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Wednesday, February 07, 2007 :

I have a Mac at home. This guy hates them.

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What a f*cking moron. I can't believe he makes the suggestion that having one mouse button is analogous to only having one arm. If he'd actually used a Mac in the last few years then he'd have worked out that the mouse that ships with the Mac these days does have two buttons (actually it has 4, one of which is also a scrolling device) - click it on the left and you get a 'left-click', click it on the right and you get a 'right-click'. If you're too retarded to understand this and need two physically separate buttons then plug in any old 2 button USB mouse (and you almost certainly won't need to install any drivers).

Clearly this article is meant to be provactive, a bit like Darren Harvey saying (What's the Story) Morning Glory? was shite in his review in Varsity in 1995 but you know he didn't really mean it. And he even covers himself by saying:

Cue 10 years of nasal bleating from Mac-likers who profess to like Macs not because they are fashionable, but because "they are just better".

So any response, emotive or rational has been pre-emptively categorised as 'nasal bleating'. Which is fine by me because I don't hate Mac or PC users but I'm not overly fond of ill informed loud-mouths who gob off about a subject they don't know too much about to get a reaction.
 
"ill informed loud-mouths who gob off about a subject they don't know too much about to get a reaction"

With minor modification, that could be .foXinternet's new tag-line!!
 
Chill out, this is merely the superlative of link bait.

And anyway, more to the point, blur were loads better than those cockney twats Oasis.
 
Very odd argument that because the design isn't shite, the users must be pretentious wankers. Does it apply to cars, houses, furniture and toasters as well? Are you a twat just because you've got a sofa that looks nice and is comfy, rather than one which looks horrible and falls apart when you sit on it? What an utter idiot (and I use a PC by the way. It's just as unreliable as Dr Who's Tardis but without the useful time/space travel capability)
 
Hello Tux. It's nice to see that Nick Groves still dreams of me and my seminal student journalism. My review (which, incidentally was for a Blur album not an Oasis one) must have really stunk of hypocrisy to stick in the mind for twelve long years. If only there was anything about old Grovesy which was anything like as memorable for me.

I've fond memories, though, of playing Trivial Pursuit with you and Revd Kind at his flat in Paris. Rien arrive, tout est possible.

Darren x
 
Did I say Revd Kind? Revd King I meant. I'm losing it in my dotage.
 
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