Holy crap I just found this rather genius disguise for a pyramid scheme.
Invest £3,000 in the group, and you will receive £24,000 for every eight members you recruit.
Because you're raising awareness and should be rewarded or some shit. I don't really know what the rationale is behind the money exchange but it's probably something like that.
Want to shut this down? Dirty misogynists can go to hell.
And then there are women who join and think it's a gamble whether you get money or not (2nd last para)... The same article reveals that the person at the top is a businesswoman (para3), making this whole deal less sinister than if it had been a man at the top[original research?]. The usual explanation for that is that the patriarchal society intrinsically views women as harmless and any evil shit they do can't really be that bad.
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Also I was on a thread about Nigerian 419 Scams on Reddit, and came across this beautiful exchange. It is pure pure genius. It's pretty long, but you must read it to get the full effect. But, tl;dr this guy got $80 in cash from the Nigerian scammer by pretending to be a Father of some stupid ass (+made up) church.
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Lastly why the hell did they call a piece of super absorbent cloth a "Shamwow". As far as I'm concerned, there is no definition of "sham" that isn't related to deceit and general shittiness. Has anyone ever bought a Shamwow branded cloth? And if so, is it actually a quality product, because wtf?
2 comments:
It's sham as in chamois.
Wow that was a surprisingly useful anon comment.
That is quite interesting, thankyou.
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