A Mex-e-can, an a-rab and a God Fearin’, Red Blooded Patriotic American enter a bar….

[LibraryLady]

Don't get much of that Booshwah anymore. As soon as I started getting Emails about, 'the test every woman must have!" we nipped it right in the bud with a reference to Snopes. Family now knows better than to do that. "Friends' who persist in doing this sort of thing are no longer friends.

Lately, I've been getting odd stuff from strangers who want to become 'friends'. They usually say they saw my profile on a "Gay, Christian, Singles" board.

Oookay, I have nothing against Gay people, Christians or Singles. Unfortunately, I am none of the above and the poster never found my name there.

[One-Fang]

Oh tell me about it! I monitor the work email. We actually have two joke lists internally - clean and 'tainted'. Tainted is supposed to be for 'funny naughty' stuff, not outright indecent. We have also so often told everyone on Tainted they're NOT to send stuff outside the organisation.

Recently one of the highest level managers sent a ppt of 'international beers'. Each page featured a beer and a scantily dressed woman. Some were in sheer or white clothes, wet. So there was full frontal nudity.

That's definitely in the "don't even send it internally" style. I mean, it's soft core porn.

Guess how many people attempted to send it out of our organisation?

(Last I checked, it was about a dozen - that's probably half of the people on the tainted list).

[Shards]

actually it is, we're just trying to keep that fact hidden until we've infected enough people

So, does that mean that soon the four straight people left on the planet will be playing live action Left 4 Dead?

Awesome. I'll see you at the boss fight, Smiley!

[Gravekeeper]

So, does that mean that soon the four straight people left on the planet will be playing live action Left 4 Dead?

Awesome. I'll see you at the boss fight, Smiley!

annnd that was the weirdest mental image I've had all week. I mean....just....and the.....tongues.....pouncing......

[Shards]

Seriously, GK? I would have thought some of your SCs would have given you more scarring mental images...

Or was it just because your guard was down?

[Ree]

Thank you!!

I have a friend who sends me emails regularly.
I suspect he just forwards to everyone in his addressbook, because I seriously have to shake my head at some of the crap he sends me.

I am the most non-racist people around, yet he sends me such bigoted racist crap about immigrants that I delete it as soon as I recognize it.

I get all these other "I'm sending this to you because it says I will get my wish granted, (or win money, or someone will phone) and you must forward this to 12 people so you will get your wish (or money or phone call)..." or..."If you are a true friend you will send this back and forward it to everyone in your addressbook..." or..."Here is an angel sent just to you..."

AAARGH!!!

It drives me nuts.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Don't get much of that Booshwah anymore. As soon as I started getting Emails about, 'the test every woman must have!" we nipped it right in the bud with a reference to Snopes. Family now knows better than to do that. "Friends' who persist in doing this sort of thing are no longer friends.

I've been known to do that. I had a friend who used to send me every latest way that men are attacking women in parking lots, and every unfounded health scare...I would send back a Snopes link and finally one day she wrote back and told me I was "rude" for doing that and she just wanted to alert her friends just in case and better safe than sorry. Seriously, it takes 2 minutes to check it out on Snopes and most if not all of them are debunked. The way I see it, there's enough real stuff in the world to worry about; I don't need to add to the list. (I kinda lost touch with her....)

If you are a true friend you will send this back and forward it to everyone in your addressbook..." or..."Here is an angel sent just to you..."

An angel sent just for me, huh? Then what are those twenty other emails in the list above it? (My mom likes to send that sort of stuff. I just roll my eyes and delete.)

And sending back an email forward does not make one a true friend. And seriously, you've already read it. Why do you want to get back 20 more copies of it? I have enough crap in my inbox without that.

[Megg]

Are you sure that "friend" isn't the one who posted your email on that board?

I am a stubborn one - no matter how cute I think an email is, at the first mention of "send this to 5 friends and your wish will come true" crap, it gets deleted. Without hesitation. I also have sent a friend a Snopes link ... I just got tired of him sending me stupid crap. He stopped, though. I don't think he knew about Snopes.

[Ree]

I sent so many Snopes links to that friend I mentioned previously that he now sends it all to me first to verify before he sends it on. 99.9% is crap...urban myths and made up nonsense.

[fireheart]

I just delete the chain letters I get now, they're so annoying. No, I don't care if I'll die at midnight, I will not pass on your chain letter!

But since we're on the subject of snopes, I went on there looking to see if I found anything about swine flu (and yes, I have had that joke except in Aussie papers...why do they publish it?!) and found a few interesting ones...

http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/aids.asp

Claims that AIDS was created by the CIA. (False)

http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/jazzfest.asp

This was the only Swine Flu one I could find....

[Ree]

I just delete the chain letters I get now, they're so annoying.

I love the internet ones that claim to have been started by someone at a point in time when the internet didn't even exist.

[blas]

We've had many threads about what I'm about to say, but it never gets old to bitch about it.

Chain texts. The same kind that you get in an e-mail or on Facebook or Myspace.

I HATE THEM!

Especially "hug a retard day" in the text it's insinuating that you are the retard. Ha ha ha. What a friend you are for calling me a retard.

And those dirty sex/toilet humor jokes in texts? Look, I enjoy sex humor and toilet humor. I am a really dirty girl and I think it's funny. But to text me those? Really? Are you that bored that you have to do that all day?

This one guy at work has been out on disability for several months now, and the first few months, he sent me at least 5-10 of those a DAY. While I was sleeping (working night shift and all). I was furious. When I saw him in person for the first time in months, I blew up at him. He still sends one or two every week sometime during the afternoon.

Rest assured, as soon as I find out when that bastard sleeps (no one really knows, because he's been known to be online and texting/calling people at any time of day) I am going to send him ALL of those jokes right back, simultaneously.

[Danno]

I've been known to do that. I had a friend who used to send me every latest way that men are attacking women in parking lots, and every unfounded health scare...I would send back a Snopes link and finally one day she wrote back and told me I was "rude" for doing that and she just wanted to alert her friends just in case and better safe than sorry.

Oh god, this. Years ago when I worked for international faucet company I got all sorts of bizarre forwards and I would reply back with the appropriate Snopes link. People got so huffy about that. How can you be so defensive and protective of "information" you just received a few minutes ago? How can you have such undying faith in a suspicious story from an anonymous stranger? One time someone defended their forward to me by claiming, "Well, I have a friend who has a friend in the FBI and she says it's true." Y'okay. I'm sure the FBI were all over that guy on top of the WTC with the plane flying at him.

Still, I guess I had it good. My poor sister caused a slight rift when she had to ask my uncle to stop forwarding her stuff. She used to work at Target, and he apparently believed the one that said to boycott Target cuz it's French.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Ooh, Blas, I almost mentioned chain texts. I can't stand that. Especially since the person who sends them to me most often doesn't try to contact me any other time. It doesn't cost me anything to get them, at least, but they're f-ing annoying.

Y'okay. I'm sure the FBI were all over that guy on top of the WTC with the plane flying at him.

Yeah, amazing how that camara survived, huh? Not to mention the restaurant wasn't open at that time of the morning. Let's ignore the winter coat and hat on a beautiful September day.

[One-Fang]

And sending back an email forward does not make one a true friend. And seriously, you've already read it. Why do you want to get back 20 more copies of it? I have enough crap in my inbox without that.

Ah, can I tell you how much joy it brings me to stop those ones in the filter and just delete them? I sit there, thinking of the sender sitting at their PC, wondering why their BFF hasn't send them any roses back. I like to think of them sitting there thinking they didn't get it back because their "friend" didn't care about them (rather than because their friend never got it).

I'm an evil person.