They puzzle me.
Friendly reminders I mean.
If someone sends you an email, and the first words are 'just a friendly reminder..' you should delete it, it doesn't deserve to be read.
Have they even thought about what they are writing? How could a reminder to attend an upcoming sports event or a work meeting be unfriendly? Do people send threatning and heinous reminders of things?
I just imagine it now; 'this is the voice of doom speaking...to give a threatning reminder to attend the special meeting at church on thursday night otherwise many unfriendly things will happen indeed...'
I kindof think the word friendly is superflous here. The only reason your reminding them is because, a. you're a nice person, b. you are desperate for people to attend whatever the reminder is about (in this case, please go find some friends) or c. its a barbed email, a veiled threat to someone who never attends and needs to, in this case, it most certainly isn't a friendly reminder and that seems uncannily like a lie to say it is.
So whichever way you look at it, friendly reminders are defunct. (I have this bad feeling i just made that word up)
Please please never write one.
Anyway, just thought I'd share that gem of wisdom as a friendly reminder to everyone.
Sigh.
