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Being in an office I get the usual round of classic and dud e-mail gags doctored JPGs, powerpoint presentations etc etc. Of course there have been a LOT of stuff about THE SITUATION. taliban, anthrax, bin laden -- all grist to some piss-poor joke mill somewhere along the interweb.

My question is largely to US ILE-ers, do you get these, and do you find them upsetting or not? A work colleague sent a 'funny' JPG to a number of people (as you do) including one person from the US and he was quite taken back with the sharpness of the response from this one person. i think he was a bit of a fool to do this, but really have you been upset by these things? Do you get them in quite the same number? (at a guess i was getting a dozen or so, plus many more website links, a couple of weeks back)

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

new sensitive answers. (no animated gifs please)

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I got a bit pissed off with the Taliban/Bin Laden ones so I ended up asking a couple of friends not to send me those any more. But I've said it before and I'll say it again, the ones that really fucking get my goat are the "This is international women's friendship week, there is an angel watching over you, this is a virtual hug, send this on to ten strong women" ones. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!

― Madchen, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I did get pretty annoyed about all those Nostradamus and Sept 11th ones. Normally quite rational people were attaching "Now I'm really scared" messages to them! He made those predictions 100 years after his death, you know.

― james, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can I be hugged by ten strong women?

― Ally C, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I didn't really aim that too well did I. There's the issue of taste with these jokes. I mean it was actually pretty impressive that the interweb star-chamber in charge of jokes didn't get going straight away -- usually there's at least one gag within minutes of some news story. this time there was a gap of, what, a good 3 weeks? but that doesn't stop the fact that we end up with photoshopped images showing plane-proof twin towers, and other even more distasteful things.

i guess you could defend it as a legitimate way of dealing with it. but for a lot of people (the bereaved and directly involved) i imagine it won't relieve the intensity of the emotion involved.

Bloody hell, i've just re-read that. still i'm posting it anyway, so sod you.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i have seen none of these but I think this is because most of my friedns no that I would get very upset by them. I tend to have a sense of humour faliure when people make light of barbaric senseless killing. I do, however like good, satire steve bell and private eye being good cases in point

― Ed, Monday, 12 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

photoshop doctoring happens so fast now, grab the video still spend 30mins with the cut n paste.. .

strikes me as a bit a poor method of voicing anger with the recent events," i know, i hate bin laden I'll photoshop him, HA. " kind of displays people's media apathy..

― jk, Tuesday, 13 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

today i got a porno one with the subject line "Lick My Baby Back". interpret as you will.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 22 November 2002 13:21 (twenty-three years ago)

(i was hoping it was the slogan for the "buy an ice-cream and support the swift-return of kidnapped children" cause)

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 22 November 2002 13:23 (twenty-three years ago)

(this has nothing to do with the taliban, the thread name just seemed right.)

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 22 November 2002 13:25 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

Hi there from Russian Federation. I am a lady of 28 years. This is
Darya. I live in Kansk.
Its 4200 km from Moscow.
I would like to find a man from the USA. I saw your e-mail over the
Internet dating agency.
I am sure that you will answer me and we will try to crate our romance
with you. Hope you are not against of it.
I have no children. I am single.

My height 165 cm
My weight 55 kg
Age 28
I slim

Please, if you want to talk to me,reply me back and I will send my
images to you.
Right ?

Lets try and who knows, maybe we will be a perfect match... Probably,
we will have a datevery soon.

Reply me back to the following e-mail:
{edited out}

Sincerely yours,
Darya

― CaptainLorax, Thursday, 20 August 2009 00:28 (sixteen years ago)

I slim

― （　´_ゝ˙） (Dr. Phil), Thursday, 20 August 2009 00:31 (sixteen years ago)

http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss51/tr_fudge/iceberg_slim.jpg

"Hope you are not against of it; probably."

― disgusting ass co-op (tremendoid), Thursday, 20 August 2009 00:35 (sixteen years ago)

crating your romance is prob the most economical way to transport it from russia TBF

― please link to them and breathe into a paper bag (jjjusten), Thursday, 20 August 2009 00:36 (sixteen years ago)

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