If the brick and mortar world were like some web sites...

A bit of IRC gets posted...

Y: OK, rant mode ON: Why the bloody CRAP do sites have to have flash with sound when you don't expect it?
Y: I can see sites like Homestar Runner having sound in every flash, because... um... it's ENTIRELY flash!
Y: But these sites that use flash to make nothing more than a glorified animated GIF, then *BAM* sound from nowhere...
KT: 'cos they wanna grab yer attention so maybe yoo will buy their stuff.
KT: Seems a strange way ta do business. "Hi, potential customer! You need Special Software to view our site. Don't have it? Gee, f--- you, potential customer!"

Y: Dell uses ActiveX as navigation on its "premier" site.
Y: I guess they don't wish to do business with everyone.
Y: Because there's no way in hell I'm using IE just for a navbar.
D: You're not a dweeb using IE? Then you're probably too intelligent to fall for our sales gimicks - we don't need your kind - go kill a few braincells.

* KT goes to a car dealership to buy a car. He enters the building, but there's just this bare room with no other doors, just one bored-looking guy sitting in a chair.
KT: Um, this the car deelership?
Guy: Up there.
* Guy points to a hole in the 20-foot-high ceiling.
KT: Wot thee hecko?!
Guy: You gotta go through that hole.
KT: How?
Guy: Don't you have a jetpack?
KT: Ummmmmmmm nope.
Guy: Go buy a jetpack, then maybe we'll see about selling you a car.
KT: Me got a ladder at home. Me go get.
Guy: You sure? A jetpack is recommended.
KT: Howcome?
Guy: The owners of this dealership recommend a Zip-Away jetpack for the full car-shopping experience.
KT: Woodnt a ladder werk just as well tho?
Guy: Um... no. Of course not. Gotta be a Zip-Away jetpack, as recommended by the owners of this dealership.
* KT goes off to look for a car dealership that actually wants to do business.
* D climbs the building across the street and looks into the showroom with binoculars, with the sales guy none-the-wiser. They're selling old trucks chassis tarted up with lots of chrome and bright paint.
D: (This is seeing what the javascript does from the source and using the info to navigate).