Comments on: Advertisers: prepare to die! http://blog.hackbash.com/2008/12/28/advertisers-prepare-to-die/ wake up and smell the copy Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:40:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: handolio http://blog.hackbash.com/2008/12/28/advertisers-prepare-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-2955 handolio Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:30:06 +0000 http://blog.hackbash.com/?p=484#comment-2955 @Antony - because it would be like cutting off a dog's balls. @Antony – because it would be like cutting off a dog’s balls.

]]> By: Tom http://blog.hackbash.com/2008/12/28/advertisers-prepare-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-2923 Tom Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:17:51 +0000 http://blog.hackbash.com/?p=484#comment-2923 Ooh, that bloody Storm advert - wrecks my work computer every time, and to make matters worse it was running on our home page. Argh! But yes, ad blocking is the way forward. Ooh, that bloody Storm advert – wrecks my work computer every time, and to make matters worse it was running on our home page. Argh! But yes, ad blocking is the way forward.

]]> By: Ned http://blog.hackbash.com/2008/12/28/advertisers-prepare-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-2886 Ned Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:08:25 +0000 http://blog.hackbash.com/?p=484#comment-2886 I'm with you dude, I have the voodoo book open and ready, we can get him back in an instance...... "now if we can all join hands and close our eyes, Mr Hicks will be with us in a second" I’m with you dude, I have the voodoo book open and ready, we can get him back in an instance…… “now if we can all join hands and close our eyes, Mr Hicks will be with us in a second”

]]> By: Antony Mayfield http://blog.hackbash.com/2008/12/28/advertisers-prepare-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-2866 Antony Mayfield Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:36:18 +0000 http://blog.hackbash.com/?p=484#comment-2866 Why don't you install an ad blocker and save your processor / blood pressure / general anger levels? Why don’t you install an ad blocker and save your processor / blood pressure / general anger levels?

]]> By: Christopher Phin http://blog.hackbash.com/2008/12/28/advertisers-prepare-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-2848 Christopher Phin Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:22:06 +0000 http://blog.hackbash.com/?p=484#comment-2848 I'm with you, comrade. The worst offender recently has been Vodafone's ad for the Storm. I have a little set of system monitoring widgets in my Mac's menubar, and I can guarantee then whenever the processor's at full tilt and I can't think of a reason why, it's because Safari's eating up all my cycles to display a brace of fucking Flash ads for the Storm. OK, my GMA950 is a bit of a crappy graphics card, but there is no way in hell an ad whould be eating up all the spare processor capacity of a 2GHz Core Duo. My little three-year-old laptop can cope with this better than Nobby, but it's still piss-achingly irritating. I’m with you, comrade. The worst offender recently has been Vodafone’s ad for the Storm. I have a little set of system monitoring widgets in my Mac’s menubar, and I can guarantee then whenever the processor’s at full tilt and I can’t think of a reason why, it’s because Safari’s eating up all my cycles to display a brace of fucking Flash ads for the Storm.

OK, my GMA950 is a bit of a crappy graphics card, but there is no way in hell an ad whould be eating up all the spare processor capacity of a 2GHz Core Duo.

My little three-year-old laptop can cope with this better than Nobby, but it’s still piss-achingly irritating.

]]> By: handolio http://blog.hackbash.com/2008/12/28/advertisers-prepare-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-2840 handolio Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:49:58 +0000 http://blog.hackbash.com/?p=484#comment-2840 Of course, there are other good reasons to perpetrate random and barely discriminate acts of violence against an entire section of the workforce. Here are two more of my favourites: <strong>1 Adverts are shit</strong> <img src="http://blog.hackbash.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/bad-one-brewing.png"> (from my Last.FM profile) <strong>2 Adverts are offensively shit</strong> <img src="http://blog.hackbash.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/achmed-reappears-the-morning-after-the-mumbai-attacks.png"> This one's for the hilarious Achmed the Dead Terrorist (catchphrase "I kill you"), a character, used in some kind of mobile phone download, at whom I've been staring in spluttering indignation ever since I first spotted him earlier in the year. This particular appearance was on a YouTube page, the day after the Mumbai attacks. Of course, there are other good reasons to perpetrate random and barely discriminate acts of violence against an entire section of the workforce. Here are two more of my favourites:

1 Adverts are shit

(from my Last.FM profile)

2 Adverts are offensively shit

This one’s for the hilarious Achmed the Dead Terrorist (catchphrase “I kill you”), a character, used in some kind of mobile phone download, at whom I’ve been staring in spluttering indignation ever since I first spotted him earlier in the year.

This particular appearance was on a YouTube page, the day after the Mumbai attacks.

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