Category: Whinge

**** off you selfish ********

It’s not even been passed into legislation yet and already a bunch of whinging ***** have launched legal action against the English anti-smoking legislation citing the usual “freedom of human rights” horseshit.

Now let’s point something out – New Zealand, Australia, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland already have such bans in place and all have to follow the same guidelines under the Human Rights legislation. None of them have had a problem, or if complaints have been raised then they’ve been quashed. This is called “precedent” and means that if someone lodges a similar complaint without further evidence then it’ll be thrown out of court.

Smokers have had it their own way for decades. What about my right to go for a night out and not breathe their *****? To not have to shower and put my clothes in the wash when I get in?

Smokers (and those who support them despite not actually being stupid enough to smoke) – **** off. Get a life. Be sensible. If you were complaining about not being able to eat fresh fruit in public, or kiss your partner while walking down the street, or say what you feel about politicians I’d be up there beside you. But your’e asking for a right to continue polluting the atmosphere and poison other people, and kill yourselves. Last time I looked, even the Human Rights brigade had an issue with suicide, assisted or otherwise.

Crocs? Cheap plastic crap, more like

There are these shoes called Crocs and they’re bloody everywhere in Oz. I was dragged into a shoeshop by Mel (her boyfriend spotted some boots there, and pointed them out to her, the fool) and they had roughly four walls full of the ******* things. Bright colours, stupid holes in them and an insane price tag. They even do little badge things that clip into the holes.

I saw a sign detailing how to care for your Crocs. One of the things it mentioned was keeping them out of direct heat as they special compound from which they are made can denature in extreme temperatures. Or something equally long-winded.

What it needed to say was: These things are plastic. Don’t get them hot, you ****.

Has anyone seen an old LP left in a car on a hot day? Well, these things would probably end up just as melty. And they sell them in one of the warmest countries I’ve visited. Good grief.

Why no Mylo?

I want one of these (you have to have Flash enabled or you’ll get a blank screen – shitty website without even a warning or non-Flash message). Given that Sony have no plans to release a keyboard for the PSP and Logic3 have scrapped their plans to launch one, this little thing is ideal for my travels.

Text files, videos, MP3s, loaded with Skype and a web browser with 802.11x wireless and a diddy keyboard. Spot on.

And only available in the US. Why, Sony, why?

And another "**** off" to another spammer

I just got the following from some muppet via the contact link on this blog:

‘My name is Camila Parker.
I saw your blog and I found it very interesting.
So, what do you think about our collaboration?
I believe it would be great to exchange blogs!
My blog is: http://cigarettesxxxxxxxxx.blog.com
Wait for your reply.
Good day
Camila Parker.’

Obviously, I’ve deleted part of the blog name. Suffice to say it was a shitload of pro-smoking ***** about how cool smoking is with links to places you could buy cigars and fags from. Oh, and the English is crap.

*sigh*

Camila Parker probably doesn’t exist. The email address listed most likely will bounce or sign me up to (more) spam. But on the off-chance you’re looking for a link to your blog, Ms Parker, don’t bother.

**** off.

EMI takes locks off music tracks

EMI is taking security locks off downloaded songs. Some may scream “at last!” and I’d be among them if it wasn’t for one thing: why do these tracks cost more than the normal versions? Their argument is that they’re more portable and that they’re higher quality.

Fact is, if I pay for a track I expect it to be portable. I expect to be able to listen to it on my PC, my laptop, my MP3 player, my car stereo, my home stereo and to be able to take it to a friend’s house. Why should I be charged extra for this privilege.

As for higher quality… most MP3s I’ve seen for download seem to be 192Kbps which is more than needed. I always resample mine down to 128Kbps which (I think?) is CD quality. Regardless, with the equipment I’ve got I can’t hear any difference between 192 and 128 – just that the latter is around 25-33% smaller in filesize. I’m certain that upping the download “quality” to 256Kbps or higher will be even less useful to the average punter. They’ll only end up downloading a larger file which sounds the same as on half it’s size!

“We are adding another product, priced higher, with more features, higher sound quality and hassle free interoperability.”

Horse ****. It’s the same product, priced higher, with no more “features” (What the ****? Features?), the same sound quality as far as the human ear is concerned and “hassle free interoperability” that we’ve had from tapes, LPs and CDs for decades. So, by my reckoning, to all intents and purposes it’s actually just “the same product, priced higher”.

Yet another case of a record company trying to sound magnanimous about making more money from us by attempting to give us something we should get for our money anyway. Stinks of the hoo-hah over legally downloadable films… another laughable attempt to keep up with technology.