What I don't get...

[Animeniax]

My mum and aunt have had a bit of a run in with various groups in the social circle of my area and shit. I don't get why she's trying so hard to derive meaning from all this spam mail that she's getting.

It's FUCKING SPAM. IT HAS NO MEANING. STOP MAKING ME TRANSLATE USELESS, MEANINGLESS, WORTHLESS PILES OF CRAP.

My dad is involved with the same shit... Asian mailing groups that circulate nonsense spam email. He forwards on all of these ridiculous email to me and my sister, which we promptly delete. I've told him several times they are 99.99999999999999% false and should not be heeded, but in some cases he's actually made lifestyle/product choice changes based on these spam email. Old people will never learn.

[Buffalobiian]

My dad is involved with the same shit... Asian mailing groups that circulate nonsense spam email. He forwards on all of these ridiculous email to me and my sister, which we promptly delete. I've told him several times they are 99.99999999999999% false and should not be heeded, but in some cases he's actually made lifestyle/product choice changes based on these spam email. Old people will never learn.

Oh, mine's a little worse than that. But run in, I mean dramas, rumours and bitching. She's trying to decrypt these emails for any underlying meaning. For example regarding the Ice Age link, she was saying that the sender meant that the world is messed up today because of little shits ("small people", meaning people with little {narrow} hearts in Chinese) like them.

You know what I think? "Oh, look! This is funny, take a look at this! /forward."

Oh, and the sender is white.


But yeah, your dad's just like mine, my aunt and my other aunt. They don't seem to understand that useless emails are just that. Useless.

It's only on the rare occasion that they ask me to read/translate something useful, like this email about identifying signs of a stroke.

[KitKat]

He forwards on all of these ridiculous email to me and my sister, which we promptly delete.

So you have a sister. Your feelings have now betrayed her too. Obi Wan was wise to hide her from the forum.

also, my father think that I'm internet magician. asking me to find a phone number or private mail address of someone. it doesn't matter that he sees that all I do is google, he still insists on me doing it.

My roommates are exactly the same. They have this running joke that I can answer any question, but a lot of the time when they ask me stuff they watch me google it and I read out the answer from Wikipedia or wherever.