Google suggests emailing someone a link to a download of Chrome for Christmas
Here is/was a great idea for that person you care so little about you can’t even be bothered going to ASDA to buy them the cheapest chocolates they’ve got that come in a box – GiveChrome.
Google Chrome is the Extra-Last default browser. It’s nice using something that only works 90% of the time, but when it does work, it’s very fast – it’s like piloting the Millennium Falcon through an asteroid field of Flash errors.
“Here, I clicked on the least-gaudy virtual wrapping paper for you”.
Dad hasn’t phoned to say thanks yet, which is odd as he usually calls on Boxing Day.
UPDATE:
Thanks, you are too kind.
filed in ACTUAL PRODUCTS, THE MODERN WORLD on Jan.05, 2010
January 5th, 2010 on 2:25 pm
Do the Guardian’s comment load with Chrome? They never do in Firefox so I had to get an add on that automatically launches IE when I attempt to go there.
But since the Daily Mail link was added to Yahoo’s front page, I find more of my time taken up reading celebrity filth than informed debates concerning the ethical dimension of drug use.
January 5th, 2010 on 3:57 pm
I also spend way too much time on the Mail, getting angered and saddened by Christine Bleakley’s relationship status.
January 5th, 2010 on 4:38 pm
Stop reading the Mail site for the love of decency and reason! It’s all been about the Mail recently! Daily Mail Mail Mail!
I know it’s at the bottom of a racist gravity well, it’s so appalling it exerts a horrifying pull (like you probably couldn’t stop yourself looking into a badly crashed car, even though the screams are telling you you’re not going to like what you’ll see) but this initial fascination with the hell of it all is HOW THEY PULL YOU IN. Really. It happened to my Dad several years ago, and now the cunt votes BNP. He actually fucking votes BNP. He was intelligent, progressive and reasonable, then he couldn’t take his eyes off the Daily Mail abomination, now he VOTES FOR THE FUCKING BNP. And worse, he tells me proudly about it. Me. A Guardian reader. Then eventually he loses his temper with me because I’m not willing to engage in a full scale verbal war with my Dad for any reason (and that’s what Mail readers ultimately want, a fight with EVERYONE, the world is so terrifying to their poor, atrophied brains that all they can comprehend about the world is how events impact on THEM and THEIR TAXES, this results in a massive, overriding bitterness that eventually turns them into full blown sociopaths who, deep down, want to hurt everone) and asks me WHEN AM I GOING TO WAKE UP????
So – really, if you don’t like the Mail the best thing you can do is ignore it. Or firebomb thier premises if you must, but don’t go around bloody reading it.
I can start on the Guardian as well for the sake of balance if anyone requires it, but I didn’t think balance was needed. This ain’t the BBC.
January 5th, 2010 on 8:43 pm
I really do only look at the photos of Christine Bleakley in the column down the side. I never read the words on the left. I’ll be OK, won’t I? The wife’s a bit foreign, so I’d hate to turn racist and have to throw her out.
January 5th, 2010 on 9:57 pm
The Daily ‘Fail’ has always been a magnet for those with an outdated view of Britain and its place in the (post-empire) world. They seem to think that they’re the voice of ‘middle Britain’ and their opinions are often full of bile and contempt. Read it if you must; just learn to separate the wheat from the chaff. (Good luck with that btw.)
Also, would (consider giving Google Chrome for Easter.)
January 5th, 2010 on 10:51 pm
Anyone watch Andrew Marr’s Making of Modern Britain? He covered the launch of the Daily Mail. It was set up specifically and cynically to be a piece of shit that appealed to dickheads.
I can’t remember, but I think they were initially sympathetic to what Hitler was getting up to over in Germany. Even if that isn’t true, I still choose to spread it around.
That gossip shit down the right hand side rivals a box of Jaffa Cakes for ‘just one more’ . . . er . . . ness. I’m tired and just want to post this thing and get on with my life.
January 6th, 2010 on 12:34 am
I’m sorry to hear about your dad, Badben. Point him towards Daily Mail Watch if you feel he’s not too far gone.
I have to confess, I too read the Daily Mail. Only to see what the other half of the population is thinking. Few things are more depressing in life than comments left on the Daily Mail website. It’s Ok though, I am strong in the face of their avalanche of bullshit, so I remain unaffected.
(and it is indeed true about their support for the Nazis and Mosley’s Blackshirts in the 30′s)