You're cunning, America. However, I am onto you: Wikipedia also offers:

"Socratic irony takes place when someone ... pretends to be foolish or ignorant, to expose the ignorance of another."

It might have added:

"Chocolatian irony takes place when there is a gap or incongruity between the speaker's ears"

Yes - I picked up on that one. It seems to be when a page is refreshed, some avatars, sometimes, don't display. I need to determine if it's a function of that particular avatar, (too big, location, size, etc) or if it's a forum caching thing.

When it happens again, I will view the page source and check the source location - it might be a little bug even !

Edit - ok - I think it is just the forum caching the old (or no) avatar image. Thus, if someone has just changed their avatar or recently added one, it might not display correctly - by holding down the shift key, then pressing Refresh (or reload), it should come up. I will keep an eye on it

Rog ..

decaf are you sure you mistyped cunning when you described me? hehehe
Interesting the swears that are popular in either country.

Okay, some football talk. I'm nervous about the CC semi 2nd leg but I'm hoping that the bad result will galvanize the squad we take to WHL and make them want to make up for last Saturday.

I still think Chelsea may struggle despite having Anelka. They are still without Terry, Essien and Lampard and I think obi Mikel as well. One player, even of Anelka's quality, can't make up all those players missing. I haven't seen their schedule but I do think they will drop some points.

Hi Bernard

When in your "user control panel", click 'Profile', then "Edit Avatar"

In this section "Upload from a URL:
Enter the URL of the location containing the image. The image will be copied to this site."

Copy and paste the following (it is a link to your current avatar)

http://202.181.21.81/arsenal/uploads/av-27.jpg

Then click "Submit"

This should give this image:



Rog ..

Edit - Never mind - I fixed it for you

Hi - At a guess, I would think that McAfee is merely flagging *any* web page url that contains a username and password entry field and is not on their predetermined safe list that it could be a possible phishing page. Bit weak if that is their only method of determining Phishing pages but I guess it would be somewhat effective (and better to play it safe for their users).

I imagine you can add it as a safe site in it's options somewhere ...

Rog ..

Yes - there are approx 6290 odd avatars in there (ironically, the other forum has the same ones as well)

Rog ..
Edit - I'm thinking he means smilies maybe ?

Is it just me or is the wait for next sat to see how the team reacts dragging on

Seems really odd not having a midweek game doesn't it. Yes it will drag. Hopefully it will give the team a chance to recover, regroup and push on..

Hi Mee - I fixed your avatar for you

Rog ..

Hey Decaf - Want me to fix your avatar ?

Rog

Hi all

If anyone does see Exiled or Daz online or in the flesh, please feel free to extend them a warm welcome to pay us a visit ..

They are always welcome here

Rog ..

For users who are not seeing peoples avatars every time, could they post what web browser they are using and version ?

EG: IE6, IE7 or Firefox.

I think it may be related to a caching issue with their Isp or their browser.

Rog ..

IE 7.0.5730.11

Good to hear from you mate. Warrior is the man to congratulate for all the work, and there has been a shed load of it. I've just been doing 'idiot testing', something for which I'm well qualified.

Hi all,

Crap result lets hope it wakes us up! Just testing my new login ID

I don't recall dismissing Milan's chances against us at all. In fact I'm pretty sure I said it would be close, either way, which I expect it to be. All I do remember saying is that of the first placed teams we could have been drawn against, I'd have only preferred to have got Porto than Milan and I stand by that. But that's not the same thing at all as 'dismissing' their chances against us.

Many thanks Rog.

Is that it for the Mkhitaryan 2 forum. Are we all posting on here from now on? Just logged on to see how we all felt that the wekend went. Pretty crap I am sure you will all agree (apart from Harlow obviously). Still think we could do with a genuine wide player for those frustrating games when teams "park the Bus". And I would be happier with another CB, but AW does not see it my way.

Morning Bernie,

The way we have played in recent weeks; the lack of fluidity, players like Cesc and Hleb not at their best, RVP's ass full of splinters from the treatment table etc, makes me apprehensive about the Milan game. We've done well to still pick up as many points as we have in the last several games, we've been way below our best.

We need to find our form and fluidity again and quickly. Games are coming thick and fast and the importance of each and every game is beginning to build. If we don't raise our game soon we may find ourselves unceremoniously dumped out of the CL and losing ground in the PL. In hindsight we might discover that the CC and FA cup were our best route to a trophy this season.

team needs a shake up LTG - doesn't hurt to know sometimes your not guaranteed a start

That is the best post you have made in ages

Is this a parallel universe? I enter the new forum to be greeted by Decaf! Have you all been in here for months while I’ve been scrabbling around on the old forum?

I'm apprehensive about it as well socrates. But I'd probably be even more apprehensive about it had we got drawn against any other of the first placed options we could have got, aside from Porto. My point at the time was that Milan were the second best draw we could have got, and I still think that's the case.

Hey Decaf. Nice to see you back.

Harlow, are you in love with Gunfire or something as you're becoming more than a little infatuated?

Rog, Congrats on the new site. Hope it will be a successful at the previous ones.
One question, how can i get rid of the aviators etc as i try to make it less prominent looking while at work!! We had an option in the previous forum to diable all the fancy stuff...Is this available on this site??

Can't Wait

Nah!!! It will always be you mate

The Highbury Years..

I made a change on the forum to show only 30 posts instead of 40 - I suspect that there is a timeout feature which may be dropping avatars if a page is too slow loading (?)

Rog ..

Sorry to be a pain but can someone tell me how to set up the 'last post you read' shortcut?

Also (and without wishing appear ungrateful or to detract in any way from Rog's fine work) is there any way to tone down the colours a bit on here?

I know there's an Australian provenance here and it may be my imagination but there seems to be a lot more yellow now, to go with the green presumably. I'm sure it's just me but does anyone else find it bit of a visual assault?

Hey Harlow, where did you get that poster?

Not badly priced...

http://www.edirectory.co.uk/pf/88888/mi ... id/4587708

Hi

Which part do you find different ?
It uses the same BBCode that the old one does -I made it so it posts the same as well
- ( I did add a bar on the right though to neaten it up a bit.)

Rog ..

I see Shaun Wright Phillips was arrested abroad yesterday

Hi

Most things can be disabled

Click "User Control Panel" - Top Right
Click "Board preferences" - on the left
Click "Edit display options"- on the left

The options are on the right and are as follows:

Display images within posts: Yes No
Display Flash animations : Yes No
Display smilies as images : Yes No
Display signatures : Yes No
Display avatars : Yes No

Rog, you've done great here mate... Forum page looks cleaner, Smilies will help as forumites can now use these to tag posts so no one get's the wrong idea (or do in some cases)... The ease on which to insert piccies is great... The Font colouring I like..

The site now gets a 9/10 from me, up from 7/10...

I asked that the other day. Think Rog said he was working on it. I think it could become quite a problem once the number of pages grow significantly and you've been away for a while, so hopefully it will get sorted.

Admin- How do you attach photos within your posts, like Steve‘s one of SWP?

Cheers Harlow