These black birds are annoying...:(

[rphillipchuk]

These black birds are annoying...

edited.... fixed !!!!!

 

[IWT]

These black birds are annoying

Easy to rectify. Click on your name on Forums Tool Bar. From there, click on Preferences. Scroll down and Check the Box "Disable Holiday Styling". Then Click on Save.

After that, you can refresh the page and all the baddies will be gone

Ian

 

[pigoo3]

Thanks Ian for the help.

For anyone in the future...this was specifically posted in the "News & Community Announcements" area yesterday (how to turn off holiday effects):

Happy Halloween

You've probably noticed some crazy flying bats...witch hats on avatars...and other small Halloween treats. Enjoy...Happy Halloween!:) p.s. If you wish to disable the Halloween effects...go to your Account Preferences...check the "Disable Holiday Styling" box...and click Save. Do the reverse...

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- Nick

 

[chscag]

Hey folks.....

Nothing wrong with bats, they are the best thing to get rid of mosquitoes! LOL

No, I'm not saying our forums are buggy. So don't get any ideas.

 

[pm-r]

Nothing wrong with bats, they are the best thing to get rid of mosquitoes! LOL

And I can never understand how they, like swallows etc., can catch them in their tiny mouths while flying on the wing, yet I can barely catch them in my relatively large hands. Amazing animals...


- Patrick
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[chscag]

Bats use sonar to judge the distance between them and the bug they're after. Same system that Killer Whales use. (Orca)

 

[toMACsh]

Now, baseball bats do not have the same system - especially when your team is up in the bottom of the ninth, down 1 run, men on 2nd and 3rd, with two outs, and an 0-2 count...

 

[IWT]

especially when your team is up in the bottom of the ninth, down 1 run, men on 2nd and 3rd, with two outs, and an 0-2 count...

I'm surefire certain that that statement means something to you guys in the US, but is gobbledegook to me - and thank you, but no, I don't need a translation .

I'm joking a bit, of course; and each to their own. We Brits can usually succeed in offending you by comparing your baseball to our "rounders", so I won't mention that

Ian

 

[MacInWin]

Ian, it's a bit like being 3 runs behind in the final wicket and the final bowl. Does that help?

 

[pm-r]

I'm joking a bit, of course; and each to their own. We Brits can usually succeed in offending you by comparing your baseball to our "rounders", so I won't mention that

I don't follow or play either Sport, but I don't burst out laughing when they mentioned they are playing with a foul ball (stinky) or caught by the silly mid-off (crazy to stand so close to the batter).

Meanwhile, I'm sure all the bats are now back in people's belfries. Or just reload the page...



- Patrick
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[IWT]

Does that help?

It sure does, Jake. I'm letting the side down now, so don't tell anyone else; but I'm not a great cricket fan.

It's all a bit of fun and long may it last that we have our differences.

Ian

 

[MacInWin]

I've actually played cricket, whilst living in UK. Played once, was NOT bowled out for a duck, but scored two runs before being caught out. Quite chuffed about it at the time!

 

[toMACsh]

I don't follow or play either Sport, but I don't burst out laughing when they mentioned they are playing with a foul ball (stinky) or caught by the silly mid-off (crazy to stand so close to the batter).

- Patrick
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English is an amazingly flexible language, and often maddeningly so, both to speak and to write. Do you know that there are over 1,700 words that the four major English dictionaries do not all agree about their proper spelling?(according to a 1972 comparison) Many historical documents have some words spelled differently, even in the same sentence. (There were many more variations back in the day.) I have no idea how many words have more than one meaning, depending on context. It must be in the tens of thousands.

I suppose it could be said that a ball that strikes an innocent feathered creature of the class aves has become a fowl ball. (by the way, the Duke of Sussex caught himself a fine American bird, now didn't he)