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Post by Flatypus on Aug 16, 2009 16:48:23 GMT
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Post by everso on Aug 16, 2009 17:59:11 GMT
I've seen this before. Fascinating. |
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Post by housesparrow on Aug 17, 2009 15:41:33 GMT
Can't see the video or get into the link, but surely this must be an advert from someone trying to sell us something?
If not, can one of you please give me these tips to flatten my tummy!
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Post by trubble on Aug 17, 2009 18:42:31 GMT
Just buy those big magic knickers. Or lie on your front all the time. The latter will limit your social life but we can't have everything.
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Post by Flatypus on Aug 17, 2009 18:55:41 GMT
Can't see the video or get into the link, but surely this must be an advert from someone trying to sell us something? If not, can one of you please give me these tips to flatten my tummy! You have a YouTube problem don't you? Not using Linux by any chance are you? I couldn't get it to work until I replaced the Gnash standard with one that Flash do now actually provide but I'd need to look the name up because it's not obvious - swf~something I think. |
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Post by housesparrow on Aug 17, 2009 19:23:32 GMT
Flatypus....now, take a deep breath - several in fact. Slowly, count to ten when breathing in, then count to ten when breathing out.
WHAT THE DEVIL IN LINUX?
I have the slowest dial up connectionin the world, and that is why I can't see anything animated. Apart from my daft avatar.
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Post by Flatypus on Aug 17, 2009 19:24:58 GMT
Oh, that sort of problem. Answer, mainframe operating system for small computers.
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Post by housesparrow on Aug 17, 2009 19:26:55 GMT
Just buy those big magic knickers. Or lie on your front all the time. The latter will limit your social life but we can't have everything. You don't mean those great elasticated corset jobs that were around in the 60s, do you? Good grief, I don't even wear tights, they are so uncomfortable round the midriff. |
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Post by trubble on Aug 17, 2009 19:33:10 GMT
Well, um, I doubt you could buy them even if you wanted to but the modern version of them, those ones that Trinny and Susannah always swear by, they are not so awful. Once you get used to the breathing difficulties and have a few drinks so that you are feeling no pain etc.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Aug 17, 2009 20:00:08 GMT
Dial up is a work of the devil...I remember the horror and trauma of 56k...  AH |
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Post by Flatypus on Aug 17, 2009 20:08:43 GMT
Half the time I get 56K anyway over a 1M link! Actually though, if she has a landline then she should be able to upgrade it to 5M or so maybe even for free. Some deals come bundled here.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Aug 17, 2009 20:15:54 GMT
Half the time I get 56K anyway over a 1M link! Actually though, if she has a landline then she should be able to upgrade it to 5M or so maybe even for free. Some deals come bundled here. I've had my 8M broadband drop down to around 200kbps on the odd rare occasion...it's funny though, my first exposure to the www. was via a SEGA Dreamcast, 56k through the phone line, no ability to play flash movies or open any kind of PDF files, but it seemed AWESOME at the time.  AH |
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Post by Flatypus on Aug 17, 2009 20:22:56 GMT
I so far don't see the need to upgrade. It's only 256K upload I think but I'm not sending masses of huge files. It depends what you do too. Most browsing is actually well under 100K but direct ftp upgrades run more around 200K. It used to fall between two coverages but Clearwire has improved it since then.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Aug 17, 2009 20:35:05 GMT
I do a lot of downloading, so I need the speed. ;D
But yeah, I seemed to manage ok before I had broadband, I supose it's like anything, once you uprade anything, you wonder how you survived with the previous version.
AH
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Post by betty on Aug 17, 2009 20:39:33 GMT
I have the slowest dial up connection in the world, and that is why I can't see anything animated. Apart from my daft avatar. i have the slowest broadband connection in the world - which is why i can't see anything animated .....apart from your daft avatar! |
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Post by Patrick on Aug 17, 2009 21:34:45 GMT
Such is the expansion of the Internet, I've noticed that each time I get around to upgrading speedwise - I regain the speed that I first got each time I upgraded! If you see what I mean!
So I was on 56k dial up which seemed to get slower and slower, then I got 2MB Broadband which seemed as fast as the dial up was in the beginning! Then that started to slow down so I got 5-8MB Broadband which goes as fast as 2MB did - in the beginning!
I tell a lie - Being able to Download Large things is very welcome.
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Post by everso on Aug 17, 2009 21:50:00 GMT
Well, um, I doubt you could buy them even if you wanted to but the modern version of them, those ones that Trinny and Susannah always swear by, they are not so awful. Once you get used to the breathing difficulties and have a few drinks so that you are feeling no pain etc.  Hol' onta somethin' an' suck in yo breath! |
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Post by Patrick on Aug 17, 2009 22:07:06 GMT
My Nan was always well corseted. When I was small and gave her a hug I could never work out why she was so solid!  She had back problems, it intrigues me that they may well have been caused by the corset - but in order to gain any relief she had to carry on wearing the things! Favourite corset joke: "The most exciting time I had in the exciting past was when we used to go sledging using one of me Granny's Whalebone corsets......
.....me Granny wasn't very excited though - she was still wearing them!" |
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Post by Flatypus on Aug 17, 2009 22:48:03 GMT
It makes me think that all the modern obsession with dieting might be because women no longer wear corsets. They still want the same shape as when they did and everything had some measure of tight elastic built in, but without the garment to do it.
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Post by housesparrow on Aug 18, 2009 9:22:10 GMT
Dieting doesn't help tummy flab if you are not fat to start with. If I lose weight I just have this flabby belly on a scrawny body. But I am relieved to learn that sit ups don't work; it saves me feeling guilty because I never do them.
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