Awkward Email Greg’s Response
May 11th, 2009
greg Says:
May 11, 2009 at 12:16 am | Reply edit
Just a quick response from the author of the unintentionally hilarious email… Yes I absolutely deserved to lambasted for criticizing the writing here in an email that makes me appear to be barely literate. I walked headfirst, hubristically into that trap. And honestly, because I don’t post on the internet much, it was sort of thrilling to BE the douchebag laughingstock who gets slammed by a gazillion anonymous di**-weeds taking pot shots. It’s like the cheapest fame you can get. I mean that’s what the internets are for, right? And my unsolicited advice was absolutely the same type of thing as the guy who goes up to a band and tells them how they could improve. But in my defense, I love receiving constructive criticism. I really had the best of intentions and was being sincere. And the sad truth is that somewhere in my mid twenties I noticed myself mistaking homophones when writing i.e. here/hear, meet/meat. Maybe it’s a form of brain damage? I was late for a meeting and just puked out that email without giving it a second look and I have learned my lesson. So n-e-ways tahnks for reeding my awkward apologia. And yes I think vice “dos and don’ts” are fantastic and who the fu** would say “don’t listen to someone who compares this to vice dos and don’ts”. A big fat sniveling dipsh**, that’s who. xoxo
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And yet… the newer postings in awkward family photos have cut down hard on the use of the word “awkward..” so no matter how you look at it, he won.
LMAO at all the “Serious Sams” polluting a humor site.
I wonder if it makes them sleep better at night knowing they did absolutely nothing, similar to what i am doing now?
Greg, who cares if you made a mistake? Are these people PAYING you for your services? No, you say? Well then, if I were you, I’d tell em to shove it and start donating if they want to pretend they have a real voice.
Shouldn’t we be intelligent enough at this point to stop using spell-check? When did we become so lazy that we can’t even read over the things that we write anymore? Or, better yet, when did something like grade six grammar become so difficult?
That being said, this site is hysterical. Leave the poor guy alone and let him keep bringing the pictures. I mean, that’s what we’re here for, right? Awkward family photos? Not awkward grammatical errors. Shove off, naysayers, and let’s enjoy some family time!
Awe come on everyone, he’s hilarious and the intention here is what matters, he made us laugh. I love the reference to the ‘lowest form of fame’..classic! The world needs to lighten up…this is proof! I better shut up before I get turkeybasted….
It depends where you’re from.
I think you’re brilliant! I haven’t laughed this hard in a week!!! LOL!! Keep ‘em coming!
This is such a silly site! Maybe a Webby nomination next year?
greg – i’m sorry the community is being a collective douchebag to you. i think you rock. i think it’s great to admit when you’ve made a mistake, and you clearly have a great sense of humor and are able to laugh at yourself. you rock, dude. keep it up.
Amy, I am pretty sure he cries at night about this.
I think Tony is on to something… How funny and ironic would it be if Greg is actually making fun of everyone who thinks they are better and smarter than he is? I mean, really, the juicy bait he’s throwing out there is WAY too easy. I’m going with the Borat theory.
who cares about any of this? everyone knew what he meant…
Greg, you should just misspell on purpose… f’em…
The trick is not to read the comments. Word to the wise. Why do you care?
Boy Greg they really tore you a new one! Thanks for posting the link and the laughs. These pictures are hilarious! Hope I spelled hilarious right or now I’ll get lambasted too.
roll on the bandwagon – just awesome …. !
Greg – Please please please send in a photo of your awkward F7 key missing keyboard!
lol
Hahahahahhahahahahaha
Hubristically is a perfectly cromulent word.
Totally epic!
The first email was hilarious. This second email is not even necessary. Greg, you are my new hero.
Wow, everione just keeps correcting Greg and doesn’t even see the fact that they are the reel but of the joek! I love Greg! You rok!
could this just be deleted from the page, it’s such a downer.
Ah the bottom of the slide,,, HEY THIS HAS SPELL CHECK BUILT IN TO THE PAGE???
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>lmao<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
lol, this is awesome.
for the record: i know what hubris means, don’t you? did it make all the edjumacated high horse riders feel better to slam you for something as reeDICKulous as spelling and grammar?…and then there’s the cool kids who think it makes them a better person if they’re lackadaisical about such things, when it really means that they can’t f%kin’ spell? *gasp!* (yes, a swear!) check my ‘blog…there’s LOTS of ‘em.
and f.y.i.:
[Other use of "internets"
In general, an internet (uncapitalized) results from the connection (internetworking) of at least two computer networks by establishing a gateway (router) between them. It is proper to pluralize this term.]
yes, i got that from wiki. whattaya gotta say bowt dat?
What do I have to say about that??
Did you know wiki. is written by people like greg??
Hhahahhahahhahhaa
Maybe Greg is just borating you
I only found this site today and I love it already. You rock Greg!
“I mean that’s what the internets are for, right?”
Just for clarification. It is internet – singular.
Sadly the only reason you are getting ostracized is because you continually add to your idiocy by trying to defend yourself. Cut your losses mate and start fresh with a simple, “my bad.”
Hubristically? Is that a Dr. Seuss word? “With hubris”…because it’s less painful to try and read.
Hhaahahahha he googled “fancy” words to “probe” that his is litterate.
Ahhh, nothing like an internet feeding-frenzy.
meeting or not, that was inexcusable. i’ve never seen righting like that before. haha!
pure awesome
I almost feel embarrassed for you. You shouldn’t have made a follow up. You know that.
I agree with you Austin. But like I said a hundred times….. that is his WRIGHT!! hahahahhaha
I rock.
Couldn’t resist–those homophones get him every time! The words do sound funny “too” me–this whole thread is funny “too” me! Thanks, Greg, for bringing a smile to my face!
Really, I think this shows what a good sport Greg is.
Greg, you are my new internet friend.
Oh dear sweet Jesus in heaven will you please just STFU.
Hahahaha pot shots!?! Seriously?
No, not if you want to intellectually defend yourself. One should spell check thoroughly before mounting such a pointless defense.
By the way, it’s spelled ‘grammAr,’ and run on sentences are incorrect.
You should start you own website instead of adding to this one. Call it Awkward Email and the resulting comments. Its a lot more interesting that the photos.
I was just kidding. Low hanging fruit, you know how it is. Don’t take things people say so seriously.
No one here knows you. Everyone makes mistakes and you probably are a pretty decent normal guy in real life. It’s just fun to mess with an anonymous entity on the internet and you being so defensive is making it much worse for you.
Your defensiveness to faceless internet commenters only shows an insecurity you must have about yourself.
Lighten up and make fun of yourself a little. It’s a pretty funny situation you have to admit.
There! Nick could not put it better. Just relax and let it go. Leave the little pipi insecurity out of this.
Hahaah j/k man, lighten up. Enjoy it. That is your WRIGHT!! Hahhahaha
I rock.
> This is a humor sight.
Hehe… it is indeed.
The hole just gets deeper, Greg. Get out while you can!
vocabularly—>vocabulary
i know i’m diggin’ a hole. that sentence should read “my criticizing someone”. ought to correct it before i get 15 more comments about how that makes me the biggest “douch” in the world. “Douche” –a word I’m starting to like less and less.
I protest again, emphatically- Thank you for your editing feedback on my writing skills but i don’t need a damn thesauraus to write. If the words sound funny too you so be it. It’s not high-faluting pretense, I just meant what I said.
Again I apologize for responding to this taunting but I feel like I’m being bullied by folks who are dishing out kneejerk bile and scorn, but aren’t really saying anything particularly solid. I’m not allowed to have a competent vocabularly and also chronically mis-spell words? Isn’t that sort of normal?
God, I just can’t stop myself from replying even though I know its no use…. “Hubristically”
is a perfectly valid if sort of awkward adjective and it was used appropriately.
It wasn’t a stretch, it wasn’t thrown in there as a big 75 cent word.
I meant exactly what i said.
I meant it was classic hubris; me criticisim someone for their writing quality who may indeed a better writer than I am. And if I write in run-on sentences with a bunch of exessive prepositions, again it isn’t incorrect, maybe just not elegant.
You spell checked this one before posting I see.
How long did it take you to search through the dictionary before you discovered the words ‘hubristically’. and ‘lambast’?
Good call on those. It makes you sound much more edjumacated using the big words.
Sarah Palin would be proud.
Remember, you can give a monkey a book but you can’t make him quit eating his own vomit.
Good luck with the ‘learnin’.
“hubristically”?
Oy.
Please, there is no shame in using simpler words and sentence construction. There is no reason to walk around with the Oxford Shorter and Strunk in your head. But, please, use the words you do have correctly, and stop reaching! Explain yourself in plain language and you will be understood, and you will have more success making your points.
Yes, this site is cruel, perhaps too cruel. If you just said that, without over-reaching with words you don’t really know how to use and overly complex sentence structure that obscures instead of clarifying, your point could be better understood. And you won’t look like such a schmuck.
Otherwise, you end up like one of those lame man-in-the-street interviews: sounding way dumber than you ought to.
Wow Aggressive Pacifist’s response is even more awkward than Greg’s awkward defense to his awkward Email about the nature of awkwardity on awkwardfamilyphotos.com; I hope this debarkle has come full-circle and we can forget how awkward and painful internet comments can be.
(*sigh*) did it again. That should read “anything more I produce” and “push against your criticism”. ok really. thats it. bye.
*ok* I’m going to try to shut up after this. I realize that anything more produce is simply begging for more negative attention. Although I feel further compelled to push against (I was NOT using a freaking thesaurus, my response was NOT riddled with poor grammer, I made a couple mistakes to be facetious but NOT sarcastic or nasty) your first point is solid. This is a humor sight. If my ego is a wee bit bruised and it leaves me humorless about this all, I probably need to shut the hell up. So I will. Cheers.
lmao this is so awkward
Greg, you’re still a total douche. Who did you pay to write that?
This response is full of grammatical and literary errors….
WTF?
This seems even more awkward than the original e-mail.
Sir, here’s some constructive criticism:
- quit defending yourself, you’re just making it worse and it’s excruciating to watch
- put the thesaurus away, it doesn’t make up for your last disaster
- if your excuse is that you were in a hurry, then better to proof-read the excuse before posting one with more poor grammar (and yes, I get that the one sentence was intentional sarcasm(tm) and that you meant to use the hilarious plural form for “internet”)
Yes!
u misspelled ‘grammar,’ chump!
Sight for site. Do you know Greg is doing this on purpose?
I disagree. Greg keeps throw out the bait and you guys keep getting caught hook, line and sinker. So who really is the douchebag here?
It’s “debacle”, not “debarkle”.
high-faluting should be highfalutin
thesauraus should be thesaurus
mis-spell should be misspell
…and oh, when you start a sentence, you should use caps. As in, I…instead of “i”
Sorry, couldn’t resist. But I must say, I do feel Greg is “Borating” us…
Thesauraus should be Thesaurus?!?!
First we say that Pluto isn’t a planet anymore, then we kill off another dinasaur…….. oh the humanity!!!!! rofl
Maybe highflatulating is what is appropriate here! LOL!
Wow, people are just jacka**es, aren’t they? Don’t mind the critics, they’re the ones thinking they’re so smart when in reality, you’re the one who is providing the humor and entertainment.
Back off guys and leave him alone. It’s his site, enjoy it or go somewhere else. I hear that the internet has all sorts of sites…
Keep doing your thing, Greg. =)
Adverb, not adjective, it’s of “no use”, me “criticizing”, who may indeed be a better writer, excessive. Use of double negative does not work for emphasis, unless you want to emphasize you are again late for a meeting.
greg Says:
May 11, 2009 at 11:39 am | Reply
*ok* I’m going to try to shut up after this.
No, he didn’t.
Really???? What fun is that? Look at all these people coming together because he didn’t do it the “boring” way!!!
BTW: You overusers of “douche” and “douchebag”…..you do realize that “douche” is merely french for “shower”? Wow…….that’s really hard to take…..you called someone a shower.
idiots.
real not reel and you spelled your name wrong too.
I agree. Greg is Fantasticalness.
it’s follow-up.
Actually, “it’s” should have been capitalized! Sorry!
Actually, I think when most of these respondents use the terms “douche” and “douchebag”, they are referring to the English colloquialisms rather than the literal French translation. In fact, I’m not sure that “douchebag” is French for anything.
On another note, I don’t understand why the terms are so negatively used. They go somewhere potentially rather unpleasant in attempt to make it nicer. I think that’s great! Let’s here it for all of the douchebags out there!
Folks are discouraged from using conjunctions (because, and, even) because it is likely that the sentence is a fragment, and likely sentence is so connected to the previous sentence that they belong together in one sentance.
It isn’t strictly incorrect. And while it might be stylistically questionable, these issues of style are a choice.
Hahahaha! Ohhh, that reply manages to be even MORE awkward. Good job
hhahahahahahahah thank you so much for this. especially the thesaurus comment. its like dont think you can say hubristically after saying “righting”
Oh, I’d say in this specific case, it’s definitely “debarkle”
Greg is not the owner of the site.
Jesus Christ, only frickin’ Americans say “My bad”. Somebody else has already made that point anyway. Also, they pointed out that it was deliberate sarcasm. Oh, and isn’t one of the main features of the internet the fact that nobody does grammar correctly?
Amen, sister.
hahahaha you probably feel like an a-hole right about now considering the fact that while comments are being moderated they put the asteriks in there for you sooo…congratulations
Ren, was that said in the same tone of voice as, “You’re not the boss of me!” ?
Can’t speak. Laughing. Gasping. Tears. This Guy – you ROCK !!
Bravo! I like your thinking. If douche is so offensive, maybe we could call the guy a bidet. It has a similar conotation to douche. Of course, it is also the term used for a small horse.
Yes they do, but generally they are filled with vinegar while doing it, and everyone knows, one attracts more flies with honey.
Oh wow, thank you so much for the laugh!
well we aren’t speaking french though… in the english language a “douche” is someone of low standards, not a shower… a shower is a shower, right?
Years ago there was really such a thing as a douche bag. It was not a joke or a put down, but a rubber bag with a rubber hose used to clean the vagina. Calling someone a ‘douchebag,’ therefore, is equivalent to calling him/her a sissy, pussy, wuss, a person with no balls or guts. It was an insult used, as far back as I can remember, in the 1950′s, a real insult to men.
or a greeting- “Have a nice bidet!”
or a greeting- “Have a nice bidet!”
I don’t think greg is “Borating” us. I really think he is consumed wondering “how many other people saw my emails today?!?!?! God please make it stop!!!” Didn’t you guys see his email to the owner of the site “I thought you would keep this private?” and then the even more lamest second email?? It’s ok greggy. No one knows who you really are………. nor do they want to know.
I rock.
you, thats who.