OS loyalty = Religion

[Succulent Plant]

Some people seem to just fit this "there can only be one" mentality and whatever it is they're into, they bring rabid fundamentalism to the table.

Agree, I suspect this area of the brain lights up the same the same way with people who get batshitcrazy about clothing brands and such.

[Luna]

Some people seem to just fit this "there can only be one" mentality and whatever it is they're into, they bring rabid fundamentalism to the table.

Agree, I suspect this area of the brain lights up the same the same way with people who get batshitcrazy about clothing brands and such.

And sports teams, I'd wager.

[Kai]

Some people seem to just fit this "there can only be one" mentality and whatever it is they're into, they bring rabid fundamentalism to the table.

Agree, I suspect this area of the brain lights up the same the same way with people who get batshitcrazy about clothing brands and such.

And sports teams, I'd wager.

Yes yes yes. And often these things synthesize so that "sports = god = religion". They become equivalent components in the God Hole.

[Succulent Plant]

Some people seem to just fit this "there can only be one" mentality and whatever it is they're into, they bring rabid fundamentalism to the table.

Agree, I suspect this area of the brain lights up the same the same way with people who get batshitcrazy about clothing brands and such.

And sports teams, I'd wager.

And wagers, I bet. 

[Succulent Plant]

Some people seem to just fit this "there can only be one" mentality and whatever it is they're into, they bring rabid fundamentalism to the table.

Agree, I suspect this area of the brain lights up the same the same way with people who get batshitcrazy about clothing brands and such.

And sports teams, I'd wager.

Yes yes yes. And often these things synthesize so that "sports = god = religion". They become equivalent components in the God Hole.

Heh, "The God Hole", I like that.  (oh no is my brain lighting up...)

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Not true! Many people really do give a huge fuck and it's our god given prerogative to rip the living piss out of them whenever possible 

They're religionspags, and I don't care enough to be bothered.

[Don Coyote]

TL;DR
STOP LIKING WHAT I DON'T LIKE!!!!!!!!!

[Luna]

Not true! Many people really do give a huge fuck and it's our god given prerogative to rip the living piss out of them whenever possible 

They're religionspags, and I don't care enough to be bothered.

I get that with the sports thing, myself...  Can't quite understand the dedication to watching a game, much less deciding that YOUR group of men in tight pants is better than HIS group of men in tight pants.

[Lord Cataplanga]

Not true! Many people really do give a huge fuck and it's our god given prerogative to rip the living piss out of them whenever possible 

They're religionspags, and I don't care enough to be bothered.

Just like science teachers cannot "not care enough to be bothered" about religionspags, computer geeks often just have to care about these stuff because we are the ones who are called all the time to use our magicks to fix their virus-infested Windows XP machines (the 2002 version, with no updates or service packs  ).

Really the problem is not Windows, or any other OS, or even religion. The real problem is just stupid people using computers, or stupid people being religious.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Not true! Many people really do give a huge fuck and it's our god given prerogative to rip the living piss out of them whenever possible 

They're religionspags, and I don't care enough to be bothered.

Just like science teachers cannot "not care enough to be bothered" about religionspags, computer geeks often just have to care about these stuff because we are the ones who are called all the time to use our magicks to fix their virus-infested Windows XP machines (the 2002 version, with no updates or service packs  ).

Really the problem is not Windows, or any other OS, or even religion. The real problem is just stupid people using computers, or stupid people being religious.

Yep.

[Succulent Plant]

Just like science teachers cannot "not care enough to be bothered" about religionspags, computer geeks often just have to care about these stuff because we are the ones who are called all the time to use our magicks to fix their virus-infested Windows XP machines (the 2002 version, with no updates or service packs  ).

Really the problem is not Windows, or any other OS, or even religion. The real problem is just stupid people using computers, or stupid people being religious.

I had to analyze a business, a FUCKING BUSINESS WHERE PEOPLE SPEND MONEY AND INFORMATION IS STORED, that had a Windows 97 database server.  This was just 5 months ago.  They wanted to know why software with cool shit just wouldn't work for them. 

[P3nT4gR4m]

Not true! Many people really do give a huge fuck and it's our god given prerogative to rip the living piss out of them whenever possible 

They're religionspags, and I don't care enough to be bothered.

Just like science teachers cannot "not care enough to be bothered" about religionspags, computer geeks often just have to care about these stuff because we are the ones who are called all the time to use our magicks to fix their virus-infested Windows XP machines (the 2002 version, with no updates or service packs  ).

Really the problem is not Windows, or any other OS, or even religion. The real problem is just stupid people using computers, or stupid people being religious.

If you think that stupid people installing obvious trojan for the third time this week is some kind of problem then you just aint charging enough

[East Coast Hustle]

Not true! Many people really do give a huge fuck and it's our god given prerogative to rip the living piss out of them whenever possible  

They're religionspags, and I don't care enough to be bothered.

I get that with the sports thing, myself...  Can't quite understand the dedication to watching a game, much less deciding that YOUR group of men in tight pants is better than HIS group of men in tight pants.

Pro sports (in America, at least) seem to serve as a form of surrogate tribal warfare. The teams represent cities/geographical areas and if your city's team beats the other city's team on the field, you get to spend a few minutes feeling like your tribe just fucked up shop all over that city's tribe.

ETA: what I'm trying to say is that following a team might be a bad metaphor for the concept of the God Hole. A better one would be following a particular athlete, like my generation did with Jordan or today's kids do with LeBron.

[Nadezhda]

My OS is an abacus.

/hipster

[Payne]

I was so into Windows 7 before anyone heard about it. Now it's sold out, and I can't use it anymore.