# StumbleUpon users: What have you now seen enough of, thankyouverymuch **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 31, 2007, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbleupon-users-what-have-you-now-seen-enough-of-thankyouverymuch/424692 "2007-10-31T11:48:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbleupon-users-what-have-you-now-seen-enough-of-thankyouverymuch/424692/1 "2007-10-31T11:48:27Z")
I love StumbleUpon, but there are certain things that keep popping up that I am now thoroughly sick to death of, but can’t seem to avoid, because removing the category they’re in would deprive me of other things I _do_ want to see, and clicking ‘I don’t like it’ doesn’t seem to stop very similar things coming up again later. So for me, the things I really don’t want to Stumble Upon very much more are: -Video game themed cakes. Poorly-executed Weighted Companion Cube cakes or cakes made in the likeness of Mario, or Master Chief. Bleh. -Videos of stupid fluke shots that happened in Halo 3, replayed endlessly from every conceivable angle. -Home pages for design companies that look like error messages, warning me of a long list of requirements I’ll need before I can try looking at their site. -Similarly, home pages that are entirely done in Flash (and again, usually belonging to Graphic Design companies) that just say loading 32 of 984789645234… -Design concepts presented as real products. I’m really happy that you’re sooooo excited about this fantastic new levitating laptop media centre, wearable fabric-based washable computer, animated OLED tattoo, etc, but please, just call me _when you’ve actually built one_. Don’t tell me it’s fantastic and can do this and that when it’s nothing more than globally-illuminated pixels on a screen. thankyouverymuch. What are you sick of Stumbling Upon? ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbleupon-users-what-have-you-now-seen-enough-of-thankyouverymuch/424692/2 "2007-10-31T11:58:33Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] What are you sick of Stumbling Upon? [/QUOTE] Sites (such as StumbleUpon, evidently) that I had no clue about and make me feel like I’ve totally lost touch with what everyone’s doing on the internets these days. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbleupon-users-what-have-you-now-seen-enough-of-thankyouverymuch/424692/3 "2007-10-31T19:13:43Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] -Similarly, home pages that are entirely done in Flash (and again, usually belonging to Graphic Design companies) that just say loading 32 of 984789645234… [/QUOTE] Me too. Web pages (and videos) have about two seconds to show some actual content before I click “Back” or “Stumble.” And I’ll wait for a video to load and then give it two seconds, but not a Flash page. I stumble through Flickr a lot, and you can find some amazing photography there, bt about a third of it is just lolcats and copied xkcd strips and stuff that shouldn’t really be on Flickr in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Phantom\_Dennis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/51bf81/32.png) [@Phantom\_Dennis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phantom_Dennis)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbleupon-users-what-have-you-now-seen-enough-of-thankyouverymuch/424692/4 "2007-11-01T02:13:51Z")
I’m tired of every other page being an article about Ron Paul. I’m tired of those flash intros too. I automatically hit Stumble whenever I see a progress bar. I’m getting sick of Photoshopped images that someone is trying to pass off as real. Like that jetliner coming in for a landing over a beach. There’s no way that’s real. I get sick of all the really good artwork out there. Why can’t I come up with ideas like that? ---
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stumbleupon-users-what-have-you-now-seen-enough-of-thankyouverymuch/424692/5 "2007-11-01T07:04:00Z")
[QUOTE=Phantom Dennis] I’m getting sick of Photoshopped images that someone is trying to pass off as real. Like that jetliner coming in for a landing over a beach. There’s no way that’s real. [/QUOTE] I’m not sure if you are being sarcastic, but that picture is most likely real. The airport is [Princess Juliana International Airport](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Juliana_International_Airport) in Saint Martin. [Here](http://www.splashvision.com/Video/4780_Beach-Airport.html) is a video of a plane landing there.