The end is nigh or so this idiot would have you believe.

To nick a phrase from a mate of mine “let me tell you a story”…..

…my older Brother has, shall we say some mental problems which to some extent can make him a bit gullible and so when he said to me that he had heard that “they were shutting down XboxLive and the Wii online stuff cos they stopped the internet for 24 hrs” I was a little taken aback  “eh, what, eh, where did you here this” I ask him to which he did this look he gets sometimes when he’s not too sure of the facts  “come on, where did you hear this” I ask, he replies with that same look on his face  “I think someone may be bullshitting me”  “who’s the fucking moron who told you this rubbish” I had my suspicion’s but he confirmed it with “lee”

I should explain who this Lee is, he is my Mother’s, Boyfriend’s, son and on the few occasions when I’ve met him I get the feeling he fancies himself as a bit of an expert on all thing’s computer and gaming but doesn’t actually know a lot, I’ve met a few people like him over the years who claim to be experts in various things, now I’m not saying that I am an expert but I do know some stuff, so when one encounters these types I have a tendancy to ignore anything that comes out of their stupid mouths, but sometimes they come out with something so magnificently stupid that I have no choice but to listen, mouth wide open in utter aghast.

It turns out Lee was attempting to login to his XboxLive account on Tuesday and on repeated failed attempts came up with this theory (I wonder if these people have a little box or something in which they keep them). Now if it was me, I would check to see if my internet connection was working first before I jumped to any conclusions but  he obviously has no concept of how the whole interweb thingy works, Fucking moron.  I try to explain to my Brother, how it works, I even did a little diagram thingy to show how virtually impossible it was to shut down the entire internet for any period of time, I think I got through to him, it’s hard to tell sometimes.

Later that same day as if the Gods are confirming what a complete fucking moron this Lee is, three different people, with no prompting from me I might add, come into the Pub saying that their XboxLive was down all day Tuesday for maintenance, ah yes that exlpains it thinks I  (can I say one more time for clarity, what a fucking moron).

It’s wierd when that happens, several seemingly unconnected events suddenly become… well, er,  connected, I remember one time I was having a conversation with that Celtic scum  about Capitol punishment, don’t know why, can’t even rember how it started, but I said there was no crime punishable by death in this country any more to which he said he was sure there was something to do with the Queen’s dockyards, I wasn’t sure about that but later that night I happened to be watching QI (with the genius that is Stephen Fry!) and one of the questions was about this very same subject! after freaking out I resolve to tell Celtic scum, turns out they abolished the Law about Queens docks.

Anyway, coming back to the plot, why do people do this, claim knowledge of thing’s when it’s quite obvious that they know very little, just fucking stop it, all you end up doing is making yourselves look like twats or just fuck off and actually learn about the thing you claim to know about.