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For someone who loves tech, I have an amazing history of being screwed over by it.
OK, it’s not really the technologies fault, but that’s my excuse and I’m sticking with it.
The reason I say this is because recently another bloody thing happened.
Admittedly it’s not as bad as the time predictive text changed ‘preso’ to ‘sperm’ [on an SMS I sent to a female client] or the time spellcheck didn’t catch me signing off an email to the global head of procurement at Disney with the words ‘retards’, instead of ‘regards’, but it’s still pretty good. Of course for good, read horrific.
So I got sent an email by a very, very, very influential music guru for some work I’m doing for the metal masters.
Better yet, he was inviting me to meet him and chat about some ideas we could maybe do together.
This was all kinds of brilliant news … or it was until predictive text decided the word I typed – ‘ace’ – was better represented with the word ‘adequate’, resulting in the most passive-aggressive, patronising response to a meeting request in the history of meetings requests.
Yes, I know this means I should read my emails before I press send, but I’ve decided the real moral of the story is don’t type emails on an iPhone because basically they are weapons of mass [relationship] destruction.
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I will send this to the iPhone team to remind them that there is always someone who find their intuitive interface complicated.
Comment by Bazza July 17, 2018 @ 6:22 amthey wont give a fuck, campbell is the exception to every fucking rule.
Comment by andy@cynic July 17, 2018 @ 6:47 amI am available for product testing … at relatively reasonable rates.
Comment by Rob July 17, 2018 @ 7:46 amYou might love tech but reach doesn’t love you. Which is why I love tech.
Comment by DH July 17, 2018 @ 6:30 amAndy’s rule of getting Kat to type and send all his emails doesn’t seem so stupid now does it.
Comment by DH July 17, 2018 @ 6:31 amso stick all your years of smug smile bullshit up your fucking arse campbell.
Comment by andy@cynic July 17, 2018 @ 6:46 amWhere he wrote EMAIL at the top of the note so Katerina knew what she had to do with it. Hahaha.
Comment by Rob July 17, 2018 @ 7:47 amnever looked a twat in any of my emails though did i/
Comment by andy@cynic July 17, 2018 @ 8:24 amyour fucking paymasters might be merchants of doom but i bet they find working with you the most frightening thing theyve ever fucking done.
Comment by andy@cynic July 17, 2018 @ 6:44 amI think you might be right as this happened yesterday:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BlTBeo6g63n/?taken-by=robertc1970
Comment by Rob July 17, 2018 @ 7:48 am“how to lose friends and fucking alienate people” by rob campbell.
Comment by andy@cynic July 17, 2018 @ 8:24 amSometimes your friend is your enemy.
Comment by George July 17, 2018 @ 7:09 amWhat do you mean, sometimes?
Comment by Rob July 17, 2018 @ 7:48 amMay I ask who the music guru was?
Comment by George July 17, 2018 @ 7:11 amRubin.
Comment by Rob July 17, 2018 @ 7:48 amhahahahahahahahahahahaha. thats made my fucking day.
Comment by andy@cynic July 17, 2018 @ 8:23 amOh Robert.
Comment by George July 17, 2018 @ 8:43 amDelusions of adequacy.
Comment by John July 17, 2018 @ 10:57 amI have not forgotten the little faux pas you had with me, Robert.
And you cannot blame technology for it.
Comment by Lee Hill July 17, 2018 @ 11:25 amdrunk on fucking cough sweets. it should be a joke. it is a joke. what a dick.
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