I didn´t cancel my cz phone number...it costs me nothing for people to send me messages to that one...if people send me messages to my usa number i have to pay for that cuz that´s how the phones work here

I agree with the meez being too big but I just scroll down...I don´t think it´s rude that it moves. After all, you don´t have to look at it There are some avatar pics that move...are they rude too?

I also think my signature is too long But Jeraly said it wasn´t so I trust her

Yeah...sorry but yeah...I think most animated avatars are rude too. In fact I'll take a long signature over an animated avatar any day. I don't mind the avatars with a bit of animation. Jeraly's is a good example, just some sparklies that aren't in your face. It's the ones that grab your eyes by the retina and force you to look that annoy me. Fortunately those are few and far between. In fact, I can't even think of an avatar I've seen around lately that I object to.

I'm gonna date myself here, but back in the '90's when the web was really only just taking off, *everyone* had animated gifs on their pages. They rotated, they bounced, they twirled, some of them were even on fire. Every single goddamned page had little traffic cones with yellow blinking lights to let you know that page was still "under construction." These things made even the most informative pages useless to read. I got to the point where I'd just copy/paste the page into a text editor and read it from there. And these weren't just the Geocities pages, these were big companies and brands you recognize.

The problem lies with the way our eyes work. We evolved as hunters, and so our eyes--especially our peripheral vision, which is right where the avatars and sigs are--trigger on movement. You cannot fully concentrate on reading text as long as there's something going on in your peripheral because the "hunter" part of your brain is urging you to pay attention to it. You can train yourself to get used to it, but it adds to eye fatigue and (at least for me) irritability.

I don't mind the physical size of an avatar so much, although some people have clearly gone to ridiculous extremes. If your signature forces my browser to side-scroll, or if it exists for nothing more than to grab my attention in the most obnoxious, creepiest way, then it gets blocked.

And as I said in the post I did in the suggestions forum, it's nothing personal. It's my personal preferences, and I make no character judgments other that "what were they thinking?"

wouldn't trail mix have been a bit more appropriate?

hehe last time I checked, there were no people hunting in my neighbourhood

I must admit, I hadn't even considered that animated avatars could also be a nuisance...

Careful there Your avatar is eating something

Your eyes have 50,000 years of evolution behind them that make them think differently.

Your siggie is fine Marta



I'm glad I have your approval!!



Your avvie is fine Rachel In fact I really like it

As Jeraly mentioned, your avatar is fine. The ones I'm talking about (and haven't seen much of lately anyway) are the ones that pulsate and throb and are just generally annoying. Plus I dig the pink shades.

Thank you! However, if it does annoy anyone - it's hosted on a separate site so it should be easy enough to block without disrupting the viewing of other people's avatars.

And yes, if she keeps eating at the rate she has been, I'll need to put her on a diet.

HAHAHAHAHAHA MOX IS A GIRL!!!!

*coughs*

Sorry





Maybe you could get her to tell me her secret!? I didn't lose any weight this week and I am really annoyed... think it might be due to impending girly issues

whereas poor old leekspin girl has to keep using her energy and never gets to eat at all, but she never gets tired

Yay! I found something to update my siggie with! I didn't have a slot for my packet 4 date!!

how come your POE is LAX? is it really easier to go that way round? why not the Dublin thingamy like you did last time?

Well if I go via Dublin I can only take one 15kg case which sucks. Plus I have my cat so I want to go direct if I can

well that sure makes sense

but I still don't get how flying from the UK to LAX is in any way shorter than, say, JFK (and then you get the stamp too!) and then a domestic transfer...? my POE is LAX as well, but that's because I'm coming from Sydney... if I was flying from London I would have gone through Minneapolis or Detroit

just wondering how it works

I think just for my own sanity I would prefer to go through POE at LAX then drive home rather than have random layovers in the US. I know when I went through Dublin last time I had a total of something like three layovers or something crazy The flight time is pretty similar but the time through airports just makes the wait longer for my poor cat

Not just that but I think with all the changes, flying into a familiar airport will be quite nice Even if I do have to brave POE/interrogation

And haha - you got told off in the UK forum

please stay on topic. no one wants to read your witty retorts.

I know

I had all sorts of responses lined up:

- We'll do a deal: I'll stop trying to show how clever I am, if you get a sense of humour

- If I was trying to show how clever I am, I'd manage a bit better than THIS

- Why? what have you actually told us in this thread that's worth preserving?

- No; I hate to break it to you, but this thread will soon drop off the front index page along with all the other useless ones

- Oops, sorry; I thought you'd made your point and now we could all play

but in the end I thought it would just be seen as stirring so I thought I'd leave him and his precious thread alone
wouldn't want to mess with his ZOMGLIFE





mox does

I vote for that response! In fact, I'd almost go so far as to say, dumbest.thread.ever.



me too, just messing with you ZOMGLIFE

oh, the thread asking if there's a February Filers thread is dumbest.thread.ever

but yeah, that one comes pretty close

Julez... I dare ya to go on in there and post that response

But do you triple-dog-dare me?

I almost rresponded to that threat with, "Lighten up, Francis." If you've ever seen the movie stripes you would appreciate that response!

oh baby; I triple-dog-dare you with a cherry on top

go on... I'm waiting

Go! Look! NOW! I have bravely defended you, my pretty! Who needs macho mox, when you have me??

*tips hat and mosies off into the sunset* *er, make that fog*

have you? that weren't necessary, purdy lady

just went and read it... well done

LMAO!!!



Oooh naughty... I have to go check now - it all happens when I actually do some *work*

oh, I'm sure you'd rather be sick in bed, like me

Sure Although I wouldn't be getting paid for it so maybe not

Now you started me off in the other thread as well..

I'm not getting paid either; this is a day I would have been nannying

Doesn't that just really suck? I hate it - I dragged my sorry self into work when I had the most evil flu/virus thing all but one day of the seven days I was ill...

Then I made everyone else in the office sick so they all had weeks off paid

Its turning into a real pile-on over in that thread I love it!!!

Witty banter rules the world!

I haven't noticed anything untoward in that thread

We might just have scared someone away with those clever remarks

I'm loving it!

There's something about the letter 'J' - both the July filers and January filers are a fantastically fun group of people! (I'm hoping that with words of flattery you'll all forget that I belong to the latter).

Provided you are willing to tolerate, and more importantly, participate in the clever remarks and witty banter, you are more than welcome to hang with the July brethren!

I can't promise to be witty, but I at least know when to laugh! And thank you

oh we welcome all comers

checklist:

- knows when to laugh

- head not up own arse

ticks to the above, and we'll let you past the velvet rope

I am going to work diligently for one hour. I must get actual work done, though I infinitely prefer the witty banter and a well placed laugh.

Haha - I noticed that the January crowd seems to be quite active Hurrah!!

We are so naughty - we just completely hijacked and derailed that thread

bye Julez *waving*

we'll look for you in 59min

If you combine the three threads (January filers, Jan filers at CSC and Jan filers at VSC) we have quite an immense number of pages! Our threads aspire to being locked as the first July one was.

I'm trying to work and play at the same time... if only my office space was more private

Well I might go to visit one of the dealers I speak to on a regular basis - apparently he is just around the corner from the embassy I told him that I might be leaving soon and he asked why so I gave him the (brief) explanation and said that I might pop in to be nosy - am going to have to see how close he is now!!

Hahaha

It's true. I hang on StP's every utterance, if only because I know which side of a sharp pointy stick it's best to be on.


*feels unwanted*

I almost lasted an entire hour away from VJ! Wooohooo!! Will tray again after lunch!!



C'mon, man up moxie!

yeah! man up! and pay a visit to the UK thread to poke some sly fun at phub11

and I've lost my sharp pointy stick... swapped it for a sack of water balloons

*compresses all the pain and hurt into a teen-tiny ball and buries it way way down into the pit of his angry dark soul*

DONE!

*pops another Prozac*



I just got caught up on the UK thread in question (man...is it just me or does it smell like vinegar in there?) and gotta say...shame on you all. Don't you understand you're messing with people's LIVES?!?! This is for posterity, people. POSTERITY!

I'd just like to add how annoyed I am that Captain Ewok has completely ignored suggestion for individual disabaling of signatures. What's up with that???