Friday, February 16, 2007

Family Spam

I have an Aunt in Northern Ontario and an Uncle in Alberta who daily send me emails in substantial amounts. To top it off, they send each other emails so I very often get them sending me the same messages. Further more, the content (animals dressed in suits, painted, sitting in baskets or shoes, redneck jokes, blonde jokes, racist jokes) is mostly horrible. Case in point; my Uncle sent me an email yesterday entitled "Beware of Infrared Cameras". When I opened the attachment a film clip appeared of a soldier standing in some sort of building while others walked around him. Then, from the soldiers ass area, there, in all its splendor seen through the miracle of infrared, erupted a dark geyser which began to ascend in a cloud-like shape before dissipating entirely. It is at this moment that I think about how little my Uncle knows about me and how much I know about him.

4 comments:

Malnurtured Snay said...

Hah. I don't bother opening e-mails from my aunt -- it's all that kind of chain mail crap. Ahhhh.

Anita said...

I have friends like that...they send me crap. I send them back links to hoax emails site...they don't care....LOL....I am still waiting for the Taco Bell dog to run across my screen and for my 50 dollar gift certificate from the Gap....;-)

Troubles Braids said...

I hear 'ya, Anita. I was sending them the link to snopes in hopes they would first verify the junk they were sending me, but alas it made no impression.

Ms. Wilderness said...

It hurts my brain to open when i got those emails too. I'm like...Should I send them an email asking them not to send me ignorant, racist and otherwise offensive materials my way? Do I risk sounding like Miss Fancypants Live in The Big City Snotbag? Do I risk upsetting these people? Do I condone or enable this type of behaviour?

It's just ignorance, but it still hurts.