I hate the stupid hit the monkey things, and the animated smiley's with sound ads that say all kinds of stupid crap.
Man those things are annoying. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dawson, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 12:25 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Annoying Advertisements > > +1 on all of these. > > Regarding #1, you can stop animated GIFs by hitting the Esc key. > > I also downloaded the Flashblock extension for FF. > > That pretty much fixed those annoyances for me. > > I also hate the Flash ads with sound that keep repeating, > especially, when they are not visible on the screen, due to > long-scrolling pages. > > My most-hated ad is the damn company that uses the pink > flamingo where each feather is a state. There are many > variations on that theme, but I want to kill all the > mutha-fekkers who created it. > > M!ke > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Ketsdever [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 10:28 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Annoying Advertisements > > List this under pet peeves: > > #1. Blinking online ads - I don't know what the heck you're > advertising. I just leave that page that displays anything > blinking, especially when the whole darn thing is blinking. > > #2. Panic Ads on the radio - I don't need to hear someone > screaming "get-up , get-up Tom are you alright what happened" > all in a panic while I am driving down the road. There has > to be a better way of indicating that your bills (energy, > cell phone, Internet connection etc...) are too high. Look > some idiot just cut me off, traffic is backed up from here to > Baghdad and now someone panic stricken woman is screaming at > me on the radio. Really, I don't need the added anxiety in my life. > > #3. Any radio advertisement that includes the use of a siren. > Hey idiot, I am trying to drive. I don't need to try to > decipher if the siren is real or not. > > #4. Any advertisement that advocates lying. "Bob have you > seen the toaster doodle?" Bob: as he is shoving the last of > it in his pie hole. > "no sweetie" big smile for the camera from Bob. I'm sorry > but its not ok to lie and I don't think we should be > advocating it in our commercials. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:191390 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
