I Pit "someecards"

The BBQ Pit
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You know those “jokes” with stupid old timey pictures from someecards? The ones where 70% of them are jokes about how women drink too much wine?

Yeah, fuck those. The first fourteen million of them were sort of funny, but since 14,000,001, the joke has worn just a little thin. My Facebook feed is now absolutely jammed with the fucking things. The good ideas are now long since used up and there weren’t many to start with. I do not need to see another old fashioned drawing with a declaration of either your cutesy funny female dipsomania, or some cynical, mean-spirited comment about the human condition that implies, or just states outright, how better you are than other ever though you’re just like the rest of us wasting time on Facebook.

Fuck someecards.

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I have to agree. Oddly, I don’t recall seeing any about wine, but “cynical, mean-spirited comment about the human condition” certainly applies to a lot of them. They really don’t give me a good impression of the people who post them.

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But this is the best card ever and it is displayed quite prominently on my FB feed. :smiley:

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Will you stop trying to remind everybody that you are a teacher. Most of us left school years ago, we don’t give a shit.

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That is a good one. I wish more of them were like that.

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I don’t pit the cards, I pit the proliferation of them on Facebook. I love the cards, but I only used them to email people on special occasions, like my boss calling in sick at work. :smiley:

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We’re wedding planning and thinkthis one is hilarious. But it is about wine drinkin’ women, I suppose.

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Yeah, they annoy the piss out of me. Also, people have taken to posting mediocre quotes in colorful boxes with giant letters. As if that somehow makes what they have to say more important. And it’s usually such stupid shit, like the kind of thing you’d think was meaningful in high school. ''I’m an imperfect person but you should accept me for who I am!" and shit like that.

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When I see complaints about things on Facebook, my first thought is “get some smarter friends and/or prune your friends list.” Or if someone’s pleasant IRL but has a consistent pattern of posting annoying content, you can mute updates from them.

I’m not especially bothered by “someecards” - their dry cynicism sometimes tickles me - but the terrible quotes in boxes mentioned above, good God. I’d love to have a tally of how many times “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you’ll land among the stars” or that bit of awfulness about how “if you can’t handle me at my very worst, you don’t deserve my very best” show up on Facebook.

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If you look at the bottom left corner you’ll see that they aren’t “someecards” but “yourecards.”

But yeah, I hate them too. They are never funny.

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Same product. The website is “someecards.” I’m not sure why some are branded one and some the other but it’s the same website.

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I believe the “yourecards” are when someecards basically open-sourced their website, to allow people to create their own. It’s one of the reasons you’re probably seeing a glut of really unfunny ones lately - it’s been a pretty recent development. I noticed the same thing when there was a rash of grammatical errors in ones that people were posting on Facebook, and wondered how they let their quality control go to shit.

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Pitting memes is so 2010.

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Pitting the pitting of memes is so 2011. :smiley:

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I did it before it was cool.

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Blinkies is what they are or used to be called. You’re missing the worst ones though: the emo variety. Stuff like “I like walking in the rain because then no one can tell I’m crying” and “What do you do when the one person who can dry your tears is the one making you cry?” Anything about crying, really…

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Now that I can get behind.

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Doing things before they were cool is so 2009.

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I’ve been “on the Internet” a lot longer than 2009 and do have a Facebook account, and I’ve never seen or heard of the things before this thread.

I seem to have a run-through-the-without-getting-wet (dis?)ability when it comes to memes that everybody else knows and is already sick of.

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This is new knowledge to me that Farmer Jane used to be a teacher, and I must request that you please remove me from inclusion in your “we” as I find the fact at least measurably interesting.

Please, when making this type of statement in the future, use a format such as: “we (excepting RaftPeople) don’t give a shit.”

Thank you