Stupid Emails
I love it when one of my relatives FWD's me a stupid internet rumor email. You know the ones, telling me that Bill Gates wants to send me $1000 for beta testing or that some terminal kid's Make-A-Wish wish is to have his email FWD'ed to a million people. (As if some kid who could wish for anything would choose this!) Or that if Congress would divide up the $86,000,000 AIG bailout money among every American adult we would all get $420,000.
Most are so unplausible that anyone with half a brain would know that the claims are untrue. I guess that says something about my family...
I get irritated because it illustrates how gullible the masses are. It also pisses me off that internet bandwidth is being wasted (insert comment below about how ugdorks BLOGS are a waste. Call me gay for good measure and tell me you fucked my mom) and that I have to sort out crap from my inbox.
I always debunk the emails using snopes.com or I will go to the Make-A-Wish sight and get a link to the truth. I send the link as a 'reply all' as a way to do my little part to educate the inferior.
It pisses me off when I receive these emails. Please, before you send something like that, check it out. I know you don't want to send your friends and family junk. Have some consideration, show that you can think and question. Thank you.
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