Tuesday
11/27/03
The Curmudgeon Surfs
This entry was actually quite a bit longer, but I figured I’d save everyone from another dose of overblown hyperbole for a change. Lucky you.
So anyway, the thing is that everyone oversimplifies the internet into good and bad, with the bad specifically being Porn and Hate. Well, I submit that there is a third, equally pernicious evil of the internet: That of the tediously awful. The sort of awful that means well and is thrilled to be able to share, though all the while sublimely unaware of it’s own agonizingly embarrassing self. More, the sort of awful that is sublimely unaware of its own monumentally inappropriate, uninteresting, and unappealing self.
So, I present an unequalled example of such a site as this, put up by a couple from Frankfurt. I’m sure they are very nice, well meaning people, but the internet was not meant for them. Here it is… Enjoy.
Alright, maybe I am a cold-hearted, mean-spirited curmudgeon, but you probably didn’t see the page of hand-knitted socks, did you? No, I didn’t think so. Go back and look. You’ll see.
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The Curmudgeon Surfs
This entry was actually quite a bit longer, but I figured I’d save everyone from another dose of overblown hyperbole for a change. Lucky you.
So anyway, the thing is that everyone oversimplifies the internet into good and bad, with the bad specifically being Porn and Hate. Well, I submit that there is a third, equally pernicious evil of the internet: That of the tediously awful. The sort of awful that means well and is thrilled to be able to share, though all the while sublimely unaware of it’s own agonizingly embarrassing self. More, the sort of awful that is sublimely unaware of its own monumentally inappropriate, uninteresting, and unappealing self.
So, I present an unequalled example of such a site as this, put up by a couple from Frankfurt. I’m sure they are very nice, well meaning people, but the internet was not meant for them. Here it is… Enjoy.
Alright, maybe I am a cold-hearted, mean-spirited curmudgeon, but you probably didn’t see the page of hand-knitted socks, did you? No, I didn’t think so. Go back and look. You’ll see.
