# Absurd and insulting Internet ads **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 10, 2018, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absurd-and-insulting-internet-ads/817686 "2018-07-10T23:00:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absurd-and-insulting-internet-ads/817686/21 "2018-07-11T17:41:38Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Now I’m hungry. Betchya can’t eat [del]just[/del] one! ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absurd-and-insulting-internet-ads/817686/22 "2018-07-11T17:45:52Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And your wife doesn’t want you to know how to fix your ED? Well, not if the solution involves Russian women. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absurd-and-insulting-internet-ads/817686/23 "2018-07-11T18:21:03Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > The only thing being disrupted in Black Canyon City is the Pancake-Industrial Complex. They’ve discovered a secret way to make [pancakes larger than any previously known to man!](https://s3-media3.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/lYaEsIWeugtH0ExhkFEVMQ/l.jpg) If only our plate technology could keep up! I hate the click bait historical photos and ‘what they look like now’ links. I have clicked, and the photos the promised are not contained therein. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absurd-and-insulting-internet-ads/817686/24 "2018-07-11T18:42:45Z")
“She didn’t know why the men were applauding” Come on. It’s 2018. I can see naked women on legit porn sites all day every day. And I’m going to click on some ad because I’m hoping to see a wardrobe malfunction? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absurd-and-insulting-internet-ads/817686/25 "2018-07-11T19:04:38Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > If only our plate technology could keep up! There is a “plate gap”. Someone makes a bigger plate, then the other guy makes a bigger pancake, and next thing you know, global pancake apocalypse. And neutral Belgium and their waffle-tech will be the only winners. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absurd-and-insulting-internet-ads/817686/26 "2018-07-11T19:37:01Z")
I live near a major prison. I occasionally see ads that say things like, “Hot singles are waiting to meet you in San Quentin!” I’m sure they are, but I think I’ll pass, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absurd-and-insulting-internet-ads/817686/27 "2018-07-11T20:10:00Z")
I went to confront some of these insulting ad firms… AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEIVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT!! ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absurd-and-insulting-internet-ads/817686/28 "2018-07-11T20:23:25Z")
“These Photos of the Old West Were Banned From History Books” [Photo of attractive modern woman in a miniskirt and cowboy hat, gone over with a sepia filter] ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absurd-and-insulting-internet-ads/817686/29 "2018-07-11T20:29:20Z")
Pay off your home loan in one easy step by refinancing it ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absurd-and-insulting-internet-ads/817686/30 "2018-07-11T22:05:09Z")
I’ll say one thing for those absurd and insulting Internet ads: they inspired this thread, which despite its short length, has already given me four or five quite good out-loud laughs. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absurd-and-insulting-internet-ads/817686/31 "2018-07-11T22:46:12Z")
I’m still waiting for that one weird tip. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absurd-and-insulting-internet-ads/817686/32 "2018-07-11T22:50:40Z")
It’s also amusing when you actually recognize the picture. I’ve been seeing one lately that I think is purporting to be a free-energy machine that’s actually just a desktop computer with a couple of WiFi antennas. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absurd-and-insulting-internet-ads/817686/33 "2018-07-11T22:56:19Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > I get "This Brilliant Company Is Disrupting a $200 Billion Industry” ads all the time. That particular clickbait is often illustrated by three people standing around, looking like locals, in a “local” environment. We have nobody that looks like that around here, no such environment, and if you click on it, no such company. If you access the same ad thru a server a thousand miles away, it’s the same picture, and you can find it in the stock photo services. It’s as crooked as can be. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2018, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absurd-and-insulting-internet-ads/817686/34 "2018-07-11T23:42:20Z")
> [@Mk\_VII](#): > > I’m still waiting for that one weird tip. (Do This Every Day) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absurd-and-insulting-internet-ads/817686/35 "2018-07-12T01:07:07Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > (Do This Every Day) I used to when I was younger. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absurd-and-insulting-internet-ads/817686/36 "2018-07-12T02:30:12Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I used to when I was younger. ☹ Ah, to be young and coming into our own…frequently. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absurd-and-insulting-internet-ads/817686/37 "2018-07-12T02:31:38Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > I’ll say one thing for those absurd and insulting Internet ads: they inspired this thread, which despite its short length, has already given me four or five quite good out-loud laughs. 🙂 And here was the one I’d call “good and out-loud”: > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Someone makes a bigger plate, then the other guy makes a bigger pancake, and next thing you know, global pancake apocalypse. And neutral Belgium and their waffle-tech will be the only winners. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absurd-and-insulting-internet-ads/817686/38 "2018-07-12T06:13:18Z")
> [@Mk\_VII](#): > > I’m still waiting for that one weird tip. I’d show you, but the last I did I got busted for indecent exposure. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absurd-and-insulting-internet-ads/817686/39 "2018-07-12T06:17:49Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > That particular clickbait is often illustrated by three people standing around, looking like locals, in a “local” environment. We have nobody that looks like that around here, no such environment, and if you click on it, no such company. If you access the same ad thru a server a thousand miles away, it’s the same picture, and you can find it in the stock photo services. It’s as crooked as can be. Ok, that’s what I’d expect, but . . . what exactly is this “brilliant” company doing? And why do they think I care? ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2018, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absurd-and-insulting-internet-ads/817686/40 "2018-07-12T10:40:19Z")
Some of the worst ones to me are sexy clickbait thumbnails for legit sites. For example, there was one for the Weather Channel that was one of those “You’ll never believe what happens next” which was basically just a picture of young girl’s ass. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absurd-and-insulting-internet-ads/817686.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absurd-and-insulting-internet-ads/817686.md?page=3)