I can handle the blogs in other languages, or the "Eleven reasons I want George W Bush to be the father of my child" blogs, or the "God is my best friend" blogs, or the "pictures of people I know with no explanation or narrative" kind of blogs, or the "omg!!!! i A |\/| aN el33T hAx0r" blogs from the too-cool-to-spell-properly age bracket. But there are two kinds of blogs which I can't deal with:
1. The kind of blogger whose blog content is a litany of ads for Viagra, Vioxx, marketing secrets of Don LaPre, or some similar crap.
2. The kind of blogger who sets up their blog so that when you reach it, a little dialog box opens on your screen which cannot be cancelled and which demands that you click "ok". I had one such blog install a trojan on my machine tonight, which thankfully MacAfee caught. The next one, I tried to back out of, and ended up having to ctrl-alt-del out of the process. Jackwads.
Blogger needs to remove these kinds of blogs from their "next blog" rotation--the first is worthless and annoying, and the second is dangerous. That's not censorship--that's quality control.
Gaaah!
ReplyDeleteI can't agree more!
I've started using blog explosion recently and I'd say about 90 % of them are Bush or God blogs.
And that does my HEAD in!
ok. rant over. back to normalitly now ;)
As much as those two types of blogs make my brain want to crawl out my ear and cower in the corner of some more reasonable country, I've got no problem with their existence. The Bush people have just as much right to their (coff-disgustingly wrongheaded and blind-coff) opinions as the rest of us, and the God people...well, dude, it's God. Much as I disagree with many peoples' concept of God, I certainly can't argue it, knowing just as much about divinity as they do, which is nothing. (Yes, yes, I know--"...but the Bible..." Look, God-folk, let's don't get started on that. Believe what it makes you happy to believe, but til you get to the front door of the afterlife, we're all on the same BLANK page regarding the nature of the creator.)
ReplyDeleteSo yeah, I hate 'em, but those blogs have a right to be here too. But the marketing motherfuckers and those irksome little script-kiddies just HAVE to GO!
Nice to meet ya Gladys! Cool site. I'm "antsily" awaiting my tax check too :)
ReplyDeleteCan we not get rid of the English butcherers too?
ReplyDeleteGo on, just for me.
Shit - Thanks for reminding me that I have to do my taxes!
ReplyDeleteThose dialog-boxed-click-ok-blogs are the worst.
I was sure to find my type, the ranty panty pity party, listed in your Blogs Not to Have ;)
ReplyDeleteMust agree and add the "Obsessing a Boy who Doesn't Like Me" type of blog and the "I Have So Much Sex [or CONTENDS to have so much sex] That I Don't Know How I Have Time to Write this Blog" blog :P
Now, as a girl who regularly obsesses over boys in her ranty panty pissy party blog (sorry, had to steal that - it's BRILLIANT), I don't mind them much. I much prefer them to the sucky "my god i'm in love i'm in love i'm in love" blogs, although that could be born of my bitterness and not my intellectual preferences.
ReplyDeleteBut can we please ban the blogs with the little sparkly stars that follow your cursor and canned music and cuddly kitten in baskets photos and "thank you for visiting my blog" pop ups? As a dial-upper, they take, like, eight gazillion hours to load, and you can't even "next blog" off them.
More smiting, pithy, intelligent writers, I say!
Pisser is espethially pithy. Er, pissy. Whatever.
ReplyDeleteAnd I, too, loved the ranty panty pissy pity party. Which, come to think, is as apt a description of this blog as any.
Can I just say, I love you guys?? Anyone who can make me smile on a day like this gets major good-guy points in the afterlife.
You must be an expert with blogs! I'm impressed with your content. I'll be back soon; come see my work in the meantime. It's here: Yahoo Instant Messaging and has to do with Yahoo Instant Messaging -- I think you'll like it too!!
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