Team Purefoods Yahoo Group Membership Privileges
Join This Group!
The moment you clicked on that box you are doomed, er, entitled to great things. Let me count the ways.
1. You become an official member of the group (of course, silly).
2. You get to interact with fellow Purefoods fans (we had infiltrators before though) and maybe even end up being friends with your co-members.
3. You get updated on what's happening with the team aside from what you're seeing on television. You kinda know of new players suiting up even before Peter Martin and Jason Webb get wind of it.
4. You don't need to buy newspapers or visit their websites for news about the team, the PBA and Philippine basketball in general. We have an official news clipper, thank you very much.
5. Then you start to realize (first time in your life you have been presented real proof) that people are so different from each other, you now stop wondering why the term "world peace" can win you crowns in beauty pageants.
6. You tend to be shocked at the words used by your co-members to emphasize their points. Really, people, forgot what they taught you in GMRC class?
7. You're torn between exasperation and disgust (well okay, pity) at Friendster, Myspace, hi5 and Ringo invitations sent to the whole group. (Ooh, you've got a lot of friends, great! So how do you know Norbert? What, you don't know who he is and you've got him in your list?! Whoa, this is a popularity contest!)
8. If you haven't realized it yet, you have now, the group, the perfect example of what's wrong with our society. That you can always ridicule, malign, curse to oblivion, and insult a public figure (in our case, the players, the coaching staff and the management) and be perfectly fine with it. But the moment you do the same thing to non-public figures (that means all of us here) it's like you've just committed the most heinous crime known to mankind.
And if you try to be clever by giving someone a dose of his own medicine, that someone will cry foul and tell the whole group how mean you are. C'mon, you reap what you sow, man!
9. Oh then you get to know your regular irritation -- Little Miss Perfect, who made it her personal mission to defend whoever is the subject of much ridicule. Her battle cry: to right every wrong. By right, it means her idea of right. She calls the attention of members using bad words, corrects misspelled words and wrong grammar (Not all the time though. She does it only when she thinks your post is obviously lacking in moral rectitude. Meaning, she's doing it to shoot you back to earth and help you realize no one's perfect.) and chastises you when you aren't making any sense at all. She hates stupid comments, this girl (but who doesn't?).
She does go overboard at times, irascible when things aren't going the way she wanted it to be or when the other members can't get what she's trying to say. She's sarcastic most of the time but I do find her funny, don't you? She maybe tactless but I guess she just love Purefoods very much, she'll do everything for the team. Even if it meant making enemies out of supposed to be fellow Purefoods fans.
I just hate her when she does those read-between-the-lines posts, probably hoping she'll get our minds thinking really hard. I think it's her way of saying 'I'm smart, you're dumb, sorry if you've missed it.' Oh please, dunderhead I am not. But I won't give her the satisfaction of admitting I didn't get it.
Tip on how to deal with her, don't give her free ammunition to shoot you. Be careful on what you're posting because she's bound to see even the most minute detail.
10. This may sum it all up, being a member of this group forced my gray matter working double time to answer a question that popped up on my mind the first week I'm a member here. How can these people claim to love Purefoods when they clearly hate the Hotdogs?!
Why indeed?
See, these are all but just few of the reasons why you are so lucky you are a member of this group. So just sit back and relax when you're reading your mails. I love this group so much that when another existing group landed on my lap, I deleted it from Yahoo Groups and advised the members to join this one instead.
P.S.
Little Miss Perfect may wage a war at me for this but as I understand correctly, she value opinions even from hostile parties. Peace!
