Entitletard Holocaust

I was going to write up a post about this, but read­ing through the whin­ing was just way, way too painful. This is the biggest group of enti­tle­tards I’ve seen in quite some time. Good on you for suf­fer­ing through and point­ing it out.

If you’d like to guest blog on enti­tle­tards, just let me know and I’ll give you a login BTW.

Personally I have only one prob­lem with the new MacBook and MacBook Pro, and that is the price. As far as I know the US price didn’t change for an entry level 15″ MacBook Pro, but in Australia they put the price UP $500!

So now a 15″ MacBook Pro starts at AU$3199, almost $1000 more than just con­vert­ing the US price to AU$. I’d love to know how they are jus­ti­fy­ing that one. Seems like they are charg­ing every­one but the US for addi­tional costs of man­u­fac­tur­ing or something.

I almost wish I knew how to whine as well as the pack of mil­len­ni­als who like to pop up when­ever they smell opportunity.

Oh, this hul­la­baloo isn’t nearly as bad as the “Apple owes it to me to keep devel­op­ing OS X and license it so I can buy it at the upgrade price (still) and, bypass­ing the hard­ware they devel­oped it to add value to, install it on any cheap piece of crap I want to. Power to the peo­ple!” argu­ment, or the “Real pro­fes­sion­als can only tell what some­thing on their screen looks like through a pane of ground glass. The view from my bath­room is spec­tac­u­lar, don’t you know!” argu­ment, or the “I made so much money doing graph­ics work on $10,000 (glass) mon­i­tors hooked up to $10,000 com­put­ers that I could buy a beach house, and now I demand the right to do the same work out on the deck using Apple’s cheap­est lap­top!” argu­ment. Not even close!

@Gatesbasher: “Real pro­fes­sion­als can only tell what some­thing on their screen looks like through a pane of ground glass.”

Yeah, that’s one thing that con­fuses me. There are enti­tle­tards in the very linked forum thread claim­ing, with­out excep­tion, that a trans­par­ent glass screen can never, ever accu­rately repro­duce color. I’m sorry, I may not be a “pro­fes­sional” pho­tog­ra­pher; but I do have 4 years of under­grad­u­ate level Physics, and I can’t recall a part of my optics course­work that said that glass is intrin­si­cally inca­pable of trans­mit­ting light with­out mas­sively shift­ing it’s spectra.

Speaking of color, I almost for­got the “Putting dots of three (count ‘em – three) col­ors so close together in SPACE that the eye blends them together in a sin­gle color dot is OK, but putting dif­fer­ent states of that color dot so close together in TIME that the eye can’t dis­tin­guish them and blends them together into one of mil­lions of pos­si­ble col­ors is cheat­ing.” argument.

Dear Mr. Angry Drunk, I think you unfairly qual­ify the whin­ing lud­dites by call­ing them “enti­tle­tards.” It indi­cates a level of speci­ficity to their inane chant­ing that they sim­ply don’t deserve.

I ask you to look, next time you’re inclined to spend your pre­cious irre­place­able min­utes read­ing their dross, not at the con­tent of their com­ments, but the com­plete lack of inter­est in their cho­sen lan­guage. Grammar, spelling, usage, and punc­tu­a­tion are, at best, butchered in all but the very best of the comments.

That illit­er­ate bab­bling is irrel­e­vant by its very existence.

Rather than the port­man­teau “enti­tle­tard,” the more accu­rate and eas­ily defined, “stu­pid ass­hole” would seem to be more correct.

Just a suggestion.