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2009-07-09 02:02:36 PM |
Any booby shots you send me will be kept strictly confidential.
/another trustworthy online opinion.
/another trustworthy online opinion.
| BKITU
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2009-07-09 02:05:25 PM |
I can't think of anything I'd trust less than the opinions of a bunch of Greater Internet Farkwads, especially if they have an axe to grind.
I might trust Zombie Ebola Hitler less, but it's close.
/shiatcock!
I might trust Zombie Ebola Hitler less, but it's close.
/shiatcock!
| AnthraxRipple
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2009-07-09 02:08:30 PM |
My father has a Master's degree in aeronautical engineering. Worked recovery in the Apollo program. Manned missile silos in the 70's. Worked on the IUS, Tacit Rainbow, etc. Even he forwards crap.
| DslainteC
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2009-07-09 02:47:10 PM |
Schools don't have time to teach critical thinking anymore because the staff has to take time to make sure students don't have an Advil in their underwear.
| fritopendejo | 2009-07-09 03:23:39 PM |
DslainteC: Schools don't have time to teach critical thinking anymore because the staff has to take time to make sure students don't have an Advil in their underwear.
or they're busy farking the students.
or they're busy farking the students.
| Aidan
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2009-07-09 03:56:19 PM |
That's a vile inaccuracy.
/it's down to five a week now
/it's down to five a week now
| Treygreen13 | 2009-07-09 03:56:27 PM |
fritopendejo: DslainteC: Schools don't have time to teach critical thinking anymore because the staff has to take time to make sure students don't have an Advil in their underwear.
or they're busy farking the students.
Well, they're already in there looking for the Advil.
or they're busy farking the students.
Well, they're already in there looking for the Advil.
| kagemaru026
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2009-07-09 03:57:18 PM |
Text ads on mobile phones - 24%
that's crap. everything i get on my phone is spam.
that's crap. everything i get on my phone is spam.
| Jha | 2009-07-09 03:57:42 PM |
Sadly, there are still lots of people who believe that everything on Snopes is the final word and always true.
| docmattic | 2009-07-09 03:59:09 PM |
AnthraxRipple: My father has a Master's degree in aeronautical engineering. Worked recovery in the Apollo program. Manned missile silos in the 70's. Worked on the IUS, Tacit Rainbow, etc. Even he forwards crap.
Obviously, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out.
Obviously, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out.
| spacechicken170am | 2009-07-09 03:59:24 PM |
Treygreen13: fritopendejo: DslainteC: Schools don't have time to teach critical thinking anymore because the staff has to take time to make sure students don't have an Advil in their underwear.
or they're busy farking the students.
Well, they're already in there looking for the Advil.
Well, if they punish the little bastards for misbehaving they're going to jail. If they fail them for being stupid they're getting fired. So they migh as well just have sex with them and wipe out 2 birds with 1 stone.
or they're busy farking the students.
Well, they're already in there looking for the Advil.
Well, if they punish the little bastards for misbehaving they're going to jail. If they fail them for being stupid they're getting fired. So they migh as well just have sex with them and wipe out 2 birds with 1 stone.
| Pxtl | 2009-07-09 03:59:59 PM |
Jha: Sadly, there are still lots of people who believe that everything on Snopes is the final word and always true.
Are you going to go on about that conspiracy theory about misinformation on Snopes? Because Snopes has an article about that. Totally a myth.
http://xkcd.com/250/
Are you going to go on about that conspiracy theory about misinformation on Snopes? Because Snopes has an article about that. Totally a myth.
http://xkcd.com/250/
| RoyBatty | 2009-07-09 04:00:16 PM |
Because your mom isn't dead like my mom, and I envy the crap that your mom sends to you you insensitive clodmitter?
| Pro Zack
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2009-07-09 04:01:06 PM |
Jha: Sadly, there are still lots of people who believe that everything on Snopes is the final word and always true.
I snopesed that. it is probably false.
I snopesed that. it is probably false.
| OgreMagi | 2009-07-09 04:01:22 PM |
I wrote a mail filter for my server to deal with forwards. It checked the subject to see if there was more than one "fwd: " and bounced it with the message "Please don't forward crap." My mom was less than pleased when she received her first bounce message. I didn't tell her I wrote the filter just for her.
| jsobota | 2009-07-09 04:01:43 PM |
Jha: Sadly, there are still lots of people who believe that everything on Snopes is the final word and always true.
| GurneyHalleck
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2009-07-09 04:02:23 PM |
AnthraxRipple: My father has a Master's degree in aeronautical engineering. Worked recovery in the Apollo program. Manned missile silos in the 70's. Worked on the IUS, Tacit Rainbow, etc. Even he forwards crap.
I would say by your login name that his intellect was passed on to you.
\my father is a mechanical genius, and he sends emails I got delivered to me in Lotus Notes.
\\lark's vomit.
I would say by your login name that his intellect was passed on to you.
\my father is a mechanical genius, and he sends emails I got delivered to me in Lotus Notes.
\\lark's vomit.
| Pxtl | 2009-07-09 04:03:02 PM |
I often go by consumer opinions posted online, simply because they're often the only source of information. Go buy an appliance, search the model number... if you're lucky, you'll be able to pay Consumer Reports for the opinion they gathered after four hours of exhaustive testing and reading the company PR. Or you can just read the opinion of somebody who actually owns the damned thing.
The problem, of course, is that "somebody" may not exist.
The problem, of course, is that "somebody" may not exist.
| jshabbadoo | 2009-07-09 04:03:34 PM |
BKITU: I can't think of anything I'd trust less than the opinions of a bunch of Greater Internet Farkwads, especially if they have an axe to grind.
Farkwads?
this is the only one I know.
/hot like *insert snark here*
Farkwads?
this is the only one I know.
/hot like *insert snark here*
| mvfreeman | 2009-07-09 04:05:56 PM |
Mom?
It's my wife that is constantly sending me that shiat. Half the time it's something that seems improbable, so hell yeah I head over to snopes. Google is the next step.
It's my wife that is constantly sending me that shiat. Half the time it's something that seems improbable, so hell yeah I head over to snopes. Google is the next step.
| jxb465 | 2009-07-09 04:06:00 PM |
kagemaru026: Text ads on mobile phones - 24%
that's crap. everything i get on my phone is spam.
My conclusion was different from, and much scarier than, yours.
that's crap. everything i get on my phone is spam.
My conclusion was different from, and much scarier than, yours.
| Zed-ex | 2009-07-09 04:06:17 PM |
My ex-gf is the only one who forwards me this garbage and usually only once every few months. So I then take the time to dissect the forward provide counter points to each section backed with semi legitimate research (more then one internet site). Proving how she has been dooped and how foolish she is for forwarding it. I then send this to her and everyone she sent it to.
/She still keeps doing it.
//Keeps me entertained.
/She still keeps doing it.
//Keeps me entertained.
| PickinWhiskers | 2009-07-09 04:06:27 PM |
33% trust on-line banner ads?
Woah.
Woah.
| SteelPeart | 2009-07-09 04:06:55 PM |
Jha: Sadly, there are still lots of people who believe that everything on Snopes is the final word and always true.
Barbara "I'd Blow Obama for Free on Webcam" Mikkleson
Barbara "I'd Blow Obama for Free on Webcam" Mikkleson
| spyderqueen | 2009-07-09 04:07:17 PM |
Thankfully, my mother has a friend who does that incessantly so she's learned to LOATHE it and thus doesn't pass them around herself. She especially hates those bullshiat "inspirational stories" and anything that makes her scroll through unnecessary ASCII art while telling her to make a wish.
And in college I trained her on a site that debunks virus hoaxes so she could send the info back to idiots who pass the hoax around.
And in college I trained her on a site that debunks virus hoaxes so she could send the info back to idiots who pass the hoax around.
| Brother Head | 2009-07-09 04:08:50 PM |
Zed-ex.
I normally do the same thing (adding snarky, snide comments).
Usually pisses em off enough that they'll stop forwarding me that crap.
If not, I go even worse with my reply.
Entertains me, my friends and co-workers. 8)
I normally do the same thing (adding snarky, snide comments).
Usually pisses em off enough that they'll stop forwarding me that crap.
If not, I go even worse with my reply.
Entertains me, my friends and co-workers. 8)
| SteelPeart | 2009-07-09 04:08:53 PM |
jshabbadoo: BKITU: I can't think of anything I'd trust less than the opinions of a bunch of Greater Internet Farkwads, especially if they have an axe to grind.
Farkwads?
this is the only one I know.
/hot like *insert snark here*
*your mom*
Farkwads?
this is the only one I know.
/hot like *insert snark here*
*your mom*
| lehmac
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2009-07-09 04:08:59 PM |
Zed-ex: My ex-gf is the only one who forwards me this garbage and usually only once every few months. So I then take the time to dissect the forward provide counter points to each section backed with semi legitimate research (more then one internet site). Proving how she has been dooped and how foolish she is for forwarding it. I then send this to her and everyone she sent it to.
/She still keeps doing it.
//Keeps me entertained.
Are you that guy from Tampa that called the police on his girl friend after she yelled at him and poked him in the groin with her dildo?
I was just curious.
/She still keeps doing it.
//Keeps me entertained.
Are you that guy from Tampa that called the police on his girl friend after she yelled at him and poked him in the groin with her dildo?
I was just curious.
| Cheron | 2009-07-09 04:09:37 PM |
I have an advanced engineering degree, I worked on the space program including recovery for Apollo. I forward emails just to annoy the kids.
| The Dread Pirate Robertson | 2009-07-09 04:09:54 PM |
Jha: Sadly, there are still lots of people who believe that everything on Snopes is the final word and always true.
There have been a few Snopes-invoking threads lately where people have called them out for being wrong about things, but no one ever posts links to proof. You got anything?
/not picking a fight, genuinely curious...
There have been a few Snopes-invoking threads lately where people have called them out for being wrong about things, but no one ever posts links to proof. You got anything?
/not picking a fight, genuinely curious...
| gorgor | 2009-07-09 04:10:36 PM |
Your mom sends me pictures of her vagina.
| Fabric_Man | 2009-07-09 04:11:41 PM |
I have an aunt who does that. I finally had to giver an ultimatum: Stop sending me forwards or you go on my spam filter.
I think she got the message. Nothing caught in the nets lately.
I think she got the message. Nothing caught in the nets lately.
| gorgor | 2009-07-09 04:12:52 PM |
BTW, there was no Apollo recovery.
Ivan Drago killed him.
Ivan Drago killed him.
| clipperbox | 2009-07-09 04:15:05 PM |
i had a coworker forward a ridiculous email about someone putting their aids infested blood into the ketchup container at some local mall food court. i replied on no uncertain terms that it was a years old hoax email and even provided the snopes link http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/ketchup.asp (fyi), but even with that she still argued that it was true because someone updated the email chain listing the mall in our city. some people just want to believe.
/dnrtfa
/dnrtfa
| imgod2u
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2009-07-09 04:16:00 PM |
AnthraxRipple: My father has a Master's degree in aeronautical engineering. Worked recovery in the Apollo program. Manned missile silos in the 70's. Worked on the IUS, Tacit Rainbow, etc. Even he forwards crap.
From my experience with Aerospace Engineers, they're not the most up to date on tech. That's more the realm of EE and CS geeks.
From my experience with Aerospace Engineers, they're not the most up to date on tech. That's more the realm of EE and CS geeks.
| austin_millbarge | 2009-07-09 04:16:03 PM |
Yeah I love all the emails my aunt sends the extended family about how Obama eats babies for breakfast, and is secretly building a bomb with Osama to nuke the US.
| idrow | 2009-07-09 04:16:53 PM |
Mom? Seriously. The woman sends me mutiple fwds a day and some that are scare tactics that can be checked out on snopes. No matter how often I respond with the snopes link, she still sends them.
| Pants full of macaroni!! | 2009-07-09 04:17:12 PM |
The Dread Pirate Robertson: Jha: Sadly, there are still lots of people who believe that everything on Snopes is the final word and always true.
There have been a few Snopes-invoking threads lately where people have called them out for being wrong about things, but no one ever posts links to proof. You got anything?
/not picking a fight, genuinely curious...
The general rule of thumb is that everything that makes Obama or Democrats look bad is true, and everything that makes Obama or Democrats look good is false.
There have been a few Snopes-invoking threads lately where people have called them out for being wrong about things, but no one ever posts links to proof. You got anything?
/not picking a fight, genuinely curious...
The general rule of thumb is that everything that makes Obama or Democrats look bad is true, and everything that makes Obama or Democrats look good is false.
| Aidan
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2009-07-09 04:17:12 PM |
| JasonThomasX | 2009-07-09 04:17:16 PM |
Because my Mom was born before Color TV and still only has a basic understanding of how to use The Internet, even though she's had a computer in her house since 1994.
She still learns the hard way that the Internet is full of scams and assorted BS. We've all learned through experience how to automatically recognize Spam and garbage on sight, but for some reason my Mom still can't do that.
She still learns the hard way that the Internet is full of scams and assorted BS. We've all learned through experience how to automatically recognize Spam and garbage on sight, but for some reason my Mom still can't do that.
| clipperbox | 2009-07-09 04:17:25 PM |
imgod2u: AnthraxRipple:
From my experience with Aerospace Engineers, they're not the most up to date on tech. That's more the realm of EE and CS geeks.
i'm an aerospace engineer, so i'm getting a kick...
From my experience with Aerospace Engineers, they're not the most up to date on tech. That's more the realm of EE and CS geeks.
i'm an aerospace engineer, so i'm getting a kick...
| brap
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2009-07-09 04:18:04 PM |
We finally made a compromise. I told momma brap she could keep sending me the things she found humorous or interesting as long as said e-mail
a) DID NOT Contain text that insists that the e-mail be forwarded to multiple people
b) DID NOT Involve a quiz that wasn't intended to test or press one's actual intellegence (i.e. do your friends REALLY know you? e-mails.)
c) DID NOT Involve a warning about anything, urgent or non.
d) DID NOT devolve devolve into an explicit description of her attraction to Tom Selleck and "what she would do to him" given the chance.
We get along much better now. Although I feel prudish about d) and may lift the ban as she's been pretty good about following the other rules of our detente.
a) DID NOT Contain text that insists that the e-mail be forwarded to multiple people
b) DID NOT Involve a quiz that wasn't intended to test or press one's actual intellegence (i.e. do your friends REALLY know you? e-mails.)
c) DID NOT Involve a warning about anything, urgent or non.
d) DID NOT devolve devolve into an explicit description of her attraction to Tom Selleck and "what she would do to him" given the chance.
We get along much better now. Although I feel prudish about d) and may lift the ban as she's been pretty good about following the other rules of our detente.
| BKITU
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2009-07-09 04:19:07 PM |
jshabbadoo: BKITU: I can't think of anything I'd trust less than the opinions of a bunch of Greater Internet Farkwads, especially if they have an axe to grind.
Farkwads?
this is the only one I know.
/hot like *insert snark here*
/hotlinked
//hope it doesn't get gootse'd or something
Farkwads?
this is the only one I know.
/hot like *insert snark here*
/hotlinked
//hope it doesn't get gootse'd or something
| Zed-ex | 2009-07-09 04:19:19 PM |
Pxtl: I often go by consumer opinions posted online, simply because they're often the only source of information. Go buy an appliance, search the model number... if you're lucky, you'll be able to pay Consumer Reports for the opinion they gathered after four hours of exhaustive testing and reading the company PR. Or you can just read the opinion of somebody who actually owns the damned thing.
The problem, of course, is that "somebody" may not exist.
Ya before I buy I usually look at what people have to say about the product.
I make 4 assumptions.
-People who are gaga fan boys will praise it regardless.
-The company may be posting fake reviews.
-People who are upset or disappointed will post the most due to them feeling shafted.
-People who are satisfied are the least likely to post as they just aren't motivated enough to go online and say "yep it does it's job".
So I mostly look at the bad posts and see what their complaints are. See how many freak accidents there are, how many are the purchasers fault, how many are the companies.
If most of the complaints are due to purchaser stupidity then I will assume it is a good product
The problem, of course, is that "somebody" may not exist.
Ya before I buy I usually look at what people have to say about the product.
I make 4 assumptions.
-People who are gaga fan boys will praise it regardless.
-The company may be posting fake reviews.
-People who are upset or disappointed will post the most due to them feeling shafted.
-People who are satisfied are the least likely to post as they just aren't motivated enough to go online and say "yep it does it's job".
So I mostly look at the bad posts and see what their complaints are. See how many freak accidents there are, how many are the purchasers fault, how many are the companies.
If most of the complaints are due to purchaser stupidity then I will assume it is a good product
| TenderNob | 2009-07-09 04:19:33 PM |
RoyBatty: Because your mom isn't dead like my mom, and I envy the crap that your mom sends to you you insensitive clodmitter?
THIS!
Be glad your Mom is still alive... Not everyone's is. I'd love to get a fwd from my Mom. It would freak me out, and wonder how the internet works in the afterlife, but I'd still love it.
//whiney biatches
THIS!
Be glad your Mom is still alive... Not everyone's is. I'd love to get a fwd from my Mom. It would freak me out, and wonder how the internet works in the afterlife, but I'd still love it.
//whiney biatches
| Qwigs
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2009-07-09 04:19:37 PM |
Related
| ChadM89 | 2009-07-09 04:20:29 PM |
The forwards I get from my mom are mostly about god and/or conservative drivel about "them durn illegals".
I get it, mom. You're crazy and you hate brown people. Gotcha.
Yes, I'm aware that you think the 1950s was a halcyon era and lament that things aren't still exactly like they were then. Of course god made the light shine through the american flag in the shape of a cross. That's obviously substantiating evidence that god exists, and doesn't have anything to do with the way light diffuses through that type of woven fabric.
Yes, yes, Obama is clearly a muslim terrorist and now that he's been elected, the sky will literally fall any day now.
Love you too, mom. Sigh.
I get it, mom. You're crazy and you hate brown people. Gotcha.
Yes, I'm aware that you think the 1950s was a halcyon era and lament that things aren't still exactly like they were then. Of course god made the light shine through the american flag in the shape of a cross. That's obviously substantiating evidence that god exists, and doesn't have anything to do with the way light diffuses through that type of woven fabric.
Yes, yes, Obama is clearly a muslim terrorist and now that he's been elected, the sky will literally fall any day now.
Love you too, mom. Sigh.
| griffer
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2009-07-09 04:21:02 PM |
Zed-ex: My ex-gf is the only one who forwards me this garbage and usually only once every few months. So I then take the time to dissect the forward provide counter points to each section backed with semi legitimate research (more then one internet site). Proving how she has been dooped and how foolish she is for forwarding it. I then send this to her and everyone she sent it to.
/She still keeps doing it.
//Keeps me entertained.
Brother Head: Zed-ex.
I normally do the same thing (adding snarky, snide comments).
Usually pisses em off enough that they'll stop forwarding me that crap.
If not, I go even worse with my reply.
Entertains me, my friends and co-workers. 8)
Wow, you guys sound very immature, mysongistic and annoying.
Exactly, how fat are your SOs?
/She still keeps doing it.
//Keeps me entertained.
Brother Head: Zed-ex.
I normally do the same thing (adding snarky, snide comments).
Usually pisses em off enough that they'll stop forwarding me that crap.
If not, I go even worse with my reply.
Entertains me, my friends and co-workers. 8)
Wow, you guys sound very immature, mysongistic and annoying.
Exactly, how fat are your SOs?
| Mirrorz | 2009-07-09 04:22:18 PM |
We all know Nielsen surveys are accurate. I had several stoner friends that worked for them until they finally got busted for making up surveys at home all day long while playing xbox.
They'd call me up and say "ok your a 46 year old father of 3 and you just watched 2 movie trailers at the Edwards Theatre and took the survey." That was their cover in case a fact checker was following up.
They'd call me up and say "ok your a 46 year old father of 3 and you just watched 2 movie trailers at the Edwards Theatre and took the survey." That was their cover in case a fact checker was following up.
| griffer
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2009-07-09 04:22:42 PM |
| Madison_Smiled | 2009-07-09 04:22:56 PM |
Despite multiple debunkings and polite requests to stop sending me this garbage, my mother still insists on sending me this garbage. "I only forward the stuff I think you'll like," she says, proving that she doesn't know me at all. Today I finally reached my limit and set up a filter. All her emails are now routed directly to the Trash folder. She never sends anything but forwards anyway, and always calls me if she has something to say to me, so it's not like I'm going to miss anything important.
Yes, I feel like a horrible daughter. But at least I no longer feel like pounding my head against a wall.
Yes, I feel like a horrible daughter. But at least I no longer feel like pounding my head against a wall.
| docmattic | 2009-07-09 04:23:15 PM |
| docmattic | 2009-07-09 04:23:50 PM |
griffer: griffer: mysongistic
Whoa. Typo. Sorry.
misogynistic.
For a moment there, I thought you hated my songs.
Whoa. Typo. Sorry.
misogynistic.
For a moment there, I thought you hated my songs.
| UsikFark | 2009-07-09 04:23:56 PM |
My father's laptop was infected with some "PC center help" virus, the kind that only activates if you click their links and download stuff. I told him it was fake and that Microsoft doesn't use pop up windows to communicate with customers. Even then he expressed surprise at how convincing it was.
| fendrluvr | 2009-07-09 04:24:18 PM |
My mom doesn't send me 5 Fwd:'s a day, she sends me one Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: a day.
| imgod2u
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2009-07-09 04:25:47 PM |
| griffer
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2009-07-09 04:25:54 PM |
This just in, younger people think older people are dumb!
| Calabai_Yau | 2009-07-09 04:26:02 PM |
gorgor: Your mom sends me pictures of her vagina.
Fabric_Man: I have an aunt who does that. I finally had to giver an ultimatum: Stop sending me forwards or you go on my spam filter.
I laughed, seeing these one after the other.
Fabric_Man: I have an aunt who does that. I finally had to giver an ultimatum: Stop sending me forwards or you go on my spam filter.
I laughed, seeing these one after the other.
| Aidan
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2009-07-09 04:26:13 PM |
Madison_Smiled: Yes, I feel like a horrible daughter. But at least I no longer feel like pounding my head against a wall.
Sometimes being a wonderful daughter means doing things to stop yourself from enacting a huge deception to convince mental professionals that your mother is non compos mentis and should be put somewhere quiet and FAR AWAY for a long time.
Don't sweat it.
Sometimes being a wonderful daughter means doing things to stop yourself from enacting a huge deception to convince mental professionals that your mother is non compos mentis and should be put somewhere quiet and FAR AWAY for a long time.
Don't sweat it.
| Fish in a Barrel | 2009-07-09 04:26:22 PM |
It's my dad, actually. Thankfully my mother has not yet reached that level of email proficiency, and hopefully she never will.
/Did you know the ACLU is trying to ban crosses at military cemeteries?
/Did you know the ACLU is trying to ban crosses at military cemeteries?
| JasonThomasX | 2009-07-09 04:26:26 PM |
Madison_Smiled: Despite multiple debunkings and polite requests to stop sending me this garbage, my mother still insists on sending me this garbage. "I only forward the stuff I think you'll like," she says, proving that she doesn't know me at all. Today I finally reached my limit and set up a filter. All her emails are now routed directly to the Trash folder. She never sends anything but forwards anyway, and always calls me if she has something to say to me, so it's not like I'm going to miss anything important.
Yes, I feel like a horrible daughter. But at least I no longer feel like pounding my head against a wall.
I've had to do this with several older coworkers and acquaintances, mostly older women. They always wonder why I never reply to them. I don't have the heart to explain how wrong their lame email forwards are and that they go right into my trash folder.
I also don't need a giant list of hackneyed knock-knock jokes written by unfunny people.
Yes, I feel like a horrible daughter. But at least I no longer feel like pounding my head against a wall.
I've had to do this with several older coworkers and acquaintances, mostly older women. They always wonder why I never reply to them. I don't have the heart to explain how wrong their lame email forwards are and that they go right into my trash folder.
I also don't need a giant list of hackneyed knock-knock jokes written by unfunny people.
| griffer
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2009-07-09 04:26:32 PM |
imgod2u: griffer: griffer: mysongistic
Whoa. Typo. Sorry.
misogynistic.
Why do you hate music?
Because of what music did with the snake in the Garden, duh.
Whoa. Typo. Sorry.
misogynistic.
Why do you hate music?
Because of what music did with the snake in the Garden, duh.
| griffer
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2009-07-09 04:27:20 PM |
Fish in a Barrel: It's my dad, actually. Thankfully my mother has not yet reached that level of email proficiency, and hopefully she never will.
/Did you know the ACLU is trying to ban crosses at military cemeteries?
Wow, and after they fought for the Wiccan to have her pentagram on her tombstone!
/Did you know the ACLU is trying to ban crosses at military cemeteries?
Wow, and after they fought for the Wiccan to have her pentagram on her tombstone!
| imgod2u
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2009-07-09 04:27:52 PM |
Madison_Smiled: Despite multiple debunkings and polite requests to stop sending me this garbage, my mother still insists on sending me this garbage. "I only forward the stuff I think you'll like," she says, proving that she doesn't know me at all. Today I finally reached my limit and set up a filter. All her emails are now routed directly to the Trash folder. She never sends anything but forwards anyway, and always calls me if she has something to say to me, so it's not like I'm going to miss anything important.
Yes, I feel like a horrible daughter. But at least I no longer feel like pounding my head against a wall.
Perhaps your mother's simply looking for an excuse to have contact with you and have some sort of dialog; perhaps even share in a mutual amusement of some type.
Yes, I feel like a horrible daughter. But at least I no longer feel like pounding my head against a wall.
Perhaps your mother's simply looking for an excuse to have contact with you and have some sort of dialog; perhaps even share in a mutual amusement of some type.
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2009-07-09 04:28:44 PM |
griffer: Because of what music did with the snake in the Garden, duh.
You know, music didn't make MJ eat the apple. He did it because he thought it was a 12 year old.
You know, music didn't make MJ eat the apple. He did it because he thought it was a 12 year old.
| nucal | 2009-07-09 04:29:04 PM |
Now that that's solved, can we tackle the problem of "reply to all" abuse?
| ChadM89 | 2009-07-09 04:31:22 PM |
Huh. Just to prove me wrong, I got a forward from my mom while I typed my previous post which contained a photoshop that was actually 1) gross and 2) funny(ish).
Well, not wrong. It was definitely an outlier. But an amusing coincidence at any rate.
Well, not wrong. It was definitely an outlier. But an amusing coincidence at any rate.
| JasonThomasX | 2009-07-09 04:32:10 PM |
I actually feel bad for all these people opening their mailboxes with giddy anticipation of these annoying chain letters. The ones who read them all and then forward them to people they think would "like them".
Also, why do people insist that Oprah regularly has heads of popular corporations on her show to discuss how they donate all of their corporate profits to the Church of Satan?
Also, why do people insist that Oprah regularly has heads of popular corporations on her show to discuss how they donate all of their corporate profits to the Church of Satan?
| mvfreeman | 2009-07-09 04:33:08 PM |
Here is something I find useful as a reply to some of these stupid forwards...
| Brother Head | 2009-07-09 04:35:30 PM |
griffer;
We're annoying but people who forward the same crap that can't be true isn't?
uh, Each to his own I guess.
And to counter your points:
immature: You could say that
mysongistic: I do the same thing whether it's male or female, so that doesn't count towards me (it's just usually I get this crap from females).
and annoying: No more so than this crap my "friends" send me.
And to your final question... What is a SOs?
(Chanel, is that you?)
We're annoying but people who forward the same crap that can't be true isn't?
uh, Each to his own I guess.
And to counter your points:
immature: You could say that
mysongistic: I do the same thing whether it's male or female, so that doesn't count towards me (it's just usually I get this crap from females).
and annoying: No more so than this crap my "friends" send me.
And to your final question... What is a SOs?
(Chanel, is that you?)
| gorgor | 2009-07-09 04:37:05 PM |
Aidan: gorgor: Your mom sends me pictures of her vagina.
Oh, how I wish this could come as a surprise.
APPROVES
http://tinyurl.com/lq8ypg
(copy and paste, NSFW)
Calabai_Yau: gorgor: Your mom sends me pictures of her vagina.
Fabric_Man: I have an aunt who does that. I finally had to giver an ultimatum: Stop sending me forwards or you go on my spam filter.
I laughed, seeing these one after the other.
That would be disturbing, my aunt is weird.
/and that's coming from me!
Oh, how I wish this could come as a surprise.
APPROVES
http://tinyurl.com/lq8ypg
(copy and paste, NSFW)
Calabai_Yau: gorgor: Your mom sends me pictures of her vagina.
Fabric_Man: I have an aunt who does that. I finally had to giver an ultimatum: Stop sending me forwards or you go on my spam filter.
I laughed, seeing these one after the other.
That would be disturbing, my aunt is weird.
/and that's coming from me!
| mvfreeman | 2009-07-09 04:37:26 PM |
And to your final question... What is a SOs?
Significant Other?
Significant Other?
| Dil Doe | 2009-07-09 04:39:06 PM |
You mean all those forwarded emails I receive from my right-wing acquaintances telling me the ATF has a secret plan to round up all gun-owners as soon as HUSSEIN Obama gives them the nod aren't true?
| Pxtl | 2009-07-09 04:39:18 PM |
Zed-ex: Pxtl: I often go by consumer opinions posted online, simply because they're often the only source of information. Go buy an appliance, search the model number... if you're lucky, you'll be able to pay Consumer Reports for the opinion they gathered after four hours of exhaustive testing and reading the company PR. Or you can just read the opinion of somebody who actually owns the damned thing.
The problem, of course, is that "somebody" may not exist.
Ya before I buy I usually look at what people have to say about the product.
I make 4 assumptions.
-People who are gaga fan boys will praise it regardless.
-The company may be posting fake reviews.
-People who are upset or disappointed will post the most due to them feeling shafted.
-People who are satisfied are the least likely to post as they just aren't motivated enough to go online and say "yep it does it's job".
So I mostly look at the bad posts and see what their complaints are. See how many freak accidents there are, how many are the purchasers fault, how many are the companies.
If most of the complaints are due to purchaser stupidity then I will assume it is a good product
Precisely. I don't buy anything with a product ID that I can't Google and follow your process.
Annoys the hell out of the wife though, since her opinion is that everything's Chinese crap anyways and you may as well just buy the cheapest one with the specs you need.
I'm sadly starting to think she's right.
The problem, of course, is that "somebody" may not exist.
Ya before I buy I usually look at what people have to say about the product.
I make 4 assumptions.
-People who are gaga fan boys will praise it regardless.
-The company may be posting fake reviews.
-People who are upset or disappointed will post the most due to them feeling shafted.
-People who are satisfied are the least likely to post as they just aren't motivated enough to go online and say "yep it does it's job".
So I mostly look at the bad posts and see what their complaints are. See how many freak accidents there are, how many are the purchasers fault, how many are the companies.
If most of the complaints are due to purchaser stupidity then I will assume it is a good product
Precisely. I don't buy anything with a product ID that I can't Google and follow your process.
Annoys the hell out of the wife though, since her opinion is that everything's Chinese crap anyways and you may as well just buy the cheapest one with the specs you need.
I'm sadly starting to think she's right.
| Lord Farkwad | 2009-07-09 04:41:02 PM |
jshabbadoo: BKITU: I can't think of anything I'd trust less than the opinions of a bunch of Greater Internet Farkwads, especially if they have an axe to grind.
Farkwads?
this is the only one I know.
/hot like *insert snark here*
It's nice to know that I have such a following here on Fark.
Farkwads?
this is the only one I know.
/hot like *insert snark here*
It's nice to know that I have such a following here on Fark.
| Arxane | 2009-07-09 04:41:48 PM |
My mom used to send me these things all the time. Thankfully she learned about Snopes (after hammering it into her over and over again) and she's now more wary of it...though she'll still forward the occasional glurge email that has a Christian-bent message (such as the Amazing Grace Slave Scale video...ugh).
My dad's former boss, an elder pastor, however, is even worse. This guy is computer illiterate and considers any glurge in his inbox to be factual. Therefore one Sunday his sermon will talk about the table cloth that brought two lost lovers together, and the next he'll mention that story about the train track man sacrificing his son for the sake of a train's passengers, and so forth. My dad could not convince him to even consider that these stories might not be true - he would just preach them and then move on.
/Then again, this was from a church that, during a Christmas Eve service, mentioned Harry Potter during a prayer but did not once mention Jesus.
//Honest.
My dad's former boss, an elder pastor, however, is even worse. This guy is computer illiterate and considers any glurge in his inbox to be factual. Therefore one Sunday his sermon will talk about the table cloth that brought two lost lovers together, and the next he'll mention that story about the train track man sacrificing his son for the sake of a train's passengers, and so forth. My dad could not convince him to even consider that these stories might not be true - he would just preach them and then move on.
/Then again, this was from a church that, during a Christmas Eve service, mentioned Harry Potter during a prayer but did not once mention Jesus.
//Honest.
| SonOfSpam | 2009-07-09 04:41:50 PM |
Dil Doe: You mean all those forwarded emails I receive from my right-wing acquaintances telling me the ATF has a secret plan to round up all gun-owners as soon as HUSSEIN Obama gives them the nod aren't true?
No, those are the true ones.
No, those are the true ones.
| forever_blowing_bubbles | 2009-07-09 04:41:55 PM |
My fiancee's best friend added me to her "forward" group of young republican neocons. So I started using REPLY ALL to the stupidity. The most recent was "what passport did Obama use" type crap. It was all "secret Muslim!!!" and "Where's the bc?!?!" type crap. Eventually she got so many complaints about me telling them how incredibly farking stupid they were (some replied to my reply and I replied to ALL again) that I was baninated :-D .. which was my goal in the first place.
// Last time we saw her I had her - literally - screaming at me from under a table because I had handed her her arse in a debate and seemingly the only response her and her friends have is to yell louder and more incoherently.
// Last time we saw her I had her - literally - screaming at me from under a table because I had handed her her arse in a debate and seemingly the only response her and her friends have is to yell louder and more incoherently.
| Sofa King Smart | 2009-07-09 04:42:02 PM |
Zed-ex
My ex-gf is the only one who forwards me this garbage and usually only once every few months. So I then take the time to dissect the forward provide counter points to each section backed with semi legitimate research (more then one internet site). Proving how she has been dooped and how foolish she is for forwarding it. I then send this to her and everyone she sent it to.
Ok, if no one else will admit to it I will... I 'doop' your ex-girlfriend... sometimes 3 or 4 times a day... I might have even been 'dooping' her before you two broke up.
//not exactly sure what 'doop' means...
My ex-gf is the only one who forwards me this garbage and usually only once every few months. So I then take the time to dissect the forward provide counter points to each section backed with semi legitimate research (more then one internet site). Proving how she has been dooped and how foolish she is for forwarding it. I then send this to her and everyone she sent it to.
Ok, if no one else will admit to it I will... I 'doop' your ex-girlfriend... sometimes 3 or 4 times a day... I might have even been 'dooping' her before you two broke up.
//not exactly sure what 'doop' means...
| kb7rky | 2009-07-09 04:42:28 PM |
Unavailable for comment
/congrats to new mama Kari ;)
| Brainsick | 2009-07-09 04:42:32 PM |
I just want to say... I love it when a plan comes together.
+1 FARK
+1 FARK
| Brother Head | 2009-07-09 04:43:38 PM |
mvfreeman
Duh.. Thanks.
I don't know what my wife's weight has to do with tard's sending me stupid shiate via e-mail.
She doesn't has she's too smart too (that and has seen what I do to people that do). bwhawhawhahaaaaa
Duh.. Thanks.
I don't know what my wife's weight has to do with tard's sending me stupid shiate via e-mail.
She doesn't has she's too smart too (that and has seen what I do to people that do). bwhawhawhahaaaaa
| Zed-ex | 2009-07-09 04:44:03 PM |
griffer: Zed-ex: My ex-gf is the only one who forwards me this garbage and usually only once every few months. So I then take the time to dissect the forward provide counter points to each section backed with semi legitimate research (more then one internet site). Proving how she has been dooped and how foolish she is for forwarding it. I then send this to her and everyone she sent it to.
/She still keeps doing it.
//Keeps me entertained.
Brother Head: Zed-ex.
I normally do the same thing (adding snarky, snide comments).
Usually pisses em off enough that they'll stop forwarding me that crap.
If not, I go even worse with my reply.
Entertains me, my friends and co-workers. 8)
Wow, you guys sound very immature, mysongistic and annoying.
Exactly, how fat are your SOs?
Hmm I'll bite
Immature. I'll agree with that to a point. While I keep a light hearted demeanor at work/life I can understand when joke time is over and there is work to do.
Mysongynistic on the other hand I disagree with. I have nothing but the utmost respect for women. My treatment of my Ex has nothing to do with her gender. More her stupidity. I was in a 2 year relationship that went 1.5 years longer then I wanted it to because she had convinced me she would commit suicide if I left her. After finally prying her off me without her dying she would break into my house and wait for me so we could have "talks". I considered getting a restraining order but I knew she was harmless. Then she showed up one day informing me of her plan to become a nun and then open an orphanage (she wasn't catholic either). She still considers me her best friend 6 years later and will occasionally call me to cry on my shoulder. My wife enjoys it as I inform her of my ex's latest stupidity and together we have a good laugh. Yep nuts through and through. Interesting side note she could orgasm by just thinking about it. Crazy also means crazy in bed.
Annoying hmm I will admit I have been called it before but I'm not "that annoying guy" in my group as for some reason I get invited to social functions without having to invite myself. I have also been told on several occasions I can be rather funny.
Well I don't see how my wife's weight has anything to do with anything but she's around 140 5'5. A lot more attractive then me too.
I hope that addresses any personal concerns you have over my character. Remember there is a human on the other end of this post.
/She still keeps doing it.
//Keeps me entertained.
Brother Head: Zed-ex.
I normally do the same thing (adding snarky, snide comments).
Usually pisses em off enough that they'll stop forwarding me that crap.
If not, I go even worse with my reply.
Entertains me, my friends and co-workers. 8)
Wow, you guys sound very immature, mysongistic and annoying.
Exactly, how fat are your SOs?
Hmm I'll bite
Immature. I'll agree with that to a point. While I keep a light hearted demeanor at work/life I can understand when joke time is over and there is work to do.
Mysongynistic on the other hand I disagree with. I have nothing but the utmost respect for women. My treatment of my Ex has nothing to do with her gender. More her stupidity. I was in a 2 year relationship that went 1.5 years longer then I wanted it to because she had convinced me she would commit suicide if I left her. After finally prying her off me without her dying she would break into my house and wait for me so we could have "talks". I considered getting a restraining order but I knew she was harmless. Then she showed up one day informing me of her plan to become a nun and then open an orphanage (she wasn't catholic either). She still considers me her best friend 6 years later and will occasionally call me to cry on my shoulder. My wife enjoys it as I inform her of my ex's latest stupidity and together we have a good laugh. Yep nuts through and through. Interesting side note she could orgasm by just thinking about it. Crazy also means crazy in bed.
Annoying hmm I will admit I have been called it before but I'm not "that annoying guy" in my group as for some reason I get invited to social functions without having to invite myself. I have also been told on several occasions I can be rather funny.
Well I don't see how my wife's weight has anything to do with anything but she's around 140 5'5. A lot more attractive then me too.
I hope that addresses any personal concerns you have over my character. Remember there is a human on the other end of this post.
| Rodent of unusual size | 2009-07-09 04:44:25 PM |
Because know body would lie on the internet
| Pxtl | 2009-07-09 04:44:45 PM |
Arxane: My mom used to send me these things all the time. Thankfully she learned about Snopes (after hammering it into her over and over again) and she's now more wary of it...though she'll still forward the occasional glurge email that has a Christian-bent message (such as the Amazing Grace Slave Scale video...ugh).
My dad's former boss, an elder pastor, however, is even worse. This guy is computer illiterate and considers any glurge in his inbox to be factual. Therefore one Sunday his sermon will talk about the table cloth that brought two lost lovers together, and the next he'll mention that story about the train track man sacrificing his son for the sake of a train's passengers, and so forth. My dad could not convince him to even consider that these stories might not be true - he would just preach them and then move on.
/Then again, this was from a church that, during a Christmas Eve service, mentioned Harry Potter during a prayer but did not once mention Jesus.
//Honest.
Damn. If I knew somebody who used that stuff in sermons, I'd take that as an opportunity for pranks. Make a bunch of fake hotmail accounts, put in a FWD:FWD:FWD in the box to make it look like it's made the rounds, and send him a feel-good Christian story full of double-entendre and 4chan memes.
My dad's former boss, an elder pastor, however, is even worse. This guy is computer illiterate and considers any glurge in his inbox to be factual. Therefore one Sunday his sermon will talk about the table cloth that brought two lost lovers together, and the next he'll mention that story about the train track man sacrificing his son for the sake of a train's passengers, and so forth. My dad could not convince him to even consider that these stories might not be true - he would just preach them and then move on.
/Then again, this was from a church that, during a Christmas Eve service, mentioned Harry Potter during a prayer but did not once mention Jesus.
//Honest.
Damn. If I knew somebody who used that stuff in sermons, I'd take that as an opportunity for pranks. Make a bunch of fake hotmail accounts, put in a FWD:FWD:FWD in the box to make it look like it's made the rounds, and send him a feel-good Christian story full of double-entendre and 4chan memes.
| Anne.Uumellmahaye | 2009-07-09 04:44:57 PM |
It's not my mom, it's my Great Aunt Macel, who now only sends me the ones that say PROVEN ON SNOPES.COM!!!! in the subject.
| DigitalCoffee | 2009-07-09 04:45:09 PM |
It's not being forwarded a half page of drivel that can be denounced by five minutes on Snopes that bugs me. It's the 10 pages of e-mail address forwards that bug the shiat out of me.
YOU HAVE BEEN TOUCHED BY THE ANGRY TOAD OF THE INTERNET. THE ANGRY TOAD OF THE INTERNET WILL CRAWL UP YOUR VAJAYJAY AND DIE AND MAKE IT POLLUTED FOR 10 GENERATIONS IF YOU DON'T TRIM YOUR HEADERS. NOW FORWARD THIS TO ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR OR ELSE THE ANGRY TOAD IF THE INTERNET WILL STEAL YOUR SOUL!
YOU HAVE BEEN TOUCHED BY THE ANGRY TOAD OF THE INTERNET. THE ANGRY TOAD OF THE INTERNET WILL CRAWL UP YOUR VAJAYJAY AND DIE AND MAKE IT POLLUTED FOR 10 GENERATIONS IF YOU DON'T TRIM YOUR HEADERS. NOW FORWARD THIS TO ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR OR ELSE THE ANGRY TOAD IF THE INTERNET WILL STEAL YOUR SOUL!
| Masso | 2009-07-09 04:46:39 PM |
Oh come on now, it's only twice a week now.
The latest appear to be, "Beware bacteria on shopping cart handles". And how could I forget the ever so useful "Watch out for Internet Fraud No.123", "Watch out Son, my coworker send me information on this Nigeria Scam no. 3234","Dangers at the Airport no. 53", "Protecting yourselves from looming health epidemic no. 21" and other stuffs I've heard years ago.
The latest appear to be, "Beware bacteria on shopping cart handles". And how could I forget the ever so useful "Watch out for Internet Fraud No.123", "Watch out Son, my coworker send me information on this Nigeria Scam no. 3234","Dangers at the Airport no. 53", "Protecting yourselves from looming health epidemic no. 21" and other stuffs I've heard years ago.
| Digitalstrange | 2009-07-09 04:47:03 PM |
If my mother limited it to 6 a day she might not have landed on my spam filter. I see her often enough (she keeps my daughter afterschool till I get off work) so I wont miss any real info by blocking her. and my mailbox isnt filled with crap. If she asks if I got a particular e-mail and it sounds interesting(which is rare)I go thru my junk file to find it.
| forever_blowing_bubbles | 2009-07-09 04:47:51 PM |
Sofa King Smart: Zed-ex
My ex-gf is the only one who forwards me this garbage and usually only once every few months. So I then take the time to dissect the forward provide counter points to each section backed with semi legitimate research (more then one internet site). Proving how she has been dooped and how foolish she is for forwarding it. I then send this to her and everyone she sent it to.
Ok, if no one else will admit to it I will... I 'doop' your ex-girlfriend... sometimes 3 or 4 times a day... I might have even been 'dooping' her before you two broke up.
//not exactly sure what 'doop' means...
Well there was that time when we DP'd her, maybe he just misspelled it?
My ex-gf is the only one who forwards me this garbage and usually only once every few months. So I then take the time to dissect the forward provide counter points to each section backed with semi legitimate research (more then one internet site). Proving how she has been dooped and how foolish she is for forwarding it. I then send this to her and everyone she sent it to.
Ok, if no one else will admit to it I will... I 'doop' your ex-girlfriend... sometimes 3 or 4 times a day... I might have even been 'dooping' her before you two broke up.
//not exactly sure what 'doop' means...
Well there was that time when we DP'd her, maybe he just misspelled it?
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2009-07-09 04:47:59 PM |
Pxtl: Arxane: My mom used to send me these things all the time. Thankfully she learned about Snopes (after hammering it into her over and over again) and she's now more wary of it...though she'll still forward the occasional glurge email that has a Christian-bent message (such as the Amazing Grace Slave Scale video...ugh).
My dad's former boss, an elder pastor, however, is even worse. This guy is computer illiterate and considers any glurge in his inbox to be factual. Therefore one Sunday his sermon will talk about the table cloth that brought two lost lovers together, and the next he'll mention that story about the train track man sacrificing his son for the sake of a train's passengers, and so forth. My dad could not convince him to even consider that these stories might not be true - he would just preach them and then move on.
/Then again, this was from a church that, during a Christmas Eve service, mentioned Harry Potter during a prayer but did not once mention Jesus.
//Honest.
Damn. If I knew somebody who used that stuff in sermons, I'd take that as an opportunity for pranks. Make a bunch of fake hotmail accounts, put in a FWD:FWD:FWD in the box to make it look like it's made the rounds, and send him a feel-good Christian story full of double-entendre and 4chan memes.
DO IT! FOR THE LULZ!
My dad's former boss, an elder pastor, however, is even worse. This guy is computer illiterate and considers any glurge in his inbox to be factual. Therefore one Sunday his sermon will talk about the table cloth that brought two lost lovers together, and the next he'll mention that story about the train track man sacrificing his son for the sake of a train's passengers, and so forth. My dad could not convince him to even consider that these stories might not be true - he would just preach them and then move on.
/Then again, this was from a church that, during a Christmas Eve service, mentioned Harry Potter during a prayer but did not once mention Jesus.
//Honest.
Damn. If I knew somebody who used that stuff in sermons, I'd take that as an opportunity for pranks. Make a bunch of fake hotmail accounts, put in a FWD:FWD:FWD in the box to make it look like it's made the rounds, and send him a feel-good Christian story full of double-entendre and 4chan memes.
DO IT! FOR THE LULZ!
| Stay Cool Babylon | 2009-07-09 04:48:21 PM |
My mom always forwards OMG WARNING ABOUT A PARTICULAR VIRUS bits. Finally, I emailed her back with some advice on how not to get a virus, period, So she can stop worrying about them individually.
| jjorsett | 2009-07-09 04:48:40 PM |
You think email is bad, I know a guy who gave his mom a fax machine some years ago. She'd fax him the printed version of this crap multiple times per day.
Pxtl: Zed-ex: Pxtl: I often go by consumer opinions posted online, simply because they're often the only source of information. Go buy an appliance, search the model number... if you're lucky, you'll be able to pay Consumer Reports for the opinion they gathered after four hours of exhaustive testing and reading the company PR. Or you can just read the opinion of somebody who actually owns the damned thing.
The problem, of course, is that "somebody" may not exist.
Ya before I buy I usually look at what people have to say about the product.
I make 4 assumptions.
-People who are gaga fan boys will praise it regardless.
-The company may be posting fake reviews.
-People who are upset or disappointed will post the most due to them feeling shafted.
-People who are satisfied are the least likely to post as they just aren't motivated enough to go online and say "yep it does it's job".
So I mostly look at the bad posts and see what their complaints are. See how many freak accidents there are, how many are the purchasers fault, how many are the companies.
If most of the complaints are due to purchaser stupidity then I will assume it is a good product
Precisely. I don't buy anything with a product ID that I can't Google and follow your process.
Annoys the hell out of the wife though, since her opinion is that everything's Chinese crap anyways and you may as well just buy the cheapest one with the specs you need.
I'm sadly starting to think she's right.
What, how can you distrust reviews like this (new window):
A caution to people buying these: if you do not follow the "directional markings" on the cables, your music will play backwards. Please check that before mentioning it in your reviews.
I was disappointed. I consider myself an audiophile - I regularly spend over $1000 on cables to get the ultimate sound. I keep my music-listening room in a Faraday cage to prevent any interference that could alter my music-listening experience. Sending any signal down ordinary copper can degrade the signal considerably. While ordinary listeners might not notice, to somebody with even a rudimentary knowledge of sound, the artifacts are glaring. Denon should have used silver wiring (hermetically sealed inside the rubber sheath to prevent any tarnishing, of course), which has a significantly higher conductivity than copper. Furthermore, Denon needs to treat the wires they use in the cable with a polarity inductor to ensure minimal phase variance.
Needless to say, I returned the cable and wrote an angry letter to the so-called engineers at Denon.
| Marlas_Cancer | 2009-07-09 04:51:17 PM |
I hope that addresses any personal concerns you have over my character. Remember there is a human on the other end of this post.
Zed-ex: Awesome post sir. :) However, I don't think that they care if there is a heartbeat connected to an online name or post. That's the underlying puss nature of the internet.
| GinnyTonic | 2009-07-09 04:51:21 PM |
| ga362 | 2009-07-09 04:53:03 PM |
I just woke up in a bathtub full of ice with a telephone next to me so I'm getting a kick . . .
| Esc7 | 2009-07-09 04:53:37 PM |
| utardsRock | 2009-07-09 04:53:56 PM |
My mom sent you pictures of her WHAT???
| Arxane | 2009-07-09 04:55:37 PM |
Pxtl: Damn. If I knew somebody who used that stuff in sermons, I'd take that as an opportunity for pranks. Make a bunch of fake hotmail accounts, put in a FWD:FWD:FWD in the box to make it look like it's made the rounds, and send him a feel-good Christian story full of double-entendre and 4chan memes.
If he were still preaching (he retired a couple years ago), then I'd send you his email address.
"And then the Lord bestowed upon him a vision, where he witnessed over 9000 angels singing the glories of God, and how they would never give him up, never let him down. Beside the chorus sat two beautiful girls imbibing from a lone cup of eternal wine, and further beyond stood a goat...see it recline beside that beautiful lion? Incredibly, the lion spoke in a language only God knew, a language that could only be written incomplete and seemingly indecipherable.
If he were still preaching (he retired a couple years ago), then I'd send you his email address.
"And then the Lord bestowed upon him a vision, where he witnessed over 9000 angels singing the glories of God, and how they would never give him up, never let him down. Beside the chorus sat two beautiful girls imbibing from a lone cup of eternal wine, and further beyond stood a goat...see it recline beside that beautiful lion? Incredibly, the lion spoke in a language only God knew, a language that could only be written incomplete and seemingly indecipherable.
| The Invisible Sky Wizard | 2009-07-09 04:57:49 PM |
Pxtl: Arxane: My mom used to send me these things all the time. Thankfully she learned about Snopes (after hammering it into her over and over again) and she's now more wary of it...though she'll still forward the occasional glurge email that has a Christian-bent message (such as the Amazing Grace Slave Scale video...ugh).
My dad's former boss, an elder pastor, however, is even worse. This guy is computer illiterate and considers any glurge in his inbox to be factual. Therefore one Sunday his sermon will talk about the table cloth that brought two lost lovers together, and the next he'll mention that story about the train track man sacrificing his son for the sake of a train's passengers, and so forth. My dad could not convince him to even consider that these stories might not be true - he would just preach them and then move on.
/Then again, this was from a church that, during a Christmas Eve service, mentioned Harry Potter during a prayer but did not once mention Jesus.
//Honest.
Damn. If I knew somebody who used that stuff in sermons, I'd take that as an opportunity for pranks. Make a bunch of fake hotmail accounts, put in a FWD:FWD:FWD in the box to make it look like it's made the rounds, and send him a feel-good Christian story full of double-entendre and 4chan memes.
Yes. Oh sweet lord, YES. Arxane, take note.
My dad's former boss, an elder pastor, however, is even worse. This guy is computer illiterate and considers any glurge in his inbox to be factual. Therefore one Sunday his sermon will talk about the table cloth that brought two lost lovers together, and the next he'll mention that story about the train track man sacrificing his son for the sake of a train's passengers, and so forth. My dad could not convince him to even consider that these stories might not be true - he would just preach them and then move on.
/Then again, this was from a church that, during a Christmas Eve service, mentioned Harry Potter during a prayer but did not once mention Jesus.
//Honest.
Damn. If I knew somebody who used that stuff in sermons, I'd take that as an opportunity for pranks. Make a bunch of fake hotmail accounts, put in a FWD:FWD:FWD in the box to make it look like it's made the rounds, and send him a feel-good Christian story full of double-entendre and 4chan memes.
Yes. Oh sweet lord, YES. Arxane, take note.
| Nutsac_Jim | 2009-07-09 05:00:11 PM |
Its because they want you to stop by more often.
| zabadu | 2009-07-09 05:01:49 PM |
AnthraxRipple: My father has a Master's degree in aeronautical engineering. Worked recovery in the Apollo program. Manned missile silos in the 70's. Worked on the IUS, Tacit Rainbow, etc. Even he forwards crap.
Does he forward the "we never landed on the moon" emails?
Does he forward the "we never landed on the moon" emails?
| Zed-ex | 2009-07-09 05:02:10 PM |
Arxane: And then the Lord bestowed upon him a vision, where he witnessed over 9000 angels singing the glories of God, and how they would never give him up, never let him down. Beside the chorus sat two beautiful girls imbibing from a lone cup of eternal wine, and further beyond stood a goat...see it recline beside that beautiful lion? Incredibly, the lion spoke in a language only God knew, a language that could only be written incomplete and seemingly indecipherable.
Oh man You're are Winner of the internets
very very funny I would pay money to see that sermon.
Oh man You're are Winner of the internets
very very funny I would pay money to see that sermon.
| Cairene | 2009-07-09 05:04:28 PM |
A cousin of mine in Egypt sent me an e-mail once in Arabic. Since my cousin rarely e-mails me, and this was written in Arabic, I figured something was up and he needed to contact me ASAP - family emergency or something.
Two hours of trying to read an Arabic e-mail on a computer that doesn't understand Arabic, I finally managed download it somehow to Word. After magnifying, playing with the font etc. I spend a good 4-5 min trying to read the first line since I haven't read Arabic in a while.
Turns out, it was a chain letter.
After my reply, my cousin never sent me that garbage - nor anything else again. Good, I can think of better ways to waste my time.
Two hours of trying to read an Arabic e-mail on a computer that doesn't understand Arabic, I finally managed download it somehow to Word. After magnifying, playing with the font etc. I spend a good 4-5 min trying to read the first line since I haven't read Arabic in a while.
Turns out, it was a chain letter.
After my reply, my cousin never sent me that garbage - nor anything else again. Good, I can think of better ways to waste my time.
| Bf+ | 2009-07-09 05:04:47 PM |
Back in the day, I received a chain email from an idiot friend of mine that asked if you had any information on a missing young blond white girl who "ran away from home". Everybody, their mothers, and their mothers' mothers was listed in the To: line. A quick search on Snopes validated it's BS level, but I didn't bother to respond. About two weeks later, someone responded to all recipients in the chain (which by this time including the mothers' mothers' mothers as well) claiming to have seen the women-- It said she was visiting Africa, but was unlikely to return. Scrolling down, there was an image of a smiling young, blond, white girl with her arm around a naked African gentlemen who's cock reached the ground. And a link to Snopes.
| wademh | 2009-07-09 05:05:30 PM |
JasonThomasX: (straight to trash reroutes
I've had to do this with several older coworkers and acquaintances, mostly older women. They always wonder why I never reply to them. I don't have the heart to explain how wrong their lame email forwards are and that they go right into my trash folder.
I also don't need a giant list of hackneyed knock-knock jokes written by unfunny people.
And yet, you spend how much of your day reading fark?
I've had to do this with several older coworkers and acquaintances, mostly older women. They always wonder why I never reply to them. I don't have the heart to explain how wrong their lame email forwards are and that they go right into my trash folder.
I also don't need a giant list of hackneyed knock-knock jokes written by unfunny people.
And yet, you spend how much of your day reading fark?
| Jument | 2009-07-09 05:06:21 PM |
Jha: Sadly, there are still lots of people who believe that everything on Snopes is the final word and always true.
1/10
/Snopes probably isn't perfect, but wtf do you want? it's an imperfect work, buddy
1/10
/Snopes probably isn't perfect, but wtf do you want? it's an imperfect work, buddy
| Sue Dunham | 2009-07-09 05:10:58 PM |
docmattic: AnthraxRipple: My father has a Master's degree in aeronautical engineering. Worked recovery in the Apollo program. Manned missile silos in the 70's. Worked on the IUS, Tacit Rainbow, etc. Even he forwards crap.
Obviously, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out.
What a rocket scientist might look like.
Obviously, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out.
What a rocket scientist might look like.
| scavenger | 2009-07-09 05:13:52 PM |
-That email you sent about blah blah blah was not true.
How do you know?
-I looked up the facts and it was clearly not true.
Oh, well I didn't even read it.
-Then why did you send it?
I thought you might like it.
-But you just said you didn't read it.
(repeat conversation a couple of times a year)
How do you know?
-I looked up the facts and it was clearly not true.
Oh, well I didn't even read it.
-Then why did you send it?
I thought you might like it.
-But you just said you didn't read it.
(repeat conversation a couple of times a year)
| SundaesChild
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2009-07-09 05:17:15 PM |
My mother has a computer and internet access, but does not know how to use it, so she forwards nothing. She sends greeting cards every few months instead.
She also has a cell phone, but she does not know the number so she's never given it to me, and so can't complain that I never call her.
She also has a cell phone, but she does not know the number so she's never given it to me, and so can't complain that I never call her.
| Haoie | 2009-07-09 05:18:31 PM |
I'm glad I never get inbox clutter.
| exi | 2009-07-09 05:21:12 PM |
Few of my African American tweeps...
Tweeps?
DIE.
Tweeps?
DIE.
| kid_icarus | 2009-07-09 05:21:48 PM |
My own personal fave was during the 08 election. My aunt comes to a family get-together with a forwarded email she had received and printed out to show us. It was, of course, the infamous "OBAMA IS A MUSLIM!!1 ZOMG!11!! HE HATEZ JEEBUS!!1!" email.
The funniest part about it is hard to convey here. To get the full comedic effect, you would've had to have seen the dead-serious, grave & ominous way she was making the rounds in the room with it. You'd think she had gotten her hands on a top-secret, classified document that 8 marines and 1 battle-droid had died to smuggle out of enemy territory.
The funniest part about it is hard to convey here. To get the full comedic effect, you would've had to have seen the dead-serious, grave & ominous way she was making the rounds in the room with it. You'd think she had gotten her hands on a top-secret, classified document that 8 marines and 1 battle-droid had died to smuggle out of enemy territory.
| wage0048 | 2009-07-09 05:22:20 PM |
AnthraxRipple: My father has a Master's degree in aeronautical engineering. Worked recovery in the Apollo program. Manned missile silos in the 70's. Worked on the IUS, Tacit Rainbow, etc. Even he forwards crap.
My father has an associates' degree in applied electronics. He forwards the crap that he thinks is funny (usually with "I can't believe people are dumb enough to believe this") added to the subject line.
My father has an associates' degree in applied electronics. He forwards the crap that he thinks is funny (usually with "I can't believe people are dumb enough to believe this") added to the subject line.
| ytmmr | 2009-07-09 05:22:45 PM |
The Dread Pirate Robertson: Jha: Sadly, there are still lots of people who believe that everything on Snopes is the final word and always true.
There have been a few Snopes-invoking threads lately where people have called them out for being wrong about things, but no one ever posts links to proof. You got anything?
/not picking a fight, genuinely curious...
About 10 years ago, I was still working at the vet school, and I ran across a story in the JAMVA about a poodle that was burned in a microwave oven. About that time, Snopes.com was saying that the story of a dog getting microwaved was an urban legend, so I scanned a copy and sent it to Snopes.com. They actually replied to my e-mail and said that what I found didn't fit the legend *exactly* so it was not applicable, and they didn't change a thing about the 'dog in the microwave story is false.' Since I have seen for my own eyes that they only believe what they want to believe, I really don't believe everything they say. (Even a broken clock is correct twice a day, so it's not like I think that Snopes is 'The Site Of All Falsehoods.')
Another reason I don't go to snopes.com come is because I HATE CLOSING THE 500 POP-UPS THAT OPEN WHEN YOU GO TO SNOPES.COM. Yes, I do use a pop-up blocker. Their site is worse than a virus.
\If you'd like to pick a fight, I'll take you on in Call of Duty 4 cage match.
\\Snopes sucks
There have been a few Snopes-invoking threads lately where people have called them out for being wrong about things, but no one ever posts links to proof. You got anything?
/not picking a fight, genuinely curious...
About 10 years ago, I was still working at the vet school, and I ran across a story in the JAMVA about a poodle that was burned in a microwave oven. About that time, Snopes.com was saying that the story of a dog getting microwaved was an urban legend, so I scanned a copy and sent it to Snopes.com. They actually replied to my e-mail and said that what I found didn't fit the legend *exactly* so it was not applicable, and they didn't change a thing about the 'dog in the microwave story is false.' Since I have seen for my own eyes that they only believe what they want to believe, I really don't believe everything they say. (Even a broken clock is correct twice a day, so it's not like I think that Snopes is 'The Site Of All Falsehoods.')
Another reason I don't go to snopes.com come is because I HATE CLOSING THE 500 POP-UPS THAT OPEN WHEN YOU GO TO SNOPES.COM. Yes, I do use a pop-up blocker. Their site is worse than a virus.
\If you'd like to pick a fight, I'll take you on in Call of Duty 4 cage match.
\\Snopes sucks
| amoricanCrowe | 2009-07-09 05:22:52 PM |
I simply e-mail the following:
"Just because it's in your e-mail 'inbox' doesn't mean it's true."
/My favorite was the e-mail about chapter 9 verse 11 in the Koran talking about the mighty bald eagle seeking its revenge, etc.
//cue up the "It's still real to me, dammit!" guy.
"Just because it's in your e-mail 'inbox' doesn't mean it's true."
/My favorite was the e-mail about chapter 9 verse 11 in the Koran talking about the mighty bald eagle seeking its revenge, etc.
//cue up the "It's still real to me, dammit!" guy.
| exi | 2009-07-09 05:23:04 PM |
| mandingueiro | 2009-07-09 05:25:49 PM |
i took a look at FARK w/o the Adblock and was horrified.
/i will continue to insulate myself from commodified hyperreality
/i will continue to insulate myself from commodified hyperreality
| wage0048 | 2009-07-09 05:27:10 PM |
I also have a crazy aunt that sends shiat all the time. I usually find the debunking on snopes and reply to everyone, giving them the link to snopes along with a "If you forward any more emails without fact-checking them, you're a biatch."
| ytmmr | 2009-07-09 05:29:06 PM |
Jument: Jha: Sadly, there are still lots of people who believe that everything on Snopes is the final word and always true.
1/10
/Snopes probably isn't perfect, but wtf do you want? it's an imperfect work, buddy
From Jument's profile:
DIAF:
People who drive Hummers, people who don't use their farking turn signals, people who voted for Bush.
\YOU, my friend, are a douchebag.
\\Look up 'irony.'
\\\'just be cool. it's an imperfect world. nobody's perfect, unless i disagree with them, then they should die a painful death.'
1/10
/Snopes probably isn't perfect, but wtf do you want? it's an imperfect work, buddy
From Jument's profile:
DIAF:
People who drive Hummers, people who don't use their farking turn signals, people who voted for Bush.
\YOU, my friend, are a douchebag.
\\Look up 'irony.'
\\\'just be cool. it's an imperfect world. nobody's perfect, unless i disagree with them, then they should die a painful death.'
| Loadmaster | 2009-07-09 05:30:06 PM |
The headline describes my mom exactly.
After several years of forwarding urban legends, she still doesn't know how to check Snopes.com.
My dad, on the other hand, has computer claustrophobia, and won't even touch anything more complicated that a calculator or TV remote.
After several years of forwarding urban legends, she still doesn't know how to check Snopes.com.
My dad, on the other hand, has computer claustrophobia, and won't even touch anything more complicated that a calculator or TV remote.
| Jument | 2009-07-09 05:43:02 PM |
ytmmr: I guess you drive a hummer and don't use your turn signals, eh? You can DIAF as far as I'm concerned, if so.
| penthesilea
|
2009-07-09 05:51:54 PM |
My mom doesn't have a computer so her church friends print them out and bring them to her house. The second they leave she calls me up to OMGZ! at me. I then have to spend an hour debunking the information over the phone and mailing her copies of proof.
| ytmmr | 2009-07-09 05:56:06 PM |
Jument: ytmmr: I guess you drive a hummer and don't use your turn signals, eh? You can DIAF as far as I'm concerned, if so.
ytmmr probably isn't perfect, but wtf do you want? it's an imperfect work, buddy
\love love love
\\peace peace peace
\\\snopes snopes snopes
everyone i slightly disagree with
\\\\die die die
/I do not know Jument, so I cannot truthfully pass judgment on someone's entirety based on 300 characters or less, therefore I retract my 'douchebag' judgment, until further review.
//Be careful hunting douchebags, lest you become one, too.
ytmmr probably isn't perfect, but wtf do you want? it's an imperfect work, buddy
\love love love
\\peace peace peace
\\\snopes snopes snopes
everyone i slightly disagree with
\\\\die die die
/I do not know Jument, so I cannot truthfully pass judgment on someone's entirety based on 300 characters or less, therefore I retract my 'douchebag' judgment, until further review.
//Be careful hunting douchebags, lest you become one, too.
| jonmurr | 2009-07-09 06:05:16 PM |
Ohmigod! someone sent me something that doesn't meet my E-mail standards! I have to move the mouse two inches to delete it!
/some people need some real problems in their lives.
/some people need some real problems in their lives.
| medius
|
2009-07-09 06:06:14 PM |
BECAUSE YOU NEVER CALL ANYMORE!
| cancerous86 | 2009-07-09 06:32:01 PM |
jonmurr: Ohmigod! someone sent me something that doesn't meet my E-mail standards! I have to move the mouse two inches to delete it!
/some people need some real problems in their lives.
Actually, it's more like: "Ohmigod! I can't believe people would spread misinformation like this! I must fight this willful ignorance with fact checking and research!"
My mom sent me the "hit the clear button at the gas pump, else someone could steal your CC info" email. Sent her back the snopes link, and she thanked me.
Fighting ignorance doesn't necessarily include "huurrrr durrr I can't bliev u r so dumb" type comments.
/some people need some real problems in their lives.
Actually, it's more like: "Ohmigod! I can't believe people would spread misinformation like this! I must fight this willful ignorance with fact checking and research!"
My mom sent me the "hit the clear button at the gas pump, else someone could steal your CC info" email. Sent her back the snopes link, and she thanked me.
Fighting ignorance doesn't necessarily include "huurrrr durrr I can't bliev u r so dumb" type comments.
| The Dread Pirate Robertson | 2009-07-09 06:37:31 PM |
ytmmr: Another reason I don't go to snopes.com come is because I HATE CLOSING THE 500 POP-UPS THAT OPEN WHEN YOU GO TO SNOPES.COM. Yes, I do use a pop-up blocker. Their site is worse than a virus.
I've heard that before, and I have no idea why my particular setup doesn't get that. I don't do anything fancy. XP, Firefox, and AdBlock Plus. That's it. I don't think I've ever gotten a popup there.
\If you'd like to pick a fight, I'll take you on in Call of Duty 4 cage match.
Have you ever played deathmatch with someone who sucks so badly that they just hang out in a corner of the map by themselves, stacking up explosives and blowing them up to see what kind of altitude they can get? Yeah. That's me. Unless you really get off on repeatedly head-shotting an opponent who seems be punch-drunk and retarded, then playing against me really isn't a challenge.
I've heard that before, and I have no idea why my particular setup doesn't get that. I don't do anything fancy. XP, Firefox, and AdBlock Plus. That's it. I don't think I've ever gotten a popup there.
\If you'd like to pick a fight, I'll take you on in Call of Duty 4 cage match.
Have you ever played deathmatch with someone who sucks so badly that they just hang out in a corner of the map by themselves, stacking up explosives and blowing them up to see what kind of altitude they can get? Yeah. That's me. Unless you really get off on repeatedly head-shotting an opponent who seems be punch-drunk and retarded, then playing against me really isn't a challenge.
| cancerous86 | 2009-07-09 06:57:25 PM |
The Dread Pirate Robertson: Have you ever played deathmatch with someone who sucks so badly that they just hang out in a corner of the map by themselves, stacking up explosives and blowing them up to see what kind of altitude they can get? Yeah. That's me. Unless you really get off on repeatedly head-shotting an opponent who seems be punch-drunk and retarded, then playing against me really isn't a challenge.
You seem to be in every match that I join. Damn you.
You seem to be in every match that I join. Damn you.
| TheBlackFlag | 2009-07-09 07:17:56 PM |
Subby's headline dscribes my 75 year old mom EXCATLY. Ususally with tiny footnote of "You never know", or "better safe than sorry".
Full disclosure: I have directed her to Urban Dictionary and Snopes.com and things have improved immensely. She is a pretty groovy/tech savvy 75 year old who is impossible to shock.
Full disclosure: I have directed her to Urban Dictionary and Snopes.com and things have improved immensely. She is a pretty groovy/tech savvy 75 year old who is impossible to shock.
| Chad Frisbie | 2009-07-09 07:32:26 PM |
RoyBatty: Because your mom isn't dead like my mom, and I envy the crap that your mom sends to you you insensitive clodmitter?
Thanks, I now feel like an asshole for nodding and laughing, right after deleting the most recent "Obama isn't a citizen" email from my mom (a repeat from every other day for the last 8 months). Okay, she's alive and well. Can't we all still acknowledge that she's a reactionary Fox-News-Junkie bigot, a mild pain in the ass, and an email menace?
Even if it's your mom--you gotta call'em like you see'em.
Thanks, I now feel like an asshole for nodding and laughing, right after deleting the most recent "Obama isn't a citizen" email from my mom (a repeat from every other day for the last 8 months). Okay, she's alive and well. Can't we all still acknowledge that she's a reactionary Fox-News-Junkie bigot, a mild pain in the ass, and an email menace?
Even if it's your mom--you gotta call'em like you see'em.
| Loadmaster | 2009-07-09 07:46:03 PM |
jonmurr: Ohmigod! someone sent me something that doesn't meet my E-mail standards! I have to move the mouse two inches to delete it!
...200 times, every day.
...200 times, every day.
| stickintehmud | 2009-07-09 07:58:09 PM |
I guess that goes for why she comments on everything I do on facebook, too
| TheGhostofFarkPast | 2009-07-09 08:24:22 PM |
stickintehmud: I guess that goes for why she comments on everything I do on facebook, too
and this why facebook has gone down hill so fast so quick. Not to mention all the stupid games and quizzes but now the older generation thinks that is the cool think to do so all of them are joining in droves. So you have all these clueless people joining who post anything and do all the quizzes and games. It's like a midfield of stupidity out there.
and this why facebook has gone down hill so fast so quick. Not to mention all the stupid games and quizzes but now the older generation thinks that is the cool think to do so all of them are joining in droves. So you have all these clueless people joining who post anything and do all the quizzes and games. It's like a midfield of stupidity out there.
| stickintehmud | 2009-07-09 10:29:29 PM |
TheGhostofFarkPast: stickintehmud: I guess that goes for why she comments on everything I do on facebook, too
and this why facebook has gone down hill so fast so quick. Not to mention all the stupid games and quizzes but now the older generation thinks that is the cool think to do so all of them are joining in droves. So you have all these clueless people joining who post anything and do all the quizzes and games. It's like a midfield of stupidity out there.
And in the case of family, you can't unfriend them or block their access to stuff because you get the uncomfortable situation of having to explain why.
and this why facebook has gone down hill so fast so quick. Not to mention all the stupid games and quizzes but now the older generation thinks that is the cool think to do so all of them are joining in droves. So you have all these clueless people joining who post anything and do all the quizzes and games. It's like a midfield of stupidity out there.
And in the case of family, you can't unfriend them or block their access to stuff because you get the uncomfortable situation of having to explain why.
| jht
|
2009-07-10 12:50:53 AM |
Happy to say my mom is one of the ones who gets email crap and then tells the senders to STFU. I trained her well. Maybe once every few months she'll see something that she couldn't immediately tell was nonsense and email me to ask "this is BS, right?"
On the other hand, two of my wife's best friends are the type that forward everything. She's too nice to tell them they're being idiots so she just deletes it. She just cusses for a while after she sees a really dumb one.
On the other hand, two of my wife's best friends are the type that forward everything. She's too nice to tell them they're being idiots so she just deletes it. She just cusses for a while after she sees a really dumb one.
| platedlizard | 2009-07-10 01:00:42 AM |
My mom hates this shiat as much as I do. The person who fws this crap to me is my aunt. I've had to lie by telling her I'm still on dial up so she doesn't send me tons of cutesy pictures, and in the past I've ditched email addresses to avoid her shiat.
| kb7rky | 2009-07-10 02:06:14 AM |
Loadmaster: The headline describes my mom exactly.
After several years of forwarding urban legends, she still doesn't know how to check Snopes.com.
My dad, on the other hand, has computer claustrophobia, and won't even touch anything more complicated that a calculator or TV remote.
In my case, it's the reverse. Dad's an email-forwarding lunatic, while Mom pitches a damn fit because she keeps pushing the wrong button on the remote.
"But that's what I did" is her constant excuse. Oh, really? Then why the fark am I over here fixing your fark-up?
She also refuses to use the computer, yet constantly biatches that no one sends her email. Well, gee whiz, Mom, you have to use the goddamned computer every farking day if you expect to have your friends email you those billions of virus warnings, so you can contribute to the problem. Why should I waste my time teaching you to do something you won't do?
I nearly offed myself when they got cell phones...but, at least that's one piece of technology they can't fark up.
After several years of forwarding urban legends, she still doesn't know how to check Snopes.com.
My dad, on the other hand, has computer claustrophobia, and won't even touch anything more complicated that a calculator or TV remote.
In my case, it's the reverse. Dad's an email-forwarding lunatic, while Mom pitches a damn fit because she keeps pushing the wrong button on the remote.
"But that's what I did" is her constant excuse. Oh, really? Then why the fark am I over here fixing your fark-up?
She also refuses to use the computer, yet constantly biatches that no one sends her email. Well, gee whiz, Mom, you have to use the goddamned computer every farking day if you expect to have your friends email you those billions of virus warnings, so you can contribute to the problem. Why should I waste my time teaching you to do something you won't do?
I nearly offed myself when they got cell phones...but, at least that's one piece of technology they can't fark up.
| Mortimer14 | 2009-07-10 02:10:58 AM |
My niece started forwarding those same crap emails, complete with the full list of everyone who had ever gotten a copy of it.
I replied, nicely, that she may want to remove the addresses of prior forwardee's before sending such drivel on.
She got all pissy about it, stating that she "always" removed old email addresses before sending, and stopped sending the crap to me. I then asked her in person "if she "always" deleted old email addresses before forwarding crap, then why do I now have over 500 "friends" in my email contacts? 99.9% of them people that I have never communicated with". Now she won't even talk to me.
//prefer it that way.
I replied, nicely, that she may want to remove the addresses of prior forwardee's before sending such drivel on.
She got all pissy about it, stating that she "always" removed old email addresses before sending, and stopped sending the crap to me. I then asked her in person "if she "always" deleted old email addresses before forwarding crap, then why do I now have over 500 "friends" in my email contacts? 99.9% of them people that I have never communicated with". Now she won't even talk to me.
//prefer it that way.
| g4zilla | 2009-07-10 09:02:02 AM |
kb7rky: Loadmaster:
I nearly offed myself when they got cell phones...but, at least that's one piece of technology they can't fark up.
*Bee-boop beep bawp boop beep* *click*"Thank you for calling the Homeland Security Report-a-Terrorist Hotline. We have traced this number and will arrive with a SWAT team momentarily. Have a nice day."
I nearly offed myself when they got cell phones...but, at least that's one piece of technology they can't fark up.
*Bee-boop beep bawp boop beep* *click*"Thank you for calling the Homeland Security Report-a-Terrorist Hotline. We have traced this number and will arrive with a SWAT team momentarily. Have a nice day."
| Organicdontpanic | 2009-07-10 09:31:57 AM |
I work @ Nielsen so I'm getting a kick...................
| GibbyTheMole | 2009-07-10 10:51:42 AM |
Because people are basically morons?
| Chimpasaurus | 2009-07-10 12:32:59 PM |
WHY is this true?! She can barely figure out how to "turn the internet on" but she can send me garbage everyday.
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