Seriously?!?

[EagleFan]

I usually try to ignore the filler crap that are disguised as "stories" online. Things that show up on Yahoo or Comcast as stories and once you begin reading you see the same old stuff. Top 10 this, 8 reasons for that, etc...

One caught my eye today.

Top 6 Money Habits Which Could Land You In Jail....

The lead in paragraph mentions that these habits could land you in jail. Key word here is goiing to be habits.


The first "habit" that could land you in jail is.... Signing someone else's signature on a check.... WOW!!! Really? It's illegal if I take someone else' checks and try to cash them using a forgery? Glad I read this little tip.


Now that I am already afraid that my other habits could lead to serious jail time I read the next habit that could land me in jail. Using someone else' identity to obtain credit... Holy sh**!!! Identity theft is illegal? Da**, there goes my plans for the weekend.


Almost afraid to read on and I find out that lying on a home loan application is illegal. What if I am lying about being someone else and signing their signature? I am screwed.


Up next? Knowingly writing bad checks. Knowingly can actually be dropped from the sentence in many locations but hopefully common sense can apply to a situation.


Can it get much more surprising? Yes!!! Using a copier to copy money and trying to pass it off as real is illegal too. This article is really ruining my plans for the next month now. I just bought a brand new lasere copier just for this.


Just when I can take no more I read that writing on money is illegal. Seriously? Suddenly I hear the one of these things is not like the other song from Sesame Street in my head. I know that I have heard this before.



How does 1 through 5 get to be considered a habit? Are there people that honestly didn't know that identity theft, forgery and counterfeiting was illegal?

[dubb93]

Consider the source. I'm sorry but I'm not willing to accept that any of that is illegal. I mean I just stopped off at the library and copied enough ones to pay for McDonalds tonight. Come on. No one is stupid enough to believe this crap is really illegal.

[DanGarion]

That is just a shit article that someone made some cash off of to write, and they hope to make money on advertising. What crap.

[BrianD]

I read that article recently too. I figure that being "six habits", I must have at least done one of them once. Nope.

[JediKooter]

It's just like the crappy Yahoo food articles: "The worst cheeseburger" or "The worst finger foods" or "Worst Fast Food items". And all every article does is compare calories to some other item that has less calories. Really??? The worst??? Maybe if that's all you eat, every single day of your life, but, not if you have it now and then.

Ah here's an example: 7 Worst Summer Drinks

These articles make my head hurt. I try to avoid them, but, the titles always stick out like a sore thumb.

[Autumn]

serious deja vu

[Apathetic Lurker]

No I am not surprised....People are stupid

[digamma]

Yahoo has gone to a contributor model to generate some content. They are generally horribly written and without substance.

By contrast, I like the Eat This/Not That guy's column.

[Mustang]

Yahoo mostly has shit articles by people that think they are giving out some wise advice like Yoda. They had one article a few weeks ago talking about how a family saved $15K.. they had such advice such as 'Paint your own house, serve hamburgers instead of steak at family get togethers and limit yourself to one vacation a year.

Gee.. thanks.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by Autumn

serious deja vu

Didn't we have a thread about this at one point?

[panerd]

Originally Posted by digamma

Yahoo has gone to a contributor model to generate some content. They are generally horribly written and without substance.

By contrast, I like the Eat This/Not That guy's column.

Due to the amount of times I click on articles I think my yahoo page defaults to sports stories. Anyways I started noticing that the really awful ones were almost always written by a guy named Chris Chase. Apparently I am not alone as most of his posts have a comments section that is just full of relentless attacks on how bad of a writer he is. His articles have become must reads just for the comments section alone. (and believe me I usually avoid the comments section like the plague)

[Autumn]

Originally Posted by stevew

Didn't we have a thread about this at one point?

I feel like we had this exact same thread, word for word.

[EagleFan]

Originally Posted by Autumn

I feel like we had this exact same thread, word for word.

Sorry, didn't know we had the same thing already.

[Autumn]

I can't say we necessarily did, maybe I'm just having deja vu. But when I read the first post I thought it was some sort of joke, once I assured myself the date was fresh. I feel like I read this exact thing before. Remember that when you read a story about my psychotic break.

[RainMaker]

Unfortunately, with the role search engines play, just putting out any sort of content is big these days. Companies are going for quantity over quality unfortunately.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by digamma

By contrast, I like the Eat This/Not That guy's column.

I'm not a violent person by nature, but when I see that guy's picture, I feel like punching him in the throat, kneeing him in the balls, and then suplexing him onto a table of Little Ceasars Hot n Ready pizzas.

[EagleFan]

Good thing you're not violent by nature or it could have been really bad...

[JeeberD]

#6 isn't entirely accurate (surprising, I know!):

"Defacement of currency is a violation of Title 18, Section 333 of the United States Code. Under this provision, currency defacement is generally defined as follows: Whoever mutilates, cuts, disfigures, perforates, unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, Federal Reserve Bank, or Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such item(s) unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. "

U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing - Historical Legislation

[Butter]

Awesome. So Yahoo is recycling the same shit stories like once a year.