OT: High-level spam...

[Randallw]

for the record I too have a mental illness and am on a disability pension (my mother thinks everyone here is probably like me and Narf and has nothing better to do )

yes, I too get spam like that

"Please kind sir, I have cancer and neeed help. Donations welcome"

oh that's nice, I think, an appeal to my sense of pity. How unfortunate I don't have one.

That and I don't trust anything from Africa. It will be a bad day when someone from Africa has a genuine reason to contact me, I can't imagine why, and I ignore it as soon as I see their name is Jospeh Mbutu or it's from Nigeria.

Edit: Don't get the idea I'm heartless. I'll help disabled people through the door if I'm walking past. It's just when I see stuff on TV going on about some sick person and how they need an operation I am unable to see why it should concern me. Thus an appeal designed to make me feel sorry for someone and offer help is doomed to fail.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

There's guilt and then there's guilt-trips. I don't appreciate people trying to trip me.

[Randallw]

"There is no innocence...only varying degrees of guilt."

[narf poit chez BOOM]

...Usually that phrase is used to justify hating people for not living up to unrealistic expectations.

[Atrocities]

the first hint that it was spam would have been hrdep.mcneil@gmail.com

[Randallw]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
...Usually that phrase is used to justify hating people for not living up to unrealistic expectations.

Well it's from Warhammer 40K, probably said by an Inquisitor. A setting where failing to survive being shot at means you don't believe in the Emperor enough.

although I do feel it has some merit. It would take a discussion about original sin and the needs of small children to explain it.

[capnq]

Randallw said: I don't trust anything from Africa. It will be a bad day when someone from Africa has a genuine reason to contact me, I can't imagine why, and I ignore it as soon as I see their name is Jospeh Mbutu or it's from Nigeria.

A perfect excuse to plug one of my favorite webcomics: Irregular Webcomic!

[Randallw]

capnq said: A perfect excuse to plug one of my favorite webcomics: Irregular Webcomic!

Being Australian I already know about IWC, and check every night at 9pm assured there will be a new one. I also now read Darths and Droids.

[Renegade 13]

Randallw said:
(my mother thinks everyone here is probably like me and Narf and has nothing better to do )

Yes and no. If I had to be like everyone else to be not "mentally ill" (a title / phrase / description that I hate, by the way), I'll take the issues I have, rather than be like most people.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Considering that a good portion of those who are as delusional as I have been at times are wearing jackets that let you hug yourself all the time, I think I'm doing quite well.