The Bacon Meme

[dreamflower]

Saw this on LJ, too!

From kerravonsen 

"Please copy and paste this to your status if you’re constantly being asked to copy and paste things to your status by friends who copy and paste things to their statuses. Many people will not copy and paste this, but my truly sarcastic friends will copy and paste it because they know this was copied and pasted from a dear friend in need of more stuff to copy and paste; and if you don’t copy and paste it, then this means you hate bacon. And if you hate bacon, the terrorists win."

Comments

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Too funny! Call me a curmudgeon, but I'm finding myself less and less inclined to copy/paste even worthy items these days because of the proliferation of mindless e-xeroxing of cheesy banality. Heck, I refuse even to "click if you love Jesus." Horrors! That probably consigns me to the outer darkness in some people's minds.

But I do love bacon...

[dreamflower]

If you are, then I am too.

It is rare for me to copy and paste those sorts of things (except fun ones like this) because so often they are coercive in tone: "If you are not a bigot, then you will paste this message and pass it on...

Huh? Not pasting it means I'm a bigot? (Or whatever thing they are trying to push). As you say, even a worthy cause can be annoying when presented that way.

I'm much more likely to pass on a signal boost if I'm not told I have to. Call me persnickety, but I'd rather be asked.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Call me persnickety, but I'd rather be asked.

Persnickety! *g* (Sorry, couldn't resist...)

I absolutely feel the same way.

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

ahahaha! Thank you for this! I absolutely hate the copy and paste stuff. I don't mind people spreading the word for important things, but when it's "copy and paste this if you care about kittens" or something, then it makes me NOT want to paste it.

[fidesquaerens.livejournal.com]

This was one of the few memes that made it from FB to LJ and back again. So funny!

Speaking of bacon and memes, have another.

[fidesquaerens.livejournal.com]

Hmm, the graphic quality was much better on FB. For those with older eyes than mine:

1. There must always be bacon in the fridge. Always.
2. There does not exist a food that does not go well with bacon.
3. There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who like bacon, and those who will be used as fodder in the case of a zombie apocalypse.
4. Even pigs like bacon. Fact.
5. Crispy and chewy are both acceptable ways to cook bacon. Thou shalt not discriminate.
6. 90% of the world's problems can be solved by cooking more bacon.
7. Bacon presents exactly zero health risks. Shut up.
8. If your computer is antiquated and slow, you can feed it bacon through the floppy drive to make it run faster.
9. Meals without bacon are rarely worth eating.
10. When given a breathalizer, the number they give you is your BAC. This is short for "bacon," and is equal to the number of slices of bacon you should eat divided by 100.
11. Thou shalt always consume bacon on the sabbath. And the Mondath. And the Tuesdath. And the...
12. Bacon gets you laid.

[dreamflower]

What irritates me is the blatant attempts to guilt people into doing it. I don't mind giving a good cause a signal boost, but I prefer that they *ask* me, not tell me that if I don't I am a horrible person.

[dreamflower]

I love bacon! You are making me crave some now-- and I am currently in violation of Rule 1. *sigh*

10. When given a breathalizer, the number they give you is your BAC. This is short for "bacon," and is equal to the number of slices of bacon you should eat divided by 100.

This made me hoot and caused the cat to give me a dirty look and jump off my lap.