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…. I can change my mind if I wanna ….

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tunes without the words
And never stops at all

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It has become quite clear that the problem of the old forum was solved in a simple and cynical way. That is to “redesign” it so that it is made unusable and instantly does away with all the old problems which were without apparent solution and taking up resources so that now, with the new forum barely used, achat can get on with their main business of making money.

It’s nothing new.

(Oh and don’t accuse me of cynicism please,
I am only saying how things appear .. I respect
those with faith in seeing the old forum powers
restored although I am of a more practical and
pragmatic view and speak my mind accordingly)

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The People Upstairs
by Ogden Nash

The people upstairs all practise ballet
Their living room is a bowling alley
Their bedroom is full of conducted tours.
Their radio is louder than yours,
They celebrate week-ends all the week.
When they take a shower, your ceilings leak.
They try to get their parties to mix
By supplying their guests with Pogo sticks,
And when their fun at last abates,
They go to the bathroom on roller skates.
I might love the people upstairs more
If only they lived on another floor.

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Words are like leaves and where they most abound
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found

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What I miss are the little things
the mass of different colours and font sizes
posting a photo with a black background so it
blends in with the black background of the page

Effortless posting of second photos

If I made a space between lines of verse
it did not close them up when posted

I Miss the very simple flexibility of the forum
which I took for granted
Like messaging

The number of views a thread had .. that always
had my interest
The ability to modify even after months
My little profile picture
The number of posts I had made … I recall once
one member commenting on another’s apparent
need to increase their tally .. so funny .. they soon
mount up the numbers .. and soon mean less
I MISS my banner not being automatic
I Miss the little words under my photo
which read flecti non frangi
which means bent not broken in Latin
The new forum is badly bent
emasculated even
Without warning
And without advice of when it might be fixed
to resemble the old forum in ease of use.
So much effort and passion gone
Just like that
I am not averse to change so long as it is good
I am prone to criticise those faults I see
and shout “what is the point?”
but know I shall be ignored which is why
I have left this mourning of the forum til now
since there is no indication that the forum
will be any better than the feeble state it is now
that I no longer want a part of it while
it remains in it’s current state
It was fun – even the fighting – while it lasted
I write in columns as long lines of text are
so hard on the eye … a foible of mine
I assume there is an ulterior motive to this
backward step .. the tyrant stops all dissention
with one swift movement.
And that’s that !

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This the last of the Pussyhound choonz
unless they decide to restore the powers
of the old forum … this, Eff, has it’s
own significance, not lost on you I know.
It’s been a helluva ride.

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Nightclub
by Billy Collins

You are so beautiful and I am a fool
to be in love with you
is a theme that keeps coming up
in songs and poems.
There seems to be no room for variation.
I have never heard anyone sing
I am so beautiful
and you are a fool to be in love with me,
even though this notion has surely
crossed the minds of women and men alike.
You are so beautiful, too bad you are a fool
is another one you don’t hear.
Or, you are a fool to consider me beautiful.
That one you will never hear, guaranteed.

For no particular reason this afternoon
I am listening to Johnny Hartman
whose dark voice can curl around
the concepts on love, beauty, and foolishness
like no one else’s can.
It feels like smoke curling up from a cigarette
someone left burning on a baby grand piano
around three o’clock in the morning;
smoke that billows up into the bright lights
while out there in the darkness
some of the beautiful fools have gathered
around little tables to listen,
some with their eyes closed,
others leaning forward into the music
as if it were holding them up,
or twirling the loose ice in a glass,
slipping by degrees into a rhythmic dream.

Yes, there is all this foolish beauty,
borne beyond midnight,
that has no desire to go home,
especially now when everyone in the room
is watching the large man with the tenor sax
that hangs from his neck like a golden fish.
He moves forward to the edge of the stage
and hands the instrument down to me
and nods that I should play.
So I put the mouthpiece to my lips
and blow into it with all my living breath.
We are all so foolish,
my long bebop solo begins by saying,
so damn foolish
we have become beautiful without even knowing it.

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FOR-A-RONNIE-GIRL

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No.85

Are people waiting to see
A critical limrick from me ?
About an awful mess
I have to confess
I don’t know what they mean

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Has anyone heard from Achat when the new forum will be fixed ?

It seems like a bodge job of inept proportions when you
compare the workability of the old and new forums. It is
very much like having my old Classic iPod taken away and
being given a piece of wood to use instead.

Was anyone asked beforehand about the need to update the
forum in this way – I mean experienced users like J&V, Andrea,
Zuzannah, Kaitlyn, Bear & Jayc – any of you ?

Were any people who use the forum asked for their opinion ?

Of course I’m going to sound like a moaning minnie for saying
these things but, always a but, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

We all had our gripes about the old forum but at least it worked.
With all the advances of digital technology, with NASA being
able to collect dust off the tail of a comet, surely it is feasible
to have a new forum which has all the necessary buttons there
with which to continue the forum instead of chasing around for
ancient code to be able to change a font or make it bold never mind
posting more than one photograph.

Surely someone knows something about this. (I was going to say
fiasco but I would be accused of negativity so will desist.)

My last point is that with all the new revenue Achat will get
this week from Premium Subscriptions, surely we can have our
old forum back until the new one is fixed.

I would welcome any and all responses to my thoughts. I don’t
mean to be arsey towards achat but they have brought it on
themselves and questions should be asked.

Diatribe over.

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[b][i][size=20pt]This is a test for fonts and colour[/b][/i][/size]

which doesn’t work but it was worth a try

Oh yes, can we have a button to specifically log out from the forum
and be able to back out of a subject without being ejected altogether ?

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Jolie Holland  The Littlest Birds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gME8DfCmGSA

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