Thought this might amuse some of you...I received it a while ago, it looks lengthy but its very easy to read I promise you.... THE FOUR BASIC TYPES OF CHAIN LETTERS: <b>Chain Letter Type 1: </b> (scroll down) Make a wish!!! No, really, go on and make one!!! Oh please, they´ll never go out with you!!! Wish something else!!! No, I´m sorry, we´re out of ponies at the time being!! Have you forgotten why you´re scrolling yet? STOP!!!! Wasn´t that fun? <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Hope you made a great wish <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> 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 kidnapped by ninja elves 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 annoyed with you for sending them a stupid chain letter. *Send this to 2-5 people: 2-5 people will be annoyed with you for sending them a stupid chain letter. *Send this to 5-10 people: 5-10 people will be annoyed with 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 annoyed with you for sending them a stupid chain letter and will napalm your house. Thanks!!!! Good Luck!!! <b>Chain Letter Type 2: </b> 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 absolutely no way of counting the emails sent and this is all a complete load of junk. 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!! <b>Chain Letter Type 3: </b> 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 email addicts with nothing better to do. So this is how it works: 1. 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 received 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 poop, and went flying out over a waterfall. Not only did she smell nasty, she died too. This Could Happen To You!!! *Bizarre Horror Story* 2 Dexter Bip, a 13 year old boy, got a chain letter in his mail and ignored it. Later that day, he was crushed by an anvil that was dropped by a plane that just happened to be flying directly above him. This Could Happen To You Too!!! Remember, you could end up just like Pinsley and Bip. Just send this letter to all of your loser friends, and everything will be okay. <b>Chain Letter Type 4: </b> As if you care, here is a poem that I wrote. Send it to every one of your friends. Friends Blah, Blah, Blah, Friends, Blah, Blah, Blah. A friend is not someone who sends you chain letters because he wants his wish of being rich to come true. Now pass this on! If you don´t, no one will like you for as long as you live. I mean it, as long as you live. The point being? *If you get some chain letter that´s threatening to leave you friendless or luckless for the rest of your life, delete it. *If it´s funny, send it on. Don´t annoy people 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 hance of living 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 socks missing tomorrow morning!! <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>
Posts by Gromit
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excuse my ignorance, but, FEAR?
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Druid - lol. thats quite some image! could´ve been worse i suppose, *he* could have fallen on ya <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>
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I thought this was a thread discussing the pros and cons of mediaeval armour <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>
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I´m still not entirely sure what the purpose of the software is. Surely it can´t be *that* useful?
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lol. I never took you for a "platform shoes" type of guy FD <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> My parents are heavily into opera and classical music, so any music other than that was considered "a rebellion"...even freakin´ Simon and Garfunkel...prior to my teens, listening to "Mars the Bringer of War" would have been considered radical <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> But in answer to your question, I suppose the stuff that first began to annoy them was my "aerosmith phase" at the age of 13. Unfortunately for them I soon grew out of it when I discovered the wonderful world of grunge - so they were bombarded with the likes of Babes in Toyland, Silverfish, Screaming Trees, Dinosaur Jr, My Bloody Valentine etc etc. Saying that, at least they understood roughly where I was coming from with that stuff - when I went through my "the cure phase", that really knocked them for six.
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<font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade>Grom´s fave <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2> hehe well I wouldn´t go that far, but I can see where you´re coming from <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle><img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> In fact my favourite "swear word" would have to be "bugger". This is where it all gets a little vague in my opinion. Everyone knows what the word means - and know it *could* be considered offensive. However back home in the north west of england, it is used frequently in a number of ways ("oh bugger", "bugger off", "bugger it" etc etc) and subsequently is considered widely as INoffensive. This is the perfect example of a word that *was* considered as swearing less than 50 years ago, yet is now generally accepted. Being a rounder more comfortable sounding word made it easier to become widespread imo....yet the meaning stays the same. I was brought up in a very religious family where swearing was prohibited and considered as much of a sin as adultery and theft. In fact, I remember getting severely repremanded for muttering "oh bugger" at the age of 14. However as a sign of the times, 16 years on, I´ve recently caught my mum saying it on more than one occasion - although she does tend to sheepishly apologise every time <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> What I´m getting at is simply the more a word is used, the more people "numb" to it and the more likely it is to become generally accepted. "Bugger", "Bollox" and "Smeg" have already began leaning that way, how long will it be until F*** goes the same way? Will C*** ever be accepted in polite society?
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They should never have made *any* sequels. The original was superb and awful all at the same time - and for that reason alone it became a cult classic. The sequels/tv series were horrible.
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Mike - I´ve got to say, you´ve got a great taste in movies <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> That quote though, again, when you look at the whole quote uses a swear word for emphasis... "How am I funny, like a clown? What is so funny about me? What the F*** is so funny about me? Tell me. Tell me what´s funny." *shudder* but saying that, you take the swear word out and its just as effective. The guy has me quaking every time I watch that film. Now, Casino, thats another film thats rammed with swearing but has some genuinely scary moments that have no swearing at all...for example, when Bob´s wife is about to leave him he grabs her arm and says... "Look at my eyes, do you see anything in the eyes that makes you think I´m going to let you take my child away from me with your condition?" ...there´s no need to swear, at that very moment you know he wouldn´t think twice about killing her where she stands. But it has to be said, De Niro pulls off those scenes without blinking an eye. He´s one scary so-n-so.
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I do agree that the chav-like over use of the f word is incomprehensively sad...eg. put the f´in kettle on, cos I f´in want an f´in cuppa, you f´in f´er...<img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> etc....but I suppose that it is just the nature of the subculture. No, what I was referring to earlier was the "everyday" use by Mr Average Man On The Street. Swearing nowadays appears most frequently with surprise - eg. "reallllly? get the f outta here" or "what? no f´in way!" or even "No sh**!!!". The words have been absorbed into everyday language and when used infrequently and in the right context, often go unnoticed. IMO, the only word in england that really turns heads still is c*** - it is still considered so offensive that you would actually hear long sucks of breath from the people around you if used in a public place, presuming of course they haven´t already commented on it being "too offensive". Which is exactly why I think that it should be filtered from this site. If any word should be censored, it should certainly be that one. (btw, I agree that the person making the statement certainly makes the difference. If Joe Pesci looked me in the eye and said "leave me alone you undesirable young man or I will be forced to defend myself"...I would crap myself and be out of there like a shot. lol. Its not always the big muscley ones that are the scariest <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> ) EDIT: I always find "lick my starfish" to be as effective as any swear word anyway <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Edited by - gromit on 10/19/2005 2:26:35 PM
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<font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade>After all, didn´t bobby say "Are you talkin to me?" - which whilst containing no swearing still managed to convey the fact that you were in the Scheiße. <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2> true, but the actual full quote is... You talkin´ to me? You talkin´ to me? You talkin´ to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin´ to? You talkin´ to me? Well, I´m the only one here. Who do the f*** do you think you´re talking to? ....*ahem* I believe thats a swear word used to affirm the threat - exactly as I was trying to explain in my more extreme example. Swearing is just a set of words in the english language that are used to heighten a point. Anyone who honestly thinks that swearing has no place in the english language, should visit england and experience their use in everyday non-threatening contexts.
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lol. cool. okedokee matee...offend away...<img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>
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I totally agree, but lets face it, which would you take more seriously if they were shouting at you? I know for sure which person I would be backing away from. lol <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>
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I find it interesting that someone said you can only truly express yourself if you *don´t* use swear words...I do agree, but hasten to add that if you are unbelievably annoyed with someone, to the point where you detest them, surely a much more effective way to to express this would be... "**** off you ****ing ****" rather than "please go away you detestable person". By using the second phrase you demonstrate your vocabulary, yet you fail to truly express yourself to the extent of the english language. Whereas the first method is a quick and legitimate expression of disgust. "Swear" words after all are only an extension of the english language - their definition in the oxford english is "To use abusive, violent, or blasphemous language against". Also, the word "swear" itself means "To say or affirm earnestly and with great conviction" which is exactly why it is directly linked to such "bad words" - if you want to be abusive with great conviction, then it surely is not only an acceptable method, but also the most effective, no? <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> (and yes I totally understand why this ICRA labelled site has to be swear filtered - I just thought it was about time someone was honest enough to stand up for swearing!) Edited by - gromit on 10/18/2005 9:39:57 AM
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absolutely my friend....unfortunately though, it doesn´t explain why the word c*nt still gets through the filter <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> think it would be a good idea to add it, don´t you?
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while we´re on the subject - are you aware that the TLR auto-censor doesn´t spot <b>the </b> word that is considered by many to be the "most offensive" swear word in the british language?? (and no taw, I don´t mean "work"....well, not unless "work" suddenly rhymes with "punt", "stunt" and "hunt" anyway...enough hints?! <img src=smilies/icon_smile_wink.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> ) I´m not trying to encourage the use of it here, I´m merely pointing out that it needs fixing.
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There is a really easy away around this... Thompson said "based" on his idea. So all they have to do is create it word for word accurately. Simple solution - extend the game. But make the hero become a pitiful character obsessively encouraged by tv news reports showing Thompson condemning games writers as being the devil´s spawn. Twist Thompson´s opinion so that he becomes a fundamentalist leader in charge of a covert underground gang of terrorist-like, over-obsessed, right wing parents bent on destroying the game industry. As the story progresses, the antihero can realise that he´s being twisted and manipulated by the extreme opinions of others and then turn on the very man that began it all - Thompson. The game could conclude with a scene were the antihero stands over Thompson´s crumpled body and realises that it was his own fault in the first place, because he should have talked to his kid more about the games he was playing. I actually would do it myself if I had the funding <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Edited by - gromit on 10/15/2005 7:39:04 AM
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nope sorry, that button has been there for years
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lol. but its got a "retro chic" to it <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>
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its called a "google bomb"...google it and you´ll find loads more <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>