word verification

This thinge is getting on some of our nerves lately. With all due respect to the ones who invented this to prevent abuse, why must word verification contain soooo000 many characters leh? And why must the characters be slanting or fancifully shaped such that it is difficult to tell what are some of those?

What you think of these,



Eh, am I the only one getting super cursive or very long words?
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