People sit under umbrellas and tents as they wait in line for a chance to purchase the new Sony Play Station 3 at the Best Buy store.These are some weirdos sitting in the rain at a Best Buy store somewhere in America (where it's raining) waiting in earnest angst for the pending release of the new Play Station 3 console game.
Why are they idiots? Allow me to elucidate.
Why are they idiots? Allow me to elucidate.
This "thing" is not a limited edition article. They are not making a thousand of them and stopping, as they do with limited edition lithographs or Disney DVDs. So, why are they waiting? There are two possible answers (other than the "idiot" one):
1) They have no life, job or responsibilities, and figure (accurately) that they can attract attention to themselves by sitting in the rain waiting for a product of Industry.
2) They fail to realize that, even though they are waiting in line, there will be more of these things made. It's the reason companies like Sony make things like PlayStation. It's called "demand". There is demand, and Sony, intelligent people that they are, rely on idiots like these to pump up demand by doing stupid things like waiting in line for something that will be mass-produced to the point that people will be so sick of looking at it that they will mutter obscenities to themselves as they pass store windows displaying the product. The resulting "news" coverage will do nothing but enhance the appeal of something that most of us didn't know existed in the first place.
Consumerism. There's nothing like it.
10 comments:
They're doing this at my local Best Buy too. Idiots. In tents. There are only 28 to be had at the store, but there are more than 100 people in line. Waiting. Waiting for someone at the front of the line to wimp out or have to go to the bathroom.
It's ridiculous. And to think that somewhere in the world, people are waiting in line for potable water.
and movies. They wait in line for movies, too.
I never figured that out. Isn't the movie the same every time you see it? Yet, people (so-called people) wait for hours for the "opening" of a new James Bond movie or other such thing, when the fail to realize (maybe) that it's the same on Sunday as it is on Friday.
Maybe sony paid them to wait in line to start up the "hype". Same as they pay people to walk around with Sony cameras/phones and pretend to be tourists and ask people to take their pictures.
pam: you're too smart for your own good - or mine.
Yes Pam you too smart for us!!
I can gaurentee that they are all under 30!!!
they're gamers. of course they have no life
didya hear about the muggers? apparently someone got shot. perfect.
you think the nerds waiting in line are stupid, what about the intelligent shoppers on e-bay that will pay 3-4 x's what they are worth!
I just don't get it, we've see this every what couple of years if that because one company or another has come up with a better more sofisticated gaming system.. whatever, I can understand waiting line for a great concert but this? Maybe it's my age showing... but then again maybe my intelligance?
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