Thanks mate. I missed a few of the posts over the last 72 hours as I’ve come and gone from this thread. Thanks for the heads up. Just goes to show no-one’s immune from being gullible on occasion.
Apparrently this greedy ginch ain’t the only one lookin for free cash…
This Site links to a few more of these chowderheads. Oddly, most of them are female…I wonder what that means exactly :dubious:
You know, Mademoiselle Cynthia says that she grew up without a lot of money, but I sort of wonder what that means to her. I mean, she wants a $20,000+ wedding and she grew up POOR? Dude. Just simply that one stupid, stupid word: Dude. When I was little, after the hog market crashed in the 80s, I know my parents didn’t make more than $18,000 a year, to cover the expenses of four children and two adults. And she wants to spend more than that on a wedding.
Christ!
Off-topic, but I never got this whole “whoosh” deal. Can someone explain to me why it’s funny to pretend to have a different opinion, then say “ha, ha - gotcha!”, when people respond?
I’m not sure I understand your question. Person A posts a facetious remark. Person B responds in a way that indicates that they did not get the (attempted) joke. Someone else (A?, C?. . . .Z?) posts “whooosh” to indicate that the clear attempt at humor had been missed. It is usually done in good spirits and certainly seems to be a better response (given the general recognition of what is being said with a whooosh), than someone posting to B, “You freaking idiot! Don’t your recognize a joke when it is posted?”
In the matter of the OP: I am still not yet persuaded that the whole “Cynthia” scenario is not simply a put-on. There certainly are people in the world who are that materialistic and clueless, but how many of them have the time, energy, and know-how to invest in putting up a whole web site and posting to other web sites in ways that deliberately make them appear to be vain, grasping, bubble heads?
I apologize for being so harsh to Boo Boo Foo. I would however expect someone to read the posts after mine before letting go on me. I had a winkey smiley on the end of my "You’re not so bright…* post.
My question is: What’s the joke? Why is it funny to post the opposite point of view from yours? I understand doing an obvious parody of a different point of view, but these deadpan ones that give no clue as to their being facetious, that seem calculated to try to trick or confuse people, are what I don’t get. When I read Ilsa’s first post, I figured it most likely was a trick only because it was so absurd, but then people post absurd things all the time, and are quite often serious. Do people consider it fun to trick other people? Is that the game?
I don’t know, blowero– I think that most people are sensitive enough to irony that they could and would read Ilsa’s post as it was intended.
How else could you take it? Do you honestly believe that someone (someone here, anyway) would characterize the solicitation of handouts in order to blow what amounts to a a year’s salary in a single day “doing the right thing and trying to manage debts responsibly?” That someone would be moved to take $100 out of their own pocket to encourage such behaviour? That contemplating the purchase of fast food constitutes “rock bottom?”
Ilsa saw the opportunity for a larf when World Eater misinterpreted his “shocked” smilies. (This is another reason I’m a big booster of actual words, by the way.) Still, it’s kind of amusing to think that someone, looking at two possible causes for the implied shock and confusion, (eg; Cynthia’s egregiously tacky enterprise, or gluteus maximus’s expression of disgust for the same,) would assume that the gm’s totally natural repulsion and dismay was the subject.
I’m sure that Ilsa thought that anyone looking at his post would have no trouble “getting” his intent to clarify the original misunderstanding in a humourous way.
Eh. He misunderestimated some people’s capacity for literal-mindedness. (And just so there aren’t any hard feelings, I hardly think that’s an unforgivable shortcoming. Humour is not a universal language- there are divers and several dialects, many of which are completely incomprehensible to me.)
C’est la vie.
Where the hell does this go down at?
So, let me get this straight…
You thought I was expressing disgust at Cynthia’s world-wide panhandling?
Whoosh!
C’mon! How could you miss that I was talking about that wedding dress?!
[anti-whoosh wink];)[/anti-whoosh wink]
Why would you need $150 worth of film for disposable cameras?
I think the film is for her uncle to take pictures.
Then on top of that, she will put a disposable camera on each table for the guests to take “impromptu” photos. Usually at the end, they collect the cameras and have those developed too. The idea is to get different “angles” of an event (like the garter toss), as well as more personal pics of guests. It’s definitely not a necessity, but neither is much that she’s aiming for.
I get the disposable camera idea, I just didn’t catch on about the uncle taking the pictures, but still, $150 worth of film?
Even at $5 a roll (which is at the high end in my experience) that’s 30 rolls of film. Plus the 15 rolls in the disposables, that’s over 1000 different pictures! Is that normal for a wedding?
A photographer throws away >90% of his pictures. Probably half of the disposables go to the circular phot album, too.