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Sunday, September 14, 2008 
One of my pet projects is an ecard website called lickmycards.com. I use it as an outlet for my destructive behavior. When I'm upset about something fucked up, I need something even more fucked up to make me laugh. That where I usually come up with the cards that eventually go up. Every couple weeks I use these cards as my release. One of which was this cards:



The cards on this site are fucked up and really have no place in society, but so do most of the things I think and do. I modify my behavior in the real world to meet the status quo. It's still not enough to get by unnoticed. I really have nothing more invested in this site other than peace of mind that I'm doing the world a disservice. To get that validation I go online to check the sites stats and see the damage I've done to the world. The following is a section of those stats and I'll explain what they mean:



These stats show that there was a surge on September 10th. I did a little investigation to see where the traffic came from. Sure enough it was from people sending out the 9/11 card. Tens of thousands of people sent out this card and mainly this card. I'm kind of disgusted with America. It's one thing for me to have that original thought, it's another people to laugh about it and send it around. I've spent a lot of time focusing on the overwhelming likelihood that people like me don't see eye to eye with the majority. I can't help but find it kind of upsetting that it's something slightly offensive to me that gets everyone's attention. It could be that they find it funny, it could be that they find it shocking or maybe they thinks it means something nice. I don't even know what it means. I just find it odd.
Ry-Guy
Ryan H. Nelson

 
... huh. Are you sure they were spreading it around because they thought it was funny? Because I really didn't find any kind of joke in there. And don't get me wrong; generally, if there's something really, REALLY wrong to laugh at in something, then by dammit I'll FIND it. But I don't see anything like that in the 9/11 card. Maybe I'm just more prudish than I once realized all of a sudden, but it just sounds like your typical, sad ol' 9/11 message to me, and maybe that's how THEY saw it, too. *shrugs*

> Ry-Guy
 
Posted by Ry-Guy on Sunday, September 14, 2008 - 4:13 PM
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My Coal

 
I don't know. It very well could be. I really don't find it funny, I don't know how I feel about it.I just find it hard to believe that for what ever reason that card has been making it's rounds. I don't see how it could be viewed as a good thing.
 
Posted by My Coal on Sunday, September 14, 2008 - 4:27 PM
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Jeff

 
Depends on who you send it to. If you send it to the myspace profile of someone who died on 9/11 then the card is kind of sad. But I don't think that's the majority of the people who posted it. Chances are they see it as an ironic break up card (is ironic the right word?) and are sending it to people because they think it's funny.

During campaign season every stupid publicity stunt (which 9/11 memorials become) seem like cheesy campy pathetic attempts to not look like a skum bag. So maybe they were posting it with that in mind.

Btw, reminds me of that old joke...Every sentence Rudi Giuliani says has three things. A noun a verb and 9/11.
 
Posted by Jeff on Monday, September 15, 2008 - 6:00 AM
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Luke

 
interesting
 
Posted by Luke on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 6:58 PM
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Maisha-Cole
Maisha Cole Perri

 
Thats f'in hilarious!
 
Posted by Maisha-Cole on Monday, January 05, 2009 - 4:29 AM
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