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Thursday, March 09, 2006

Is that your ringtone or is there and orchestra in your pocket?

What the fuck is it with ringtones? Haven't you all realised that they are fucking stupid? More power to the people making money from selling this shit to idiots, if they're so stupid to part with their money for this then they may as well give it to predators.

Ringtones. Shit. I don't get it.

It's like sticking little woodwind instruments up you nose so that your breathing sounds musical.

Or combining a toilet paper dispenser with a pianola so when you pull the toilet paper out with the intent of besmearing it with shit, the pianola dispenser plays music. How cool would that be? It would be cool. Honest.

Sure the toilet paper would have holes in it so the pianola could read it, and sure that would make little brown marks on your hands but you could pass that off as Henna.

Would the music that people chose for their ringtone differ from the music they chose for their wipetone? How would their choice of music enlighten those around them as to their personality? Obviously, the fact that there is music at all already shows them to be idiots- but what kind of idiots?

If its the latest 'music' then they a mindless, conservative, vogue following idiots.

If its ABBA's "Ring Ring" (for the ringtone) then they're the kind of idiot who thinks they are original and amusing.

If, for the wipetone, they have Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Relax", then it could just be that they have a twisted sense of humour and may actually deserve some respect. Unless they stole the idea from here in which case total derision is in order. The same goes for any classical piece of music that is a 'number 2' of some form or other.

The reason you might want to know the kind of idiot the person is is so that you can tailor your approach to selling them something of your own. If they are the vogue idiot then you'd say "I only have one left because the thousand I had this morning have already been sound to all these cool people I met". If they are the 'original' idiot then you'd say "No one has this yet because people fail to see the novelty of this item, and its amusement value".

Two very different tactics. Of course, you could change tactics midway, you're dealing with idiots after all.

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