Gee, so subtle
One thing PC users can do that Mac users can’t: STFU – TheBestPageInTheUniverse.net: This website has a pretty conceited name, are you ready to make some rebuttals or do you approve?
Ever notice how most Mac users are skinny? It’s because of all the calories they burn because they can’t STFU about how great their Macs are. What is it about Apple that makes its users unable to shut their mouths? Everywhere I go, there’s another asshole with a Mac preaching about how much better Macs are than PCs. They regurgitate lines directly from Apple’s marketing campaign, like “it just works.” I have the following rebuttals to this argument:
1. If everything on a Mac just works, then why does a website called “Mac fix it” exist, assholes? Here are a few choice topics on macfixitforums.com:
-Login window stuck!
-lower caSe “S” key not working!!
-Menu bar keeps flashing
-I can’t drag and drop!
Waaaah, boo hoo! I can’t drag and drop! Dumbass. Looks like your Macs aren’t perfect after all, which leads me to my second point:
I hope this guy doesn’t work at Dell’s tech support.
2. F U
I don’t know why Mac users get so defensive when you call them idiots. I mean, Apple is a company that has built its entire user base around the fact that its users can’t do simple things like turn their computers on. Hell, most Mac users can’t even talk without using their hands, which ranks their intelligence somewhere between a simian and hog hit
Well, a fan of anything can be annoying. What’s more annoying than a Mac fan? A rabid sports fan can REALLY be obnoxious and a down-right menace. And as with the guy on the website in question, the people complaining about Mac fans are getting as irksome as that which they complain.
Moderation in all things is best. Fanboys on anything can be exasperating.
There was me thinking it was John hit-baiting again….. 😉
Ah Maddox, I’ve missed you….
Don’t be such a stranger.
The guy seems unbiased, totally fair, and quite reasonable to me. Anyone who disagrees is probably a brainless Mac-head.
PC users are fat, ugly and old… Like John C. Dvorak.
Jk.
I meant to say, pc users are ignorant sheeps.
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Question… When did the article descrcibe the awesomeness of bill gates or MS?
Ah yes. Another shining example of how and why PCs and their users are the superior ones. I’m here ta tell ya, bitterness and envy ain’t a pretty combination.
Oh, well. Gandhi had to put up with this sorta shit too… 🙂
Unlovely organization? Is that how you buy goods and services? Yikes.
Time for some context. When OSX was first released, how many Mac uses had the hardware that could run it? And how many mainstream applications (and hardware devices) were suddenly obsolete under OSX?
But then, OSX didn’t get ‘good’ until what, the bobcat release? Was the equivalent of, say, service pack seven or eight or something? 🙂
So OSX might have some nifty features. But it took a while, remember?
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You know, he never mentioned how great anything else was. Of course, fanatics can’t see past their noses.
oh, and here’s your car.
http://tinyurl.com/399l5p
[Ed. – Please use tinyurl.com when providing links]
I like it. Should have been more professional though. Also he could have put the “shut the fuck up” photo at the end as a conclusion.
#9 – Olo
A rational, civilly expressed point and one that therefore merits a response in the same spirit.
When it was released, everyone who cared enough to want it – or needed it – were the people who already had the necessary – a G3.
And as someone who’s been there from the beginning, I’m also here to tell you that it was great from the start – it’s only gotten better since.
But that’s what we expected…
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NOW. WILL SOMEONE PLEASE INSERT A FRIGGING COMMA BETWEEN ‘SLOW DOWN’ AND ‘COWBOY’??
thx.
12,
No, OSX 10 was craptacular. 10.1 was marginally better. 10.2 was usable, 10.3 was ready for primetime. Even Apple needs 3 releases to get it right.
Grammar is not a time of waste – bart simpson. I, have more problems, with the Kind-a-Captcha itself, rather, than comma’s.
5. “pc users are ignorant sheeps.”
Oh yeah, the ability to build your own computer exactly the way you want it from scratch really makes us sheep.
I must be trapped in some bizzaro world where people who are attracted to shiny and pretty overpriced objects and worship them with a religious zeal are somehow not sheep!
Am I the only one here who recognized this blog as just another troll? With a name like “TheBestPageInTheUniverse.net” this guy is just another attention whore. Quit giving him what he wants. (Of course, what he probably really wants is all these comments to be on HIS site, not John’s.
And Nik, I’m pretty sure John is hit-baiting (aka trolling). Kinda sad when someone trolls their own blog just for hits (aka attention) but at least John honestly admits he does it. What else would one expect from a cranky curmudgeon!
The Kind-a-Captcha I have now resigned myself to… I’ve accepted that WordPress is, indeed, a sack ‘o shit. So if I have to keep reading the same pseudohumorous commentary, at least…
…and while we’re at it, 🙂
APOSTROPHES ARE FOR POSSESIVES AND CONTRACTIONS. PLS STOP USING THEM TO PLURALIZE. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, JUST PUT AN ‘S’ ON THE END.
” comma’s ”
Crikey®.
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I’m just keepin’ it real. Real cranky, that is…
I find this kind of Troll personally offensive, as is the firestorm/flamewar it inevitably provokes. What a waste of bandwidth and my time!
“Hey you kids! PIPE DOWN!”
apparently, if you glance at the rest of his site, the dude likes absolutely nothing and hates everything. he hates mac users, he hates sony (well, who doesn’t these days), he hates 911 conspiracy theorists (i’ve learned to ignore nut jobs), he hates cameron diaz (like she really gives a frak?), he hates idaho (what’s up with that).
so it’s either
a.) a private rant site (we all need to blow off some steam) in which case it can be ignored as the site is in lieu of therapy, or
b.) a lightning rod strike (the way dvorak does it, but with almost – but not quite – utterly no subtlety) in which case the site’s still best ignored (if no one visits a website, does it exist?).
PC – love love love
Mac – love love love
Mac vs P:C – yawn yawn yawn
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I’ve read Eats, Shoots, and Leaves. I know, where; my comma’s should go,. Of, course the important thing’s to remember… is our children learning?
It’s pretty obvious this guy is prematurely fixated on something, and it isn’t the technical merits of competing operating systems. However, he’s been linked from dvorak.org/blog which means that his large and fragile ego male ego just doubled in size.
Gods, I hope he gets a girlfriend soon and windexes his own lip smudges off his bathroom mirror.
Now that Apple has moved to Intel products, they have no advantage over an average PC. If you buy a top of the line Macbook Pro then you’re paying $1500 for OSX. I think I’ll save the $1500 and go with a free Linux distro, thank you. There is no operating system worth that much money, it’d be nice if mac bleeding hearts could see that.
#16
Please explain the difference between “lose” and “loose”. I’m too cranky this morning.
I bought a new PC yesterday for my office. I spent 4 hours “configuring” it. By this I mean I did all the setup that Windows Vista requires, removed all the crap software that came pre-installed, etc. After clicking the “Continue” button on Vista’s UAC “security” screen for the 50th time, I just completely disabled it. All the while I’m doing this, I’m thinking maybe those Mac people are onto something.
I’m still waiting for the “wow”.
Macs are for dumb “liberal arts” majors who can’t even think. And a lot of gays like Macs too, probably because of AIDS dimentia.
Macs are a political statement for the trendy granola crunchers, gay activists, and save the whale losers who actually smell worse than dead whales.
If Macs are so “good,” then why are they less than seven percent of the market? Huh?
I peruse a fresh stack of resumes every week, and any resume that mentions at all “Mac” experience or expertise gets thown away. The last thing I want to do is waste my time interviewing some dumpy, ugly liberal arts type who doesn’t have the intelligence to operate a real computer.
what a little bitch! that’s all i have to say…
I have always been a ‘mac’ fun, but when I came to acquire a computer, I got a PC. What the mac fan do, which some people miss, it to keep the ‘fire burning’, otherwise the bitten apple may only be seen on an epitaph – and the world will be poorer for it. We all need variety – imagine we were all cranky geeks!
Lol, zepe you wrote a GREAT post!
Look fast children at an almost PERFECT troll. Almost perfect because he goes on about “dumb liberal arts majors” then in the same sentence he misspells “dementia”. Note, when writing a troll about someones intelligence, make sure you show some yourself or else the troll falls apart. Misspellings are fine normally and can even add to a good troll, but not when they’re taking pot-shots at others intellect. I mean, never heard of a fricken spell checker?
Come on zepe, try harder next time. But kudos on keeping idiot, mac-hating trolling alive. Going strong now for over 25 years!
mac vs. pc… meh….
I run a Linux OS…
Lauren- “I’ve accepted that WordPress is, indeed, a sack ‘o shit.”
I dont have the energy to debate platforms today, but I am with you on this point. And its getting worse.
Dr Phil had sports addicts on one time in which I happened to be home. Had a guy who went home after work to his sports room and put on a football uniform for a few hours.
His happiness derived from the success of his local sports team. Not his marriage or kids.
I am a windows guy. I neither like or dislike Macs. Use what you like, who cares.
For some reason, the MacHeads remind me of the sports guy on DrPhil. Sad and pathetic with priorities all out of whack.
Do not hate the MacHeads, pity them. Hopefully they will find there is more to life than a machine. Life is to short.