Douglas Adams was right: Telephone sanitizers are terrible human beings(theregister.com)
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Douglas Adams was right: Telephone sanitizers are terrible human beings
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/21/on_call/
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> Normally I can chuckle at El Reg's hyperbolic sense of humour,
Since El Reg's increasing focus on the US market, their sense of humor (note the lack of a U), and what made them 'different' from the rest, has been in terminal decline.....
Though we will always have Paris. [1]
[1] A common snarky reference on Reg comment boards, referring to the removal of the Paris Hilton icon. A change that was no doubt made to avoid offending US lawyers.
Since El Reg's increasing focus on the US market, their sense of humor (note the lack of a U), and what made them 'different' from the rest, has been in terminal decline.....
Though we will always have Paris. [1]
[1] A common snarky reference on Reg comment boards, referring to the removal of the Paris Hilton icon. A change that was no doubt made to avoid offending US lawyers.
Yep, they forced the mis-characterization to be able to cite Douglas Adams in the title and make it clickbait.
Besides, the episode/anecdote in itself is not particularly fun and - at the most - the telephone technician could have been accused of being a bit overzealous, but long before that "Walt" did actually mis-wire the telephone system (which seemingly was not even their exclusive property, but common with the building one).
Besides, the episode/anecdote in itself is not particularly fun and - at the most - the telephone technician could have been accused of being a bit overzealous, but long before that "Walt" did actually mis-wire the telephone system (which seemingly was not even their exclusive property, but common with the building one).
The original joke was that people specifically employed to _clean_ telephone equipment - not those responsible for its functionality - were deemed useless to society, although (spoiler alert) that assumption may have been a grave mistake on the part of the Golgafrinchans...