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Old 11-11-2015, 22:15
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*is followed by the sound of clip-clopping*
I'm coming for you Chins ......
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Old 11-11-2015, 23:01
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*Sniggers* It was starting to go off!
Hate to be pedantic Chins, but that is sort of the point of cheese. If it hasn't gone off its called milk.
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Old 12-11-2015, 01:29
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Interesting.
Are these things connected?
The DS twitter feed is funny, loads of bad feedback that they keep having to remove, they rearranged it so badly and made it so unusable, people are tweeting asking why they removed the cult section....not sure if i'm doing this right but:

HERE

REGARDING COMMENTS


all they keep talking about it "real estate drive through to the forum" what does that even mean?
For the person confused by the word 'real estate' - that means the area that used to host comments. Our current thinking is that in a future version instead of having a comment section, the space will link to the relevant forum (for example if you are in the movies section, it will link to the movies forum).

In terms of editorial site updates, we have compiled a list of feedback from all platforms (forum, social, email) and have passed it on to the teams responsible. There's nothing we can personally do but pass on feedback.

Thanks for your continued patience!
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yes they have removed the comments section.
i questioned their statement in another thread as i saw a tweet saying about "real estate drive through to the forum" which sounded, frankly, like the sort of wanky pr speak Perfect Curve would spout.


Their response was:


Incidentally, this was six days ago and the problems mentioned in that post still haven't been fixed.
Hi,

Comments have been disabled (at least temporarily, if there is a demand for them we will of course rethink). We're no longer allowed to use the word 'real estate' so will say that we're hoping the place that used to host comments will drive people to the appropriate forum in a future update to better interlink the two sites together, pushing more people to use the forums instead of sticking to articles.

Everyone that had a commenting account also has a forum account, so the transition should be a seamless one.

Thanks
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Old 12-11-2015, 01:31
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*Sniggers* It was starting to go off!
Like little nocturnal creatures on this thread aren't we. A little flurry of activity in the afternoons and then in the small wee hours we come out to play

ETA I have no idea why that post quotes Chins.

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Old 12-11-2015, 01:34
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Like little nocturnal creatures on this thread aren't we. A little flurry of activity in the afternoons and then in the small wee hours we come out to play

ETA I have no idea why that post quotes Chins.
who did you mean to quote?

ps yes i agree! Little possums of DS
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Old 12-11-2015, 01:37
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Regarding real estate, coments et al. I didn't even know it was a thng until I started reading it had stopped. I don't do twatter and I don't really go anywhere else on DS other than forums. I occassionally read a news article but find them a bit thin/tabloid.

I used to follow the minute by minute updates on BB - I think that was a DS feature but I haven't looked at it for ages because without live feed I assume the minute by minute won't be there any more.
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Old 12-11-2015, 01:38
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who did you mean to quote?

ps yes i agree! Little possums of DS
I didn't mean to quote anyone. I have no idea how it got there.
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Old 12-11-2015, 01:39
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Actually looking back I had used that quote earlier. Maybe Chins got stuck in my box so to speak. (That will be a new experience for him! )
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Old 12-11-2015, 01:43
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Regarding real estate, coments et al. I didn't even know it was a thng until I started reading it had stopped. I don't do twatter and I don't really go anywhere else on DS other than forums. I occassionally read a news article but find them a bit thin/tabloid.

I used to follow the minute by minute updates on BB - I think that was a DS feature but I haven't looked at it for ages because without live feed I assume the minute by minute won't be there any more.
I am not a twatterer either An, I had a look at DS twatter when all the shit hit the fan and there were no comments forthcoming from admin even though there were loads of threads going "it's not working". Their twatter feed was like watching North Korea in action: the critical tweets would appear - sometimes get an answer sometimes not - then disappear really quickly. All that remained was the smiling face of banal entertainment questions "just who is that girl singing on the John Lewis advert" while all around them their users were vomiting up insults.

Their articles are really badly written lots of cut and paste jobs from entertainment MailOnline

I just picked up on their "real estate" nonsense because it was just like the sort of thing written in the series 2012 (the jubilympics ), terrible terrible pr nonsense speak which they accidentally released to the users.
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Old 12-11-2015, 01:44
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Actually looking back I had used that quote earlier. Maybe Chins got stuck in my box so to speak. (That will be a new experience for him! )
stuck in your box and being chased by Moose poor man is having quite an evening
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Old 12-11-2015, 01:46
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Like little nocturnal creatures on this thread aren't we. A little flurry of activity in the afternoons and then in the small wee hours we come out to play

ETA I have no idea why that post quotes Chins.
Too Wit Too Woo
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Old 12-11-2015, 01:52
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Yeah its Penny!
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Old 12-11-2015, 01:54
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I just picked up on their "real estate" nonsense because it was just like the sort of thing written in the series 2012 (the jubilympics ), terrible terrible pr nonsense speak which they accidentally released to the users.
Oh that was a cracker of a line. Gobbledegook at its finest.

Clearly written by someone who has very little contact with actual human beings
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Old 12-11-2015, 02:00
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Oh that was a cracker of a line. Gobbledegook at its finest.

Clearly written by someone who has very little contact with actual human beings
I zone out . Sometimes I have been to lectures or watched Tedtalks and been sure it's the same scenario. Either that or I have forgotten how to use the English language.
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Old 12-11-2015, 02:03
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Hate to be pedantic Chins, but that is sort of the point of cheese. If it hasn't gone off its called milk.
I can't be having with cheese!
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Old 12-11-2015, 02:03
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Oh that was a cracker of a line. Gobbledegook at its finest.

Clearly written by someone who has very little contact with actual human beings
THIS is where they interned

One of my favourite quotes from Twenty Twelve (genius writing by the way) is:
"Working under pressure and against the clock, Graham is still prepared to work methodically towards identifying the correct box and then to think outside it."

just need David Tennant to do a voice over now....
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Old 12-11-2015, 02:10
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is where they interned

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I see what you did there....
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Old 12-11-2015, 02:11
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THIS is where they interned

One of my favourite quotes from Twenty Twelve (genius writing by the way) is:
"Working under pressure and against the clock, Graham is still prepared to work methodically towards identifying the correct box and then to think outside it."

just need David Tennant to do a voice over now....
Twenty Twelve was brilliant and according to a friend of mine who works at the Beeb rather more accurate than we might like to think.
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Old 12-11-2015, 02:12
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I miss spaced! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXx0pxPD8mY
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Old 12-11-2015, 02:13
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I see what you did there....
Hello again.

Now are you going to share the origins of your user name with us. That was the original premise of the thread although some 16,000 posts ago. I can't remember now how any of us came to have the names we have.
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Old 12-11-2015, 02:15
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Twenty Twelve was brilliant and according to a friend of mine who works at the Beeb rather more accurate than we might like to think.
Completely accurate!

Sorry have to write my other favourite quote....another David Tennant voice over that i love so true on so many levels:

" Ian is about to be reminded that the artist isn't always the best person to ask to explain his own creation in actual words."

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Old 12-11-2015, 02:16
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Old 12-11-2015, 02:17
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Hello again.

Now are you going to share the origins of your user name with us. That was the original premise of the thread although some 16,000 posts ago. I can't remember now how any of us came to have the names we have.
Im afraid you're going to have to go back and learn all the origins....i will be testing you later
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Old 12-11-2015, 02:18
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Completely accurate!

Sorry have to write my other favourite quote....another David Tennant voice over that i love so true on so many levels:

" Ian is about to be reminded that the artist isn't always the best person to ask to explain his own creation in actual words."

LOL now that is apt. The guys from IT design aren't always the best people to explain their designs either it would seem.
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Old 12-11-2015, 02:19
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Im afraid you're going to have to go back and learn all the origins....i will be testing you later
I am not sure I would even be able to find my way back to the start of part 1 now. Not without the search function.
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