Lies, damn lies and FaCEBOOK

[green_amber]

Hope springs eternal doesn't it?

I get a message saying "You have a greeting card!" I get a message to dowwnload stuff. It's almost certainly malware but.. I then get a message saying "You have won a Wii!" OK It's email gathering for spam. Still one hopesa teent teeny bit ..

So here's the tiny message terms and conditions.

*Subject to our Terms & Conditions, receipt of your gift requires compliance with our eligibility requirements including; age and residency requirements, registration with a valid email address and password, shipping address and phone number, completion of one sponsor offer, and referring between 5 and 15 friends (5 for a Level 1 gift, 8 for a Level 2 gift, 10 for a Level 3 gift, 15 for a Level 4 gift) who have to sign up and complete one sponsor offer. Only one account per person and shipping address.
Available offers will vary and some sponsor offers may require purchases to qualify.
Members have 120 days to complete all necessary requirements to be eligible for a free Gaming Console

© Copyright 2008 gaming.freepay.com.

How can you EVER tell if these things might be legit? i actually have a Wii, but that's a big draw for a lot of people.

In other news..

[Poll #1207393]

Comments

[andrewducker]

I've still killed flies,bees and wasps before. I'd just rather put them out if possible.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

I have too, and spiders, but i increasingly go to great efforts not to kill them and yet I just killed a fly with no thought at all (it was divebombing me) and then thought about it. How come spiders get such a good rap? yes I know they do good stuff and flies spreaD HORRIBLE diseases and are annoying, but hey, we don't distinguish between people that way, not unless they're axe murderers anyway - if life is a sacred principle we try not to break, why do we distinguish on usefulness/annoyingness?

[lilitufire.livejournal.com]

Yup, this. They get herded but if they don't cooperate they get Captain Yellow Pages :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I try and rescue everything, and feel bad if plants die. The marquis is a great slayer of wasps, flies and mosquitoes, and I feel guilty about that, too. I'm just a big wimp.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Aw :))
I would NEVER feel guilty about mosquitoes!! But re the rest see comment to Andy above..

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

I don't kill bees, ever. The rest of them however must DIE if they come near me.

[darth-tigger.livejournal.com]

I said no about spiders, bees and wasps on the grounds that I don't kill them. I'd feel guilty if I did.

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

Bees are useful, damnit, and not just for people. OK, all creatures large and small except for people are useful, but pollination is pretty basic.

Flies(house) are beautiful and fascinating, even if their sex lives aren't as bizarre as bedbugs', but they drive me to distraction in the house (particularly when I'm on the Wii Fit). I feel no compunction in killing them with rolled up magazine, flypaper, cup filled with diluted washing up liquid or elastic band. There's plenty more where they came from. Flies(mosquito) can just die, itikka and muthafukka alike.

Spiders are also beautiful and fascinating (did you know that they extend their legs using hydraulic pressure, not muscles?). They also catch and consume flies. QED.

Wasps, I've just changed my vote on: leaving nests aside, they don't really bother me, and I do feel guilty about killing them; they generally find their own way out of the house anyhow. Having said that, I did once quite enjoy spending a hot afternoon outside a pub with friends. trapping wasps one by one inside a beer glass.

[captainlucy.livejournal.com]

Flies and bees I tend to try to shoo out of an open window, I will try to get rid of spiders through the same windows by using an empty C60 tape case.

However, as for the vicious smooth-bore breeding and stinging machines (specifically the large social wasps) the sooner they are completely expunged from the world's ecosystems the better.

[frostfox.livejournal.com]

I don't kill spiders or bees.
I'll put wasps out if I can.

Flies and mozzies are fair game and ded ded ded.
I swear by the trusty fly swat, cans of spray make me wheeze.

I love bees, particularly bumble bees.

FF

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

How can you EVER tell if these things might be legit?

Easy! They never are. At absolute best they're being pushed by well-meaning but profoundly misguided souls.

[darth-tigger.livejournal.com]