The Tyranny of Email

Circuit Breaker writes "Are you or your co-workers using email instead of phone, face to face conversations, or instant messaging? Read this article, and hand out copies to your mates."

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Re:Ehh

[TheEnglishPatient]

i'm not

Re:I suppose the big question is...

[guacamolefoo]

Because of the 20 second fucktard filter, I sadly doubt this.

What exactly is a "fucktard"?

Is it a retard that is available for being fucked or is it a retard that goes and fucks things? Is it a leotard that one wears to fuck or be fucked? Or is it a leotard that one uses for self-stimulation (i.e. you fuck the leotard, ergo it is a "fucktard")?

Now, speaking to the issue of what a "fucktard filter" is, again, I can only speculate. Is it a filter made from remnants of the above-referenced fucktard (in the sense that the fucktard is a leotard either used for self-gratification or worn during bouts of fucking or being fucked)? What would such a device filter? Grit from gasoline? Coffee grounds from coffee?

Is it a means of preventing retards from fucking or being fucked? Why is there a "20 second" version of the "fucktard filter"? What use would such a short-term device have? Why would anyone need a filter that works for only 20 seconds against the threat of a "fucktard"? For the potential risk that a fucktard would seem to pose, isn't it frightening that only twenty seconds of fucktard filtering are available at /.?

I demand more fucktard filtering! I demand more than 20 seconds of protection from vile fucktards!

GF. (burning karma today)

Just an aside before my main mainness

[tenjah]

is the way in which e-mail can be maliciously exploited.

Its far too reliant upon the goodwill of the general populace vis-a-vis, hate someone? Spread their email through usenet.

Yet this situation rarely occurs. So what does that say about society/humanity?

OR rather, what does that say about my warped, paranoid mind?

But that is really an aside.

Really I'd like to bring up the topic of the use of "mate" in the main post. Good good, he is a brit(hate that term, but johnny-foreigner seems to use it alot)/aussie/kiwi/canuck. Language will be disseminated whatever the weather; and in the projects of where-the-fuckever east new york mad props will be given to nigga homey-"mates" down the "pub".

Cool enough, I was on a ship going around the bahamas and tuned into some US basketball game and the commentator called his fellow "mate".

But more importantly, I WISH TO HEREBY RECOMMEND THAT THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD (OR more relevantly to me, the UK populace as a whole accept defeat and adopt US spelling) Cos, I got to deal with americans and english people spelling differently, and I would be more than happy to drop colour for color if you see my point. It's just a fucking hassle.

Whoever the fuck thought that he was making a statement by fucking with the spelling back in the US civil war was right and I bow to him,

Fuck america, but let's adopt the spelling!

Re:Well...

[Stackis]

How this received a 5 for funny is beyond me... How bout a 0 for lame...