Members TampaYankee Posted January 15, 2011 Members Posted January 15, 2011 Here is hoping everybody is humping like a bunny If Fouraces was anymore of an idiot and loser than his posts portray here, he might just be one of the reasons why these forums are as laughable and removed from most healthy gay men living their lives. His website is pathetic and so Quote
Members MsGuy Posted January 15, 2011 Members Posted January 15, 2011 I'm not taking this as a personal challenge to be the first person other than Matrix to get bumped here! BiBottomBoy (in another thread) BBB, you snooze, you lose! Quote
Members Lucky Posted January 27, 2011 Members Posted January 27, 2011 It actually looks like Tampa Yankee made the nasty comment. Maybe an author credit is necessary. I notice that bibottomboy has been missing for 6 weeks now... Quote
Members TampaYankee Posted January 28, 2011 Author Members Posted January 28, 2011 It actually looks like Tampa Yankee made the nasty comment. Maybe an author credit is necessary. I notice that bibottomboy has been missing for 6 weeks now... I thought the title of the thread made clear that attribution of the posted comment. A hiatus is standard for BBB when he gets a new bf. Quote
Guest RockHard Posted February 1, 2011 Posted February 1, 2011 What a shame that some guy would come along pretending to be Daddy. Take it from me- he will never post here. Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted March 23, 2011 Posted March 23, 2011 But now I'm back and ready to offend again! Did you hear about the new Tempura Shelter? It's for lightly battered women! Quote
Members MsGuy Posted March 24, 2011 Members Posted March 24, 2011 BBB, you don't fool me one bit. You are a sweet natured sot and posted this just as kindness to Lucky. Quote
BiBottomBoy Posted March 24, 2011 Posted March 24, 2011 But... I want to be a rat bastard! What do you do when your boyfriend comes out of the kitchen and starts nagging you? Buy a shorter chain. Quote
Members MsGuy Posted March 27, 2011 Members Posted March 27, 2011 (just trying an experiment) http://www.flirt4free.com/images/_common/forums/emoticons/jerkoff.gif http://www.flirt4free.com/images/_common/forums/emoticons/jerkoff.gif ----- ok, great, I learned something today Quote
Guest twinklover Posted March 28, 2011 Posted March 28, 2011 I see people still play in this sandbox. "Daddy's" around occasionally. Maybe he'll come in here and throw some sand around. Quote
Members lookin Posted March 28, 2011 Members Posted March 28, 2011 ok, great, I learned something today If you mean what I think, I tried that out the other day with the guy sitting on the flag. You can get the uploaded image to show, but you need to have the link showing too. If you erase the link, the image goes too, even though you have its URL. But you should be able to link to the image in another post, and have the image show without the link. That is what you learned, right? If not, please excuse the instrusion. I'll show myself out. Quote
Members MsGuy Posted March 30, 2011 Members Posted March 30, 2011 Hmmm... ---- ok, I right clicked on the image (on the original site), copied the URL from properties, pasted it into MER's insert image box and presto! Seems to work w/o leaving a visible link in the post. Are we talking about the same thing? ---- , I was using my traditional technique for figuring out how to do something new postingwise: try out every possibility I can think of and see what, if anything, works. Quote
Members lookin Posted March 30, 2011 Members Posted March 30, 2011 Hmmm... Are we talking about the same thing? No, not exactly. I also learned something new the other day (how to post a picture that wouldn't permit linking and gave the dreaded red X), and I must have just been projecting. Thanks for letting me know what you learned. One of these days, I'll get around to reading the 'What You Need to Know About Photo Sharing' and will probably find the answers to a lot of stuff that's been eluding me. Quote
Members MsGuy Posted March 30, 2011 Members Posted March 30, 2011 how to post a picture that wouldn't permit linking and gave the dreaded red X Ok, so if I load the URL into MER's image box and also put the URL as a link in the same post, I can (sometimes) work around a red X? Did I understand that correctly? Neat, now I've learned 2 new things (I hope). I'm on a roll! Quote
Members lookin Posted March 31, 2011 Members Posted March 31, 2011 Sorry for the confusion, MsGuy. I think I went down a slightly different rat hole, and didn't explain my trip very well. Starting from the top, an admission: I hate delivering red X's (or blue question marks for Mac users) to anyone who reads my posts. They usually arise when I use an image that, for one reason or another, does not like to be called up by using the MER 'insert image' button. I find an image I really like, it even shows up in the preview, and then Bam!, it turns into a red X as soon as I hit 'post'. Sometimes I can find the image on a different, friendlier, site and sometimes I have to start all over. That's what happened with the guy sitting on the flag in a post I made a few days ago. It was exactly the image I wanted, but the site where it was located did not want me to insert a call to the image itself, so all anyone could see was the dreaded red X. Here's what I got when I hit 'insert image': Sometimes the image shows up, and sometimes it's just a red X. I could have just hit the 'insert link' button but then the reader doesn't see the image itself, but rather a link that needs to be clicked. I prefer not to use those, as it requires the reader to be logged in to see the image. Someone may be kind enough to read my post in the first place, but I don't like to add to the burden by requiring him to log in. (It's different with Zipperzone's image links, as they're well worth logging in for, but I figure folks are likely to pass my stuff by unless I make it easy for them.) Here's what I got when I hit the 'insert link' button: (If you're logged in, you may see the image; if you're not, you won't.) Flag guy So I was delighted when I thought I had found a workaround. It was thanks to Zipperzone that I first discovered that I could call up one of his images after he had linked to it, and after I had right-clicked on it to find its URL. Apparently, when one links to an image, its original off-site URL is replaced by another URL which is hosted by the MER site itself. And that MER URL does not mind being inserted as an image that can be seen without logging in. So I first linked to the site with the flag-guy's image using the MER 'insert link' button; that caused a link to the image to be inserted in my post. I then clicked the link and opened the image. When the image was open, I right-clicked on it, found the new URL that MER had generated, and inserted that image into my post. Voila! I now had an image that someone could see without logging in. So it seems like a three-step process will do the trick: (1) 'insert link' to the URL of the unfriendly off-site image, (2) log in and right-click on the image to capture MER's friendly URL, and (3) 'insert image' using MER's friendly URL. Last thing I tried, now that I had MER's friendly URL, was to see if I could delete the link to the other site, and retain only the image. It turned out I couldn't. For some reason, the link to the other site still needs to be present, even if I'm using the image with the MER URL. Don't know why, but there it is. Something to ponder on a cold winter evening in front of the fire. Quote
Members lookin Posted March 31, 2011 Members Posted March 31, 2011 PS: I still don't understand all this stuff, so I think I'll just return the sandbox to Daddy and let him carry on from here. Quote
Members lookin Posted March 31, 2011 Members Posted March 31, 2011 PPS: Although it's Zipperzone whose posts have given me recent experience with linking to uploads, I had forgotten that it was Lucky Himself who first taught me the trick, and with one of my very own posts no less! And, if that weren't enough, it was a link to Kaique he used to show me how. I know I'm at the stage of life where I forget things, but Kaique?!! Ay yi yi! What's even more remarkable about the Kaique images is that they were totally gone from the original site where I found them. Fortunately, I had saved them on my hard drive, and was able to upload them to MER as links. And then along came Lucky, and the rest is history! I'll have to think of some way to let him know what a bad boy I've been and thank him properly. Quote
Members Lucky Posted March 31, 2011 Members Posted March 31, 2011 You seem to have the right idea on what might work. Quote
Guest zipperzone Posted April 1, 2011 Posted April 1, 2011 Lookin" Your lengthy post has me totally confused. Are you saying that in order to see every pic I post you have to click on a link? I assumed that everyone would just see the actual pictures when they opened the thread. Is this not the case? Quote
Members MsGuy Posted April 1, 2011 Members Posted April 1, 2011 Zipper, we can see your pix just fine (and mighty fine seeing they are, if I may say so ). But for obscure reasons of site policy, the MER software only allows logged-in members of the site to view your pictures; folks who haven't registered or who haven't logged in only see the link to the pix. At least I think that is the way it works. I think Lookin is mosstly talking about pics that decompose into a nasty "red X box", either immediately upon posting or, sometimes, after some delay period. Pondering why they might do this is far above my pay grade but I'm always interested in a quick fix magic spell to banish the red x demon back to whichever software hell it calls home. Quote
Members Lucky Posted April 2, 2011 Members Posted April 2, 2011 For the first time ever on the internets, I am posting a picture of me COMPLETELY nude and full frontal. Please do NOT pass it on: Quote
Guest hitoallusa Posted April 2, 2011 Posted April 2, 2011 For a second there I believe you Lucky! I wanna see what Lucky looks like though. For the first time ever on the internets, I am posting a picture of me COMPLETELY nude and full frontal. Please do NOT pass it on: Quote
Members lookin Posted April 2, 2011 Members Posted April 2, 2011 Lookin" Your lengthy post has me totally confused. Are you saying that in order to see every pic I post you have to click on a link? I assumed that everyone would just see the actual pictures when they opened the thread. Is this not the case? Zipperzone, MsGuy has it exactly right. I can see your pictures just fine, but only when I'm logged in. Just as my pictures of Kaique required the user to be logged in to see them. But then one day Lucky linked to one of Kaique's pictures that I had uploaded and, lo and behold, I didn't have to be logged in to see it. That's what I was trying to explain, because I thought MsGuy had discovered that trick too. I didn't do a very good job of explaining it, though. So, bottom line, please keep doing that voodoo that you do so well! Anybody needs me, I'll be down here in the sandbox either losing myself by confusing myself or amusing myself by abusing myself. (MsGuy, I hope your JO smiley will make it into the MER Hall of Fame right alongside your Thumbs Up smiley. ) Quote
Guest zipperzone Posted April 2, 2011 Posted April 2, 2011 So, bottom line, please keep doing that voodoo that you do so well! I take it from your quote that you are a fan of the old show tunes that Tin Pan Alley was so famous for. Same here. Britney Spears is so passe. Quote
