Two things:
1: The only ads I really have a problem with are the roll-over, screen-conquering, auto-playing ads. You go to click the quote button on someone's comment because, obviously, you want to make a comment off of their comment. The browser jumps to the bottom of the page, conveniently to the text box down here at the bottom so you can jump right in and start typing. The sad thing is, the bottom right corner is where the roll-over ads like to hang out, so just by quoting some one you're often forced to having an ad take up a good chunk of your screen.
That, and they have a tendency to not "update" properly...as in when you're typing a larger response, the text-box grows to accommodate it. Yet there's the ad, refusing to move down with the bottom of the page and now it's taking up literally half your text box.
Still, I don't run any kind of ad blocker because I know that ads are just a website's way of paying the bills. As Jim said, the internet isn't a magic content box of free stuff, someone's gotta pay the talent. Someone's gotta pay the writers for their time. Someone's gotta pay to keep the servers up and running. And so on. Personally I can't afford a subscription, so if having to sigh every now and then at an ad (Seriously...what's up with these Toyota ads where the audio is completely unsynced from the video?
) if it means keeping this site and its contents free to people like me, then that's a tiny price to pay for the amount of enjoyment I get from coming here.
2: My brother got me that exact same Predator mask for Christmas. If it makes you feel any better, Jim, I look like a right tit when I wear mine as well...but my girlfriend insists on it. *drum rimshot*