Another scare tactic
Ho hum... when will people learn?
Got a facebook message from a friend who has pasted this:
on a completely different note "Apparently the FAN CHECK Application is a VIRUS that takes 48 hours to kick in. Even if you are tagged in a photo the virus still attacks you. Please inform all you friends and remove/delete the application ASAP. ...Copy and... paste this as your status so word gets around quickly!Read Moreabout an hour ago
Pointed them to a reputable antivirus company and told them NOT to do the above:
http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2009/09/facebook-fan-check-virus.html
Got a facebook message from a friend who has pasted this:
on a completely different note "Apparently the FAN CHECK Application is a VIRUS that takes 48 hours to kick in. Even if you are tagged in a photo the virus still attacks you. Please inform all you friends and remove/delete the application ASAP. ...Copy and... paste this as your status so word gets around quickly!Read Moreabout an hour ago
Pointed them to a reputable antivirus company and told them NOT to do the above:
http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2009/09/facebook-fan-check-virus.html
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A quick search which takes seconds normally shows its a fake. Still it could be worse, who are the nutters who send round the 'irish good luck charms' to 10 people thinking if they dont they'll have bad luck ?! Thankfully seen those decline lately
Come on for once tell me what all this liberal crap is about. Last time you went on a rant about it but when i replied you never did respond.
Do you get sponsored for using the word 'liberal' all the time ?
He's probably a fully paid up member of the Conservative or Labour party or something...
I hate them ones with stuff like "send to 8 people in the next 40 seconds including the one who sent it to you and your life will change forever..." type endings. What a load of crap.
I remember the ones from a few years back that were saying MS/Google were doing a marketing trail and would pay $10 everytime you forwarded the mail and loads of people made like $10,000 out of it which was "nothing set against their marketing budgets of this huge company". Tosh.
...I'm still waiting for me fecking cheque!
:lol:
i got one of them yesterday saying some young girl was dying, and if you forwarded it, someone would donatce 3p to her charity.
or the other ones we get are warning women not to go to petrol stations cos rapists hang out there, crawling under peoples cars. yeah if i were gonna rape someone i'd do it in a brightly lit area with lots of cctv.
They'll be warning me next not to say Candyman 3 times in front of a mirror !
no it's true! you'll lose all your friends when they realise what a jackass you are! people will cross the street to avoid catching your stupid. pretty life changing stuff! :p
:smile:
Still get the 419 scam emails, i cant stand the crooks who do those but on the other hand (specially in 2009) if people are stupid to fall for those sod em'.
Again - a tip for the scammers, if you send an email which has a name like its some mexican porn actress i probably will know instantly its spam !
Hmmm...when I get those ones I have to seriously try and remember what I was doing the previous weekend.
Don't people THINK?
Most are picked up by my spam folder but its nice to have a bit of a moan to them occasionally !
Ages ago i did a 'reverse scam' and wrote to as scammer pretending i was a scout from Man Utd and how they wanted to give some young african footballers a scholarship. Guy believed it and apparently went to the airport to get his 'free ticket'. Told him the truth in the end, he was annoyed but eventually apologised for his earlier scam etc.
Thankfully it seems 'less' people get fooled now but i do worry about an old dear falling for it. On Watchdog a while back there was this granny who was constantly sending money thinking she was going to win this huge great prize draw, very sad, despite her family telling her not to do it she kept on as she was so convinced she was going to get a fortune.
The most creepy email chain letter hoax I saw going around a few years back, it goes like this:
Haha! I haven't had a one from Ungo Cartoa for a while, I was curious so I googled that name, must admit ungo is good, either that or the bot program typo'd it. The closest thing I can find is ungo cartao.
I've switched ISP's and have a brand new e-mail address. I get no junk at the moment, and am being very wary about signing up for anything,
Yeah i've heard about those hoaxes about the kidneys etc, wasnt there the film Urban Myths or something which had lots of these in it pretending they were all true.
I have two e-mail addresses, one is genuine, and the other I give to doubtful sites/people, as I only check it when I'm expecting something from them, this way I avoid most spam, as my genuine e-mail is only given to trusted sites and people. Even so, spam still does find it's way there, but thankfully g-mail is very good at screening out spam.
And Winston, that kidney thing really made me shudder. Would that even be theroretically possible? Can you live for even a short time without kidneys (and what do kidneys do? Don't they filter out your blood and send the waste into your urine)?
yeah you can live without them for a bit, but not long. i think they take all the muck out of liquids.
the answer to if it happens is in the scam text, you need to be a match for the kidneys. so you can't order them, they'd have to rob loads of them for financial sucess.
needless to say if you got drunk before a major operation like that, you wouldn't make it off the operating table.
This is something that I know quite abit about as I suffer with PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease) It's a genetic condition where cysts grow on and inside the kidneys, slowing them down and eventually, shutting them down alltogether.
The kidneys are made of a kind of spongey substance that (kind of like a sponge), soaks out all the toxins from the blood (they are what makes you piss yellow). In my case, the cysts (that can be very painful at times), cause them to slowly stop working. They also cause them to grow in size. When my Dad had his removed (following a successful transplant), the doctors said that although they were not the largest ones that they had seen, they were both about the size of a kettle. Healthy ones are about the size of an adult closed fist!
It's possible to live for a short while with no kidney function at all, but not for very long as the build up of toxins will poison you. When doctors know that someone has bad kidneys, regular blood tests will show what % function is left. I can't remember what mine is, but it's around 23% I think. 15% is when you can go onto the transplant waiting list. 9% is when someone with kidney trouble will need to go onto dialysis.
The lower the function, the worse someone feels. I myself am quite tired alot of the time and I'm finding that I can't keep up the pace as much as I used to :( But that could just be me getting old :lol:
About 48 hours before the really awful symptoms kick in. Without your kidneys, your fluid reclamation system will fail quickly and you'll start to fill up. Dialysis will remove the fluid and selected toxins that build up in the bloodstream. The kidneys do a lot more than just filtration (selective re-absorption), and they really are very, very important. If you've seen anyone die through acute renal failure, it's a horrible way to go. I've seen quite few people die from it.
This email is likely a hoax, but the method has been used before - however, they generally kill the victim, as there's no point in keeping them alive, and they're worth a lot more dead. I myself have harvested quite a few organs from cadavers (eyes, mostly).
Besides, how much ice do you think it takes to fill a bath? The resulting hypothermia will do you in before you ever wake up.
D.
Answer me this: -
What the hell are my nipples for?
lactation
Of course this does nothing. Say it five times however and you're fucked!
Urban Legend was the film. Only one i recall was the dog in the microwave.
1 version of which was if you said "Bloody Mary" 13 times from the stroke of midnight whilst looking into a mirror, it was said that a vision of "Bloody Mary" would appear and you could ask her to summon the soul of any person for you to converse with until 12:01.
Saying "Bloody Mary" 13 times and then nominating a dead person to speak to until 12:01 doesn't leave much actual time for speaking!
The origins and methods of "Bloody Mary" are many though. She can kill you, or drive you insane.
It's all bollocks, but great for scaring kids on Hallowe'en!
prolly in the wild we could or might have been able to suckle babies, you know if the mum died and you couldn't leave the cave cos of dinosaurs or lava.
Isn't there a bloke in Sweden trying this out IRL???
it wouldn't suprise me.
that bloke in the states with the fake boobs should have tried it out.
Jordon?
It's like a dashboard on a car, all the spaces for the controls on the top of the range version are present on all models, just with blanking plates or not punched out of the mould. Same prinicpal can be applied to why men have nipples.
man 2.0 - no nipples, no appendix, more reliable hair.
woman 2.0 - more or less the same, just all made to look like megan fox
Aye, I once read that we all start out as females, in the womb like.
Then the lucky few of us are chosen to be male.
(runs and hides awaiting ZX Beckys smackdown!)