# Home drug test google ad... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 1, 2006, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-drug-test-google-ad/354930 "2006-05-01T10:01:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-drug-test-google-ad/354930/1 "2006-05-01T10:01:53Z")
What’s with the fucking huge font this ad has? Is this something that can be controlled my an administrator, or are we stuck with it? Regardless of its intentions, that shit doesn’t look good when somebody walks right by you and notices it. Especially since these kinds of ads are shown mostly on druggie type sites, and may be mistaken for something else. Even though I’m sure there is a market for them on this site. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Dog80](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-drug-test-google-ad/354930/2 "2006-05-01T10:14:13Z")
> [@ParentalAdvisory](#): > > Especially since these kinds of ads are shown mostly on druggie type sites, and may be mistaken for something else. Maybe you haven’t noticed, but the name of this site is The Straight **Dope**. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-drug-test-google-ad/354930/3 "2006-05-01T10:28:47Z")
You’re crazy man, where does it say that? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-drug-test-google-ad/354930/4 "2006-05-01T13:38:05Z")
Ads? What ads? You think you got problems? I’m still trying to figure out if **Liberty** lives in a grocery store. Or if he really did mean parling and not parking, in which case I need to know what parling is. P.S. not a woosh if one is simply trying a different joke from everyone else. (Sorry for the hijack. A few people will know what I’m talking about.) 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-drug-test-google-ad/354930/5 "2006-05-01T13:41:33Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > in which case I need to know what parling is. Is it not something one does after espying a young maiden while out for a walk one day in May? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-drug-test-google-ad/354930/6 "2006-05-01T13:49:02Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > Is it not something one does after espying a young maiden while out for a walk one day in May? Well there you go. 🆒 I’ve always said, “The Pit is so much better than GQ.” Does anyone even read GQ anymore? Or has everyone switched to Maxim? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-drug-test-google-ad/354930/7 "2006-05-01T14:33:24Z")
**What’s wrong with the ad size? Helldamnfart!** ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-drug-test-google-ad/354930/8 "2006-05-01T14:45:06Z")
I haven’t seen any great big drug test ads. It’s _probably_ not something we can control (or more accurately, ask the Reader to ask google to control). We can do general stuff (like “no porn ads”) but I don’t know if we can nix a specific ad. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-drug-test-google-ad/354930/9 "2006-05-01T16:02:20Z")
How fitting that the Google ads for this very post are all for drug test kits (though not in huge font, unfortunately). ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-drug-test-google-ad/354930/10 "2006-05-01T17:20:40Z")
> **[Reporting inappropriate Google ads](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=340268)** > > Some of the Adsense material served up has been the subject of email and online complaints to board management and the Reader. However, this is the wrong place to complain. The Reader has no editorial control over what Google displays as ads. We... ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-drug-test-google-ad/354930/11 "2006-05-01T22:22:34Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > You think you got problems? I’m still trying to figure out if **Liberty** lives in a grocery store. Or if he really did mean parling and not parking, in which case I need to know what parling is. I’m guessing **liberty** ’s been sleeping in a truck. ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-drug-test-google-ad/354930/12 "2006-05-01T22:45:04Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Ads? What ads? > > You think you got problems? I’m still trying to figure out if **Liberty** lives in a grocery store. Or if he really did mean parling and not parking, in which case I need to know what parling is. > > P.S. not a woosh if one is simply trying a different joke from everyone else. (Sorry for the hijack. A few people will know what I’m talking about.) > > 😛 The poor guy mispelled parking and stupid as “parling” and “stpid”. He started a pit thread about being kept awake, then 3 minutes later, posted that the guy had stopped. A few posters decided it would be fun to repeat his mispellings, as did I. I thought you didn’t get it. I mean, what with yer user name and all. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-drug-test-google-ad/354930/13 "2006-05-01T23:44:31Z")
What’s really funny was how sad I was when I came back to the thread, saw it closed, and realised we would never see which branch of fun poking would have had the most effect on the OP. ---
**Author:** ![liberty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/958977/32.png) [@liberty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liberty)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-drug-test-google-ad/354930/14 "2006-05-02T02:09:09Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > The poor guy mispelled parking and stupid as “parling” and “stpid”. He started a pit thread about being kept awake, then 3 minutes later, posted that the guy had stopped. A few posters decided it would be fun to repeat his mispellings, as did I. I thought you didn’t get it. I mean, what with yer user name and all. 😉 I was tired. He was at it for an hour. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-drug-test-google-ad/354930/15 "2006-05-02T02:39:06Z")
Welcome to the Dope. More specifically, the Pit. Thanks for answering the question that was bugging me about that other thread. (In yet another closed thread.) Hope you don’t get too pissed at our fun poking. Or the gratuitous thread closings… Um, perhaps I should return this hijack back to the OP now. STUPID ADS! ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-drug-test-google-ad/354930/16 "2006-05-02T08:00:10Z")
Damn, I feel like an ass. More so than usual. 'Spose I have to tip my hat to **NCB**. This _is_ the pit. So I feel I should say a few words. Cocknozzle, shittytittie, bloodfart, fucktwaddle, faggery, and fish-flavored-fur-flaps. That is all.