# Stopping urban legends and glurge **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 9, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopping-urban-legends-and-glurge/174187 "2003-05-09T19:53:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopping-urban-legends-and-glurge/174187/41 "2003-05-11T13:44:35Z")
One of my friends used to repeatedly send me those. I finally had enough and sent an email containing tubgirl (no, dont try and google for it) to not only him but all of the other people on his mailing list as well, spelling out very clearly that this was a result of him sending me crap and hinting that worse could come. He stopped sneding stuff to me after than mainly from the fear that he would lose the rest of his friends. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopping-urban-legends-and-glurge/174187/42 "2003-05-11T21:55:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by as\_u\_wish \* > \*\*My technique is pretty nasty, but effective in combatting unwanted “bulk” cutsie e-mail from well-meaning friends. I wait until they send me an e-mail about something important (a lunch date, party, whatever. Then, I ignore it. When they call and ask why I haven’t replied, I act ignorant and say something like “Oh, you send me so much junk, I don’t usually open your e-mails. I wish I’d known that particular one was a personal message instead of just a picture or link you were sending to everyone. Maybe you shouldn’t send me all that other stuff?” Embarrassing, dishonest and tacky. But it has worked for me. \*\* Not bad - not bad at all… Esprix ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopping-urban-legends-and-glurge/174187/43 "2003-05-12T00:35:13Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Esprix \* > \*\* > I mean, really - e-mail petitions don’t work. Everybody knows this. Responding with, “Well, it can’t hurt!” is fucking stupid._\* Actually, it can. Toronto Star columnist Michele Landsberg wrote a May 10[sup]th[/sup] column titled _“E-petition to save Amina could harm, not help”_. It was concerning the case of [Amina Lawal](http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/amina.asp), who was sentenced to be stoned to death by a Sharia court in Nigeria for unwed sex. Many petitions (including one at [Oprah’s site](http://www.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/tows_2002/tows_past_20021004.jhtml)) have surfaced to “save” Amina, but none of them will be effective, say officials at [BAOBAB](http://www.flwi.ugent.be/cie/CIE/baobab1.htm), a legal defense fund set up for women sentenced to death under Sharia law. According to Landsberg, BAOBAB says that the Sharia courts see Western non-Muslims as “infidels”, resent their meddling and have complete disregard for their opinions. In fact, “contemptuous e-mails from Western dources merely inflame the defiant attitudes of Taliban-type local leaders and spur them to ever harsher and more extreme actions”. Also, these petitions imply that villagers are helpless victims who must be rescued by the white cowboys over in 'Merrica. BAOBAB argues cases in the Sharia courts from a Muslim perpective, with expertise in Islamic law. In all of the cases that BAOBAB has argued on appeal, none of the original sentences of stoning have been carried out. Alarmist e-mails like this just inflame racial resentment and oversimplify complex cultural issues. So stop trying to “save” Amina. ---
**Author:** ![Kang\_and\_Kodos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8baadc/32.png) [@Kang\_and\_Kodos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kang_and_Kodos)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopping-urban-legends-and-glurge/174187/44 "2003-05-12T06:48:07Z")
I hear there’s a major lawsuit brewing because Sean Hayes completely stole Esprix’s life for the entirety of the WILL & GRACE run. Hell, you do the math. Whiny Whiny Whiny. Contributes nothing of substance ever, yet is still a bitchy star. Kudos. I hope you reign supreme forever, you drama queen. ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopping-urban-legends-and-glurge/174187/45 "2003-05-12T07:05:56Z")
**Kang** or **Kodos** or whoever the fuck you are… what was the point of that post ? If you have a problem with the actual OP, why don’t you post about that ? Or if you have a problem with the OPer, why don’t you start your own thread ? Or do you just liking taking a reasonless squat in your own little postal region of an interesting thread ? ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopping-urban-legends-and-glurge/174187/46 "2003-05-12T16:07:12Z")
See? How do you get rid of this stuff? Esprix ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopping-urban-legends-and-glurge/174187/47 "2003-05-12T16:44:31Z")
The glurge, ULs and assorted shit have been stopped in my workplace by instituting policies against forwarding and any all nonwork related email to anyone inside or outside of the organization. It was all so simple. First time, verbal warning, second time, written warning, third time, termination of employment. Only one person has gone so far as the second time since then. I know it sounds extreme, but it was felt important to not be clogging people’s work email with nonsense. When I get any of this stuff in my work email from people outside the organization, I send a nice email requesting that they not send me non-work related email. Know what? It’s worked, so far. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopping-urban-legends-and-glurge/174187/48 "2003-05-12T17:10:23Z")
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