Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
and a quick Congrats to Nilly... er rather DOCTOR Nilly!!!
Indeed. Yay Dr. Nilly!
Hmmm. "Dr. Nillytown"?
Too bad it's not Nillyville. It has more flow as an earworm.
Linking away again with Doctor Nillyville
Looking for a good link to those shows.
Some people claim that they can search for the same,
But who cares? Nilly already knows.
On the other hand there's
Doctor Nilly
Hey! Doctor Nilly!
Doctor Nilly
Hey! Doctor Nilly!
Doctor Nilly
Hey! Doctor Nilly!
Doctor Nilly. Doc-Doctor Nilly!
Doctor Nilly. Doc-Doctor Nilly!
Oh Man am I up too early. Time to hit the shower and back to bed.
Just how wrong is it to "reply all" with a Snopes addy when you get some stupid, pseudo-patriotic, forwarded email?
Depends on how much (or *if*) you care about ticking off the sender.
I tend to "reply all" with a Snopes link when someone sends a ridiculous, unfounded health-related e-mail (like, don't drink cold beverages with a meal, because the cold beverage will hit the food in your stomach and solidify the fat in the meal and prevent digestion -- that was a real e-mail my mom sent me, and I Snopes-ed her on it).
I've done it, Windsparrow.
I tend to "reply all" with a Snopes link when someone sends a ridiculous, unfounded health-related e-mail (like, don't drink cold beverages with a meal, because the cold beverage will hit the food in your stomach and solidify the fat in the meal and prevent digestion -- that was a real e-mail my mom sent me, and I Snopes-ed her on it).
Oh lord, someone sent me that one just yesterday. Gives my Coke Zero-loving self the screaming irrits, it does.
This was not the first time this person has forwarded utter crap. In the past, I have taken the more subtle approach of sending the Snopes link to her saying, "You'll be relieved to know that is not true...." and hoping she would also forward the Snopes link to all she misinformed. I kept hoping she would learn to check things out first before forwarding. At this point, seeing as she has not learned that yet, I figure I can't trust her to correct the false information she sends out. So I want to make sure to spread the truth myself. And to be honest, if it just happens to cause a smidgeon of embarrassment, just enough for her to either stop sending me crap or check the crap out on Snopes first, I won't be horribly taken aback at the depths of my own evil.
I'm fortunate that my Mom is happy to Snopes our relatives when they forward stupid shit, so I don't have to deal with it.
The difficult ones for me are the autism/vaccines posts on local parenting mailing lists. I know from experience that correcting people publicly generates all light and no heat, but GODDAMN IT PEOPLE, VACCINATE YOUR FUCKING KIDS.
GODDAMN IT PEOPLE, VACCINATE YOUR FUCKING KIDS.
srsly.
Don't think of it as evil, Andi. It's a public service.
(And once again I'm relieved that my family has never picked up the "forward stuff to everyone on your contact list" meme. I don't know why they haven't, but I'm not about to question it.)
I've sent a 'Hey folks, please analyse the shit you get sent and ask yourself "Hmm, is this insidious racist bullshit?", and if you think maybe it is, check Snopes! See, here's the Snopes link proving that your junkmail was, indeed, insidious racist bullshit' to my mother, and to all the people on the mailing list who'd received the email.
She was horrified, and has been much more inclined to think critically about the junkmail her friends send her.
