ICQ Conacts

Over the weekend, several oddballs have contacted me via ICQ. I don’t know any of them. Some say Hi in German, some in English. One simply added me and never said a word (a Romanian girl named Miki, if the profile is truthful). One spammed me; I always send some curse-words in reply, and funnily enough this one actually replied – so I spent half an hour cussing him or her out. Not that he or she got the point..

My most recent acquisition now is some guy from Egypt: “here a male for a clean chat”. Well, clean male, I would hope so – I don’t dabble in the forbidden love; I actually prefer women. But thank you for asking.

Where the heck do these people find me? I am really wondering. It’s most certainly not ICQ or some other way that would be pretty much random, because I only ever get these people in waves, not spread evenly over the year.

I remember a wave of strange ICQ contacts a few years back. Then it was a number of girls from different countries all looking for a husband. I remember, very faintly, some Turkish chick with very bad English, and a girl from Asia – I want to say Thailand but that may be stereotypes interfering with my memories – who tried to market herself via her ethnic origin. “No, I mean, you like yellow skin on girl?”

Booooring. If that’s her most distinguishing feature, I really don’t want to talk to her.

Anyway, if anybody had a similar experience, or has any idea why these people show up so suddenly, comment below.

_Update, later on Sunday night:_ Next in line: Some strange moron from Turkey. Totally unable to answer simple questions. I have started insulting him, as I will with anybody who contacts me out of the blue on ICQ and then is too dumb to put two words together in a way that makes sense.

I wonder if I am getting hammered by that [virus that tries to "chat"](http://tc.imlogic.com/threatcenterportal/pubThreatDetail.aspx?ThreatID=3255) with you. But then I’d expect them to offer files of some kind in an attempt to infect me. So: If you want to contact me, you are very welcome to do so but **at least introduce yourself** and don’t be a complete moron.

Sorry, but it **had** to be said.