Gaming the System

I write a lot about enti­tle­ment issues here. The way that I see it, one of the pri­mary dri­ving forces behind much of the ills of our soci­ety is the over­whelm­ing sense of enti­tle­ment that most peo­ple seem to have. We want things done our way, and we want them deliv­ered now gods damn it! We seem to have for­got­ten the old axiom, “Cheap, Perfect or Fast; pick two.” Which leads me to an odd lit­tle piece that I picked up via The Consumerist (I’ll link to them after I’ve for­given them for being part of the Gawker Family of Suck). The blog post in ques­tion is titled Hey Burger King, you’re get­ting timed for a rea­son! from the Selfish Mom blog. Yes, dear read­ers, I’m tak­ing on the mommy – blog­gers again. I only pray to Lord Satan that I emerge with my tes­ti­cles intact.

The gist of this lit­tle mis­sive, charm­ingly filed under the cat­e­gory of “How To Piss Me Off,” is the real­iza­tion by the author, Amy, that Burger King employ­ees have been gam­ing the timer sys­tem by hav­ing drive – though cus­tomers back up and pull for­ward to reset the timer. The shock, the

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Norwegian Consumer Protection Group Announces, “We’re Ineffectual Twats”

Back in September of last year I wrote a piece about the chuckle fucks in Norway rant­ing and rav­ing about evil iTunes and its human rights vio­lat­ing DRM. In the ensu­ing shit­storm of responses from the forces of moral decency (aka cheap cock­suck­ers) it was pointed out, numer­ous times, that rant­ing at Apple over this issue was doing about as much good as piss­ing into the ocean; because it wasn’t Apple demand­ing the DRM, it was the record labels. Of course that point was lost on the cheap­tards; because in their world, wishes are horses and they damn well are going to ride.

Cue today’s announce­ment that Norway is drop­ping its idi­otic demands due to Apple and the record labels, agree­ing to drop DRM in the iTunes music store.

Hope you arc­tic dip­shits enjoyed your three years of wind­mill tilt­ing. Now imag­ine how much faster we could have had this had you gone after the real prob­lem instead of try­ing to gin up headlines.

Fucktards.

Apple Owes Me a Pony!

As you may have heard; Apple recently announced that a) Steve Jobs will not be deliv­er­ing the keynote address at the next Macworld Expo, and b) the next Expo will be the last that Apple attends. The response from the Mac blo­gos­phere has ranged from the retarded (OMGWTF Steve’s agonna die!!!) to the ratio­nal (attend­ing the Expo is expen­sive and Apple now has other options to present new prod­ucts that are more under their con­trol). But, of course, it wouldn’t be an Apple story with­out a heap­ing help­ing of whiny self-entitlement. Case in point http://​silen​tkeynote​.com.

Apparently Apple owes us a keynote and we’re going to hold our breath and stamp our feet until we get one.

Screw The “MommyBloggers”

Need to set the MacMacs, the free­tards & the mom­my­blog­gers against each other; thus start­ing the long proph­e­sised entitleclypse.

Thus spoke I.

This is so not going to make me any friends; but what the hell, alien­at­ing peo­ple is all part of the fun. Before I com­mence to rant­ing though, let’s make one thing clear. Any vit­riol I expend here is not directed at moth­ers in gen­eral. Those who know me know that I have the great­est respect for moth­ers; fuck for par­ents in gen­eral. Anyone who would will­ingly sub­ject them­selves to one or more half-formed proto-humans gets props from me. Gods know I can’t bear the thought of cre­at­ing my own lit­tle hell-spawn. What I don’t have any respect for is enti­tle­tards; and, based on the recent “motrin­moms” retar­da­tion, I’m going to place the “mom­my­blog­gers” firmly into the enti­tle­tard category.

So, what’s all the fuss about? Well, on one level I’d have to say, “some new media douchebagettes got their knick­ers in a twist over a fuck­ing com­mer­cial” On another, slightly less pro­fane level, the deal appears to be this. The mak­ers of Motrin ran a some­what snarky adver­tise­ment advis­ing moth­ers with back­aches from lug­ging their demon-seed around all

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Entitletard Holocaust

So, you may have heard that Apple recently released new MacBooks and MacBook Pros. Amongst var­i­ous changes the shiny new MacBook now no longer has any sort of FireWire con­nec­tiv­ity. Because we’re talk­ing Apple here, and Apple “fans” are the biggest bunch of whiny enti­tle­tards on the face of the planet; this change has gen­er­ated a ver­i­ta­ble Large Hadron Collider’s worth of retarded bitch­ing. The worst of the bunch though, which I present with min­i­mal com­ment is the Macworld Forums dis­cus­sion.

All I can really say is:

Ye

Fucking

Gods

300 plus (at the time I’m writ­ing this) posts of the most igno­rant, enti­tled bull­shit that I’ve ever seen. When you strip out the few posts by peo­ple with legit­i­mate issues, those hon­estly seek­ing infor­ma­tion, and my brother from another mother Bynkii try­ing to give peo­ple options (in his usual charm­ing man­ner) you end up with a sin­gle refrain. “Apple owes me a shiny new lap­top with all the fix­ins’. Gimme gimme gimme!”

It’s the fuck­ing Entitletard Holocaust.

Not Everything Is a Consumer “Right”

Tucked amid the finan­cial doom and gloom this week was this annoy­ing tid­bit. Apparently some twat in Norway has decided to run his mouth some more about how Apple is required to make iTunes Store pur­chases inter­op­er­a­ble with their com­peti­tors’ prod­ucts…or else. I’m sorry, but this sort of shit enrages me. I am a advo­cate of con­sumer rights; but, once upon a time, “con­sumer rights” meant things like “your car doesn’t explode,” and “your food isn’t poi­son.” Not the cur­rent refrain of “wah, gimme what I want” that seems to be syn­ony­mous with the phrase now.

Here’s the facts for the sim­ple­tons out there who don’t get it. You have no right to demand that every thing that a cor­po­ra­tion sells you be pro­vided in any for­mat that strikes your fancy. If you don’t like iPods, then buy your music from any of the dozens of alter­nate sources and play it on what­ever the fuck you like.

And, in par­tic­u­lar to Bjoern Erik Thon, fuck you in your frost-bitten, enti­tle­tard ear.

New Media Entitletard Douchebags

Ye gods, get a load of the lat­est whiny new media enti­tle­tard douch­bag­gery from Michael “I make up quotes” Arrington over at TechCrunch. The gist of the mat­ter is a list of tech­ni­cal ques­tions to the Twitter team from Michael. While the ques­tions them­selves have some merit, the absolutely over­whelm­ing sense of new media enti­tle­ment sur­round­ing them makes me want to drink even more than usual. Earth to the inter­webs: Twitter is an amus­ing lit­tle diver­sion who’s avail­abil­ity, or lack thereof has fuck-all to do with the real world. I hate to say this, but I really hope that the bitch­ing and out­rage over Twitter’s sta­bil­ity is just enti­tle­tard douchebag­gery. One might almost hypoth­e­size that some par­ties might have a finan­cial stake in mak­ing Twitter look bad.