These forums are racist!
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Kris Ritter
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12-15-2005 12:25
Funneh hotline post... /invalid_link.html From: someone
I've found a bug in the forum "Enter Post" section.
It entirely ignores any Windows international keyboard settings, and defaults to American keyboard for text entry.
On my UK keyboard, @ comes up where " should be, and vice versa. I can't even enter the UK pound sign, # comes up instead, and \ comes up where # should be!
This is entirely discriminatory and racist against anyone outside of the US. Fix it!
Lewis
dang, I wish we could reply to hotlines  Lewis: Dood. I'm in the UK. I just typed '@' and it came up with the '@' symbol right here in this post. And for the record, incorrect keyboard configurations aren't racist. |
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Zapoteth Zaius
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12-15-2005 12:27
lol mines fine.. @"£' I do too.. I was thinking about starting an off topic thread to complain/comment/bitch about hotline posts.. this, as of now, is it 
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Chance Abattoir
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12-15-2005 12:28
Uk'ers have a different pound sign?
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Zapoteth Zaius
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12-15-2005 12:32
From: Chance Abattoir Uk'ers have a different pound sign? Before 1.6 (I think) our keystokes in world were what he is stating, they've always been ok on the forums afaik
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Chance Abattoir
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12-15-2005 12:35
From: Zapoteth Zaius Before 1.6 (I think) our keystokes in world were what he is stating, they've always been ok on the forums afaik You made my brain lag. It took 0.6 seconds to extrapolate afaik. Maybe I need coffee (preferably not the portuguese brew).
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Kris Ritter
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12-15-2005 12:40
I don't really see how it's possible for the forums to be at fault at all. It's a plain text entry box, isnt it? I'd have thought it feasible that a browser could be overriding the default settings, but I dunno. Certainly doesn't happen to me on here or anywhere else in Opera, Firefox or IE.
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12-15-2005 12:42
From: Chance Abattoir You made my brain lag. It took 0.6 seconds to extrapolate afaik. Maybe I need coffee (preferably not the portuguese brew). Try some cocoa. Don't forget the tiny marshmallows, which, incidentally, should not be put through a coffee machine - not even the new fangled single serving brewers.
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Zapoteth Zaius
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12-15-2005 12:42
From: Chance Abattoir You made my brain lag. It took 0.6 seconds to extrapolate afaik. Maybe I need coffee (preferably not the portuguese brew). Lol sorry.. I say we start using WGASA.. L$10 to the first person to guess what it is..
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12-15-2005 12:43
From: Kris Ritter I don't really see how it's possible for the forums to be at fault at all. It's a plain text entry box, isnt it? I'd have thought it feasible that a browser could be overriding the default settings, but I dunno. Certainly doesn't happen to me on here or anywhere else in Opera, Firefox or IE. My thoughts exacly Kris.. Only not so techincally minded.. Sort of like.. "That can't happen because I don't think it can happen, and I dare you to prove otherwise"
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Chance Abattoir
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12-15-2005 13:47
From: Zapoteth Zaius Lol sorry.. I say we start using WGASA.. L$10 to the first person to guess what it is.. Please use it in context.
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12-15-2005 13:48
I never knew british was a race.
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Zapoteth Zaius
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12-15-2005 13:48
From: Chance Abattoir Please use it in context. Uhm.. Kris: Zap keeps posting lots of pointless thread in off topic Some Guy: WGASA
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Kris Ritter
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12-15-2005 13:49
From: Chance Abattoir Please use it in context. Ok. WGASA means Who Gives A Shit Anyway. There. Used in context. |
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12-15-2005 13:50
From: Satchmo Prototype I never knew british was a race. Hobbits in disguise.
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Zapoteth Zaius
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12-15-2005 13:50
From: Kris Ritter Ok. WGASA means Who Gives A Shit Anyway.
There. Used in context. Kris got it! L$10 to her, when I remember..
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12-15-2005 13:51
From: Chance Abattoir Uk'ers have a different pound sign? Argh! What Americans call a "pound" is nothing of the sort! Do you ever use it to represent pounds? DO YOU? NO! That's a hash sign. That one always annoyed me. |
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12-15-2005 13:51
From: Kris Ritter Ok. WGASA means Who Gives A Shit Anyway.
There. Used in context. Let me know if he pays you or there will be consequences. Dire.
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12-15-2005 13:52
From: Chance Abattoir Let me know if he pays you or there will be consequences. Dire. or it gets the hose again.
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Kris Ritter
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12-15-2005 13:53
From: Chance Abattoir Let me know if he pays you or there will be consequences. Dire. If he doesn't you can be sure there will be a forum thread dedicated to his dishonesty in the general forum first thing tomorrow. |
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Zapoteth Zaius
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12-15-2005 13:53
From: Ordinal Malaprop Argh! What Americans call a "pound" is nothing of the sort! Do you ever use it to represent pounds? DO YOU? NO! That's a hash sign.
That one always annoyed me. Pound sign = £ Dollar sign = $ Euro sign = € From the british point of view anyway.. Keystrokes.. Pound sign = Shift + 3 Dollar sign = Shift + 4 Euro sign = Alt Gr + 4
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Kris Ritter
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12-15-2005 13:55
From: Zapoteth Zaius Euro sign = € I thought it was a little fist. I always wondered why that little wingding was there. Oh wait. This should be in the 'Things I learned today' thread. n/m |
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Chance Abattoir
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12-15-2005 13:56
From: Zapoteth Zaius Pound sign = £
Dollar sign = $
Euro sign = €
Oh, I thought you meant a different # sign.
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12-15-2005 13:58
Actually a pound sign is a sign you recieve when you are pounded by one of Chuck Norris' roundhouse kicks
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12-15-2005 14:02
From: JackBurton Faulkland Actually a pound sign is a sign you recieve when you are pounded by one of Chuck Norris' roundhouse kicks That's exactly what I was thinking. When a cartoon character gets pounded, you see ### on their bruised areas. Maybe British humor is too stuffy for those sort of shenanigans.
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Kris Ritter
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12-15-2005 14:06
From: Chance Abattoir That's exactly what I was thinking. When a cartoon character gets pounded, you see ### on their bruised areas. Maybe British humor is too stuffy for those sort of shenanigans. Or maybe that's just too obscure a reference? Sheesh. And believe me, British humo  r is anything but stuffy. We are far more tolerant, far less easily offended and have far more relaxed rules on what you can and can't say. Not to mention being far less litigious about people 'taking the piss' as we like to say over here. They show stuff over here Americans could only dream of seeing on tv. Not that they'd get it anyway  |