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| Watching television has become increasingly frustrating recently, but the most annoying thing I've seen in a long time are the ads for medicines that don't say what the medicine does. "Ask your doctor about Tristatin Chlogycerol." I would ask my doctor if I thought that it would do something useful like make me belch less, but they don't give you any clue what the stuff does, and I'll be double-dog damned if I'm going to ask my doctor about some drug only to find out that it's designed to make you think you're cool driving a Hummer. | ||||||||
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| > > | You Are NOT THAT FUCKING IMPORTANT So Put Your Fucking Black Berry Away! | |||||||
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| < < | -- TobyCabot - 02 Jan 2001 - 03 Nov 2006 | |||||||
| > > | I went to my nephew's school graduation yesterday. Dedham Country Day is a small school so the ceremony was intimate, heartfelt, and moving - with such a small number of people there's a strong sense of community. There are several wonderful speeches: one from a member of the graduating class, and one from their class adviser. And there was a strange, occasional, nearly inaudible beeping. It took me a while to locate the source of the noise but eventually I figured it out.
Two seats to the left of me, a parent of a graduate was working on her blackberry. DURING HER CHILD'S GRADUATION CEREMONY!
On behalf of everyone who doesn't have a blackberry but has to tolerate all of you self-important assholes that do: Turn your fucking gadget off and put it the fuck away! You are NOT THAT IMPORTANT! The world will not end if you're incommunicado for the 60 minutes that it takes for your kid to graduate from school. No one will die, or even get a papercut. Some other symbol-manipulator somewhere else will have to wait a whole hour before they can bask in the glow of your incomparable wisdom. BOO FUCKING HOO.
-- TobyCabot - 02 Jan 2001 - 12 Jun 2009 | |||||||
| Thanks for reading, I feel better now. | ||||||||