John Turner

Basically, I’m an old guy. I tell people I am 42% hip. People who are more hip than me (like 52% and up) get it and laugh. People who are less hip than me don’t get it and give me a goofy look. I try and avoid those people if possible. In other words, I get some of the pop culture stuff going on these days, but most of it goes right over my head. For example, I needed a 5 minute explanation of what rickrolling was…I didn’t get it, even though the main tool used in rickrolling someone happened when I was in college.

Anyway, there’s this thing called “LOLCats”. People upload pictures of their cats in cute/funny situations, and then overlay funny captions on the pictures. They’re cute and funny, for sure. But, I’m a dog guy. Cats are OK, but dogs are way better.

So the dog version of LOLCats is LOLDogs. Like this site: I Has A Hot Dog. (disclaimer: if English is not your first language please note that “I Has A Hot Dog” is grammatically incorrect which, apparently, is part of the joke but again I am only 42% hip so I’m just guessing) I found this picture today and just cracked up laughing. I’m still laughing two days later:

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I dropped my Netflix account yesterday. When I started with Netflix 3-4 years ago, I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. Then, I ran into the throttle. Basically, Netflix felt I was renting too many movies, causing them to lose money on postage.

I’m all for companies making a profit, but their argument doesn’t make sense. First, even if they were losing money on me, I’m 100% positive they were making money off of someone else, more than likely enough profit to cover both of us and still come out ahead. Second, they specifically use the term “unlimited” in their advertising, and they say I get to pick the movies I want. Well, unlimited means that if I only want to watch new releases, then they better send those puppies out as fast as possible.

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