Yahoo unveils plan to make users hate it

YAHOO’S radical new PR strategy involves making all its customers want to strangle it.

The company launched its loathing-based approach to customer relations by making its email service far more awkward to use.

CEO Marissa Mayer said: Everyone company under the sun has been trying to making its customers love it, no one has done hate yet, this is completely new.

What I’ve done is taken a service that people really liked and then fucked with it.

My plan is to take our users down to their base levels of anger and then to build them back up as newer more faithful customers.

“It’s a carrot and stick concept. I came up with it and I get paid loads so it’s definitely a good idea.

Even self-confessed mild mannered members of the public have been whipped into a toxic frenzy of hate by changes to the popular interface.

Yahoo user Derek Gibson said: I’ve never cared less about polar ice caps melting or human rights abuses, but theyve taken away the tabs function and I’m too lazy to get a new email account. Now I really want to hurt something.

Id send an email to Marissa directly, but currently its frozen and Im trying to switch it back to classic, but my addresses arent automatically coming up.

“Oh my god, I hate you Yahoo with every essence of my being.

Marissa Mayer said: There’s 240,000,000 users pissed off and ready to go, that’s perhaps the biggest army in the world.

“We could take that anger and, for example, attack Google for not giving me that promotion.”

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Emmerdale to become first underwater soap

THE cliffhanger in a flooded cellar on Emmerdale is to launch the soap’s new sub-aquatic era.

Desperate to differentiate itself from rival Coronation Street, waters will continue to rise until all of Emmerdale Farm, and by implication Yorkshire, is submerged.

Producer Eleanor Shaw said: “Murderer Cameron sheds his human skin and becomes a six-foot barracuda.

“He hunts the cast down while they craft makeshift harpoons from farming equipment.

Meanwhile hotties Priya and Alicia, whove been transformed by the deluge into sexy mermaids, make out underwater in slow motion.

TV blogger Julian Cook said: Its the same desperate ploy every soap tries when its had its years quota of serial killers.

I admit the reincarnated Seth looks absolutely magnificent with his trademark whiskers stretched across the elongated pectoral fins of a ray, but I predict Emmerdale: Atlantis will last about as long as Brookside in Space.

Then everyonell forget about it, just like they did with Eastenders 1888 with Dirty Den as Jack the Ripper, and the ill-judged Coronation Street XXX hardcore period in the Deep Throat years.

“Oh – and Hollyoaks.

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