Hate Spam, love it in fritters. Don't ask why, I can only guess it's the deep fried in batter and the saltiness that do it.
In other news today I had an ad in my Gmail account - not an email but an ad - from a site called Shag(dot)co(dot)uk. I guess at least they are upfront about it..
Anything fried in salty batter is tasty, no?
The ad in your Gmail account is clearly for strong Tobacco, as used by Sherlock Holmes...
Was it David Bryant? The bowls player who always had a pipe in his mouth - I always thought he looked like a man who'd appreciate a rough shag.
A great deal for both deep fried Mars Bars and deep fried ice cream depends on the quality of the oil, and a nice judgment as to both oil temperature and cooking time.
I struggle to keep my weight on and yet I keep getting E-mails with programs to help me grow thin. The worse one was supposed to be from, " a friend who was concerned for me and wanted me to know that I can do this for your health."
I thought it was only me getting these sorts of emails - I have my own hobby-related website that features many hot and fast models (litle free-flight jet aeroplanes, if you must know) - with my email contact - so I am relieved the website has not been compromised.
Today, a scantily clad young lady tells me she is looking for, "a partner who can handle mywicked [sic] sense of adventure and insatiable appetite for passion .... click here, and let's embark on a journey of ecstasy!"
I don't think she knows anything about aeromodelling, my particular route to ecstasy.
The common cormorant or shag
Lays its eggs inside a paper bag...
There is an Australian expression that is the equivalent to the English “fish out of water”.
An Australian friend of mine told me how, when new to the UK, started a new job. Someone asked how he was feeling and he replied “I feel like a shag on a rock”. The entire office went silent.
The common cormorant or shag
Lays its eggs inside a paper bag...
There is an Australian expression that is the equivalent to the English “fish out of water”.
An Australian friend of mine told me how, when new to the UK, started a new job. Someone asked how he was feeling and he replied “I feel like a shag on a rock”. The entire office went silent.
Surely someone said something like "whatever turns your crank; sounds a bit uncomfortable to me" or words to that effect?
Spammer: Hi, I infected you with RAT malware and now I have full access to everything on your computer. And I made a video of you through your webcam!
Me: Did you? That’s clever, I wasn’t aware I even had a webcam.
Spammer: And boy do you look at some “interesting” sites! Wait till your family and friends find out about these!
Me: They already know about my researching into keeping peacocks as pets. I don’t think they’ll be particularly interested in whether oranges should be stir-fried or the properties of xenon, and they’ve had quite enough of politics, as have I.
Spammer: You can prevent me doing this by sending me exactly 4003 in bitcoin.
Me: At today’s exchange rate that works out at precisely £82,161,494.94. Just send the video, it’ll be cheaper.
Spammer: After receiving the payment, I will delete everything from you and you can life your live in peace like before. I give you 3 days to get the bitcoins!
Me: Does your mother know you’re doing this? Just wait until she finds out! I don’t think she’s going to be very happy with you. You can prevent me from tracking her down and telling her by sending me exactly 4003 in bitcoin…
Your package is held up, You must click below to give further instructions. ( What package? Why? Who are you? No, I do not think I will click below)
I checked my spam box the other day and have quite a few of these - delivery companies desperate to deliver a package to me, for which I need to sign in and confirm my address. I've also had a message purporting to be from Instagram to "Please confirm this is really you." I am not on Instagram so no, it really isn't.
I'm getting emails saying my payment of $xxxxx.xx has been declined. That's good news, as I don't have the money as that legacy from a complete stranger never came through, so not worried.
The other email I've been getting recently is from "Shag.co. For people like you. Enter now." If it's for people like me, I'm assuming that's some kind of book club, possibly avian-themed. Not interested. I have enough book club stuff already.
Oh dear. I just received an email from some UK address letting me know my icloud storage is full. The subject line:
Yoᥙr.ρhotos.ᥲᥒd.vιdᥱos.ᥕιᥣᥣ.bᥱ.rᥱmovᥱd.todᥲყ
I've just been notified that my package cannot be delivered because of a problem with the address. However, if I just reply "1" and then turn off my phone and then turn my phone back on and THEN follow the link, it will all be fixed. Must be quite an odd problem with the address if that will fix it.
I'm not sure what the package could be. If it turns out to be a box of @jedijudy 's photos and videos, I will be sure to return them!
Oh dear. I just received an email from some UK address letting me know my icloud storage is full. The subject line:
Yoᥙr.ρhotos.ᥲᥒd.vιdᥱos.ᥕιᥣᥣ.bᥱ.rᥱmovᥱd.todᥲყ
I received an email from a young lady who said 'she has a pussy was tingling for me'. Mrs RR commented, 'Not another email from Cats Protection, dear?'
I received an email from a young lady who said 'she has a pussy was tingling for me'. Mrs RR commented, 'Not another email from Cats Protection, dear?'
Not exactly spam, but I have a page of news feeds, and the content tends to be a mix of topics I have already shown interest in, plus some clickbaits. The other day, I clicked on an article about the death of a "beloved iconic actress"--primarily because I did not recognize her from her picture. Turns out, her most memorable role was as a supporting character in the last three seasons of the TV series "Dallas."
Evidently, it is some definition of the word "iconic" I was previously unaware of.
In any event, as a result of that, my news feed is now overflowing with links to all sorts of dead actors, usually described as "beloved" but not usually "iconic."
@Hedgehog If the page you are talking about is the same page I have used from time to time (as in Bing), there should be three dots in the upper left corner of whatever image you are looking at. If you right click those dots, you should get a pop up asking if you want to remove the image. It might have a question, why am I seeing this? Click that on, and I think you can remove any like image from your page. Try it.
Every day lately I've been getting phone calls on my mobile (which I rarely use except when travelling, because of poor reception at home) asking me for a job. The worst has been batches of ten of them - darned if I know what to do about them. You can report them as spam but they keep on coming. I finally answered one of them while I was out yesterday, using a doomfraught voice, and advised the caller that he wouldn't want the kind of job I was about to offer him. He hung up at that.
I never give out the number, so I wonder how this got started.
Ever signed up for an account somewhere where they wanted you to give your phone number for security purposes?
A friend of mine who doesn't have the internet is currently having false credit applications made in his name because his pension provider got hacked and everyone who'd signed up with them has had their details taken, and is now having to watch out for fraud. Earlier this year some bastard cloned my car registration plate and I got the parking fine. You can be sitting quietly at home doing nothing illegal and not even having an internet connection or smartphone and stuff like this happens.
We had some very genteel spam today. The post included that unusual thing, a hand-written envelope with a stamp, addressed to "The householder". Inside was a letter from Betty, a Jehovah's Witness, enclosing a tract.
We had some very genteel spam today. The post included that unusual thing, a hand-written envelope with a stamp, addressed to "The householder". Inside was a letter from Betty, a Jehovah's Witness, enclosing a tract.
We had some very genteel spam today. The post included that unusual thing, a hand-written envelope with a stamp, addressed to "The householder". Inside was a letter from Betty, a Jehovah's Witness, enclosing a tract.
My phone carrier has an app that will not let any caller not on my friends list get through. There are times, though, when there have been legitimate callers trying to reach me. They have to leave name and number. Trick is to remember to check voice mail a couple of times a day.
There is one number that does get through if I forget to pay my phone bill. I will not answer that one though. I hate trying to reason with an automated chat box.
The JW letters are absolutely genuine and from real people - they started writing them during lockdown, when they couldn't call at houses. We got a couple, both giving the writer's email address, and my husband answered them (JWs are his field of research) and in one case it led to an exchange of emails and in the other to a very pleasant visit after the end of lockdown from the writer and his wife. I'm surprised they're still being sent now that the door-to-door ministry is back to normal, but perhaps some housebound JWs have found it a good way to keep active.
This is hellish rather than heavenly - a friend whose much loved wife died recently is being spammed by adverts for Russian / Eastern European dating sites. He is very distressed.
The JW letters are absolutely genuine and from real people.
We get "handwritten" notes pushed through our door purporting to be from a friendly local tradesman. In fact they're photocopied in bulk and come from a national firm.
Woke up this morning to a message saying my email address was being sold online. The message is genuine, and they don't have my password, but I suppose I can expect another influx of spam over the coming days.
They must think it's worth sending deluges of spam out globally for the 0.01% of people that actually fall for it: though if you can make a few £K from the one person that clicks that phishing link and sell email lists to other spammers meanwhile, you've probably got it made.
I suspect my email address has been compromised as I'm starting to get threatening spam from myself. One purports having recorded me watching naughty videos on line. Difficult, as my screen doesn't have a camera...... (I think).
This is hellish rather than heavenly - a friend whose much loved wife died recently is being spammed by adverts for Russian / Eastern European dating sites. He is very distressed.
That happened to the friend of my partner. He fell for it, and lost quite a lot of money to a purported lonely, gorgeous girl from Georgia (not the USA) who wanted to come and live with him and needed money for fares. He twice sent her the fare and twice "she" didn't turn up. My partner tried to persuade him that the emails probably came from a person looking more like a heavyweight bodybuilder, but the pictures were apparently very attractive and the emails very affectionate!
He did realise eventually though.
There is no way D will fall for it, he's just very distressed that these seem to have been triggered by something he's posted about his late wife, or his late wife's funeral.
There is no way D will fall for it, he's just very distressed that these seem to have been triggered by something he's posted about his late wife, or his late wife's funeral.
This is one of the reasons why I urge FatherInCharge NOT to mention surnames of the *recently departed* on Our Place's weekly news bulletin. He still does it, but I carefully omit all surnames (and the reasons for praying for someone who is ill or whatever) on the online version.
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It is to keep the lightning out.
Was it David Bryant? The bowls player who always had a pipe in his mouth - I always thought he looked like a man who'd appreciate a rough shag.
Yes. Yummy. Especially good with vanilla icecream.
However, deep fried ice cream which has been deep fried in the same fat as fish / chips / sausages is horrible.
It's one of those things that ought to work but in practice was so sodden with frying oil it was horrible.
Today, a scantily clad young lady tells me she is looking for, "a partner who can handle mywicked [sic] sense of adventure and insatiable appetite for passion .... click here, and let's embark on a journey of ecstasy!"
I don't think she knows anything about aeromodelling, my particular route to ecstasy.
“The season’s hottest bottoms”
😳
"...and if you sit on a red hot brick
It's a sign of an early spring"
Sounds like a strapline* for an entirely different sort of website.
*Did you see what I did there?
🤣
There is an Australian expression that is the equivalent to the English “fish out of water”.
An Australian friend of mine told me how, when new to the UK, started a new job. Someone asked how he was feeling and he replied “I feel like a shag on a rock”. The entire office went silent.
Surely someone said something like "whatever turns your crank; sounds a bit uncomfortable to me" or words to that effect?
Spammer: Hi, I infected you with RAT malware and now I have full access to everything on your computer. And I made a video of you through your webcam!
Me: Did you? That’s clever, I wasn’t aware I even had a webcam.
Spammer: And boy do you look at some “interesting” sites! Wait till your family and friends find out about these!
Me: They already know about my researching into keeping peacocks as pets. I don’t think they’ll be particularly interested in whether oranges should be stir-fried or the properties of xenon, and they’ve had quite enough of politics, as have I.
Spammer: You can prevent me doing this by sending me exactly 4003 in bitcoin.
Me: At today’s exchange rate that works out at precisely £82,161,494.94. Just send the video, it’ll be cheaper.
Spammer: After receiving the payment, I will delete everything from you and you can life your live in peace like before. I give you 3 days to get the bitcoins!
Me: Does your mother know you’re doing this? Just wait until she finds out! I don’t think she’s going to be very happy with you. You can prevent me from tracking her down and telling her by sending me exactly 4003 in bitcoin…
I checked my spam box the other day and have quite a few of these - delivery companies desperate to deliver a package to me, for which I need to sign in and confirm my address. I've also had a message purporting to be from Instagram to "Please confirm this is really you." I am not on Instagram so no, it really isn't.
The other email I've been getting recently is from "Shag.co. For people like you. Enter now." If it's for people like me, I'm assuming that's some kind of book club, possibly avian-themed. Not interested. I have enough book club stuff already.
Yoᥙr.ρhotos.ᥲᥒd.vιdᥱos.ᥕιᥣᥣ.bᥱ.rᥱmovᥱd.todᥲყ
Whatever shall I do?
I'm not sure what the package could be. If it turns out to be a box of @jedijudy 's photos and videos, I will be sure to return them!
Send a 'thank you' note?
🤣🤣
Evidently, it is some definition of the word "iconic" I was previously unaware of.
In any event, as a result of that, my news feed is now overflowing with links to all sorts of dead actors, usually described as "beloved" but not usually "iconic."
I never give out the number, so I wonder how this got started.
A friend of mine who doesn't have the internet is currently having false credit applications made in his name because his pension provider got hacked and everyone who'd signed up with them has had their details taken, and is now having to watch out for fraud. Earlier this year some bastard cloned my car registration plate and I got the parking fine. You can be sitting quietly at home doing nothing illegal and not even having an internet connection or smartphone and stuff like this happens.
I've received something similar!
We had one of those too, during Covid lockdowns
I'm wondering if individual JWs have adopted this as an alternative to door knocking, or whether they're mass-produced.
I'm fairly confident that the one I received came from an accurately identified local person. We, too, have a Kingdom Hall nearby.
There is one number that does get through if I forget to pay my phone bill. I will not answer that one though. I hate trying to reason with an automated chat box.
They cleaned out her bank account - a year's wages.
Somebody won a jackpot that day and it wasn't my sister.
AFF
They must think it's worth sending deluges of spam out globally for the 0.01% of people that actually fall for it: though if you can make a few £K from the one person that clicks that phishing link and sell email lists to other spammers meanwhile, you've probably got it made.
That happened to the friend of my partner. He fell for it, and lost quite a lot of money to a purported lonely, gorgeous girl from Georgia (not the USA) who wanted to come and live with him and needed money for fares. He twice sent her the fare and twice "she" didn't turn up. My partner tried to persuade him that the emails probably came from a person looking more like a heavyweight bodybuilder, but the pictures were apparently very attractive and the emails very affectionate!
He did realise eventually though.
This is one of the reasons why I urge FatherInCharge NOT to mention surnames of the *recently departed* on Our Place's weekly news bulletin. He still does it, but I carefully omit all surnames (and the reasons for praying for someone who is ill or whatever) on the online version.