WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll ·
30/07/2018 18:04
My (quite average) printer is an amazing piece of equipment and I could not begin to fathom how it uses radio waves to see what's on my laptop screen and commit it faithfully to paper. However, when it runs out of paper, it tells me I need to refill the paper tray - fine. But the instant I remove the paper tray, it gives me an urgent 'error' message that the tray has somehow inexplicably been removed and condescendingly informs me that I will need to replace it if I want it to actually do its job.
Frequently, when logging on to a website, it will require me to enter my password - absolutely fine. However, its database 'knows' as well as I do that my password consists of, say, 10 characters; and, as I enter it, a message flashes up after every single character 'rejecting' the password as 'incorrect' or 'too short' ('incomplete' I could accept, if it can't just wait until I press Enter) until the last character has been input, at which point I am finally deemed to be grudgingly compliant. Does it expect me to have a single button on my keyboard labelled 'gjSTH#28dJxzLW4' ? And if I somehow DID have such a key.... it wouldn't be a very secure password, would it....?
I believe there's an old Welsh phrase for it - something along the lines of "There are none so twp as those who don't know that they're twp".
What do your devices, or just 'stuff' in general - or even other people - do to demonstrate the utter contempt in which they hold you because of your assumed inherent stupidity - when it's most undeniably them being the Thicky McThickFace all along?