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The revenue generated from the adverts on the site is a critical part of our funding - and it's because of these ads that I can offer the site for free. But using the site for free AND blocking the ads doesn't feel like a great thing to do, which is why this box is so large and inconvenient. Some sites will completely block your access, but I'm not doing that - I'm appealing to your good nature instead. Did you know that you can allow ads for specific sites, whilst still blocking them on others?

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What really grinds your gears?

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Jan 2018
10:24pm, 15 Jan 2018
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Carpathius
People who deliberately snark at you, and then when you call them on it, yell at you for 'having a go at them'.
Jan 2018
10:30pm, 15 Jan 2018
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alpenrose
Too many of those tossers about Carp. :-p
Jan 2018
7:26am, 16 Jan 2018
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TomahawkMike
Coming back to work and finding two letters from the Office of National Statistics threatening penalties if I dont fill in their various statistical business questionnaires by 6th Jan and 9th Jan respectively (they didnt arrive until 10th Jan). And also an Attachment of Earnings Order for one of our employees from a local council (You are Ordered to deduct this from their pay and Ordered to do that by such and such a date or subject to penalties etc). Cant they be more polite?? Whinge Whinge. I didnt realise I would be subject to so many threats of penalties when I started this business.
XB
Jan 2018
7:45am, 16 Jan 2018
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XB
The local online paper has this thing that hides the story until you answer a quick question. What's that all about?
Jan 2018
8:31am, 16 Jan 2018
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Surrey Phil
For me, the washing machine has packed up. The cycle has jammed and clothes covered in brown sludge.
Jan 2018
9:05am, 16 Jan 2018
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ChrisHB
Xb, I assume they get 0.00001 for everyone who answers. I almost always don't. I hope they notiice.
Jan 2018
9:06am, 16 Jan 2018
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ChrisHB
Sorry, there's a p missing. An infinitesimal amount of money.
Jan 2018
9:12am, 16 Jan 2018
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fetcheveryone
It might be something to do with artificially improving their 'bounce rate' (the percentage of visitors who arrive at a web page then leave without making any other sort of interaction).
Jan 2018
11:16am, 16 Jan 2018
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ChrisHB
That's odd - why would you want to increase your bounce rate if you're a newspaper?
Jan 2018
11:18am, 16 Jan 2018
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fetcheveryone
Improve = reduce in this case.

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