So Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg are funding an “anti tobacco” campaign are they?
I have nothing to say about Bloomberg but Bill Gates? I nearly fell off my chair laughing when I heard the news.
Perhaps it’s guilt that is the motivation for the founder of Microsoft…..
How many of us have gone to our computers to install Bill’s latest offering at 6 in the evening to find that “Start Me Up” is really code for “Keep me up” as installation problems have kept us up into the small hours of the morning?
How making times have we spent endless hours trying to get Windows something which is critically urgent and Microsoft claims (like be an operating system) it can do only to find that it either can’t; or it will only do after several hours and only if you are standing in one corner of the room with the opposite trouser leg rolled up and having already sacrificed the cat!
How many of us come away from our computers after many frustrating hours only to realise that they are times in your life that you will never be able to get back and even if you have defeated the “Death Star” (known as Windows) the exhilaration of victory is beyond you because you are tired enough to be beyond caring?
Most of us have experienced this and then realised that they were clean shaven when they began and those divorce papers look so strange because you hadn’t even realised that your wife and children had left you a month ago.
At that moment; when you either have declared victory or sulked off into the night to hunt down an axe for your computer, your final glance back reveals the horror of your miserable existence. The clean ashtray (which was the size of a bucket) has overflowed onto the desk and carpet and that new Marlboro carton is empty and screwed up, thrown across the room to lie forlornly atop the light shade.
And all this from a rabid chairman of an anti smoking help desk……….
In about 5 years a new form of lung cancer will be discovered….. Windows Cancer
No wonder Bill might feel guilty.
What next Bill? An anti alcohol campaign? Bill donates in 12 steps…..
Let me see…..
How many of ush…. (hic!)
T.T.F.N