaps I failed to put a space after the quoted material, as I have done now. I hope this turns out all right. As far as this incompetent person can see, what you do is: highlight the part that you want to quote, then go to the answer panel (where it has been copied to), leave a space, then type in a reply. Other than that, I wouldn't know what else to do. Anyway, thanks for pointing out my error. I wouldn't want to cause confusion for anyone.
A.W.

securespark · 21 Feb 2018

ban-all-sheds said:
This is utter *£$^£*(%&%* madness.

MODS - pack it in - it will do no good, and it will NOT change my attitude to incompetence.

Why are you having an eppy?

ban-all-sheds · 21 Feb 2018

Not sure what you mean - highlighting text doesn't put it in the reply panel - clicking the Quote button does that

and in this case gets you this (with O changed to 0 to stop it being interpreted as a quote):

[QU0TE="alwaysworried, post: 4095736, member: 185370"]Yes, I see the difference. I don't know how it came to be incorrect. Perhaps I failed to put a space after the quoted material, as I have done now. I hope this turns out all right. As far as this incompetent person can see, what you do is: highlight the part that you want to quote, then go to the answer panel (where it has been copied to), leave a space, then type in a reply. Other than that, I wouldn't know what else to do. Anyway, thanks for pointing out my error. I wouldn't want to cause confusion for anyone.
A.W.[/QU0TE]

which looks like

alwaysworried said:
Yes, I see the difference. I don't know how it came to be incorrect. Perhaps I failed to put a space after the quoted material, as I have done now. I hope this turns out all right. As far as this incompetent person can see, what you do is: highlight the part that you want to quote, then go to the answer panel (where it has been copied to), leave a space, then type in a reply. Other than that, I wouldn't know what else to do. Anyway, thanks for pointing out my error. I wouldn't want to cause confusion for anyone.
A.W.

Matching up [QU0TE] [/QU0TE] around what you actually want to quote is what you need to do, if it's not the whole post, so

[QU0TE="alwaysworried, post: 4095736, member: 185370"]Yes, I see the difference. I don't know how it came to be incorrect. Perhaps I failed to put a space after the quoted material, as I have done now. I hope this turns out all right. [/QU0TE]

[QU0TE]As far as this incompetent person can see, what you do is: highlight the part that you want to quote, then go to the answer panel (where it has been copied to), leave a space, then type in a reply. Other than that, I wouldn't know what else to do. Anyway, thanks for pointing out my error. I wouldn't want to cause confusion for anyone.
A.W.[/QU0TE]

gets you

alwaysworried said:
Yes, I see the difference. I don't know how it came to be incorrect. Perhaps I failed to put a space after the quoted material, as I have done now. I hope this turns out all right.

As far as this incompetent person can see, what you do is: highlight the part that you want to quote, then go to the answer panel (where it has been copied to), leave a space, then type in a reply. Other than that, I wouldn't know what else to do. Anyway, thanks for pointing out my error. I wouldn't want to cause confusion for anyone.
A.W.

It can be a PITA to put it right if you get it wrong, as the site will insert [/QU0TE]s where it thinks you've missed them.

As I said, before it got removed, we all mess it up at times, but I was surprised that you thought it looked OK first time round, that's all.

mwatsonxx · 21 Feb 2018

And that justified you're extremely aggressive response

ban-all-sheds · 21 Feb 2018

I made no aggressive response to the OP about his error.

securespark · 21 Feb 2018

mwatsonxx referring to securespark said:
I think grammar checking is bit over your head. I remember you doing a famous one, mixing up "your" and "you're", haha

mwatsonxx said:
And that justified you're extremely aggressive response

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones!

ban-all-sheds · 21 Feb 2018

securespark said:
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones!

Actually, I think it's "glasshouses"

mwatsonxx · 21 Feb 2018

securespark said:
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones!

Just testing.

mwatsonxx · 21 Feb 2018

ban-all-sheds said:
I made no aggressive response to the OP about his error.

You did, very nasty little man

securespark · 21 Feb 2018

mwatsonxx said:
Just testing.

What, again?

ban-all-sheds · 21 Feb 2018

mwatsonxx said:
You did, very nasty little man

Show me where, you very nasty little teller of untruths.

mwatsonxx · 21 Feb 2018

securespark said:
What, again?

grammar. Thats grammar, not grandma.

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