USMB Coffee Shop IV

[Ernie S.]

Okay I just installed Adblock Plus for IE and I'm currently using IE. And the ads are still there. Do you have to turn on the Adblock program in some way? I agree that some of them are borderline pornographic and it is embarassing when those show up when I'm showing my elderly aunt or somebody like that something on the computer.

Yes you need to turn it on.
Enable Adblock Plus on Any Version of Internet Explorer TechSplurge
By default AdBlock Plus is not enabled by default. To enable AdBlock Plus after installation just select Manage Addons in the wrench menu. Now just select Adblock Plus and enable it from the entries in Toolbars and Extensions tab in the window

I just checked and it is enabled. So I don't know what else to do. I guess just log out of USMB and go elsehwere when those objectionable ads appear when folks are around. There's an awful lot of them though.

You may need to close your browser and reopen it.

 

[WelfareQueen]

With the new format change I nearly left due to all the ads. But with adblock and Firefox I see nothing. Still not real fond of the new format...but at least I am not hammered with ads.

 

[Foxfyre]

Okay I just installed Adblock Plus for IE and I'm currently using IE. And the ads are still there. Do you have to turn on the Adblock program in some way? I agree that some of them are borderline pornographic and it is embarassing when those show up when I'm showing my elderly aunt or somebody like that something on the computer.

Yes you need to turn it on.
Enable Adblock Plus on Any Version of Internet Explorer TechSplurge
By default AdBlock Plus is not enabled by default. To enable AdBlock Plus after installation just select Manage Addons in the wrench menu. Now just select Adblock Plus and enable it from the entries in Toolbars and Extensions tab in the window

I just checked and it is enabled. So I don't know what else to do. I guess just log out of USMB and go elsehwere when those objectionable ads appear when folks are around. There's an awful lot of them though.

try mozilla firefox with ad block plus and no scripts script blocker...

whenever you log in 'temporarily allow' usmessage board, but don't allow any of the other scripts here.

set up your browser to clear all cookies and cache every time you close the browser.

Thanks. I disabled Firefox on my computer as several things I do regularly just didn't seem to play well with Firefox. For smoothness, the least complications, and the least interferance with programs I run on my computer, a much improved and much more secure IE is working best for me via Bing. To use all the functions on USMB though, IE doesn't play well with USMB's software so I have to go to Chrome or AOL. And because if you give Chrome an inch, it takes a mile of authority, I usually use AOL when I come into USMB. But it doesn't block those offensive ads either.

Okay I just installed Adblock Plus for IE and I'm currently using IE. And the ads are still there. Do you have to turn on the Adblock program in some way? I agree that some of them are borderline pornographic and it is embarassing when those show up when I'm showing my elderly aunt or somebody like that something on the computer.

Yes you need to turn it on.
Enable Adblock Plus on Any Version of Internet Explorer TechSplurge
By default AdBlock Plus is not enabled by default. To enable AdBlock Plus after installation just select Manage Addons in the wrench menu. Now just select Adblock Plus and enable it from the entries in Toolbars and Extensions tab in the window

I just checked and it is enabled. So I don't know what else to do. I guess just log out of USMB and go elsehwere when those objectionable ads appear when folks are around. There's an awful lot of them though.

Try turning off your computer and then turn it back on.

Okay I haven't tried that. I HAVE rebooted.

 

[Ringel05]

Google Chrome does not specifically track you unless you're signed into your Google account. You can go into settings and tell Chrome not to save searches or browsing history and not to collect search data.

 

[peach174]

If that doesn't work Foxfyre after turning your computer off and back on then do this.

Click on your start button
click on downloards
double click on adblockplus exe.
that will bring up the widows open file then click on run.

 

[Ringel05]

Also there are some very good VPNs out there if you don't want to be tracked at all and be invisible.

Five Best VPN Service Providers

Free VPN Services You Should Know About PCMag.com

 

[gallantwarrior]

Not surprising. I've met way too many people who thought chicken and beef originated in Styrofoam containers in the supermarket. Seriously.

It's like the father trying to teach his 5 year old daughter, asks her where milk comes from, she points at the refrigerator. He responds by telling her "no it comes from cows", she adamantly shakes her head and says "uh, uh, it comes from the figerater".......

Speaking of children sometimes I wish we would have had some, that way when they came of age I could engage them in legal domestic child labor....... Do the dishes, take out the trash, vacuum, dust, sweep, shovel snow.........

Not surprising. I've met way too many people who thought chicken and beef originated in Styrofoam containers in the supermarket. Seriously.

It's like the father trying to teach his 5 year old daughter, asks her where milk comes from, she points at the refrigerator. He responds by telling her "no it comes from cows", she adamantly shakes her head and says "uh, uh, it comes from the figerater".......

Speaking of children sometimes I wish we would have had some, that way when they came of age I could engage them in legal domestic child labor....... Do the dishes, take out the trash, vacuum, dust, sweep, shovel snow.........

There really is no other reason to have children, is there?

Wouldn't know, we had cats.......

Yeah, they aren'T all that helpful.

Oh I don't know, they add extra "insulation" to blankets, bed covers and clothing........ (they shed), they teach us how to shuffle when they want something..... (getting underfoot), and occasionally they leave presents..... (dead animals and coughed up hairballs).
What more could anyone want........

You do make good points. But hairballs and dead animals are not the only "gifts" they might leave. They have been known to leave gifts of "forgiveness"...particularly in shoes, open drawers, and laundry baskets. On a more somber note, I have often used my fur-fam friends (cats) to sop up the tears whenever I felt the need to shed a few...

 

[Big Black Dog]

Anybody besides me have a yearning for a banana split?

 

[Ringel05]

Anybody besides me have a yearning for a banana split?

I had my split weeks ago, those muscles are still sore........

 

[Sherry]

Anybody besides me have a yearning for a banana split?

 

[Foxfyre]

Anybody besides me have a yearning for a banana split?

Yum. There was a time when that would have been the ultimate guilty pleasure for me.

 

[Big Black Dog]

Anybody besides me have a yearning for a banana split?

Thank you, dear Sherry!!!

 

[Foxfyre]

If that doesn't work Foxfyre after turning your computer off and back on then do this.

Click on your start button
click on downloards
double click on adblockplus exe.
that will bring up the widows open file then click on run.

Windows 8 doesn't have a start button. But I can probably fnd adblockplus.exe some other way.

 

[Gracie]

Just got back from the Pacific Wildcare Hospital, where I took Gandalf. He looked like a pigeon to me..and normally I scare them off from the bird feeders because they are pigs and eat it all. But..the past 3 days, I noticed one lone pigeon. So I let him stay. The second day he arrived, I watched him closer with the binocs. He couldn't close his beak. He scooped water from the bird bath like a shovel in a bucket. But he kept cramming the food in his beak where it would promptly fall back out. Big bird, so he was not starving. Just having a helluve time getting food down his throat. Last night just before it got dark, he sat in the swinging bird feeder and scooped what he could. When it was completely dark, I went out there with a flashlight to see if he was nesting in it and planned to catch him if I could. Nope. He was not there.

This morning..he was on the ground, pecking and dribbling away. Then the dogs scared him and he flew up on the roof and stayed there a long time. So...at about 4:15, I saw he was back in the feeder again. I thought, what the hell. I'll see if he will let me approach him. So...I walked real slow..cooing to him. Duh..he is related to a dove but he is not one...still, the cooing seemed to be ok with him. Imagine my surprise when he let me walk right up to him. I cooed and cooed and slowly reached my hand to him..and he began to fidget so I cooed faster and before he knew it...or even I knew it, he was in my hand! His mouth was a mess. I will refrain from what it looked like. Poor guy.
So....I stuck him in a box and headed to the wildlife center, who are open 7 days a week year round until 5pm. By the time I got him in the box, it was 4.35. So I drove quickly there and got there in the nick of time. They said Gandalf is a Band Tail Pigeon and he has what looks like Trichasomething and if the vet thinks treatment will work, then that is what they will do then release him. If not, then they will humanely send him over rainbow bridge.

Before I left, I petted him and told him to get well and come back home..his feeder would be full of food as usual.

I hope he does.

 

[saveliberty]

Who am I kidding? I'd miss you guys too much to leave. Still very disappointed posters have to protect themselves from the board itself.

 

[gallantwarrior]

Anybody besides me have a yearning for a banana split?

We talk about pussies (cats) and you want a banana split? Hhhmmm...

 

[gallantwarrior]

Just got back from the Pacific Wildcare Hospital, where I took Gandalf. He looked like a pigeon to me..and normally I scare them off from the bird feeders because they are pigs and eat it all. But..the past 3 days, I noticed one lone pigeon. So I let him stay. The second day he arrived, I watched him closer with the binocs. He couldn't close his beak. He scooped water from the bird bath like a shovel in a bucket. But he kept cramming the food in his beak where it would promptly fall back out. Big bird, so he was not starving. Just having a helluve time getting food down his throat. Last night just before it got dark, he sat in the swinging bird feeder and scooped what he could. When it was completely dark, I went out there with a flashlight to see if he was nesting in it and planned to catch him if I could. Nope. He was not there.

This morning..he was on the ground, pecking and dribbling away. Then the dogs scared him and he flew up on the roof and stayed there a long time. So...at about 4:15, I saw he was back in the feeder again. I thought, what the hell. I'll see if he will let me approach him. So...I walked real slow..cooing to him. Duh..he is related to a dove but he is not one...still, the cooing seemed to be ok with him. Imagine my surprise when he let me walk right up to him. I cooed and cooed and slowly reached my hand to him..and he began to fidget so I cooed faster and before he knew it...or even I knew it, he was in my hand! His mouth was a mess. I will refrain from what it looked like. Poor guy.
So....I stuck him in a box and headed to the wildlife center, who are open 7 days a week year round until 5pm. By the time I got him in the box, it was 4.35. So I drove quickly there and got there in the nick of time. They said Gandalf is a Band Tail Pigeon and he has what looks like Trichasomething and if the vet thinks treatment will work, then that is what they will do then release him. If not, then they will humanely send him over rainbow bridge.

Before I left, I petted him and told him to get well and come back home..his feeder would be full of food as usual.

I hope he does.

Perhaps you made a difference in a life today, Gracie!

 

[Ernie S.]

Anybody besides me have a yearning for a banana split?

This guy would love to have a bite of yours....

 

[ChrisL]

My folks lived in western Arizona for years. Lots of near translucent scorpions all over the place. And yeah....if they sting you it hurts like a mofo.

Unless somebody is really allergic, a scorpion sting is worse than a tarantula bite. I've never been bitten by one--I HAVE held them in my hands--but they tell me a tarantula bite for the vast majority of people feels like and is no worse than a bee sting. Some tarantulas hair is toxic to people though and might feel worse than a bite. It's best not to pet your pet tarantula--she won't enjoy it and you probably won't either.

My friend used to let her tarantula crawl all over her. *shudders* I would look at it when it was in its terrarium.

 

[Ernie S.]

Oh! By the way. The above photo was taken on July 30, 1950.