Rep Experiment Over...

Its quite funny that the biggest pinheads were the ones that thanked Damo for getting rid of it....
 
I noticed that we no longer receive notifications for thanked posts. Apparently this is tied to the reputation function. It has been a long time since I've worked with vB, but I know it's possible to remove the reputation bars / rep button from the front end while leaving the reputation function enabled. This way, we'll receive thanked post notifications.

Not a big deal, just a suggestion.
 
Voltaire said:
I noticed that we no longer receive notifications for thanked posts. Apparently this is tied to the reputation function. It has been a long time since I've worked with vB, but I know it's possible to remove the reputation bars / rep button from the front end while leaving the reputation function enabled. This way, we'll receive thanked post notifications.

Not a big deal, just a suggestion.
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It took some tweaking, but I got it done. It involved messing with the templates in order to ensure no rep showed up in postbits, and then tweaking a few setting.

You will now be notified of thanks/groans comments.
 
Damocles said:
Their blueness disturbs me. The movie that got me when I was a kid was "The Birds" from Hitchcock. Now when I watch it I wonder how it could have possibly frightened me so. (sheepish admission: I still can't stand when birds fly near my head. I immediately want to cover my eyes.)
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It took me a while to see this. I couldn't agree more. I, too, to this very day can't stand when I hear wings flapping in my ear too close.

I will never forget one time walking with my boyfriend's sister out at lunch by this huge bay tree that had all these black birds clacking up a storm in it. All of the sudden this bird dive bombs his sister and is going after her hair which she had poufed up with hair gel. As she was shooing it away and screaming, another one swoops down and goes after her as well. I was horrified and laughing so hard all at the same time I could barely hold my water. I was too afraid to hit at the birds for fear they would turn on me next!

All I could think of is Tippi Hedren in that dang movie and the picture of the birds that had pecked her porcelain skin and the dark blood drops on her face since it was in black and white. That and the birds that came in the house through the chimney and attic. Even though the movie was so old it scared the beejeesus out of me so many years later. Alfred Hitchcock was a master!
 
usaloyal2theend said:
It took me a while to see this. I couldn't agree more. I, too, to this very day can't stand when I hear wings flapping in my ear too close.

I will never forget one time walking with my boyfriend's sister out at lunch by this huge bay tree that had all these black birds clacking up a storm in it. All of the sudden this bird dive bombs his sister and is going after her hair which she had poufed up with hair gel. As she was shooing it away and screaming, another one swoops down and goes after her as well. I was horrified and laughing so hard all at the same time I could barely hold my water. I was too afraid to hit at the birds for fear they would turn on me next!

All I could think of is Tippi Hedren in that dang movie and the picture of the birds that had pecked her porcelain skin and the dark blood drops on her face since it was in black and white. That and the birds that came in the house through the chimney and attic. Even though the movie was so old it scared the beejeesus out of me so many years later. Alfred Hitchcock was a master!
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usaloyal2theend said:
It took me a while to see this. I couldn't agree more. I, too, to this very day can't stand when I hear wings flapping in my ear too close.

I will never forget one time walking with my boyfriend's sister out at lunch by this huge bay tree that had all these black birds clacking up a storm in it. All of the sudden this bird dive bombs his sister and is going after her hair which she had poufed up with hair gel. As she was shooing it away and screaming, another one swoops down and goes after her as well. I was horrified and laughing so hard all at the same time I could barely hold my water. I was too afraid to hit at the birds for fear they would turn on me next!

All I could think of is Tippi Hedren in that dang movie and the picture of the birds that had pecked her porcelain skin and the dark blood drops on her face since it was in black and white. That and the birds that came in the house through the chimney and attic. Even though the movie was so old it scared the beejeesus out of me so many years later. Alfred Hitchcock was a master!
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True that. I mean, a black and white flick... and it still effects me. I was like 5 when I saw it.
 
usaloyal2theend said:
It took me a while to see this. I couldn't agree more. I, too, to this very day can't stand when I hear wings flapping in my ear too close.

I will never forget one time walking with my boyfriend's sister out at lunch by this huge bay tree that had all these black birds clacking up a storm in it. All of the sudden this bird dive bombs his sister and is going after her hair which she had poufed up with hair gel. As she was shooing it away and screaming, another one swoops down and goes after her as well. I was horrified and laughing so hard all at the same time I could barely hold my water. I was too afraid to hit at the birds for fear they would turn on me next!

All I could think of is Tippi Hedren in that dang movie and the picture of the birds that had pecked her porcelain skin and the dark blood drops on her face since it was in black and white. That and the birds that came in the house through the chimney and attic. Even though the movie was so old it scared the beejeesus out of me so many years later. Alfred Hitchcock was a master!
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Did I ever tell ya about the time when K got scared after birds got in the house? She was 9 and had just watched The Birds. We had removed a woodstove from the living room and had cardboard up in the hole where the stove pipe had gone up through the attic space. Alec and I went out for the evening and were starting desert when the cell rang with Em shouting about birds in the house...of course our son wanted to catch them as pets whcih caused them to fly around crapping on everything...but poor k was crying her ever-loving head off with visons of pecked out eye-balls...I'll bet that movie has played into countless nightmares of attacking birds to numerous children!
 
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