Comment Spam

I received my first 'Comment Spam' today. Dirty bastards. I don't know how you feel about spam (not the meat) but I loathe it. I have the same rule for spammers as I do for telefreakingmarketers. I will not buy anything from them. Period (Anyone see the telemarketer scene in 'The 40 Year Old Virgin'? That's how I feel). I like to contact them on their forms from hell and tell them so. "Dear Spammer, you've got a great product at a great price. Unfortunately, I have a rule that states 'If you spam me, I do not buy.' That simple. No exemptions. If I desperately need this product and you spammed me, I do not buy. Too bad you didn't send me a flyer in the mail or advertise in a magazine I read. Then we could do business. Oh well."

In my opinion, spammers have no right sticking unsolicited crap in my email. I don't poo in their inbox. Right now, I have 37 real email (ones I will read) and 7,584 spams. Thank goodness I have a spam filter. Of course once in a while, a friend who is not as knowledgeable as me, will send me a cool video or E-card. And they don't realize that nothing is free. That 'free' cool video they send me will result in about 100 spams. (When that happens, I always ask them ' What is the first thing you do when you build a lake? Dam it.) I have to add all of those to my spam filter one at a time. Next time, send me a letter bomb. Less damage that way.

Getting back to the 'comment spam', I know a lot of you are saying, "Why don't you just turn on the 'Word Verification' to block that comment spam. Good question, I'm glad you asked. Because that Word picture thingy is a pain in the ass. I've been to blogs where you have to do that and sometimes I can't tell what one or two of the letters is or are. Then I gotta do it again. Pain in the ass. And I'm not going to intentionally give my readers a pain in the ass. It's extra work anyway. You don't need it and I don't want to give it to you.

Telemarketers aren't as bad as spammers. At least you can give a hard time (Wow. What a great deal. I'd be crazy to pass this up. But still, that's what I'm going to do). What can you do to a spammer? His/her email is fake. You can't spam them back. That tells me that even they know their crap is unwanted. I fill out their forms with some unbelievably bad stuff. I can go off when I want to (keep quiet Carrie). I could never post the stuff I send them here. I am a biker and I can write stuff that'll make your eyes water. But I save that for spammers.

Geez, this turned into a rant, didn't it. Sorry. But the sewage I get from them in my email I've somehow gotten used to. To see it in my 'comments' pushes my buttons.