CNN – Ling Ling, 20, stands by the side of a highway on the outskirts of Taipei.
The top she wears is tight, and the transparent miniskirt she’s wearing reveals a tattoo on her hip. She’s waiting for truck drivers or working men to stop and buy her goods.
In most other cities, it might be assumed those “goods” were sexual services.
But not here.
Ling Ling sells betel nuts.
“The more beautiful you are, the more money you can make,” she says. “That’s why I dress like this.”
That reminds me…remember back when Hooters was the most evil place ever? Way back, before Chik-Fil-A was the most evil. But definitely after Cracker Barrel.
CNN……no thanks
I had beer nuts once. I cut back on the PBR and it cleared right up.
OBTW. Why is it I get a bullshit download for some phony Firefox update every time I come here to read something?? You folks have had some annoying advertising over the years, but this one is getting particularly tiresome.
@ThirdTwin – Santa Monica, CA rejected the business license for a Hooters about 20 years ago for no good reason other than the servers’ attire. And with a beach nearby filled with bikini-clad females of all ages! They relented.
I have no clue what a betel nut is.
She parks her ride a couple blocks off the main drag. It’s an F250 with an 8″ lift kit and great big hitch nuts:)
1970….. Advisor Compound, Baria, VN
Mamasan chewed betle nut and papasan smoked opium.
She could run circles around him all day long.
Sometimes you feel like a nut…
I get the same pop ups. Usually it causes a crash.
She’s selling her nuts and they say it’s not sexual?
Hmmm. Reminds me of the South Pacific song “Bloody Mary”…..which reminds me of Hilary for some reason.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k67Yh0Nmr-o&list=RDk67Yh0Nmr-o#t=6
I do not like Orientals,
So I will not try the betel nuts.
🙂
Where’s Dr. Seuss when I need him?
If they want the people to quit using Betel Nuts, teach them how to make meth. There is no Betel Nut abuse in Oklahoma.
“I get the same pop ups. Usually it causes a crash.”
… there’s a joke there somewhere
Chieftain, try ghostery? I don’t use AdBlock here, but a selectively employed ghostery keeps the most annoying features in the background.
Have you ever tried emailing me with ad concerns instead of disparaging us in the comments, as if I’m intentionally doing something malicious to make your life miserable?
Everyone’s advertising experience here is different. I cannot keep track of all of them because I use ONE PLATFORM, ONE BROWSER, ONE DEVICE – and I’m sure it’s not exactly the same as yours in the exact same region of the country.
I have no idea what platform you are on, what device you are using, nothing.
So simply complaining and disparaging us in the comments does not help.
Uh oh. Sorry to come off as if validating the disparagement.
I’m on an iPad right now. Safari browser, nothing special, and there haven’t been any issues with pop-ups, crashes, or the like for quite some time. Ditto for the Blackberry, with its built-in browser. Whatever changes y’all made a while ago worked great. It’s on Windows w/firefox that I use ghostery, and it’s not so much for here, but others like the Daily Caller ot Daily Mail. IME, those two are, very trying, performance-wise.
Aren’t betelnuts where beteljuice comes from?
Beer Nuts are good, but Deer Nuts are cheaper. … They are always under a buck. (rim shot)
Rosalind,
That wasn’t for you.
Don’t sweat it.
I talk to Chieftain all the time. Why does a concern like that have to be broadcast in the forum rather than dealt with with me?
It’s not like we don’t talk. We do.
And if we’re talking about mobile ads it is very difficult to track down these scumbags because the network is so, so area specific. I need an url, a screenshot, something in order to put in a ticket to have them blocked.
Mr. Hat,
I use Opera and have never had any kind of problem.
(with ads or whatever – not no problems as in No Problems like with disease, deaths, victories, defeats, cut fingers, goose bites, ticks, taxes … &c.)
Never.
Thank you for your wonderful site.
izlamo delenda est …
@BFH: I once ran a site and experienced stuff like this. Yes, he should have taken it offline the same way you should have. Tough love sucks, yet I think I have thicker skin these days thanks to exposure to folks like you. And sometimes the master needs a lesson from the students.