Kmylove
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Post by Kmylove on Jul 16, 2007 14:21:54 GMT -5
Now that you've opened this thread, you have 5 minutes to copy it and re-post it on 30 forums, or else something terrible will happen to you: a cricket will enter your room and make a noise all night, and you won't be able to get any sleep at all!!!!!
The above was just a joke to introduce you guys to the topic I wanted to open: chain letters/e-mails/im's/myspace bulletins (you get the idea). Do you love them or hate them? Do you pass them forward or ignore them? What's your experience with them?
I ignore them and I despise them. If I were to count all the chain letters I ignored I should have been dead for years, all my relatives would have been dead, I should be flat broke, I would live a sad and lonely life and so on. There was a time when I would even get chain letters in the mail, thankfully they stopped. Now the most annoying are, for me, the chain instant messages. I've had to threaten my YIM list that they'll get blocked if I ever receive one of those again.
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Post by valderra on Jul 16, 2007 15:05:11 GMT -5
I got a chain letter once or twice when I was young. In those days there was no email, and the letters had to be sent the normal way.
I think I did it once out of the two times I received one (I only had to send it to 10 people), but after that I never received one again. I think they are a waste of time, a con, and spam.
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Mara
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Post by Mara on Jul 16, 2007 16:14:25 GMT -5
Any e-mails I receive that have "Fwd" in the title... I delete without reading.
Crazy. I've never gotten chain main over IMs. :/
The only thing that you mentioned that I do.. is sometimes when I'm bored I'll fill out MySpace surveys/bulletins. But those really aren't chain letters.
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FantasyLover
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Post by FantasyLover on Jul 17, 2007 3:37:00 GMT -5
Gotta love them Myspace bulletins!
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Kmylove
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Post by Kmylove on Jul 17, 2007 5:05:56 GMT -5
Any e-mails I receive that have "Fwd" in the title... I delete without reading. Crazy. I've never gotten chain main over IMs. :/ The only thing that you mentioned that I do.. is sometimes when I'm bored I'll fill out MySpace surveys/bulletins. But those really aren't chain letters. I do that too but sometimes I get ones that say: now that you've opened this you must repost it in 1 minute with [insert stupid idiotic title here] or else [insert something bad here] will happen.
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DurhamRed
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Post by DurhamRed on Jul 17, 2007 18:23:19 GMT -5
I open them sometimes out of idol curiosity but I learned long ago no to forward them as its just a nuisance.
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The Doctor
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 18, 2007 15:04:46 GMT -5
Chain Messages, they're utter nusiances in my opinion. Really, don't these idiots have anything better to do?
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Mara
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Post by Mara on Jul 18, 2007 17:38:25 GMT -5
Any e-mails I receive that have "Fwd" in the title... I delete without reading. Crazy. I've never gotten chain main over IMs. :/ The only thing that you mentioned that I do.. is sometimes when I'm bored I'll fill out MySpace surveys/bulletins. But those really aren't chain letters. I do that too but sometimes I get ones that say: now that you've opened this you must repost it in 1 minute with [insert stupid idiotic title here] or else [insert something bad here] will happen. Ah. I don't really see those on MySpace, really.
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Oliver
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Post by Oliver on Jul 25, 2007 5:00:22 GMT -5
"Hello, my name is Oliver Riede. I am suffering from rare and deadly diseases, poor scores on final exams, extreme virginity, fear of being kidnapped and excecuted by anal electrocution, and guilt for not forwarding 50 billion #&//()) chain letters sent to me by people who actually believe that if you send them on, then that six-year-old girl with a breast on her forehead will be able to raise enough money to have it removed before her redneck parents sell her off to the travelling freak show.
Do you honestly believe Bill Gates is going to give $1000 to you and everyone else you send "his" e-mail to? How stupid are you? Ooooh, lookyhere! If I scroll down this page and make a wish, I'll get laid by every Playboy model in the magazine! What a bunch of *#*)!(&*!@#.
So basically this is a big *(#! YOU to all the people out there who have nothing better to do than send me stupid chain mail forwards.
Maybe the evil-chain letter leprechauns will come into my room and rape me in my sleep for not continuing the chain which was started by Moses and was brought to this country by midget pilgrims on the Mayflower and if it makes it to the year 01, it'll be in the Guiness Book Of Records for the longest continuous streak of blatant stupidity.
The point being? If you get some chain letter that's theatening to leave you s****less or luckless for the rest of your life, or telling you that a rabid goat will rape you in your sleep and then cut you up into a million pieces and feed you to your parents, delete it. If it's funny, send it on. Don't piss people off by making them feel guilty about a leper in Botswana with no teeth, and who's been tied to a dead elephant for 27 years, whose only savior is the five cents per letter he'll recieve if you forward this mail. So next time you recieve mail saying that if you don't send it to 50 of your closests friends in the next 5 seconds you will wake up with a testicle for a head, delete it and then nail a testicle to the head of whoever sent it to you.
Now...forward this to everyone you now, otherwise you'll wake up tomorrow and all you underpants will be missing."
Enough said.
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The Doctor
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 25, 2007 13:14:27 GMT -5
Ah, here's Oliver to mock everything!
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Post by xkamelx on Jul 26, 2007 13:31:28 GMT -5
Gotta love them Myspace bulletins! My thoughts exactly.
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Kmylove
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Post by Kmylove on Jul 26, 2007 14:04:58 GMT -5
God Oliver, I never guessed you hated chain letters so much P.S. There's a stray f word in there I need to edit, sorry
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Mara
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Post by Mara on Jul 26, 2007 16:52:51 GMT -5
Haha, Oliver, that's awesome!
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 27, 2007 11:07:56 GMT -5
You know, these "Pass it on Messages" delivered to people by post bring a bad name to "Chain Letters", which in the olden days would've been envolopes filled with lengths of chain.
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Post by PurpleEyes on Jul 30, 2007 21:36:28 GMT -5
I swear I'm gonna slit my own throat if I get one more chain letter!
Or maybe, just the person who sent it to me. I don't know, but Oliver just came with another priceless message.
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