Have to say, like the look of this forum... Smilies good idea Maybe stop Gunny from getting wrong end of the stick...

Any chance of getting personal abuse outlawed ...

I'm going to have to give Gunny's Mum a call, she has left him to lie in bed for far to long on a Sunday... His Nuggets, Smiley faces and Alphabetti Spagetti will be ready soon

Sunderland look to be hitting form at the right time, with Kieran Richardson back , and netting a brace today against ANC syndrome hit Harry's boys.
Still, every cloud has a silver lining , so it's claimed, and having rejected Mad Mike Ashley's offer to drink from his poisoned chalice at the bar-codes, at least Harry didn't have to sit grim faced watching that 6-0 thrashing of the Geordie's last night at Sold Trafford , and then , even worse, have to suffer the indignity of having to share a bottle of plonk with the drunken jock afterwards to discuss it with him!

Bad news, however, this reemergence of Roy of the ravers side for the team at the lane ( that time forgot) just when they were being written off by many , they are calling in at spuds gaff next weekend. And , the expected 3 points, that the worried manager was anticipating, now look less than certain to be obtained.
Juan 'day' Ramos's stuttering side have a tough away game midweek at Reading in the FAC , and the strain of playing so many games in a short period is exposing them for the poseurs that they really are.
A far different cry this , from their top 4 challenge of the latterday Silly Jol time , when having been dumped out of the cups by lowly Grimsby and Leicester , it meant that the spuds only had to play 40 games that term. Who says then that crime doesn't pay!

Welcome to the real world Senor Ramos!

I am adding some smilies right now so some smilies might not display correctly for the next little while.

Chelsea don't you wish some history, Chelsea don't you wish you had a ground like this, Don't Cha, Don't Cha...

Thanks - I am fooling with the smilies now.

Edit - Done for now:

..thats never never stopped you before!

Just checking.

Checking again

As advised I clicked user control panel to get my Dalek avatar back, but it took me to a screen where I couldn't see avatars mentioned. As Rog isn't around, can anyone who has got their avatar switched over to here tell me how to do it once you're in the user control panel?

sure bernard. i just did mine.
1a. make sure you have your avatar image somewhere on your PC. Also make sure the size is 120 wide x 150 high pixels max.
1b. click user control panel
2. click profile (on left somewhere)
3. in profile, click edit avatar (still on left smwhere)
4. in middle top smwhere click browse. browse to that avatar image you want.
5. click 'submit'
6. you're done.



jamelikat

Anybody else finding that the display of avatars is intermittent?

Just watching MOTD2. Hate to say it but Utd look red-hot and Ronaldo is on fire.

By comparison we are huffing and puffing a bit too much at the moment.

This is a test.

Ta for that. I noticed it just after I had added and then changed avatars and hoped that it wasn't something that I had done. Cheers.

And as if by magic - they reappear

Admin I am getting a display on my McAfee that this site is phishing is anyone else getting this or is it my Fisher Price IT system.

testing 123

4,5,6?

A bit too much like Manure v Spurs

Many thanks. But when I tried this it flashed up a message saying "This file cannot be displayed because the extension htm is not allowed."

Anyone got any ideas?

You've not been around for ages Decaf. How are things?

I have plenty of ideas, Bernard. Not about avatars, however. Perhaps you would like to propose some other topic. Preferably not football related, as this seem already to have been covered here.

Mee: hang on in there. It's not that difficult.

Whoa, that's a neat little collection of smilies there. Reckon this one will be used a lot!

I also have no ideas about smilies, and no desire to remedy this defect.

What would HL Mencken (trans. Munchkin???) have said about smilies, I wonder?

I don't know, but judging from what I've read of his work, he probably would've hated them.

That "Reply"-button is very close to the one that says "Report", I just noticed. Best not to be in a hurry while posting on here!

Looking the injury list, I see that Djourou is listed as "groin", and Van Persie "virus". What does that mean? How do you injure it?

Why is chocolate gooner not on the injury list? Have EEG and Daz resigned their commissions?

I think you are confusing me with someone else, John.

That sounds painful. Is it related to "Osteitis Pubis" injury, which also apparently comes from kicking too much?

Perhaps Daz is writing another book?

But how do I change the size to get it to 120 wide and 150 high pixels max?

Good to see you back Decaf.....
Hope to see one or two others return to the forum too.

Are you suggesting that he was lost in the wilds of Eastern Cape? I haven't seen anything that hairy around here the farmers here stopped raising angoras. Now its all game.

Or are you insinuating that he flounced off?

I think Gaz raised that point a few pages back, and warrior was going to have a look at it.

It's very long. One would have thought he could have just looked at a map.

I will look forward to that. Not enough really good flouncing these days.

Bedtime here too.

I imagine Cannonballs is still around?

You do this via "User Control Panel" -> "Board Preferences" (on the menu to the left) -> "Edit display options" and then you check the "No"-box for the "Display smilies as images"-setting.

But are you really sure you don't want to see things like this?

Mr Mechkin's comment is spot on.

I was afraid someone else was going to take AmericanGooner...silly I suppose...wait...how do we know this is the 'real'AmericanGooner. A few test questions:

How do you feel about Sam Allardyce?

Top bloke

Who is your forum mentor and jedi master?

Bernard

Where is Stoke?

A city in Staffordshire, in the west Midlands

Is the correct spelling 'colour' or 'color'?

Colour

Define 'irony'?

Irony is a literary or rhetorical device, in which there is a gap or incongruity between what a speaker or a writer says and what is generally understood