Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...

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Author: Dr Adam J Trickett
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To: David Rozzell
CC: Hants LUG
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...
On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 at 10:44:58PM +0000, David Rozzell wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 December 2008, Dr Adam Trickett wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Has anyone been annoyed by the silly Microsoft advert where clueless people
> > claim that they are a PC?
> >
> > The advert really gets on my nerves, because I don't want to be a PC, I'm
> > happy being a human being. I therefore think it's important that we start a
> > meme where people say something along the lines of: "I am a person not a
> > PC" or "I am not a PC - I am a free man".
>
> Amazing coincidence but it's been driving me potty too, it came on at the
> weekend and I leapt from my chair proclaiming "I'm not a PC, I'm a free man",
> my wife did give me an odd look but then said how much it's been annoying her
> too. It's just an attempt to reinforce the idea that PC means Windows, it's
> rather pathetic & scraping the bottom of the barrel if that's the best they
> can come up with.


I'm glad it's not just me that hates the advert...

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Adam Trickett
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