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I Hate Macs

iMeowbot said:
What "evidence" is needed for "claims" in a column that the writer himself dismisses as piffle?
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I still don't understand if he was actually trying to be funny... I know nothing of this writer so I have no clue what he normally writes about. The only thing I can think of is he tried to falsely classify Mac users the same way Apple has done with the Mac + PC ads... Maybe I'm a bit literal as I find that immature and pointless, especially the attacks at Mac users themselves. I mean the Mac + PC ads must of offended the poor guy so much to write that article, all I can think of is that this guy must of had a traumatic experience with a Mac when he was younger. Overall I found this worse than reading a Jeremy Clarkson article.*

*Jeremy Clarkson is awesome
 
Aside from crowing about sartorial differences, the adverts also make a big deal about PCs being associated with "work stuff" (Boo! Offices! Boo!), as opposed to Macs, which are apparently better at "fun stuff". How insecure is that? And how inaccurate? Better at "fun stuff", my arse. The only way to have fun with a Mac is to poke its insufferable owner in the eye.
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The article made me giggle.

:D

(p.s. I think that the people here who are screaming for the head of Charlie Brooker on a stake have missed the point. And will never 'get it.')
 
It reads as though it were carefully designed to press people's buttons. Or maybe he has other "issues".


I'll agree that it's a cool thing, to be able to walk into Comp USA, (or Fry's, if you're out west.) and buy a case, logic board, a CPU, and some drives, and cobble the whole thing together yourself. But, all the folks I know who have done this use Linux as their OS of choice. Does he hate them for being rebellious?
 
pink-pony115 said:
http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2007/02/the_great_divid.html#more


and the worthless bashing continues...
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I've done my bit already - on a recent date with a game developer, he smugly boasted of his iMac and surround sound set-up in his 'trendy' Clapham Junction flat, suggesting I should 'swing round that night' with him, so he can show me the new OS X, Tiger. Now, surely this was code for 'let's go have hot steamy sex at my flat, where I will position your body so I can still keep my iMac within sight', and he was rather good-looking, albeit smug, with his stripey jumper (grey and blue), and black square-framed spectacles (clear glass, natch). But a Mac user? Could I really lower myself that far? Turns out, I can't, and didn't, as I made my excuses and left the bar shortly afterwards, alone. Told him I had to go home to defrag my hard drive. In more ways than one...
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*Yawn*, *Yawn* and thrice *Yawn*

The Charlie Brooker column was funny, whereas this is just someone trying deperately to be a 'cool, modern' er, 'journalist?'

Eff it, lets have one more *Yawn* plus a roll of the eyes.

:rolleyes:
 
vniow said:
I love how most people in this thread who don't get the article aren't British.
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I get the tongue-in-cheekiness. Probably from all those years of Benny Hill and Monty Python. I'd point out, once again, that the article isn't to be taken at face value, but those who are least likely to read the rest of the thread and/or the actual article in question in it's entirety and actually get it are ironically the same people complaining, and those he actually has a good point about.

Maybe if I made it really big, in bold red lettering.
 
amd4me said:
That made me laugh really hard.
I think that was slightly tongue and cheek and not entirely serious.
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It was entirely a spoof. Didn't you see the comment at the bottom?:p

Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui
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Delightful. I absolutely roared. I suppose PCs are for real people because you have to know how to fix things to use them. And you can't use a PC if you really believe in feng shui because most PCs are so ugly they disturb the forces of harmony too much.
 
amd4me said:
That made me laugh really hard.
I think that was slightly tongue and cheek and not entirely serious.
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It was sarcasm. He's stuck in the PC world and hates it... and he has to justify that placement with... I Hate Macs.
Read his last few lines.
 
about the fisher price thing, "this looks like a fisher price toy" was the first thing that i said when i logged in to xp!
 
richmon22 said:
about the fisher price thing, "this looks like a fisher price toy" was the first thing that i said when i logged in to xp!
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Uh huh.

[edit: finished, since Mac users are apparently proud of the similarities. :p ]
 

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Wow you don't have to love macs to recognize a good system. What a badly written piece of fud and bitterness. To love PC's that much is sad. Even if you don't want a Mac you don't have to use a PC with Windows.
 
Did anyone notice this?

Here is the best part. He complains:

So in one, the PC has a "nasty virus" that makes him sneeze like a plague victim; in another, he keeps freezing up and having to reboot. This is a subtle way of saying PCs are unreliable.
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And then in an unrelated update at the end:

This week: Charlie .... listened to the Windows startup jingle every 10 minutes as his PC repeatedly rebooted itself.
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HA - ha, ha. Ha.
 
It's safe to say that a number of the above posters are not ones for satire!!!

Charlie Brooker... Just one of a handful of comedy Genii!

Last few words for those who'd like to investigate some of his other work... "Nathan Barley :: Self facilitating media node"... Yeah baby!!! :D
 
For those who still don't get it...

IT WAS A JOKE!!!

Go watch some Fawlty Towers reruns on BBC America and read it again.
 
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