Party politics for the digital age
I love the Internet. Whether you want to learn about God & bananas or listen to Leonard Cohen’s Anthem by way of people who can actually sing a bit, someone on the Net will have put up something that will inform, delight or simply irritate the sheer Hell out of you.
Now if only real life people were that entertaining.
Ah, yesss… Talking about people – and computers…
Here you are: it’s another Saturday evening and you’re in the pub, or at a cocktail party, or suffering some family do. In other words: you’re around people. Boring people. People who go on and on and on about their new:
a) girlfriend
b) mobile phone
c) car (and/or)
d) baby.
Wouldn’t it be lovely if you then could just shut them up; if, in computer speak, you could RSS feed the whole bloody lot of them to one of the oldest nightmares that we know. Actual fire walls would also come in handy; ditto real life mute buttons and spam filters. (Or, in new Cockney rhyming slang: mutton and ham.)
And wouldn’t it be just brilliant if you could then turn to the host and say:
“I’m very sorry but your party just crashed.”
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