November 27, 2007

Yahoo implodes
posted by Argh 16 years ago
  • Oh dear.
  • *makes tea*
  • Oh, don't be so sentimental, things implode every day.
  • The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
  • "Cyber Monday"? What the fuck is "Cyber Monday?" And how come nobody cybered me? /puts on wizard hat
  • Hank, was that a Time Bandits reference?
  • no but close
  • It's from the movie right next to it on the shelf at blockbuster.
  • It took me 55 minutes to think of that.
  • Interesting. But it took you only fifty-two minutes to post it. So you posted it three minutes before you thought of it. Interesting.
  • Does he like his little rattle?
  • On the day that Yahoo! crashed - I think 'twas Cyber Monday last - I went down to the video store To rent a flick with blood and gore. The shelves were bare of DVD's The day Yahoo! fell to its knees. The online shoppers couldn't shop, So they were watching Rent-a-Cop, Yentl, and Without a Trace, In short, they had cleaned out the place. I elbowed someone in the face As I grabbed for Time Bandits' case. I got Time Bastards by mistake, And ate two dozen Zebra Cakes™, In front of my TV that night, The day Yahoo! the dust did bite.
  • mmm, Zebra Cakes.
  • Cyber Monday was mostly a wishful-thinking promotional gimmick that has taken off a bit in the last few years. The idea being that people would wait until they got back to work the Monday after US Thanksgiving to shop for Christmas presents on their faster work connections, thereby making it the busiest online shopping day of the year. But actually those don't come for about another week.
  • look at his little eyeballs thennnn
  • I'm wishing both Black Friday and Cyber Monday consigned to the depths of hell.
  • I work retail. You're damn right I got Black Friday off a month in advance.
  • You can work retail and get Black Friday off? I never managed that.
  • I honestly can't imagine the circumstances under which I would find myself at a mall at 5AM on Black Friday. Or anyone, really. But clearly, a lot of people do. I find the phenomenon completely inexplicable.