Whitnail
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This is one of my new favourite things in the world.
"19 dog related psychological experiments that will never be solved by your Dad"
Lists used to be fairly common so I don't mind them so much - Buzzfeed have all listed items on one page so you know what you're signing up for.
Cracked has been doing it for years too, they used to split list articles over two pages - which was annoying but relatively fair. Now if you go through Facebook it's a new page for each number on a list - in this case I open a browser and type it directly, wasting more time but at least protesting such click hungry tactics.
The very worst, and I've said it before, is Huffpost UK. Within each article they actually get you to click "read more" to read beyond the first paragraph. Who goes to an article to read one paragraph? Their content is pretty awful too, I have no idea why I still follow them.
Maybe because clicks are online currency, I'm getting as tight with them as I am with money. Fairly miserable, but at least I'm not the only one.
Click HERE to read more uninteresting content from Whtinail.
You would believe who said THIS.
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These f*ckhole pages have adopted the tactics of the mainstream media, using exaggerated headlines to sell copies (get c*nts to click the link). Almost every "article" turns out to be an anti-climax.
Anyone who falls for clickbait deserves a crushing anti-climax/aids. You really ought to know better.
I actually find clickbait quite funny - or at least interesting from a marketing perspective.
It's always amusing the kind of publications that start using it - I've unfollowed Match of the Day, the Independent and the Telegraph for their excessive use of Clickbait. HuffpostUK will be next.
These are reasonably reputable publications, but clearly they've hired some external organisation for their "Social Media Strategy" and the result is meaningless clickbait. Presumably they're getting results in terms of increased traffic to sites but the downside would be putting off people who might otherwise read good articles. I had adblock plus anyway so the ads wouldn't bother me.
I actually think it would be quite easy to create clickbait, it seems to follow a pretty simple formula, maybe there's more to it than I'm giving them credit for. They will be a whole science designing the ads and seeing which works best.
As a consumer vote against clickbait, or it will consume everything.
"Apple users are going to want to read THIS
They can get away with that!"
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It's fairly ridiculous that the country which invented the game has hosted 1 World Cup. Especially considering that it's a 1st world country with the infastructure to host and a place that people around the world like to visit (not Russia and Qatar).
Scotland has never hosted the world - and never will - despite having played a significant part in the development of football. It means very little to anyone these days.
Also, you don't want to visit Russia? seems pretty interesting to me.
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Thing is, if we both end up having really good seasons again McInnes may end up at someone like Derby and then we'll probably nab Yogi off them.
Succession planning.
Would be delighted with Watkins, plenty of pace and directness in our team with a technically capable midfield to back it up.
Really positive direction the club is moving in, now for the ICT players to bring the Scottish Cup winning mentality.....
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the fa were at it as well.they ensured that Fifa officials stayed in nice hotels during the Olympics for example. The idea that the fa are some sort of crusaders against bribery is utterly ridiculous. Their bribery wasnt as attractive.
It's not bribery, it's "charm offensive".
And when they lost the vote, it was rescinded.
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FIFA undoubtedly has some structural issues. but any attempt of the - self appointed - "big nations" coming together to form a rival association would be a disaster.
One of the positives FIFA has done, under Blatter, has been to spread football around the world and invest in developing countries. Had it been run by the FA, for example, the World Cup would rotate around Western Europe, the US and Brazil / Argentina without ever heading anywhere else. The institution would overwhelmingly favour the most powerful nations. It would be footballs equivalent of the IMF or World Bank.
Does FIFA need to change? Absolutely. Should the self appointed "big nations" carve out an association to overwhelmingly benefit themselves? Of course not.
I'm glad Germany ruled themselves out of this pathetic boycott idea. The FA is looking increasingly like an arrogant, aloof, lone voice (with, no doubt, the other home nations foolishly clubbing along).
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The use of the word "messers"
You just know they get their literary skills exclusively from the Daily Record.