Update: Huilie huilie dikke boehoe. Buhbye now!

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I may be a fine specimen of the human race (arrogant? I? What gave you that idea?), but even I can get a little… Upset every now and then. While it is a whole lot of fun ‘doing OSNews’, and being ‘the OSNews guy’, OSNews, or more specifically the people using it, can be a real bunch of idiots.

The problems all stem form the idea that some have in their heads that somehow, OSNews exists solely for them, and that we serve only them, and them alone.

That’s not exactly the case. OSNews is a hobby for me, I do it for fun, I don’t get paid, nor does anyone else on the team. In other words, demanding we publish something, or demanding we don’t publish something is a bit like telling a floor tile to flip. Not only is it futile, it also looks a bit silly for passers by.

Today we had a regular Apple fanboy crying foul over the fact I published the Think Secret story. His complaints were something along the lines of “why are you publishing this Apple story, and not the other ten articles in the submission queue” (which were all submitted hours after I published the TS story) - I had it up to here, and I snapped.

Snapping, however, is always a thin line to walk. It can go horribly bad, but it can also fall really well. This time, it was the latter. I wrote:

What’s keeping the other ten articles on the submission queue?”

MY LIFE?

In case you haven’t noticed, contrary to you, possibly, I have a LIFE to run, a job to go to, a social life to manage, a university study to complete, parents to help, a home to maintain and keep clean, an ass and a couch to sit on, tea to drink, a cat to pet, a car to maintain, a party at my place saturday eve to organise, …, ….

I don’t sit behind my computer all day long just to please YOU, I do it to PLEASE MYSELF.

I’m sorry for the snappage, other people, but I can’t help it. This morning, I emptied the submissions queue by removing those I don’t want to publish, and by publishing the remainder (two in this case). After clearing the queue, I did a quick round along my favourite few websites, including the Dutch Mac website I visit daily, where I encountered this story. I posted it because not only is it a follow up to an earlier story I wrote, but also because people are clearly interested in this stuff.

There is no conspiracy here, you annoying little Apple fanboy, just what I always do: clear the queue, post whatever’s worthy, and then do a round to see what other stuff you readers missed/did not submit. I’ve had it up to HERE with your nonsense, meianeriogn, just go get a goddamn life instead of annoying me with your pointless little “oh-my-god-Thom-is-anti-apple-and-eats-babies” nancying around. Conspiracy idiot. Go spot black helicopters or get abducted by aliens or something.

Glad I got that off my chest. Sorry to everybody else.

Babies do taste nice, though.