When I turned on my computer on the afternoon of Saturday 15 March 1997 I was quite surprised, shocked and pleased to recieve my first bit of hate mail.
I was surprised because it was the first piece of mail that I had recieved from someone other than my friends reguarding the page and, as it was flame mail I was a little aprehensive that every single piece of mail from then on would tell me what I could do to myself. But as it turns out, it has been the only flame mail I have recieved whereas I have been the proud recipient of many wonderful congratulatory letters.
I was shocked that there was someone out there that actually liked the Spice Girls, but after the initial impact had worn off, I saw that the idiot had not only left his reply-to adress intact, but in the
I was also very pleased that someone was out there, watching what I was doing and hating every second of it. In my opinion, anyone who falls victem to the merciless grasp of capitalist musical enterprises deserves to have the piss taken out of them. heh heh heh (evil laugh).
Here it is:
Subject:SPICE GIRLS
Date:Sat, 15 Mar 1997 15:36:22 +0000
From:"some bloke called Jules" <[email protected]>
Organization:I'm dumb enough to let the world know I live in Bristol, UK
To: [email protected]
U sad case.
Get lost
SPICE GIRLS RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't y'just love it!
Subject: SPICE GIRLS ARE COOL!
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 21:58:41 +1200
From: "Michelle A"
To: [email protected]
You are really sick. Naturally, you ARE an Aussie.Is there some
phsycological reason you hate the spice girls? Maybe you should consider
seeking professional help. The Spice Girls are really cool and you are juts
jealous of them. I'd like to see YOU write a song that gets to NO 1 in
almost every county. Good Luck
-Michelle
13 years
New Zealand
Now, as you are a New Zealander, David and myself appreciate your efforts to communicate to us via our own language and have decided to return the favour.:
Thenk you for your constructuve crutucusm on our wib page. We found ut viry hilpful. Thenk goodness we heve our trens-tesman frinds to guide us. We would be ficked otherwise, wudn't we? Deved Smuth end Nuck Jemes. P.S. We wud like to see thim write one es wull.
Subject: (no subject)
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 09:38:32 -0700
From: ronda
To: [email protected]
YOU SUCK
SPICE GIRLS RULE!!!!!!!!!!
IF YOU DON"T HAVE ANYTHING BETTER TO DO WITH YOUR TIME TAKE OFF THAT
STUPID PAGE!!!!!
Subject: YOU SUCK
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 09:40:20 -0700
From: ronda
To: [email protected]
YOU SUCK YOU SUCK
This person (or whatever) wrote to me twice two minutes apart to tell me that I suck. Also What is it whith the Spice Girls fans and multiple explanation marks? As Terry Pratchett (I think) says, they are a sign of a diseased mind. Well DUH.
Subject: anti spice
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 08:33:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
SPICE GIRLS RULE, YOU SUCK ****, GET LOST
I bet that this one was dying to use exclaimation marks but was put off by my above comment. I'm not sure what **** is, but I could probably guess.
Subject: This page sucks!
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 18:06:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
You're really sad. The only reason there isn't much hate mail is because
not many people read this stupid page. The Spice Girls are popular, cool,
and have great music. They're only one of the most popular groups in the
world, and we don't want to hear about what some stupid people do in there
free time: write dumb jokes about the Spice Girls. That page was a
disgrace!!!
Only the 150 odd people that come through daily (totalling 2400 or so at time of recieving this letter) get to see it. If you don't think that that's much, so be it. But compared to many of my friends pages, its 10-100 times their total. Whether or not they have "great music" is a matter of taste. If you have taste, you'll think it's crap.
Three exclaimation marks.
Subject: Idiots
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 16:22:18 -0500
From: Robert Williams
Organization: GTE
To: [email protected]
Hello, faggots. i looked up your site, and it tells me one thing. Your
lives are the most pathetic I've have ever seen. I mean to waste time
making upp a "A Spice Girls" hate page you got to be just gay. Yeah
there music sucks a fat cock, but look at them. There fine as shit.
You watch a little to much T.V, and listen to the radio a little to
oftem. I think yours livres suck and you's must be gay to look at the
spice girls and hate them. I sort of feel sorry for you, vut not really
you're the ones who are gay.
Sincerely
Gerald Wilson
A straight and girl-loving man
Hmmmm... This looney has sent me this letter three times now over three days which eliminates my theory of drunkenness. The fact that he finds them "fine as shit" leaves us wondering whereabouts his sexuality is tilted. Starts with the syllables: copra...
All I can say is thus:
Subject: Fuck you
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 02:35:25 +0200 (MET DST)
From: ole-petter johansen
To: [email protected]
Hello from Norway!!
Are you crazy or something????
We in Norway Love Spice girls!!
So don`t fuck it up!!
This is interesting, first it has the tradional Scandinavian greeting ("Hello from ....") then goes on to abuse me. Two exclaimation marks per line. FOUR question marks on the second.
Subject: Upset
Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 17:57:28 +1000
From: jenni <not@telling>
To: [email protected]
how dare you? Don't you realise how insulting your stupid hate page is?
we are on this earth to love, not to hate, and a Christian, i feel its
my responsibility to guide you. You are misguided, I'm afraid. People
should be free to express themselves without having people like you
critisise them just because you are insecure! I love the spice girls,
and now i've based my whole existance on them! Don't insult them.
Angrily,
Jenni
I love this sort of mail ("We're here to LOVE. I Hate you."). As a christian it is NOT your responsibility to guide me, but the beurocracy and dogma of your faith has misguided you to believe that. You have a right to your opinion as I have to mine. If I remember my scripture lessons correctly, then "basing your whole existance around the Spice Girls" is similar to "worshiping false idols" which is a big No-No.
The E-mail adress above was the one I recieved with the letter. She's probably ashamed. Please note, I never reply to hate mail, and I never give adresses away.
Subject: Signed Guestbook
Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 18:06:39 -0700
From: judgenor
To: [email protected]
Hi you posh Git!For you're imformation, we have left our
email address!(Unless you're too blind to notice!)And
unless you're too dumb to notice, we're Spice Girls fans
too!
You're tips on how to ignore the fab five are a
waste of time and Space,because the Spices are too good
to ignore(AND THEY'RE HERE TO STAY!)So, chuck out your
text book,(Where we assume you got all that crap from!)
Get a life and start listening to some DECENT music!!!
And this here is for you!
THE SPICE GIRLS RULE!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I cut out 124 lines of exclaimation marks here. Thats proof for certification in my books.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO SUCK ON THAT YOU SAD GIT!! !!!!!!!!!!!!
He left his email. What a big deal. All I'm saying, is; if you don't have the ability to stand by your convictions, then don't convict. The double "f" aliterate has been used before. The "Fab FOUR" are the best musicians, not the "fab five"(sic). And what sort of text book would have this sort of thing in? (A good one, obviously...)
Subject: You are a Homo Ya Homo.
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 11:51:41 -0500
From: worldsgreatestlovemachine
To: [email protected]
You are a Homo. And I don't mean sapien.
This was accomanied by a rather large bitmap that probably didn't take as long for me to download as it did for him to send. It wouldn't load, either. Go figure.
Subject: Your page
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 15:55:41 -0230 (NDT)
From: Keith Augustus Brinston
To: [email protected]
Ye aussies are all fucked up, the spice girls rule. But I have to credit
you guys for something, you must be pretty talented to be able to create
a shitty web page and pack each other up the arse at the same time. Get a
life, fags.
Yaddah yaddah yaddah... Whe is this opinion that we must be gay to have taste in music?? We aren't gay, but I don't see what it has to do with hating the Spice Girls. I don't see what it has to do with
Subject: Spice Girls
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 20:19:32 -0600
From: Ravi Legha
To: [email protected]
Spice Girls are COOOOOOOL !!!!!!!!! You better shutup and not talk bad
about them.Your stupid if you don't like them because EVERY ONE likes
them.
sinceerly
?
Everyone where? The teeny bopper house on the praire? Well ?, (if that is your real name) What you gonna do if I don't shut up, eh.. tell me that!
Subject: you suck
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 21:57:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
THE SPICE GIRLS ROCK SO MUCH I WANNA SEE YOU MAKE AN ALBUM AND MAKE A SONG #1
IN ALMOST EVER FU*KIN COUNTRY %^#^&#^%&^%YOU
%^#^&#^%&^% ME?? %^#^&#^%&^%YOU! And %^#^&#^%&^% your mother, wife and dog (all being one and the same, that shouldn't take more than a few minutes)