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Ads. An adequate way to make money, and support a website, but annoying nonetheless. Text ads from Google AdSense and such are fine, as long as they aren’t smeared all over the place.

Flash and Animated GIF ads

These are the worst. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY is going to EVER give a worthless shitfuck about them, yet they’re everywhere. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone onto a page only to hear “CONGRATULATIONS, YOU’VE BEEN SELECTED TO WIN TWO FREE iPOD NANOS!!!”, especially from 2003-2006. Or one of those gay-ass millionth visitor ones. WHAT THE FUCK. NO WAI. I ALSO HAPPENED TO BE THE MILLIONTH VISITOR LAST WEEK! AHMAHGAD FREE LAPTOP.

Pop-ups

Please, no. They come up when you click on a link, do nothing, or think. They’re still a problem to this day. Everyone who uses the internet has seen one of these at least once.

Conclusion

Use Google AdSense, at least they don’t have annoying ads.

—britishtaco

WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU FACEBOOK!?

Ok, Facebook has devised a clever new way to ‘enhance’ you’re experience (no, they’re not imitating twitter this time). Now, to prevent the small task of reloading the top bar and bottom toolbar, they’ve done this:

NORMAL: http://facebook.com/home.php (click on link)—-> http://facebook.com/otherpage.php

STUPID: http://facebook.com/home.php (click on link)—-> http://facebook.com/home.php#/otherpage.php

NOT ONLY does this make the URL look completely idiotic, but it glitches the page when you load certain things. Why, Facebook? Why?

That is all.

—BMatt

This was probably one of the worst… no… THE SINGLE WORST invention of mankind. You know, even worse than Vista, Swine Flu, and Kanye West. Ever notice that you can never get in an argument with a normal everyday kid at school without their final blow being “THAT’S WHAT YOUR MOM SAID!!21q24” or “I DID YOUR MOM LAST NIGHT!!?!314yoshi!!1”. Yeah, fuck all of you people still living in the year 2003. I suppose for those unintelligent little bastards, YOO MUOMMAAH jokes are a blessing, for without them, they’d have no rebuttal to an verbal fight, thus making them look even more retarded then they ALREADY ARE.

You know what. Maybe they wouldn’t be so bad once in a while. But the idiots that use them use the same ones. Every. Single. Time. And half the time it’s not even a joke, as stated in the above paragraph. “YOUR MUMM IZ HAWT AND I DID HER LAST NIET!!@!!”. It’s either that or “YOUR MAWM GOT HIT BY A PARKD CARR!!” HAHAHAHA. No. Big bunch of morons. I do/did enjoy watching the show “Yo Momma” because the people on that show tell FUNNY, and ORIGINAL yo momma jokes. These people only show signs of the above jokes. Humor today is losing its lust. ANDD ET’S YOR MOMMAS FAULT!!!!

—TDG

Apple. Maker of all things good. Macs. iPods. Perfect, amirite?

WRONG.

Not only are Macs and iPods NOT the most amazing things ever to grace the earth, but Apple is full of idiots. The iPhone/iPod touch Appstore, conceivably Apple’s greatest idea, is run by some complete morons. Daily, we see apps like “iFart”, “MegaGunPro”, and other useless apps that consist of a picture that, when tapped, produces a horribly used sound. The Appstore is covered with this litter. It’s as if the powers that be don’t even look at what goes into the Appstore.

WRONG AGAIN.

Apple apparently doesn’t know what could bring them some good income. They approve tons of useless 99c apps that will fail, and end up bringing them a very small cut of money. They REJECT apps like GV Mobile, which could bring huge amounts of money to Apple at a price of say, $5. Instead of taking this good fortune, Apple passed it over to Cydia. Giving people one more reason to break Apple’s rules. Good move, Apple. Good move.

The point I’m trying to make here is either Apple needs to fire half of it’s employees, or they need start using corporal punishment for some of the idiots who are in the approval process. That’ll show ‘em.

—BMatt

Noobs. Nobody likes them, but they’re everywhere. Games, forums, hell they’re even using Ubuntu Linux because ThEY aR3 tHe sUoPreE 1337! (it’s ubuntu noobs, get over it.) They’re not like you and me, they constantly say faggish things. For example,

Super1337Noob: poop Super1337Noob: poop Super1337Noob: poop Super1337Noob: poop Super1337Noob: LOL I AM SEVEN. You: shut the fuck up.

They spam a lot, as you just read, and will ask noobish questions. Such as,

LOL HOW DUZ I GET THE CRAKDSZ APS ON MUY ITUCH???’v1v?

You don’t asshole. Pay for your apps. But that’s a whole other thing.

Newbs are way different from noobs.

Newbs are normal newbies who want to know the basics of a game or ask a question and do it normally.

Noobs spam repeatedly, speak in broken english and act retarded.

I know I’m just repeating myself, so the bottom line is, don’t be a noob, it’s not funny and nobody likes you.

—britishtaco