the irony is only bitter now

[musesfool]

Remember how I was getting email that didn't belong to me, because some other victoria p. thinks my gmail address is her gmail address (note)? Well, today I got one about online bill payment and it had an "if you received this email in error" phone number on it. So I called and told them, I AM NOT THIS VICKI PERSON YOU ARE ATTEMPTING TO REACH.

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[kita0610]

...sounds like every shipping war in fandom too.

[musesfool]

That, too.

I know some media fans think sports fans are an altogether different creature, but it just ain't so. Even a lot of the behaviors are eerily similar.

[kita0610]

I think there's an assumption of divide by gender, but first of all, that's not necessarily true, and even if it was, I'm married to a male sports fan and I can assure you the shit he says about his vs. not his teams is pretty much equivalent to some of the Bangel vs Spuffy classics. Well, without the sex. Mostly.

[musesfool]

Yeah, the gender thing is part of it - and also how being a sports fan is generally seen as okay in our society (even unto fantasy leagues now! which I think is very similar to RPing, personally) - and also, it seems like a lot of media fans aren't sports fans or have had bad experiences with sports fans (and their disdain for media fandom?), but there are so many more similarities than differences imo, as someone who is both.

[mindyfromohio]

And crazy. Did I mention the crazy?

I'm a Red Sox fan. I fully embrace the crazy. (And the rooting against the Yankees.)

[musesfool]

It's funny 'cause it's true.

[musesfool]

yeah, it's really annoying and I can't fix it until I get a phone number or a full name for this person.

[musesfool]

I did eventually email back and politely suggest that they might be looking for the one with the dot in between her first and last names

But that's the whole crazy thing! The dots don't matter! And clearly this person thinks they do, because her email that she signs up with is victoriap @ gmail, and the email I use is victoria.p @ gmail but according to Google, the dots don't matter and all that mail comes to me anyway!

I can only assume "Andre" has settled down since then, or at least moved on to a less insultingly fake-sounding dummy number.

Ahahahahaha! That's horrible and yet hilarious.

[zillah975]

That's odd, 'cause I just did a test with mine and it worked.

But I was only sending to one address. I wonder of Gmail sees that you've got two emails going to what amounts to one address and only delivers one?

[trinity_clare]

I had a band director in high school who had gone to school in Minnesota, and all the kids were of course Wisconsin fans, and when we beat them in hockey or football some of the kids would show up to class in UW jerseys just to rub it in the teacher's face. Schadenfreude indeed.

Otoh, sometimes we do root for the team that beat our team, because it allows us the comfort of believing in the "team of destiny" fairy tale

I definitely rooted for the Giants over the Patriots in the Super Bowl two years ago, not just because they were the underdogs but because they'd beaten the Packers in the NFC championship, and that loss got much easier to swallow after the Giants won.

[musesfool]

That sounds like sports fans I've known and loved/loathed. *g*

not just because they were the underdogs but because they'd beaten the Packers in the NFC championship, and that loss got much easier to swallow after the Giants won.

It's definitely a way to make your team's loss sting slightly less.