I'd like an answer to this particular question as well. I haven't used a credit card in 8 years now -- don't need one and don't crave one, and always have managed to get around it without being an inconvenience to me.

Is there a way to pay by Interac or send a cheque in? I asked this same question during last year's Blows-a-thon but didn't get an answer so never did get a chance to submit a payment.

I definitely want to meet IceCat's challenge because this place has provided so much enjoyment to the family -- and I think we all found out how valuable SurvivorBlows.com is after the 2-day outage we just went through last week... there simply isn't any other place as good or as interesting as this place.

Let's keep this alive.

Oh... and as for the pop-ups, I've found that if you leave the cookies alone and just empty the cache, the pop-up ads aren't quite so bad, they only pop up once in a while (like on about 5-10% of the threads I go through) and rarely is the intrusive kind (i.e. the kind that blow your eyeballs away with their flashing neon lights), they're easy to ignore and close.

I've also found that if I leave the first pop-up open and return to the original window to surf thru SBlows, it can reduce the frequency of the pop-ups.