To not have heeded your advice?

[RumbleMum]

I was warned not to google the penguin bollards. For months, I resisted. But I really REALLY wanted to know what they were. So I googled. And, as predicted, the bloody things are now EVERYWHERE on my phone and my laptop. They're watching me with their dead eyes while I try to work.

Was I being unreasonable not to listen, or was it a valid act of curiosity?

What are these? I don't know anything about it and I'm tempted to google them...

Same as champagne ...

Champagne, DON'T GOOGLE THEM. You'll never get rid of them. I'm attaching a picture to save you making the same mistake as me ... they're the standard MN solution to a parking problem.

Right. Someone needs to explain what these are to save us all the same fate!

Dead eyes...

Cross posted.... but none the wiser.

The big one looks evil. Glad I didn't google it - thanks.

Oh I remember the Penguin Bollards thread - classic parking wars. Wonderful outcome.

HTH

They're some kind of bollard you can buy to prevent people parking in your parking spaces. I don't actually know how they fix to the floor or anything - I didn't actually get that far. Once you've googled them they appear in the adverts on the top of MN mobile, on Facebook, down the side of the Google homepage .... everywhere.

Read the penguin bollards thread once.

So. Bloody. Boring.

There's 8 hours I'll never get back.

They follow you around because of Google AdWords remarketing.

If you clear your browser's cache they should "forget" that you ever searched for them, and leave you alone.

Haha, I remember mn making me look at some shitty house in South Carolina and the associated "fashion" label. That followed me round forever!

I do admit to googling very random things every once in a while to confuse Google. sheep shearing might be one of my interests

I was curious too ... Not only do I now have penguins everywhere, I just wasted 30 minutes reading old threads about parking issues on IOW. Ha!

Just googled..

Bugger

I'm afraid I've had to google- they are cute!!

I searched for them too but never got as far as reading about them....how do you move them? I'm bamboozled. If they're heavy enough to be bollards then do you have to roll them around?

Of course, I had to google.
They're like something out of Doctor Who! Scared to sleep now.

Oh, they're lovely. I want some...

A large one costs £773

Adblock is your friend. It's free and means you can google at leisure safe in the knowledge that you will not be followed around either by dead-eyed penguins or any other annoying adverts.

getadblock.com

My DD2 would love these. She loves everything penguin.

We are not getting them.

773??

Better than those fake children bollards...they are really freaky....
(wonders if they appear everywhere if you google them - resists urge)