Chris Perkins

Many of you will remember that a short while ago spam posts on the forum became beyond a joke. To eliviate this I switched to a mode whereby no guests could post anything and any new members were manually checked by me before their accounts were finally validated. This worked very well because spam bots usually have obvious email addresses originating in countries where most of the world's spam comes from, or often they have ellicit or advertising names in their usernames. Now that the forum software has been updated, every prospective new member has to enter a code which appears as a jumbled image. I've tested this, and it appears only real people have joined the forum since the software update! The spam bots are not clever enough to read the jumbled code. I have therefore turned off the manual validation and now, as soon as any real person joins the forum, they can start posting right away! It also saves me checking through the scores of spambot registrants to find real people.

My favourite of your female related banknotes is the last of the Spanish notes by the man who liked to paint women with jugs! You've put a lot of work into all of that and it's all very interesting.

I like the idea of people being able to see things without registering. If it wasn't for the persistant foreign spam bots guests would still be able to post messages.

No they are not worth anything. I just like them and they fit in with my other fakes from over the years.

That's something else I need to sort out then...although it would save huge amounts of bandwidth.

And img tags!

Quoting should work now!

Or you could just grade it yourself properly and save some money and have a coin you can actually touch!

I've put in a support request becuase the IMG and Quote tags are not doing anything! I hate software upgrades, I wish I'd not let them talk me into it.

Hmmm, you're right! That's typical isn't it. Whenever something is upgraded things that worked perfectly less before start doing strange things! I'm going to put another support request through to see if there is a simple fix (it's probably a new setting somewhere).

q Testing a quote.

Worked for me...what prob did you have exactly?

Let me try posting something with an image....

That makes sense....the 10 Shillings being the smallest banknote then and the £5 being the smallest banknote now (except in Scotland).

Over the weekend I got an email saying that I had requested a password change and should click the link to confirm (standard wording etc). I didn't click the link, but somehow my password had been changed. It had probably been done in the hope that a spammer could spam without the spam being deleted....I don't know. Nothing else was affected because all new members have to be aproved anyway. The same thing happened a year or so ago.

Users may have noticed that the forum looks different! My user account was hacked over the weekend and my password was changed! I could still use the forum but couldn't get into the admin area to do anything important. The nice people at Invision had to go in for me and reset my password. To stop this happening again they have also upgraded the forum to the newest version. What this means for you is that it will all look 'default' until I get around to adding the header and some other little tweaks. What it also seems to mean is that many of our signatures don't look right! I had to change mine and re-format it according to how the system now nices them to be! It will involve you going into 'My Controls' and basically creating a new signature using the buttons available. If you need any help let me know. Sorry for any inconvenience.

I expect 50p was probably more like £3-5 then! The 50p coin replaced a predecimal banknote of course (the 10 Shilling note), so it must have been worthwhile and at least comparible with fake £1 and £2 coins today.

It's a forgery. I collect forgeries and would give you £2 + £1 postage for it.

When you have to sell them to raise money for Baby's Nikes, you know where to find me! That's quite a big baby isn't it, 8lb 12 nearly! Well done Hus and Mrs Hus.

I've changed the wording in the 2008 edition.

Maybe she had a lot of previous! Or maybe she was sentenced to hanging but got off with a year in gaol.

I had it from a very reliable source that at least 1 person (a lady) was hanged for attempting to pass off a gold plated 1st type 1887 sixpence. I'm not sure now if the offence was passing it off, or creating it with the intention to deceive. I think I read it in a book, but can't remember where.

Ozt will be ounces Troy, which is what is usually used for bullion and coins.

I'm back in Germany now. The filling was painless and the tooth didn't hurt afterwards either, which is good. In Germany there is no NHS system like in the UK. Over here people that are PAYE (i.e workers on a fixed wage) have money taken for their healthcare automatically from the wage. If you're self employed here, as I am, the only choice is a private health insurance policy which is more expensive than basic NHS cover in the UK. It does have benifits though, like shorter waiting times than the proles! But, finding a dentist here is easy (at least it has been for me). You just pop along for an appointment and get done and dusted pretty quick. I have 2 dentists within walking distance and have been to both in the past. My bill for the large filling (which was one entire side of a tooth, right down to the gum) was EUR150. I don't know how that compares to the UK, and I suspect each treatment is slightly different. I expect I'll pay that bill myself because if I send it to my insurer they'll just put my premium up next year, which annoys me! I'd much rather have a basic cover like the NHS and be free to pay for private things when I want to. I am 29 and pay about £80.00 per month. I've never actually sent them a bill for anything, so it's a complete waster of £80 each month as far as I can tell.