I’m noticing a number of comments from readers end up marked as “spam” so if you’ve sent me a comment and it hasn’t shown up, I apologise. I have been running Akismet for a few months now and haven’t had any hassles until recently (that I am aware of, anyway).
While sifting through the spam to retrieve all my real comments there are the usual “casino online” and other unmentionables but I’ve also come across some genuine funnies. I have a feeling these spammers are suffering depression:
I’ve just been staying at home waiting for something to happen. I’ve just been letting everything wash over me. I can’t be bothered with anything recently.
*sigh* You and me both, love.
I’ve pretty much been doing nothing worth mentioning. I haven’t gotten anything done today. I haven’t been up to much , but oh well. I’ve just been staying at home waiting for something to happen, but so it goes. Pfft.
Awww chin up, sweetie. It isn’t all bad.
I haven’t been up to much recently, but whatever. I just don’t have much to say lately. Basically nothing happening to speak of. So it goes. My mind is like a complete blank. Such is life.
I’m so sorry. Is there anything I can do to help?
I feel like a fog, not that it matters. I’ve pretty much been doing nothing , but eh. Today was a loss. I haven’t gotten much done for a while.
*sniff*
I can’t be bothered with anything recently. I’ve just been sitting around doing nothing. Today was a loss. I just don’t have much to say. Nothing seems worth thinking about.
*cries*
And to think, here I was under the impression spammers had all the answers to my “intimate” problems, my weight issues and my gambling addictions and my drug dependencies. They’re always so willing to help, I had no idea they had problems of their own. 
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Ha, they write that to trick the spam guards, but they catch on soon enough
Poor spammers, ntohing to do and nowhere to go. They must be nerds and geeks.
Ya Haqq!
I constantly receive spam offering solutions to my erectile problem!
Whoa. your spammers are a depressed lot.
Spammers want to solve my financial and sexual problems.
As-Salaamu ‘alaikum,
I get dozens of these spams and don’t find them funny at all; I found them intensely irritating, because they are made to look like genuine posts. This could well be why they don’t go to the spam bin – the same is true of the “news extract” spams I’ve been getting, with actual names attached (often including Muslim first names and western surnames).
Suroor: I presume you are a male, but women get the same advertisements as well. Interestingly, they never bother to offer services of interest to women.
Salamaat,
Suroor is a girl
My favorite comment by a spammer was “You are a continent of hope” oh my! how poetic. I almost let it through, just to show how touched i was
Irving and Yusuf: I’m not so irritated as much as impressed with their ingenuity.
Mona and Suroor: TUT TUT! Those are the UNMENTIONABLES in my post!
Maliha: LOL! That is gold. I wish I got that spam. I’m going to be checking the filter every day from now on.
You get them too? Gosh, I was concerned that the spambots were this depressed – they need counselling don’t you think?