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Re:The Private Magic of Treehouses by zeta0134 on Friday October 05, 2018 @10:49PM (#18153217)
I got one image into this article and tried to block the "Like us on Facebook" element. While I was doing that, a full-screen nag popped up and, upon being blocked, I discovered that scrolling was now permanently broken.

Refreshing the page works, but scrolling breaks again when, presumably, this popup tries to come back.

sigh

This is normal now, isn't it? Does this kind of crap really generate quality leads? I don't understand why it's so pervasive.

Re:The Private Magic of Treehouses by escherplex on Sunday October 07, 2018 @07:23PM (#18163170)
The simple solution on Firefox was to simply click on the 'like' popup "X" button which resulted in no popups for the rest of the session. Also, most of the images were not of what would be called 'tree houses' since they were not in trees but just in the context of trees.
Re:The Private Magic of Treehouses by tenaciousDaniel on Friday October 05, 2018 @11:00PM (#18153255)
A tree house, a free house,

A secret you and me house,

A high up in the leafy branches

Cozy as can be house.

A street house, a neat house,

Be sure and wipe your feet house

Is not my kind of house at all--

Let's go live in a tree house.

Re:The Private Magic of Treehouses by anonytrary on Saturday October 06, 2018 @01:41AM (#18153719)
Sorry for my low quality comment, but reading this in Snoop Dogg's voice is wonderful.
Re:The Private Magic of Treehouses by jonny_eh on Friday October 05, 2018 @07:35PM (#18152590)
Some of these look like cottages/cabins. Shouldn't they be solely supported by trees to be considered a proper treehouse?
Re:The Private Magic of Treehouses by Joe-Z on Saturday October 06, 2018 @09:23AM (#18155008)
Not solely maybe, but I agree with you. Some of them are more in-between-tree-houses.

Still nice to see what people come up with!

Re:The Private Magic of Treehouses by Antimachides on Friday October 05, 2018 @08:13PM (#18152738)
Some of those look incredibly unsafe.
Re:The Private Magic of Treehouses by ams6110 on Friday October 05, 2018 @09:28PM (#18152973)
Haha you should have seen the treehouse my friends and I built when we were in about fifth grade. It was probably 15 feet off the ground and put together with as much carpentry skill as a group of 11 year old boys had, using boards and plywood scavenged from our garages or vacant lots. Fun times. Pre internet era, nobody had a phone and video games meant pac man at the arcade if you had money to play, or maybe Pong on a TV set.
Re:The Private Magic of Treehouses by newman8r on Saturday October 06, 2018 @12:34AM (#18153554)
yeah I built one of these out of pallets when I was 10 and it had to be torn down when a neighbor kid stepped on a rusty nail. Fortunately they didn't sue my family. I understood the concept of a hammer and nails, but that was the limit of my knowledge.
Re:The Private Magic of Treehouses by grawprog on Friday October 05, 2018 @09:41PM (#18153019)
Don't you know the rule? Safety third, after having fun and looking cool.
Re:The Private Magic of Treehouses by sandermvanvliet on Saturday October 06, 2018 @03:19AM (#18153980)
I’ve built an underground hideout using discarded washing machine panels for wall support when I was about 11 or 12 years old or so. Safety was a word I’d never heard of back then...
Re:The Private Magic of Treehouses by posterboy on Saturday October 06, 2018 @10:16AM (#18155212)
pics or didn't happen