Ok, I'd like to throw a thought out to you slavering forum-hounds, and see what you think of this.
About a year ago I received a chain-email. Now out of sheer bloody mindedness I never go along with these things, but read it anyway. It was about the troops in Iraq, with pictures of various ones, all looking heroic. And then it got to a section on the dead soldiers. Reading through it, it turned out this email was meant to be a mark of respect for these dead soldiers, how they thought that if people will go to the effort of forwarding an email to 6 people, just to spread and honour the name of someone fallen in the war, it would have meant a lot to their deceased comrades. I began to feel slightly guilty about the fact I had no intention of playing along with it. Until I reached the last line. Which was this:
Send this to 6 people and something really good will happen. You have 15 minutes. Go.
I don't want to hear about anyone failing this.
At which point I waved a merry two fingered salute and deleted the bloody thing. It struck me that if they were going to lie, and try and give a (bad) reason to send this on rather than as a mark of respect, it muddied the whole thing, but mainly, because I'm not going to be threatened. So what do you guys think? Is it unrespectful for the dead to try and remember them with anything as corny as a chain-email? What do you think about the threatening idea of the last line, and the lies? Have you had any faintly interesting chain-mail sent your way?
About a year ago I received a chain-email. Now out of sheer bloody mindedness I never go along with these things, but read it anyway. It was about the troops in Iraq, with pictures of various ones, all looking heroic. And then it got to a section on the dead soldiers. Reading through it, it turned out this email was meant to be a mark of respect for these dead soldiers, how they thought that if people will go to the effort of forwarding an email to 6 people, just to spread and honour the name of someone fallen in the war, it would have meant a lot to their deceased comrades. I began to feel slightly guilty about the fact I had no intention of playing along with it. Until I reached the last line. Which was this:
Send this to 6 people and something really good will happen. You have 15 minutes. Go.
I don't want to hear about anyone failing this.
At which point I waved a merry two fingered salute and deleted the bloody thing. It struck me that if they were going to lie, and try and give a (bad) reason to send this on rather than as a mark of respect, it muddied the whole thing, but mainly, because I'm not going to be threatened. So what do you guys think? Is it unrespectful for the dead to try and remember them with anything as corny as a chain-email? What do you think about the threatening idea of the last line, and the lies? Have you had any faintly interesting chain-mail sent your way?
