Comments on: Getting Sick Jokes by Text Message or Email http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/getting-sick-jokes-by-text-message-or-email A Site About Everything and Nothing Thu, 17 May 2012 21:49:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Getting Sick Jokes by Text Message or Email by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/getting-sick-jokes-by-text-message-or-email#comment-11398 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:45:37 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/getting-sick-jokes-by-text-message-or-email#comment-11398 Lucy, great to have you back ! That's a big spooky because I used to say years ago that if I ran a mobile phone company I'd employ joke writers and send the gags out hoping they'd go viral, at 10p a good it would have been a real money spinner. Given that it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't ! I imagine now that so many have free texts it just sucks bandwidth - probably a few joke writers on the dole now :) Best Rod Lucy,
great to have you back !
That’s a big spooky because I used to say years ago that if I ran a mobile phone company I’d employ joke writers and send the gags out hoping they’d go viral, at 10p a good it would have been a real money spinner.
Given that it wouldn’t surprise me if they didn’t !

I imagine now that so many have free texts it just sucks bandwidth - probably a few joke writers on the dole now :)
Best
Rod

]]> Comment on Getting Sick Jokes by Text Message or Email by: Lucy http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/getting-sick-jokes-by-text-message-or-email#comment-11396 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:22:50 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/getting-sick-jokes-by-text-message-or-email#comment-11396 A friend of mine has a theory that phone companies have people on hand to write these things as soon as the event occurs. The combined sickness and topical relevance makes it irresistible to text morons, who propagate it-sending texts that wouldn't otherwise be sent- nice profits kthx or something along those lines Beautiful picture by the way! Lucy A friend of mine has a theory that phone companies have people on hand to write these things as soon as the event occurs. The combined sickness and topical relevance makes it irresistible to text morons, who propagate it-sending texts that wouldn’t otherwise be sent- nice profits kthx

or something along those lines

Beautiful picture by the way!

Lucy

]]> Comment on Getting Sick Jokes by Text Message or Email by: Annie Flinn http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/getting-sick-jokes-by-text-message-or-email#comment-11358 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:17:15 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/getting-sick-jokes-by-text-message-or-email#comment-11358 My mum put it this way: Small minds, small people. I would prefer not receiving ANY jokes via email or other medium, thank you very much. Annie My mum put it this way: Small minds, small people. I would prefer not receiving ANY jokes via email or other medium, thank you very much.

Annie

]]> Comment on Getting Sick Jokes by Text Message or Email by: Lindi lou http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/getting-sick-jokes-by-text-message-or-email#comment-11350 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:44:21 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/getting-sick-jokes-by-text-message-or-email#comment-11350 Aah yes. A subject with which I am all too familiar. Recently I had to discipline a member of staff for leaving printed copies of racist emails around the place. As we have at least one staff member who is of asian origin as well as patients who are not White British, you would think that this person would have had more sense. Here's a tip for those who find these emails/texts funny: Have a small minded giggle to yourself and DON'T send them on to me. I have more important things to deal with than your sick humour. A little bit of thinking would go a long,long way. Beautiful Robin by the way. Now that is something worth looking at. Aah yes. A subject with which I am all too familiar. Recently I had to discipline a member of staff for leaving printed copies of racist emails around the place. As we have at least one staff member who is of asian origin as well as patients who are not White British, you would think that this person would have had more sense.

Here’s a tip for those who find these emails/texts funny: Have a small minded giggle to yourself and DON’T send them on to me. I have more important things to deal with than your sick humour. A little bit of thinking would go a long,long way.

Beautiful Robin by the way. Now that is something worth looking at.

]]> Comment on Getting Sick Jokes by Text Message or Email by: Femme Fatale http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/getting-sick-jokes-by-text-message-or-email#comment-11348 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:06:35 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/getting-sick-jokes-by-text-message-or-email#comment-11348 LB, <i>People just don’t think, as usual.</i> You hit the nail on the head! FF xx LB,

People just don’t think, as usual.

You hit the nail on the head!

FF
xx

]]> Comment on Getting Sick Jokes by Text Message or Email by: Little Brother http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/getting-sick-jokes-by-text-message-or-email#comment-11342 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:32:31 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/getting-sick-jokes-by-text-message-or-email#comment-11342 Rod, Great post. I too got a 'Haiti text' and trust me the member of my staff who sent it will be getting told. I remember the ones about Gary Glitter and how many missed the point with it. As vile as he is the texts were, wether meant or not making light of a much bigger, sicker picture. Everyone was poking fun and insults at Glitter but forgetting about the children he had abused and the lives ruined as a result. People just don't think, as usual. LB Rod,
Great post. I too got a ‘Haiti text’ and trust me the member of my staff who sent it will be getting told. I remember the ones about Gary Glitter and how many missed the point with it. As vile as he is the texts were, wether meant or not making light of a much bigger, sicker picture. Everyone was poking fun and insults at Glitter but forgetting about the children he had abused and the lives ruined as a result.
People just don’t think, as usual.

LB

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