Things That Make Me Go "Bwuh?"
November 26, 2008 - 2:29 pm
Irradiated by LabRat
Irradiated by LabRat
Posting snippets and links because I’m stressed and burnt out and want to fast-forward to approximately February of next year? Would I do that?
Everybody is familiar with the big banner ads in various places that are pretty transparently “take this quiz WAIT FIRST SIT THROUGH OUR AD”. But usually the quiz makes some sort of sense; people seem to love nothing more than to run through a magazine or internet quiz that will tell them what their inner animal is or what actress they’re most like or even what career they should pursue.
Two banner-ad quizzes I have seen over the past two days: “Is Your Husband Gay?” and “Are You Bi?”
If ever there was a definition of “things you should not be asking the internet about”…
November 27th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
One wonders how much of this answer+email addy data is being sold to phishers …
Questions like what is the name of your first dog, and other such are also used by online financial agencies as verification questions.
November 28th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Haw. LabRat, I’ve got, I believe, a vague idea of yours and Stingray’s relationship, and must say that if there’s any HTML geek out there who can throw together an online quiz that can, in 25 questions or less, give you a better perspective of your spouse than you already have, then he needs to go work for the NSA, stat.
As for the “Are You Bi?” question, I’d always rather supposed that whoever was would know it pretty readily. It takes 3 questions that you ask yourself. Answer “Yes” to any two, and you’re a winner!