Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for November 29, 2022

The phone of my dreams!! Marry me!!

Now I’m hungry.

Chocolate, Now I want some chocolate. Doesn’t have to be cake, just chocolate.

At least her phone wasn’t sending her Spam.

the canned or the irritating kind

Did you know that per head of population in a country, there is a strong correlation between quantity of chocolate consumption and the number of Nobel prize winners? Switzerland comes out top on both. :-)

If I see an ad for something that I don’t recognize, and click on it just to find out what it is, then I get constant notifications from Amazon. “We found something we think you’ll like! A left handed widget tightener.”

When her phone became both her best friend and worst enemy…..

The phone ain’t over ’til the lady gets fat!

I refer you to “Death by Chocolate”. Careful, Pam, someone’s out to get you…. fat.

Don’t you just hate it when the ads are right on target.

Round One- Phone!

Done in Street Fighter voice.

Is it recommending an amoretto or Irish cream to pour onto the cake?

The whole targeted sales market is creepy and I absolutely never respond to advertising online. I won’t use Alexa or Siri or even Google Assistant because of potential ads targeted to conversations. All device mics are turned off and the laptop’s camera lens is covered. Nobody has privacy anymore, but no point making it easy for them.

My wife keeps trying to convince me that while men may like chocolate, women actually require it. She calls it a food group.

Much better than the underwear ads I keep getting on GoComics…

This is why I don’t have a “smart TV”. Mostly it’s a jukebox/vending machine that ties you into proprietary technologies and online vendors.

No woman can resist chocolate. NOT ONE!!!

But first a little snacky.

Don’t complain Pam, so far everything you eat seems to be going to the right places.

My 4G Flip doesn’t receive SPAM … ;)

That would be one time when you wished your ad blocker would say “Are you sure you want to block this”.

Don’t think of it as an invasion of privacy, Pam. It’s more like a… peace offering.

I do not understand why everybody isn’t just blocking ads and turning off the location apps on their machines. Both are easy to do and make life online so much quieter.

To take the other view, I much prefer to see adverts for things that MIGHT have some relevance to me, rather than stuff I would never be able or willing to buy.

No, I don’t want to hear about a service only available in the USA, ads written in German, or feminine hygiene products.