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My company runs email campaigns like any other. You know, the usual sales promotions, monthly specials, etc. Just click the unsubscribe link at the end of the email to opt out / unsubscribe permanently.
A couple of weeks ago we received an actual, honest to goodness US Postal service real snail-mail letter to our department. Written in the feminine cursive of my parents’ generation, it reads as follows:
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‘feminine cursive of my parents’ generation’? What kind of cursive do they teach now?
… different cursive =P
I learnt different cursive to my parents.
Too bad you never “learnt” that learnt isn’t a word.
“Learnt” is a word.
OWNED!
learnt v. A past tense and a past participle of learn.
learnt is definately a word.
sigh. “definately” is definitely not a word.
Learnt is a word – just because it isn’t common in American English doesn’t mean it isn’t common in every other English speaking country. If you live in a country other than America, you probably LEARNT English from Microsoft Word or some other American source.
For further reference, burnt, dreamt, knelt, leant, leapt, spelt, spilt, and spoilt are also all words; and often prefered despite to burned, dreamed, kneeled, leaned, leaped, spelled, spilled and spoiled regardless of whether they are probably more correct or not.
HO my god wtf bbq? Someone’s wrong on the internet!
They don’t teach cursive anymore. My eldest, who is in high school, was instructed that all homework must be printed from the computer or printed in block letters. This was for all the high school students in all classes.
lol and you believed him? its required in my school.
No one uses cursive anymore.
wow.
no time to take advantage of web site. unsubscribe me please.
thanx
OK this looks like it might be a lot of fun dude.
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Can’t blamer her really. If you hit the ‘unsubscribe’ link, you just told the sender “Yes this is a real email address that somebody reads”, so while that sender may not send you anything else, he will sell your email address to 100 other spammers. A genuine email address has value.
I hit unsubscribe once for almost a whole day when I was hung-over. I had to unsubscribe to the internet. And burn my computer. And establish a new identity. Only con men have an unsubscribe button. Customer friendly outfits send you a nice email every year asking you to resubscribe.
Does it bug anyone else when you see a transcription of something, and there are OBVIOUS ERRORS in the transcraption that don’t match what was actually said? Usually it’s transcriptions of people speaking, and they just completely leave out or even change words that were used. In this case, the letter being transcribed clearly contains the words AS FOLLOWS which the transcriber has completely ignored.
I can understand making mistakes like this on the first pass; I do it all the time. But then I re-read it and catch the error. Does no one review their work anymore? And what about the writer’s editor? Or the person who ultimately had to put it on the website? Numerous people should have caught this error before it was online.
Holy shit dude, are you serious? He missed 2 words that have no relevance nor importance to the story. I can see if those 2 words had changed the direction of the message, or made her sound more stupid, but really man? Try thinking about your reply before you try and dis the author about him missing someone unimportant.
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Looks more like “as follow” to me.
Good catch. It is not a fatal error but good editing is important. The fine lady said “as follows” and she meant it. Were did she actually get the address to mail this too. That was pretty impressive.
Good catch. It is not a fatal error but good editing is important. The fine lady said “as follows” and she meant it. Were did she actually get the address to mail this too. That was pretty impressive.
haha, i hope you sent a dead serious, totally formal snail-mail letter back. “thank you for contacting our interenet department. as you requested…” lol
Do I smell a good meme?
I had a guy call in the other day as my number is on all of my emails. The first thing out of his mouth was, “Do you know that it’s a $5000 per email fine if you don’t include an unsubscribe link on your email?” He then yelled for 1 minute that he’d been trying to unsubscribe for over a month.
After he stopped talking I asked what he had done in the past month to unsubscribe. Silence. I asked if he had tried calling the number or sending an email to me via the email address in the email. Silence. I then asked if he had clicked the unsubscribe link at the bottom. He stated that there wasn’t one. I then asked him to look at the bottom and gave him the location. Silence again.
He then says, “Well that link doesn’t work.”
My retort, “What is it then? Does the link not work or does it not exist?”
More silence. I then said, “Thanks for calling, I’ve removed your name from the subscription list because you’re not smart enough to be my customer. Have a pleasant day!”
Good for her. You guys doing the spamming suck ass.
You spammers suck ass; I hate you all.
LOLZ
Hahah your Constitution was written in ‘feminine cursive’ you toolbag. Put down the anal bleach and hair gel before it warps your brain. Kids in Normandy with their brains spilled all over the beaches had a letter to home in their pocket just like this one. “Dear Mom: I died today. Give my steak to the dog. I hope our boys carry on so we can all live in a prosperous Democracy that is free from mindless propaganda”
I hope that if she ever finds out how to “unsubscribe from your internet”, she’ll share the secret. My internet tends to get too full at times as well.
My mom’s cursive f’in drives me BATTY!
She is in her 60′s and I am in my 30′s and she will write grocery lists and everything in cursive. I honestly believe it is contributing to her beginning to lose her mind quicker. Cursive is so distracting.
Ok, that felt better to share. Thanks for listening
That’s deep.
are you frrickin kidding me? Snotty spammers? Amazing how people in the gutter – albeit an internet gutter – manage to look down on grandma.
Shame.
lots of bitching going on above this comment
@Thomas I found the way to unsubscribe from the major social networks – http://www.suicidemachine.org but from the internet? call your ISP! xD
1. You received the letter.
2. Although you make fun of said letter, you removed her from your spam (advertising) list.
3. Mission Accomplished.
Wow that was an amusing read. The post and then the comments were even funnier. If you want to unsubscribe from my Internet stop stealing my damn Wifi! Damn kids nowadays with their block writing and printed homework… sheeesh back in my day….
Oh wait
Nothing has changed just the tone of the arguments
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learnt is definately a word.
learnt is definately a word.
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I want my laptot to be as before.Please unsubscribe.Thank you.