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Charlie Brooker is Todays guardian writes about timewasting and computers:

"Install this driver. Now update it. Now update it again. Register to login to our website. Then validate your membership. Forgot your password? Click here. Now there. Fill out this form. And this one. And this one. Please wait while TimeJettison Pro examines your system. Download latest patch file. Please wait while patch file examines own navel. Remove cable. Insert cable. Gently tease USB port with cable. Yeah, that's it baby. That's the way. Now show us your bum or I'm deleting your inbox.

My pet timewastin' hate is when two or more programs start fighting for your attention: when a bit of multimedia software repeatedly asks you if you want to make it the default player for all mp3 files or whatever, and you say "no", but nonetheless each time you start it, it asks you again and again, like a toddler in a supermarket pestering mum for chocolate, until eventually you give in and click "yes" - at which point another program sits up and says, "Hey! I thought I was your default player?" in a slightly wounded tone of voice, and embarks on a similar campaign of harassment, until you come to dread clicking on an mp3 file at all, or even going near your computer for that matter, for fear of being sucked back into the argument.

In any sane world, the people who wrote that software would be beheaded on live TV. In ours, they're trillionaires. I've said it before and I'll say it again: our world is botox. "

He obviously hasn't discovered RHP which is the greatest waste of time on the whole world wide web!

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Originally posted by invigorate
Charlie Brooker is Todays guardian writes about timewasting and computers:

"Install this driver. Now update it. Now update it again. Register to login to our website. Then validate your membership. Forgot your password? Click here. Now there. Fill out this form. And this one. And this one. Please wait while TimeJettison Pro examines your system. Downlo ...[text shortened]... discovered RHP which is the greatest waste of time on the whole world wide web!
I'd loved Charlie Brooker since tvgohome.com

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Originally posted by invigorate
Charlie Brooker is Todays guardian writes about timewasting and computers:

"Install this driver. Now update it. Now update it again. Register to login to our website. Then validate your membership. Forgot your password? Click here. Now there. Fill out this form. And this one. And this one. Please wait while TimeJettison Pro examines your system. Downlo ...[text shortened]... discovered RHP which is the greatest waste of time on the whole world wide web!
Yo! That's what you get for being a media player bitch, init!?

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Originally posted by invigorate
Charlie Brooker is Todays guardian writes about timewasting and computers:

"Install this driver. Now update it. Now update it again. Register to login to our website. Then validate your membership. Forgot your password? Click here. Now there. Fill out this form. And this one. And this one. Please wait while TimeJettison Pro examines your system. Downlo ...[text shortened]... discovered RHP which is the greatest waste of time on the whole world wide web!
Well like I say, welcome to the 21st century. A great man once said, the future is not all it was cracked up to be.

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LMAO, if you don't get a rec from everyone who reads that then this forum has taken a real turn for the worst. Hilarious! 😀

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I rec'd it. I'll have to check that guy out. Never heard of him before.

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Originally posted by marinakatomb
...then this forum has taken a real turn for the worst.
That's no longer possible.