Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Seriously. Why not ?
After surveying the latest BINFEST outbreak on the Boro ticket thread - doesn't all this faff just make you YEARN for the days before the internet, when you would actually have to physically go and queue for tickets ? I miss those days. Queues were fun. There was excitement, camaraderie, anticipation as you inch forward, towards the hallowed window of the ticket office. Chat and "bants" with your fellow fans in the queue, and then that prized moment when you turn away from the window, physically clutching those tickets in your hairy MIT, before you mince off down the pub and start properly planning your BDO. There was a real sense that you'd properly EARNED those tickets. You'd done the time. You'd stood there and queued outside, maybe for hours, and the process had ended in rightful triumph.
Now what. That whole experience has been replaced with sitting there in your pants in front of a screen, with the curtains drawn, hammering away at the F5 key, frantically clicking on all these little boxes, praying that the text in a little window will stop being greyed out. Then you'll either miss out, and go onto NSC to spend half the day complaining bitterly about loyalty points, web servers, internet speed, the time they went on sale, and arguing the toss with smug scrotes who say "neerrr, should've tried sooner, serves you right". That, or you get your ticket, pop onto Pornhub for a quick celebrationary hand shandy, before slumping on the sofa with a tube of Pringles and Sky Sports News.
I know what I prefer. Sure its more "convenient" to sit on your arse and click a mouse a few times. But I reckon we should scrap all that and go Old School again. Bollocks to online queues, we're british - we should go back to queues for REAL. Its what we do.
Who's with me ?
After surveying the latest BINFEST outbreak on the Boro ticket thread - doesn't all this faff just make you YEARN for the days before the internet, when you would actually have to physically go and queue for tickets ? I miss those days. Queues were fun. There was excitement, camaraderie, anticipation as you inch forward, towards the hallowed window of the ticket office. Chat and "bants" with your fellow fans in the queue, and then that prized moment when you turn away from the window, physically clutching those tickets in your hairy MIT, before you mince off down the pub and start properly planning your BDO. There was a real sense that you'd properly EARNED those tickets. You'd done the time. You'd stood there and queued outside, maybe for hours, and the process had ended in rightful triumph.
Now what. That whole experience has been replaced with sitting there in your pants in front of a screen, with the curtains drawn, hammering away at the F5 key, frantically clicking on all these little boxes, praying that the text in a little window will stop being greyed out. Then you'll either miss out, and go onto NSC to spend half the day complaining bitterly about loyalty points, web servers, internet speed, the time they went on sale, and arguing the toss with smug scrotes who say "neerrr, should've tried sooner, serves you right". That, or you get your ticket, pop onto Pornhub for a quick celebrationary hand shandy, before slumping on the sofa with a tube of Pringles and Sky Sports News.
I know what I prefer. Sure its more "convenient" to sit on your arse and click a mouse a few times. But I reckon we should scrap all that and go Old School again. Bollocks to online queues, we're british - we should go back to queues for REAL. Its what we do.
Who's with me ?