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    • 3 Little Irritations

    Sunday, 31 May 2009, 14:32
    Category : Politics, Spam, Television
    Tags : , ,

    screen capture of amusing spam email

    This was really more amusing than annoying – I spotted the email above while searching my spam folder for a genuine one. I have no comment to make about it except to say it’s so spammy it borders on being a caricature of real spam. And do men really think in those terms? Please someone, tell me they don’t.

    Britain’s Got Talent finished tonight, don’t ask me who won, I really don’t care because I think it’s “like some weird cult worshipping the dire and mawkish“. I do!  And not only is the programme mind-numbingly awful, take a look at the site, or rather a listen. Yes, it auto-plays something, a design faux pas which ranks alongside violet text on a patterned background for sheer ineptitude. I don’t know who designed it but, quite frankly, they should be banned from ever going within 10 feet of a text editor again.

    Finally, the most annoying (and depressing) thing of all: we keep getting election leaflets from the BNP* shoved through our letterbox. WHY?! Do I look like the kind of person who would vote for them? (OK, they haven’t seen me, but still.) So far we’ve received 2 (non-recyclable) glossy leaflets and, most recently, a newspaper which was delivered by 3 small children, seriously! Is that legal? Even if it is, it’s very sad and quite disturbing.

    It’s also infuriating, surely the idea of going door to door is to give potential voters a chance to discuss your policies. How can one do that when the representative is no more than 7 years old? Is that the best the local group could find? Are there no adults capable of informed debate? Oh wait a minute, silly me …

    * British National Party (No the ‘n’ doesn’t stand for nutty, nasty or Nazi, although I can see why some might think that) Sorry, no link, I just can’t bring myself to. Google them if you really feel you should know more.

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    8 Comments for “3 Little Irritations”

    1. 1SpikeTheLobster

      wrote on 31 May 2009 at 13:50

      No, most men don't think like that. A lot do, though. And they read AskMen.com, wherein the astoundingly imbecilic Doc Love spouts (if it looks like poo and smells like poo, it must be…) “advice” to help them continue thinking in those terms. Oh, what fun.

      Amusing side-note: the BNP in France is the Banque National de Paris, one of the better banks in the capital. Still a bunch of nazis, though. ;)

    2. 2kateblogs

      wrote on 31 May 2009 at 14:51

      That website really should be called Don'tAskTheseMen.com It boasts 7 million readers?! I'm hoping that's worldwide, the idea they all come from the UK is rather worrying. Do we really have so many stupid people?

      lol @ the BNP in France is the Banque National de Paris.

      BTW I liked your latest post – think I might be guilty of one, eek!

    3. 3SpikeTheLobster

      wrote on 31 May 2009 at 14:56

      Seven million? Yikes. That doesn't say much for my gender. :(

      You cannot even begin to imagine how many times I proofread that post…. (and thank you – and yes, we're all guilty of at least one!!)

      Even funnier is the UK dustman company called “NTM”. That's the French rap group whose name roughly translates as “F-word your mother”. Ah, the joys of multicultural societies!!

    4. 4Lily

      wrote on 31 May 2009 at 16:16

      As a straight woman, I can't tell you how many times I have wanted to conquer women favour with my new love gun.
      Or how many “male enhancement” spam mails fall into my Spam filter every day.
      I've never seen Britain's Got Talent. Could it be as maudlin and mind-numbing as American Idol, which I have only seen twice because I couldn't stand all the hype about nothing?

    5. 5Lily

      wrote on 31 May 2009 at 16:19

      And no matter how many stupid people may live in Great Britain, the United States has many, many times more. We got ya beat to hell in the stupid men (and annoying women) category, I tell ya! Just watch any of our reality shows and you will know it is so.

    6. 6kateblogs

      wrote on 31 May 2009 at 20:46

      I'd guess there are at least as many of my gender who read the female equivalent – and some them are even worse. At least that site attempts to include 'worthy' subjects such as politics, few women's magazines do.

      Embarrassingly, I also got 90% in the 'their, they're, there' quiz on Facebook, but I was tired. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

      I don't have an amusing abbreviation joke to finish with, but in the 80s, I did think it was amusing that there was a parcel company called ANC

    7. 7kateblogs

      wrote on 31 May 2009 at 20:50

      I'm hoping I'll meet a man who's used it. I've always attracted weirdos who want to hold conversations with me?! Really, I want someone who says 'hey baby, let me conquer your favour with my new love gun'. No chance of that happening though, those men get snapped up by supermodels and film stars :-(

      I haven't seen AI, but I have a feeling they will be very similar

    8. 8kateblogs

      wrote on 31 May 2009 at 20:52

      Well, everyone has to be good at something lol Heck, we've cornered the market in drunken hooligans. People all over Europe speak of our work in that field.

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