Tried starting a Yahoo account lately?
 

It is a goddamned joke. No wonder this company is dying faster than a fart in hurricane. Fuck 'em.

Don't have a phone? Fuck you. You can't Yahoo.

Don't want to be bothered by unwanted texts and calls for the rest of your goddamned life? Fuck you. You can't Yahoo.

Fuck 'em. Fuck 'em in the ass. Twice. Fuck 'em in the ass til they start liking it, then snatch the dick out and let their asshole slam shut. On glass shards. Then they can slide crack first down 90 feet of barbed wire. Into a pool of alcohol. After being forced to watch their children be gang-raped to death and then eaten by every cannibal on the Congo.

Fuck 'em is the gist of what I'm trying to get across. The entirety of Yahoo can drown in my ball sweat for all I care.

That must be extra annoying, given all the money we've all paid them over the years... ;)

Google and Amazon, among others, hound me for a phone number constantly, but at least they provide a way around it. What is the purpose of having a Yahoo account these days?

There are Yahoo Groups message boards, that some groups prefer over Facebook groups. If your group is on Yahoo Groups, you have to have a Yahoo ID (email account, effectively) to login and use the messsage board, although nothing says you ever have to use the email account or give it out to anyone.

If they do die, AT&T's gonna have to find someone else to provide a webmail interface for their e-mail service. It's stupid, AT&T has a fairly good website, but they're too lazy to come up with their own webmail, so instead AT&T customers get AT&T Yahoo mail.

Flickr is Yahoo now.

Most of my black customers have yahoo email addresses. Is it racist of me to have made that observation?

Yup. PITA too.

Pain in the ass, or Pita is also racist?

Actually, c'man just called you a piece of Arabic bread. :p:

No, it's just one of those interesting observations we see in our world around us. It would only be racist if you preceded or followed it with, 'Yahoo is only used by lowlife deadbeat junkies', then racist for sure.

I'll make an interesting(to me) observation. Whether your question was kidding or not, you still made the connection in your mind that whenever you make a statement including 'black people', you have to be cautious it could be interpreted as racist. Not that it's a bad thing, but it's a refection of the world today, full of people looking for something to be offensive, or triggers.
Now back to the regularly scheduled thread.

Only if you'd said "black people use Yahoo", as though they aren't individuals.


BTW, rednecks use AOL and Jews use Gmail.

See?;)

I don't think I've ever seen an Indian customer that didn't use Gmail.

The thing that truly baffles me is the women I interact with at the school who have a family-wide email address. Like, not just an address for family shit and then both spouses have their own... the husband has an email address at his work, and they share one personal account for all other stuff. It is weird beyond weird.

I totally agree.
They typically have one BaceFook account too Like Jim&Mary Jones. lol
Then again maybe its US and not them

Last time I started a yahoo account was to create this cellar title.
I do find myself using it for some things that I don't want associated with my regular email address.
My Homeowners assn crap, Flickr, etc.

And get this:

I only wanted a disposable email account so I could make a new StumbleUpon account, since you can't stumble anonymously anymore.

What do you folks use for a disposable/not-used-for-anythng-else email? Hopefully something that doesn't require a family history, or biography of my life.

I have four yahoo accounts and two gmails, not counting the ones I manage for my kids and father. All are used for slightly different stuff.

Well, another Yahoo account is definitely out the fucking window at this point.

I expect Gmail will want my life story, too?

With a Gmail account, there's no need to have a bogus/disposable email box. I use my "regular" address for everything, and Gmail is very good at filtering promotional email into the "Promotions" tab, and filtering spam into the spam box.

2nded

The only time I get emails from friends to the effect of, "If you get an email from me that has x in the subject line don't open it..." is when they have Yahoo accounts.

Gmail for everything on the web, Verizon account for personal shit. Thanks to the Gmail account, the Verizon account has received 3 spam emails in 4.5 years. I try hard to keep it that way.

My first gmail account was one I sort of intended to switch over to permanently at the time, but I chose firstnamelastname, and as I've detailed here before, it is absolutely stunning how much crap I get for other people with my same name.* I know Yahoo will continue losing respect as time goes on, just like I audibly laugh at someone with an AOL email address now, so sometime in the next 5 years or so I'll probably start yet another new gmail account with a more distinct version of my name, and switch major personal stuff to that.

*Along these same lines, I was recently instructed to make a website dedicated to my writing separate from my recipe website, except myname.com was already taken, and by someone who also claims to be a writer, no less. This being a major problem from a branding perspective (I am informed,) I instead went with www.JenniferIsACommonName.com. I thought it was funny, my agent thought it was suitably memorable, my mother and brother think it's completely stupid to the point that my mother is considering reserving the URL of my full name for when I "come to my senses." I think she's always felt insulted that I don't especially like my name. :)

It does seem to describe you though.

Jennifer = Guinevere :mg: Well damn, that explains a lot.

Jennifer = "white enchantress" :yesnod:

If I lived in the Philippines I'd never get to leave jail.

?

There was a thing on here awhile back about how the police in the Philippines don't give a damn if they have the right guy; if John Smith committed the crime, and you are a John Smith, you are going to jail. This had led to a trend of parents giving their children more and more unique names, like Superman Smith, Meatballs Smith, Cockadoodledoo Smith, etc.

And I like it a lot better than "Clodfobble". Whut's 'at one s'pposta mean anyway?

It's an old joke from high school. It was my online handle for a lot of different things.

The Clod and the Fobble
-William Blake, sort of for the most part

Love seeketh not Itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care;
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

So sung a little Clod of Clay,
Trodden with the cattle's feet;
But a Fobble of the brook,
Warbled out these metres meet:

Love seeketh only self to please,
To bind another to Its delight,
Joys in another's loss of ease,
And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite

As Bruce would say:

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That's it, I think we should rename Clod, 'Cloudpebble' from now on :P