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Re:Why ancient Roman graffiti is so important to archaeologists by mwfunk on Thursday February 11, 2016 @06:24PM (#11084143)
What I'm seeing in this link: every image and every paragraph is followed by the same Teleflora banner ad that scrolls open when you scroll past that image or paragraph. At some point an animated Revlon ad also appears which expands to fill the entire page. The sidebar and bottom of just about every page is consumed by ginormous BS "Trending now!" links to "25 celebrities you didn't know posed topless!" and "The weight loss trick that they don't want you to know!" articles on other equally disreputable sites. The page for this article looks like satire, it's so ridiculous and seedy and invasive. I wanted to read the article, I really did.
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Re:Why ancient Roman graffiti is so important to archaeologists by b_emery on Thursday February 11, 2016 @07:07PM (#11084389)
Here, try this instead. Some hilarious stuff. No adds, i'm pretty sure it's circa 1995:

http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%2...

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Re:Why ancient Roman graffiti is so important to archaeologists by GnarfGnarf on Friday February 12, 2016 @09:37AM (#11087425)
"Gaius Pumidius Dipilus was here on October 3rd 78 BC"

That's apocryphal, right? How did he know it was "BC"?

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Re:Why ancient Roman graffiti is so important to archaeologists by lostlogin on Saturday February 13, 2016 @03:05AM (#11093193)
It gets weirder when you consider that Christ was most likely born between 7 and 2 BC.
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Re:Why ancient Roman graffiti is so important to archaeologists by bonoboTP on Thursday February 11, 2016 @07:06PM (#11084388)
Do you refuse to use adblockers based on some moral principle?
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Re:Why ancient Roman graffiti is so important to archaeologists by mwfunk on Thursday February 11, 2016 @09:12PM (#11084873)
No. But any site that is willing to go to that length to compromise their content (for people who don't use ad blockers) clearly doesn't value their content or the people who read it. That's the message it sends.
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