Enough with the Darn Insanity List Already!

Anyone who's been on the internet for a few years or even a few months will
no doubt be receiving and *gasp* sending chain letters.

They are annoying.

They are *ALL* ANNOYING!

But what's even worse than simply getting these darn things in one's inbox
is seeing them on web forums and blogs!

chain letters are not just your average get rich quick schemes. They are
cutesy or tear-jerking sappy stories that shout to you they are really
really really true, pics of cute little dancing animals and teddybear cloud
formations, pointless trivia that is actually not really trivia at all, but
a lot of bull that has no basis in truth, or at least very badly distorted,
turning what might've been true into a soundbite of distorted
misinformation. And then there are the hoaxes such as the kidney theft
story, the needles on theater seats, the missing/dying kid hoaxes, the
warnings about plastic in the microwave, and so on. There are also these
infernal brain teasers, surveys with pointless and never-ending questions,
pointless ponderings, and nonsense lists of ways to annoy your boss, ways to
freak out your friends/room mates/relatives etc. ways to be sane, ways to be
crazy.

And it is the "ways to" I'm going to scream about here.

It's a list of absolutely dumb, even some outright offensive ideas on how to
make the people around you think you've gone koo-koo.

Things like - make beeping noises whenever a large person backs up, I found
this particularly offensive. Replying to everything anyone says to you with
"Would you like fries with that?" Paging yourself over the PA/intercom
system, with the added instruction "Don't disguise your voice." And many
other extremely lame ideas that people have sent me in so many copies of
that darn chain letter over the years.

I haven't received it lately, thank goodness, or else I might have a hard
time not yelling at whoever sent it.

But I've found this idiotic thing is getting posted all over the net on
people's blogs, for crying out loud!

I'm interested in voice changers, and voice changing software, so one of the
alerts I get is for "Disguise your voice"

And what has been coming up in just about every alert, sometimes all by
itself, with no other really interesting site on voice changers?

That blasted dang crazy chain letter! The one with the list on how to freak
out your friends/boss/whatever. The one with the instruction of paging
yourself over an intercom and "Do not" or "Don't disguise your voice".!

Sheesh, man, it wasn't cute or funny the first time it barged into my inbox,
it was hair-tearing by the tenth and other times after that. It's been
around for years and it's not even impressive enough to warrant the title of
half-baked humor! Please people, kill it already!!

I can see posting chain letters on blogs if one is going to rip it a new one
and completely point out how moronic it is, and scream about it getting
passed around. People who are frustrated with forwards can often be pretty
humorous when sounding off about them.

But just posting chain letters on blogs as they are, because you actually
think they are cool!? *Rolling eyes*

E-gads!!

Give me a break!