h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So there's a political organisation that has put a leaflet through my door. This organisation has friends that hate Jews and would like to help people of certain skin types and religious affiliations find a country that they might feel more at home in.
They're offering to send people free information packs.

Which begs such questions as:

How many people would have to request these free information packs to financially cripple them?
Does the intertubes allow for such a happening to be arranged?
Is it worth it?

Sort of give them enough rope to hang themselves or something. Interesting idea!
But I don't have any answers.

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yes! lets send all these light skinned christian anglo saxons back where they came from!!!!!

Britain for the Britains

You could always do the old "post a brick to a Freepost address" if they have a Freepost address.

Ben

You don't even have to cripple them financially... Every information pack that ends up in the hands of someone who's going to use it for lighting fires with is one less that ends up in the hands of someone who'll actually believe the rubbish... They'll only be printing so many packs at a time.

The downside of doing that of course is that you end up on one of their mailing lists... And considering they've already managed to get their membership list onto the internet once, you've got to consider what the repercussions could be if their mailing list was made public with your name on it.

Good point, Whisky.

These guys do a pretty good job of hanging themselves, to be honest. Best ignore 'em.

(But I hope the Girls Aloud fan base never gets hacked)

Use a pseudonym.

As nice as it'd be to ignore them, I think that'd be the wrong move in the long term.

Listen to them, hear how wrong they are (in my own opinion, other may differ) and know that, and tell people that with well formed arguments based upon fact rather than rumour.

Ignorance has to be worse surely?

I remember that name. Have an ! Good to see you about the place.

>>You could always do the old "post a brick to a Freepost address"

I think I'd prefer my brick to travel more swiftly in their direction.

It's good to be back. Didn't realise how much I missed the place until I started posting a little a couple of days ago... I can feel a new bout of addiction coming on...

Do not tempt me to throw bricks.
There is a flat with posters supporting this political group, I pass it on my way to the recycling bins. It's all I can do limit my protests to spitting in its general direction.
A friend of mine, could barely resist the urge to ram a vehicle plastered in this groups logo off the road the other day. His job involves saving lives.

The address they ask us to write to for free information packs is a PO Box, there's no Free Post logo. Shame, sending them a brick appeals.

I could use a pseudonym and get an extra pack sent to the local membership. Or I could write something like "Keep Your Trash" on the leaflet and post it through their door.

I don't want to anything stupid like the UAF.
The idea of quietly organising something that would require them to spend a goodly sum of their money still appeals.

It's a little known fact that Royal Mail are obliged to reveal the addresses of PO Box holders...

there was a case in the news a few months ago of a chap who took the leaflet shoved his door along the street and handed it back the the candidate with words along the lines of keep your rubbish. he ended up being arrested for assault.

another avenue of protest might be worth going through their pledges, they've got a menefesto yet that I've seen, and see which ones are likely to break some law or rule, and report them to the authorities. which makes me think, do political leaflets have to conform to the advertising standard rules? if so, and enough of their "facts" are queried, that would cause s headache for them.

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I'm still not convinced that subtlety is what's required in this particular case.

I'd certainly steer clear of their mailing list.

Sort of related ...

We are considering reporting one of the political leaflets we've received to the ASA because its graph showing the results of a previous election is very misleading. It's a bar chart and the bars are not proportional to the percentages quoted - so it gives the impression that the party that came second was much closer to the winning party, and much further ahead of the third placed party, than was actually the case.

Only, we're not sure. We only thought of the ASA because a local windfarm protester reported a windfarm flyer to the ASA, who concluded that one of the photos did not accurately depict the relative sizes of the turbines to the surrounding landscape.

But it hardly seems worth it for a belated wrist-slapping, which is probably all that would result.

Mol

Your best comeback is...don't vote for that party.

the best comeback is to point out to everyone that they're lying, or rather bending the truth, so that no one votes for them. but if we did that for all parties that did that, voter turnout would be even less than it currently is.

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"would like to help people of certain skin types and religious affiliations find a country that they might feel more at home in.

Great! I hear a change of climate if not a cure is a relief for people with exczema and Id imagine christians would appreciate the puritanical, authoritarian atmosphere in Saudia Arabia.

I think I'll find their number and use up some of my "free" minuets with innane time wasting of their central office.

>> We are considering reporting one of the political leaflets we've received to the ASA because its graph showing the results of a previous election is very misleading.

Mol, send it in to Radio 4's Today programme; they have got the guys from 'More or Less' to review candidates misleading numbers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8606000/8606549.stm