JimmiGerman

Not only the Protestants... I would say many others tend not to like doing that for obvious reasons, either.

An elderly Mormon asked his doctor if he thought he'd live to be a hundred. The doctor asked the man, "Do you smoke or drink?" "No," he replied, "I've never done either." "Do you gamble, drive fast cars, and fool around with women?" inquired the doctor. "No, I've never done any of those things either." "Well then," said the doctor, "what do you want to live to be a hundred for?" :)

Thanks for this information, I see the point. Concerning hot-linking and the techniques to show different images to anyone who hasn't visited the site where the image is taken from directly and views it via a different website (like this) I will be careful and try to avoid embeding those images in future.

Jeremiah Johnson, with Robert Redford. (1972)

Sorry, but I find this song a bit scaring - to be honest, like from a horror movie.

But when I'm clicking on that small image mentioned before (which is not accepted by the forum software) I'm led to a wikipedia site about Hamburg, and from that site I can take an image and put it in here without any problem. So it's probably only Google images here which aren't accepted. (This one is taken directly from the wikipedia Hamburg website.)

I've found out there were restrictions concerning images that I wanted to show here in one or two of my posts that don't depend on the size of the image. Very often this message is indicated: You are not allowed to use that image extension on this community. Just for example, when I look for Hamburg images, from a Google site like the following (if you look for images you will often find those collections of Google images first), it's rejected by the forum software, even if it's only a small image. https://www.google.de/search?q=Hamburg+images&client=browser-ubuntu&hs=pW3&sa=G&channel=fe&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ei=dnTCVIKUBYSHygOz6IKYDw&ved=0CCIQsAQ&biw=1330&bih=955#channel=fe&hl=en&tbm=isch&q=Hamburg+harbour+mages Even a small one (out of the above mentioned Google collection it is the 8th one, showing some shiploaders on a quay) with only 220 x 147 pixels is restricted here. But when I find a similar image on any other website (wikipedia, cinema movies, Hamburg tourism sites, etc.) it works, and the forum software accepts it. Also YouTube videos, and I've only have to copy the link in one of my posts and it's shown as a video automatically without any restrictions. Are especially those Google images under restriction here?

Maybe the final solution were Al Bundy's creation of "God's shoes". Windseeker has already presented the suitable pair of socks for these wonderful shoes here in this thread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnkALaSqh6w

I see the point. It's because of abiding the rules. You're right.

- Deleted by myself because of my own misunderstanding and stupideness. You are not talking here about real patriots, seahawks, and colts, but about American Football. Sorry. -

This is maybe a fine difference but an important one many people don't see or easily seem to ignore.

Gravity will reveal their true nature...? I will certainly have to think about it.

Well spoken!

I've already mentioned that I'm sure you are clever and certainly practically minded. But to be honest: your left foot is different from your right. Windseeker has proven it here. And a sock forms out where the left or right big toe is. Right? When changing them, the place for the right big toe is on the left side (actually preserved and formed out for the left big toe), and this looks a bit ugly. It won't disturb young boys or football players, but a highly civilized Gentleman.

Hahahaaa! Nope! This is like it was in the American sitcom (in German: Eine schrecklich nette Familie) when Al Bundy (as a shoe seller assistant) once invented "God's shoes" to make money, and they were of golden metal, and looked the same you've shown here. Of course, it was going to end up in a flop.

You are undoubtly clever and maybe prudent. But it doesn't fit my problem.

It's a question of esthetics. A right sock belongs to the right foot. A right shoe belongs to the right foot. Or would you recommend to mix your left shoe with your right? No. And what would a sock look like if you weared it several times on your right foot and then suddenly on your left? It wouldn't fit perfectly and it wouldn't look fine. Do you wear a right glove on your left hand, ladies? No, certainly not.

My horror story: Sorry, I've deleted it. People might think I'm a coward, afraid of flying. and that would be, of course, a total misunderstanding of the facts. PS... Thanks, Vort, for the "like" - and sorry I had to delete my story. Please don't tell anyone about my airport disaster in that small Aircross turboprop plane before the take off, and what the stewardess said, and what she called to the pilot, and how the airport bus brought me back to the terminal. You alone certainly know that I'm not afraid of flying, and there was a very important phone call I had forgotten (as I mentioned, it was the time before the mobile phone), and that I had to leave the plane and to return to the terminal immediately. ...

Ye might be talkin' about nylons and those things, ladies' wear. I'm talkin' about good old cotton socks, and they're getting formed out for yer right or left foot after wearing dem a few times. Especially in boots it's quite uncomfortable when dem don't fit exactly. More disturbing than a darn.. rattlesnake's bite. *edited for use of profanity

Ye might know the problem: ye put yer socks into the washing machine, an' later ye don't know which ones were the right or left ones. I've found an absolutely reliable solution: always tie a knot in yer right socks (or yer left ones, it depends on ye, if ye're a Yankee or a Southern man). Make a tight knot. Put'em into the machine, and, as the knot won't get open, then lay'em the same way on the heater and let'em dry. They'll be clean and will dry, because the knot doesn't matter. This is what I would recommend to ye, and the (maybe) final solution of an old Yankee problem, and, not to lose my religion, don't le' me unmention the South will rise again.

Plutonium...?

Kind of sucks for a little bit...? How long is t... temporary...?

Hmmm, what means temporary...? Longer than I need to eat up my popcorns...?

Hah! Come here to Hamburg. Last week it was like in springtime here! About 8 degrees Celsius! But now it has become a bit colder, about 2 to 5 degrees Celsius. We haven't had any snow yet, only rain and storm. Winter? No winter yet.

Yea! Thanks to you! I'll look for it on YouTube. Think it must be found there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Johnson_%28film%29