The smilies are horrible, but I had a friend edit the host file on my Mac so I never see the ads any longer.
Also, I nicknamed that girl from the one vertical "true" banner with the beret and the army camo "Skanky McSkankerton" because of how immensely fugly she is. She looks like one of those ultra-hideous British girls and if she grinned, I'm SURE she'd have horse teeth the likes of which could cleave a coconut in half with a single bite.
Not that ALL British girls are fugly, mind you, but that one ruined my experience surfing PGC so many times that it NEEDED to be said.