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Forum » Tag: screen orientation - Recent Posts http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=screen-orientation The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 22:00:56 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php NickFun on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123&page=2#post-171809 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:39:06 +0000 NickFun 171809@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Howdy Folks! I know little about this site. I know even less about the inner workings of the Chinese government. However, I have been writing satire for years under the guise of NickFun. The All New Jeni B on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-168147 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:09:53 +0000 The All New Jeni B 168147@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Gerry, mate!! Sorry about that, hadn't heard your shout earlier. It's my age you see, I spent too much of my time dancing on speaker stacks at raves and now everything is a bit muffled. Sadly it appears that Continuity Biscuit has been discontinued. Flash! Aa-aaaa! on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-167153 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:31:43 +0000 Flash! Aa-aaaa! 167153@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ "To answer your question - you can use the buttons above the post to make posts look like this or like that, or you can handwrite it out yourself." OH GOD! I'm going back to my ruddy abacus! Gerontius on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-137320 Sat, 08 Sep 2012 12:10:32 +0000 Gerontius 137320@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ No...this can't be the place. Hello......hello....anybody there? Can you hear me? Quaz....Jen....Salty....ASBO....(no, not ASBO)...Golgo...Waldo Bastards. Scroat on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-90020 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:56:32 +0000 Scroat 90020@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Son of Barnabas on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-78979 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:21:45 +0000 Son of Barnabas 78979@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ f0zz Sounds like you will fit in well with the rest of this mad bunch! Incidentally I loved the bit about poo squeezing out between bars - your school must have been like the prison I went to. f0zz on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-77165 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 14:50:31 +0000 f0zz 77165@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Hello I'm new here too, although paradoxically at the same time I'm also quite old and Northern. I'm a writer and write things that sometimes get sold but mostly don't. I'm not funny yet but hope to be one day. Someone suggested I come here and meet similar like-minded people. That didn't come out well, but you get the idea. I like kites and witches. I have a phobia about blown vinyl, especially Anaglypta. It looks as though larvae might be growing in the bubbles. At primary school, every morning during assembly, our headmistress would walk behind us and poke us in the back with a bony finger if we weren't singing loudly enough and once she poked me and a bit of poo squeezed out between the bars of 'And Did Those Feet'. The benefit of me is that I don't know what it was like here before so I can't moan about how better it was then. That's got to be worth something. The drawback of me is that I often use the internet to create some kind of weird and/or wacky online 'persona' then wilt under the pressure of maintaining it because I'm really pretty mundane and stolid. The wackiest thing I've done is buy gem lettuce when it was on offer (twin pack, 50p, AsdA) then forgot it was in the crisper because I hardly ever look there. I'd look here at least twice more though, I reckon. I'm hoping some of the talent here might rub off on me and I can finally stop fearing wallpaper and master the art of brevity. Oh. And what's a NiB? Wait. Don't tell me. News in Brief. Obvious now. The small 'i' gave it away. Knew it had to be a little word like 'is' or 'it' or 'in' (which it was). The rest just fell into place when I went and read the links on the front page explaining all about it. Sorry for everything, I'm rambling. Never wash Tramadol down with sugary Irn Bru. I <strike>enclose my CV and</strike> look forward to here(sic) from you soon. Best regards. Vertically Challenged Giant on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-77159 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:16:27 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 77159@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Hi S&M (snigger) only just spotted your post on here. You're doing it right, you post stuff and then see if people like it. On the FP there is one big story per day (the one with the picture) and 2 NiBs per day (1 at weekends). So the quickest something can make the full FP is the following day, and generally if it's going to make it it's there within a day or 2. I've seen stuff as NiBs anywhere from 20 minutes after posting to a whole week. Hope this helps, and welcome, liked your first couple, keep them coming. Solanki and Mawhinney on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-76719 Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:52:48 +0000 Solanki and Mawhinney 76719@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Ok. This is the sort of post that will almost certainly get someone's back up and they'll send me a link to the right place with a very snooty reply attached. So Sorry. And as long as you said the link that's fine. Just signed up to NewsBiscuit and the submission process isn't entirely clear to me so wanted to check it. You put your story and headline up there and is it simply a case of waiting to see what people say on it? There's nothing else you need to do? And how long does it generally take for things to make it to the FP (if it ever makes it there)? In other words how topical should I make things? Today's news? News that will run for a week? Topical in the sense that there's always a cheap laugh in saying Nick Clegg has sold out? Please. Be gentle with me. jp1885 on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-64980 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:16:21 +0000 jp1885 64980@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Nope - you don't get contacted (the editorial team are a bunch of haughty b*stards) so you'll need to check in. Worth on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-64589 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:13:31 +0000 Worth 64589@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Hello there - I was just wondering if you get contacted if a one-liner is used or do you simply check the site daily? Much obliged. Gerontius on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-61054 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:15:33 +0000 Gerontius 61054@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Would it be OK for Continuity Biscuit to hold there meetings in here? The All New Jeni B on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-6841 Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:51:30 +0000 The All New Jeni B 6841@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ I read them. I don't have anything constructive to add to them, but I've read them nonetheless. theumpire on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-6666 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:28:05 +0000 theumpire 6666@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Ah! Nice thought Edward, but what about all those return visits to a sub to see what comments and replies there have been? Would we need a NewsBiscuit vote-tracking police to check whether you had already voted for a sub? Surely we have enough Big Brother (Huxley-style, not that nauseous TV programme) surveillance already in the UK, without having our every move added to a database here too. I'd rather see the links at the head of each screen (Forum, Chat Room, Writer's Room, etc) added to the bottom of each screen - save me scrolling back to the top or hitting the back button every time I've finished a thread. Anyway, our two posts here this week are the only entries in a month, so I doubt if anyone will read them. edward hack on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-6210 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 05:51:20 +0000 edward hack 6210@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ How about: once you have read a sub, you CANT navigate away from the page unless you leave a score/starfish Quaz on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-1241 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:37:38 +0000 Quaz 1241@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Malgor - the Alt Gr trick only works on some machines, it depends on what graphics card you have. I once had a paniced phone call from Mrs Q who had accidently dropped a bag on her keyboard at work and wondered why the screen was now upside down. Luckily I share Umpire's idea of office japes, so I knew the answer. malgor on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-1206 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:52:06 +0000 malgor 1206@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Very interesting, theumpire. What a larf you must be in the office! I did just take the trouble to look up Alt Gr in Wikipedia - explains it all. Has only the two functions on my desktop keyboard - it accesses the ¦ character on the backtick key and, naturellment, the € symbol on the $/4 key. PS note to editor - sorry we hijacked your thread! Yes, magnolia would be very nice... theumpire on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-1199 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:46:32 +0000 theumpire 1199@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Malgor, I've just spotted your comments about the Alt Gr key. It has one purpose in life, namely to swop the orientation of the image on your screen. Doesn't work on all keyboards, but if you press Alt-Gr and an arrow key together (say the down arrow), the screen image turns upside down. (Alt Gr Up to reverse.) Colleagues can be bemused if they leave their PC for few minutes to get a coffee and someone like me strikes; when the screensaver kicks out on their return and their spreadsheet is upside down . . . Apart from that, I know of no other use. theumpire on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-1168 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:25:35 +0000 theumpire 1168@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Well deserved nap, Senor Gor; move over, `I think I'll join you. I think this could become addictive! malgor on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-1088 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:59:41 +0000 malgor 1088@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ theumpire - good point about copy-n-paste, although unsatisfactory to a CTRL freak like me. (The other option, of course, is to right-click the page and select 'view source'.) Now you pointed out the obvious, the problem's solved. Many, many thanks for that! Just to explain that as I'm on XL 90% of the time, the only use I've ever made of the weird key beneath ESC has been CTRL+said weird key (which displays the underlying formulae instead of the results they generate), which must have bamboozled my mind into believing that the key could not be used alone. Talk about thick! Okay, time for a test drive. This is big, red and bold, whereas this is small, underlined and green <code>[b][size=2][color=red]This is big, red and bold[/color][/size][/b], [u][size=-2][color=green]whereas this is small, underlined and green[/color][/size][/u]</code> I'm satisfied and will take a brief nap. Cheers, malgor. theumpire on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-1059 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:24:56 +0000 theumpire 1059@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Malgor, Have you considered selecting the backtick example in the hint and using Control C to copy it to the clipboard, then Control V to paste it whereever you want it? Please excuse me if I'm teaching you to suck eggs etc. But <code></code><code></code> - bless me - I've just discovered that my desktop keyboard types a backtick just from pressing it! Question now is - how to type the pipe symbol? malgor on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-1000 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:09:22 +0000 malgor 1000@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Brilliant, Jeni! That explains it - because on this desktop computer keyboard there is no eff'n 'Fn' key. But I have a notebook, which does has the 'F(u)n' key. So, I'll be back later, putting code in backticks until I'm satisfied. The All New Jeni B on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-987 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:19:34 +0000 The All New Jeni B 987@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Ah, that'll be bad boy. <code>Ooh!!!</code><code></code><code></code><code></code> It's the "Fn" button what does it Malgor! Got it by pure fluke. Another mystery solved thanks to the NB Scooby-Doo Appreciation Society. malgor on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-980 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:02:20 +0000 malgor 980@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <img src="http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u313/malgor_bucket/IMG_0003.jpg"> Hey Jeni, I'm pretty sure that's the backtick key, just below ESC. Most keys have only two things on them and SHIFT does the job. But that one under ESC has got me baffled. I've tried SHIFT, CTRL, ALT, SHIFT+CTRL, CTRL+ALT, and similar combinations with that other one that nobody ever uses - ALT GR - whatever ALT GR means (Alternative Green, I call it). But backtick remains inaccessible. It's a mystery... The All New Jeni B on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-962 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:51:38 +0000 The All New Jeni B 962@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Thank God I'm not alone Malgor. I must confess to having spent a rather lengthy period of time looking for my backtick. malgor on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-909 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:24:56 +0000 malgor 909@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Nice Admin Lady, thanks so much for explaining the backtick function! I still can't find a backtick on my keyboard, but I don't think I need one, so no worries. Nice Admin Lady on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-872 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:21:26 +0000 Nice Admin Lady 872@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ To answer your question - you can use the buttons above the post to make posts look like this or like that, or you can handwrite it out yourself. And the ` bit means if I copy and paste that same sentence again, with the backtick around it, you can see how I did it. <code>To answer your question - you can use the buttons above the post to make posts look like [b]this[/b] or like [u]that[/u], or you can [i]handwrite it out yourself[/i].</code> Sorry rfreed - we know not everyone will like the changes, but it helps to think of the old system as a late 90s old amstrad trying to run Windows 7. rfreed on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-697 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:27:05 +0000 rfreed 697@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Sorry folks, the old system was better. theumpire on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-595 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:38:55 +0000 theumpire 595@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ When you have done all that - and all this spring cleaning and re-decorating is much appreciated (must add to the value of the property) - can you please explain what you mean by " Allowed markup: BBcode a blockquote code em strong ul ol li img font strike center u hr. You can also put code in between backtick ( ` ) characters." which I bump into here and there. Thanks FliesNDunn on "New Writers' Room and Chat Room" http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=123#post-558 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:18:47 +0000 FliesNDunn 558@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ Orca Whale saved after Dame Vera releases protest song Dame Vera Lynne was celebrating today after her protest song "Whale Meat Again" is believed to have persuaded authorities to show mercy when sentencing Tilikum, the Serial Killer Whale. Judges decided instead on passing a retrospective 30 year sentence, of which 27 years have already been served. The whale could be released as early as next Wednesday. The Whale will be subject to a care in the community order. A Mr Saki Hiroshimo has expressed an interest in becoming a carer.