Chatty Kathy's

Hi there Akimoko, hope you like it here. We are having a party, c'mon in.

This is re: the shoutbox...

:dance2: :yahoo: :dance3: :woot:

lol thx for the welcome , and about the thing about buying your own parts for your computer and buildin it up , trust me its much better this way , my dads friend fixes computers and when we had our last computer he found in it like processors,graphics cards and chips and such which were manufactured about 9 years before the computer was, you get much more for your money when you buy your parts, ive been doin it for a while(well my dad has , its his money ^^)

It's easy to say it's "better" to build from parts, when you have someone else to do the work for you... :P Try doing all the research yourself (at least once), and then tell me if it was worth the time / effort. If you think so, then great! I was only expressing a personal preference.

Kathy,
I know the OT smilie was a little uncalled for, but I think it's a funny one so I wanted to share.

I think it was worth doing the research and then putting my new (at that time) computer together myself. I learned alot and got a good rig out of it. I have put together a few computers by now.
I can see your point about the time you have to put into your research however. Sometimes it is better to simply pay someone else to do it.

ye i researched all the parts i just go to www.overclockers.co.uk great deals on the latest parts i picked all i needed out and my dad paid for it for a christmas present ^^

Ah it is a nice smiley. My off topic one is grumpy, your's is cuter...

Here are a couple of my new ones. One night while browsing the internet I viewed several sites that offered smileys in a nice little zip files to download.

It made me feel like and also like
.........

:dance3:


Yay, the end.
Here is one for our new Irish friend...
and another for KMD...

...and here's your cake Sol.

Thank you Sharkull. You are very dependable when it comes to smilies! (otherwise aswell)

Oh yeah, I forgot my cake one, I was going to put it with the smiley eating at the party...ah well.

Now remember too much of this when the neighbors are doing this. will make them

and nobody wants this... :cop: and especially not this
...:ghost:

Yeah, I know.

Kathy -->
Didja all forget this about me? :P

Sooo, what's new?

Going to L.A. Woot.

:tease:
J/K

Oh, nice. Robins are really pretty birds, and sometimes I find the eggshells in my backyard although I have never seen a nest. My dad and his girlfriend (if that is the correct term to call a woman in her seventies...) have a phoebe nest right outside their door. They go around back to get into the house so they don't disturb her nesting.

Who else finds certain TV ads annoying? Most of them are anyway, but my current irritants are the Burger King ads and that one for some beer, I think it is Heineken. (dunno, I click to another channel as soon as it comes on) Such an annoying song they play for it.

The problem is that I have had that stupid beer ad song in my head all freakin' day!

Oddly enough I downloaded a few smileys from a german site, and they had an x-rated section. I said to myself "huh?" and naturally took a look. Um, I don't really see the point of little emoticons performing intimate acts with each other, but perhaps that is just me. Oh, btw, they did have a vomiting smiley, re: sjr's message in the shout box. I will spare you guys the gory details.

Were you not going to sleep Kathy? :P

And you should watch the dutch beer commercial you can download at the forge here.. I never saw the one you talk about but this one is nice :P

All commercials are stupid, some are just more stupid then others. I dont know if I have ever seen one that is actually logical in whatever they have going on.

True, it is a matter of degrees. Some I can tolerate, and some just really annoy the heck out of me.

Yes, dear, I did sleep, but it was hard. I had to vent about that stupid song! That is a funny ad, much better than the stupid one I was talking about.
Made me feel like screaming!

ye lol i hate that , for example you see an advert wherre a guy is jumping off roofs and backflipping of walls , doing crazy stunts and at the end it would be like "mc donalds" :P

Yeah... it's sad that advertising has degraded into image peddling. Very few ads are informative, describing the attributes of a product... most are now just attempts to create the illusion of value, or simply just to catch the attention of the viewer. We truly do live in the times of "infotainment".

I think I wrote somewhere that so much of advertising is predicated on creating an insecurity in the consumer, simply so they will buy the product, for example the virtual overload of grooming, hygiene and beauty products. I like a nice lipstick or shampoo just as much as the next girl, but some of this stuff just gets ridiculous.

What REALLY bugs me is the KFC commertials. In the KFC song there is a cursed set of 4 notes that make me scream in pain. + KFC tortures chickens!

KFC is fine, it supports gren-veined chicken eater's anonymous. I myself prefer Subway... although those ads get annoying as well. The most annoying ads I find are insurance or bank ads.

Burger Kings ads hurt my brain. Home of the whopper, indeed. :roll:

The father and son whopper's, big bucking chicken, the king. oye!

I really hate the direct marketing of pharmaceuticals... (not normally seen in Canada, but sometimes shown on U.S. stations when shows are not simulcast with substituted commercials). Nobody should be getting their medical advice from TV, nor should drugs be the first option to be considered when there is something wrong. I've seen a recent ad that's a tiny bit better than the rest ("Ask your doctor about it"... meaning their product), but it still caters to the desire for easy answers (eg. just pop a pill vs. a reasonable diet and regular exercise...). When there is no practical and effective alternative then having medicines available is fantastic, but the decision to prescribe a drug should be made by a doctor, not a TV viewer. Prescription drugs should not be advertised on TV. Period.

I agree Sharkull. Here not many pills are advertised, cough medicine is though along with natural remedies- garlic tablets, vitamin C, and most recently, and ad promoting a tablet containing "good obedient bacteria" to kill the "nasty bacteria" in your system. Kind of weird.

..you don't see many ads for herbs, do you?
..I know of lots of extremely efficacious common plants..

..or, how about an ad that just says "be nice to each other"..??
..for no other reason than that.

..aah, but there's no market in wisdom, these days..

- is there??

This is the type of thing that I've seen play out over the past couple weeks:
http://www.i-pets.com/rpet19.html

...except the nest I was watching is only a few inches from my bedroom window, and there were four eggs. This morning there were only two chicks remaining (two flying off overnight), and I expect that tomorrow I will awake to see an empty nest. It's been amazing seeing how quickly the little birdie's grow!

But if they weren't, then they wouldn't be as expensive, and the US cost of health care wouldn't be three times higher than in any other country, and people wouldn't think that drugs were the answer to all life's problems, and the US wouldn't have such an illegal drug problem, and....

Life just wouldn't be the same!

How convenient for the FDA........
How unconvenient for the customers........

Not as weird as you might think, Loup. Good bacteria can help in many systems of the body with a buildup of yeast (yeast is bad) , or in the digestive system to help digest food more efficiently. One of those common types of good bacteria is acidophilus, which you can find by eating yogurt with active cultures, as well as in supplements.

Well, then any old shclub could come along and pick plants along the road, in a field or the woods for FREE, and where is the profit for big business in that, I ask you?

- no profit..
- just an enormous sense of well-being!
http://www.ahpa.org/ahh/ahpa_121k.pdf