NationStates Jolt Archive


What's with all the ads?

Trollgaard
05-09-2008, 23:10
Have any of you noticed all the ads recently? Some of them are pretty funny.

One I've seen alot is the 'Meet single Persians' ad. Why the heck does that one keep popping up?!

Anyone see any other funny ads, or know why some of the adds seem to have something to do with the posts on the page?
Hurdegaryp
05-09-2008, 23:14
Yes: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=565082
Celtlund II
05-09-2008, 23:15
Have any of you noticed all the ads recently? Some of them are pretty funny.

One I've seen alot is the 'Meet single Persians' ad. Why the heck does that one keep popping up?!

Anyone see any other funny ads, or know why some of the adds seem to have something to do with the posts on the page?

Well, I guess NS found a way to pay for this so they don't have to charge us a subscription fee. Nothing wrong with that and I hope they even make a profit.

As for the ads, I don't pay attention to them here, on other sites, or on television. I'm a very adblivious person. :)
New Ziedrich
05-09-2008, 23:16
Someone missed the clown sex invasion yesterday. Consider yourself lucky.
1010102
05-09-2008, 23:18
Someone missed the clown sex invasion yesterday. Consider yourself lucky.

umm, what the fuck?
Conserative Morality
05-09-2008, 23:18
Have any of you noticed all the ads recently?

Nah, I didn't notice the huge bump below the first post on every page.:D
Anyone see any other funny ads, or know why some of the adds seem to have something to do with the posts on the page?
Probably a keyword searching thingy. *Iz to tired to say the real word, which he does not remember at this moment*
Khadgar
05-09-2008, 23:18
Wait, the internet has advertisements?

-A Firefox user
Hurdegaryp
05-09-2008, 23:22
More importantly: did we have clown sex-specific ads yesterday? I never noticed those!
New Ziedrich
05-09-2008, 23:24
umm, what the fuck?

You're pretty much spot on.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=565095

This was a concerted, multi-thread effort to make obscene and/or stupid ads appear. They're all locked now.
Ifreann
05-09-2008, 23:47
One a different forum I got an ad for cockatiel sexing. I'll go and look for the screenshot. Maybe.
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q100/TheSteveslols/wuh.png
Hotwife
06-09-2008, 00:23
Have any of you noticed all the ads recently? Some of them are pretty funny.

One I've seen alot is the 'Meet single Persians' ad. Why the heck does that one keep popping up?!

Anyone see any other funny ads, or know why some of the adds seem to have something to do with the posts on the page?

I don't see any ads. Lucky me.
Hurdegaryp
06-09-2008, 00:24
They're easy to ignore, actually. Maybe you're not seeing them because you never paid attention to them. We're not talking about popups here.
BunnySaurus Bugsii
06-09-2008, 00:57
I found this one pretty funny, though I think it was meant seriously:

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg49/3-laws-of-Hobotics/imgad.jpg

Reboring your thread NOW ...
SaintB
06-09-2008, 01:03
You want strange adds? I can come up with a new one every week off the top of my head :).


Chef Tony's Pizza Puffs! The only cereal that tastes like a pizza!
Now available in sausage supreme!
Dumb Ideologies
06-09-2008, 01:06
You want strange adds? I can come up with a new one every week off the top of my head :).


Chef Tony's Pizza Puffs! The only cereal that tastes like a pizza!
Now available in sausage supreme!

If you come up with ideas like that every week clearly you are a serial offender.
Big Jim P
06-09-2008, 01:07
Ads? What are theses ads you speak of?

<---Another firefox user.
Dumb Ideologies
06-09-2008, 01:09
Ads? What are theses ads you speak of?

<---Another firefox user.

Same here. I'd completely forgotten there were ads. So complete was my ignorance of the existence of such things, I misread the title and thought this thread was about AIDS. Several seconds of confused bafflement.
SaintB
06-09-2008, 04:24
If you come up with ideas like that every week clearly you are a serial offender.

Weekly? Try hourly...
New Wallonochia
06-09-2008, 04:32
I see this one the vast majority of the time.

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a353/tuebor/imgad.gif
Vetalia
06-09-2008, 05:19
Goddamn it, I just got one for Indian women in Ohio. The bastards are on to me, but they overshot my ethnicity by a good 3,200 miles too far southeast.
South Lorenya
06-09-2008, 11:14
Huh? I use IE, so the ads don't show up.
Kyronea
06-09-2008, 12:21
Huh? I use IE, so the ads don't show up.

...

Wha...

...

HUH?!

The utter unlogic of this statement confuses me.
Exilia and Colonies
06-09-2008, 12:44
...

Wha...

...

HUH?!

The utter unlogic of this statement confuses me.

What he means is he uses I.E. so the ads, along with everything else on the page, don't show up :p
New Wallonochia
06-09-2008, 13:14
Wait, the internet has advertisements?

-A Firefox user

A Firefox user using Adblock, you mean. I use Firefox, but not Adblock so I still see the ads (which don't bother me).
Western Mercenary Unio
06-09-2008, 18:41
i use Firefox,but not Adblock because i can't get it to work!stupid piece of trash.
Damor
06-09-2008, 19:43
A Firefox user using Adblock, you mean. I use Firefox, but not Adblock so I still see the ads (which don't bother me).I don't necessarily mind ads, but I don't like it when they when they interrupt the flow of a thread. And if they're annoying (such as when they blink) then I block the server outright.
Hurdegaryp
07-09-2008, 16:04
What he means is he uses I.E. so the ads, along with everything else on the page, don't show up :p

One has to wonder how he still managed to post in this thread, if that's the truth.
Exilia and Colonies
07-09-2008, 18:42
One has to wonder how he still managed to post in this thread, if that's the truth.

Divine intervention in favour of joke opportunity creation
Trans Fatty Acids
08-09-2008, 02:39
One I've seen alot is the 'Meet single Persians' ad. Why the heck does that one keep popping up?!

I think "Meet Single Persians" is like Voldemort or The Candyman, because I'd never seen that ad before I clicked on this thread and now it keeps popping up.

Not that that's bad, I'd much rather meet single Persians, they'd be easier to defeat than the hordes of Immortals who keep overrunning my cities....Sorry, confusing real life with Civilization IV again. Stupid game, makes me play it for 36 hours straight....

Aside from that, I keep getting ads for mortgage refinancing and the McCain campaign, so apparently I'm a distressed Republican homeowner. Thanks, Google AdSense!
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
08-09-2008, 02:47
Chef Tony's Pizza Puffs! The only cereal that tastes like a pizza!
Now available in sausage supreme!
I wholly endorse this product, and wish to see it upon the shelves of my local supermarket and/or grocery soon.
Hurdegaryp
08-09-2008, 14:05
Anything to corrupt the world, eh?
Rathanan
08-09-2008, 14:53
I've seen the "meet single Persians" one too.... The funny thing is, I'm a Hebrew, so I probably wouldn't be a favorite amongst Persian women.
Katganistan
09-09-2008, 03:04
i use Firefox,but not Adblock because i can't get it to work!stupid piece of trash.

....
You HAVE subscribed to at least one of their lists, haven't you?
Soleichunn
09-09-2008, 16:20
I've seen the "meet single Persians" one too.... The funny thing is, I'm a Hebrew, so I probably wouldn't be a favorite amongst Persian women.

If they're extreme Iranian religious nationalists and they think you're a Zionist then you'd be in trouble, otherwise it would depend on how you act.
Wilgrove
09-09-2008, 18:17
Hmm...what is with all the "Date Muslim.....Persian.....Iranians....Jews" ads?

Comon, where are the ads for 24 year old grad students who lives with his cat?
Tmutarakhan
09-09-2008, 23:28
I got one telling me there are wasp nests for sale on EBay, showing me a picture of a wasp nest and asking me if I wanted to see more. WTF?
G3N13
10-09-2008, 01:14
Wait, the internet has advertisements?

-A Firefox user

What, you need plugins to your browser for basic functionality?

- Opera user

(though, in all honesty, 9.27 was much better than the pos 9.5 series).
Wilgrove
10-09-2008, 17:42
I got one telling me there are wasp nests for sale on EBay, showing me a picture of a wasp nest and asking me if I wanted to see more. WTF?

You can never have enough wasp nest. *nods*
Kyronea
11-09-2008, 02:37
Hmm...what is with all the "Date Muslim.....Persian.....Iranians....Jews" ads?

Comon, where are the ads for 24 year old grad students who lives with his cat?

The ads are relevant to what's being discussed. Specifically, the dating ads are relevant.

Check around a lot of other forums. On places like military forums you'll see ads for dating "Army girls" for example.

In other words, if we all suddenly switched to talking about Brazil and Argentina all the time, the ads would switch to Argentine and Brazilian girls.
Trans Fatty Acids
11-09-2008, 02:49
The ads are relevant to what's being discussed. Specifically, the dating ads are relevant.

Check around a lot of other forums. On places like military forums you'll see ads for dating "Army girls" for example.

In other words, if we all suddenly switched to talking about Brazil and Argentina all the time, the ads would switch to Argentine and Brazilian girls.

In other words, if we're discussing country X, it must be because we want to socialize with or date people from country X, rather than discuss the politics of country X. Viva la internationalisme!