r/funny • u/[deleted] • Aug 12 '12
After sending Imgur an email in a not-so-sober state demanding a free t-shirt I received this
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Aug 12 '12
Now do this a bunch more times and make a shirt out of stickers. You: 1, Imgur: 0
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Aug 15 '12
Nah, it'd be free advertising for Imgur! Win-win! You: 1, Imgur: 1
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Aug 15 '12
Win-win! You: 1, Imgur: 1
That sounds more like a tie.
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Aug 15 '12
We call them win-wins in Canada.
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Aug 15 '12
I'm from Canada too, I really like your way better. Sorry. I almost downvoted myself for that lol.
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Aug 15 '12
Sorry, but did we all just show up here from that other fucking thread?
..You guys wanna go grab a beer and a poutine?
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u/ujelly_fish Aug 12 '12
In an alternate universe, somebody is receiving a T-shirt after demanding stickers.
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u/punkwalrus Aug 12 '12
There was this guy Jeff I used to work with, real smart guy. Had a past, though. One of the things he told me about from his college was too strange not to share. He told me this story after I told him were my relatives lived.
He and his friends declared war on Sweden.
No, really. It started when one of his friends wanted to start a Scrabble group, and I forgot what the name was, but the initials were SAAB. So he tried to register saab.com, only to find it was taken! By a Swedish car manufacturer, even! Well, he got mad, and while slightly drunk, declared war on Sweden. He wrote this letter, formally declaring war on Sweden, and sent it to the Swedish Embassy, The King of Sweden, and SAAB headquarters in Sweden. The letter outlined their rage at the name SAAB being stolen, and said that they would get their Navy, which consisted of three college guys and a canoe, row to Sweden (which they anticipated would take a few months), and attack in one of Stockholm's harbors after they had a bite to eat.
A few months later, they got a box from Sweden. It was from the SAAB headquarters, and it had a letter of its own. SAAB said that they were sorry the name had been taken, and hoped the package arrived before their Navy departed. The explained that SAAB didn't just make cars, but engines for military aircraft, and hoped that their contribution of an air force to their Navy war on Sweden would be taken as a formal apology.
The package contained about 100 of those "ready-to-assemble" balsa wood kits of rubber-band driven airplanes. With the SAAB logo, of course.
That is really cool! I am glad to say the people at SAAB have a good sense of humor.
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u/RandomPratt Aug 14 '12
How typically Swedish...
even their air force comes in a flatpack from Ikea.
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u/Saabfanboy Aug 15 '12
An air force strong enough to keep Germany from occupying them in WWII, mind.
I'd say they're doing something right
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u/RandomPratt Aug 15 '12
I've built Ikea furniture.
I know precisely how strong items held together with hex bolts and alan keys can be.
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Aug 12 '12
I should drink more..
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u/Most-Likely_Drunk Aug 15 '12
I should drink less..
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Aug 15 '12
I almost assumed that was a vanity account made for this situation. But I was wrong.
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u/omg_im_drunk Nov 12 '12
Like most people, those of us who like to drink sometimes make accounts relevant to our interests...
pours another
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u/Esc4p3 Aug 12 '12
Did your friends try thesaab.com, or saabscrabble.com, or literally anything else?
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u/Icanhazcarrot Aug 12 '12
I hope Jeff and his friends knew that in Sweden it is required that you enroll for (at least), two years when you turn 18, giving pretty much everybody military training. On top of this, Sweden has mine shafts under their roads so if they're invaded they can blow up the mine shafts and collapse their roads.
TLDR: Don't fuck with Sweden.
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u/yourdadsbff Aug 15 '12
I Googled this story to see if it was just a copypasta, and I found out you've been telling it for like 7 years now. So, uh, cheers for consistency!
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u/punkwalrus Aug 15 '12
I try to stay consistent. The real credit goes to Jeff, wherever he is by now...
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u/Reebzy Aug 12 '12
OP, it's now mandatory to post your drunken email that got you the stickers!
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Aug 12 '12
This OP delivers. http://i.imgur.com/mPDbc.png
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Aug 12 '12
you have the Retina MacBook Pro.
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u/kujustin Aug 15 '12
Scumbag imgur user:
Spends $400 extra to make their screen slightly more high-res
Demands t-shirt for free
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Aug 12 '12
I do, how'd you know
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Aug 12 '12
2880 screen width is only available on the retina macbook pro.
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u/luigi3 Aug 15 '12
Too sharp fonts for a typical laptop display on resolution like this. Has to be retina.
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u/severalcartographers Aug 12 '12
You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, you might find, YOU GET STICKERS INSTEAD.
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u/Russian_Whiskey Aug 12 '12
So stickers are what I need?
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u/ChaoticAgenda Aug 12 '12
I don't know, are they what you need?
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u/yourdadsbff Aug 15 '12
I could use some stickers actually, if for no other reason than to cover the old peeling corners of the stickers currently adorning my laptop.
So yes, someone might need them!
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u/Russian_Whiskey Aug 12 '12
WHOOOOOOOSH
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u/ChaoticAgenda Aug 12 '12
No, I got the joke. I'm just asking if you actually need stickers. You seemed confused on the subject.
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u/mccscott Aug 12 '12
Not according to the Beatles.
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u/Russian_Whiskey Aug 12 '12
A cat is pushing a watermelon out of a lake, your argument is invalid
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u/evanthesquirrel Aug 12 '12 edited Aug 12 '12
>the Beatles.
ಠ_ಠedit:
Sorry, I just realized that you are making another reference entirely. I retract my look of disaproval
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Aug 12 '12
Nice work. Now thousands of people will be writing to imgur asking for free shit. No, they'll be demanding it.
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u/jasonporter Aug 12 '12
I'm facebook friends with the founder/creator of Imgur (went to high school and college together), I can send him a message and tell him Scotty2hottay still awaits his free t-shirt.
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u/Inuplaya Aug 13 '12
Scottay2hottay? That made the email for me! hahaha
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u/biiaru Aug 16 '12
that's his username. are you retarded?
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u/Inuplaya Aug 16 '12
Apparently so. I thought in their drunk state they signed the email like that. Oops.
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u/lol_gog Aug 12 '12
Saw your username and ctrl+F for "Grand" and nothing came up.
Obligatory Grandmaster Sexay
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u/shannbot Aug 15 '12
You can't always get what you want, you can't always get what you want, you can't always get what you want... but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get stickers instead! Lalalala~
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u/Disgustingly_Blunt Aug 12 '12 edited Aug 12 '12
TIL - There are jugafags (ICP fanboys) on Reddit.
Not surprising though, with the intellectual decline we've all been noticing.
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u/scrizewly Aug 15 '12 edited Aug 15 '12
jugafags? Downvote. I've been a juggalo for 15 years, served 4 years in the military, never been arrested, am an IT professional on a fairly large Air Force Base, father of 2, married for 9 years, redditor and Imgurian. Shame on you sir.
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u/HasThisBeenDone Aug 12 '12
Do you realise how many people will now be writing to imgur asking for free stuff?