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Stupid Tax
Posted 21st February 2007 at 12:35am by M1ke, tagged as Society | Commenting Closed

I've just been sitting reading whilst my Uncle idly flicked about the music channels, and every once in a while I'd see an advert for some stupid mobile phone game things. There appeared to be some basic rip-offs of existing mobile game formats, as well as some random stuff that appeared to involve scantily clad celebrities. Basic dross and not out of the ordinary, even if it is all pointless in the extreme.

However it was a single one that really caught my eye as a trap for what I can only sugest to be the most retarded of the stupid host. It looked to involve texting your name and the name of your current other half and recieving back a percentage as to how well you match - and that's it. £1.50 for some remote system somewhere texting you a random percentage, and not only do they expect people to go along with this but they pay for it to be advertised on TV? How can people be so RETARDED!

It makes me want to take an enormous green dinosaur costume and beat them in the crotch with it until they are completely incapable of reproducing and spreading what seems to be an epidemic of utter cluelessness about the real world in general. The even more worrying thing is that the target audience are chavish types who mostly, though not as a rule, have limited amounts of money and one parent doting on them from prison. I tend to feel bad when I spend money on a packet of crisps because I'm peckish in between meals, yet some people gladly pay for any old dross and feed the machines that not only devise this stuff but live by it, perpetuating the slide into madness because they feel no need to try anything with any worth.

That said, I'm off to buy a telephone switch and get my own mobile game number. You enter your name, pay me £5 and your phone detonates in your hand. Getting rich was never this good.

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