I Hate Macs
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I thought this[^] was very funny. I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. 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.
Macs are so cute. Can you still get software for those things?
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Ultimately the campaign's biggest flaw is that it perpetuates the notion that consumers somehow "define themselves" with the technology they choose. If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. I think this is brilliant.
-- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.
dan neely wrote:
the notion that consumers somehow "define themselves" with the technology they choose.
This notion is not confined to the Mac world. Every advertiser uses the same trick to get you to choose their product over the competition's product. What about those jerks who believe that owning and driving a fast car somehow transforms them into a cool person? As if they cease being a jerk the second they put the key into the ignition.
-------------------------------- "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke
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Ultimately the campaign's biggest flaw is that it perpetuates the notion that consumers somehow "define themselves" with the technology they choose. If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. I think this is brilliant.
-- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.
someone wrote:
Ultimately the campaign's biggest flaw is that it perpetuates the notion that consumers somehow "define themselves" with the technology they choose.
of course they do. people "define themselves" by the things they purchase all the time. if we didn't, we'd all be driving the same car, live in the same style and color house, wear the same clothes, use the same cell phones, and run the exact same kind of computer, in the same 1950's style case, using the same desktop scheme and colors. we don't. why? does everybody in the world have a mental illness? or is this guy just a whiny misanthrope?
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dan neely wrote:
the notion that consumers somehow "define themselves" with the technology they choose.
This notion is not confined to the Mac world. Every advertiser uses the same trick to get you to choose their product over the competition's product. What about those jerks who believe that owning and driving a fast car somehow transforms them into a cool person? As if they cease being a jerk the second they put the key into the ignition.
-------------------------------- "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke
Richie308 wrote:
As if they cease being a jerk the second they put the key into the ignition.
Can't they be a cool jerk?
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dan neely wrote:
the notion that consumers somehow "define themselves" with the technology they choose.
This notion is not confined to the Mac world. Every advertiser uses the same trick to get you to choose their product over the competition's product. What about those jerks who believe that owning and driving a fast car somehow transforms them into a cool person? As if they cease being a jerk the second they put the key into the ignition.
-------------------------------- "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke
Richie308 wrote:
What about those jerks who believe that owning and driving a fast car somehow transforms them into a cool person?
people who buy product A often think themselves superior to people who buy product B. the rule works in both directions, of course.
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I thought this[^] was very funny. I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. 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.
i hate people who think so much of their computer that they feel it necessary to rag on anyone else who thinks a lot of their computer.
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Ah, too much hate.
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computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work
And a proper computer is what, like the Linux world where they tell you "oh, just download the source and compile it"? Yeah, that's productive. Marc
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I thought this[^] was very funny. I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. 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.
I hate computers.
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The only way to have fun with a Mac is to poke its insufferable owner in the eye.
I'm sorry to have to say this. But I found the above quote VERY funny ;P
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I thought this[^] was very funny. I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. 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.
Rob Caldecott wrote:
computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui
:laugh::laugh::laugh:
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I hate computers.
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Computers hate me.
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I thought this[^] was very funny. I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. 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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Richie308 wrote:
What about those jerks who believe that owning and driving a fast car somehow transforms them into a cool person?
people who buy product A often think themselves superior to people who buy product B. the rule works in both directions, of course.
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I disagree. I specifically by products which don't try to perpetuate trendy one-upsmanship, and I think it makes me a better person because... oh, wait. Dammit! :rolleyes:
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I thought this[^] was very funny. I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. 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.
Yes the article is funny, and he's an ok writer. But his sentiment is really stupid IMO. He should spend less time on the computer and be less obsessive about it. I mean really, it's a bloody machine.
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
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Yes the article is funny, and he's an ok writer. But his sentiment is really stupid IMO. He should spend less time on the computer and be less obsessive about it. I mean really, it's a bloody machine.
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
-Atlas Shrugged, Ayn RandI mean really, it's a bloody machine.
true...for a PC. ...but every time I've ever used a Mac, I feel like I'm using a clunky TI-86. Macs are crap...always have been...always will be.
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Yes the article is funny, and he's an ok writer. But his sentiment is really stupid IMO. He should spend less time on the computer and be less obsessive about it. I mean really, it's a bloody machine.
"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, `Who is destroying the world?' You are."
-Atlas Shrugged, Ayn RandRohde wrote:
I mean really, it's a bloody machine
if only that were true...:~ The machines can't be trusted.
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I thought this[^] was very funny. I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. 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.
I was able to go through life with blissful ignorance of the existence of Macs until these[^] ads started showing up. Really....Justin Long as Mac? That really sells me on the Mac :rolleyes: Makes it plain what their target market is though. If it were me, I would have cast Henry Rollins as the PC and Drew Barrymore as the MAC. Let them ad-lib instead of reading from a script...
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I was able to go through life with blissful ignorance of the existence of Macs until these[^] ads started showing up. Really....Justin Long as Mac? That really sells me on the Mac :rolleyes: Makes it plain what their target market is though. If it were me, I would have cast Henry Rollins as the PC and Drew Barrymore as the MAC. Let them ad-lib instead of reading from a script...
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The link is funny :) The difference between the left guy with suit and the right guy is just 1005 millons dollars.
CastorTiu wrote:
The difference between the left guy with suit and the right guy is just 1005 millons dollars.
:laugh: Yes!!
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PC zealotsusers have been saying that for the last 20 years. Please, find something new. P.S. Mac zealotsusers have been saying the opposite for the last 20 years either.
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Maximilien wrote:
P.S. Mac users have been saying the opposite for the last 20 years either.
That they like Macs?? ;)
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