“Here’s why:” The Point at Which You HAVE to Know

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I think it’s called the “side boob”: the little pictures and headlines that pop up in your face when you’re online trying to look up some arcane scholarly question involving history or religion. They say things like ,”Pour Coca Cola in your toilet!” “Put toothpaste on your fingernails!” “Always take a crayon to the airport!” and those provocative commands are always followed by , “Here’s why:”—

—but I’m sure you dear polymaths dont need to be told that the quest for the answer to the featured question leads down a long and winding road, before, if ever, you will be told why, f’rinstance, you SHOULD prop up your toilet seat at night with an empty toilet paper roll, or fill a plastic baggie with water and pennies and hang it at your front door.

No, no, I’ve been there, I no longer CARE why I should keep a plastic clip from a bread bag in my wallet at al times. I am immune to “Here’s why”.

…or so I thought. But today, I’m being promised the reason why you should “slip a marble into your peanut butter”.
Wha’a’a?
Okay I’ve seen the picture a few times now, an amber colored Aggie embedded in whorls of the ubiquitous confection….so far I have resisted! No, no, I won’t, ever, put a marble in my peanut butter no matter WHAT reason you come up with, so I won’t look, I don’t even WANT to know why! I AM IN CONTROL!
But please, does anybody know how to prevent these commands from occurring on my screen? (It’s urgent: that little brown marble, half submerged in the golden goo…it’s like… an eyeball…it’s beginning to…WINK at me…:scream::scream::scream::scream:….

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I recommend the Brave web browser. It has a built-in ad blocker.

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I use NoScript and Adblock Plus in Firefox, and use Brave for special tasks.

(NoScript requires some effort to “train”, unfortunately.)

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Be careful there, H! You may just have left an unexploded bomb for the confirmation hearing when you are nominated as a Supreme Court Justice. The internet never forgets, as they say.

The London Daily Mail is worth checking from time to time, since it often provides better, more even-handed coverage of US politics than the usual suspects at NYT, CNN, PBS, etc. But it has a string of little blurbs down the side of the page which mostly seem to celebrate women I have never heard of in various stages of undress. There are frequent mentions of daring exposures of “side boob”.

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That’s exactly right, magus. Been using Brave exclusively for years now.

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