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why aren't we

Probably been posted before so apologies if it has but

Why aren't we able to link youtube videos into a post like other forums?

Is it something that's been thought about at all?
If Adam and Eve were created first
.Does that mean we are all inbred

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  • derrick
    derrick Posts: 7,424 Forumite
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    Rossy. wrote: »
    Probably been posted before so apologies if it has but

    Why aren't we able to link youtube videos into a post like other forums?

    Is it something that's been thought about at all?


    It can! Just an example;-

    Homeless man, from youtube.

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  • Kered
    Kered Posts: 3,531 Forumite
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    Rossy. wrote: »
    Probably been posted before so apologies if it has but

    Why aren't we able to link youtube videos into a post like other forums?

    Is it something that's been thought about at all?
    I have just been looking at the music thread in The Moneysavers Arms and it is full of youtube links, thousands of them.
  • free4440273
    free4440273 Posts: 38,438 Forumite
    I think the YT tag (encoding )is not - as yet -- permitted/

    BLOODBATH IN THE EVENING THEN? :shocked: OR PERHAPS THE AFTERNOON? OR THE MORNING? OH, FORGET THIS MALARKEY!

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  • Rossy.
    Rossy. Posts: 2,484 Forumite
    I think the YT tag (encoding )is not - as yet -- permitted/


    yeah exactly what i meant ta Free.

    I know you can post a link to the vid but on other forums if you added
    and inserted the video link inbetween the YT brackets a vdeo player would imbed in the post allowing the video to be watched straight offf the forum

    Oh well probably a good reason for it. shame really
    If Adam and Eve were created first
    .Does that mean we are all inbred
  • Rossy. wrote: »
    Probably been posted before so apologies if it has but

    Why aren't we able to link youtube videos into a post like other forums?

    Is it something that's been thought about at all?


    What you gonna post?

    Buses or Renaults.
  • d-seven
    d-seven Posts: 351 Forumite
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    Rossy. wrote: »
    yeah exactly what i meant ta Free.

    I know you can post a link to the vid but on other forums if you added
    and inserted the video link inbetween the YT brackets a vdeo player would imbed in the post allowing the video to be watched straight offf the forum

    Oh well probably a good reason for it. shame really

    I'm sure there's a very good reason for it; I can't think of anything worse than wasting my bandwidth downloading a youtube video that I haven't chosen to watch.
    Also you are going to get idiots embedding offensive/stupid videos just to get a reaction.
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