I'm afraid you're all missing the point.
No, I am not some humourless insecure old git. What I am is someone who sees the very real danger, and very real damage that is done by people forwarding on, without any thought, or any checking, or any critical analysis, lies and distortion that they have been sent.
The post above was not obviously humour, like the "10 reasons why it's great to be French", which despite it's grossly inaccurate stupidities is clearly a joke.
The "spooky number 11" post is not, in itself, of great import. But it does contain lies. And no, "lies" is not too strong a word. Deliberate falsehoods told in order to deceive.
Does it matter? Well, in the specific case of fabricating a flight number that when transliterated into a different font gets all spooky, no.
But the underlying principle is of vital importance. We live in a world where information, misinformation, rumours and lies can be spread literally around the world in literally a matter of minutes.
There are people who have damaged their PC setup because they got an email which said "ooh there's this terrible virus going round, and if you have this file on your hard drive you must delete it immediately". Well, guess what, the file was needed, and there was a virus - it was the email, relentlessly forwarded by people who didn't stop to think.
I mentioned the story about councils banning "Christmas lights". This is a situation which is supposed to have arisen in all sorts of places in the English speaking world; here, Australia, the USA...
Well, guess what? It's made up. But what it does is to help the racists and the fascists who want to dismiss all anti-racist, anti-fascist actions as "daft political correctness". But because the "story" is forwarded on by so many people who don't stop to think, lots of people come to believe that it is true.
There seems to be something mesmerising about email - stories which if told to you by a mate would have you say "are you sure?", or "I find that hard to believe" just get passed on as if they were gospel.
Securespark said "He's just posted something he found on the net or e-mail."
Well that is wrong, and it is insidiously dangerous. You only have to look back at what happened on the Paulsgrove estate a few years ago when what began as "Did you hear about the bloke at number 17? They say he's a paedophile" and ended up with a baying mob outside number 17 smashing up the house and burning the poor sods car.
I make no apologies for pointing out how obviously ridiculous the post was, and no apologies for saying exactly what I think about the sort of person who re-posts, or forwards as an email, material that they've not bothered to verify. It's a dangerous practice, and the people who do it are dangerous.