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Borgnine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 05:11 PM
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What pisses you off most about the Internet?
Here's my biggest pet peeve: spyware that advertises spyware removal products. Son of a bitch, get off my fucking PC.

Runner-up would be people who don't punctuate, use excessive abbreviations, and feel they need to end each sentence with an emoticon.

I hate the Internet, and yet it has me by the balls.
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Huckebein the Raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 05:14 PM
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1. Pop-ups before I began to use Mozilla's browser
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Bok_Tukalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 05:15 PM
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2. The greatest access to information on human culture and history known to
exist.

And I STILL just hang out here.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 05:16 PM
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3. For obvious reasons
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Bok_Tukalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 05:53 PM
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6. If I look at the peguins too long, I start laughing.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 05:19 PM
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4. It steals time
So I tend to make the best of that stolen time.. Like responding to this post.
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 05:21 PM
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5. don't blame the internet for spyware
code doesn't write itself, it's written by people. And those same devious, unethical people who write spyware do bad things in the non-internet world as well.

You can fight back, though. Get rid of IE and get Firefox or Mozilla would be a good start, but if you want to use IE, go to google and get their popup blocker. ;-)

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