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18 May 2009, 9:58 pm

I'm hoping that this is a very short-lived ad that automatically launches itself aloud at every WP page I select tonight, but... oh! the irony!! !

ALEX PLANK!! HALP! MAKE IT GO AWAY!! !! :lol:



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18 May 2009, 10:19 pm

*whew*

OK, it's gone... replaced by a nursing home ad.

Whatever. At least it doesn't have a sound track!! ! :roll:



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18 May 2009, 10:31 pm

Lupine wrote:
I'm hoping that this is a very short-lived ad that automatically launches itself aloud at every WP page I select tonight, but... oh! the irony!! !

ALEX PLANK!! HALP! MAKE IT GO AWAY!! !! :lol:



Ads? What ads?



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18 May 2009, 10:42 pm

elderwanda wrote:
Lupine wrote:
I'm hoping that this is a very short-lived ad that automatically launches itself aloud at every WP page I select tonight, but... oh! the irony!! !

ALEX PLANK!! HALP! MAKE IT GO AWAY!! !! :lol:



Ads? What ads?


You know, the ones that people without the Ad Block Plus extension in Firefox have to see.



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18 May 2009, 10:54 pm

normally_impaired wrote:
elderwanda wrote:
Lupine wrote:
I'm hoping that this is a very short-lived ad that automatically launches itself aloud at every WP page I select tonight, but... oh! the irony!! !

ALEX PLANK!! HALP! MAKE IT GO AWAY!! !! :lol:



Ads? What ads?


You know, the ones that people without the Ad Block Plus extension in Firefox have to see.


Sheesh... and I'd thought that Safari would do better at ad-blocking! Perhaps I should go back to Firefox...



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19 May 2009, 4:48 am

It ain't my dream, I can tell you that..



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20 May 2009, 2:32 pm

elderwanda wrote:
Ads? What ads?


I agree: "What ads"?

I have no popup ads either, have no popup blockers and does not get any warnings that "a popup was blocked".

To the topic starter: Checked your computer for spyware lately?


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20 May 2009, 2:54 pm

It's not a pop-up, but it appears in the same square at the bottom of the page all the other adds do. Yeah, adds with sound are extremely annoying especially when you listen to podcass.



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20 May 2009, 10:33 pm

To quote an Autism Speaks commercial

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The chances of a child becoming a major league athlete, one in a million, the chances of a child being diagnosed with Autism, one in 166


Aside from the fact that Autism speaks doesn't update their figures since it's now one in 150, the chances of a child becoming a major league athlete are even further less than one in a million if said child (like me) doesn't care about professional sports in even the least possible bit.



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22 May 2009, 4:28 am

I want to be a rock star.

I liked the good old days, where Autism was 1 in 10,000, and it was rare. Now..., you just don't feel as special knowing that it's only 1 in 150 to 1 in 500 depending on what ASD group you're looking at (the whole lot to Kanner's only).

*Sigh*