The Official Tech Off Post
The list of stuff we hate from the show that we do (and out of it). This’ll be a weekly updated thing, and if we find anything in between the shows that we just hate, we’ll add them here too.
1. Windows, Mac and Linux Fanboys. It’s a derogatory term, but seriously, people who post anonymously on forums that say for example “Linux iz the s#%^ d00dz, WinDOZE is a pile of c#$%”. No one likes you.
2. People who post on engadget posts that simply say “FIRST POST!!!”. Big deal, at least you get *lowest ranked*.
3. Dumb people who don’t know what they’re talking about. Seriously. Example: “I hate ‘macks’ cos they only got one mouse button”. It’s the 21st century. Apple isn’t dumb anymore.
4. Microsoft’s inability to make their OS experience enjoyable. Why do I cringe when I use I PC? Why is Vista the reason I cry at night?
5. Digg users. People say s*** they wouldn’t usually say, but they literally hyperventilate when their smarmy comment gets a +1. So much meaningless stuff gets thrown around on that comments page. Endless.
6. Bloggers. 95% of bloggers don’t have an audience. Why do you bother to write anything? I know that probably around four people will read this, and 3 of them are related to the podcast. The other one is my sister.
7. People who in comments pages say something completely derogatory or incorrect (mostly on Digg) and then say “Ooooh, fanboys Digg me down”, because they know in their tiny minds that the last thing people want to do is prove someone’s point, so the comment is left unharmed. Then, the people who agree Digg up. Clever.
8. Myspace pages. The amount of time I could have saved if Myspace didn’t exist. Everyone knows the story, you go to a page, the guy has an emo theme where all the writing is black. It starts blaring out Metallica, but you don’t like Metallica, now you look for the player, but the theme makes the page go 25,000 pixels wide. You find the player and stop the music, but 17 youtube videos start playing. You hit CommandQ (ALT F4). You cry.
9. Me too websites. Hmm? See this blog post? We don’t need another fraking list about the problems with the internet, huh! Doing it anyway, cos I feel like it. Do we need another tech podcast? No, but we wanted to do one, know what? I hate me.
10. American accents. I need to stop listening to podcasts, because everyone has an American accent. Bet you Americans don’t mind, but it affects the way I talk. I don’t want to say “a” like “aaah”, but “ahhh”. Minor point, yes, probably my own fault, but can you tone the accent down a touch.
11. lol. rofl. lmao. I know for a fact you are not laughing out loud, rolling on the floor laughing, or laughing your arse off.
12. Anything spelt wrong. In fact, I’m going insane. Firefox says spelt isn’t a word, then halfway through that sentence, it corrects itself, but by that time, it looks wrong to me. You know the feeling.
13. Imageshack. I have never actually seen an imageshack image that has not used more than its allowed bandwidth. They also need a new frog.





