No accounting for ads, but c'mon...

[Goodfella]

There are ads on this forum?

I've been using adblockers and scriptblockers so long I had forgotten.

I allow them for this site alone.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I allow them for this site alone.

I don't return to sites where I find them to be a necessity.

 

[Kyriakos]

Adblock is the solution

 

[JollyRoger]

I blame my location.

 

[illram]

I only see ads on my phone as I am too lazy to install adblock there, and they shift between creepily accurate (here is that thing you were searching for on amazon) to "huh?"

 

[EgonSpengler]

I'm seeing a lot of car ads. I really don't want to buy a car.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I only see ads on my phone as I am too lazy to install adblock there, and they shift between creepily accurate (here is that thing you were searching for on amazon) to "huh?"

That's about my usual experience. This Swim School thing prompted me to start this thread because it comes up, literally, at least one time in ten and has been doing so for days...maybe weeks.



Should I be worried that the ad of the moment is "STD tests starting at $79"?

 

[Birdjaguar]

The three ads I see (top and bottom of the page, no pop ups) recently have been: swim with the fishes in Hawaii, World of Warcraft, bath tubs for the disabled, Toyotas, and perfect tailored T-shirts.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

The three ads I see (top and bottom of the page, no pop ups) recently have been: swim with the fishes in Hawaii, World of Warcraft, bath tubs for the disabled, Toyotas, and perfect tailored T-shirts.

How come you get swim with the fishes in Hawaii and I get swim lessons for babies in Chicago? That seems really unfair!

 

[Valka D'Ur]

When did hygro move to Chi town?

a few years back he interned for whomp.

That makes sense! Thank you.

Imagine you're standing in a public place, listening to two strangers having this conversation...



Kinda like one my dad and I had when we ran into each other at the bank one day:

Me: Don't forget, Who's on at seven!
My dad: Oh, right! Thanks!

(that was after I got my dad interested in watching Doctor Who )

 

[PhroX]

Imagine you're standing in a public place, listening to two strangers having this conversation...



Kinda like one my dad and I had when we ran into each other at the bank one day:

Me: Don't forget, Who's on at seven!
My dad: Oh, right! Thanks!

(that was after I got my dad interested in watching Doctor Who )

If you think that's bad, try sitting near a group of people playing an RPG. You'll get some of the most bizzare out of context statements [that make perfect sense in context] imaginable....

 

[Valka D'Ur]

If you think that's bad, try sitting near a group of people playing an RPG. You'll get some of the most bizzare out of context statements [that make perfect sense in context] imaginable....

I'd believe it. One night about 25 years ago or thereabouts, my boyfriend was over and we were in the kitchen playing the Darkover board game. My dad was in the living room, watching TV.

Darkover is a series of fantasy novels and short stories that's been around since 1961, and is heavy on things like telepathy, telekinesis, using psychic abilities to do stuff like weather control and mining, and so on. The planet Darkover has trees that catch fire quite easily, so forest fires are a real problem. Sometimes the telepath caste is able to use their psychic abilities to create rain to put out the fires.

So how this works in the boardgame is that the players whose territories are affected by forest fire have to stare into each other's eyes and intone together: "One, please don't burn... Two, please don't burn... Three, please don't burn... and so on, up to 30. The first player to break concentration loses and their territory suffers damage due to the forest fire. If both players make it to 30, then neither suffers damage - the telepaths have been 100% successful in putting the fires out.

Needless to say, in all the times I've played this game, nobody has ever made it to 30 without cracking up.

And then there are the starstone battles... except in these, the challenger gets to choose the word or phrase that gets said over and over. So that night, my dad was watching TV and listening to the two of us in the kitchen chanting "One, refrigerator... Two, refrigerator... Three, refrigerator..." He muttered that he was thinking of calling someone to haul us both away because of how crazy it all sounded.

 

[sophie]

Imagine you're standing in a public place, listening to two strangers having this conversation...



Kinda like one my dad and I had when we ran into each other at the bank one day:

Me: Don't forget, Who's on at seven!
My dad: Oh, right! Thanks!

(that was after I got my dad interested in watching Doctor Who )

 

[Birdjaguar]

How come you get swim with the fishes in Hawaii and I get swim lessons for babies in Chicago? That seems really unfair!

Age has its benefits!

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Age has its benefits!

Unless you are saying that you are being rewarded for your youthfulness I don't think that explanation is gonna fly.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Isn't swimming with the fishes something that happens to victims of organized crime?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Isn't swimming with the fishes something that happens to victims of organized crime?

Not in Hawaii. There it is pretty much a tourist thing.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Unless you are saying that you are being rewarded for your youthfulness I don't think that explanation is gonna fly.

You may be older than most here, but are probably not old enough to win that argument with me.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

You may be older than most here, but are probably not old enough to win that argument with me.

An interesting challenge, but you have the upper hand...since I did mention my kids so my age is not a total mystery. I'll just say that we both probably more merit Hawaii and fishes than baby lessons in Chicago and let this go.

 

[classical_hero]

Isn't swimming with the fishes something that happens to victims of organized crime?

Thank goodness I wasn't the only one thinking that.