Is that Rump Steak I smell?

No, it's Nick Griffin's ass being served up on a big silver platter.

I thought he made some valid points NOW AND THEN, but he still proved to be a total and utter cunt overall.

Yes, it takes time both ways. I paid some money across from my paypal account to my bank account last Thursday. It cleared into my bank yesterday, despite having being "completed" a few days earlier from my paypal account. Just have patience.

At 10/22/09 02:16 PM, Ass-Crumb wrote: Unless I'm greatly overestimating the British population here.

Well you are and you aren't. There's a bunch of people running around in protest about this, but the main problem is with the media and the coverage they give to this kind of thing. I mean, there were a million protesters over the war in Iraq marching up and down London and they received less news coverage than the couple of hundred people who turned up at the television centre over this matter.

If you must, I think you probably need to do something like this:

window.opener.document.form.doOtherStuff();

At 10/22/09 01:49 PM, Calintz wrote: Not British... How come Newgrounds can't seem to hire any Canadian Staff?

PsychoGoldfish is Canadian (and now an American Citizen.)

At 10/22/09 01:50 PM, JustsTrollingAlong wrote: that's aimed at all british people who accept the current system of government in britain

Not all of us accept it, but it's a democratic country. I can't do much about who other people vote for, that's their choice. The Nanny State irritates me greatly.

At 10/22/09 01:50 PM, citricsquid wrote: Someone told me that their biggest problem with the bnp was not that they have ridiculously racist views, but that their views cost the tax payers because being a political party costs us. Any idea if this is true?

They have two elected parties in the European Union. All political parties that have been elected, I THINK (but I'm not sure, since I'm not big into politics) receive public funding, including EU candidates:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6 065322.stm

At 10/22/09 01:50 PM, Gagsy wrote: What time is it on?

10:35pm BST

At 10/22/09 01:51 PM, gumOnShoe wrote: Stuff.

The trouble with all of this for the bbc is that it's supposed to remain completely impartial and not get involved in siding with one political party or another. It's a publicly funded service, rather than say, Fox. They're two different ballparks.

So yeah, the bbc is in a no-win situation here really - if they let the guy on the show, there are those who will protest about it, and if they don't, there'll be another group (though I would imagine it'd be a much smaller group) who protest about it.

At 10/22/09 01:46 PM, yurgenburgen wrote: Whether anyone agrees with Nick Griffin or not, people should still support his right to free speech.

I completely agree. I'm just looking forward to the circus.

At 10/22/09 01:46 PM, Timmy wrote: Perhaps I'll run to the loo during the commercial breaks.

The bbc doesn't run commercial breaks during shows, fool.

Anyone in the UK watching this tonight?

Brief background for those who're not familiar with the programme: it's a political show that has a set of panelists, some of whom are politicians, some of whom are celebrities or newspaper columnists etc. There's an audience and they pose topical questions to the panelists.

This evening's panelists include Nick Griffin, head of the BNP, which is a right wing facist and racist party. People are up in arms over his appearance, to the point where some activists have broken into the broadcasting headquarters in protest:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8 321157.stm

People are upset over his appearance for his political beliefs, but more so over the fact that he's being allowed to appear on this show. I say let him go on there and show himself for the twat he is.

Personally, I'm quite looking forward to the show... If you're in the UK and use digital television services, you can press the red button and see a list of comments that stream in throughout it. They almost always make me laugh.

At 10/22/09 01:07 PM, citricsquid wrote:

At 10/22/09 11:45 AM, liljim wrote: Unicode support in PHP5 (software we use for writing the dynamic stuff on the site) isn't so good. This will be changed in future. Please see:

heh, I'd always assumed it was intentional, quite a few websites accept unicode characters and quite a few unicode charcters can be used for tom foolery, I always thought it was intentional that Newgrounds didn't allow them :D

These other sites probably aren't XHTML compliant and besides that, this is an English speaking website, so providing support for characters that other languages use are really on the lowest rung of the ladder of priorities. PHP6 will provide better support for that stuff, but I wouldn't expect to see those characters popping up as they should any time soon.

That's not what I read. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/nort h_east/8287297.stm

For those who're wondering who this guy is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/extra/video/
p004bwks

(the one with the glasses.)

Unicode support in PHP5 (software we use for writing the dynamic stuff on the site) isn't so good. This will be changed in future. Please see:

http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-wor ld/php-6-boost-internationalization-unic ode-993

Just putting the original image here in the even that the link goes dead.

At 10/19/09 09:48 PM, Jackdabomb wrote: Why's there like a giant gleaming capitol building in the background. I think that's a shop or something

I'd imagine it's supposed to be St Paul's Cathedral (see image below.)

I gotta say, though, the linked image looks like something out of a video game...

At 10/21/09 01:13 PM, Fim wrote: I dont know how that translates in UK time, I think it's either 2 hours ahead or behind I can never remember, anyway I should be at work during that time so it shouldnt affect me ;) thanks for the heads up though

I can understand you forgetting that stuff, given that there aren't indications of the time differences at the bottom of each of the forum pages. >_>

I would avoid doing this, for several reasons. The most important of which, is, if you plan on monetising your game by placing an ad in there, the sites that leech the content won't be able to load the game, as the files will be displaced. Check out the flash api:

http://www.newgrounds.com/lit/flashapi

Is there no way that you could parse the xml file and stick the contents into an AS file, import that into your FLA and then export the single SWF?

At 10/20/09 08:11 PM, cast wrote: I'm pretty good. At the moment I'm trying to figure out why they're performing upgrades if they're not useful. Sounds like a waste of time.

Define "useful". Everything we do around the site is "useful", but that doesn't mean to say that it's "useful" to the end user. In this case, it will, be, sort of, but more "useful" to us, since we'll have a better way of managing some data that's important to everyone.

At 10/20/09 08:27 PM, CaptainCock wrote: I shall go cut myself now.

No, don't do that.

At 10/20/09 08:04 PM, CaptainCock wrote:

At 10/20/09 07:53 PM, liljim wrote: What.

It wouldn't work with you are (you're) welcome, it must be your welcome. :/

Look, I'm not looking to publicly burn anyone in this thread, I've tried to be nice to people recently.

However, I suggest you get yourself a BIG dictionary, and bash the hell out of whoever taught you this rubbish with it.

"YOUR" is possessive.
"YOU'RE" is a concatenation of the words "YOU" and "ARE".

If you dismiss both of those words and go for the full words, "YOU ARE WELCOME" makes perfect sense, as does "YOU'RE WELCOME". Your (belonging to YOU) suggestion, on the other hands, doesn't.

It's the same difference with "IT'S" and "ITS" etc - the first is a concatenation, the second is possessive.

Now stop trying to derail the thread by pointing out grammatical errors that do not exist. Thank you. Or should that be "Thank your"?

At 10/20/09 07:46 PM, cast wrote: Useful transparent upgrades...

I didn't write useful, but yes.

Will this be opening the door for opaque and fun features?

No.

Any happier now?

At 10/20/09 07:51 PM, CaptainCock wrote:

At 10/20/09 07:41 PM, liljim wrote: You're welcome.

You're : you are, applies to verbs
Your : applies to nouns

What.

At 10/20/09 07:39 PM, truegamer1 wrote: Whoa then I have nothing to worry about since I don't wake up at seven,but I do wants to see how the maintenance page looks like.

http://uploads.ungrounded.net/placeholde r/index2.html

You're welcome.

At 10/20/09 07:34 PM, Elder wrote:

At 10/20/09 07:32 PM, liljim wrote: Tomorrow morning at around 10:30ish, the site will go down for approximately 20-30 minutes.

East Coast time? time?

NG Operates on East Coast Time. So yes.

Tomorrow morning at around 10:30ish, the site will go down for approximately 20-30 minutes.

Without going into nerdy detail, we're going to be re-tasking one of the databases.

After it's done, you won't experience any difference in performance from the site, and there isn't going to be anything that's changed with the appearance or behaviour of the site.

This is purely a utility upgrade, which will be transparent to all visitors, but it's a necessary one.

Reminds me of that story with the bull in the supermarket.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_irel and/8017391.stm

At 10/20/09 12:54 PM, CibaG wrote: Stuff.

That is pure gold!!!!!

What exactly do you intend on seeing/doing if you do come to the UK? Going to London for the sake of going to London seems a bit silly to me, unless you have specific goals whilst being there.

I will say this, though - if you do decide to come over to the UK, keep to just one or two places where you might stay. It's a common misconception in the US that the UK is a small place, which by comparison it is. However, if you're not careful, you could spend half your time here travelling around and not actually seeing/doing what you might enjoy.

But yeah, elaborate on what you want to do when you get here, that way people will be able to offer other suggestions as to what you should do, where you should go, etc, providing you with more choices.

At 10/17/09 05:34 PM, Sizzlebuzz wrote: I think you're forgetting that anyone today can call anybody anything without having any first hand experience and still have it hold up.

Very well put!

BTW, I'm typing this from an attic (I don't actually have one), I'm doing it for the show.

Two sets of footage about this kind of thing released in a week:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorse t/8304474.stm

It's not right to say that the mother in the first clip is negligent, btw. Many of my friends have just have kids and they're constantly tired and suffer from concentration lapses shortly after giving birth. The mother here got lucky, but it doesn't make her careless.

As far as I'm concerned, you don't have the right to judge this sort of thing unless you've had kids of your own, and I have a lot of sympathy for the mother in the first clip.

The one I've just linked, on the other hand... Well.

At 10/17/09 04:38 PM, liljim wrote: Print the page out, then send a money order to the office for the amount you're given.

I forgot to mention, include the print out in the envelope you send.

Go to the store, fill out all the details, other than the credit card, including shipping. That will give you a tally of what you should expect to pay. Print the page out, then send a money order to the office for the amount you're given. Address the envelope to Bob. He's done this before, so I don't see why he wouldn't do it again - just drop him a PM before you do, to confirm. That way, no credit card information has to be passed over.