is this educating the lads?

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Elite Baiter Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 1731

Been baiting this lad for about three weeks. Tag team kept him busy over 13 hours today. He has been testing my character since Wednesday, he thinks I am fellowlad.

Today a member of the team found out that it is lad's lack of knowledge of US geography that is taking this bait to its end. My character told him she is from He asked which part she told him eastern. When asked what city she told him .

Thw lad tells other baiter that there is no such place as and that's why she doesn't think I am who I say I am or trust me.

So to move forward we need to get this ironed out but I do not want to educate the lads. Is it all right to explain this?

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:40 am

Geography lessons are fine. He might even find interest in subject and decide to become a valuable member of society... besides what your doing wouldn't really be educating him.

Or, just tell him you live outside of in small community called Washington Falls.

Or, tell him that YOU know where YOU live and because he doesn't know everything in the entire world it can't be your fault.

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:42 am

No need to educate them.

Tell them they clearly didn't read your email properly. They have no knowledge of America and anyone who is smarter than a Newt knows about Spokane, Washington.

But if you do want to 'educate' them personally I don't see a problem with this. Washington DC and Washington State is hardly something that a victim wouldn't forgive a lad for mixing up. And how often are they going to find victims from Spokane?

I dunno... could go either way. Personally, I would say, "fine, if you are too stupid to read my email it's not my problem, I don't have to prove to you that the place I am sitting right this very second exists, if you can't read a map, then f* off".

But that's me Very Happy

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Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:42 am

Spokane, WA is a tiny little town too small to appear on any map. it doesn't even have a WU or place where you scan thoe documents the lad wants. This could cause all sorts of delays, especially when the bridge gets washed out. Oh dear oh dear.... Very Happy

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:42 am

Yeah I don't think it's really educating the lad. Perhaps slap him for not knowing the difference between the two places, or say that you should have told him yourself and made it more clear. Either that or stay a bit on the fence so that whatever he uses your location for you can say he messed up and you're actually at the other one.

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:47 am

A perfect chance for you to be confused by Niger and Nigeria and send a secure transfer to the wrong place.... Maybe then he'll understand.

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:33 am

Some good ideas here folks! If it's OK, I just might use some of them for my humble self.

On the topic, I don't think that it counts as educating when you give your mugu information that any fool (well OK maybe not any fool) could find in 2 seconds themselves. Especially since it give you that much more control over your bait.

This, however, is why I often bait out of towns like Bald Knob, Broken Heimann, Mos Eisley, and the like! Other than their own location, lads only seem to know of London, Paris, Madrid, New York, LA, Miami, Toronto, and for some reason Mexico City. Anywhere else you mention might as well be on the moon.

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:50 am

All points are good. I don't think that would be educating them. If you need to do it to make the bait credible I think it's fine. However I prefer giving disinformation over information any day if you can. I like to de-educate lads, but then I'm just a diseducator at heart. Wink

I don't think some of those are even words but I'm drunk so what do I care.

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 4:52 am

Diseducation, that's an awesome term. I wonder if I can convince my lads that New Zealand is off the coast of Norway....

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 5:10 am

^^^ It's not? Confused

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 5:21 am

^^ I bet I could convince a lad that it was. Wink

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 7:16 am

Would be a pretty simple task.

As an aside, is someone going to fix the typo in the subject of this thread. Sorry to be a stickler but it's annoying the hell out of me.

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:59 am

^^ What? And risk educationg someone?

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:01 am

^^^

That's true we wouldn't want to be educationg anyone!

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:04 am

I'm with NN.

Lads are always wrong. We aren't.

Of course it exists. Otherwise how else would your mail man be able to deliver your post?

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:40 am

I'm firmly of the opinion that lad geography is so atrocious that no amount of help would show a significant improvement in it.

One thing in particular that I've noticed is that they seem to assume that everywhere in the UK is part of London. I've even tried telling them that I'm in places like Orkney or Belfast and they'll still buy it. Still, I usually tell them that it's a bit of a nasty commute. Laughing

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:46 am

<br>Lad geography is a very much like making love to a beautiful woman....especially when they say : "Are you anywhere near yet". Laughing

Elite Baiter Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 1731

yrubraj wrote:

As an aside, is someone going to fix the typo in the subject of this thread.

Done.

Thanks all for the information.

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:16 am

^^^ Thanks for that! As someone with a Master's Degree in Geography it's a little hard to take the mistakes at times, but in other ways it's all the more amusing. I'm going to see what's the most atrocious bit of geography I can get my lads to believe.

Not long ago I had someone think Auckland was in Europe and couldn't understand why I needed to fly via Los Angeles whilst going to London. This was after I had explained 4 times that it was in New Zealand.

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yrubraj wrote:

Diseducation, that's an awesome term.

Perfectly cromulent word that embiggens me.

Anyways, everything is the Lad's fault. How dare he question you?!

--J.D.

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:26 am

It sounds like redshoes' lad perhaps isn't the stupidest one ever, even though he did get Washington State and Washington DC confused (which is surprisingly easy for those outside the US believe it or not). Therefore the whole "you're wrong not me" trick may not really work at it might on a stupider lad.

I imagine redshoes has continued the bait by now, which sounded pretty interesting so I hope he/she keeps up updated!

Elite Baiter Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 1731

yrubraj wrote:

Therefore the whole "you're wrong not me" trick may not really work at it might on a stupider lad.

I imagine redshoes has continued the bait by now, which sounded pretty interesting so I hope he/she keeps up updated!

He's far from stupid.

From his most recent email.

Quote:

U wanna mess around with peoples' minds u should pick a white man.

If u'r a guy pretending to b a girl then u'r not doing it right.
If u'r a girl pretending to b an american u'r really messing things up.
I can't trust u.

For what it's worth in RL I am from US and a white woman, so I am messing up badly.

Been trying to get him in touch with another lad. He says he didn't get the email. This morning, a week later, he finally admits he got it.

He's still not sure and still persuing my character.

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:50 pm

What a racist. Ask him what he's got against white people, girls and Americans. But not necessarily in that order.

I hate lads who use race as an excuse for their activities. Get a proper job and get over it.

Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:20 pm

Sounds like he's been baited before. Or is a fluffy kitty cat.

Elite Baiter Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 1731

bearkat03 wrote:

Sounds like he's been baited before. Or is a fluffy kitty cat.

He's not been baited before and he's not a fluffy kitty cat. He is a romance lad and very real and I suspect very successful. He says he has a laptop. He has internet access 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

I have traced him to Lagos and other places. I have seen at least 5 different ISP numbers.

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