Friday, September 21, 2007

A Forward Minded Generation?

Have you ever received absolutely irritating and irrelevant forwards that bug you beyond death and make you feel like all the intelligent life in the universe has just migrated to mars? Oh wait aren’t you the moron who sent me the forward in the first place?

Well you know what I am talking about, those ridiculous forwards generated by totally jobless pranksters who just want to have a laugh, which are forwarded by dense morons who skipped the brain servings in heaven because the queue was too long before they set their dumbasses on the planet.

The kinds that go like :

My grandma in Somalia hasn’t eaten in three days because Somalia has no supply of food grains. Kindly forward this message to everyone you know so that she can eat the enormous amount of pointless data that will get circulated.

Or the ones that say

Forward this message to 12 people at 12 in the night and 12 beautiful girls will tell you how good you look.

(C’mon you can’t blame me for forwarding that one ;) the closest I’ve gotten is “Its good to look ugly da” and a comparison of my appearance to some ridiculous looking tree, near the CSE department, by two members of the fairer sex. Well the forwarding really worked. Next day, a dozen female pigs chased me from the 14th block till we parted ways half the way to the mess!)


Anyway you get the drift. The last straw was when I got the “get Kalam back” forward. Incessant forwarding of the same mail by a million people drove me up the wall to say the least. The essence of the mail was that since Kalam was a very great president, it was our duty to get him back to office by submitting a petition on Lolappan Chettan’s website designed by his son Mandan Kunju who had just learned HTML! This would cause the scales to fall from the eyes of all the politicians in India and Kalam would be gloriously reinstated!

I was happily rotting away in my room today, as jobless as Stuart Broad after bowling to Yuvraj (that is to say I was merely staring at the sky and hoping that an alien space ship would appear from somewhere and brighten up the day). Pretty much laidback you could say and no pun intended either! Sigh!

So well my phone beeps and I see a dumb message which goes on to say if I forward it to 10 other Vodafone users, I would get 75 mins absolutely free! Not surprising that this message was forwarded to me by the same numbskull-fairer-sex-ians who called me ugly and compared me to a tree (as if we didn’t know they were dumb enough already!).

Bored beyond irritation, I set about to test if the rest of the world was dumb enough. Immediately I made up a message (which many of you imbecilic jackasses forwarded with great fervour may I add?) which reads as follows

Today, 21st September, is the Vodafone (formerly hutch) pug’s birthday. On this joyous occasion, we would like to reward our esteemed customers. Night calls between 10 pm and 6 am will be made free for everyone who forwards this message to 10 other Vodafone users today. You will have this offer till September 29th, which is when the pug was baptized.

(If in spite of the capitalization, making bold and italic of some letters a bell dosen't ring in the peanut you pass off for a brain, it stands for the name of the author of the message - TONY (sebastian).)

Well it apparently wasn’t a very smart thing to do as my phone keeps beeping twice a minute with the same dumb message and its nearly four in the morning and I honestly can't sleep!

so here I am begging you


PLEASE STOP FORWARDING DUMB MESSAGES YOU MORON!

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5 comments:

wanderlust said...

read this.
--Wanderlust.
PS: Shift to WP. then you can even allow non-registered users to comment without fear of spam or whateva. and it has better features, specially traffic statistics from google analytics which would be a big help in a venture like this.

Tony Sebastian said...

Thanks I'm more than happy with what we have here.I'm not really fascinated about a domain that lets you edit comments by visitors.

Srav said...

The poll is too good da.... srsly... no way u can choose a negative choice without sounding dumb.. thats abt the best thing here :P

blithering idiot said...

irritating stuff these forwards...

statistically,95.7% of those arent even nice...

i blame 1 paisa messagin to an extent...i keep gettin these messages which are signed cheers tony... :P i never do pay heed to them... :D

Asphalt Girl said...

Hehe... seriously... I can't believe people actually forwarded those dumb messages... too good ra... your message being forwarded.. lol... I still can't believe it got forwarded.. giving me a superiority complex here... ;)