If you're going to post a chain letter...

[conuly]

1. Please, please, please take the time to format it correctly. If you don't care enough about your message to take out the >>> and paragraph it properly, why should we care enough to read it?
2. Please don't apologise "if this has been posted here before". You don't care, and we know it. If you cared, you'd get up off your ass and make sure that it hadn't been posted yesterday. And the day before. And two days before that. And eight times the previous week.
3. Please don't tell us to "spread it everywhere". It's a chain letter. It's already been spread everywhere. In fact, you didn't need to post it at all. Furthermore, we'll spread it if we damn well feel like it. If you have to ask people to share the news, it can't be very important or interesting.
4. Do yourself a favor, think a little. Do you really believe that not shopping on the 20th will send any kind of message to the powers that be? Do you think they'll even notice? Who, exactly, will be hurt if you don't shop? Will it be the president? Or corporations? More likely, it'll be small business owners who are hurt.
5. If you can't think, check Snopes. No, they're not always right, but at least they'll talk you out of posting any stupid chain letters.

Comments

[latenightparty.livejournal.com]

Chain letters annoy the crap out of me. Also, it does sound stupid that "if you don't send this to 20 people immediately, a meteor will fall on you!" Or whatever.

Somebody gave me a chain letter when I was in sixth grade. It instructed you to not let anyone else touch the letter, sit down, drink a glass of milk, say the name of a boy you have a crush on while holding the letter, then give it to however many people within the specified time period. "If you don't do this," the letter warned, "you'll have bad luck with boys forever."

Well, I let my mom touch the letter, then I didn't do the dumb ritual or spread it. And... I have terrible luck with men. Most men aren't attracted to me, and as for those who are... I seem to be a magnet for assholes. I think this may have to do with my being chubby, not-so-good-looking and non-NT more than anything. But when I think of my awful experiences with relationships, I think of that stupid sixth-grade chain letter.

I know, I know, I went on a total tangent. But I've been thinking about that letter and the past misery of my "love" life tonight, and when I saw a post about chain letters it came pouring out.

[rantinan.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you need some *hugs*.

I gave up on boys. Girls are nicer. Espicaly trans girls. they understand the whole not fitting in thing perfectly and make plenty of alowences.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

I seem to be a magnet for assholes. I think this may have to do with my being chubby, not-so-good-looking and non-NT more than anything.

Bah. I suspect it has more to do with the vast proportion of assholes in the world. *virtual hugs*

[latenightparty.livejournal.com]

Eek! Now, after I left the comment, I'm realizing just how much it sounds like a pity party/whinefest. I guess I'm just bummed about relationships tonight, and I think of that chain letter when I think of that. Thanks for the hugs.

[rantinan.livejournal.com]

Dear Conuly.

Please resopond
I am a nigerian/southafrican/cambodian/iraqui/ businessperson/government minister/developer/military expert/consultant/wife with $*undisclosed but ludicrous* amount in a bank account that I have an invoice for to pay you by direct transfer/want to launder *Y*% and have picked you because of your trustworthyness/and havent forwarded it to Conuly0-999999999999@randomemail.com honestly.
Special bonus get 10 of your friends to reply and you can have a free *technogimick* or bill gates will send you $1000.

These days I reply in a most evil fashion. I tell them that any busness from myself would be on offical stationary, I dont recall any invoices (etc) being created for that amount to that person, and demand that they provide all relevant information for my auditors to begin investigating.


I am indeed evil.

[push-the-limits.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got a chain letter in the mail once. You know, back when they were sent snail mail. I was 13. I did exactly what it said, and sent out 10 copies of it. It said that if I didn't, I would have bad luck. So I did. And a week later, my grandpa died. :/

As for the email chain letters, they're all crap. I don't even read them. I delete them right off the bat.

[latenightparty.livejournal.com]

Chain letters annoy the crap out of me. Also, it does sound stupid that "if you don't send this to 20 people immediately, a meteor will fall on you!" Or whatever.

Somebody gave me a chain letter when I was in sixth grade. It instructed you to not let anyone else touch the letter, sit down, drink a glass of milk, say the name of a boy you have a crush on while holding the letter, then give it to however many people within the specified time period. "If you don't do this," the letter warned, "you'll have bad luck with boys forever."

Well, I let my mom touch the letter, then I didn't do the dumb ritual or spread it. And... I have terrible luck with men. Most men aren't attracted to me, and as for those who are... I seem to be a magnet for assholes. I think this may have to do with my being chubby, not-so-good-looking and non-NT more than anything. But when I think of my awful experiences with relationships, I think of that stupid sixth-grade chain letter.

I know, I know, I went on a total tangent. But I've been thinking about that letter and the past misery of my "love" life tonight, and when I saw a post about chain letters it came pouring out.

[rantinan.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you need some *hugs*.

I gave up on boys. Girls are nicer. Espicaly trans girls. they understand the whole not fitting in thing perfectly and make plenty of alowences.

[mhari.livejournal.com]

I seem to be a magnet for assholes. I think this may have to do with my being chubby, not-so-good-looking and non-NT more than anything.

Bah. I suspect it has more to do with the vast proportion of assholes in the world. *virtual hugs*

[latenightparty.livejournal.com]

Eek! Now, after I left the comment, I'm realizing just how much it sounds like a pity party/whinefest. I guess I'm just bummed about relationships tonight, and I think of that chain letter when I think of that. Thanks for the hugs.

[rantinan.livejournal.com]

Dear Conuly.

Please resopond
I am a nigerian/southafrican/cambodian/iraqui/ businessperson/government minister/developer/military expert/consultant/wife with $*undisclosed but ludicrous* amount in a bank account that I have an invoice for to pay you by direct transfer/want to launder *Y*% and have picked you because of your trustworthyness/and havent forwarded it to Conuly0-999999999999@randomemail.com honestly.
Special bonus get 10 of your friends to reply and you can have a free *technogimick* or bill gates will send you $1000.

These days I reply in a most evil fashion. I tell them that any busness from myself would be on offical stationary, I dont recall any invoices (etc) being created for that amount to that person, and demand that they provide all relevant information for my auditors to begin investigating.


I am indeed evil.

[push-the-limits.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got a chain letter in the mail once. You know, back when they were sent snail mail. I was 13. I did exactly what it said, and sent out 10 copies of it. It said that if I didn't, I would have bad luck. So I did. And a week later, my grandpa died. :/

As for the email chain letters, they're all crap. I don't even read them. I delete them right off the bat.