Why can't we have one too !!!

[Karlos]

I like it! Karlos, sort it out

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moto

Not my call, mate

[Karlos]

I'm sure the current owners would be fine with it*, but messing around with the contents of server for the purposes of anything other than fire fighting may not be looked on too kindly.

*and as soon as they indicate that they are, I'll do it

[Karlos]

I've appealed to the representative of the powers that be

We'll see.

[Karlos]

@All

Coward

Look, I realise this is jut a bit of harmless goading, but in a rare moment of seriousness, I'll explain why:

Cowardice is not the issue, respect for the owners is. When real problems have arisen, I've waded straight in to fix them without asking and waiting for permission since it's understood by all that the sooner they are fixed, the better. I don't own the site; the past and present owners have placed a significant amount of trust in the fact that I only access the server when something really is wrong and needs fixing and not to make arbitrary changes (no matter how harmless) for fun.

If you paid 10K for a site, would you be happy with unauthorised changes to it's branding by one of the site members?

[Karlos]

@Karlos - of course that is all understood. I for one was just winding you up :razz:

I realise that, but perhaps not everybody understands the reason

[Karlos]

@Franko
I don't think he was referring to you - just attempting to evade another row about the site

^ this.

I might act like I own the place at times, but seriously, I don't

[Karlos]

It's a Christmas pudding.

AKA, the "black hole" pudding. Whilst not actually dense enough to become a singularity, anybody that's ever eaten a vintage xmas pud will tell you they are at least dense enough to reach fruit-degeneracy.

Quite why it's considered a good idea to eat those things after a large dinner, I have no idea. They may be tasty, but they wipe you out.

[Karlos]

^
That's no xmas pud.

This is an xmas pud:


Note the blue glow on the right hand edge. This is Cherenkov radiation caused by particles escaping the degenerate matter at speeds above the speed of light in air.

[Karlos]

Clearly you're not eating strategically. I always save space for Christmas pud

I tend not to have them nowadays as all the good ones tend to be made with animal suet and enough booze for them to be considered dual use (the second use being as incendiary ammo for siege catapults).

[Karlos]

Actually they're delicious. Stodgy, fruity, sweet and absolutely lovely with a bit of custard. Can't beat it!

True on all counts. My mum used to make them (and xmas cakes) often months in advance. They'd probably put you over the limit just after one mouthful :lol:

[Karlos]

*and as soon as they indicate that they are, I'll do it

Refresh your browsers...

I had to edit the right hand side of the image slightly because creating a repeating snow tile for the rest of the banner went into the borders and I wasn't going to play around changing the site layout for it

[Karlos]

I thought it was a nice enough idea, it's just that it wasn't up to me.

[Karlos]

Too Northern Hemisphere centric.  You need a surfing Santa to represent those in the south!

Until the Southern hemisphere is as populated as the Northern one, no soup for you :lol:

[Karlos]

Now that's Christmas.  All you need the barbecue....

It's too bad Karlos is prejudiced against the south.

You had your chance, but you waited until the Northern hemisphere centric banner was already up before you started complaining :p

Typical whingeing bloody antipodean-pom-analogue... :lol:

[Karlos]

Hmm.. roll on Boxing Day Test....  (o:

BTW: The banner looks superb, after a (SHIFT)Refresh....

Well, I didn't want to modify any of the markup so I just replaced the image, so caches need to update before it becomes visible