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Re: Avatars

RedWillow — Wed Jul 29, 2009 12:23 pm

Author: RedWillow

Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 12:23 pm

towy71 wrote:

Dick Van Dyke oh dear oh dear oh dear

Ah yes. His wonderful cockerney accent: "It's Moiry Porpins!"

Don't knock it. It was as entertaining as the rest of the movie.

Re: Avatars

ollie — Wed Jul 29, 2009 12:04 pm

Author: ollie

Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 12:04 pm

towy71 wrote:

Ah but can you talk like a Scot or a Londoner or even a Welshman? Trained actors make a stab at all these or even foreign languages, although only the bravest(dumbest) try that;-)

What are you guys complaining about? Do you know how many "fake" Australian accents are put on by these "trained actors"?

Re: Avatars

heiowge — Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:09 am

Author: heiowge

Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:09 am

now now! We remember him better for his more PC title - Penis van Lesbian!

Re: Avatars

towy71 — Wed Jul 29, 2009 9:10 am

Author: towy71

Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 9:10 am

Dick Van Dyke oh dear oh dear oh dear

Re: Avatars

lok1950 — Wed Jul 29, 2009 12:26 am

Author: lok1950

Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 12:26 am

Or Costner's "Robin Hood".

Enjoy the Choice

Re: Avatars

heiowge — Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:33 pm

Author: heiowge

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:33 pm

towy71 wrote:

Trained actors make a stab at all these or even foreign languages, although only the bravest(dumbest) try that;-)

Just remember the horror story that was Keanu Reeves' "English" accent in Much Ado about Nothing and Dracula, for examples of how not to do it!

Re: Avatars

towy71 — Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:55 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:55 pm

Ah but can you talk like a Scot or a Londoner or even a Welshman? Trained actors make a stab at all these or even foreign languages, although only the bravest(dumbest) try that;-)

howay the lads, canny eh?

Re: Avatars

GeordieJedi — Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:45 pm

Author: GeordieJedi

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:45 pm

Aye your right, but my Geordie accents better than his.
he he

Re: Avatars

towy71 — Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:06 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:06 pm

GeordieJedi wrote:

And it seems to have worked.

Aye but I'm sure you ain't Ewan McGregor

Re: Avatars

heiowge — Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:12 pm

Author: heiowge

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:12 pm

I use photobucket.

Re: Avatars

GeordieJedi — Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:33 pm

Author: GeordieJedi

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:33 pm

Whey!

It seems to have worked. I havn't done anything different.
I logged back in to photobucket today. Used the "Direct Link" option.
And it seems to have worked.

(I'm guessing that I just needed to give photobucket 24hrs to "officially" create my account?).

Anyway. Thanks to everyone who responded.
Cheers.

Re: Avatars

pjroutledge — Fri Jul 24, 2009 12:43 am

Author: pjroutledge

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 12:43 am

Assuming that it won't reveal anything private (obscure it if it does), post your URL here so that we can check it out for the kinds of deformities that we might have experienced.

Cheers

Re: Avatars

GeordieJedi — Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:07 pm

Author: GeordieJedi

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:07 pm

Ok, Ive joined photobucket (the account is literally 5 mins old at the moment)

Ive uploaded a pic (that is allowable by LXF). Ive tried every one of the links from my image.
And everytime I enter it into the Link box on my LXF profile it keeps saying
"The URL of the remote avatar is not valid"

So what am I doing wrong?

Thanks again for any help.

Re: Avatars

towy71 — Sat Jul 18, 2009 10:24 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 10:24 pm

Mine is linked from the pcplus forum (you have to be a member), only one suitable for a bald headed old git, no beard in the summer

Avatars - Yahoo!

pjroutledge — Sat Jul 18, 2009 10:10 pm

Author: pjroutledge

Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 10:10 pm

I had a similar experience with Yahoo! Avatars - the URL provided by avatars.yahoo.com didn't work.

I got around it as follows:

1 copy the URL from avatars.yahoo.com (using export, choose small jpg)

2 paste the URL into my browser's address bar and submit it

3 get the URL of the displayed image from the browser's address box (this isn't the same as the URL submitted in 2)

4 paste the URL retrieved in 3 to the box on this site's profile page - but don't submit it yet!

5 delete the suffix after '.jpg' (in my case the suffix was '?.intl=us')

6 submit it.

Cheers,

Peter