Title: Chains were meant to be broken
Subtitle: I hate these stupid chain things!
Date: January 20, 2006
Seriously, has anyone ever sent you these stupid chain letters that tell you to copy and paste the chain letter to some amount of people or something in a certain amount of time ‘lest something bad happen to you?
In the past year there have been so many of these that I have lost count, completely and utterly. Personally, my favorite was this one that my friend got, and was completely freaked out about it.
It said something about how there was this ghost girl “Sandy” or something that was faceless and watching you. And you had to send the message to some amount of people or something to the effect in ten minutes or something like that. If you didn’t she would come up to your bed in the middle of the night and stab you to death.
I just fell over laughing at that one. Didn’t phase me in the least, though you could count that as sending it to me. Man oh man, it did not make sense, not many things do. First, how could this ghost “Sandy” be watching so many people at once? How could she know? Simple, she couldn’t.
But let’s continue onwards, pretend that she could have that ability. She’s a ghost, so she could. But she’s faceless to boot. She can’t technically see anything. She can use a sixth sense to “see” but not really see in the word’s connotation.
Also it said, I remember more now, that she was standing over you. I know for a fact that me and my friend were reading this at the same time. There’s no way she coulda been in two places at once. Impossible.
Also, she’s a ghost, aside from being able to freeze you, ghosts are intangible and stuffs, I’m not sure to an extent what-so-ever that she could stab me to death whilst I was soundly asleep. But maybe she could, my knowledge leaves something to be desired when it comes to ghosts.
But my final opinion of that one was that it was just to freak the living hell outta those of weak constitutions that read it. Second goal of this? Add another drop to the overflowing proverbial bucket of this sorta junk.
A new one. I laughed, and yawned while reading it. The thing is dissected there. But basic summary is that chldren were killed by parents from something dealing with Yahoo Instant Messenger. Then the parents had a kid, lied tot he kid, the dead sister carved her name in the floor, and a message to the kid after killing her parents. I actually checked the damn thing with logic. WOW.
Now then, I will proceed to dissect a piece of chain mail that I just received in a fairly caustic and uncaring and arse-like fashion. This is directed to me, so I will rebuke this letter with that in mind.
*PLEASE READ THIS WHOLE POST. IT'S SO DANG TRUE*
That would happen to be a matter of opinion if this post was true or not. Okay? Just be cause you think its true does not make this indeed true.
1. At least 2 people in this world love you so much they would die for you.
Ha, I only know one that would do so for me.
2. At least 15 people in this world love you in some way.
Does love to hate count? I can only count a maximum of...wait...extended family, nevermind.
3.The only reason anyone would ever hate you is because they want to be just like you.
No, someone could hate you if they find you to be a total jerk and pain in the arse. I know someone hates me just for that. I know it. –grins-
4. A smile from you can bring happiness to anyone, even if they don't like you.
Maybe, but no one is that influential. No one, not even myself.
5. Every night, SOMEONE thinks about you before they go to sleep.
Uh, okay, I can deal with this one. I dunno, I’m not in everyone’s minds in the world constantly so I can’t say for sure, but I’ll give it a 50% chance of being right
6. You mean the world to someone.
Uh yeah, this is true.
7. If not for you, someone may not be living.
Yep, at least from what I’m told I am.
8. You are special and unique.
Do you know how many people I act like. Then again, it’s a special mix of my own. But no, I don’t act like no one else in the world.
9. Someone that you don't even know exists loves you.
-cough- Nope. Not at all. Unless they fell in love with me online and I don’t know them. That is a 10% chance, but sadly nearly everyone in my grade knows me and I know them somehow.
10. When you make the biggest mistake ever, something good comes from it.
Nope. I just stultify myself. And that’s not good, even if I try to make myself the fool sometimes, but that’s on purpose, not a mistake.
11. When you think the world has turned its back on you, take a look: you most likely turned your back on the world.
Mebbe that’s true. But I haven’t faced my back to the world in a long time. For this, I deduct originality points, I’ve heard this at least 10 times.
12. When you think you have no chance of getting what you want, you probably won't get it, but if you believe in yourself, probably, sooner or later, you will get it.
Well stop, think, and figure it out. The probably makes this one 100% accurate. Then again, I can contradict the last part. Always, 1 time outta 10 when I think I’ll never get something, I do.
13. Always remember the compliments you received. Forget about the rude remarks.
That would take up so much memory that I could never make it. I’d forget my own name. I usually do forgive and forget. However, I 99% of the time forget the compliments because they’re moot at the least.
14. Always tell someone how you feel about them; you will feel much better when they know.
Uh no. If I were to tell someone I hated them and then they broke up in tears, I’d feel bad. And what’s with all the advice all of a sudden?
15. If you have a great friend, take the time to let them know that they are great.
Yet more advice? Besides, they already know it. This I have heard nearly ten thousand times at least. Could we come up with something more original and less cliché, please?
Add this as a comment to ten of your friends tonight and at midnight your true love will find you. Something good will happen to you at 2:25 tomorrow. Get ready for the biggest shock of your life. Whoever breaks this chain letter will be cursed with 10 relationship problems for the next ten years tag ur it!! this is so scary!!! send this to 15 ppl in the next 143 min. and then press F6 and your crushes name will appear in big letters!! it is so scary because it works.... but if you break the chain.. you will be cursed w/ relationship problems. NO SEND BACKS If u have less than 15 friends its okay
No, I refuse to spam my friends. I don’t believe in this sorta BS, so why should I bother them with it? And you didn’t specify AM or PM either. I’ve got roughly two hours and five minutes, and I’ll be sound asleep by then, I’ll hope. But what will happen? But the biggest shock would be like if some anime or video game or book or otherwise unrealistic characters were to pop suddenly into existence and other impossibilities of the sort.
And lets see here, I’ve broken at least 50 of these damn things and nothing has happened to me, ever and its been two years. Where’s my promised punishment? Simple, no where, this is just a load of junk and shouldn’t be paid any heed. Though I’d like to entertain the test of doing what I’m told to do and proving this completely WRONG.
And no, it is not scary. Not in the least. I just find this overwhelmingly stupid. And no, this is not some hopeless attempt of mine to send it to you. I’m just giving you guys an example.
And what if I don’t want to know my true love’s name by questionable sources and means? Seriously. And nope, I have never gotten the promised “curse” so I think I’m fine.
This rates a whopping 1.5 outta ten from every example I’ve seen so far, and that’s like 50. So I have sufficient evidence to say that this royally, sucks! Actually, all of them rate 2 or less. The only one that amused me at all was the one with Sandy. The person who made that actually took time to develop it and make a pretty interesting story behind it. But that was just it, a story. I’m still living after breaking that chain, so it’s just a yarn. That ranked a 3.4.
These so called true and scary chains are perfectly credible as a reference to human stupidity in general. They have no backing, and just generally piss me off.
Chain letters are only for the extremely paranoid and superstitious. Being neither I disregard them constantly, after taking a full five minutes for shaking my head and laughing at how stupid the darned thing is.
So, please, in future reference, don’t send these to me, ever.
Now to finish off this week’s rant.
My name is Digi. I’m a fox demon using my shadow clones to watch you. If you don’t copy and paste this chain in the next ten minutes to ten people my dopple gangers will kill you. If you achieve the goal and press F3 a minute after completeing your task the shadow will leave, the air will brighten and you will feel more confident about yourself. Your true love will find you within 24 hours.
(Note: that was a rip-off the ghost one I told you about. But more solidly reasonable. But I was just doing that for the heck of it. Feel completely free to ignore this, actually, I don’t want this circulated in any manner what-so-ever, except for merely providing a link and a faint description. Okay? I wrote this and had fun doing so, don’t steal it. But that was just to show how irritating they can be)
Cheers and toodle-pip
~DigiTails