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07/22/2009

The Which Quiz-Taker Are You? Quiz

Filed under: Facebook, Humor, Juvenile Scorn — Tags: — Meryl Yourish @ 5:00 pm

Meryl Yourish completed the quiz, “Which Quiz Taker Are You?”

You are a person who usually finds these quizzes an utter waste of time. When you do find one that you want to take, you wind up thinking, “Well, that was stupid!” when you get the result you didn’t expect or, more likely, “What an effing piece of crap quiz!”

You find yourself always just a little out of step with other quiz-takers, and wonder why so many people devote so much time to so little outcome. But then, you also watch cooking infomercials, so you really have no reason to feel superior to the quiz-takers. You also realize that if you were in your tweens or twenties, you’d probably take every quiz that comes your way. But because you’re now old and crabby, you want to suck the joy out of everyone else who thinks that taking quizzes is a fun way to blow five or ten minutes.

Famous quiz takers who got your results: H.L. Mencken, P.T. Barnum, Mark Twain, the crabby old lady who lives on the corner, and your father.

03/04/2009

Facebook follies, anti-Semite style

Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Facebook, Israel — Meryl Yourish @ 8:30 am

I joined Facebook a few days ago. And one of my friends was a member of a group called “I wonder how quickly I can find 1,000,000 people who support Israel.” Since I’ve been on—all of three days, mind you—it’s been hacked dozens of times and renamed “welcome to lebanon”—mostly. But then the hacker got really annoyed. So he changed the name to something delightful:

“i left you some jews to show you why i was killing them”

But that wasn’t good enough. After the group was renamed to its normal name, the hackers decided to show their true colors:

“i left you some jews to show you why i was killing them”

Which still wasn’t hateful enough. After the group was renamed again, the hackers changed it to:

HITLER: I left some jews to show the world why i was killing them..”

and then

“I Wonder How Quickly I Can Find 1,000,000 People Who Hate Israel”

and

“I Wonder How Quickly I Can Find 1 Billion People Who Hate Israel”

The current name is “From Todd Snider: Please Leave the group , we will be back soon.” to “From Todd Snider: Please Leave the group , we will be back soon,” and it’s working. The hackers got 565 members to leave. If you’re on Facebook, and interested in this group: Join it. If for no other reason, join it because it pisses off the Jew-haters.

No matter where we go, there they are. It’s why people like me continue fighting them.

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