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Hidden space - a hole in the MN time/space continuum?

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BecauseImWorthIt · 05/11/2009 21:50

I have noticed that in long
posts, suddenly there appears a rogue space.

Is this a secret door into the wonderful world of MNHQ, or something more mundane to do with the arcane world of coding?

Look:

[b iscuit]

[bi scuit]

[bis cuit]

[bisc uit]

Hoping it's worked ....

OP posts:
BecauseImWorthIt · 06/11/2009 16:34

Well I was impressed BCNS!

OP posts:
flimflammum · 06/11/2009 16:23

It's obviously someone from Netmums who has hacked in and infected the MN mainframe with a virus, which starts with something innocuous, like a seemingly random space, and then starts introducing huns and hugs all over the place. Before you know it we'll have fluffy tickers.

thesockmonsterofdoom · 06/11/2009 16:16

I am about to say something really sexist, abetadad, the reason you see thebreak every 44 spaces and we are seeing them every 90 or so is because you are a man and need m ore breaks.
also must try it out myself.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

BCNSback · 06/11/2009 16:14

you all ignored my super duper answer.. that I spent ages of thinking up

....< wailllllllll>

PaulineB · 06/11/2009 16:02

OMG It's true.
OMG Can't believe I tried it!

PaulineB · 06/11/2009 16:01

111111111111111111111111111111111111
2222222222222222222222222222222222222
33333333333333333333333 33333333333333
44444444444444444444444444444444444444
55555555555555555555555555555555555555
6666 666666666666666666666666666666666
77777777777777777777777777777777777
8888888888888888888888888888 88888888
99999999999999999999999999999999999
00000000000000000000000000000000000000
1111111111111 11111111111111111111111
2222222222222222222222222222222222
333333333333333333333333333333333
4444 44444444444444444444444444444
555555555555555555555555555555555

stuffitllllama · 06/11/2009 15:51

what the devil is going on here

caramelwaffle · 06/11/2009 15:45

Yes. We see thumbwitch

Bunting?

thumbwitch · 06/11/2009 15:28

see?? SEE? it's there, in the middle of the hhs...

thumbwitch · 06/11/2009 15:26

tis not a new phenomenon though - I have noticed it before when posting really long words like Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhh!! or trying to do 'bunting' on more than one line.

VinegarTits · 06/11/2009 15:19

I think it maybe something to do with the CRLF (carriage return, line feed) or maybe not

caramelwaffle · 06/11/2009 14:42

Fab idea.

Where is BigTech? He needs to come back to stop us eating all the biscuits give us answers

ABetaDad · 06/11/2009 14:30

I like it better without eyes. Its more of a 'Jammy Dodger' now.

Maybe we could have a series of different Biscuit of the Week emoticons. Maybe MNHQ auction off the advertising rights to manufacturers so we could have all sorts of household goods as a guest emoticon each week.

snigger · 06/11/2009 14:13

Prefer it now - beady eyed glaring biscuits are the stuff of my worst nightmares.

Biobytes · 06/11/2009 14:11

Nooooo, why have they taken the eyes off???????? now it looks like a fluffy daisy and I'm starting to think that tickers are about to appear all around the site!

snigger · 06/11/2009 13:58
ABetaDad · 06/11/2009 13:56

Tell you what I have been following this thread obsessively on and off and I don't see the same patterns as some of you. I am not seeing the space every '100 characters' but about every '44 characters' in some of the posts.

Is this something to do with the way our individial browsers on our own PCs are interpreting the HTML code? Is this the reason we are seeing the pattern randomly different on different posts?

Vulpusina - yes I did win and thank you and to everyone else for voting for me. I AM really quite quiet embarassed. Absolutley no credibility left to my manhood.

Your name is really rather good too as I realised when watching the Fantastic Mr Fox last week.

caramelwaffle · 06/11/2009 13:55

Could I not just pass you a instead

I can see patterns. I just cannae' explain them very well cap'n

alwayslookingforanswers · 06/11/2009 13:50

caramel - would you mind putting your 12.36 post into English please

[win k][w ink] [win k][w ink] [win k][w ink] [win k][w ink] [win k][w ink]

AR GHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

alwayslookingforanswers · 06/11/2009 13:47

"But when Tech/God finally answers I will be like a toddler who has said 'Mum, MUM MUM ,why, WHY WHY...' and then says 'Oh' and buggers off to put lego up his nose the minute you begin your carefully crafted answer."

That has to be quote of the week I've been LOLing about it since I read it this morning - even when I wasn't at the computer.

Deadworm · 06/11/2009 13:46

Tech has blinded the biscuit. The biscuit saw too much. BIWI you are next.

RustyBear · 06/11/2009 13:44

Have the biscuit's eyes fallen into the black hole?

ZephirineDrouhin · 06/11/2009 13:44

lolol at "I feel just like a medieval philosopher trying to divine God's plan in the patterns of the stars"

caramelwaffle · 06/11/2009 13:42

I'm seeing biscuits. What are youuuu seeing?

VulpusinaWilfsuit · 06/11/2009 13:38

Whoah again a minute.

Are we all seeing different things too?