New Forum

[Anita]

Okay new members - what do you think of it so far?

I like the look of it myself:)

But I've lost all my old blobs :( and gone back to being a Junior Member:( . Another couple of years and I might manage to work myself up to a Grand Anorak status;) .

[Sue]

Yes, looks good. :) And I can even add smilies, which I've never been able to do before!

[Dave]

Have to Agree with you there guys the new forum looks great ! Well done to all the BAGA staff involved in the design and implementation of it ! :D

Shame we loose our blobs though i only just acquired mine....:(

[DJC]

vBulletin 3 :D Great choice. I think this will be a success.

[pinkcandy]

But I've lost all my old blobs :( and gone back to being a Junior Member:( . Another couple of years and I might manage to work myself up to a Grand Anorak status;) .Have they changed the blob system so that it is more logical?? or will we still have to wonder how many posts gets you 4 blobs!! :p

Looks good tho, everyone has done a good job!

[Anita]

It's a mystery:confused: (the blobs that is) but will be fun finding out;) .

[pinkcandy]

hmmph :confused: also does anyone know how to get the avatars back??

[Tasha]

Hi i like da new smilies !!!! Very swag lol :p I miss my blobs Luv Tasha xxxxxxxxx

[pinkcandy]

we still can't look at people's profiles! :(

[DJC]

hmmph :confused: also does anyone know how to get the avatars back??
These have been disabled it seems. Maybe once the forum has been sorted out they can be activated if asked nicely :)

we still can't look at people's profiles! :(

I think we can. Click on Member's List at the top, and then click on a username. Or click on a member's name in a thread, and a list should come up. Click on View Public Profile to see their profile.

[pinkcandy]

:D ah thank u, DJC you're the forum wizard now hehe!

[DJC]

Hehe, I like to help :) (and I've got nothing better to do right now except revision, but sshh!)
The only profiles you cannot see are those of registered but not yet validated users (if you click on 'Welcome to our newest member, [NAME], then a message saying 'You do not have permission to access this page' will be displayed if they have not yet been validated). Just noticed this thread has become a 'Hot thread' http://www.british-gymnastics.org/memberforum/images/statusicon/thread_hot_new.gif

Edit: pinkcandy, avatars are disabled, but you can have a 'Profile Picture'. Go to User CP (http://www.british-gymnastics.org/memberforum/usercp.php?), then select Edit Profile Picture (http://www.british-gymnastics.org/memberforum/profile.php?do=editprofilepic) under 'Settings & Options'. It has to match the criteria though (< 64 KB or < 100*100 pixels).

[Anita]

It'd be nice if more people added that extra bit of info - nice to know hobbies, their "link" to gymnastics (even if only a fan), their region etc.

DJC - I assume your revision related to computer forums ;) - if it is I'm sure you'll have no problem passing that exam.

[DJC]

No the computer forum was an alternative to my revision. Closest I get to to having to revise computers is my IT exam. However, there is so little about IT it's pointless. Most of the questions are about health and safety and common sense things. I just thought I'd do a few things to get the forum tweaked before more members sign up.

[pinkcandy]

i know what you're saying about the I.T exam in my one last year everyone fell asleep half way through i remember looking up and just seeing everyone lying on their desks. Saying that it was the last GCSE everyone was pretty fed-up. yay i have only got 2 more exams left!!!!

[SamDavies]

Hiya,
Just got validated and glad we're back. Shame about avaters, bot im sure i'll survive lol.
Ahhhh, im having to revise for computing right this minute (hope surfin the net counts) cuz got ma AS Computing exam next Fri

Anyway, hope more people join, get a real discussion goin

Sam

[Elliot]

All the peeps from the old forum have gone!!!! Noooo!!!

[Anita]

They're all gradually signing up again - hopefully we won't lose too many that won't or can't join.

Wonder how many are using a new "handle" to the one from the old forum?:confused:

Are there any members on here that had a different name on the old forum? If so, what was it (that way we'll know which "old friends" have joined).

[Elliot]

I am ninth in the posts rankings - highest ever!!!

[Elliot]

No. I am eighth.

[Anita]

Creeping up - you're now joint fifth:D

[Elliot]

At least there is nobody in this forum who will accuse anyone of posting rubbish.

I.e. Hills.

[SamDavies]

I was *Sam* on the old board but didnt really post that much :o

[Elliot]

Hopefully I will get to be an Assistant Grand Anorak. I don't think I have as many posts as you though Anita.

[Elliot]

I feel so proud of myself - I'm third!!!!!

[DJC]

Consecutive posts, one line posts, pointless posts to increase post count = SPAM
/me points to the Edit button.

[Anita]

I'm known for talking too much :p

:eek: Have just noticed - someone's used a five-letter word on the forum! Clue: begins with H, ends with s and is ill in the middle. Sorry couldn't resist.

[Sian]

I'm slowly getting used to this now... was validated this morning :) formerly known as skyhigh_shaz, I've become that little bit more original and my new user name is *pause for dramatic effect* Sian. Lol I apologise for the randomness, but the alternative is science revision for monday!! Hopefully more people will join up.

Sian

[Anita]

Hi Sian - glad you joined. I'd have to admit science revision definitely doesn't sound exciting but good luck for Monday.

[Sian]

Thanks, I'm going to need all the luck I can get!! I missed three months of work when i was in hospital and house-bound and managed to catch up on every subject except science. :eek: Lol these smilies are great!! Anyways... back to revision...

[Dave]

Im Sure you'll do Ok Sian just keep studying like mad.....;)

[Sian]

You make it sound so easy!! I tend to lose interest. Like now, I was revising, honestly! And now it would seem I have appeared on the forum... whooops! :rolleyes:

[Dave]

I Know the feeling there Sian im meant to be studying for an exam which is tomorrow afternoon but i've just agreed with my manager to move it ! Its alright for some eh..... Shame you can't move your exam.... :D

[Anita]

Think daughter No 1 would also agree (about moving exams) - don't think she did a lot of revision for her last one and is now worried ....

She's currently at Uni working on her final piece for this year - she's got to make a CD Rom about her course so far and include on it pieces she's already done during the course, including videos and web pages .....

[Dave]

All i can say to that is rather her than me :D

[Sian]

And just to think I still have all that to come!! :(

[Dave]

Your benefit in the long run but like most of my friends who went on to uni, you will be in serious debt.....

So how's the studying going ?

[Sian]

Studying...? :rolleyes: erm well its going ok so far, just struggling with science, well physics to be more precise. Hoping to do biology next year for A-Levels, which kind of adds to the pressure!!

[Anita]

The debts are worse if you live away from home. Bex still lives with us and we support her although she pays her own uni fees (I pay for the running of her car, apart from petrol & her gym fees) - and she owes about £10,000 from student loans:( but doesn't have an overdraft to go with it, like some.

[Dave]

I Used to love science when i was at school espically when we used to get bunsen burners out and set things on fire....:p ( Not recommend though )

[Sian]

Ah no!! I was hoping to look into Loughborough Uni... but that certainly isn't anywhere near home! well I have a few years to do some serious saving...

[Sian]

I think everyone has set something on fire with a bunsen burner at some stage during their school years!

[Dave]

I think your right there ! One thing thats not recommend is opening the gas tap and setting that on fire ! One of my mate did so and all hell broke loose although it was very funny at the time looking back it was foolish and childish i wouldnt advise it to anyone.....
If you planning on going to Uni i'd start saving everyhting you can as its easy to spend money while at uni ( And i never even went ! )

[Anita]

I remember my brother getting the cane because he laughed when someone set the gas on fire as it came out of the gas tap and shot flame down the table! See what you missed being born in more lenient times?

[Sian]

Lol of course...

[Dave]

Im glad i missed it as i think i would of got the cane on more than 1 occasion....

[Sian]

I would like to say I'm good but... perhaps two occasions?! However, I can safely say, I have not set our science room alight! Anyways, I am going to go now, not to do revision unfortunately, but shopping! Lol bye!

[Anita]

It's worth thinking about taking a year out before going to Uni to save some money - my daughter's friend did that and reckons it's been a great help.

As for the cane - I never got that myself: had a few detentions though and got very close to a suspension for drawing a sketch and writing a poem about my Maths teacher - it started "Angus is a great scotch twit ......" and that was the politest line of the lot.:D Got caught because on of the lads couldn't stop laughing at it - spent a triple maths lession standing in a draughty corridor with him :( before being hauled before the headmaster :eek: . My punishment was being moved to a lower maths class - and I ended up with a better teacher and getting a top grade :D .

PS - maths was my best subject at school.

[Dave]

Have fun shopping while the rest of us are stuck at work....:(

[DJC]

Have fun shopping while the rest of us are stuck at work....:(Not me :p Although I do have a lot of revision to do... I'm avoiding it again though :o Still 3 days till my next exam.

[Dave]

Have fun revising DJC im glad im past that stage in my life although i have to study for courses/exams work send me on...

[Gingerheid]

The thought of the debt was alone enough to put me of going to university.

The other thing people like is experience, and I pinned my hopes on the idea that having been working for a few years, I'd have managed to work my way up into a graduate entry level job by about the time I'd have been out University.

My hopes were set on making it before I was 23 and touch wood (touches head) I made it, but only by a week - I was starting to get worried!

I would have gone if I'd been wanting to do something that was essential for a particular directly related job, like medicine or teaching, though.

(PS. What did the thread start off as being about? Can anybody remember?)

[Sian]

erm the new forum i think!! but then i was talking about the revision i was supposed to be doing... supposed being the key word!!

DJC - take it you are in year 11? with science monday afternoon?! argh!!

[DJC]

Yep that's right - it says so in my profile :)

[Sian]

well i'm a tad bit slow... maybe i'll get round to reading it now!!

[Dave]

I totally agree with you there Gingerhead as i had the same idea...... and TBH im glad i never went to Uni now as i would be in debt and most likely have been kicked out......
Sian hows the revision going ?
Anyways back to what the thread is about " New Forum " - Its great !

[Laura]

First post! Not really sure on the new board- I want the old one back! :rolleyes:

Anyway, I was Pinxi on the old board but I put Laura as my real name coz I thought I had to but now I've noticed that not everyone has put their real name- I want Pinxi back!

xxx

[Anita]

Hey Pinxi nice to see more old friends signing up.

Why don't you add that as your "signature" ie I want Pinxi back

:)

[Sian]

Hey Dave, the revising is ok now, could be worse!!

As for the new forum... I'm not very good with computers and I am still trying to work out how to use it properly!!

[Dave]

I'm Glad the revising is going well, keep up the good work.. anyways better not waffle off topic here....

[Sian]

No course not, we now have a whole thread dedicated to that! :D

[Laura]

Hey Pinxi nice to see more old friends signing up.

Why don't you add that as your "signature" ie I want Pinxi back

:)
Added my signature now!

It took me a while to find the forum coz I just kept looking at my bookmark which was still set the old one- I couldn't work out what was going on! lol! :p

xxx

[DJC]

It took me a while to find the forum coz I just kept looking at my bookmark which was still set the old one- I couldn't work out what was going on! lol! :pThat was my theory :) I wonder if a link could be added at the top of that page...

Edit: Nice signature by the way. Would you rather be known as Pinxi or Laura?

[Laura]

Nice signature by the way. Would you rather be known as Pinxi or Laura?
I don't mind! I'll answer to both- infact I'll answer to almost anything!

xxx

[Dave]

Anything eh ? Only joking..... Its good that a lot of the old members are now signing up again...

[Sian]

But there are still a whole load of them old members missing...

[Laura]

Anything eh ?
I knew something like that was gonna crop up!

xxx

[Anita]

Pinxi-Laura - I used to say that but added the proviso "as long as it's not rude".

A guy from our technical committee calls me Barbie: that's because he was convinced my husband's name was Ken (as in Barbie & Ken:)) - you can imagine how he felt when I told him his name is Alan :o and he had to get a National competition programme amended (we're both part of the National marshalling team and listed as such).