A quick entry for tonight, and it’s a classic. The Zen Master of sour-faced scowl, the Supreme Overlord of Scathing… Charlie Brooker. And he’s on a rant about Macs (and Mac users), something\u00c2\u00a0 I share an equal amount of loathing towards.<\/p>\n

It’s a classic, so I strongly suggest you read it. Here’s a fun excerpt:<\/p>\n

When I sit down to use a Mac, the first thing I think is, “I hate Macs”, and then I think, “Why has this rubbish aspirational ornament only got one mouse button?” Losing that second mouse button feels like losing a limb. If the ads were really honest, Webb would be standing there with one arm, struggling to open a packet of peanuts while Mitchell effortlessly tore his apart with both hands. But then, if the ads were really honest, Webb would be dressed in unbelievably po-faced avant-garde clothing with a gigantic glowing apple on his back. And instead of conducting a proper conversation, he would be repeatedly congratulating himself for looking so cool, and banging on about how he was going to use his new laptop to write a novel, without ever getting round to doing it, like a mediocre idiot.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The full article can be found on The Guardian’s web site<\/a>, and it’s a beaut. If you’ve not checked it out yet, go watch an episode (or twenty) of Screen Wipe<\/a>, his satirical (and cutting) review of television and all its wondrous programming – you won’t be disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charlie Brooker hates Macs. I hate Macs. But he puts it so much better… A classic bit of Grumpy for you to read and savour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,11,10,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awful-things","category-honourable-grumpy-mentions","category-progressive-loss-of-faith-in-humanity","category-rampant-commercialism","category-the-proletariat","category-things-i-hate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grumpychris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grumpychris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grumpychris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grumpychris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grumpychris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/grumpychris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"http:\/\/grumpychris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grumpychris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grumpychris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grumpychris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}