Let's Play A Stupid Game

Are you ready for a stupid game?

Its called invasive pop-up inside the window game and you have no control over it. The way you play is just surf the web for a while until you come across a site that uses this stupid advertising tactic. Sites like iWon and Charter do this right now and I'm sure thousands of other sites came up with the incredibly stupid idea that an internal pop up window is better than a pop-under or pop-up.

The way it works is that a window inside the window pops up, usually with animation and sound (really nice if you're at work in a cube farm, I'm sure), selling some service or crappy little product. The one on iWon that got me going right refused to stay closed when I clicked the little, often hidden or hard to see X that closes the invasive little fucker.

I mean, now I HAVE to look at whatever bullshit they're hawking so I'm theoretically more likely to remember the product or company being shilled. Only problem is that I note the company or product and make a point to make sure to NEVER do business with these dickheads.

So, hey, nice work advertising idiots. Not only are you not going to "convert" me with your "cutting-edge" advertisements, you're going to turn me off from ever buying anything from your invasive little fucking company. And I'll tell people online and off about your poorly considered marketing methods.

Also, on a side note, can all the dumbasses putting together animated gifs layoff the seizure inducing flashy garbage? Nothing makes me want to find another resource than an over-hyper ad to "Knock out the Evil Kangaroo" or "Catch the Monkey" and then it flashes at very high speed and starts over. Its stupid, its potentially dangerous (I know I'd sue in a freakin' heartbeat if one of those ads caused me to have a seizure).

And on an unrelated side note rant. Can someone go over to AOL's headquarters and punch every single employee there? In the face preferably. I got a notice of a "package" in my mailbox and had to wait in line to get it. And it was yet another fucking stupid AOL CD. So I smashed it and threw it away, again.

And, totally off subject now, I just wanted to end the post with something a little more positive. I really, really like rueben sandwiches and they're even better when the rye gets toasted. Why Erik's Deli doesn't have a toaster is utterly beyond my comprehension. But Zoccoli's has one so that's where I went for my sandwich today.