There's a mailing at work called for-sale, where people put stuff they … wait for it… want to put up for sale. There's also a mailing list called chat, where people just rant and post jokes.
There's one bloke who is a closet anarchist and loves to poke people to provoke a reaction. Generally, people fall for it and it can get quite amusing on the lists. People lose their mind and start yelling at each other on for-sale, until somebody loses patience and tells everybody to move to a different list :)
Here's the breakdown of today's messages:
*points out this is going even stronger in chat already*
> *pointless plea for everyone to take this over to chat*
>
>> *ranting about the person who posted crap just to annoy people*
>>
>>> *irrelevant and off topic retort*
>>>
>>>> *random comment intended to annoy people*
>>>>
>>>>>MEAT IS MURDER
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Some friends of mine have recently helped setup a cooperative venture
>>>>>> between several farmers around the country to sell meat direct to
>>>>>> consumers
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Their website is http://www.handmademeat.co.uk/