OH MY GOD! Have any of you posting here gone back and re-read the incredibly ridiculous direction this entire thread has taken? Are you people for real?
It's a freakin' commercial - it's not pornography. It's a parody of a VERY popular children's program - one of which my own 8-year old son watches and enjoys thoroughly, including the fart noises, Patrick's bare ###, and jokes about SpongeBob in a thong. The show itself is more "explicit" than that stupid commercial. It's nothing explicit, and it's nothing my child won't be exposed to as he grows into an intelligent, articulate adult - whether I try to stop it from assaulting his eyes or not. If he doesn't watch Spongebob at home, he'll watch it at a friend's; or his big brother's place; or at school; or at any other location other than my home that has a freakin' television.
He makes fart sounds - it's a natural HUMAN bodily function - and burps, and whatever else... and thinks it's funny. So did I at that age, and you, and you and you and you and you... And the commercial is a parody on that - and a parody on butts. So what? EVERYONE HAS THEM, whether you right-wing zealots want to accept that or not.
What color is the sky on your end of the Internet, people? Is Lucy up there with all her diamonds? GET REAL!
You all are acting more childish on this board than the kids these commercials are "targeted" to. It's freakin' PARODY, and the song is a long-standing fixture in pop culture. So what if Sir Mix-A-Lot likes big booty? I've heard more maturity in a kindergarten schoolyard than I've seen on this thread - and all of you slinging the mud and name calling ought to be ashamed of yourselves.
Don't like the commercial? Think it's in bad taste? That's up to YOU and it's YOUR opinion. Take it up with the proper people through the proper channels - not on some obscure and anonymous ###-board.
And those of you who don't agree with the above opinion - so be it. Keep it to yourselves - why belittle yourselves AND the person who is entitled to their opinion with name-calling and schoolyard-bully tactics.
My GOD this world has become such a wasteland of immaturity.
@NoThanks: Been to some of the Schulder threads... A little *too* weird for me. I love the carnival-threads, been called a freak myself a few times too many, but that's just a little too off for me. "Interesting" is not the word I'd use, "ridiculous" doesn't come close to describing them, and "utterly disgusting" is too tame a word to describe that puppy-mill madam and her cohorts. And for the record - I LOVE ###-boards... Been on them since the days before the Internet when I was raising the ire of my whole family tying up the phone line at blazing-hot fax speeds dialing into bulletin board systems. :-)
@MrSquigles: See - that's why I love boards like this. The cutting wit. But dude, your blade's a little dull. ;-) Grab your sharpening stone - I get the feeling you'll be one of the more fun people on this site. :-P
(To clear up my 3-letter post - think movie reference, not something directed at anyone... I'm reading the Schulder thread and felt I HAD to clear that up before someone read it wrong... LOL)
Priceless... ;-) DOG-GONE this is gonna be another one of those threads, isn't it?
Christ - I'm only on page 43 of that whole mess (it's like a train-wreck... you just CAN'T take your eyes off it!) and I had to break out my "Ghetto-speak For Dummies" book at least a dozen times.
I wanted to stay out of that thread, but BOT have I got a doozy of a post brewin' for that thread!
Errrm - "BOT"? Typo - my bad. Meant to say BUT. What an ### I can be - so square.
(Thought I'd try to bring this thing back on topic... ain't working, is it?)
Well, if we go by most of the posts here, it could be inferred that it is a verb - "to pic"; the action of inserting oneself into random topics to help extract another's head from their posterior regions - usually unsuccessfully.
Got that from my Ghetto-speak For Dummies, version 2 book (the one that tries to clean up the language) - really, it's VERY educational.
Kinda like this board - needs a bit of organization though. Gotta go all over the place to find the fun stuff. :-P
There is NO WAY this is a legit email - it's just like countless others with various "well known" brand names attached to it. Delete, Forest, delete! ;-)
You're not alone:
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/finance/200cash.html
200Cash.com — Fraud fraud fraud!
/URL removed/?q1=ALL&q4=&q6=&q3=&q2=&q7=&searchtype=0&submit2=Search!&q5=200cash
And those are just from the first 5 results when doing a Google search on them. I would suggest gathering as much information as you can about them (name, address, phone number they called from, person's name that called you, etc.) and about the so-called loan they never gave you and submit it to both your local Better Business Bureau and your local State Attorney. You can also direct them to the multitude of similar complaints like I listed above to further back your claim.
Let them threaten you with warrants and jail time - in the end, if you nip this in the bud, it will be THEM that find themselves in an 8x10 cell and not you.
Best of luck.
Dave
Just the latest variant of the notorious 419 scam (the infamous Nigerian Letter scam). It's despicable that they would do this using the honor and integrity of men and women fighting for the freedom THEY themselves enjoy to perpetrate this crime. They are doing nothing but putting soldiers' integrity into question for their own gain and it's more than just "sickening".
I have a friend who served with the Canadian Armed Forces in Afghanistan and was killed in the line of duty - it's appalling that these scammers would do this for their own gain on the backs and bravery of any Armed Forces member.
Hope you didn't try to cash the check, or send the funds they asked for. The number is not a valid one for anywhere in Southern Ontario (usually the area codes are 416 or 905) and when looking at it I thought maybe the number was switched and it was supposed to actually be a toll free 877 number - which goes back to a "VolunteerCard" in Burnsville, Minnesota.
I've seen superballs that would bounce less than that check would if you were to try and cash it - and you'll be on the hook for the money you take out and send OR spend as a result of cashing that check.
"How do you know it's a scam?"
Simple - any "check" sent to you for something you didn't enter or have any knowledge of is a red flag. A check sent to you with instructions to send 80% of it back via Western Union even more so.
Just Google it - hundreds of thousands of similar victims can't be wrong.
"The Check should be from a place called The Telephone Centre, Inc."
Unfortunately, that's not always the case. I'm in a management position for a consumer advocacy firm, and this is a statement I have heard from people who have been bitten by the same bug (read:scam) more than once... "But this last check I thought was real *should have been from*..."
The real hard-core scams (and we hear about so many of them it would take 15 pages to list them all, just for phone scams - forget about the Internet or snail-mail ones) have become so elaborate that it's hard to distinguish one from another. With domain registrars offering "private" registrations now, where the actual registrants can hide their identities (and thus their scams) behind fake names backed by a $9/month proxy fee, enabling mass-theft has hit an all-time high.
I will not promote myself or my company/services here - I am above that, and I know just that statement will draw the ire of the trolls on this site. But any legitimate victim is welcome to send me a private message. Be forewarned, however - in my line of work I receive many messages and "requests" for assistance by the very trolls and scammers that are making you a victim. If you send me a private message asking for help, you WILL be directed to a page that takes your complaint - as well as major statistical data for analysis: IP, DNS, browser, city/state/province, etc. - and it is logistically resistant to spoofing, so the trolls here thinking they can extend their shenanigans to a system that provides legitimate help for real victims can save their keystrokes.
After all - this site was *supposed* to be intended to help people, not breed insults and back-biting. Where this site fails, my company will pick up the slack.
Hmmmmm - am I the only one that finds it extremely odd that this Jennifer person claimed she "was no longer in business", yet the givenright.com website is STILL actively trying to solicit business and payments?
Well - I read this thread from start to finish with more than just a little disgust. What I initially thought would be yet another Robin Schulder type of story manifested into so much more.
I find it hard to believe that after a full-blown trial - one that presented enough evidence to show a jury beyond a shadow of a doubt that they felt it appropriate to return a guilty verdict in under 90 minutes - people are STILL trying to argue their innocence through vulgar language, name calling, and other vitriol.
They scammed people out of their money - there are hundreds of complaints if you do a Google search on them. They have obviously mistreated the animals on their property (several eye-witness accounts attest to that). And they've been accused, tried, and convicted of crimes against children.
In my eyes - guilty of one or all three, it doesn't matter. Karma is a ###, and it fell hard on Brandi and Jeff. This is the PERFECT example of "what goes around, comes around", and I don't feel a whit of sympathy for either of them.
To the girls who were victimized by the Disharoons: I am glad justice was served for you, and pray you will be able to get through your ordeal and live healthy productive lives.
And the SuperTroll returns. Creates an account just today to come out and attack me, among others. Nice email you left me - now go back to your dolls and leave the discussions to us adults, ok?
You got it all wrong, Squigs - it's not the Eileenians. It's THE Eileen, back to grace us with her charm, wit, and insanely mature commentary...
(Geeeeeeee - I'm getting good with the scarcasm. Wonder if I could turn it into a money-making venture...?) :-P
Oh - that was cute... You even stooped to trying to trash me on an answer I gave someone asking a serious and legitimate question. I appreciate the amount of time you spend on tracking everything I do, but seriously it's starting to border on stalking. You're starting to be more than just a little creepy.
You're some piece of work, Eileen... Ooops, I mean "MoreSifferThanEven"... Well, a piece of something, anyway.
ROTFLMAO - new groups, posts, comments - all targeting me for the most part, and some of the other *mature* people here. Too damned funny!
If you REALLY wanted to have anything you say carry any weight, Eileen, you should have used one of your accounts that is older than... ummmmm. Today. Oh - that's right, you CAN'T because the admin was as fed up with you as the rest of us are and nuked your idiot ###. I wonder how long it'll be before you're nuked again, hmmm? Won't be me reporting you - I rather enjoy watching you make a fool of yourself. It's like a trainwreck you can't look away from.
Sadly, it's companies like this that give us REAL designers/developers a bad name. What's worse is I have seen some of the "design" that people are paying this company thousands of dollars to "create" - I would be embarrassed to put my name to most of them, much less charge as much as they have for work my 8-year old kid could do.
And the timelines they promise? Not only unrealistic, but pathetic. I personally won't book more than 2, maybe 3 projects a MONTH because I know how much work goes into the design and development of a high-quality site - and more often than not I am working on two projects at a time (5-6 hours a day on one, then another 5-6 hours a day on the other). Even a mediocre site takes at least 3-4 weeks to complete - taking into account the time it takes to design mock-ups, get client approval (or implement changes requested, then resubmit for approval), code it, test it for compliance and compatibility.
Their "promised" turnaround times are just unrealistic - especially if they have a staff of sales reps charged with generating "at least $30K a day in sales" as one person put it on another complaint about this company. That's an average 10-15 sites A DAY - no wonder they can't meet their own deadlines!
Can't help but feel bad for the *many* people who have been sucked into this company's vacuum.
As a designer/developer in my own right, I have to say I am APPALLED at this comment by "GraceGraphics" - if your commentary is representative of HIT as a whole, then there is very little wonder there are as many complaints about the company as there are.
I've had more than my share of "difficult clients", but at the end of the day I would NEVER make a blanket statement as you have that reflects the true shallow character that rests beneath your surface. It is insulting to ANY potential client to see the words "Oh, you're just one of *those* kinds of clients...", or "if you had to pay for design time by the hour... (blah, blah, blah) ... you'd figure out how to be more efficient.
It's not the CLIENT'S job to be efficient - it's YOUR job to determine what they want and produce it, no matter how often things may change. The bottom line is simple - they are paying YOU or YOUR COMPANY to provide them a service, and do so in a way they are comfortable with parting with their money.
Judging from the litany of complaints against the company you work for - none of you there are doing that. And judging from your comment, you seem to have the attitude that they are paying for the privilege of being TOLD what they want and nothing more. People like YOU in the business is what makes it harder for those of us who focus on giving the client what they WANT.
At the end of the day, these "difficult clients", whether you like them or not (and you obviously have a vile distaste for anyone who challenges your idea of "design" - and judging from HIT's portfolio that is a very loosely used word), pay your bills. Learn to deal with it - develop a better attitude when it comes to CUSTOMER SERVICE or get the hell out of the business!
LOL - Squigs, I got the same PM, almost word for word! ROTFLMAO
Eileen's off her meds again. Head for the hills!
As someone who deals with PayPal on a regular basis (and not necessarily a "fan", seeing as they have screwed up several times in the past few years with me as one of their vendors) you're not getting ripped off. It's not a double-bill - it's a confirmation from PayPal. Take a second look at it, and if you still have questions feel free to contact me thru PM. I'll help you through it.
Oh, and Eileen (er, "Principissa") - try letting people get answers to their concerns instead of trolling 10 threads (at last count) trying to annoy people that actually HELP legitimate complaints. If you REALLY have a need to attack people to make yourself feel better, join a ###-fighting club or something. Leave the grown-up stuff to the grown-ups... ok?
