<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Oh yes, it was - but did you read about 'the other operating systems available' and their adherents? Mac-heads came out of this reasonably intact! Now <span style="font-style: italic;">where</span> is Stephen Fry when you need him?<br><br>Bob M.<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 29/9/09, ForkBombFluf <i><fluf@freeshell.org></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: ForkBombFluf <fluf@freeshell.org><br>Subject: [Nottingham] Creepier, snootier, and more insistent than Mac owners?<br>To: nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>Date: Tuesday, 29 September, 2009, 12:37 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail"><br>Very funny article from the Guardian yesterday--<br><br><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/28/charlie-brooker-microsoft-mac-windows"
target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/28/charlie-brooker-microsoft-mac-windows</a><br><br>(excerpt)<br><br>"I know Windows is awful. Everyone knows Windows is awful. Windows is like <br>the faint smell of pi** in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you <br>can do about it. OK, OK: I know other operating systems are available. But <br>their advocates seem even creepier, snootier and more insistent than Mac <br>owners. The harder they try to convince me, the more I'm repelled. To <br>them, I'm a sheep. And they're right. I'm a helpless, stupid, lazy sheep. <br>I'm also a masochist. And that's why I continue to use Windows . horrible <br>Windows . even though I hate every second of it. It's grim, it's slow, <br>everything's badly designed and nothing really works properly: using <br>Windows is like living in a communist bloc nation circa 1981. And I <br>wouldn't change it for the world, because I'm an abject bloody idiot
and I <br>hate myself, and this is what I deserve: to be sentenced to Windows for <br>life."<br><br>l8r,<br><br>-Stef<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Nottingham mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="/mc/compose?to=Nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk">Nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/nottingham" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/nottingham</a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com