Comments on: Knock-off Nigel

By: Ade

Ade — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:02:44 +0000

I think Clam Chowder sandwiches are definitely comparable with terrorism – is it possible that the sandwich was not, in fact stolen, but removed & disposed of, for the safety and protection of the owner and her other colleagues from Fishy Breath?

By: Shackleford Hurtmore

Shackleford Hurtmore — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:27:33 +0000

Megan,

Yes, people who steal lunches should be sent to Gitmo for waterboarding, surfboarding and chipboarding. But I don’t think DVD piracy is in the same league.

By: Megan

Megan — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:40:31 +0000

So, I’m the only one who classifies people who steal lunches from office fridges as a crime approximately equal to terrorism? It wasn’t some manky old pre-wrapped sandwich by the way, it was home-made clam chowder and very, very delicious. So delicious in fact that I suspect the evil doer is now skulking ’round the local park and offering to fix up the local mollusc-based soup junkies.

By: GrumpyB

GrumpyB — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:56:48 +0000

The terrorists are missing a trick here.

If their broadcasts told us how they fund our free downloads, rather than all this head chopping malarkey, they’d be right up there on our Christmas Card lists.

By: Lin

Lin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:30:02 +0000

Another vote. Go Angry, go!

By: Brennig Jones

Brennig Jones — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:44:11 +0000

I’m with Shackleford. You go do it, Angry.

By: Keef

Keef — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:45:56 +0000

I don’t download films off the internet not because I think it’s wrong but because with the odd exception most of them aren’t worth the effort. With most of them, making them is a bigger crime than stealing them.
If I really want to see one I’ll go watch it at the cinema, In the whole of 2008 there has only been a grand total of four worth doing that for, anything else I watch it when it comes onto Sky Movies.
How does downloading something and not paying for it fund terrorism? In order to fund something doesn’t money actually have to change hands? Or is there some credit system in operation whereby they keep track of how many times a film is downloaded and send money to Al-Qaeda a bit like you get money off of clicks on internet adverts.

By: Mr Angry

Mr Angry — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:03:40 +0000

Shackleford – That is an excellent idea. I have the time, just not the other two T’s.

By: Shackleford Hurtmore

Shackleford Hurtmore — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:01:32 +0000

If I had the talent, tools and time, I’d like to make a Pro-Piracy advert, where everyone in the office ridicules Full-Price Philip, who pays for his DVDs and music.

Everyone could mock how much Full-Price Philip spends on things he could have for free, and then equate his spending on non-pirated discs as the reason why he’s so broke that he never buys a round in the pub or puts money in the whip rounds.

The follow up advert could “follow the money” when someone buys a DVD in HMV, up the food chain to the media companies where indolent industry execs are sniffing cocaine off prostitutes tits, and slam home the hard-hitting conclusion that “buying DVDs funds prostitution and drug dealers”.

If I only I had the talent, tools and time.