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Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Banana Factory posted:

if there were any spelling or grammar errors.... just imagine it was meant to make the FWD mail more convincing.
It's not quite there, because why would they let someone who was a prisoner be interviewed. Change it to "we talked to the family of one man, 'the Jones'"

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Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


More paragraph breaks and we've got a winner.

v v Ho-lee poo poo this is perfect. I especially like how it goes all "FISSION MAILED" at the end. Can you throw a cyrillic or '&npsb' character at the end, like the government is taking over the message?

Shrecknet fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Aug 27, 2009

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


That letter completely omits the part about the first four getting $80 a day for backbreaking labor in service to the tenth man, their boss, who gets $30,000 a month from the factory they own. This is marginal utility writ large.

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


fishmech posted:

Er, not true. States have the right to secede, but a majority of the other states have to agree to the secession.

Of course that's never going to happen, but still.
I dunno. I'm kinda in favor at this point of just kicking out the South. Seriously, they don't do anything useful and they take way more money than they return. Hate blacks so much? :frogout:

I would of course offer asylum to any people in the new CSA who were, y'know, human.

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


^^ :wtc: Also,

quote:

They need to go.....straight to prison.
I can only read this in CSI:Miami intro voice now.

Also, re: The "Cosby" email, I'm 99% certain that, other than a tiny amount from Hawaii, almost all Coffee is grown outside of America. How are we supposed to get up and face the bright, prison-state xenophobe day if I can't get my coffee?!

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


unnoticed posted:

Hope this hasn't already been posted. A Juggernaut of craziness. Has pretty much everything. I even took the time to upload the images for the full experience. Enjoy:
I like how it isn't at all written like biblical prose, except maybe the first sentence, despite the description.

also, shit_that_never_happened.txt

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Gunuin posted:

It's late, I just posted a new thread and hosed up the title...it is missing a "thing" in the middle of the title...is there a mod that can help? I went back to edit after posting, and well I can't edit the title...

Title should read, "There is no such thing as nothing"....thanks!

That would be quite the email forward

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Toad on a Hat posted:

FYI The Bible doesn't mention Muslims even once... probably because it was written 600 years before Islam even came around.
Also, Obama is over 40. So we're all safe, looks like.

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


chesh posted:

AND THAT'S HOW OBAMA DESTROYED AMERICA!
Welcome to the Republican party.

:smugdog:

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


EggsofSteel posted:

I then included that video of Baby Sinclair saying "I'm the baby, gotta love me!"
ah yes, argumentum ad saurian, a classic tactic

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Moinkmaster posted:

Has anyone ever gotten a mail like this, but from a left-leaning veteran?
The one from Jesus (last page or so) is pretty amazing, and Jesus is fairly left-leaning (though he didn't serve. WHAT WERE YOU DOING IN THE NAZARTETH AIR NAT'L GUARD, CHRIST?)

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


crime fighting hog posted:

Who is this supposed to be? I'm drawing a blank. Did this happen 30 years ago or something?
Joe Scarborough allegedly killed one of his interns, but he's not in office anymore.

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Econosaurus posted:

I dont even know where to start, any comments?
The "winners drive home in the dark" comment, and all of Europe's 35-hour, statistically-more-productive workweek would be a start. I wouldn't say you've "won" if you have no life outside of work.

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Logan-5 posted:

These are brilliant. And in my view absolutely perfect for creating some fake conservative emails. All that's required is a fake back story to introduce the quotes probably, which should be easy enough considering all the templates provided by this thread. And there isn't a shortage of quotes in which Hitler actually sounds like a modern day tea partier, evoking God constantly and being nationalistic. All that really needs to change is "jews" to "illegal aliens", "germany/reich" to "America", "national socialists" to "tea party, etc., as your examples demonstrate. So goons, what say you to this idea?
Credit them to Fredrick A. Schist for maximum comedy/tip-off that you're kidding.

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Pfirti86 posted:

quote:

(2). We will immediately go into a two year isolationist attitude in order to straighten out the greedy big business posture in this country.. America will allow NO imports, and we'll do no exports. We will use the 'Wal-Mart 's policy, 'If we ain't got it, you don't need it.' We'll make it here and sell it here!
I love how this is viewed as a good idea, "yes, let's literally destroy our economy!"
Not to mention, Coffee beans do not grow in America (except for a very small amount in Hawaii). It should be interesting trying to run a country when no one can function before about 10am.

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


naptalan posted:

8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not 'interfere.' They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.
This part is true, though. :(

I remember a swazili or something expat in England begging Bono to stop sending aid so his peoples' rice trade would begin to stabilize

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


quote:

• Equally enforce all laws of the United States, without regard to race, creed or color.
That made me laugh the hardest, given the earlier, bolded part.

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Isn't the line "You might be a redneck?"

Like, not to be pedantic, but there aren't a lot of good, Christian comics out there that are Toby-Keith-approved listening, so these people have to have heard that bit a million times. How do you get it wrong?

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Pfirti86 posted:

Seriously though, Forex scams are so common it's almost laughable that they still exist. Unless you're a professional trader with a lot of experience and knowledge of the market (along with a ton of capital), you should have no business with Forex.
That's what I don't get. It's like, you get the forward that says "Buy Dinars!" Wouldn't your first reaction (assuming you believe the message) be to call your banker and say, "Hey, buy me some Dinars?" Who would click on a link and buy Dinars on the internet from 'some guy selling Dinars'?

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


MariusLecter posted:

Thanks, it's nice to have empirical proof that Joe Scarborough is a moron, instead of just being really sure of it on my own.

I don't get how every thing Joe Scarborough says isn't immediately and always followed up with, "Joe Scarborough probably murdered his page."

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Defenestration posted:

An oldie but the photo really makes it
I've done a line-by-line refutation of this, but it's mostly hateful vitriol from a fed-up liberal, rather than the usual tactic of "I'm sorry you feel that way, I hope you live a happy life even if you hate me." responses that actually work

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


LeJackal posted:

Yeah, that is hosed up. Why didn't that senior citizen use his psychic powers to divine the true intent of the criminals brandishing weapons and threatening to use deadly force in the commission of their crime? That's just irresponsible, taking action without a complete and total knowledge of a situation! He should be heavily penalized in consideration of this information that came to light after the fact.
Unironically agreeing with this histrionic post.

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Zeitgueist posted:

Not to pile on, but I am having trouble thinking of a time where the military did side with the people when asked to attack citizens.

Egypt.

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


The thing that makes me maddest about that is that they're butchering Foxworthy's bit. It's "might be," not "may be," and the whole thing only works because of his delivery.

But huge racist assholes are also unfunny and don't understand comedy, go figure v:shobon:v

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Soonmot posted:

it was a different time.
:psyboom: It was 1993.

Bill Clinton was President.

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Troy Queef posted:

Until today, when he posted this whopper of a chain letter:

quote:

What about the U.S. House members passing out $9.1 million in bonuses to their staff members on top of the $2.5 million in automatic pay raises that lawmakers gave themselves? I understand the average House aide got a 17% bonus. I took a 5% cut in my pay to save jobs with my employer. You haven't said anything about that. Who authorized that? I surely didn't!
Ignore the rest of the letter and point out that the house votes its own raises, the President has nothing to do with it.

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Somehow my work email got signed up for a "Patriot's Newsletter" and I can't bring myself to unsubscribe because it's amazing to watch their torturous logic. Also, I got a headline "OBAMA IS DESTORYING AMERICA," which proses a real problem! :haw:

Anyway, here's the whopper in today's dispatch:

quote:

I just came across this old assignment from when I was 9 years old. I was assigned to answer 'What the Constitution Means to Me'. Here is what I wrote:

"What the Constitution means to me": by Gabe (in my own 4th grade spelling, I've improved)

It means my life, country and my happiness. If we didn't have the constitution we would be like Cuba. and if you don't know about Cuba at let me tell you a little about it. Once Cuba was butiful just like the U.S.A. then some bad people took over, Just like my moms friend Nina Pellegrini said: (she lived in Cuba)"Every little... thing was a pebble, the people ignored those little pebbles and those little pebbles became stones and those stones became boulders And soon the people couldn't move at all, they are so controlled!" And I don't want that to happen to are country! Even our constitution is being chiped away by the government! We must stand gaurd!
Yes, adorable 9 year olds often refer to their parent's friends by their full first-and-last names while spelling beautiful and guard wrong. This is a thing that has ever happened.

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Attached was only the line, "Dear Statists..."


Congratulations! You found the only two blocks in Somalia still standing and not suffuse with human misery! :bravo:

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Spangly A posted:

benefits are sliding scale too, no?

hahahhahaha you must not be American

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Slimchandi posted:

I love the FB anonymizer, but I just don't get this one. :shrug:

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Who What Now posted:

So is the second or third time someone has shot unarmed teens execution style in the last few months?

america.txt

:stonklol:
...
:smithicide:

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Jurgan posted:

Okay, so a family member of mine (who is Republican but not freep-level rightwing) has ended up on a number of mailing lists. Thought I'd share. Here's some pretty unhinged stuff about abolishing the IRS that never forgets to use Obama's full name:


So like, what's the requirement to send out these things? I feel like creating one of these and then just giving to the SPLC is something I'd like to try my hand at. How likely am I to go to jail for fraud?

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005




#notallempires

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


What is the point of even having an image here?

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Mellow Seas posted:

Don't a lot of devout Muslims invoke God in a shitton of sentences that a westerner never would? So a sentence like that could sound absurd translated, but if you appreciate the more idiomatic meaning, which is just kind of a general regular affirmation of God's existence and power, it could be pretty normal battlefield chatter.
One of my favorite idiomatic differences is "Death to [X]," which sounds bad but in reality is used a billion times a day in Muslim cultures, to the point where cabbies will yell "Death to Traffic Lights!" when they catch a red.

It doesn't mean anything stronger than "I don't like thing," so "Death to America" is not really a threat.

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


RagnarokAngel posted:

I think you want to take more attention to Their God. It's trying to put up this whole thing about the Muslim God and Judaic (And Christian of course!) God as two separate entities.


Do you have a source on this?
There was a This American Life a while ago where they interviewed a Farsi guy living in Chicago about language and he talked about "Death to [X]."

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


Mo_Steel posted:

Whose guns have been taken away? Where?? Where in the United loving States of America in the year of our lord 2014 has anyones guns been taken by the President?
They usually take your guns away when you demonstrate a schizophrenic break and present a clear and present danger to those around you, so... v:shobon:v

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005



My friend, who is in fact the nerdiest person on the planet, had me create a meme that counters that:

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


SedanChair posted:

My god the truth of that message would have been striking as plaintext, but as a jpg of a photo of a sign in comic sans put in a blck border, watermarked and with "like and share" written on it, my god it's as if I've breathed pure oxygen for the first time, my god
pure oxygen is dangerous and will cause brain damage. a good analogy.

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Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005


seiferguy posted:

In my senior year of high school I had a Kerry / Edwards bumper sticker on my car. My mom ordered a bunch and gave one to me. It got torn off and I replaced it four times. Who's the one stifling free speech now, huh :colbert:

(It was probably just other high school kids being kids)

High school kids don't give a poo poo about bumper stickers or politics. Only grown-up assholes are that petty.

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