…mnnnn, no, that’s another filksong.
Got ’em. If you’re not one and got caught in the tide of shoes and purses and brides from Asia, let me know. SIgh.
Thirty-eight spammers on Transport 18…
by CJ | Jun 22, 2013 | Journal | 22 comments
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Brides? That sounds like an interesting 20 mintues from an anthro perspective. I think I’d be tempted to look at one or two before I’d get sad over the desperation involved.
To the tune of “98 bottles of beer on the wall”…?
“the hour was late and the talk was obscene…”
Actually most everything scans to Greensleeves or Gilligan’s Island.
And 17 more at dawn… I just love how MollySmith has a server named reallygreatshoes dot com.
Um… And seventeen more were caught out at dawn
Molly’s server reallygreatshoes dot com
Ideal for a salesgirl, not for a friend,
Is the plague of the trolls never to end?
And at least 15 more by noon. I’ve got some ban software I’m trying to figure how to install. Can a bot do better than I do? Not if it has to notify me before it does it—but if it does it wrong, will I know? I swear, I’ve even thought of charging a quarter a signup…
If I got quarters from all the spammers, we could augment the grocery bill.
Hmn, maybe I could do an ad-click ONLY for the signup page…
Take all that Spam and ‘Can’ it, then you can forgo the groceries entirely.
I have a great recipe for Spam Musubi…
Ah, spam.
The offers of loans and instant deposits. You know, I could use a nice deposit, but it needs to be from someone I know.
The offers to enlarge body parts, whether I have them or not. (My whaaattt?!) The offers of pills to enhance…ah, no, sorry, that works well enough to be distracting….
The offers from young ladies who seem to be rather overheated and public spirited, wanting to please everyone and make new friends. — Sorry, girls, I’m sure you’re very nice, but really…uh, do you have any nice brothers or male cousins? — It’s one of the real oddities of the internet (or human nature and roles) that there aren’t an equal number from, uh, enterprising young men.
There is this Adriana, claiming to be from Facebook, who still says I said some very flattering things to her that she quite liked, and would dearly love to get to know me better. — Sorry, Adriana, but (1) I’m not on Facebook, (2) I would not be such a cad as to lead on some young lady, I like guys. (See above.) (3) You started out in the Spam Folder, and I’ve blocked two emails from you already. Uh…gotta admire a girl for trying, though!
I don’t know why I’m continuing to get spam from that source, though. I’ve never answered. I don’t get a lot of email from friends, but various friends and associates do have my email. To the point, I’ve blocked the one email address, and if I can find a way, I’ll block the domain (the website name after the at sign) if it’s uncommon, specific.
I’ve still gotten emails titled, “Married But Lonely” — *Really?* I don’t even know where to start. Wouldn’t touch that with a ten foot pole. (I am fairly sure there’s no such partner, but still, I have some definite ideas on “les affaires du coeur” and just, no, thanks.
LASIK? — No, wouldn’t help me anyway. (My eyes would need replacement or complete rebuild on the micro/nano level, in order to make my eyesight normal/average.)
Silicone gel implant lawsuit — The spam source must be spamming the entire planet with that one. Point one, I’m not a girl, and I can prove it. :LOL:
Other things claiming to be legal matters. — No, these are nothing to do with me, and any real notice would be sent by regular mail, as far as I know.
Store surveys. — No, thanks. Don’t have much budget for what I *do* want, let alone surveys for stores at which I don’t often shop. — In fairness, those two are from stores where I do shop and had given my email address, either for their online store or in general.
… That’s just in the last few days, and my email’s spam filters are pretty decent. It all gets shoved into a Spam Folder, and I can (thankfully) delete it all, or block addresses if needed. …
The latest flavor of spam I’ve seen is e-mails purporting to be surveys that will provide a gift card if you complete them; of course, you have to ‘register’, which will give you the pip and several types of malware. Whomever writes their copy has a worse command of English than a typical third grader, despite the appropriation of colors, layouts, and logos from TGIFridays, KFC, and Chili’s.
I’d sooner bet on the 3rd grader, really. Or perhaps a computer whiz-kid some years past that. Funny thing, there still *are* computer whiz-kids popping up at 12 through 18. One recently was hired for a whopping salary at one of the major web corporations. More power to ’em. (And in fairness, there are fewer girls and women who are computer science students, but the ones who stick with it are *skilled* as much as the guys. Given my college experience, I can’t explain *why* there aren’t a lot more female Comp Sci students now. It requires good math/science and problem solving skills, but there’s no male/female monopoly on that. (If CJ had been a CS student, I’d bet she’d do great. She shows all the mindset.) Note people like Grace Hopper.
Re English grammar, spelling, etc. — I worked for years doing editing, along with other hats, in a small business for design, typesetting, and graphics. I’ve also done editing for amateur web authors. I think I’ve seen it all. I count it lucky, or remarkable, when I find someone with English skills about A or B grades. I got used to several kinds of recurring problems when editing for people. (I’m not perfect. Lie and Lay still give me trouble in the past tenses. Sit and Set make sense, but why we got stuck with shall versus will, I can’t fathom. Crazy 18th and 19th century grammarians….) (And the British “was sat” and “was stood” bother me. I still don’t know if they’re standard or substandard British usage, but my American brain says, “foul!”)
Our American education system stopped being good about English skills even when I was in school. (I was lucky my mom had her B.A. in English and I had a natural talent for language, so English and then foreign languages and grammar made good sense to me.)
Let’s say I’ve seen terrible things when editing, in spelling, punctuation, and grammar. 😀 What has been seen cannot be unseen. One becomes used to it, inured to it, eventually.
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All that said, my personal opinion on story writing is that the ability to tell an engaging story is paramount, and English skills are important but secondary. English skills can be learned, improved. Storytelling skill can be learned somewhat, but there’s a degree to which it’s innate, a natural talent. Again in my opinion, it’s possible to tell in one to three chapters if a story (and author) has potential. Bad English can be edited or taught, but bad storytelling has to be re-drafted..or avoided. 🙂 And a good storyteller knows how and when to bend or break the rules of English, to tell a story, even if he or she isn’t too skilled with English. That’s why certain things in dialogue or narrative work in fiction writing that don’t fit the “rules” in the formal classroom textbooks. It’s writing and speaking “in the wild” in real usage. — A good editor, or a new editor who wants to be a good editor, needs to have a feel for that, to have a sense of when and why and how that works.
We speakers of American English tend to say ‘had been set’ rather than ‘was set’. I understand both without any major problems, but then, I pick up accents within days too. I am not trying to make fun of people, but I know it can come off that way.
Just been reading this one, and regarding not being a girl – there’s an app for that, I’m sure
Seriously though, silicon implants are a thing for men too, pectorals, bum, I’ve even heard of penis enlargers (CRINGE)
was in ref to BlueCatShip
Silicone implants in…oh dear….
That would be a very insecure guy.
IMHO, whatever body parts you’ve got, they’ve gotta be more attractive (or sexier) at their natural size than artificially increased.
I can see why some ladies might want reduction of certain features, for health and appearance, though.
Er, how did I paint myself into this corner? 😀
So you’re a young (ish?) man then? You seem unfamiliar with Peyronie’s Disease. Remember Monica Lewinsky? 😉
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyronie%27s_disease
If spammers have your email address (which they buy and sell) then likely one of your correspondents has or has had a malware infestation that has harvested his/her address book, and shipped it home.
I got several offering deals on the hajj. Which is at least *different*.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaX3U1w2Kjg great song
@bluecatship
My personal least favorite English error is using “her and me” rather than “she and I” as the subjects of sentences. There is one very popular SciFi ebook author that just doesn’t understand subjects and objects and doesn’t check his work very thoroughly. Auto-correct spell-checker is used so often than some of his paragraphs make no sense at all because the wrong words are selected so often. For obvious reasons his name will remain anonymous.
That would give me a nearly uncontrollable urge to get out the editing pen (software). I’m lucky I haven’t seen that writer yet. My reactions would probably make a good YouTube comedy video….
My *grade school* teachers explained how to avoid that. (You use the pronoun that applies to you when you’re alone, whether you’re part of the subject or part of the object.)