broadband
A couple of years ago, i was in the PC World next to Whitechapel buying myself a shiny new lead, or summat routine like that. I'm in the queue, and this old bearded guy in front is talking to his mate about 'what a bargain this here "CD burner" is 2nd hand' at a handsome £80. I felt I should've really told him he was being raped somewhat on that price, but, like I said, the guy had a beard.

He was also clutching an external modem (new) so he could 'get on this crazy tinternet', for which he asked them as he's handing over his card, "Can i get BT Broadband with this?". The checkout girl looks at it, and I look at it. It's a bloody 56k dial-up modem for fuck's sake! She doesn't know of course, so she runs over into the "technical support" section of the shop; you know, the bit surrounded by a glass wall so people can see the geniuses inside hard at work 'fixing stuff and being technical'?

Of course I didn't hear what they actually said, but all I saw was one guy look at the box with a frown, talk to his colleague for a bit, then shrug his shoulders and say something back to the sales girl. She then walks back to our bearded friend and says "yeah, should work fine".

Ah, the cunt deserved it for having a beard.
( slippery doctore, Wed 12 Jan 2005, 11:05, Reply)