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My aunt just sent me a stupid chain email about asbestos in tampons (dissected and refuted here ( http://www.snopes2.com/toxins/tampon.htm )), despite the fact I've asked her repeatedly not to bother. These chain mails are such bullshit...every single one I've had sent to me, either at my home address or at my work address, are easily googled and found to be hoaxes. So why do people do it? Why are they so gullible? Do you forward this kind of shit to people? WHY!!!???

My aunt just sent me a stupid chain email about asbestos in tampons (dissected and refuted here ( http://www.snopes2.com/toxins/tampon.htm )), despite the fact I've asked her repeatedly not to bother. These chain mails are such bullshit...every single one I've had sent to me, either at my home address or at my work address, are easily googled and found to be hoaxes. So why do people do it? Why are they so gullible? Do you forward this kind of shit to people? WHY!!!???
Perhaps, I may take a moment of your time? You see, I'm a former Prince of Nigeria...

Perhaps, I may take a moment of your time? You see, I'm a former Prince of Nigeria...
*reaches for her frozen trout*

And if anyone chooses "No....for some other reason", please tell us what that reason is.

Why do you even bother to google it?:rolleyes:

You know, if you say banana really slowly, it sounds like gullable.

Hate's a very strong word. I typically go with "pity", in these cases. It doesn't take me long to delete them.

My aunt does the same thing to me, maybe it is just an aunt thing?
Whatever, the worst ones are bits of political "humour" that have been circulating the Interweb for about 3 months.
Oh look, a joke about preparations for Hurricane Katrina! That is so fresh and new! And I just never will get enough of that political cartoon about the Emminent Domain case from millions of (fruit fly) lifetimes ago.

I classify them in the same category as SPAM. I must admit we forwarded one that was for recipes. We dutifully sent two recipes to the person who sent the e-mail to us. We then sent out the requisite number of e-mails plus one. We were promised 50 gazillion recipes and we got ONE. Next time we want new recipes I will search the web or buy a cookbook.

Oh, and if you send me one of those e-mails I just might add you to my "junk senders list."

*reaches for her frozen trout*

And if anyone chooses "No....for some other reason", please tell us what that reason is.

I suppose you won't be wanting to hear about that rich out of the country family member you had but didn't know about leaving you alot of money when they died?

Why do you even bother to google it?:rolleyes:
Because I'm a bitch...I like to email back with proof the letter is bullshit, and shame the person, hopefully into never sending me more of that crap.

It's rare that I send mass emails to anyone. I have a rule not to send anything until I've thought a day about it. This works very well.

I strongly dislike the stupid chain mails.
The ones that tell of the luck you'll get if you spread the stupidity to 5 or ten others and the horrible consequences if you dont.

I usually reply to all something like- "Take me off your stupid list of fucking douchebags".
Their kids read it and delete me.

repost this message to ten people in the next ten minutes and your true love will suprise you! If you don't, you'll had bad luck in your love life for the next seven years.

Hate's a very strong word. I typically go with "pity", in these cases. It doesn't take me long to delete them.
Senders get two warnings, and then are deleted from my contacts (at home). I hate being excited about getting an email and finding crap. Plus, I worry that my friends or relatives really believe that stuff, so I try to show them it's fake.

At work, people are officially reprimanded for forwarding chain emails, so I don't need to do a thing but sit back and watch the feathers fly:)

Because I'm a bitch...I like to email back with proof the letter is bullshit, and shame the person, hopefully into never sending me more of that crap.
Don't blackmail. Just block:)

GASP! Someone has told me if you send this message to 11 people you will meet your true love at 11:00 tomorrow. If not, you will be "doomed" to 11 years of single life!

Send this to 100,000 people, though, just to be sure. Believe me it works.

What do you know, in the last 10 minutes I've been offered Love, wishes, and free computers; and I've been warned about AIDS, kidneys and bladder weakness.

All are deleted and blocked.

What do you know, in the last 10 minutes I've been offered Love, wishes, and free computers; and I've been warned about AIDS, kidneys and bladder weakness.

All are deleted and blocked.
Yes, but there is a difference between random spammage, and people you KNOW forwarding spammage to you.

Have any of you been ALARMED by a chain email...or had someone close to you unduly alarmed by one? About computer viruses, scams, or anything similar? For example, for a while, a stupid email went out about gang members driving with their lights off (I'm sure you've heard it), and people in this small, rural town, were freaked out, without EVER THINKING "hey, we don't have gangs....just farmers driving 30kmh in their tractors":rolleyes:

You know, if you say banana really slowly, it sounds like gullable.
baaaa...naaaaa...n........hey! WAIT A MINUTE!:(

my mother is notorious for sending me stupid e-mails. They usually aren't the usual chail letters about such and such evil corporation and/or product...just general humor. Some are funny, but waking up to 10 every day gets a bit old.

I'm a lazy bastard. Half of the time I don't even respond to legitimate emails. Why would I waste my time forewarding bogus ones?

Did anyone get that one about the alledged new date rape drug progesterex?Apparently this magic pill permanently sterilizes horses and women and is perfectly legal to buy and is being used in the london area.And it does all this depite the fact that is does not exist.

Everytime i get chain mail i masterbate and dunkum kills a kitten

it's an aunt thing for sure... my aunt keeps sending me all kinds of mushy feel good chain letters and support our troops letters, and the liberals are ruining America with their anti-Christian hate speech stuff and they tell me to forward them on or else I will die a horrible death in 48 hours.

I have also repeatedly told her to stop sending me that crap and if she must forward stuff to me then it better be jokes or nothing.

I used to send refutations to her and EVERYONE on her list that she sent the email too but that got too time consuming for me.

Can you BELIEVE THIS SHIT? My aunt just sent me the following message: As you know my dear neice i don't forward stuff to you as I am very aware that most of it is bull but I happened to know that this info is correct and i have already written to these manufacturers about it. I have also tried hard to find unbleached products because this is not an item that I can do without. So take it as you will.

:rolleyes: Idiot.

Because I'm a bitch...I like to email back with proof the letter is bullshit, and shame the person, hopefully into never sending me more of that crap.
I usually just send this:

Hello, my name is Safsaf. I am suffering from rare and deadly diseases, poor scores on final exams, extreme virginity, fear of being kidnapped and executed by anal electrocution, and guilt for not forwarding out 50 billion fucking chain letters sent to me by people who actually believe that if you send them on, then that poor 6 year old girl in Arkansas 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 that Bill Gates is going to give you and everyone you send "his" email to $1000?
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 bullshit. So basically, this message is a big F*CK YOU to all the people out there who have nothing better to do than to send me stupid chain mail forwards. Maybe the evil chain letter leprechauns will come into my apartment and sodomize me in my sleep for not continuing the chain which was started by Jesus in 5 A.D. and was brought to this country by midget pilgrims on the Mayflower and if it makes it to the year 2000, it'll be in the Guinness Book of World Records for longest continuous streak of blatant stupidity.
Fuck them.
If you're going to forward something, at least send me something mildly amusing. I've seen all the "send this to 50 of your closest friends, and this poor, wretched excuse for a human being will somehow receive a nicke from some omniscient being" forwards about 90 times. I don't f*cking care.
Show a little intelligence and think about what you're actually contributing to by sending out forwards. Chances are it's your own unpopularity.
THE FOUR BASIC TYPES OF CHAIN LETTERS:
Chain Letter Type 1:
* (scroll down)
* Make a wish!!!
* No, really, go on and make one!!!
* Oh please, they'll never go out with you!!!
* Wish something else!!!
* Not that, you pervert!!
* Is your finger getting tired yet?
* STOP!!!!
* Wasn't that fun?
Hope you made a great wish:)
Now, to make you feel guilty, here's what I'll do. First of all, if you don't send this to 5096 people in the next 5 seconds, you will be raped by a mad goat and thrown off a high building into a pile of manure. It's true!
Because, THIS letter isn't like all of those fake ones, THIS one is TRUE!!
Really!!! Here's how it goes:
Send this to 1 person: One person will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter.
Send this to 2-5 people: 2-5 people will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter.
Send this to 5-10 people: 5-10 people will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter, and may form a plot on your life.
Send this to 10-20 people: 10-20 people will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter and will napalm your house.
Thanks!!!! Good Luck!!!
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Chain Letter Type 2
Hello, and thank you for reading this letter. You see, there is a starving little boy in Baklaliviatatlaglooshen who has no arms, no legs, no parents, and no goats. This little boy's life could be saved, because for every time you pass this on, a dollar will be donated to the Little Starving Legless Armless Goatless Boy from Baklaliviatatlaglooshen Fund. Oh, and remember, we have absolutley no way of counting the emails sent and this is all a complete load of bullshit.
So go on, reach out.
Send this to 5 people in the next 47 seconds. Oh, and a reminder - if you accidentally send this to 4 or 6 people, you will die instantly.
Thanks again!!
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Chain Letter Type 3
Hi there!! This chain letter has been in existence since 1897. This is absolutely incredible because there was no email then and probably not as many sad pricks with nothing better to do. So this is how it works: Pass this on to 15,067 people in the next 7 minutes or something horrible will happen to you like:
Bizarre Horror Story #1
Miranda Pinsley was walking home from school on Saturday. She had recently recieved this letter and ignored it. She then tripped in a crack in the sidewalk, fell into the sewer, was gushed down a drainpipe in a flood of poopie, and went flying out over a waterfall. Not only did she smell nasty, she died.
This Could Happen To You!!!
Remember, you could end up just like Pinsley. Just send this letter to all of your loser friends, and everything will be okay.
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The point being?
If you get some chain letter that's threatening to leave you shagless or luckless for the rest of your life, 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, who's been tied to a dead elephant for 27 years, whose only saviour is the 5 cents per letter he'll receive if you forward this mail, otherwise you'll end up like Miranda. Right? Now forward this to everyone you know otherwise you'll find all your knickers missing tomorrow morning.

I just like reading them because they are funny, after that I mostly delete them unless I kno wthat one of my friends would like it.

I usually just send this:

You suck,anti-chain mail chain mails are still chain mails

I have this aversion to chain emails, because they sometimes come with a virus attached. I used to do PC support at a large corporation, and I got this voicemail way too many times:

"Hi, I'm dopey user X in accounting. I just got a chain e-mail with an attachment. I know you guys tell us to just delete them, but I clicked on the attachment anyway. Now my computer screen is blank. Did I do something wrong?"

So now I see a chain e-mail and I have this kind of Pavlovian response....

GASP! Someone has told me if you send this message to 11 people you will meet your true love at 11:00 tomorrow. If not, you will be "doomed" to 11 years of single life!

Send this to 100,000 people, though, just to be sure. Believe me it works.

BEAT YOU!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

You know, if you say banana really slowly, it sounds like gullable.
damnit

You suck,anti-chain mail chain mails are still chain mails
but I only send them to people who ask for it :(

I don't forward chain emails (other than one, once, that looked scarily like Ancient Valyria's), but I do get a kind of perverse pleasure from them.

The Virus Scare/DELETE THIS FILE NOW!11!!/MSN has run out of names, ohnoes! type get a careful, considered and idly sarcastic response about why they're bollocks.

The Patil Will Get 5p/ You Will Get $1000 From Bill Gates's Pension Fund For Every Time You Forward This! get a brief explanation of how email works, and why it's impossible to track, even vaguely accurately, how many times an email's been forwarded. Again, with idle sarcasm.

I really just enjoy being supercilious and pointing out how erudite I am, whilst mocking the ignorance of other people. Try it some time, it's fun!

My boyfriend's mother sends this crap to me all the time even though I've told her that I'll just forward them back to her if anything at all. I got one from her the other day that was a chainmail petition to keep religion taught in public schools. If I didn't forward it the "petition will never get through". I deleted it. I hate, hate, hate chainmails with guilt trips at the end. If it's a simple chainmail like "send this to a special friend", I'll forward it back to her.

The only mails I've received from an ex-bestfriend of mine for the last years are chain mails... And the last one she sent was the worst. It was something about a girl who'd met the ghost of Bloody Mary in a chatroom and who was therefore cursed to send their conversation on to X people if she didn't want to be killed by a ghost. And at the end of this mail was the warning: This is not a Joke! And friend's friend's friend's neighbour's uncle's dog didn't forward this mail and he/she/it was killed in her bathroom by the ghost of Bloody Mary...:sniper:

And at the end of this mail was the warning: This is not a Joke! And friend's friend's friend's neighbour's uncle's dog didn't forward this mail and he/she/it was killed in her bathroom by the ghost of Bloody Mary...
Actually, that one's not a joke. I didn't forward it, and Bloody Mary's ghost killed me just last week.

My aunt just sent me a stupid chain email about asbestos in tampons (dissected and refuted here ( http://www.snopes2.com/toxins/tampon.htm )), despite the fact I've asked her repeatedly not to bother. These chain mails are such bullshit...every single one I've had sent to me, either at my home address or at my work address, are easily googled and found to be hoaxes. So why do people do it? Why are they so gullible? Do you forward this kind of shit to people? WHY!!!???
No, I refuse!

People send chain emails out for the same reasons they pass around gossip, which I totally DESPISE! Frakkin' idiots! :headbang:

i never get any :( even spammers don't like me

i never get any :( even spammers don't like me

**points and laughs**

My great aunt sends me those chain emails, it annoys the crap out of me.

I can't really say anything because she is like 98, so I tried to ignore them. I finally got fed up one day when she sent me the exact same "if you are my friend send this back" email, so I emailed her

Aunt Marie,

I know you really like the emails that you send me, but the graphics lock up my computer, so can you please stop sending them?

Smunkee

(I lied, nothing ever locks up my computer, but I was trying to save her feelings she is almost 100)

so now, she sends them to my mom instead, only my mom thinks that if she really does send it to 40 people something cool will show up on her screen so she forwards them to all 6 of my email addresses :rolleyes:

So, I suppose it's time for another "locks my computer up" email.:p

i never get any :( even spammers don't like me

Well, you're not alone.

**points and laughs**

oh no!! the internet man finds my pain amusing :p

oh no!! the internet man finds my pain amusing :p

Everyone finds your pain amusing

Everyone finds your pain amusing

quiet, theres no need to tell it how it is, that just ain't kosher

L

Don't want chain e-mails? Simple. Threaten the chain e-mailer. Someone once used to send me chain e-mails all the time, until I threatened to castrate them with a plastic knife. I have never received a chain e-mail since. :D

Chain emails are tripe, the spammers deserve to be given a taste of their own medicine.