sheesh, that came off as harsh didn’t it? I guess I’m just disappointed by having so few real choices that I find palatable these days. now back to the novel that will change america….

ASH ALI: I have had my back side handed to me just because I too sometimes have quite the trick trying to convey the casm of sar.

I find I need footnotes, smiley faces and other decorative symbols to protect myself from the wrath of the cold, dark internet!

Thanks for coming by guys!

Um, yes, well aware of that (hence my penultimate paragraph), my statements were made in jest to convey the absurdity of the claims Robert Inger made about how much it costs per hour for those things. I was in no way being condescending to the US at large… just that guy.

Apologies for the mis-understanding, guess it’s harder than I thought to convey tone over the internet. Need to start using /sarcasm tags.

Wow, just wow. Sounds like someone’s a bit condescending. A little research can go a long way. That’s something we’ve learned here in the States. You know, where we have these things called libraries, and get this… you can read books for FREE. I feel ashamed for my family in the UK.

And since you are incapable of doing research, we don’t pay close to that much for internet or satellite.

“consumers spend $5 an hour at theaters to see movies, 75 cents an hour to read books, newspapers and magazines and 50 cents an hour to watch cable and satellite TV, but only 25 cents an hour to surf the Internet.”

25 cents an hour for the internet? So people pay $168 a month for their internet do they? Remind me to never move to the US if that’s the case. And that of course means it also costs you $336 a month for cable and satellite TV.

What’s really getting me is the $504 you all seem to be spending a month to read books and magazines. Come on over to the UK, or most other countries really. We have these things called libraries, get this… you can read books for FREE. No really, it happens.

Now granted, I’ve just taken their figures and taken it out of context, but since CEO Robert Inger never provided any real context (like perhaps saying that this is what the average person spends on these things since they pay x amount per month and only spend y amount of time with them, and hence, here are our figures), I’m feeling quite free to mock him and his figures that seem to be some sort of justification.

Granted, it’s their content, if they want to charge us to see it, that’s up to them, but using the “they have money to spare, we need to get our hands on it” approach isn’t winning me over much.