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Trevp666 said:
Don't all advertisers pay for their advertising?
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Sure.
However, there are levels of advertising.
With small firms, they're sold, say, a 10,000 person reach for 'only' £200. Of course, they're interested in persuading you to spend as much as you can on a regular basis. This is why FB, for example, constantly bombards businesses and groups with "this is what your advert would look like if you spend ..." or the "This post reached 200 people today. If you spend ££££ then, this would treble!"

In the much larger corporate sector, the cost depends on the number of ads ran per time period (I dunno - per hour, day or week), what coverage - national, international, specific countries - and even so-called targeted adverts.
This latter is the biggest con, since we've all experienced pointless or irellevent adverts. F'r instance, you buy a sofa online. You then get adverts for sofas. The ad sales team 'sell' to the advertiser that their sofa adverts will be 'targeted' towards those who are looking to buy. So the bots look for those who are looking for sofas - it's completely oblivious of those who have already made a purchase.
All in all, you see regular Temu on FB*, You Tube and others because they've paid huge amounts to 'squeeze out' smaller advertisers.

* I find this egregious, since so many folks post and comment on Temu or Wish adverts to laugh at, but they are actually giving these parasites free advertising.
 
Sid said:
However, if it turns out that the spider that is thought to have been spotted, is the 4 inch 'Brazilian Wandering Spider.' It seems it can actually cause a four hour erection - along with other severe effects. . . and the chance that the venom then kills you!
It's not all bad though. . . there is the possibility that Science can make good use from researching the powerful effects from its venom.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/ot...-can-cause-long-painful-erections/ar-AA1f7z7H
https://www.livescience.com/4429-natural-viagra-spider-bite-erection.html
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Viagrala!..
 
Ad blockers. All the way. I will not feel guilty for avoiding trash advertising (and trackers) being forced upon me.
There are many useful browser extensions that allow you to block pop-ups, ads and (for the theme of this thread) bypass many paywalls.
 
That's the stupidity of it all.
It's one thing to have a heated argument which might come to blows, it's another if you've got a weapon with you.
This isn't like an argument in a kitchen with a chef who has a pick of knives near by. Heat of the moment etc.
He had decided to arm himself.
 
Wedge it into a doorway and run at it.
Ditto into a low drawer, rest your neck - spine for preference - then pull on a rope attached to a heavy weight like a sack of bricks above the blade.
I puzzle over many strange things.
In Victorian times, there was a spate of suicide by self-crucifixion (fuelled by religious mania). Only once did someone manage the last nail.
Lying on the cross, he 'fixed' his feet and left hand, then tugged at a cord and quickly put his right and in place. Cord set a weight in motion which had the last nail affixed by wax. Weight came down, walloped the nail in, wax losened, counter weight removed the other and ... job's a good 'un.
I always thought that with ingenuity like that, he might've turned his life around.
 
Japanese squirrels found to develop human hereditary diseases with aging

A research group led by Dr. Tomoaki Murakami from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology has revealed that fibrinogen Aα-chain amyloidosis, a previously unreported disease in animals other than humans, is highly prevalent in Japanese squirrels (Sciurus lis).

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-japanese-squirrels-human-hereditary-diseases.html

maximus otter
 
Escaped 'wolf' spotted in Dublin Park...
Not really!
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Lizzie Borden-Themed Coffee Shop Sparks Feud with Neighboring Lizzie Borden Museum​


/no word on the Lizzie Borden Axe Throwing Bar

https://themessenger.com/news/lizzie-borden-museum-miss-lizzies-coffee-shop-feud

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In a statement published by the Fall River Reporter, Zaal said the coffee shop violates the museum's intellectual property rights.

“We are taking appropriate action to correct this and defend our marks,” the statement continued. “We have also been selling Lizzie Borden Coffee in the gift shop and plan to provide coffee options to our guests directly.”
 
kamalktk said:

Lizzie Borden-Themed Coffee Shop Sparks Feud with Neighboring Lizzie Borden Museum​


/no word on the Lizzie Borden Axe Throwing Bar

https://themessenger.com/news/lizzie-borden-museum-miss-lizzies-coffee-shop-feud

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In a statement published by the Fall River Reporter, Zaal said the coffee shop violates the museum's intellectual property rights.

“We are taking appropriate action to correct this and defend our marks,” the statement continued. “We have also been selling Lizzie Borden Coffee in the gift shop and plan to provide coffee options to our guests directly.”
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Lets hope it doesn't get axed then!
 
While perhaps not in the best of taste, I can't see the problem.
While Falls River might be a lovely place to visit in it's own right, and I can see the irritation of residents having their own community having international recognition only for a brutal slaying, they may as well profit from it. How much local income would be lost if they forbade 'dark tourists'?
I know several of the pubs in the Ripper district would see a huge drop in sales, balanced against local trade. It's a matter of taste, though, and discretion.
 

Sunflower field owners ask visitors to stop taking nude photos​


The owners of a sunflower field in England are pleading with visitors to stop stripping down to take nude photos in public view.

Siblings Sam Wilson and Nette Petley, owners of Stoke Fruit Farm on Hayling Island, said they had to put up signs asking guests to refrain from public nudity after six incidents of naked photo shoots occurred since the sunflower field opened to the public last month -- including three incidents in a single day.

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/0...toke-Fruit-Farm-Hayling-Island/5801692378983/

maximus otter
 
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