Yes, Denizens - I know it's Cafe Press. Yes, I know that they're a liberal-owned company. Yes, I'm aware that the quality of their garments may not be quite as good as ThoseShirts.com.
But unlike ThoseShirts.com, Cafe Press ACTUALLY ANSWERS THE EMAIL I SEND THEM!!!!
Got clue, ThoseShirts???
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So I’m getting ready for work, when I get a call from a longtime friend of mine.
Asks me a techie-type question, which – being a techie-type – I dutifully try to answer.
Right in the middle of the answer, he interrupts me – as he has a nasty habit of doing when I’m trying to explain something computer-related to him – and goes off into a tangent about how all of us geek-types are (paraphrasing here) bastards who can be trusted to do everything but what you wanted done to your computer in the first place, and will format your hard drive and put another operating system on the thing whether you wanted it or not, never mind it was an OS you didn’t want in the first place…
…etc, etc, ad infinitum, ad nauseam.
And I’m sitting there thinking “So, old friend, why the fuck did you call me in the first fucking place?”
(UPDATE: Just so you know, Denizens, this guy, bless his heart – and I mean that in the Bob-from-HMS sense – is the same one who once blamed me for crashing his Windows NT system, years ago. Right after I found said system’s C: drive at 95% of capacity. And no – that’s not a typo, either.)
Beware the user who has a little knowledge. They think they know a helluva lot more than they actually do.
Does that sound arrogant?
Good.
It damn well should.
And I say this knowing full-effing-well that there are techs (probably some even living as close as within my complex) who have forgotten twice as much as I’ll ever know. And I respect that, and them, with all the inherent bowing & scraping that that implies.
But I’ve been honing this craft now for TWENTY FUCKING YEARS, DAMMIT!!!!! – and by that, I mean a minimum of eight to ten hours a day (many days a lot more than that, more all-nighters, fried hard drives, system boards and video cards than I feel like counting), 24/7/365 – and I’m getting just a little bit sick & fucking tired of being questioned by fuckfaces who think they can code the next great Micro$oft operating system just from having watched me defragment their hard drive for five @($!!^(!!!! minutes.
Next time you feel the need to question something I’m doing to your computer – such as, say, ripping out the latest malware you’ve downloaded from GayBathHousePorn.com – try & remember that you called me, jack, and there’s a 99 44/100% chance that I might, just might know more than you.
Otherwise, computer physician, heal thine own fucking self. I got better things to do.
Like watch my toenail fungus grow. 
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if you so desire - but why in blazes would you want to use a browser from a company that had to hide behind Janet El Reño's skirt to be successful?
And don't even get me started on Opera or Chrome. I'm not about to trust any browser that won't let me change its color scheme.
Gee, wanna compare notes? Reminder, I’ve been at this computerese stuff for pert near 35 years now.
Agree 100% as well….if you aren’t going to accept the answer then WTF are you wasting MY TIME by asking it???? Since you’ve APPARENTLY already claimed your Nobel for Computers, what’s say you answer your OWN DAMN QUESTION!!
Nah, this ain’t a soapbox issue or nothin’…….