I, for one, welcome our new Google ad overlords!

The BBQ Pit
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They’re like a little Greek chorus at the bottom of the page!

*A thread about the 7 Deadly Sins gets an ad at the bottom about protecting South American sloths!

A thread about The China Syndrome gets an ad for a barbeque catering service!

A thread about Chris Rock’s new series gets an ad for mind control secrets!

Meanwhile, a thread about Hal Briston’s love of sheep gets ads for Chris Rock’s new series!*

I’m tempted to start a thread about mind control to see if I get ads adverting a sheep escort service.

On second thought, it’s less like a Greek chorus and more like a guy with Tourette’s … .

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[/RIGHT]That’ll teach you!

Enjoy,
Steven

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That’s not what I got!

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There’s another thread about the ads that has links at the bottom to pills that claim to prevent crotch rot. And several links to sites that promote some strange T-shirts.

All the complaining, and the ads have turned out to be fun!

Oh, and that clicking sound you hear? It’s not a bunch of crickets. It’s all those members that blocked the ads unblocking them so they don’t miss out on all the weirdness.

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Ahhh, what the hell. If it means Cecil spends his declining years rolling in piles of hundred dollar bills with supermodels, its worth it. He’s done more for me than I did for him.

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I welcome them too. People waste so much bandwidth complaining about them, and I’m sick of it. Google ads are about the only ads I like anywhere, because they’re so kind. No flash, no gifs, no popups, just text.

For me, the ads on this thread are all about books. Book publicity firm, how to write a book, etc. No mention of books in any posts, though. I love it.

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Actually, it wasn’t until people started mentioning what they said that I even actually read one other than the Red Cross one.

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Well, you’re entitled you your opinion. I haven’t complained about them, although my opinion of them is, ahem, rather different from yours.

The only thing that worries me is the number of actual references to their content in various threads. There are quite a few threads now, in various fora, that contain a bunch of posts marvelling at the content of the Google ads. I hope people will soon get over the novelty of the ads and cut this shit out, because it’s pretty annoying.

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Hear, hear.

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Sometimes it’s amusing, but yeah, it’ll get old. I wouldn’t be surprised if a few ad threads enjoy long lives and it dies down soon everywhere else.

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I don’t much care about the ads one way or the other, but Jesus that “welcome our new [whatever] overlords” joke is stale. Same with “Once. For 20 minutes,” “1920’s style death rays,” and yes, even “When come back, bring pie.”

Oh, and “My cat’s breath smells like cat food.” That wasn’t funny when Ralph Wiggum said it, and it’s no funnier the 1,000,000th time someone says it here.

That is all. Return to your workstations.

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I burning your dog!

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I don’t know about others, but you’re right about me - I had to unblock the ads just to see what was happening with content-relevant ads. I left it off because it’s been rather entertaining, and I actually kind of like giving it a quick glance just to see what it thought was relavant.