What list am I on?

[thegayhare]

Ever get something in the mail that just makes you wonder what sort of mailing lists our on?

I mean I understand most of the stuff I get,
Advertisments for The Advocate (a realy good news mag) and Out magizine I can understand, and Smokey mountain knife works and Budk I can also understand.  Hell even the industrial safty catalog I get makes sense (buy 5 pounds of rubber gloves and your marked for life)

but yesterday I got a catalog out of the blue and honestly I have no Idea why it was sent to me.

It's all about high end video survalence gear,  It's full of motion controled cameras in varius styles and tons of hidden wireles camerals from the lael pins to firealrams.  hell they even had portable DVR, and infrared searchlights...

I have no Idea what they think I'm doing

So how about you folks?  ever getsomething weird like that out of the blue?

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

... I hate to mention it, but I -do- get a lot of email about breast enhancements, and weight loss.

Since I'm 60kg and 175cm, I don't have any weight to lose, and since I'm a guy, the breast enhancement ones are mildly curious...

[Toric]

If I recall correctly, my girlfriend once received a catalogue for sexy underwear in the mail..... in the mailbox at the Catholic private university we both went to.

[Zina]

I get a lot of e-mail for penis enlargement.
Maybe they know something I don't.

[thegayhare]

I get a lot of e-mail for penis enlargement.
Maybe they know something I don't.

Well E-mail is alittle differnt everyone always gets weird e-mails

I get lots of e-mails advertising for christian singles sites, and for some reason anti gun laws

[Zina]

I have never once gotten an e-mail for breast enhancements.  Not once. But I get tons for penis enlargement.

[thegayhare]

I have never once gotten an e-mail for breast enhancements.  Not once. But I get tons for penis enlargement.

I wonder if thats because men are just that much more insecure about the size of there penis compared to a womans breasts

[Brunhidden]

i always assumed the penis/breast enlargement drugs are actually designed to be slipped into the food or beverage of someone else


on a similar note my daughter of age 3 has received magazines for knives and lengere, proving that purchasing habits seem to take a backseat to some kind of ESP 'what you really want anyway' mind reading device.

[rt]

The spam filter usually eats mine. But recently one got through and caught my eye, offering to supply cheap Canadian drugs  it was sent to a canadian email address 

Around here usually drugs, watches, stock tips, and yes the viagra-penis stuff of course. And lots of unreadable garbage, and the ever effective red x image spam.

[Suwako]

According to my original E-mail I win about 20 prizes a day non-stop and Itunes thinks that I will buy something from them.

According to my yahoo e-mail I need a bigger penis... and sometimes breast expansion, oh and a boyfriend never girlfriend.. .

Gmail just throws Emails at me in languages I do not understand...

[Cvstos]

I used to get emails in Russian (or some other language using those letters) all the time.  Never understood what any of it was.

[Fuyudenki]

E-mail side

I get a lot of penis enlargement spam, and that's just the stuff that slips through my spam filter.  I also get a lot of stuff from dating websites.

I do not want a larger penis, and I somehow feel that dating sites are like hacking the game of life.  And as we all know cheating is just another way of saying "I suck at this game."

I also get a lot of those Nigerian Finance scams.  I'm still wondering how a US citizen who hasn't been outside the continental US in his life(I've never even been on an airplane before.) somehow keeps winning the British lottery.

Does Britain even have a lottery?

Snail mail side

When I was about 12, I got a catalog for dolls targeted at little girls.  The addressing on the catalog seemed to indicate they thought I would buy some for my daughter.

[Brunhidden]

the one that baffles me is i get almost no spam- except for internet fliers from menards, a company offering me money to be a freelance writer, and this one very disturbing recurring spam that says i can loose 20 pounds by having my colon flushed or something.

i don't care if its real or a scam, thats just unsettling...... on second thought the idea that its real disturbs me more....

[thegayhare]

should I be a little worried that no one seems to think It odd I purchased 5 pounds of rubber gloves?

*chuckles*

[TheGreyRonin]

 I almost never get regular mail of any kind. Email, on the other hand, is a different story. I have one account that gets over a thousand trash emails each day. But I set it up just to test weird things online, so that's expected.

I've been plagued by phone solicitors the past few months, though, several times a week. The recurring theme is that my new car's warranty is about to expire, and I can extend the coverage.

I own one car. My 1974 hearse.

[Tapewolf]

The recurring theme is that my new car's warranty is about to expire, and I can extend the coverage.  I own one car. My 1974 hearse.

Now I'm curious.  How do they react?  Would they actually offer warranty cover for a car that's not only older than I am, but was most likely created by cutting two smaller cars in half and welding them together?

[TheGreyRonin]

 A few apologize for the mixup, most just rudely hang up on me, two have called me a smartass...

Now the machine picks up for me, or if I'm napping, the phone is unplugged. Simpler, really.

[Fuyudenki]

should I be a little worried that no one seems to think It odd I purchased 5 pounds of rubber gloves?

*chuckles*

Hey, don't ask don't tell, eh?  I've bought some odd things, myself.

Nothing wrong with having a lifetime supply of rubber gloves.

[thegayhare]

Hey, don't ask don't tell, eh?  I've bought some odd things, myself.

Nothing wrong with having a lifetime supply of rubber gloves.

Nahh those gloves aren't even close to a lifetime supply.  I go through a lot of gloves. I say I've got maybe another 6 months worth of gloves

[Brunhidden]

there could be....well, not dozzens but at leat more then two good reasons that are not disturbing to own those gloves..... at least i hope theres more then two non disturbing reasons.....


i myself have been parts of purchases including 100 pounds of cherries, fifty feet of cheesecloth, at least 765 empty stoneware jugs, thirty yards of rubber tubing, two hundred and nine cookie jars, sixty five quarts of lard, and raw wool roughly equivalent to three times the volume of a bathtub.


please, do NOT ask why. the few reasons for them were very very wrong, and one of them resulted in a hole in the floor

[thegayhare]

*boggles the mind at Brun's list*

well truthfully it's quite simple... it is rather disgusting but it's pretty normal.

I've got 4 cats and one litter box that needs cleaning almost every day

the cute little poop factories

[Reese Tora]

I almost never get regular mail of any kind. Email, on the other hand, is a different story. I have one account that gets over a thousand trash emails each day. But I set it up just to test weird things online, so that's expected.

I've been plagued by phone solicitors the past few months, though, several times a week. The recurring theme is that my new car's warranty is about to expire, and I can extend the coverage.

I own one car. My 1974 hearse.

I got one of those phone calls yesterday.  Problem is, My car was purchased last year, and I got an extended warranty on the whole shebang (thanks to access to a really nice 'employee' discount) that will be good for some time.  Caller ID had thier name as somewhere in Florida.  I immediately assumed they were some kind of phone scam.

Of course, My standard line is that, if the delivery message sounds pre-recorded, I ask if I'm talking to a recording, and hang up if there's no response.  This is what happened in this case.

TGH:
I would have assumed that all the rubber gloves had something to do with clean up from all the cooking that you do. (some people wear rubber gloves to clean the dishes)

So far as mail and spam, I get credit card offers in the mail, and I don't even look at the contents of spam (if only I could show my spam filter how to filter like my brain does...) the only titles that make sense are the ones that are for bogus drugs (by which I mean they name real drugs for ED, but that's probably not what you get if you buy from them.)

[thegayhare]

TGH:
I would have assumed that all the rubber gloves had something to do with clean up from all the cooking that you do. (some people wear rubber gloves to clean the dishes)

LOLthe sad fact is If I can get away with it I never wear gloves,  hell I used to wash the the trays and dishes in the meat room with out gloves... the industrial detergents played merry havoc on my hands...  Though I did wear gloves when using the degreaser but hell that stuff turns meet to jelly you'd be crazy not to

[Pagan]

Wow... I am now truly scared of dish cleaners.

I'm still kinda young (18) and don't get much mail, as my address is really my parents' address. E-mail though, well, I get plenty penis enhancement, viagra, dating and other such advertisements.  The amount of spam I get is overwhelming. I don't even check the junk folder anymore, I just delete everything.

[Faerie Alex]

It's not that I get strange mail...it's that I (?) get mail addressed to one Miranda Costenoble. Had I been born a girl, I would have been Miranda Costenoble. But I wasn't. And my name is Alexander Costenoble. Miranda Costenoble has (to the best of my knowledge) never existed. Nor have I (again, to the best of my knowledge) ever had any sort of a vaguely close relative who went by a first name of Miranda. So it beats me why I'm getting her mail.

It's all junk anyway.

[superluser]

Though I did wear gloves when using the degreaser but hell that stuff turns meet to jelly you'd be crazy not to

Yeah, that stuff's a base, right?  Grease is alkaline, so if they use an acid, it undergoes titration and dilutes the acid.  With a base, there's nothing to mediate the reaction.

Of course, the reason why grease is alkaline is because flesh is also alkaline...

When I took a photo course, I discovered that I was allergic to ...something... and my hand looked like I had scraped sandpaper over it.  So gloves for me, too.

As for mailing lists, I once got a ``Self-Reliance Catalog'' full of things like solar/wind power generators, hydroponics, and reverse osmosis drinking water systems.  Though to be fair (1) I ordered it, and (2) the stuff in there *rocks*.

[Brunhidden]

It's not that I get strange mail...it's that I (?) get mail addressed to one Miranda Costenoble. Had I been born a girl, I would have been Miranda Costenoble. But I wasn't. And my name is Alexander Costenoble. Miranda Costenoble has (to the best of my knowledge) never existed. Nor have I (again, to the best of my knowledge) ever had any sort of a vaguely close relative who went by a first name of Miranda. So it beats me why I'm getting her mail.

like i said, they have some kind of ESP device to read peoples minds.... however its a complete piece of crap, like soviet era crap.

the industrial detergents played merry havoc on my hands...  Though I did wear gloves when using the degreaser but hell that stuff turns meet to jelly you'd be crazy not to

there exists the most wonderful cleaner in the world, called 'fireball'. i shityounot i used it during a summer job as a custodian assistant and it ate through heavy rubber gloves and then peeled the skin of of my left hand entirely. its fantastic, cleans a little TOO well sometimes..... on the other hand my wife is in with a company called maleluca or something like that, a line of cleaners and such made from natural ingredients- they work well, smell weird, and if you really wanted you could drink them without killing yourself (you may vomit because it tastes horrible, but no damage). she submited a sales pitch for the deodorant they produce called 'alloy' saying "its powerful enough to make my husband not stink". this is kinda true, apperanlty most deodorants actually clog a scent gland, thus making you actually smell worse, and this stuff i got makes me smell like a dead wet dog for a week before it kicks in and suddenly i smell.... okayish....

the wonderful world of cleaners, maybe we should just go back to bleach, amonia, and soap made out of lard.

[NDDR]

E-mail side

I get a lot of penis enlargement spam, and that's just the stuff that slips through my spam filter.  I also get a lot of stuff from dating websites.

I do not want a larger penis, and I somehow feel that dating sites are like hacking the game of life.  And as we all know cheating is just another way of saying "I suck at this game."

I also get a lot of those Nigerian Finance scams.  I'm still wondering how a US citizen who hasn't been outside the continental US in his life(I've never even been on an airplane before.) somehow keeps winning the British lottery.

Does Britain even have a lottery?

first of all, yes we do have a lottery, the jackpot is over £20mil ($40mil) and we have the euro millions and the irish lottery.

secondly youre not the only one who nigeria wants to give money to, nigeria supposedly owes me millions, i cant even point it out on a map, why would i be owed money by them.

im surprised i dont get more junk mail with all the weird stuff ive ordered over the net over the years.

if i lived in america id have like a dozen houses and 300 cars and a 52" plasma in every room according to emails.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Technically, it's not "the British Lottery", though. It's Lotto.

[Soupa]

I haven't gotten anything strange like that myself, but then again i've been waiting for my xbox 360 to come back from repairs for about three months.