Friendly advice: Don't click on this weight-loss website link

[BurtWorm]

If you see the pic above and you don't want to be bored to tears with a promotion that never gets to the point. I clicked on it last night at Oatmeal.com, thinking it was just another bit of that site's inane but enjoyable amusements. Actually it's an ad, and a stupid ad at that. A total waste of time as whoever the business owner is who put it up drones on and on and on about something he trusts you'll be captivated by before you figure out it's probably just as bullshit as anything else in that field of money traps.

I'll tell you what almost hooked me. He says early on that it's just one little thing you have to do to lose body fat and keep it off, and it doesn't involve starving yourself or working out. (I'm not desperate, but I wouldn't mind losing the five or ten pounds I seem to have put on since Thanksgiving myself.) But he spends the next three or more minutes rambling on about why every other weight-loss program or product is designed to fail, and he does it in such an inane, boring, hucksterishly middle American way that he gave me enough time to conclude there was almost certainly nothing worth waiting through that shit for. To make it worse, when you try to leave the site by going back or forward, you get an annoying, "Hey! Are you really sure you want to click away from this gem of a website?" pop up.

So do yourself a favor and don't click on the picture above wherever you may find it.

This has been another public service announcement from Burt Worm.

:patriot:

[gmoney]

1. There are lots of variations on it around the web

There should be a Snopes-type site where they "take one for the team" and sign up for this kind of thing an just TELL you what it's about. "They say throw away half your food before you start your meal" or "don't mix carbs with protein" or whatever the claim is. Or "the ultimate wealth building site is just a way to get you to post ads on eBay on behalf of the actual seller, so you front all the listing fees in exchange for a sliver of the potential profit."

[BurtWorm]

2. Another annoying thing about this site is that they post a BBB emblem on it

as a little sign that what they're selling is legit. Bullshit! If the BBB approves of websites where they don't tell you right away what they're really selling, something's wrong with the BBB.

In other words, I agree with you that there needs to be a site that evaluates these sites so you don't have to waste your time on pure bullcrap.

[Sweet Freedom]

3. Okay, I won't, but

I'm dying to click on the one that says a mom figured out how to whiten teeth for $5. Anyone ever clicked on that one? :)

[BurtWorm]

4. Yeah.

She used White Out.

[BlueJazz]

5. They try to sell you some crap that can be bought at Walgreens for 1/2 the price.

:) (I clicked on it once)