Any booby shots you send me will be kept strictly confidential.

/another trustworthy online opinion.

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!

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.

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.

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.

That's a vile inaccuracy.

/it's down to five a week now

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.

Text ads on mobile phones - 24%

that's crap. everything i get on my phone is spam.

Sadly, there are still lots of people who believe that everything on Snopes is the final word and always true.

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.

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.

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/

Because your mom isn't dead like my mom, and I envy the crap that your mom sends to you you insensitive clodmitter?

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 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.

Jha: Sadly, there are still lots of people who believe that everything on Snopes is the final word and always true.

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 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.

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*

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.

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.

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.

33% trust on-line banner ads?
Woah.

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

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.

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)

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*

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.

I have an advanced engineering degree, I worked on the space program including recovery for Apollo. I forward emails just to annoy the kids.

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...

Your mom sends me pictures of her vagina.

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.

BTW, there was no Apollo recovery.
Ivan Drago killed him.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

gorgor: Your mom sends me pictures of her vagina.

Oh, how I wish this could come as a surprise.

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.

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...

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.

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

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

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

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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.

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?

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.

griffer: mysongistic

Whoa. Typo. Sorry.

misogynistic.