ohhhhhhhhh. I never knew that. Guess that's a good indicator that I'm over the age of thirteen.

Thanks for the esc key information. It worked.



I don't see it as giving her a hard time. Strobe-like flashing is a known trigger for epileptic seizures. (Please see the first line in KissChick's post, above.) At a minimum, the flashing is mildly annoying and/or highly distracting.



Yes, I'm using IE. Thankfully, the esc key worked.

the right click to block images, how does it work?

Thank you!!!!!

I don't need a migrane every time I see those strobe lights flashing on my screen.

it won't block all the images only the images where the picture you are clicking on is from..

Ok... I finally took the time to block all of the images that annoy me. I've blocked all things from Glitter, all images from Meez, and all images from someone who had an enormous siggy image.

That still doesn't change the fact that "Someone" should change their damn siggy image before it really DOES cause someone to have a seizure. It's been mentioned to this person at least three other times in topics other than this one. To leave it there is just rude, insensitive, thoughtless, and moronic.

Ok, maybe I've HAD a seizure because I can't grasp how to work the right-click blocking images dealie

edited to add... nevermind, I just saw Marilyn's instructions and it not being a feature in IE.... Boooooo!

If I did it by right clicking on your flag image, it would block ALL images coming from 3D flags. That's why I don't use it unless I really need to. However, ALL things from Glitter and ALL things from Meez are annoying, so I guess I'm pretty safe by blocking those.

I'd like to block all caps and colored and oversized fonts!

you are using firefox, yes? just right click on the images you don't like and click on "block images from..." this will block all the images from that site....

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

nope I'm not using Firefox. Well, siggies are disabled for me anyway, so....


soz...

oh ok...

so my next question is .. why in the heck are you using IE ???

Use firefox wtf is wrong with u!

I agree.... only morons who type in ALL CAPS use Internet Exploder....

hmm, gee... maybe because I'm AT WORK!!

eh, I don't use it at home either, even though we had it on our old 'pooter. Not that bothered I guess.


thankfully I don't type in ALL CAPS... hehehe

I still use IE on occasion but I really don't like it.... I much prefer Firefox...

I don't use IE mainly because it's a security risk. When I worked for the state, we were not allowed to use IE. At all. We could use Mozilla/Firefox, Opera, Safari, or anything else on the planet, as long as it wasn't IE.

I downloaded FF at work. At first it wasn't corporate approved but everyone did it, to the point where security just put it on the list cuz they can't beat it....

there are a still a few sites that don't work with Firefox so that is the only reason I use IE sometimes... but luckily firefox has the "IE tab" add on....

Yeah my corp intranet needs IE for some functions like signing up for training etc. Sux.

Today, Kisschick, you are my favorite person.

And for your 1337 viewing pleasure (for those who haven't seen it)
I present Romeo & Juliet: http://uninteresting.myby.co.uk/noeffort/romjul.htm

Well, to be fair, she did say that 'sensitiveness' is not in her vocabulary.










I've just downloaded Firefox and will give it a test drive. NOW. WHERE IS THAT CAPS LOCK KEY?

How do I do that? Cos seriously........

shoulda read the rest of the thread Thx Marilyn!!!

Okay, I have my first complaint with Firefox. I can't go back and edit a post after I've previewed it.

Really?

Yes you can!

At least not a Firefox issue...

Aww crumbs. Why does it always have to be me? me me me

Off topic... me likee your avatar Jenn.

Why, thank you!

For those of you already using Firefox, you can install an addon called Adblock, with that you can block certain images or everything that comes from that site. I no longer see a lot of annoying banner ads, hell I don't even see google adwords anymore I love it!

With it, you right click and select adblock image. If you no longer want to see banner ads from a certain website you click on the word adblock down in the very bottom corner of your screen, find it on the list and what I do is remove everything past the .com or whatever and ad an *, this is the wild card character and it will block all ad images from that particular website. It has done wonders for my Neopets account!

my fav add-ons are webmail notifier, PDF download, IE tab, IE view, download status bar, colorful tabs, image zoom and add bookmark here 2...

That is so cool and it works!!! Thanks so much kisschick since I was going apoplectic over that flashy horribleness. Thank you, thank you!!!

me so dumb, me dont get it. I double click on the picture i don't wanna see and there is no block option.

no don't double click on the picture... lol just right click on it and a menu will pop up...

but if you are using IE it won't work...

Well in that case, it sounds like a COWARD f****** m***n. What's the use of PM in this site?

And oh yeah, another thing, I CAN'T BLAME GRUMPY OLD PEEPS to have migraine , seizures with some blinking images. How sad.

Better take a deep breath, drink plenty of water, take a rest and relax.

Wow, I didn't know either. Thanks for the tip Marilyn!!!

Or, you could just be nice and tone down your sig. Its way over the top, just like using ALL CAPS ALL THE TIME.

P.S. Flashing lights like that are well-known to cause seizures. Wouldn't you feel bad if your sig caused a member to have one???

I seriously don't understand why you continually try to defend your annoying CAPS usage and flashing sig pic. Why not try to get along for a change????

i guess I shouldn't take all the credit for it ..lol i saw someone else mention it but I can't think who it was now ...lol

so what if a person wants to use all caps.. big flippin deal ...lol

i do think the flashing siggy was a little hard on the eyes though but I just blocked it...

Dumb excuse but i use caps so i don't have to puncuate everything.

That, my dear friend, doesn't even make sense!

or,

THAT MY DEAR FRIEND DOESNT EVEN MAKE SENSE

I laughed out loud at "WTF? Can't anyone spell my name right?" and the FUXOR bit.

So having seizures makes me grumpy and old? I nearly had one this morning because of your graphic, now all of a sudden I'm grumpy and old? Once I blocked it I was fine. I feel quite on top of the world today, actually and being in my early 30's wouldn't make me old at all. Children have seizures too, does this make them grumpy and old? How the hell do you give an epileptic a drink of water while they're having a fit? They'll drown! Are you not familiar with epilepsy at all? It's not all fun and games you know!

What is a f****** m***n? A Farty Mellon?

These questions and more, coming up later on in this thread....

Are you affected?

Unless no formal email from anyone requesting to change my COOL BLINKIE displayed image.

I am off to this thread for the sake of those having symptoms already of seizures.

Have a nice convo here. Ciao.

Ok, I'm going to address this seizure thing as I actually DO have a seizure disorder and try to stay away from strobey flashing lights. It IS something an EEG tech will use to try to get you to have seizure activity when you are going through a test. I gave SHAPE'S siggy a look see, hoping that because of being on a smaller scale, it would be fine for me to view, and I can't say it would bring on a seizure (err, unless I stared at it continuously for several minutes or something), but seriously, after looking at it for about 30 seconds, it made my eyes blurry. Yep, a good reason to keep siggies disabled. But I can't say it WOULDN'T trip the switch to cause a seizure either.

Well, I have alerted the Captain, so hopefully she will be receiving a formal email soon.

if it bothers you so much didn't anybody think to send Shape a polite PM asking her if she could remove the flashing picture? my apologies if someone did...

Well, in this thread all I said was that your signature gave me a seizure! Which, to me, is obviously in jest, with a hint that maybe the signature is not appropriate. I think most reasonable people would just take it down. If you see how she replied, I don't have much hope that a PM would have resulted in a pleasant reaction.