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[Deleted User] · 2013-05-23 04:09:27

So apparently my browser cookies are telling boards.ie I want to be a mormon. I can't go anywhere on the site without being plastered with "Mormon.co.uk" ads. I'll be honest, I still do the God thing to an extent, but I'd be happy to lose those scripture snippets on busses & other posters if it meant I could live my life…

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23-05-2013 5:09am

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So apparently my browser cookies are telling boards.ie I want to be a mormon. I can't go anywhere on the site without being plastered with "Mormon.co.uk" ads.

I'll be honest, I still do the God thing to an extent, but I'd be happy to lose those scripture snippets on busses & other posters if it meant I could live my life without being bothered about what I think about how this universe thing started up!

Not going to happen of course, the free speech autopilots would have a fit.

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#2 23-05-2013 8:13am
Obliq

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AdBlock my friend. Also kills the ads in facebook and elsewhere

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#3 23-05-2013 9:20am
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Alternatively subscribe and you can disable the adverts.

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#4 23-05-2013 9:33am
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Oh.

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#5 23-05-2013 10:47am
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Did you do a search for Mormons recently?

Google remembers everything...

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#6 23-05-2013 10:50am
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I've been getting them too. They almost had me convinced until I saw this thread and realised it wasn't directed at me personally.

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#7 23-05-2013 10:52am
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If they are Google ads they have a little X in the top right so you can be all like, no! no more of those!

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#8 23-05-2013 11:07am
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I keep getting them on my phone, but not when I'm on boards via my computer..

Anyhow, everytime Isee them I just start humming songs of Book of Mormon musical

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#9 23-05-2013 12:19pm
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I saw a couple of mormon missionaries walking around the other day. It makes sense now, they were probably looking for you.

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#10 23-05-2013 12:27pm
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There's no escape, even with subscriptions or adblock. Just had a mobile advert for Jehovah's Witness at the door offering me bible lessons. Though he was nice, I had to point out how peculiar it is that each religion feels their's is morally better than others/none. I directed him towards the teachings of Marcus Aurelius and recommended that his sayings hadn't been as heavily edited as the bible, so he wouldn't have to pick and choose quotes from a book that mostly contradicts itself.

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#11 23-05-2013 12:32pm
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Obliq wrote: »

[...] I directed him towards the teachings of Marcus Aurelius [...]

And Tacitus, Pliny and Plato!

Whatever about the vapid phrase "the wisdom of the ancients" -- usually produced by people untroubled my much knowledge of either -- there were a lot of smart cookies writing smart books a very long time ago and the passage of millennia has not dimmed their usefulness, their humour or their readability.

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#12 23-05-2013 12:44pm
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robindch wrote: »

And Tacitus, Pliny and Plato!

Whatever about the vapid phrase "the wisdom of the ancients" -- usually produced by people untroubled my much knowledge of either -- there were a lot of smart cookies writing smart books a very long time ago and the passage of millennia has not dimmed their usefulness, their humour or their readability.

Quite right! I mentioned Plato too. The poor man ran into some difficulty in trying to justify how equal women are in the eyes of the Lord, as per the bible, so I thought I'd help him out with a more universally acceptable source of morality (in the sense all people being equal).

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#13 23-05-2013 1:21pm
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The mobile ads generally seem more bizarre than the regular ones.

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#14 23-05-2013 4:03pm
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Sarky wrote: »

The mobile ads generally seem more bizarre than the regular ones.

I did mention to him that I thought it was quite bizarre to open the door to a person who is convinced that their morals are better than your own, beliefs are better than your own and yet can offer nothing to women except motherhood and submission to men - he reluctantly agreed that becoming a JW wouldn't be a step up for me in my social standing. After he had reluctantly agreed that his belief couldn't be better than mine because mine is evidence based and he had no proof that his was better. Poor fella - he looked a bit miserable when I didn't want his literature either.....

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#15 23-05-2013 4:11pm
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The upside of such 'mis-targeting' is the wasted ad spend.:)

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#16 23-05-2013 4:28pm
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tricky D wrote: »

The upside of such 'mis-targeting' is the wasted ad spend.:)

Don't forget that the religious folks will get bombarded with gay dating sites and women's rights advertising. The poor lambs.

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#17 23-05-2013 6:00pm
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All I'm getting is VHI ads. I'm gonna die

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#18 23-05-2013 6:01pm
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robindch wrote: »

And Tacitus, Pliny and Plato!

Whatever about the vapid phrase "the wisdom of the ancients" -- usually produced by people untroubled my much knowledge of either -- there were a lot of smart cookies writing smart books a very long time ago and the passage of millennia has not dimmed their usefulness, their humour or their readability.

The Dialogues of Socrates, Aristotle's Ethics, Oedipus Rex, The City of God, Leviathan, Dante's Inferno, King Lear, Paradise Lost, War and Peace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVLpdzhcU0g

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#19 23-05-2013 6:55pm
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Im getting advertising for surf gear :-)

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#20 23-05-2013 10:10pm
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Dummm du-dum dum dummmm

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#21 24-05-2013 11:08am
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Rev Hellfire wrote: »

Alternatively subscribe and you can disable the adverts.

Hi Rev Hellfire.

Subscribe to what?

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#22 24-05-2013 11:19am
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dmw07 wrote: »

Hi Rev Hellfire.

Subscribe to what?

To boards.ie

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/payments.php

Subscription Info

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#23 25-05-2013 12:20am
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Rev Hellfire wrote: »

To boards.ie

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/payments.php

Subscription Info

Ah, ok. Thanks.

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#24 25-05-2013 1:02am
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Galvasean wrote: »

All I'm getting is VHI ads. I'm gonna die

Don't worry, we'll give you a proper atheist burial. At sea.

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#25 26-05-2013 2:32am
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I was getting some sort of christian ads, might of been mormon. I also get ads for 3 broadband which is odd seeing as I'm using 3 broadband

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#26 26-05-2013 2:37am
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I won't join any church that can't spell 'moron'.

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#27 26-05-2013 1:21pm
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LordChessington wrote: »

Dummm du-dum dum dummmm

Wise Wise Wise Wisee!

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#28 29-05-2013 11:52am
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I didn't think people still saw ads in browsers, what with Adblock plus and all that...

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