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[Nov 10, 2003, 10:58 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

We had our first frost here within the last few days, and it sure is frosty this morning... won't be long before we're having snowball fights in these parts. I have to point out the fun-sounding aspects of this for those of you in tropical climes... saying pretty soon now we're going to have to be shoveling doesn't get any more pleasant knowing there are people out there tanning and surfing.

A bunch of the tweaks here yesterday were to clear up HTML compliance issues (thanks again Frans), so theoretically there should be fewer issues today, rather than more, but again, if we've broken something on your browser, please drop a line with some details about what's happening.

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man oh man

Nov 10, 2003, 17:51

Hump

Can we set up a separate "Ad complaints" thread? No offense Pyro, it's certainly not you or anything, but it is getting kinda annoying seeing people complain/write about the ads all the time.

have people become so lazy/whiny that they even have to post a complaint about having to move their mouse three inches to shut off a pop-up?

I mean I can't fathom just how shallow, spoiled, lazy, ignorant and possibly stupid these people are that they even have to broach the subject. If the site had a cascading barrage of beastiality, shit-eaters, golden shower japanese red-haired animae vixens etc then maybe MAYBE a polite email might be in order but for christ sakes they're just ...ads...benign ads. The same people probably sit through 2 hours a day, collectively, of TV commercial ad time (same for radio) and not bat an eye but Blue has a few ads put up so he can continue to eat and provide a FREE service at the same time and suddenly its an insult and imposition. Bandwidth = money, and...a lot of it. Why is that concept so difficult to comprehend?

So for those complaining...explain to me just how put out you are. I need to know. Really. Maybe my perspectuive is skewed and I'm not seeing the whole picture. help me out.

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Comment [quote="Hump"Nov 10, 2003, 17:51]q[ Can we set up a separate "Ad complaints" thread? No offense Pyro, it's certainly not you or anything, but it is getting kinda annoying seeing people complain/write about the ads all the time. ]q have people become so lazy/whiny that they even have to post a complaint about having to move their mouse three inches to shut off a pop-up? I mean I can't fathom just how shallow, spoiled, lazy, ignorant and possibly stupid these people are that they even have to broach the subject. If the site had a cascading barrage of beastiality, shit-eaters, golden shower japanese red-haired animae vixens etc then maybe MAYBE a polite email might be in order but for christ sakes they're just ...ads...benign ads. The same people probably sit through 2 hours a day, collectively, of TV commercial ad time (same for radio) and not bat an eye but Blue has a few ads put up so he can continue to eat and provide a FREE service at the same time and suddenly its an insult and imposition. Bandwidth = money, and...a lot of it. Why is that concept so difficult to comprehend? So for those complaining...explain to me just how put out you are. I need to know. Really. Maybe my perspectuive is skewed and I'm not seeing the whole picture. help me out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PAH! [/quote]

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