Pinterest

[1ozzy]

In the few years I've been loitering here I can't recall seeing a link posted by another Aber to pinterest.

Most seem to use some other file hosting site.

Is it worth having the pinterest screen pop up first in jokes?
Is it worth having the "quick link" at the top of the page?

Just more items to load.

If the answer is "Ab earns money from both of the above" than I guess yes.

[Jackdaw33]

What is Pinterest?

[1ozzy]

The red circle with the swirly white P inside, top right of AB.

Also the "big boxy thing" that appears when you click on jokes Jack.

It's a file hosting site that I have never tried to visit before today.

It wouldn't let me have a look at what is on offer unless I supplied an email address, "no way hose "A".

And hose "B" can go jump too.

[Buenchico]

Pinterest requires people to join and then log in to see everything posted by another member. The 'signing up' bit deters a lot of people from using the site.

Further, the site is primarily designed for people to leave things (such as their favourite recipes) on there for an extended period of time, possibly placing them in themed galleries, whereas AB members wanting to link to a single picture (where the link will be purely ephemeral) find it easier to upload their images to TinyPic, where there's no registration required.

Pinterest seems to be far more popular in the US than here in the UK. I don't know anyone who uses it and (unlike sites such as Facebook or Instagram, which people always seem to be talking about) I've never even heard it referred to in overheard conversations in shops and bars. Most Brits simply don't seem

[Buenchico]

. . . to know that it exists!

(I don't know how most of my post, above, got submitted without me clicking on 'Answer Now'!)

[1ozzy]

Hence my question Chris.

Could it be Ab get a reduced rate, as it is hosted on an American server?

Can't see the point of "pinterest" links my self.

[Jackdaw33]

Think you cut yourself off there, Chico.

[Jackdaw33]

It'll be one of your *** who pressed Enter.

[Jackdaw33]

For stars read cats.

[1ozzy]

Hmmm, //my self//

I appear a tad "spaced out" ;-)

[Buenchico]

I've only just found what you're actually referring to!
https://uk.pinterest.com/theanswerbank/

[Buenchico]

At least the Pinterest icon goes to something which sems to have been generated by the people at AB Towers. The Google Plus one doesn't really do anything!

[Jackdaw33]

How come Mrs Slocombe's description of her feline friend is a banned word?

[Buenchico]

The Ozzies didn't have Mrs Slocombe in their version of Are You Being Served, JD33. They had Mrs Crawford instead.

However here's the original for you ;-)

[1ozzy]

The pinterest link you supplied Chris gave me a never ending circle.

Guess pinterest maybe be here to make AB inviting to those across the pond?

Who knows

[Jackdaw33]

That's not my point. The word, although capable of double entendre, is perfectly innocuous.

[1ozzy]

True Chris.

But we had the original on ABC first.

I'm well acquainted with Mrs Slocombe's feline parts ;-)

[Buenchico]

Ab's 'swear filter' is notoroiusly over-sensitive, JD33. We're only allowed to write 'bloody' because Sqad complained after he used the word in its medical sense and found that it got deleted.

Similarly, at one time I found that I couldn't post a link to the website of Severn Trent Water because it contains the letters t, w, a and t in a row.

I seem to recall that 'cow' used to be banned too, which made discussions about dairy matters rather tricky.

As far as I know, I'm also likely to get a word starred out in each of the next two sentences:

A female dog is called a ***.

Waste material from a mine is deposited on a *** heap.

[Buenchico]

Yes, as I thought!

;-)

[1ozzy]

//Waste material from a mine is deposited on a *** heap.//

Swear filter, it should be dumped ;-/

Granted one is needed, but, I tried to answer a crossword question some time ago. "*** shooting".

[1ozzy]

Yep, still works overtime.

Those little discs that are flung into the air that people aim a rifle at.

Even happens in Olympic games,,,,,just not here.