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Model Forum / General / Railroads / May 2008Blimey, layout with a free house on eBay.....
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/00-gauge-complete-model-railway-layout-house-scotl and_W0QQitemZ220229384356QQihZ012QQcategoryZ101163QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ 1QQcmdZViewItem Any takers?  SignatureAndy Hewitt <http://web.mac.com/andrewhewitt1/> > http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/00-gauge-complete-model-railway-layout-house-scotl > and_W0QQitemZ220229384356QQihZ012QQcategoryZ101163QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ > 1QQcmdZViewItem > > Any takers? Interesting post but the seller is an idiot. A prospective purchaser will take one look at the house and think "how many thousands will it cost me to get rid of all that junk". (kim) > Interesting post but the seller is an idiot. A prospective purchaser will > take one look at the house and think "how many thousands will it cost me > to get rid of all that junk". Agreed, a friend told me that he was considering doing some thing similar, but I told him he's be severely restricting his potential market. He'd be better off scrapping & clearing the layout and selling off the individual components. John. > > http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/00-gauge-complete-model-railway-layout-house-scotl > > and_W0QQitemZ220229384356QQihZ012QQcategoryZ101163QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > take one look at the house and think "how many thousands will it cost me to > get rid of all that junk". I guess it depends on the person that buys. If they get someone interested in the track, it could be worth a punt. SignatureAndy Hewitt <http://web.mac.com/andrewhewitt1/> Good bit of advertising for him, the page has crashed! :-)) >http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/00-gauge-complete-model-railway-layout-house-scotl >and_W0QQitemZ220229384356QQihZ012QQcategoryZ101163QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ >1QQcmdZViewItem > >Any takers? > Good bit of advertising for him, the page has crashed! :-)) > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > > >Any takers? Check the link above has wrapped properly - the page was ok just now but I had to edit the URL to join it up properly. Cheers Richard Signaturewww.beamends-lrspares.co.uk sales@beamends-lrspares.co.uk I have become... comfortably numb beamendsltd said the following on 01/05/2008 12:30: > Check the link above has wrapped properly - the page was ok just now > but I had to edit the URL to join it up properly. This is what tinyurl is for:- http://tinyurl.com/6g6cx8 SignaturePaul Boyd http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/ > beamendsltd said the following on 01/05/2008 12:30: > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > This is what tinyurl is for:- http://tinyurl.com/ Only for those who don't understand how to use a text editor (such as Notepad) though and who don't mind trusting someone else not to send them off to a site that one would not wish to visit... What is so difficult in copying the full URL to a text editor and then 'unwrapping' the line breaks? > > beamendsltd said the following on 01/05/2008 12:30: > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Only for those who [snip] don't mind trusting someone else not to send > them off to a site that one would not wish to visit That's what tinyurl's preview option is for http://preview.tinyurl.com/6g6cx8 it doesn't send you off anywhere without you clicking on the full link. What's so difficult about that? MBQ On May 1, 12:41 pm, ":Jerry:" <INVA...@INVALID.INVALID> wrote: > "Paul Boyd" <usenet.is.worse@plusnet> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > send > them off to a site that one would not wish to visit That's what tinyurl's preview option is for http://preview.tinyurl.com/6g6cx8 it doesn't send you off anywhere without you clicking on the full link. What's so difficult about that? </quote> Because people don't use it, the 'tiny' URL that Paul gave was forwarded without preview, as is obvious by the different URLs. Duh... > <manatba...@hotmail.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > Because people don't use it, If it's panto you want "Oh yes they do!". > the 'tiny' URL that Paul gave was > forwarded without preview, as is obvious by the different URLs. Duh... That's why I gave the alternative. Duh yourself... MBQ That's why I gave the alternative. Duh yourself... MBQ </quote> So why didn't you reply to Paul's message then... It's f*cking obvious that your intension was to try and troll yet again. > <manatba...@hotmail.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > So why didn't you reply to Paul's message then Because YOU were the one who brought up the subject of possibly being directed to unknown websites. The reply was relevant to YOUR post. I'm sure Paul is intelligent enough to take on board what I said, if he chooses. > ... It's f*cking obvious > that your intension was to try and troll yet again. No. I made a perfectly valid and reasonable point that there is a way of using TinyURL that allows you to verify the link you are being sent to. You couldn't accept that and had to come back with "Duh...". I'm not sure what you were trying to say, but now you are sweaing and accusing me of trolling. As I've said before, :Jerry:, look to yourself before calling others. MBQ manatbandq@hotmail.com said the following on 01/05/2008 14:19: > Because YOU were the one who brought up the subject of possibly being > directed to unknown websites. The reply was relevant to YOUR post. I'm > sure Paul is intelligent enough to take on board what I said, if he > chooses. Personally, I get pissed off when I click on the preview button and then have to click again to go to where you want to go. By the time I posted the tinyurl link, it was apparent from regular (and trusted) posters on this group that the link was safe, so I saw no need for the preview.tinyurl version. I am aware of its existence. If Lily Lee from Acme Model Railway Co in Xiang-Tu wanted our esteemed presence on her website, and posted a tinyurl link without the preview button, I wouldn't touch it with someone else's bargepole. SignaturePaul Boyd http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/ <snip> > Personally, I get pissed off when I click on the preview button and > then have to click again to go to where you want to go. By the time > I posted the tinyurl link, it was apparent from regular (and > trusted) posters on this group that the link was safe, so I saw no > need for the preview.tinyurl version. I am aware of its existence. It's not the true URL that is being questioned but what someone sends as a 'tiny' URL, how do 'we' know that the person posting the 'tiny' link are not sending us to w~.tinygirls.pervertsRus.com or w~.bankaccountsRus.com - or more to the point, someone pretending to be a respected contributor, how many people are going to check the headers?!... :Jerry: said the following on 01/05/2008 14:53: > It's not the true URL that is being questioned but what someone sends > as a 'tiny' URL.. I realise that.... > or more to the point, someone pretending to > be a respected contributor, how many people are going to check the > headers?!... ...but there is that point! SignaturePaul Boyd http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/ On May 1, 2:06 pm, ":Jerry:" <INVA...@INVALID.INVALID> wrote: > <manatba...@hotmail.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > So why didn't you reply to Paul's message then Because YOU were the one who brought up the subject of possibly being directed to unknown websites. The reply was relevant to YOUR post. I'm sure Paul is intelligent enough to take on board what I said, if he chooses. </quote> My reply was relevant to Paul's message, you reply was relevant to Paul's massage and not mine as I was commenting on what Paul put in his message - and my point still stands in the context of the thread, yours doesn't. <quote> t's f*cking obvious > that your intension was to try and troll yet again. No. I made a perfectly valid and reasonable point </quote> It's not the point you made but the where and how you made it. > <manatba...@hotmail.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > It's not the point you made but the where and how you made it. So what exactly was wrong with the where? It was in context about TinyURL being used in a way that did not dump you in a dodgy place. What exactly was wrong with how I made it? Apart from your dislike for users of Google Grouops. Sorry if I'm blunt, that's just the way I am. I didn't use any bad language or call anyone names (at least not in the original reply). I aped your style, the "what's so difficult..." just to highlight how silly you were being. MBQ <manatba...@hotmail.com> wrote in message > So why didn't you reply to Paul's message then... It's f*cking obvious > that your intension was to try and troll yet again. Ha, ha. Some people just never get irony. > <manatba...@hotmail.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Some people just never get irony. I get irony very well, but I also know who are the trolls on Usenet, and I can assure you that MBQ is a troll. > <crazyh0r...@hotmail.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > I get irony very well, but I also know who are the trolls on Usenet, > and I can assure you that MBQ is a troll. ROTFLMAO! trit-trot, trit-trot went the little billy goat gruff. GRRRRRRRRRR! Who's that crossing my bridge? On May 1, 2:54 pm, ":Jerry:" <INVA...@INVALID.INVALID> wrote: <snip> > I get irony very well, but I also know who are the trolls on Usenet, > and I can assure you that MBQ is a troll. ROTFLMAO! <snip> news:985716a0-2f04-4464-a113-a263d3895780@a70g2000hsh.googlegroups.com > <manatba...@hotmail.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > news:985716a0-2f04-4464-a113-a263d3895780@a70g2000hsh.googlegroups.com I may occasionally indulge in something akin to trolling, but I assure you I am no troll. MBQ On May 1, 3:38 pm, ":Jerry:" <INVA...@INVALID.INVALID> wrote: > <manatba...@hotmail.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > news:985716a0-2f04-4464-a113-a263d3895780@a70g2000hsh.googlegroups.com I may occasionally indulge in something akin to trolling, but I assure you I am no troll. </quote> That is a matter of opinion, the facts go before you... On May 1, 3:38 pm, ":Jerry:" <INVA...@INVALID.INVALID> wrote: > <manatba...@hotmail.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > news:985716a0-2f04-4464-a113-a263d3895780@a70g2000hsh.googlegroups.com I may occasionally indulge in something akin to trolling, but I assure you I am no troll. MBQ Do we interpret that as "when is 'not a troll' 'a troll' - when indulging in something akin to trolling ? Cheers, Simon > <manatba...@hotmail.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > Because people don't use it, the 'tiny' URL that Paul gave was > forwarded without preview, as is obvious by the different URLs. Duh... Just realized you can also visit the tinyurl site and enable preview mode. This sets a cookie on your machine so that *every* tinyurl you click on takes you to the preview, even if it was not generated as a preview link. HTH MBQ :Jerry: <INVALID@INVALID.INVALID> wrote: > > beamendsltd said the following on 01/05/2008 12:30: > > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > difficult in copying the full URL to a text editor and then > 'unwrapping' the line breaks? Talk about make it so hard for yourselves. No wonder it takes so long to get a model layout made! Select the text, copy and paste it into the URL bar in your browser. Robert is yer fathers sibling. SignatureAndy Hewitt <http://web.mac.com/andrewhewitt1/> Andy Hewitt said the following on 01/05/2008 14:25: > Select the text, copy and paste it into the URL bar in your browser. > Robert is yer fathers sibling. Actually, because of the way you posted it broken across several lines, it has to be reassembled in a browser's URL bar, which I think Internet Explorer has trouble with (older versions, certainly). If you'd posted it with < > brackets around it, there would be no issue because people's readers would interpret the whole lot as a single URL. <http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/00-gauge-complete-model-railway-layout-house-scotland_W0QQ itemZ220229384356QQihZ012QQcategoryZ101163QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem> SignaturePaul Boyd http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/ > Andy Hewitt said the following on 01/05/2008 14:25: > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > it with < > brackets around it, there would be no issue because people's > readers would interpret the whole lot as a single URL. Oh, I see. It worked fine in Apple Safari, but I'm not able to test it otherwise (other than Firefox). Besides, if it works, I wouldn't have gone testing it anymore. ><http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/00-gauge-complete-model-railway-layout-house-scotland_W0QQ itemZ220229384356QQihZ012QQcategoryZ101163QQssPageNameZWDVWQQr dZ1QQcmdZViewItem> Yes, I'd forgotten about using the <> symbols, some applications are OK picking up the http:// bit. You forget all this when things 'just work'. SignatureAndy Hewitt <http://web.mac.com/andrewhewitt1/> <snip> > Talk about make it so hard for yourselves. No wonder it takes so > long to > get a model layout made! > > Select the text, copy and paste it into the URL bar in your browser. > Robert is yer fathers sibling. Andy, you forget that most will be using Micro$oft, the line wrap(s) gets lost if pasted straight to the URL bar... :Jerry: <INVALID@INVALID.INVALID> wrote: > <snip> > > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Andy, you forget that most will be using Micro$oft, the line wrap(s) > gets lost if pasted straight to the URL bar... Yes, you'll see my later reply shows that. Thanks. I spend a lot of my time trying to filter out the garbage that MS files have in them when trying to edit the church magazine. Anyway, not wishing to go down that path....... SignatureAndy Hewitt <http://web.mac.com/andrewhewitt1/> > In message <1v1j149q8go0cpo1ie0cvh3rbmfa4cj...@4ax.com> > intercityman2...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > --www.beamends-lrspares.co.uk sa...@beamends-lrspares.co.uk > I have become... comfortably numb Typing the first few words into eBay "search" facility would save an aweful lot of trouble --- if you were really interested! Regards |
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