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Leatherchain said:
This is a big one, here.
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www.curiousandunusualtartans.com

Texas tartan

Tartans of the United States | Texas
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That's in the National Register, as 'Texas Bluebonnet' - I like it, it's a pleasing combination of colours.

'Registered with the Scottish Tartans Society 15.Jan 1985. Designed by June Prescott McRoberts (1922-1999), proprietor of the 'Thistles & Bluebonnets' store in Salado, Texas. The tartan was adopted as the Sesquicentennial Tartan and was officially adopted as the Texas State Tartan on 25th May 1989. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Johnston Collection.

Helpful Scottish Tartans Society notes add: "The colours of the Texas Bluebonnet district tartan owe their selection to the bluebonnet flower, a member of the lupin family, which is widespread in many parts of Texas. The flower changes colour with the passing of time, the 'brim' becoming flecked with wine red.'

Tartan Details - The Scottish Register of Tartans

The Scottish Register of Tartans is an online database of tartan designs, established by the Scottish Register of Tartans Act 2008 and administered by the National Records of Scotland.
www.tartanregister.gov.uk

PS additonally, I see 1 High School in Texas (Highland Park - named after the Orkney Whisky? :drink: ), 3 Universities (Texas Christian U, Texas Women's U, U of N Texas), 1 county (Victoria), and 4 individuals/ families, have registered tartans.
 
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If only we could go back in time and give Leonidas and his Peloponnese war-band their own “Spartan tartan”.. :rolleyes:

That reminds me of a book we had at school with a picture of Leonidas wearing a very Spartan tartan - well, a mini-loincloth.
I didn't care much about the Battle of Thermopylae, but Leonidas certainly made an impression my young mind - and body!


It was probably a slightly kiddified version of the way David portrayed him:

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Even though this thread does seem to be about bandwidth, I will attempt to answer my own question about what kinds of objects cause traffic
(and costs to the forum) on the Xenforo server. I am a not a web programmer, more a database programmer who also worked long ago with C
and assembler and even COBOL and FORTRAN--way back in the "wayback machine". So I am something of a dinosaur today (I won't burden you with what kind), so if someone thinks this is wrong please correct me.

In the post below, there is a png file AND a reference to the web. (As an aside, I just read in New Scientist--not always the best source--that the jpg people
are planning to introduce a new version which "compresses" the picture even further, without much loss in detail. However, they do admit that for
medical applications where "texture" is important neither the current jpg nor the new one will be suitable. png and jpg are basically formats which take out
data but allow the image to be reconstructed with what is left--basically they take out things that are redundant and can be "guessed at" from what
remains. This is a standard technique for lots of data transmission, to save bandwith, termed "data compression". Thick books stuffed with math have been written about techniques to do this.)
Anyway, note that the png image of the tartan of the clan McDuck comes from the Xenforo server (the href and imgsrc). However, the reference to the wikipedia article is a web URL (again an href pointing to wikipedia--clicking on it causes the browser to retrieve the content, just as it would if you typed the URL in yourself, without involving the Xenforo server and costing the forum money. Note the text is just embedded text, and while stored on Xenforo costs very little. Note the "loading=lazy" on the image. Image Maker is trying hard to conserve cash.

Lazy loading images means loading images on websites asynchronously — that is, after the above-the-fold content is fully loaded, or even conditionally, only when they appear in the browser's viewport. This means that if users don't scroll all the way down, images placed at the bottom of the page won't even be loaded.

(Anyone can do this, by the way. In Firefox, Tools/BrowserTools/PageSource. Be warned, the code the browser is reading ("hypertext markup language" or HTML--invented at CERN by Tim Berners-Lee as a way to share physics papers electronically)
to "render" the page is very busy. I imagine image maker uses a "tool" to construct it and doesn't type every word himself, but he still has to know what he is doing.

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/blockquote>So can one apply to register a personal tartan--say the Dalai Lama or someone like that?<br />
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Here is the tartan of the clan McDuck.<br />
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www.bbc.co.uk

Germany floods: Dozens killed after record rain in Germany and Belgium

The two countries and the Netherlands experience widespread devastation after record rainfall.
www.bbc.co.uk

To all our friends in CruxForums affected by the terrible flooding, our thoughts and wishes are with you - be careful, stay safe!

An alle unsere Freunde in CruxForums, die von den schrecklichen Überschwemmungen betroffen sind, unsere Gedanken und Wünsche sind bei euch - passt auf euch auf, bleibt gesund!

Aan al onze vrienden in CruxForums die zijn getroffen door de verschrikkelijke overstromingen, onze gedachten en wensen zijn bij jullie - wees voorzichtig, blijf veilig!

À tous nos amis de CruxForums touchés par les terribles inondations, nos pensées et nos vœux vous accompagnent - soyez prudent, restez en sécurité !
 
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Okay. I speak English, quite a bit of German, a little Spanish, and a tiny bit or Korean.

But, I need help with this. I suspect it to be either Scottish or Greek, but Google translate isn't helping. I'm guessing it to be Scottish, because there seems to be a Disney Duck Tales reference to Clan McDuck, but I just can't be sure.
 
Eulalia said:
www.bbc.co.uk

Germany floods: Dozens killed after record rain in Germany and Belgium

The two countries and the Netherlands experience widespread devastation after record rainfall.
www.bbc.co.uk

To all our friends in CruxForums affected by the terrible flooding, our thoughts and wishes are with you - be careful, stay safe!

An alle unsere Freunde in CruxForums, die von den schrecklichen Überschwemmungen betroffen sind, unsere Gedanken und Wünsche sind bei euch - passt auf euch auf, bleibt gesund!

Aan al onze vrienden in CruxForums die zijn getroffen door de verschrikkelijke overstromingen, onze gedachten en wensen zijn bij jullie - wees voorzichtig, blijf veilig!

À tous nos amis de CruxForums touchés par les terribles inondations, nos pensées et nos vœux vous accompagnent - soyez prudent, restez en sécurité !
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By the way: If you are interested in the consequences of the floodings in Germany and neighboring countries during the following days, I will continue to comment and show some more pictures in "my" thread about "German and Austrian culture ..." in the Forum "Fantasy unlimited":

German and Austrian Culture and Words ( to run away but also having fun with it before )

Some other pictures from this movie and from its openings, which all were really well done in an European view on movies and filmed on and in historical locations, broadcast by all TV stations in Germany, Austria and - certainly - by ARTE in French & German, too: And from this marriage...
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And being a German loving to use long words, a warning before visiting that thread.
You should not be suffering from this psychological phobia:
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (The fear of being confronted with long words.) ;):eek::rolleyes:
 
This is NOT a post,made in jest...
A question for those (primarily male) folks of a "certain age"... ;)
Has ANYONE tried the little blue pill,for erectile dysfunction,and what were the after effects ??
( Apart,from THAT one....lol:p:D)
No sniggering at the back,there,boys,and girls this is a serious subject !!

Anyone,of a shy,nervous disposition, please look away now....!!

For the record,I tried one,this morning,and had the most fantastic,hour-long "crucifixion" together with a fair old boner....which eventually just had to be hand-relieved...
(Sorry,Ladies...:oops:)
God,it was SO good !! :) :)
But....I felt a bad case of reflux. :(
Has anyone else had that issue. ??
(If you want to inbox me,go ahead....)
Over to you,folks....
 
Baracus said:
This is NOT a post,made in jest...
A question for those (primarily male) folks of a "certain age"... ;)
Has ANYONE tried the little blue pill,for erectile dysfunction,and what were the after effects ??
( Apart,from THAT one....lol:p:D)
No sniggering at the back,there,boys,and girls this is a serious subject !!

Anyone,of a shy,nervous disposition, please look away now....!!

For the record,I tried one,this morning,and had the most fantastic,hour-long "crucifixion" together with a fair old boner....which eventually just had to be hand-relieved...
(Sorry,Ladies...:oops:)
God,it was SO good !! :) :)
But....I felt a bad case of reflux. :(
Has anyone else had that issue. ??
(If you want to inbox me,go ahead....)
Over to you,folks....
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I try not to take any drugs so I have no first-hand experience. (Disclaimer: I own stock in Pfizer but this is off-patent and that part of Pfizer was recently spun off as "less profitable", but now I own stock in that too from the spin-off.) I assume you did it under "medical supervision". First, it can affect blood pressure dangerously (obviously not all the time and not in everyone). Second, I read that Hugh Hefner of Playboy fame used it until the end of his life (prodigiously, no pun intended). It supposedly affected his skin tone but more importantly left him deaf. He was close to 90 when he died, so it didn't affect life span.
 
Leatherchain said:
Okay. I speak English, quite a bit of German, a little Spanish, and a tiny bit or Korean.

But, I need help with this. I suspect it to be either Scottish or Greek, but Google translate isn't helping. I'm guessing it to be Scottish, because there seems to be a Disney Duck Tales reference to Clan McDuck, but I just can't be sure.
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Yes, it is Scottish. There is a "tartan" for the clan. The Duck Tales movies (which I have not seen) may contain the original story of "Hound of the Whiskervilles". Carl Barks, the author, was a comic genius, and reading his cartoons is certainly more rewarding than, say, listening to politicians or reading economics.
 
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