[adrotate banner=”1″]What happens when you buy all five of the General Mills Monsters cereals, and mix them together in one bowl? You get the above, which I have dubbed the Five Flavored Death Bowl! I do not know or care if someone else has named this already.

The reissue every Halloween season of the Monsters cereals – Count Chocula, Franken Berry, Boo Berry, was made special this year by the return of Yummy Mummy – a cereal I remember only because I liked it but barely had it, and Frute Brute, a cereal so old I don’t even remember it from childhood (under the name Fruit Brute, the slight respelling is because you can’t sell food with the word “fruit” in the name if it doesn’t have any fruit!)

Frute Brute’s cherry flavor was an interesting failure, as by now that taste has unfortunately been relegated in my mind for terrible medicine. Count Chocula is obviously chocolate flavored, with Boo Berry blue berry. Franken Berry is straw berry, and the not obviously named Yummy Mummy is orange cream flavor. Put them all together, and you basically get chocolate-flavored fruit mix. The result wasn’t that bad, but the Five Flavored Death Bowl is not the greatest of flavors. These things are separate for a reason! The effects could probably be replicated by combining Cocoa and Fruity Pebbles together (which I’ve also done as a kid!)

For the record, the milk turned an odd gray color, and tasted like fruity chocolate milk.

The name Five Flavored Death Bowl comes from the diabetes that this dish has probably triggered in me! Luckily, I have been cutting my sugar intake, which is almost impossible due to American food being stuffed to the gills with sugar. There is probably less sugar in raw sugar than in American food!

At least I got cereal for the next three months…

[adrotate banner=”1″]Don’t you hate when you are just chilling at your gender-swapped Street Fighter picnic and suddenly Sagat shows up and causes trouble? I know I do. Also these girls are not big fans, hence the furious action that takes place.

A Street Fighter Picnic is a video from ReallyCleverAndroids, who do youtube sketches, because that’s what the kids do these days. In my day, we just set fire to phone books in the woods. A simpler time… What is neat is most of the scenes were shot in two hours! Imagine how good it would be if they had three hours!

If you liked this, you can double feature it with the gender-swapped stuntwoman Family Guy Epic Chicken Fight video! See, this is a thing now.

A Street Fighter Picnic Cast:
Dhalsim-Soni Araylnn
Guile-Vi Nguyen
Ryu-Kandyce Phung
E.Honda-Kimberly Hamilton
Ken-Tory Steele
Sagat-Tracie Garrison
Chun Li-Lenny Tran

Filmed/Edited By: David Hoang

Assisted By:
Michael Rivera
Alex Rodriguez
Jonathan Le

[adrotate banner=”7″]Has this ever happened to you? You go to your favorite site, click on an interesting article, scroll down, and are soon bombarded with crappy ads from “Around the Web” that are borderline NSFW and mentally insulting? It seems every site is employing Outbrain, Taboola, or Zergnet to deliver your terrible content in java applets that jam up your browser. Heck, Outbrain was even hacked by Syrian hackers, who then redirected pages of The Washington Post, Time, and CNN to their own pages.

The articles linked are usually the basest form of linkbait. Top ## lists, behind the scenes “secrets”, celebrity gossip, Miley twerking, women wearing tiny bikinis (or less!). The ones on the entertainment sites I frequent always have an article about Batman, another about a Marvel movie, and often untrue casting rumors. They are, quite frankly, embarrassing and ugly. I hate them, and I want them dead.

As luck would have it, AdBlock can kill those terrible thing! No more “Around the Web” features and Top 7 Miley Twerking Batman Diets. So here is how:

The Outbrain/Taboola/Zergnet scourge looks like this:

If you use Chrome (Firefox instructions below, they are almost identical), the adblock is set up here as default. Click on “Show the resource list”

The red stuff is already blocked ads, the black are active files of everything loaded on the page. Search for “taboola” or “outbrain” or “zergnet” in the filter.

Here are all the results for “taboola” on this site. These are the files associated with the embedded code. The one that ends with “loader.js” is our target, as it is the file that produces all the other files. Outbrain and Zergnet will also have a .js file as their backbone, though the exact name might vary.

Selected the “loader.js” file, and then select blocking the entire “taboolasyndication.com” domain

And make sure to set it to block it on every site, because you never know where this stuff will come up. You can always customize AdBlock to not block ads on specific sites later.

Success! Celebrate by buying some tea!

Here is a shot of the site where the Taboola panel used to be. Now it is just an empty box. Woo-hoo!

On Firefox, the default AdBlock location is on the bottom. Select “Open blockable items” from the menu and proceed as previously instructed.

The Firefox filter looks like this:

An example of an Around the Web panel

An example of an Outbrain panel

Here is OutBrain’s file getting blocked from my web browsing forever. Bye-Bye OutBrain!

An example Zergnet panel:

And, yes, I am well aware of the irony of explaining how to adblock things on a blog post that has ads. Feel free to AdBlock this site, I won’t be offended. Or whitelist it so ads appear, I won’t be offended, either. Having been to enough sites with adblock off that I now use it regularly everywhere I understand completely if you do as well.