Imagine the scene. I’m on the bus. I’ve found a seat that isn’t near the bloke who shouts at cars and smells vaguely of rabbits. My headphones are in (but not too loud,of course).
I take out my copy of the Birmingham Post and open it up. Scanning around the page I see an article that catches my eye. But just before I start reading…the person sat behind me pulls out a pot of wallpaper paste and slathers a great billboard poster across the top of the page.
It turns out that in scanning around I inadvertently caught the eye of an advert nestling in the corner of the page.
Sound plausable? No I didn’t think so.
So please stop doing it on your bloody websites newspaper people.
That is all.
Suddenly, I have the urge to take my children to the zoo.
It’s the subliminal ads!
Bizarrely it’s not even the closest zoo for readers of the paper.
We might not like them – but we have to make some money! It would be nice if those ‘I don’t want to see this advert again’ options would work properly.
i think the problem here is more to do with the sort of buses you catch!
I mean, not even on my old school bus, which travelled through some very rural parts of Chorley, did I have to worry about paint pots!
makes me want to sniff a rabbit and I already have had to have hours of treatment to get me off that particular habit.
a rabbit habit.
I also do not like pop up adverts, surveys or the like. Put your ads down the side or at the bottom please. I will look at them if they are relevant.
Even worse: the ones that hide the “X/CLOSE” button in obscure typeface nowhere near the top-right of the ad.
Way to take our minds off this problem? Go to the zoo.
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