Bin Laden jokes!

[glohworm]

I don't know about others on this forum, but I'm going out of my mind with friends sending me e-mails about "Osama Bin Laden", etc., and everything else with a, "FWD", in the subject heading! I find myself deleting 20-30 e-mails everyday without even reading them! It's become a real pain in the ***. The problem is that these e-mails are coming from good friends who happen to think that these particular jokes or images are just what I need to make my day! Duh!

How do you tell your friends to stop forwarding goofy, innane, bulls...., without hurting their feelings? Whatever happened to one-on-one e-mails? I've tried to tell everyone that forwarding stuff leaves us all open to viruses, etc., but no one listens! Someone has to have an answer for this friendly spam.

Gary

[NDD]

You're taking your 0.45mm Eagle and shooting one of them in the head, thus giving other a good example of what will happen if they continue spamming you, even with best intentions :)

J/K !!! DON'T TRY AT HOME !!! :cool:

[glohworm]

ND,

Thanks so much for your, "erudite", reply! I had to look that one up in Websters! I'm an old **** and I'm starting to realize that I've got a bit of a bad attitude and this forum is too great of a place for the likes of me! I've got to keep my mouth shut and try to listen and learn without posting! My only claim to fame here is my thread about Laural & Hardy, and I learned something in spite of myself! Go figure.

I must tell you though, this wonderful forum, like all others, can be taken over by people with big egos! Good people, no doubt, but people who've posted hundreds of times, (Avitar?) to the point where they feel they have a proprietary interest, i.e., they feel as though they own the forum. Am I the only one who feels this way? I guess it's human nature.

This is my last post, but I can't help thinking about that dude who called himself, "ClubMed", the Arabian guy living in Austria, who had the balls to argue with us Western guys about the **** going on in this world! Everyone laughed it off about Islam and I think it was a big mistake! We should have afforded him the opportunity to speak his mind without anyone deriding his opinions and his background. I spent 11 mos in Nam in 1967 and I've learned the hard way to respect others' views. Just an old senile vet talking here. God bless us all!

Gary:)

[ChrisDevismes]

Don't do it Glohworm ! How can you let the means to free thought be snuffed out.

Question. Why do we respond in this place. Is it that we don't have a life beyond bits of electronics or are we taking advantage of speaking across the world and maybe understanding that them **** reds (et al) are mostly just people like you and me.

Sad Sack with Anorak

[Sir Percy Punch]

I hope you don't leave this forum, it needs people like you with opinions of their own.

If sometimes those opinions differ from those of the majority (are the majority are always right - I don't think so somehow) great, maybe we will learn something.

:)

[djd_201]

so you posted a thread about your friends sending you too many e-mails on ben-laden. I think if I was getting that many hits on my e-mail from my friends on "any" subject, I would have to say "something" about clogging up my mail> But if it is on the subject of this recent virus to our home country on 911, this new version of a Hitler in a different ethnic form, then my friends might need to realize something, with all due respect to our friends. When we got to that stage where the shuttle blew up, they said jokes started in the bars 45 minutes later. When Kennedy passed, it was probably the same but most likely not to the emphatic degree that our laxed personalities have developed to today. No I am not being cynical with malice. Only this. We joke through our tragedies no matter what, it is a part of our natural human nature and a healthy process of healing. If you can't laugh about your cuts and bruises there is probably something more seriously wrong. However, if we laugh about those wounds while others are still receiving theirs from the same plight (ie: the troops not to long ago who passed away in service when their helicopter crashed from a hit) then we probably ought to rethink our own mental stratigies of healthy healing. I served in the First (1st infantry) 64C30 Transport Operator 1975-1979 and was far lucky enough to have not served in full combat. When I was young and not too bright (knowledge without wisdom is far more dangerous than a loaded weapon) I had the desire and motivation to seek combat. It didn't take long for me to "see the light" of truth in such scenarios, or rather what we use to call sysopts. I am 44 now, and have seen the plights and punishments enough to have gained wisdom, those wounds (both internal and external) that have been received by those who with honor in duty... not merely to our country, but also in service to and for each and everyone one of us who might sit within the comfort of home... suffer. I think sometimes we should maybe send more mail that might maybe lay within the boundries of worries about our guys (and though their choice of occupational dreams were as they were), we might stop once in a while just to realize that they are probably waking up in the morning happy that they are merely waking up. Sometimes we forget what and where we are. No more or it might sound a semblance of criticism> Sorry for my soap box routine. Thanks for listening though...and BTW you posted a good note of thought...

[acid_burn~187]

For all those linux users out there. :)

rm -f /bin/laden

~Paul

[djd_201]

so you posted a thread about your friends sending you too many e-mails on ben-laden. I think if I was getting that many hits on my e-mail from my friends on "any" subject, I would have to say "something" about clogging up my mail> But if it is on the subject of this recent virus to our home country on 911, this new version of a Hitler in a different ethnic form, then my friends might need to realize something, with all due respect to our friends. When we got to that stage where the shuttle blew up, they said jokes started in the bars 45 minutes later. When Kennedy passed, it was probably the same but most likely not to the emphatic degree that our laxed personalities have developed to today. No I am not being cynical with malice. Only this. We joke through our tragedies no matter what, it is a part of our natural human nature and a healthy process of healing. If you can't laugh about your cuts and bruises there is probably something more seriously wrong. However, if we laugh about those wounds while others are still receiving theirs from the same plight (ie: the troops not to long ago who passed away in service when their helicopter crashed from a hit) then we probably ought to rethink our own mental stratigies of healthy healing. I served in the First (1st infantry) 64C30 Transport Operator 1975-1979 and was far lucky enough to have not served in full combat. When I was young and not too bright (knowledge without wisdom is far more dangerous than a loaded weapon) I had the desire and motivation to seek combat. It didn't take long for me to "see the light" of truth in such scenarios, or rather what we use to call sysopts. I am 44 now, and have seen the plights and punishments enough to have gained wisdom, those wounds (both internal and external) that have been received by those who with honor in duty... not merely to our country, but also in service to and for each and everyone one of us who might sit within the comfort of home... suffer. I think sometimes we should maybe send more mail that might maybe lay within the boundries of worries about our guys (and though their choice of occupational dreams were as they were), we might stop once in a while just to realize that they are probably waking up in the morning happy that they are merely waking up. Sometimes we forget what and where we are. No more or it might sound a semblance of criticism> Sorry for my soap box routine. Thanks for listening though...and BTW you posted a good note of thought...

[djd_201]

Good counsel...sorry for the double post,,,,new virus BTW out...anybody wanna talk?....innoculateT?