Is it safe to enter your card details on a website when you can't see the padlock symbol?

[policywonk]

Well? IS IT?? Because I want those slippers what I saw.

[policywonk]

[examines holes (and bits of stuffing escaping therefrom) in current slippers]

[Pixiefish]

no- not if there's no padlock

[fuzzywuzzy]

take a look on the address bar if it reads https instead of just http it's secure.

[Marne]

No

[NappiesGalore]

nope.

what slippers? maybe we can find them elsewhere

[80sMum]

Yes, I think so, but only if the url begins htpps.

[policywonk]

If I lock you all in a room, would you be able to come up with some sort of consensus?

It does say https. Tis Jones the Bootmaker, so you'd think it would be alright, wouldn't you?

[80sMum]

The "S" stands for "secure" so it should be OK.

[NappiesGalore]

yes, s on end of http is secure.

what are you on? vista or xp? new fangled ie or earlier?

[80sMum]

I just pretended to buy something from Jones - and I got a padlock symbol at checkout! I wonder why you're not seeing one.

[fuzzywuzzy]

that wot I said...nobody listens to me >

[policywonk]

OK, have done it. If my account gets emptied by villains, 80smum, I am coming after YOU.

nappies - these are they

[policywonk]

I was listening fuzzy, it's just everyone was contradicting each other and it was making me want to cry.

[NappiesGalore]

hah!

i just grinned, then guffawed... then thought, 'actually.......'

those are really nice aktch.

[policywonk]

You see some horrors when slipper-shopping, don't you? And then lovely things for hundreds of pounds.

[NappiesGalore]

slippers... hard to get excited about them isnt it?
im a barefoot sort of girl meself... esp now the laundry room is linked to the house and i dont have to sprint across cold concrete in december rain to get to my clean undies...

[NappiesGalore]

but even so, those are nice.

[policywonk]

I would do the barefoot thing, but our floors are always covered with unidentified sticky substances and very sharp bits of broken toys. Dunno who's supposed to be cleaning up around here

(Just read your story about your youngest son on the Verity thread - how absolutely terrifying.)

[NappiesGalore]

on forst thing - ah. yes, understand completely. we are in new house, toys almost all out in the barn, got a housekeeper for cleaning mode atm. and so floors are not sticky. or riddled with deathtrap toys. but it wont last... (and if money doesnt flow a bit better, we may not have the HK for long )

on the second - i know. scary shit.

[policywonk]

New house, barn, housekeeper, laundry room now connected to the mothership... you don't need slippers cos you are being carried around the house in a litter.

[NappiesGalore]

pah, the service round here is shocking at times... i had to wipe my own arse the other day
can you believe it??

[WendyWeber]

Those are lovely but I hate indoors-only slippers because I always forget and nip outside in them

[policywonk]

Ah, well now, Wendy, I wasn't going to take that bit completely literally. Tis a bit like 'Dry Clean Only', no?

[NappiesGalore]

ooh, playing with fire there PW - dare you risk it??

tho, i have been known to drive to london (70odd miles) and the school run and even a supermarket trip in slippers.

you forget dont you?

[policywonk]

'Danger' is my middle name, nappies.