Curious.

by **BENNU** » Thu Dec 16, 2021 7:19 pm

I received an email this evening about a thread in which I had been active:

Hello BENNU,

The topic "Iris Jones.. ..the saga continues" received a new reply by
newcastle since your last visit to "Luxor4u". No more emails will be sent
until you visit the topic.

by **newcastle** » Sun Dec 12, 2021 11:03 am

Re cannabis.....I agree that it should be legalized generally. In reality, it more or less is, except you have to run the gauntlet of dealers etc...with obvious knock on issues.

But our politicos seem dead set against it....

@John Landon

Your tale reminded me of my experience having a cornea graft many years ago. They keep you in overnight and, when the anaesthetic wore off, the pain was excruciating. I kept the ward awake moaning and groaning into my pillow. Needless to say , the paracetamol was useless.

Eventually, the night nurse came over to ask me to be quiet....and I told her I needed something stronger...like morphine.

“Sorry” she said. “You need a doctor for that”

I exploded!!

“This is a f*cking hospital. Surely you have doctors?”

Apparently nowhere near the ward.

So , at my insistence, they wheeled me to A&E where a doctor gave me a morphine injection.

by **HEPZIBAH** » Sun Dec 12, 2021 10:31 am

DJKeefy wrote: Sun Dec 12, 2021 5:47 am The only notifications are when you login to Luxor4u, however you can get emails sent to you by changing the options in your user control panel / board preferences/ edit notifications options:

Someone replies to a topic you have bookmarked

Someone replies to a topic to which you are subscribed

Someone quotes you in a post

Someone replies to a topic in a forum to which you are subscribed

Someone sends you a private message

Someone thanks you for a post

Someone removed thanks for your post

Someone mentioned me

Blimey! I didn't know most of that. I guess the forums work well enough for me the way I have it all set up. I certainly don't feel I'm missing out on anything.

by **John Landon** » Sun Dec 12, 2021 9:39 am

Diversifying into cannabis subject, back in the day when I was blighted with chronic pain from kidney stones, I was admitted to hospital with severe pain and they gave me morphine, which took the pain away for about 5 hours. After that I'm the middle of the night whilst I was in the ward and the pain came back, that gave me paracetamol IV.

Obviously that didnt work, but the nurse said she couldn't give me morphine as she needed a doctor to sign a prescription.
So I told her to wake the ****** up as he was fast asleep in a cubicle in the ward next to me.
She looked a tad surprised that I knew this, and she went anyway to investigate and finally came back with more morphine. This was after 3 hours in total of excruciating agony for me.

Next day I went home, called one of my mates and had a tub of cannabis delivered to my house.
When the pain returned, I smoked a spliff, and the pain went within 15 minutes and remained absent for the next 16 hours. .

So morphine ? Has to be manufactured and placed into vials, a prescription has to be raised , a pharmacist has to then locate the stuff and send it to the ward via a porter, the. A doctor has to get a syringe from the medical supplies and inject the patient. At what cost god himself only knows.

Whereas, a mate on a bike can deliver a far more effective, non addictive, natural pain relief for a week for the princely sum of 50 quid via a plant that can grow naturally just about anywhere in the world.
And it's banned by a caring government.

Where's the logic in that ?

To quote a great song.
Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right.

by **DJKeefy** » Sun Dec 12, 2021 5:47 am

The only notifications are when you login to Luxor4u, however you can get emails sent to you by changing the options in your user control panel / board preferences/ edit notifications options:

Someone replies to a topic you have bookmarked

Someone replies to a topic to which you are subscribed

Someone quotes you in a post

Someone replies to a topic in a forum to which you are subscribed

Someone sends you a private message

Someone thanks you for a post

Someone removed thanks for your post

Someone mentioned me

by **Who2** » Sun Dec 12, 2021 12:35 am

Quote: I sometimes wonder if it depends on what he’s been smoking at the time.?

I blame the Vietnamese, now your Dutch they know a thing or two.
It's all down to economics supply and demand, qualities and choice started going downhill in the late 80's.

But hey medical use could, just could be on the horizon. What with MP's relations growing the stuff openly.
Quality rather than quantity..my motto..

Ps: I never inhale..'our nana called it "a five bob laff " an she was over 70...
Elucidate: A five bob laff = 2.1/2 j's of afghani black for 25p.

by **newcastle** » Sat Dec 11, 2021 10:42 pm

John Landon wrote: Sat Dec 11, 2021 9:41 pm Using the word appropriate is subjective.

I consider most posts “appropriate” for comment although not many of yours...as they’re usually too technical for me. Or they wander off into your predilection for pseudoscience.

I’ve learned there’s little to be gained in debating that subject...although I might permit myself a few jibes.

Who 2s posts range from the interesting to the unintelligible. I sometimes wonder if it depends on what he’s been smoking at the time.

A-Four’s pearls of wisdom are an easy target for anyone who can smell a pseud a mile away......although, mea culpa, it is akin to pulling wings off flies.

by **John Landon** » Sat Dec 11, 2021 9:41 pm

Using the word appropriate is subjective.

by **newcastle** » Sat Dec 11, 2021 1:04 pm

@John Landon

This particular user probably has notifications set up for when ever there is a new message posted in a particular topic they may be watching

You must be joking!

I simply click on L4U from time to time and, if there’s any new posts*, comment on them if appropriate. It’s not rocket science...nor does it absorb more than a few minutes, given the paucity of posts nowadays.

* conveniently highlighted by going to “Board Index”

by **John Landon** » Sat Dec 11, 2021 11:33 am

Dear A-Four, whilst I have no doubt you are well versed in all the workings of a Smith Corina typewriter and have had your keen eye kept firmly in the past goings on in this strange world we inhabit, I am quite happy to help you along in the modern age of digital technology.

There should be no reason why you cannot see your PM's unless you have chosen not to see them.

Now I am just as guilty as the next person to have been behind the keyboard whilst under the influence of one or 2 glasses of Egypt's finest Obelisk 2020 vintage red, and my curiosity may have gotten the best of me as I randomly click on things.

So let's do some investigating Watson.

Have you checked

Use control panel

Board preference

Edit settings

There is an option you can check to

Allow users to send private messages

Then scroll to the bottom and SUBMIT that change.

You can then get an email alert to say you have a new private message in the edit notification settings as in my previous post. .

Onto our eagle eyed from member,

This particular user probably has notifications set up for when ever there is a new message posted in a particular topic they may be watching, so yes it's hardly surprising they can respond very quickly, or as their location suggests, there won't be very much out there to tempt them to put down their device and head out exploring the wonders of ancient Egypt.

But each to their own, live and let live.

Hope this helps.

by **A-Four** » Sat Dec 11, 2021 10:49 am

John Landon wrote: Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:28 pm
Any problems then PM me.

D

I don't think you are aware John, I don't have a PM system available to me, as I pointed out in this section of this forum on June 11th 2016, though as I made clear then it does not bother me, but thanks anyway for your offer of help.

.

As Hepzibah points out, it would be a bit silly if an alert went off every time a post is made on the forum, true. However my curiosity was driven simply by the fact that one member of the forum seems to be aware of each post, and most certainly replies within an hour, or even less, no matter who makes a post. As can be seen even in this subject.

I simply thought that this was another facility that was not available to me.

Thank to all for your interest.

.

by **HEPZIBAH** » Sat Dec 11, 2021 10:09 am

For what it's worth A-Four, when I returned to the forums just now, I did receive visual notification that you had liked two of my posts.
However, that is not the same as receiving an 'alert' to a member's post as I understand your opening post.

by **HEPZIBAH** » Sat Dec 11, 2021 9:33 am

John Landon wrote: Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:28 pm
A-Four wrote: Fri Dec 10, 2021 10:42 am I am a little curious to learn whether members of this forum have what I understand are 'alerts' when other member post on here. It seems obvious to me that such as DJKeefy and moderators have this facility, though myself as a member, I do not have such an option, nor am I really bothered, though as I write, I remain curious as to whether other individuals have such a facility.
If you make a post and someone hits the thanks button or quotes your post, then the Little Bell icon at the top of the page will turn red.
Check for that now, as I Thanked your post and quoted you.

When you next login and you see that bell icon is red, tap on it and it will let you know what activity has been flagged.
I can't be sure A-Four, but I think this may be the default behaviour.

You can also be alerted by email, ( that is the email address you submitted when you joined the forum. )

For that, and enabling the red bell, you need to go into the
user control panel
By tapping the icon that displays your username at the top of the page
and select

User control panel
Then select

Board preferences
Then select

Edit notification options

There are a series of check boxes you can tick.
These are self explanatory.
Once you have done that, scroll to the bottom and hit the

Submit button

Hope that helps. Any problems then PM me.

D

I didn't think of the things you have mentioned above. You are quite right.

When I first read A-Four's post, my mind just flew back to the forum of a few years ago. There were so many posts being made our computers and phones would never have stopped pinging (assuming the alert was audible).

by **HEPZIBAH** » Sat Dec 11, 2021 9:20 am

newcastle wrote: Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:02 pm
HEPZIBAH wrote: Fri Dec 10, 2021 7:22 pm What an odd opening post!

Panic not A-Four. Members do not get alerts (unless of course I'm also excluded from receiving them) when other members post.
From memory, and assuming things have not changed, Moderators do not get alerts when members post either.

Perhaps you are confusing alerts with the tagging system in used on social media sites such as Facebook. In that situation it is possible to bring posts to specified people's attention.
You can be alerted to a PM.... but not simply to posts. I can’t recall whether the PM alert ( a message to your mail account) is automatic or something you’ve opted for.

No doubt Keefy will clarify all and satisfy A-Four’s curiosity....although perhaps he’s got better things to do with his time!

It was specifically posts that A-Four mentioned. That was one of the reasons I found it an odd post.

by **Who2** » Sat Dec 11, 2021 12:06 am

That's alot of lerts....in my book.....

Ps: Bit like tube graffiti " I love grils"
underneath "I think you mean girls!"
underneath "What about us grils ?"

by **newcastle** » Fri Dec 10, 2021 9:34 pm

John Landon wrote: Fri Dec 10, 2021 9:10 pm Well that will become obvious to him if that is the case.

Though if you are following a topic then you can be alerted to that. Regardless of Whether you were quoted or Thanked. Which is what I presumed A-Four was enquiring about.

You might be right.

If you “bookmark” a topic you can be alerted, by email, to almost anything regarding that topic...though God knows why you’d want to be. I get enough garbage already emailed to me

I doubt he would want an alert to every single post made here, unless his curiousity levels have exceeded that of our Feline friends.

You’d be surprised! Well....at least as far as his own gems of wisdom are concerned

He keeps a record of each and every post he makes....date, time etc.....in order to refer to his prescience whenever he considers it relevant. As Keefy culls the forum from time to time, I imagine he keeps a physical copy of his posts in case they’re deleted at some future point.

Beats watching paint dry.....possibly

by **John Landon** » Fri Dec 10, 2021 9:10 pm

Well that will become obvious to him if that is the case.

Though if you are following a topic then you can be alerted to that. Regardless of Whether you were quoted or Thanked. Which is what I presumed A-Four was enquiring about.

I doubt he would want an alert to every single post made here, unless his curiousity levels have exceeded that of our Feline friends.

by **newcastle** » Fri Dec 10, 2021 9:00 pm

@John Landon

None of the above alerts you to when a member has made a new post...which is what- I think- A-Four was asking.

That you can only do by logging into the forum....when you can see notifications ( if activated), new posts etc.

by **John Landon** » Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:28 pm

A-Four wrote: Fri Dec 10, 2021 10:42 am I am a little curious to learn whether members of this forum have what I understand are 'alerts' when other member post on here. It seems obvious to me that such as DJKeefy and moderators have this facility, though myself as a member, I do not have such an option, nor am I really bothered, though as I write, I remain curious as to whether other individuals have such a facility.

If you make a post and someone hits the thanks button or quotes your post, then the Little Bell icon at the top of the page will turn red.
Check for that now, as I Thanked your post and quoted you.

When you next login and you see that bell icon is red, tap on it and it will let you know what activity has been flagged.
I can't be sure A-Four, but I think this may be the default behaviour.

You can also be alerted by email, ( that is the email address you submitted when you joined the forum. )

For that, and enabling the red bell, you need to go into the
user control panel
By tapping the icon that displays your username at the top of the page
and select

User control panel
Then select

Board preferences
Then select

Edit notification options

There are a series of check boxes you can tick.
These are self explanatory.
Once you have done that, scroll to the bottom and hit the

Submit button

Hope that helps. Any problems then PM me.

D

by **newcastle** » Fri Dec 10, 2021 8:02 pm

HEPZIBAH wrote: Fri Dec 10, 2021 7:22 pm What an odd opening post!

Panic not A-Four. Members do not get alerts (unless of course I'm also excluded from receiving them) when other members post.
From memory, and assuming things have not changed, Moderators do not get alerts when members post either.

Perhaps you are confusing alerts with the tagging system in used on social media sites such as Facebook. In that situation it is possible to bring posts to specified people's attention.

You can be alerted to a PM.... but not simply to posts. I can’t recall whether the PM alert ( a message to your mail account) is automatic or something you’ve opted for.

No doubt Keefy will clarify all and satisfy A-Four’s curiosity....although perhaps he’s got better things to do with his time!

Curious.

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