The Curmudgeon

YOU'LL COME FOR THE CURSES. YOU'LL STAY FOR THE MUDGEONRY.

Sunday, February 08, 2009

Bold Faces or Regular Types?

What on earth are this lot plotting, between the misquotes in which they appear to revel? "A one-off stunt of superlative ultra-stunningness" is a reasonable enough soft sell by internet standards, but it's regrettably vague when it comes to your actual profit and loss scenario vis-à-vis the money you're asked to part with. As taxpayers, and hence as shareholders in an ever-increasing number of major banks, we should probably treat such claims with the caution they deserve. "Spontaneous human cold fusion, joining all the dots and zapping neurons" sounds rather jolly, if you care for point-to-point brainfire in the Fleischmann-Pons style; but it all sounds a bit formidable to me. Even setting the government ablaze has its problems, of which the burble and squeak of sautéed Smith and shallow-fat-fried Hoon might well be the least and lightest. There is little enough security in life as it is; do we really want to sacrifice time and wherewithal that might be better spent in battening hatches and biting nails, for the sake of some hypothetical prank which may achieve little more than a bit of burning rubbish? Can we really wash away our maybes and still remain faithful to Enlightenment values? Is there a worse pun than "shift the powerdime"? I've spent money on stupider things than finding out.

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