For days I’ve been fighting spam, telemarketing calls and emails.
It is of a sexual nature and a bit disturbing.
This morning I decide Imma get to the bottom of this crap and ‘unsubscribe’, not that I ever subscribed to such filth. Well…I never…(near fainting–vapors) where’s my smelling salts?
I go online to find a spam blocker that won’t kill everything I want to look at or my Sooper seekrit’(yet unfilthy) stuff.
Hamza, the resident genius on such things says it would be easier if he just went in my laptop and phone and unsubscribed each one of these things.
Well…erm …okay.
He and lil’wrekker sit at the counter and looked it over.
I try to act unconcerned.
What’s this?
They are laughing hysterically at something on my laptop. Uh oh.
I ask them what the deal is.
Lil’wrekker says come here and look.
Now…I don’t want to do this.
I’m afraid. I just wanna grab my computer and run.
She sez…“No, Ma, come look!”
Ok?
Crap.
I gotta look.
It’s a page of furniture. Specifically sectional sofa units.
Amazingly the name of this company is Lovesac.
My spammer was a legitimate furniture company that I generated, myself. Looking for a new sectional.
That is funny. Way back when teachers in Korea used corporal punishment rather liberally, each teacher carried a wooden rod to whack misbehaving children. They supposedly did this because they cared about the children, the punishment was for the children’s own good, etc. Tthus the name for that rod was, and I kid you not, love stick.
I discovered that little tidbit of terminology when I was reading a story in a Korean newspaper about the government’s plan to ban corporal punishment (it is now banned). One father was quoted as saying, “I have no problem with corporal punishment. I really appreciate it when my daughter’s teacher takes his love stick to her”.