Freddie lost his dentures down a gap on Brighton Pier
They were Granny's once he recalled and so he shed a tear
They landed on Sally's head as she was passing by
And took a bite out of her ear which made poor Sally cry

Quote from: Vlad on Today at 04:44:13 PMWhat oh JB, I don't seem to have enough time these days, I normally post where the pensioners lurk but I will try and add to tge forums on here.

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Quote from: JBR on Today at 03:52:14 PMOh, I do!
(No I don't, in fact I wish you'd post more on this site, especially as I have resolved never to visit the 'mother ship' again after his nasty restrictions he has imposed on me.)

What oh JB, I don't seem to have enough time these days, I normally post where the pensioners lurk but I will try and add to tge forums on here.

Quote from: Vlad on April 12, 2024, 01:18:55 PMI am a bit puzzled...is this about me? Ahh just seen the edited post , it's not me...ignore me.

Oh, I do!
(No I don't, in fact I wish you'd post more on this site, especially as I have resolved never to visit the 'mother ship' again after his nasty restrictions he has imposed on me.)

Quote from: klondike on Today at 02:44:10 PMThere is a contact us link in the Amazon page about their bot so I sent them this...

When I investigated why my forum running on a small Lightsail instance had gone completely down the pan I found it was your bot overloading the server. I have put an exclusion in robots.txt for it now but rather than annoy my users another day waiting for you to pick that up I have now  excluded you via htaccess. If I remove that htaccess exclusion tomorrow will the bot's first action be to read robots.txt and go away or will I have to put up with it annoying all my users for longer?

Quite why you think Alexa would be interested in the ramblings of a bunch of geriatrics like us is entirely beyond me. Your bot seems to be about as useful as Alexa's replies. Initially I thought I was being targeted for telling the thing that reading a year old web page didn't constiture news.

Regards

Mark

I'm not holding my breath.

Oi!  I'm not a geriatric!

Quote from: Raven on Today at 12:55:09 PMThis made me chuckle.

👍 Exactly.

Today at 03:41:02 PM

Quote from: dextrous63 on Today at 03:18:50 PMOn the downside, bridges across the land will end up requiring strengthening or rebuilding due to the weight of ev's

On the plus side, once their batteries combust spontaneously, they'll melt the tarmac which will self level out and fill potholes.

And car parks, apparently.

Yes, one possible advantage of EVs!  A shame that the road repairers just tip in some warm tarmac and expect it to last!

On the downside, bridges across the land will end up requiring strengthening or rebuilding due to the weight of ev's

On the plus side, once their batteries combust spontaneously, they'll melt the tarmac which will self level out and fill potholes.

Lots of those cars in Chinese fields are fully registered. I posted about that earlier. Possibly with a link.

There is a contact us link in the Amazon page about their bot so I sent them this...

When I investigated why my forum running on a small Lightsail instance had gone completely down the pan I found it was your bot overloading the server. I have put an exclusion in robots.txt for it now but rather than annoy my users another day waiting for you to pick that up I have now  excluded you via htaccess. If I remove that htaccess exclusion tomorrow will the bot's first action be to read robots.txt and go away or will I have to put up with it annoying all my users for longer?

Quite why you think Alexa would be interested in the ramblings of a bunch of geriatrics like us is entirely beyond me. Your bot seems to be about as useful as Alexa's replies. Initially I thought I was being targeted for telling the thing that reading a year old web page didn't constiture news.

Regards

Mark

I'm not holding my breath.

I've heard that there are huge fields full of registered EVs in China, that nobody wants, and of course dealers will register a few as demonstrators, so yes registrations aren't a guide to sales of new vehicles..