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Tickers et al

101 replies

lesley33 · 21/03/2012 07:38

MNHQ - - could we have tickers and sparkles here...just like NM?

Now I KNOW MN is different, so the tickers and sparkles could have different options to the one over there. For example:

3 days 2 hours and 32 minutes since my last shag

Or 5 days and 6 hours until DP gives me cunnilingus (DP doesn't know it yet)

And counters like:
Maryz has said fuck 2,345,999 times since joining this site in 1997
or Honeydragon has painted 1 toddler blue.

So please, please could we have this option, at least for 1 day?
Maybe April the 1st?

Thank you

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Pinot · 21/03/2012 13:42

SHAZZAM!

BeerTricksPott3r · 21/03/2012 13:50

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OhChristFENTON · 21/03/2012 14:00

I'm getting more Dangermouse myself.

RebeccaMumsnet · 21/03/2012 14:22

NO

It has been 0 seconds since I said no to lesley33

RebeccaMumsnet · 21/03/2012 14:22

Pinot, I keep thinking of instead of POW Wink

BertieBotts · 21/03/2012 14:23

What would actually be quite funny, just for one day (or perhaps on profiles or something?) is if the tickers could somehow actually scan all of a poster's MN posts and collate the actual number of times a certain word was used in a post, or "This poster has namechanged 17 times" or "Logged in for 60% of the last 24 hours"

BertieBotts · 21/03/2012 14:23

Would get boring after 5 seconds, though.

lesley33 · 21/03/2012 14:29

Rebecca - I just wanted it for 1 day?

T'Pau - they were awful!

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BeerTricksPott3r · 21/03/2012 14:30

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Pinot · 21/03/2012 14:32

I did! I did!

MmeLindor. · 21/03/2012 14:33

I like this.

ONLY for one day. And can Tech write a programme that generates our tickers.

34 days since MmeLindor was last deleted

12 minutes since MmeLindor said "Fuck"

5 hours since MmeLindor's last failed link

FrankWippery · 21/03/2012 14:34

It's been ten seconds since I thought about telling someone to fuck off.

That sort of thing?

I'd blow MN up with my tickers alone tbh.

lesley33 · 21/03/2012 14:39

Yes Frank and only for 1 day - say 1st of April. We can have fun with it and then go back to normal and say thank fuck the site doesn't normally look like that.

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OhChristFENTON · 21/03/2012 14:42

This reminds me of that ad, what was it for? The child was repeating over and over "mum, can we get a rabbit, mum, can we get a rabbitt, mum, can we get a rabbit, mum, can we get a rabbitt...."

punctuated with mum repeating "No"

then the child starts again "please mum, can we get a rabbit....

lesley33 · 21/03/2012 14:46

Rebecca can we have it just for 1 day...please
Rebecca can we have it just for 1 day...please
Rebecca can we have it just for 1 day...please
Rebecca can we have it just for 1 day...please
Rebecca can we have it just for 1 day...please

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SoupDragon · 21/03/2012 15:33

makes me think to the question : Which part of no do you not understand?

wannaBe · 21/03/2012 15:51

how about for one day you go to netmums and use their tickers? Wink

And from a slightly more serious perspective, one of the reasons I joined mn is because of the lack of pure graphical content.

The more graphics, sparkles, moving bits of text etc a site has, the less accessible it is with a screenreader.

MmeLindor. · 21/03/2012 16:24

Wannabe
We can't go to Netmums, they would ban us within minutes for saying "fuck".

See your point about the screenreader though.

BareBums · 21/03/2012 16:30

But Lesley doesnt want sparkles, just the ticker bit with our own spice added like;
Barebums has flashed 147 times today

Grin
ChaosTrulyReigns · 21/03/2012 16:33

Ahum.

For those who are interested.

The tickers on NM bypass the swear filter.

Just sayin.

Pinot · 21/03/2012 16:35

And you know this how young lady? Tsk.

lesley33 · 21/03/2012 17:10

chaos - Do they!! Sounds like we could have fun there. Might have to register then. Thanks for that.

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RebeccaMumsnet · 21/03/2012 20:51

@lesley33

chaos - Do they!! Sounds like we could have fun there. Might have to register then. Thanks for that.

let's keep it civil now

It has been 6 hours and 29 minutes since I said no to lesley33

BareBums · 21/03/2012 20:54

Yes I think we should all get up and leave, join NMs to play with the tickers!