So, we have to look at this ad on the main Xanga page every day. I find it frustrating that I paid for a lifetime account, and know several people who have paid for it by the month or year or whatever, yet they have to find the most bullshit type of ad to put on their own front page. One that is stupid and worthless but actually will keep younger people from coming here and making a new site, in essence screwing themselves out of future possible income. The ads are not intrusive, but they still REALLY piss me off for some reason.
Maybe because I don't smoke, and I figure if anyone out there, at least anyone not in a third world country, don't know the facts about smoking then they don't know how to read, they can't comprehend languages, and they probably can't afford to smoke either.
And, since people continue to smoke, THEY don't give a shit either.
So why do I have to look at bullshit targetted at someone else who doesn't give a shit?
Why don't they just put up ads for tampons, at least they'd appeal to half the people to come to Xanga.
If smoking kills 36,000 people a month, and people continue to smoke, and there's no shortage of new smokers who start up every day, your ads aren't working, people don't give a shit, go do something meaningful with your lives like help build houses in Uganda or help AIDS patients in Africa or hell, just get a full time job and donate money to something local. Donate blood or and be a Big Brother or Big Sister or a Girl/Boy Scout leader, or teach swimming lessons at the YMCA or even just pick up some garbage while you walk from your car to work and throw it in the trashcan.
I'm cranky today because the assholes downstairs have parked a car right behind mine, blocking me in and making the whole parking lot inaccessible. I'm about to call a tow truck.
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i want to thank you from the bottom of my cold dark heart for this entry. i've been bitching about this to bill for years. there's a commercial out now, some cowboy singing through his trach hole, "oh you don't always die from tobacco, sometimes they just cut out your tongue..." and i swear mark, i was crying with laughter. bill looked at me like i was the lowest form of ooze on the planet. but for real, EVERYONE KNOWS SMOKING IS BAD FOR YOU. if you do it anyway, then sure, maybe you'll have a trach hole too. and i will wipe tears of laughter from my eyes as i wander down the hall singing, "oh you don't always die from tobacco... sometimes you get hit by a truck... or you sing through your throat-hole on the tv... but it's your own fault, you big stupid fuck."
hell? yeah, i got my ticket right here, so what.
CALL THE TRUCK!
OR
pour sugar into their gas tank
Yeah, I can be uber mean when I want to.
Anyway. Sorry you're having a shitty time of it, dude.
I'm having a beer and a cigarette right now for breakfast....mmmm....tar, delicious tar.....
I'm suing them for using a picture of my back for that ad, too. bastards.
I want a voice box when they cut out my tongue and larynx so I can scare people with it.
Also: karo syrup works better than straight sugar. Just so's you know.
anti-smoking propaganda makes me want to light up a big fatty.
and that commercial rache is talking about, it would be funny if it DIDN'T GET STUCK IN YOUR HEAD FOR DAYS AFTERWARDS