He's not taking the mickey - he's actually defending himself saying WP are hosting the ads, not him etc... There are free blog services with more tactful ad strategy I'm sure. I just find this amusing. Let me just plug the best ad block software - your brain. Unfocus your mind and zone out the ads and they are simply not there any more (or use adblock - does the job for you).

His whole page is only 256kb total. That's nothing (and very normal) compared to many sites that are 1mb of code and various style sheets over riding each other.