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Meh, I'll let it pass.

Two of my elderly neighbors were really badly fucked by these scammers. Actually, I know a lot of old people who were run dry by these scammers. Think for a moment how disgusting this is -- robbing and manipulating people who are at an age where their wits are leaving them... robbing them of money to live their last years on earth peacefully. I say fuck these scammers all the way, they know exactly what they're doing.

To say that those 3 words are 'neutralizing' the work they're doing is a rather ignorant thing to do.

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1. I've been an caregiver for 20 years and love this idea. But there's no way I would engage any business that uses the f-word in their promotions. And believe me, I'm not the only one who feels this way, especially in this demographic.

2. My feedback, like much that I've give here in the past 6 years, was sincere. I hate to see a promising business shooting itself in the foot like this.

3. There's not much more "ignorant" that calling constructive feedback from a potential customer "ignorant".

4. If you're going to insult others here, the least you can do is identify yourself in your profile. Comments from anonymous posters like yours send contributors like me away and drive this site further into the toilet.

5. Don't say "Meh".

To the best of my knowledge, the "Fuck these scammers" statement does not appear officially anywhere on their website -- it was something that was said casually in an interview.

Let me ask you this: do you use Facebook? Because Zuckerburg doesn't just call "bad people" (scammers, thiefs) names, he calls the users of his own site "dumb fucks". [1]

There are greater injustices happening elsewhere in the world right now, save your indignation and outrage for them.

[1]: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg

This is a tangential point, but that quote is idiotic. I've called most of my best friends assholes (and much more vulgar expletives), never in a serious manner. If anything, it comes off as self-deprecating:

> "That client thinks I can do X, Y, and Z and not completely fuck it up. What an absolute idiot."

I don't think that quote is so un-serious, Zuckerburg is literally and rather specifically offering his friend private information of the users of Facebook, and ending with calling them "dumb fucks".

To the extent that I am learned about Zuckerburg in his earlier days of Facebook by having read various biographical accounts, I can pretty confidently say that the seriousness of his offer and the seriousness in his calling Facebook users "dumb fucks" goes well with the rest of his persona and doings.

But anyway, this is getting pretty off-topic so I'm stopping here.

South Park did a great job with this:

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/410876/the-jewelry-pol...

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