I started seeing these cougar ads after McF mentioned something about that old sit-com Mind your Language and I Googled Francoise Pascal.

I reckon that's what done it.

I haven't seen them at all. I feel left out.

How do I do that?

IIRC I clicked on the tiny button in the top RH corner of the AdSense adverts along the bottom of the page and followed directions from there. I'm not sure that the ads running in the RH column are actually covered by this policy in any case as they didn't seem to change.

I've now got AdBlock running on Chrome anyway.

I'm getting to that age were there should be "Sabre tooth" rather than Cougar..

Just installed it, but it doesn't seem to work on here.

Ads pay for the running of this site, if they weren't there then we'd be in trouble.

Yup. And I'm not complaining about the presence of ads. But since they're wasted on me anyway I don't see the problem in blocking them.

I find Adlessee works best, but it doesn't block all the ads on here, just the flash banners.

On here (at work) I get only adverts for ESPN and Stocks trading though...