Back to basics?

[Matt]

Is it just me or has the forum gone really basic?

-No background, All white, things not spaced out, e.t.c. The only thing that is normal is the blue FoxesTalk banner at the top.

Do people know what I mean?

[lookwhaticando]

Delete all your internet browser's temporary internet files / cache.

In Firefox - Tools > Clear Private Data (check boxes as appropriate - Cache is the most important, with Offline Data).

[Matt]

Delete all your internet browser's temporary internet files / cache.

In Firefox - Tools > Clear Private Data (check boxes as appropriate - Cache is the most important, with Offline Data).

Sorted.

Never had that before, What cause's that then?

[lookwhaticando]

Sorted.

Never had that before, What cause's that then?

Essentially, once in a while, your browser loses the ability to properly establish the content of the 'style sheet' (which defines the fonts, colours and so on) and display it truthfully. You've seen the result just now - when the style sheet content isn't being displayed accurately, you just see white and default fonts and sizes (Times New Roman, 12pt probably - blue links with purple 'visited' links).

There's no real 'cause' as far as I'm aware... it happens, once in a while, at random, for seemingly no reason at all. Could just be corrupted cache files, or something similar. Anyway, it's nothing serious, and can usually be resolved with deleting temporary internet files and the like - basically, you're just doing a hard refresh of the page by starting from scratch.

[Matt]

Essentially, once in a while, your browser loses the ability to properly establish the content of the 'style sheet' (which defines the fonts, colours and so on) and display it truthfully. You've seen the result just now - when the style sheet content isn't being displayed accurately, you just see white and default fonts and sizes (Times New Roman, 12pt probably - blue links with purple 'visited' links).

There's no real 'cause' as far as I'm aware... it happens, once in a while, at random, for seemingly no reason at all. Could just be corrupted cache files, or something similar. Anyway, it's nothing serious, and can usually be resolved with deleting temporary internet files and the like - basically, you're just doing a hard refresh of the page by starting from scratch.

Ok, Thank-You.

Talking of "corrupted cache files" when I open Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer I have balloon message appear in the bottom right corner of the screen saying "File [enter the file name] is corrupted e.t.c" but I can still use Firefox and IE, what is this do you know?

[lookwhaticando]

Ok, Thank-You.

Talking of "corrupted cache files" when I open Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer I have balloon message appear in the bottom right corner of the screen saying "File [enter the file name] is corrupted e.t.c" but I can still use Firefox and IE, what is this do you know?

Interesting. Though I have absolutely no clue what that's about - I've never encountered it.

Messages such as those are mostly just pesky little things that refuse to go away, but don't affect the performance of your applications. Best thing to do is find out which files exactly are 'corrupted' and then try replacing them (perhaps you'll find them on the net and/or on your Windows installation disk/whichever program they're associated with).

[Fox You Forest]

I thought this was about John Major when i saw the title.

[Daggers]

I thought this was about John Major when i saw the title.

Baxter Basics ("The MP who loves to eMPty his nuts") was a fictional character in the British comic Viz.

Baxter was a politician and member of the Conservative Party. He was essentially a sexual pervert, closet homosexual and utterly corrupt, yet he always attempted to portray himself as a fine and upstanding family man of utter integrity.

Baxter Basics first appeared in the early 1990s and his name is a spoof of the then British Prime Minister John Major's rallying call for his Conservative Party to "get back to basics", widely interpreted as meaning a return to traditional family values and morality. This was mocked a great deal as it was followed by a time when Conservatives were frequently mired in political scandals involving adultery and other forms of sexual misbehaviour (e.g. David Mellor, Stephen Milligan) or corruption.

A complete hypocrite, Baxter would denounce the evils of things like prostitution, yet he frequently hired the services of prostitutes. He once had a sexual relationship with a young man and in that same episode, when he was later asked by a reporter if he was gay ("Are you a lifter of gentlemen's shirts sir?"), Baxter cheerfully replied in the negative and emphasised his belief in family values by insisting that all gay men "should be rounded up, put on an island and used for bombing practice by the RAF." In many episodes he has even shown symptoms of masochism, be it having his genitals burned with a cigarette lighter, slamming his own penis in a fridge door or ramming a petrol pump up his backside.

Baxter Basics was not featured in Viz for many years since the mid-1990s, the 1997 election victory of the Labour Party obviously depriving the strip of its Conservative-oriented satire potential. However, the imprisonment of Jeffrey Archer in 2001 led to a satirical revival for the character; as an imprisoned politician who was given a luxurious cell and let out to meet his publishers. It also satirised the affair between Major and Edwina Currie which had been revealed in the latter's diaries. One character from years past who made a once-off appearance in Baxter's strip was Billy Bunter - now Sir William Bunter, conservative MP for Greyfriars His body was as wide as it was tall, and he was in the most horrendous health. He is killed off by Baxter very quickly with a popped paper bag (heart attack) so that Baxter can stand for his seat.

In 2008 Basics made a return to Viz (issue 173,) in a strip satirising the tribulations of labour Deputy leadership campaigner, Peter Hain. Basics is shown robbing a bank after which he apologises for "my failure to observe the correct procedures when raising funds for my Deputy Leadership campaign. When I robbed the bank, I accepted the bags of money across the counter in good faith." He then promises to take the matter up with his PPS, (who is paid £50,000 a year from the public purse) and who turns out to be his infant son, (a reference to embattled Tory MP Derek Conway, then in the news for employing his son as a political researcher (the son was in fact, studying full-time at Newcastle University), but who was found to have done no work by a commons standards committee.

[Fox You Forest]

"Are you a lifter of gentlemen's shirts sir"