a horror story

Wednesday, October 24, 2007


you know those annoyingly irritating advertisements that periodically appear in the msn messenger window, right at the bottom where those sneaky bastards seize the opportunity to pop up their ad (often with raucous and horrible sound effects) whenever you mouse over them? And how you ALWAYs seem to trigger them off cos you have to mouse over them on the way to clicking on another window on your task bar?

you can probably sense where this is heading...

so i was trying to avoid the ad like a landmine but just as certain as the nosy kid in a horror movie gets killed first, I ended up triggering the damn pop up again. then my com lagged and the animated ad stayed onscreen for like 10 seconds.

simply sounds moderately annoying? read on...

now if it was some innocuous ad like for beanie babies or m&ms or something I could just brush it off, but this time it really went too far. it crossed the boundaries of decency and bordered on moral outrage. the ad, was to tout the purported benefits of laurier pads.

WTF?!!

the offending ad refused to disappear no matter how furious I clicked elsewhere. By some perverted twist of fate I ended up clicking on the ad itself (gasp) by mistake. it gleefully opened up a browser window..asking if i wanted FREE SAMPLES.

words cannot explain how I felt then. pure, utter revulsion and horror would be close but thats only scratching the surface. I did what any self respecting guy would do then. I pulled the plug. Bzzzzap.








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