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Mickey wrote: "★ Jess wrote: "Mickey wrote: "Because of the year 10 formal tonight I am one of ten who actually came to school today in year 10!"Year 10 formal? That is a little pretentious, no?
We've alrea..."
Well that makes sense then :) Goodluck for year 11 :)
Margaret wrote: "Liz wrote: "Margaret wrote: "Brenda wrote: "Liz wrote: "Brenda wrote: "Liz wrote: "Brenda wrote: "Liz wrote: "Brenda wrote: "Liz wrote: "Less than 20 days till Christmas.. Counting down. So mu..."Oh for sure !!! I love that place. I wish it was up all year round.
Amber wrote: "I have to ask, is anyone else having trouble with Goodreads? Each time I try to get into my profile it tells me I have to sign in; I click on sign in, and it tells me I'm already signed in and take..."
Im having similar ones too! also keeps making me sign in with facebook rather then just letting me sign in normally!
Im having similar ones too! also keeps making me sign in with facebook rather then just letting me sign in normally!
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Amber, I have just discovered a thread in the Feedback group of people having the same issues as you...
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
Please help me. All the problems I've been having, I can't even contact GR support because it keeps coming up with warnings about cookies. What are they, and how do I find them? I have no idea what it's talking about, and I can't contact support until I've worked this out.These are my current issues:
I cannot get into my personal profile, nor can I accept friend requests. Whatever I try to attempt on Goodreads, I am told to 'sign in'; when I try to do this, it tells me I"m already signed in and I'm automatically directed to the GR home page. Over and over again this happens, just going around in circles.
When I get notification updates on email, I will click on the link to take me to the relevant thread, and for the first few seconds it's open the thread will be in a foreign language.
There is nothing I can do with my GR account as it won't let me.
These are my issues, and I can't even contact Support for help because of these stupid cookie things it keeps going on about... please someone, can you help me? I know this is pathetic, and I apologise and thank you at the same time!!! :(
I hate the weather, but I am loving the thunderstorm we are getting at the moment. :-D
Amber wrote: "Please help me. All the problems I've been having, I can't even contact GR support because it keeps coming up with warnings about cookies. What are they, and how do I find them? I have no idea what..."If you are using Internet explorer there is an option under tools (might look like a cog icon) called Internet options, in there click on the the delete button where it says browsing history and make sure you delete cookies, temp internet files and history.
If firefox under tools it's called Clear recent history and make sure you delete for the past few weeks.
Also it might be an idea to try another browser.
Amber wrote: "Please help me. All the problems I've been having, I can't even contact GR support because it keeps coming up with warnings about cookies. What are they, and how do I find them? I have no idea what..."Amber once you've done what Michael said, please let us know if it has improved or not. If it hasn't I will take it further for you at the feedback group :)
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Try one of the other browsers as Michael said Amber...Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox...
Mish wrote: "Amber wrote: "Please help me. All the problems I've been having, I can't even contact GR support because it keeps coming up with warnings about cookies. What are they, and how do I find them? I hav..."Hey Mish, just a message on behalf of Amber. She did what Michael said and now she can't get on Goodreads at all, hence me relaying the message on her behalf. Is there something she could do to correct this!?
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The only trouble would be we'd need Amber's email address for it to work...
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Brenda & CassandraI've just bought up the issue with Feedback and hopefully they will give us a solution soon
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
I'll keep you informed
Thanks guys, I'll PM Mish with Amber's email address so hopefully it can get sorted out =)
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Saw the message, and Rivka said to email support, you don't need to log in to GR to do that. I sent Amber the email address as well, let's hope she can get this fixed.
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Oh that's good, I thought you did!!!
Mickey wrote: "Because of the year 10 formal tonight I am one of ten who actually came to school today in year 10!"
My school fixed that nice and quick. This year, if us year 10's didn't come in for a careers meeting, we were refused entry to the dance.
My school fixed that nice and quick. This year, if us year 10's didn't come in for a careers meeting, we were refused entry to the dance.
Murf wrote: "Mickey wrote: "Because of the year 10 formal tonight I am one of ten who actually came to school today in year 10!"
My school fixed that nice and quick. This year, if us year 10's didn't come in f..."
Really? With us year 10's if we didn't have a certain number of attendance, I think it was at least 85% attendance, than you weren't allowed entry to the dance.
My school fixed that nice and quick. This year, if us year 10's didn't come in f..."
Really? With us year 10's if we didn't have a certain number of attendance, I think it was at least 85% attendance, than you weren't allowed entry to the dance.
To the children, teachers, and to all of those that was gunned down to the families, friends and love ones... My heart is deeply saddened. Put down your guns. End this madness. The mindlessness of all of this. Why? You were taken but not just for a day, you were taken and it was to soon. May you be living on in a field of roses that bloom. While here on earth we live in this doom. In a world that goes colder, the love of humanity is slowly slipping away. Because of the image that gets shown around today. Killing someone is senseless. No reason at all. But I myself would shoot the man who did this and send him straight to hell. But who am I to end a life? I will let nature have its way.
To all of the lives affected. You have my heart, my everlasting support.
Thank You All for reading this.
Sad but warm regards,
Liz
My deepest condolences with the families in connecticut <3
Deepest condolences indeed. A very sad Christmas for many people.
Dale wrote: "Deepest condolences indeed. A very sad Christmas for many people."I was so saddened to hear that news.. I will never understand why somethings happen in this world.
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Beautiful words Liz, and very true. A shocking tragedy, a terribly sad day.
Brenda wrote: "Liz wrote: "To the children, teachers, and to all of those that was gunned down to the families, friends and love ones... My heart is deeply saddened. Put down your guns. End this madness. The min..."I have heard so many reports. I heard he killed himself... ? I try not to pay too much attention. It saddens me. Senseless. It really is.
Thank you Brenda. I was writing from the heart.
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Yes he did Liz, his Mum first, then the 26 at the school, then himself.
This is such a horrible event, I really think it is about time our American friends have a long hard look at their gun laws, there is no need what so ever for 85% of people to own or have a firearm, this is from someone who grew up around them...(-:
Michael wrote: "What i want to know is why kill the children. Sure it was bad enough killing his folks but defensless children why?"That is what I keep asking myself. It's really horrible. My heart goes out to the families.
David wrote: "This is such a horrible event, I really think it is about time our American friends have a long hard look at their gun laws, there is no need what so ever for 85% of people to own or have a firearm..."I think it would be nice if we outlawed guns as well as war.
Brenda wrote: "Liz wrote: "Brenda wrote: "Liz wrote: "To the children, teachers, and to all of those that was gunned down to the families, friends and love ones... My heart is deeply saddened. Put down your gun..."So much is wrong with the world.
I don't understand why in America when some one goes off their nut they have go and shot a bunch of people then kill themselves!!! I don't get where that comes from?? This is the second mass shooting that has occurred this year alone!! It just makes me so angry that one sentence in their constitution is what stopping them from stopping these tragedies and the fear that changing this line opens it up to others being changed!! Until that happens we will see this kind of tragedy time and time again!!
Check out this article. Eight things more difficult than owning a gun in the US. It's quite shocking and makes me so glad that Australia has more sense. After reading this, I thought that it's kind of obvious why they have all these massacres in the US. A kid can own a gun at 18, before they can get a fishing licence. Add violent movies to that mix and you're asking for it.America seriously needs to wake up.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charli-...
Jessy wrote: "I don't understand why in America when some one goes off their nut they have go and shot a bunch of people then kill themselves!!! I don't get where that comes from?? This is the second mass shooti..."I never understood that myself.. It sickens me. Those parents heartaches will never stop because of this. It's just horrible... Words just cannot describe it.
The 2nd amendment of the right to bear arms was proclaimed in the 1700's when settlers could protect themselves from Indians & Outlaws, doh!!!..they don't fight them anymore, this amendment is now so entrenched into the American way of thinking & they do have to wake up & repeal that 2nd amendment.
Here is an exerpt from Opednews......
The Second Amendment reads: "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Thus, the point of the Second Amendment is to ensure "security," not undermine it.
The massacre of 20 children in Newtown, Connecticut, on Friday, which followed other gun massacres in towns and cities across the country, represents the opposite of "security." And it is time that Americans of all political persuasions recognize that protecting this kind of mass killing was not what the Founders had in mind.
Here is an exerpt from Opednews......
The Second Amendment reads: "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Thus, the point of the Second Amendment is to ensure "security," not undermine it.
The massacre of 20 children in Newtown, Connecticut, on Friday, which followed other gun massacres in towns and cities across the country, represents the opposite of "security." And it is time that Americans of all political persuasions recognize that protecting this kind of mass killing was not what the Founders had in mind.
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Brenda wrote: "I heard some statistics on the TV about the annual killings by guns in the US compared to any other country, and it is so frightening! I can't believe they won't do anything about it!"
It has to stop Brenda, they have to take the big step!!
It has to stop Brenda, they have to take the big step!!
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Liz wrote: "To the children, teachers, and to all of those that was gunned down to the families, friends and love ones... My heart is deeply saddened. Put down your guns. End this madness. The mindlessness of ..."Truly beautiful words Liz but what a terrible shame that they need to be said in the first place. The number of gun deaths in the US is staggering and there has to come a point where politicians and public figures start to cry out for the need to change. It just breaks my heart to think of all those utterly senseless deaths.
I *am* an American, and I am inexpressibly livid about this, so please forgive the virulence of my sentiments. The 2nd Amendment is a pathological anachronism that needs to have been repealed about 200 years ago. That said, the orgiastic love of instruments of death, and of the actual infliction of death, by a politically virtually omnipotent cabal of billionaire right-wingers and macho troglodytes will make the implementation of any remedy, howsoever minuscule, utterly impossible, now and forever, in this deeply, pathologically sick and evil country of mine, and the bereaved victims in Connecticut will be denied relief out of a completely disingenuous and maliciously-motivated demand that discussion of the issue be deferred "out of respect (!)" until, of course, everyone's forgotten it. And it'll happen again, and again, and again, and again. It will NEVER stop.And *this*, i think, absolutely nails it, by the way:
(Please excuse the impolite word; not mine, just part of the URL.)
http://jezebel.com/5968540/fuck-you-guns
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Michael wrote: "When you consider that over 80% of the population have guns it would very tough to get any form of gun control going in the States. The sad part is when i first heard about it i was like "oh anothe..."Only 80%! The truly exasperating thing is that we'll hear renewed choruses of the NRA's perennial favorite, "well, if EVERYONE had guns, this sort of thing wouldn't happen, because criminals would be deterred." Because obviously, the solution to this problem would have been to arm 6-year-olds (preferably, I think, with AK-47's). It's ineradicable insanity, the "red states" thirst for a return to the Wild West (not to mention, the Confederacy), and the politicians are absolutely terrified of them. They think it's what cost Gore the presidency (having forgotten, apparently, that the election that brought us the happy joy ride of the Iraq war was *stolen* via rigged Diebold voting machines and the intervention of puppet Federalists on the Supreme Court), and they're immeasurably less afraid of gutting medicare, and starving children and old people. Yeah, it's a grand old place; why don't you come visit? (Assuming you have an anthropological interest in Neanderthal culture. )
This is an absolute terrible tragic turn of events, my heart goes out to all those families. Also thinking of the poor people in Sumoa and now Fiji, my niece was in Fiji for 2 days on holiday and has now been evacuated to New Zealand. We were not sure if she would be able to get a flight out.
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Tracey wrote: "Liz wrote: "To the children, teachers, and to all of those that was gunned down to the families, friends and love ones... My heart is deeply saddened. Put down your guns. End this madness. The min..."It's really heart breaking. I wish all these meanless deaths could of been avoided somehow. It's just beyond comprehension.
Michael wrote: "When you consider that over 80% of the population have guns it would very tough to get any form of gun control going in the States. The sad part is when i first heard about it i was like "oh anothe..."I must admit I was exactly like that. It's a sad moment when you become blazay about a mass shooting occurring in one particular country!!!
Why is it that you can always do something else with your time - say reading a book, instead of being at work?
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Hahaha! Because we enjoy reading a book (or anything else) instead of being at work Neil;)
Neil wrote: "Why is it that you can always do something else with your time - say reading a book, instead of being at work?"Actually, that may be nominally feasible in Australia, if you're not working 110 hours a week and your employer isn't a deranged maniac obsessed with time-and-motion studies (or if you're self-employed, or independently-wealthy, or retired and resigned to starving - herewith pleading guilty to the third), but I think it's a "luxury" that's being squeezed out of the economy... here in the US. Still, what's the point of anything else if there's no time to live, love and read? 'Course, where I live, I think the literacy rate is in single digits, so the issue may have become somewhat moot. I think Australians will have to read twice as much to make up for the disparity. :)
In this city, by the way, there was a bomb scare today that caused the lockdown of an elementary school and all the schools in the adjacent area. It seems to have been a hoax, but it also tends to confirm that my concitoyens are *nuts*. It *would* be nice if they took up reading rather than the collection of weapons of mass destruction.
CHRISTMAS IS ALMOST HERE!
Which means I can almost go back to the coast for some much needed sun, salt and sand & Puppy!
Beach is way to far away from me in Melbourne, and Ellie does not live with me.
Most exciting thing all year :)
Which means I can almost go back to the coast for some much needed sun, salt and sand & Puppy!
Beach is way to far away from me in Melbourne, and Ellie does not live with me.
Most exciting thing all year :)
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lol glad to know you're all in one piece now Dale! :) If it comes down to it, I might have to ask Support for help because I'm totally clueless...and I'm really hoping they can work a miracle for me since they were able to put you back together :)