FEEDBACK REVISITED

  Back around 20 years ago I used to have a blog that was set up so that readers could leave feedback. Some of the comments used to crack me up, and this one time, I compiled a bunch of them into a post.

In this day and age (2026) almost all feedback on social media platforms is AI, so it's boring repetitive, witless crap, just as everything "written" by AI always is. I'm not interested in modern feedback, but when I found this old feedback post last week, I felt like sharing it again.

This month the hits on this blog have ranged from under 50 to over 3000 in a day. I'm far from convinced anything to do with modern blogging is real! But I do think most of these comments from around 2006 were real.  

Here is some classic feedback from my old www.frot.co.nz blog! Google have been going hard out trying to censor my old feedback post. What is offending their delicate sensibilities? Now I want to work out which images or words are banned...

After further testing I concluded that a picture of a try hard heavy metaler with his PENIS hanging out of a hole in the crotch of his pants was offending Google so I replaced it. 

“The people have spoken, the bastards.” Mark Twain

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Once again I have been let into the mysterious workings of your mind. Surely no goat could mind control that! – BL

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Your a dangerous stupid shit. The cancer industry may well be a scam, but I don’t think its even as close as your crackpot mind at thinks it is. A good chunk of that cancer industry scam is your natural health mates – RP

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Hey – Big ups from an old old man. I don’t surf much anymore – but what fun this site is – CC

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I’m intrigued about many of your topics mentioned – consumerism, Monsanto, Dow, Du Pont, Bayer, 911, genetic engineering; those topics are not a staple of the American news diet. I believe they’ve affected our ability to exist in America, not to mention what they’ve done to the planet. (I’m sure Condoleeza Rice is analyzing my email right now and I’ll probably have a Guantanimo vacation soon for the asking) – BS

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First of all thank you for informing me that there’s such a conspiracy (it really is) about the main search engine. It’s the same for wahooo and ciul and all others. Actually it’s all the same, there’s just one search engine in the world.. there’s no yho, no alta vissta, no bindd, no ask, no iANDEXX.ru, no nothing, is all ggl. THE SAME RESULTS EVERYWHERE! Just tipe “fuck ggl (real name of the s.engine)” in ciul and you’ll se what results if gives – and this should be the biggest competition of ggl. They back themselves up.

Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_(signals_intelligence)

ggl censor the words “fakk yhoo” how do we expect to find reliable information about alternative – energy, alt. fuels, alt_medicine, alt_searchengines and other.

I can’t find reliable web sites giving information about the ggl cen–sorsh-ip ether so if you know any pls send it to me – NH

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Dude, you need to move into the 21st century. Seriously – RW

 

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I LIKE YOUR DIET BUT I NEED MORE COKE THAT YOU RECOMMEND AND I DRINK BOOZE VERY SLOWLY. BEST OF LUCK FROM BIG AL, THE FAT MAN – AS 

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hi dude, im not sure if i really liked all the info on your pages, but what i had appreciated is your honesty and yourself. Would like to meet u one day – Just one question: do u like mountains??

PS sorry for the short, scribbled style of this mail but just recently i broke my right hand while trying to slide a stair’s handrail with my bike… – CN

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Thanks for the dow info on your site. i’ve been looking into it a lot more lately. my mom had leaking implants and nursed my brother and I on them for almost a year each. now we’re all decrepid, insane, and unhealthy but I guess it’s okay because if it weren’t for my mom having big fake boobs, my dad might not have noticed her in the titty bar, knocking her up, then
she giving birth to me and my brother 🙂

The microwave thing is interesting, too. I’ll have to go back and read the rest of your site after my brain repairs from stumbling across your keyword spam google page. I’m going to have to steal your image of the guy getting his balls kicked and plaster it on forums full of idiotic teenagers who get on my nerves though… i hope you don’t mind. – MP

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Send me a pic of you naked and l’ll think about it – MC

 

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Hi, we appreciate your help in lobbying to revoke this silly and harmful helmet law, thanks – PM

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Is it my mutton chops or your navel that’s giving them wood? – TE

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I am writing to you regarded your very insightful website, and information provided on Apricot Kernels. I would greatly appreciate your permission in using some of the information you have provided for an article I’m writing on the subject, in “What Medicine?” magazine, a nationwide publication within the UK. I hope to hear from you soon. – SB

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Hello my friend, We are liking to reading your daily blog thoughts on the internet. The internet is new here in our town. I live in Thule, Greenland. It is cold here, always. We are not riding bikes very much, I have a reindeer, Umlaut – he and I go riding together often. Sometimes he gives me the kissing with open mouth. It is dark night here very much. Umlaut is often a comfort. I am wishing that I could be riding bikes and doing death verts in Wellington.

Where can I post my opinions on your blog pages? Thank you – EB

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After further examining your website I have concluded that you have a terrible habit of only looking at one side of the issue – JS.

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How can I contact you? It’s very hard for me as I’ve got Alzheimer’s disease in the first place, but usually I can find the place where a web page has a ‘feedback’ page that tells the email address of the person putting it up!

Skip Baker
Former President,
ASAP, American Society for Action on Pain.

“Whilst secrecy prevails, democracy withers & fails.”

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Hey, I just added your Cocacola info as a link to my home page, and I’m coming back to read more of your siftings. We need more bloodhounds like you! Regards MD

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You are such a morron!

– coca-cola isn’t as bad as you think because it has aspartame; i’m a diabetic and i eat aspartame instead of sugar with al my meals and I haven’t had any complaints yet. I”ve been doing this for at least 15 years. So please, just stop making people paranoide about everything they eat or drink!! – NM

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Yours is a very credible site that my students will enjoy – GL

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You have clearly nailed your colours to the mast, and objectivity is not amongst them – BB

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I just wanted to let you know I really enjoyed reading through your site. It’s nice to find a site well laid out and with no misspellings! You have a lot of useful information and a very logical mind. I especially liked your article on Bike helmets. The other articles kept my attention for over an hour! Nice stuff! – KS

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Basically i think you suck ass, why? because u hold some grudge against the coke company probably cause you ran out of coke at your house. ur making up this bullshit about coke being bad for your and having to much sugar in it so people will stop buying it so you can have all the coke for yourself. well im not falling for it! im going to buy as much coke as i can just to make you suffer asshole! oh yea, and ill be thinking of you when im guzzuling down my next fridgepack loser – BC

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The U.S.A have also released GE Microbes on Mars the evil Nazi Bastards! – AH

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One mustn’t break rules or attempt to trick Google, lest they awaken the almighty search engine gods and be struck down by their wrath – JP

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I hope you haven`t been rendering inedible perfectly good vegetables – GE

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your right, it is a good idea to drink soda. oh yea and how could i not i mean if i bring my empty coke can to six flags its buy one ticket get one free so holy shit, drink coke= ride sweet coasters. sweet! – BC

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Please let me know how you get your website within the top 5 rankings on www.google.com it is very vital that my website will be in the top 5 and so far my Organisation has limited funds which are all my own, it will be unlikely i get a grant or any financial help from anyone in time – AH

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Hi i was just researching on some marijuana cooking 4 me & my m8s i was thinking if i use my whole stash 10oz in dat cannabutter, would i b able to boil it down into the same amount as u would in 1oz, but way way way more
potent. cause my shit is the best in all 4 citys it’s been though, best in NZ i’ve been told by friends and people at partys. well would it work and u can get wasted on 1 muffin ay bout hand size. just need clearance we gona have alot of fun if it works, just dont want to waste plz reply.

i just want 1 really powerful muffin 1 each and blow us all away or mabey 70z in one muffin make history in my town fukin fun if u know what i mean cause i got alot of weed 10 patches 6 plants a patch 6 feet tall min all females buckets of seeds i know care barrels a year trust me im only 15yrs of age but i know everything bout growing just mudd at cooking – JM

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To me you sound like every other conspiracy theorist I’ve ever heard, in that you will utterly dismiss huge swathes of evidence and credible scientific input because it doesn’t suit your paranoid worldview.

I think it’s just as preposterous that you would think that a bunch of internet gossip contradicts the mass of evidence that the events of 9/11 actually happened – OB

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As a general physician, I am highly concerned about the rampant use of coke and pepsi products for a simple reason: pH.

The blood must “religiously” maintains a basic pH of 7.35-7.45. Since a blood pH of less than 7.2 can result in death by cardiac arrest or metabolic acidosis, the body essentially “robs Peter to pay Paul” to ensure the blood pH remains within strict limits.

Since the pH scale is logarithmic, the pH of coke (about 3.4) is TEN THOUSAND times (10 to the 4th power) more acidic than the normal blood pH of about 7.4. Studies have shown that these acidic drinks increase the urinary excretion of calcium; it only makes simple sense that the source of this calcium is from bone since an increased level of calcium, absorbed from the bones, helps to buffer the pH of the blood to maintain that life-promoting pH of about 7.4.

Bottom line? Coke is hazardous to your health — no bones about it – AK

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Hello, Im from the Society For The Preservation of Mexico’s Premium Nature Resource, The Spotted Back Spinc Mule. In the past SFTPoMPNR,TSBSM has campaigned for open trail use to all spotted back mules, or as we like to call them in the trade, SPHINCTERS. The SPHINCTERS get a hard time in their natural habitat of lower south west Mexico where Donkey stable boys often ritualistical sodomize them and tickle them with their engorged tadgers.

Please support our Ideals and get open trail use for the SPHINCTERS on all Mountain Pass’s Hill’s and City Streets, through your help only, you can aid in the preservation of the dirty smelly spinc mule and continue the legacy of love for the Mexican way of life. Thank you goodnight we love you all – EP

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“I’m all lost in the supermarket
I can no longer shop happily
I came in here for that special offer
A guaranteed personality”

The Clash

 

HITS ARE STRANGE

I know I keep going on about this, but hits these days are really strange...

On this blog the hit count for most of 2024 was only about 100 - 200 a day.

Then in 2025 it started climbing and by the end of the year it was up to about 1000 a day.

And here at the beginning of 2026 it took off like an imaginary moon rocket and was racking up over 2000 hits a day, sometimes over 3000. Holy cow, I'm an influencer again my ego screamed triumphantly!
 

Something I've noticed before is that when I do less posts I get more hits, and when I do more posts the hits drop. Odd...

It doesn't really matter, I only post this stuff for my own entertainment, I'm not trying to "monetize" anything, or even to expose any deep state agendas, because I've tried that already and it wasn't very effective.

This week my hits have suddenly dropped back again from over 2000 a day to less than 100. And a little voice in my head is asking "Is this proof that all my hits were either being made up by Google altogether, or are a result of AI bots crawling the web using algorithms?"

 

If the hits on this blog were a result of actual people visiting my blog, it's unlikely the hit-count would shoot up and down like that, as it's not like thousands of people are using Google to search for "strange little purple blogs posting all sorts of deranged crap".

If they were, Google could blacklist my blog and the hits would stop. That could certainly be done, but what were those 2000+ hits I was getting each day up until last week? If they were regular readers, or the result of traffic from links posted on other websites, then a Google blacklisting wouldn't affect them.

So I suspect that my 2000 hits a day were almost entirely imaginary, and what AI gives, AI can take away. Being a bit old school I sometimes struggle with this level of fakeness, but I need to remind myself of the following:

I write blog posts if and when I feel like, with no expectation of them making any difference to anything, or even being read by anyone.

 

A DECENT BROWSER

The internet is littered from end to end with articles that have titles like "The 10 best privacy browsers of 2026" but then they go on to list 10 browsers that usually include only one good choice (Brave) along with nine complete lemons ranging from poor privacy like Safari or Opera, down to full on blatant spyware like Chrome or Edge.

This clueless list from Nord VPN is a fairly typical except that it includes 13 browsers. Note that it doesn't include Floorp or Mullvad, and it's supposed to be a privacy ranking. Google's controlled puppet browser Firefox is rated as #1? - Yeah right...

https://nordvpn.com/blog/best-privacy-browser/

Nord VPN really blew their cred posting that bunch of crap! 

I'm not a geek and I'm not being paid to promote anything. I'm looking for simple and effective solutions for myself and my friends. So what do I recommend? 

Keep in mind that I use Linux myself, and have no idea what works best on Windows these days. But if you are using any post Win 7 version of Windows (especially Win 11) you don't actually have any privacy, so your browser is the least of your problems. Same with Apple and even more so with Google.

As well as sticking to using Linux I recommend these three browsers:
 

BRAVE

 

FLOORP

 

 WATERFOX
 

After trying out the Mullvad browser for a couple of weeks I became frustrated with it's slow loading speeds and intermittent bugs, so I decided to use Waterfox for my #3 browser.

 Waterfox is another Firefox fork. It's probably not as private as Floorp or Mullvad, but it works pretty well. It's very similar to regular old Firefox, but doesn't have all the Google's pet puppet browser privacy concerns. 

On Firefox browsers I think this theme looks quite stylish:  Blue Firefox Theme by Sinine (it looks like the Aston Martin turquoise colour)

 Why on earth do I need to use three browsers? My default browser is Brave, which is a chromium fork. Most of the time that works fine and it's the best browser for practical everyday use that I've found.

But some sites just don't work properly on Chromium, I don't know why, and nobody seems to talk about this, but some sites work far better running on Firefox forks. So I switch back and forth between Floorp and Brave, using Floorp for sites that work better on a Firefox based browser.

I don't use Floorp as my default because there are actually more sites that don't work properly on Firefox browsers, and most of the time I want a Chromium browser as my default. So Floorp is my #2.

I actually prefer many aspects of Firefox browsers, especially their menu system, but unfortunately Firefox have sold out to Google and these days they are just a bunch of woketard puppets who can't be trusted an inch. But some of the Firefox forks are much better.

And finally my #3 browser. I know this sounds obsessive, but I have multiple accounts on some platforms, and for some of those I need a third browser to stay logged in on the third account. 

The other thing is that I'm running the Stay Focused app with certain sites (mainly YouTube & Facebook) restricted to a combined total of 15 mins a day. And on Floorp I'm doing the same thing using an app called LeechBlock.

This works well and curtails my last two social media weaknesses, but it means that if I actually really do want to watch a YouTube video, I need a browser that I can watch it on without it shutting down after 15 mins.
 

DDT IS GOOD FOR ME

In our deranged post covidhoax world, there is often an attitude of "things were better in the good old days", but in actual fact the programing and misinformation has long been just as full on as it is now.

These 10 old adverts are mind boggling examples:

 “Sugar might just be the willpower you need to curb your appetite”

1. Junk Food, Now Fortified with Vitamins and Minerals

Disguising empty calories with healthful nutritional values has been a trope of the processed food world ever since vitamins were first discovered in the 1910s. 

This 1942 poster for “Vitamin Donuts” may be a little hard to swallow today, but Ovaltine’s reputation as a health drink is still being disputed, a powerful testament to simple brand positioning. But let’s be real, we’re talking about powdered chocolate milk made by Nestlé, the company who brought us such healthy foods as Butterfinger candy bars and Häagen-Dazs ice cream.

The Ovaltine ad from 1947 still boggles the mind with its display of so many nutritional perks packed into two glasses of powdered milk, and seems eerily similar to the many supposed benefits contained in drinks like Vitamin Water or Gatorade. In reality, even the benefits of ordinary vitamin supplements are now being questioned, despite the fact that around half of American adults take them regularly.

2. Let Them Eat Lead

The most heartbreaking part of this 1923 brochure is its emphasis on kids having fun with the whole “Lead Family” of products, whose presence in everything from their nursery walls to their windup toys made young children particularly susceptible to its dangers. Combined with lead paint’s seductively sweet flavor, putting kids in environments literally covered with the stuff was a recipe for disaster.

In fact, the effects of lead poisoning (brain damage, seizures, hypertension, etc.) were known long before the Consumer Product Safety Commission finally banned them in 1977; the industry had simply refused to acknowledge them.  

An article by Jack Lewis published in the EPA Journal in 1985 covers lead’s history as an additive and poison, and how we’ve consistently downplayed its adverse effects. Lewis writes:

“The Romans were aware that lead could cause serious health problems, even madness and death. However, they were so fond of its diverse uses that they minimized the hazards it posed. Romans of yesteryear, like Americans of today, equated limited exposure to lead with limited risk.”

3. 7-Up is good for Babies

Not only were sugary soft-drinks great for adults, but sodas like 7-Up used to help babies grow up strong and fit, or so these ads from 1955 and 1953 would have you believe. That’s pretty disturbing, considering that childhood obesity, linked arm-in-arm with massive soda intake, is shortening our youngest generation’s lifespan. The high amount of refined sugar in soda has also been shown to be particularly harmful for children.

Today it seems crazy to show a baby drinking a soda, as the tide finally turns against the sugary drinks: School districts across the nation have removed soda machines from their schools and New York City’s Board of Health has proposed a ban on over-sized sodas. However, many adults today opt to serve kids “healthy” fruit juice, which may be just as bad, despite its deceptive nutritional marketing.

4. Cigarettes: Just What the Doctor Ordered

Camel’s campaign featuring doctor endorsements is probably the most familiar instance of false advertising, seen here in an ad from 1948. Yet almost every cigarette company twisted science to support its products, including Chesterfield’s 1953 ads, which rephrased expert findings to show that smoking had “no adverse effect.” Long after 1950, when Morton Levin published his definitive study linking smoking to lung cancer, experts continued to imply that there were other factors causing cancer and lung disease.

Though the industry has been seriously weakened over the past 20 years, primarily by government regulation, Big Tobacco is still issuing misleading health information in an attempt to reap a profit.

5. Feminine Hygiene: The Original Home Wrecker

Long before Lysol was reinvented as the caustic household cleaner we know today, the same substance was basically promoted for use as a feminine hygiene product. These Lysol ads from 1948 tout the internal use of poisonous Lysol as a marriage saver. To sum up the message: if you weren’t so dirty down there, he would love you more.

In a time when speaking about sex was even more frowned upon than today, a whole spectrum of sexual products, including vibrators and contraceptives, was marketed with campaigns focusing on their dubious health benefits for women.

6. Plastics, Plastics, Everywhere

Suffocating babies in Cellophane! A bunch of infants tied up in clear cellophane packaging is pretty frightening to modern viewers, but at the time, these ads were just plain cute. When these Du Pont Cellophane ads came out in 1954, things like plastic grocery bags weren’t a ubiquitous part of American culture. 

Only after plastic bags became widespread during the 1970s did their strangulating qualities become frighteningly clear.

7. You're right in liking meat 

At least this one was good advice, but it wasn't very fashionable in 2012 when the appalling low fat high carb diet craze was all the rage

In post-World War II America, eating more red meat seemed like a great way to keep yourself “in trim,” at least according to these two ads, from 1956 and 1946. Like other food fads, this campaign was orchestrated by the American Meat Institute, a lobbying group that is still working to improve public and political opinion toward its products. 

Maybe that’s why almost nobody in America knows that nutritionists generally recommend only 2-3 servings of red meat per week. And don’t get the experts started on sodium nitrite in processed meat.

We now know that eating too much meat increases the risk of heart disease and cancer. Yet industry trade groups are still creating food trends to spur sales or combat negative public stereotypes: Think of modern wonder-foods like agave nectar or chia seeds that seemed to appear from the heavens, as well as the bitterly argued corn syrup campaign.

8. Dieting? Try Sugar

In a time before the current widespread obesity epidemic, sugar companies wanted shoppers to believe that a sweet treat would somehow inspire you to eat less. These ads from 1969 coach readers to “have a soft drink before your main meal” or “snack on some candy an hour before lunch.” 

Their strange logic isn’t even backed by a company name, though the campaign does include a helpful mailing address for “Sugar Information.” Talk about creepy.

Now refined sugar is presented as the dieter’s enemy, and is thought to make you want to eat more rather than less.

9. Shock Your Way to Physical Perfection

In 1922, “Violet Rays” were said to cure pretty much anything that ailed you. This Vi-Rex device plugged into a light socket so users could give themselves home shock-treatments, which would supposedly make you “vital, compelling, and magnetic.” Various recalls and lawsuits erupted throughout the U.S., forcing the FDA to finally prohibit their manufacture. The last batch of Violet Ray products was seized in 1951.

10. DDT is good for you and me

This ad for “Penn Salt Chemicals” from 1947 shows a range of dangerous applications for now-illegal DDT, from agricultural sprays to household pesticides. Particularly disturbing is the image of a mother and infant, above the caption stating that DDT “helps make healthier, more comfortable homes.” Not quite.

While effective in eliminating dangerous mosquitoes that carry malaria, DDT also has a variety of hazardous effects: Especially among young children, the chemical has been shown to damage the nervous, immune, endocrine, and neurological systems, not to mention its devastating influence on the natural environment. 

The spread of DDT across mid-century America is mirrored today by the success of Monsanto (one of the companies that originally manufactured DDT) in placing its genetically modified products on store shelves before researchers have a full understanding of their larger ecological impacts.

 

 This content is an updated copy of a post from 2012: the-top-10-most-dangerous-ads