e-Pikeys
Posted on Monday, December 18, 2006As the World-Wide Web grows ever worldwider, and its ramifications further intertwine and replicate, it was inevitable that a new life-form would eventually emerge, and at last it seems to have evolved.
Dr Dewdney of the Planiverse Institute announces in the American Journal of Transplingeristics that he has identified a group of independently-existing and seemingly sentient entities, social in nature and with a huge replication rate, all illegally occupying the information super-highway. It seems that this new threat to the internet has a standard mode of operation. A large number of entities arrive at the same time and occupy all the space around the web-site of a large corporation, refusing to move until a PayPal donation is made.
Dr Dewdney further observes that the nomadic logic-creatures habitually remove large amounts of code from each web-site they blockade, and are in fact building a parallel world-wide web.
He has given this new web a working title: the Tinkernet.
Stumble it!
December 20th, 2006
Pretty rank, man. This is how Hitler used to talk about the Jews.
Can you not rise above it?
My parents have had 20 years of admittedly difficult and often irritating business dealings with members of the Travelling community, but I’ve never heard them say anything as dehumanising and saddening as the posts you’ve been putting up here.
What’s your excuse?
December 20th, 2006
So you’re a young guy? That makes sense given your previous patronising contributions at Swearing Lady’s blog.
I had a feeling you would be a young fella,because your level of condescension is normally found only in young guys before they’ve had a chance to gather experience.
I quite enjoy it, actually, and it would be nice to see more contributions from you. It reminds me of myself years ago.
Like you, I used to take myself very seriously too.
December 20th, 2006
“So you’re a young guy?”
No.
“That makes sense given..blah blah”
Er, but I’m not a young guy.
“I had a feeling you would be a young fella”
Er, but I’m not.
“That level of condescension”
Aw. So disagreement counts as condescension, does it? If you could actually quote the condescending words, that’d be great. Otherwise, stick the actual substance of my argument, to wit, your argument is dehumanising.
“I quite enjoy it, actually”
I don’t think so. I think you’re pretty annoyed because you’d rather I thought you were a stand up guy.
“It reminds me of myself years ago”.
Not especially convincing.
“Like you, I used to take myself very seriously too”
I don’t take myself seriously. I take dehumanising discourse seriously though, because it’s very damaging.
If you could point out the bit where I take myself seriously, that’d be great. Actually, I don’t think I referred to myself at all or my precious feelings.
I think what you’re afraid os is that I don’t take you seriously. But I do.
December 20th, 2006
Oh God. You’re an old guy and you still take yourself that seriously?
That’s more worrying.
December 20th, 2006
Pretty lame, mate.
Nevermind. I’ll leave you go back to your frightened, middle aged diatribes.
December 20th, 2006
Good. I must warn Swearing Lady you might be back.