MCL

quote:Originally posted by Bill D (wwh):The son of a friend of mine once dropped a large jar of Marmite in their kitchen - it was extremely difficult to keep four dogs from lapping up the resultant mess, glass and all! ..I can't decide which is worse. The idea of broken glass in the mouth, or the idea of Marmite in the mouth.... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

apparently it is being pushed through schools and colleges and youth clubs and suchlike organisations that are in contact with HCC or that come under their remit. (maybe the likes of scouts and guides too maybe..) In other words HCC are using their own, more direct channels rather than mainstream media, since we have had so much controversy over using the media before. Thats what I was told, but I can't recall who told me it. Furthermore, if you think about it, ask yourself where you would put such publicity.. - The local press? Nope. The event is still three weeks away, and so any advert put in the paper today would be in the bin by the time we got to 19th. Far better to put something in the paper that has all the events for that weekend, which if it was here in Milton Keynes, would mean the thursday before. - Local radio? Nope. The BBC community-type announcements in their whats-on features invariably only run to a week ahead of the date. If you put things on the radio *now* they will be forgotten in three weeks. Like the papers, better to have something mentioned on the thursday or friday programmes, while peopel listening are planning their weekend ahead. No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.... [This message was edited by MCL on July 01, 2003 at 05:01 PM.]

quote:By the way, don't bother writing a correction of this post as I know there will be a thousand mistakes! Don't be so harsh on yourself Dan. I can't find a single one... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

quote:Originally posted by piggly:Why bother rising to the bait? ...because a lot of the things he pointed out were errors on my part and I wasn't going to try and deny them. He may be a troll, but this time he was a correct troll (well, mostly) No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

quote:Actually MARTYN My name is DAN as BEN has nothing to do with the bucks caching site .. ..oops. How the heck did I get to typing in Ben? I know, I was thinking of Ben, becuase I had in mind the thread about him being drunk at the cache bash, while I was actually tyoing a reply to *this* thread. Just shows what an addled brain can do to you... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

I know exactly what people are talking about with this. I haev seen it happen so many times in the past so when I staretd Caching a year ago, I was determined to just take it steady and not burn out. So here I am, a year later, and I still haven't made 100. (I don't mind about that...) What I *have* done, is gotten a firm memory of nearly every cache I have ever done. I think if I'm careful, I can sustain this for many hundreds of caches to come. No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

Bear in mind that there is a cultural difference here. What the americans call "commercial" and what we call "commercial" are not always quite the same. To them, it is quite normal to have such things pushed at them 24 hours a day and never even being considered as anything suspect. We on the other hand, take one look and run away very fast... I doubt whether such a cache would get approved over here. No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

...I'll have some of whatever he's on... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

SimonG said: "my name is spelt with a capital G!" Well of course. Now if only Washboy had got *my* name right.... (it's Martyn, not Martin) I will now turn to Landranger's points, but please read these with the humour they are written with, as in fact I was only teasing Ben, since I know him well enough to be able to. Heck he's gonna be at my house on Friday night, so I'm not going to upset him too much am I? - "saturday" doesn't *have* to have a capital in every circumstance. There are some where it is acceptable for it not to. e.g. "any saturday in the summer months". Mine, I felt, was one of those types, where I was not referring to a particular date directly, just saying "the saturday-in-the-time-period-we-are-discussing-at-the-moment". However, if I had said "on Saturday" rather than "on *the* saturday", it would have been a capital.... - The sentence in the brackets should be capitallised, you are quite right. As far as I am aware a sentence inside parentheses is valid. - Chauffeur was indeed my mistake. - The next couple of typos are my mistakes too. - Curiouser is a valid word. I was lifting the phrase straight out of Alice in Wonderland. The exact quote is "curiouser and curiouser..." And no, I would not dream of suggesting to one of our great literary authors that they should have said "more and more curious"! Your 739 online dictionaries have obviously not read the classics! - You are correct. Conclude should not have a D on the end of it. "it is pointless to pick up others on spelling or grammar". Well actually, I wasn't picking Ben up on spelling at all, and all your examples above that have been my errors have been a matter of spelling/typographical errors. The ones you pulled me up on that were not spelling, I have given good answers for. The one thing that I do occasionally pick up on is where the person has used completely the wrong word. That is not a case of a quick keyboard error (which most of mine are, and which we all make and I just ignore because I know we all make them). Spelling and grammar are two different things to me. If someone were to come on here and say something like "the last director-general of the BBC was Margaret Thatcher" I would expect someone to come on and correct me. Likewise, if I use totaly the wrong word for something, I would expect someone to correct me on what is basically a factual error. Why would you allow one and not the other? Anyway, I was only teasing Ben, mainly due to his admitting drunkenness on a sunday afternoon (there I did it again!) Hope that clears things up.

I like the one with D&P looking "worse for wares" (you mean "worse for wear")... Dan, when you cropped the image, I notice you took care and left all the pint glasses in shot! No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

As expressed ages ago, I am there on the saturday and am available as a helper. I'll be trying to get there as early as possible and don't care how late we leave. (there will be two of us) No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

Yeah, the same. I turned up late with Simong as the chauffer (cheers Simon) and so missed a few people, but nevertheless, I must say I didn't notice you being particularly drunk, as I was there when you left... Or maybe you are just good at hiding it. No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

Ah well, thanks for the explanantion. I always was going to ask somewhere at some point. I do appreciate it is you choice, and no-one is forced to play the game through either one site or any other. I would say I am surprised though, that the activities and furore surrounding another website have caused you to take out your ire on Jeremy's site. I can entirely understand you have a position regarding GAGB, but this is GC.COM not GAGB. You don't have to explain your actions any further, and I won't be offended if you don't reply to this post. It is not really intending to provoke a response, just to air my surprise at the linking of two seemingly unrelated things.

I was starting to wonder why you have removed you caches from GC.COM and various possibilities had come to mind but none of them seemed to me to be valid reasons for doing so. - Maybe because you had got ticked off with people in these forums. Possible, but no reason to withdraw from Jeremy's site because of Us lot, who are nothing to do with Jeremy. In that instance, you would witdraw from these forums, but not from GC.COM - Maybe because of the GAGB "thing". Possible, but again, nothing to do with Jeremy's GC.COM site, so no reason to take it out on him. - Maybe becuase you were ticked off at Jeremy. Not possible, since you have already said above that you have no problem with him. So now it gets curiouser and curiouser. The archived cache pages have notes on them from you saying you no longer "wish to play the game through GC.COM." So one is persuaded to concluded that is a problem you have with GC.COM itself, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what it is. Any chance of enlightenment from you?

Hmmm. Virtual caches? I don't mind them. After all, what *is* trigpointing if its not the sport of vitual caching taken to its extrem... The question is though, whether a virtual should be set where a physical one could be placed, and personally I think no it shouldn't. IMHO there has to be a very good reason why a cache *has* to be vurtual. If there *is* a good reason, then I really don't mind doing them. To answer Stu above, about walk length, a reasonable walk of up about half a mile (which means a mile round trip, is fine by me. Longer than that and I start to wonder whether the proponents of such caches are setting the cache in order to get you to do the walking rather than find the cache, in which case why don't they join the Ramblers Association? If I wanted to walk 1.8 miles twice in an afternoon, I would not be a geocacher. In fact, for medical reasons I can't do a walk that long which means the cache I have in mind with that distance of walk is effectively out of bounds to me, which is a shame. I always keep the caches I place having short but nice walks. The only consolation I have is that when the 3.6 mile round cache need maintenance, the owner has to do the walk every time! No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

My ego has now been completely deflated (well it wasn't fully infalted in teh first place actually)... There are no pictures of me in it. So now I'm going to run away and cry to mummy....

What they all said... I certainly have a load of caching-up to do... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

Not right now you can't. The site appears to be down. No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

[ignore this post. Shame I can't delete it really....] [This message was edited by MCL on June 19, 2003 at 05:03 PM.]

quote:Originally posted by Twist and Turn: If it is not a silly question why do you use the hddd mm mmm & WGS 84 format instead of the OS grid format for finding caches? Twister It's not a silly question, and the answer is that Geocaching is a global activity which requires a global standard. Hence the sport has adopted WGS84 (becuase that's the native co-ordinate datum of the GPS network) and Lat/Long. as to exactly why the numeric format was chosen, I don't know, and I suspect maybe no-one does now. It was probably a case of settling with the first option that one of the founders' own GPS reciever happened to be set to. Unless anyone else knows different? Anyway, it is most definitely not possible to use OS grid co-ordinates anywhere else on the planet except here in the UK, which makes our local system, wonderfuil though it may be, a bit of a global nono. No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

quote:Originally posted by Team Blitz:If you want a shower, bring a bucket with holes and hang it in the trees!!! (now THAT would be worth seeing). Paul In that case, put it on SimonG's "Favourite Things" list.... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

I don't like the new style of "nearest caches" page, often referred to by people as your own "front page". Since the page is now dynamic, depending on whether you exclude or include found caches, you have lost the old concept of "clearing my front page", a sport which I am still in the process of playing, and which has now, after nearly a year of playing it, been whisked from my grasp. No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

You do exactly what you've done. You post on here so that Moss Trooper (the current UK cache-approver) can see the post and hopefully can find your lost cache page. Or tell you why he didn't approve it, etc... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

quote:Originally posted by Team Tate:I'd just like to know where they keep their drinks bottles & sandwiches!! The term fannypack would seem to be quite apt.... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....

quote:Originally posted by Pharisee:I seem to remember reading somewhere that the fresh, green, growing tips of bracket contain a lethal (to humans) toxin. I believe that steeped in hot water, like tea, it was used in the 'middle ages' as a means of assassination. John Age and treachery will always triumph over youth and ability. That would be the "age" and "treachery" then John.... No trees were harmed during the production of this posting, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced....