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Please make it go away!

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Anne58 Wed 23-Sept-15 14:34:21

That awful pop up over there >

What on earth is it supposed to be? "From how to look chic over 50"

CHIC! CHIC! Some very dodgy looking androgynous being wearing a suit and tie with the most awful glasses, (not to mention the eyebrows!) followed by "to advice on 'retired husband syndrome' " with a sort of budget range younger Kiri te Kanawa look-a-like with either very unrealistic dentures or photo shopped teeth.

STOP IT NOW

(Please)

jinglbellsfrocks Wed 23-Sept-15 14:36:49

Oh! I nearly started a thread about his yesterday. I think the old girl with the glasses looks like Cora off of Eastenders, and the tearing-hair-out one, that one who is good at counting.

jinglbellsfrocks Wed 23-Sept-15 14:37:51

Carol Vorderman! That's her name.

Elegran Wed 23-Sept-15 14:38:04

I thought that was Dame Edna!

Elegran Wed 23-Sept-15 14:38:37

The old girl with the glasses, not the counting whizz-kid.

merlotgran Wed 23-Sept-15 14:43:34

Old girl? I thought it was Elton John!

merlotgran Wed 23-Sept-15 14:44:05

Mind you....Old girl is probably about right grin

janeainsworth Wed 23-Sept-15 14:44:32

Agreed!

Anne58 Wed 23-Sept-15 14:49:32

It's up there ^ now! Aaargh!

Anne58 Wed 23-Sept-15 14:50:57

I don't think Elton would do that to his eyebrows?

Lona Wed 23-Sept-15 15:00:01

You don't get that on the mobile site!
#therehastobesomeperk!

Anne58 Wed 23-Sept-15 15:12:54

IT'S NOW IN BOTH PLACES AT ONCE!

Pleeeaase HQ, stop it, I'll do anything , give up biscuits, be nice to people who cold call me trying to help me reclaim mis-sold PPI, help a Boy Scout across the street, donate to a charity devoted to saving the lesser spotted stink beetle, just make it go away!!!!!

Indinana Wed 23-Sept-15 15:30:18

I wish I knew what you were all talking about. I can't see anything like that. Anywhere.

#nobodyeverplayswithme

Indinana Wed 23-Sept-15 15:31:29

Oh yes I can! I just saw it! Up there ^.

I wish I hadn't though wink

Grannyknot Wed 23-Sept-15 15:31:58

This thread is making me grin. My friend's son used to do those ^^ ads for websites (make them or programme them or whatever it is) and he left that job because he said he was too embarrassed to tell people what he did for a living, "because everyone hates those".

I also thought it was Dame Edna.

Anne58 Wed 23-Sept-15 15:41:02

With THÀT hair?

hildajenniJ Wed 23-Sept-15 16:16:29

Just popped over to the desktop site to see what all the fuss is about. Oh dear, I wish I haven't. I'm sticking to the mobile site. It is much quieter, no dodgy women popping up all over the place!

ninathenana Wed 23-Sept-15 16:24:38

It IS on the mobile site. Below the box where you type.

Ana Wed 23-Sept-15 16:47:21

Download AdBlockPlus. All ads banished in one fell swoop!

jinglbellsfrocks Wed 23-Sept-15 17:28:42

If too many people download ad-blocks it could be the end of a free internet.

And the end of GN! so if you've got one shhhhhh

loopylou Wed 23-Sept-15 17:31:36

Happily 'Pop up' free here.....don't think I'm missing out grin
For once!

Crafting Wed 23-Sept-15 22:35:30

I agree it's dreadful. You can't avoid it. Please remove it, pretty please.

Ana Wed 23-Sept-15 22:40:28

They're not going to remove it. It's been paid for.

NanKate Wed 23-Sept-15 22:44:58

How about sticking a post-it sticker over the irritating advert?

janerowena Wed 23-Sept-15 22:49:55

All I can say is - I wish you hadn't made me look for it. Because it's nearly my bed-time and now I shall have nightmares. Those glasses are really quite scary on that manwoman.