I agree, and I would add “antisocial” to their description as well. Trying to ignore them now.
Oh no, we can’t be having with that sort of thing. And so, neither can you.
How about… YOU DRY YOUR OWN FECKIN’ TEARS. And maybe get away from the person who’s making you cry, at least for a little while, if you can?
Really, these things would be so much more poignant if the answer wasn’t so obvious.
Wait, I thought yourecards was a service from someecards to allow you to make your own message with their art - so it’s actually endorsed by someecards. I’ve been seeing some funny ones that I can’t find on the someecards official listings and eventually found them by looking at their user-generated cards.
Isn’t that what I said?
I just read someone complaining about the someecards multiplying on FB. However, here are some FB perennials (sp?) I despise-
First, anything that accuses whoever does not Share of being afraid to stand up for God, America, Motherhood, or against of Abuse & Bullying,
Secondly, the “Why Do Women Cry So Much” meme. Yeah, oftimes they may cry because they are finer, more sensitive beings who bear so much love they can’t contain it all. Sometimes they are whiners who can’t control their emotions OR who can control them & so choose to cry as it makes it easier to manipulate others.
Third, the 'You know the girl you called a slut? She’s a virgin. The crippled man you laughed at? He was wounded fighting for our country…" Um, I didn’t do any of these things & would be appalled at & call out anyone who did. BUT if I were the type of person to do any of those things, I would relentlessly mock those feeble attempts to shame me, because I’d be an jerk not driven to my knees in repentance by a sappy Internet Meme.
Fourth, “For every time you insulted your woman, another man is paying her compliments; for every time you made her cry, another man is making her laugh…”
And if I were such a guy, would I be more likely thinking “Oh no, I better behave or I may lose her!” OR “I knew that $%@# was cheating on me! She is getting such a beating when she gets home…!”?
Fifth, pictures of abused children, women, & animals - designed to make me oppose said abuse. And some of these pictures of animal abuse are horrid- dogs with half their faces blown away with fireworks! Apparently still being kept alive instead of humanely put down in an ASPCA production of “Fido Got His Gun”.
Sixth, ill -usually cancerous- babies shown with the promise that FB will give $1 for each Share. Yeah, I guess that would use the Bill Gates E-mail Tracking program.
I will gladly wade through dozens of someecards & the like to not have to deal with the above.
Just got one on my wall in HUGE letters on a colorful image of a kid flying on a rainbow, “I laugh at every time you say I can’t because I CAN.”
Awful.
Man, the one time I tried to balance on a rainbow, the yellow stripe snapped and I fell 7,000 feet (right into the middle of BeanbagChairFest '99, luckily).
If only someone had laughed at me and told me I couldn’t…
I agree that some of the ecards, memes, and sayings that people post on Facebook are truly cheesy, corny, and awful. But the other day I saw one that really made me recoil in horror. I did not even know it could get this bad. Behold.
I just had a friend post a photo of a dog who was “Cut with a chainsaw because he knocked over his owner’s beer”, and I was instructed to share and pass it on to help raise awareness of animal abuse. People are aware, thanks. It’s not like the cancerous lungs on cigarette packs - would-be animal abusers aren’t going to look at poor Doggie on your Facebook page and have a change of heart about kicking puppies. And people know about abused animals… you can thank that terrible ad with the Sarah McLachlan song for that.
I’m not a fan of most of the “ecards” jokes, but this one about the heat index was good enough that I printed it out and put it up at work.
That was beautiful.
All these things, I see everyday in my feed and they don’t bother me.
What is reaching “e-fucking-well-nough already” levels is the posting of something from 30+ years ago – a flash bulb, an ice cube tray with the lever, an Atari joystick – captioned with “Do you know what this is?? If so, you had a GREAT life! Share!”
Ohhh, thanks – the childhood filled with domestic abuse and the crippling drug habit are meaningless*…I had a GREAT life because my dad had a fucking Kodak Instamatic.
*(Note: For effect only – none of these actually apply to me)
Hey I was just thinking of starting a thread on this. It’s all over the place! I was wondering if it’s the news I keep to. They practically scream, “I’M STILL YOUNG! DON’T DISCOUNT ME YET!”
Also the “I got whipped with a belt, never wore a bicycle helmet, and rode in the back of pickup trucks! It was awesome- so much better than the softie parents of today!!”
:rolleyes:
I’m friends with a lot of adults significantly younger than me, like 18 years younger. They post/share a lot of that kind of thing, too, especially fixating on shows from Nickelodeon or the Disney Channel that are about ten years old, or video games roughly bracketed between SNES/Gen and N64/PS1. “Remember ‘Rocko’s Modern Life’?!?! Hit SHARE if you GREW UP ON IT!!! :D” “OMG, hit LIKE if you remember the first time you heard Link play the OCARINA!!!”
And I’m sitting there puzzled for a second. “That came out when I was married. That’s not.. holy crap, I’m old.”
My FB account is flooded with people reposting the “The American Veteran is the most sacred creature ever to grace the earth with the imprint of his boot!!! Even the lowliest milquetoast sergeant who has spent the last 2 decades in an office in the quartermasters is 100000x more braver and better and cooler and Jesus-loved than you or me!!!111!!!” In fact, expanding on that point, to read Facebook, America is divided into two classes of people:
The Greatest American Heroes Ever
Veterans
Jesus
Firefighters
Teachers
SAH Moms
Kittens
The Rabble who We Really Don’t Need Nor Give a Shit About
Everyone else
A veteran firefighter teaching SAH moms about Jesus by means of performing kittens would be so awesome that the entire universe would just say “fuck it, can’t compete,” and vanish in shame.
Ephemera likes this.
Is it just the “someecards” name-brand you don’t like? Or the style in general?
I like this one:
Another of the same with a girl: same-same
I’ve had to block more than a couple of friends who post crap like that, and like those stupid pictures. What’s worse is they’re all adults. Hell, they’re all smart in their own fields, but I can’t take it. I just want to scream, “You’re a goddamn adult! Act like it! You shouldn’t be consistently liking pages from a group called, ‘teenage problems’ or whatever.”
I used to have one friend who was in the Air Force kept posting about how brave veterans are and under appreciated and how no one is as cool and whatnot. I’m a vet (who had a combat job) and I told her, “Dude, you can’t post about how brave you are and how much sacrifices you made. It doesn’t work like that. You can’t toot your own horn.”
She didn’t like that.
Eh?
I admit it’s not quite as classy, but where does it say you can’t toot your own horn?