THINGS 'n' STUFF

Right, that's got your attention, now to the serious stuff!
Why do THEY have to keep tinkering with THINGS?
Nothing's ever good enough for THEM. You can't just have A THING. It always has to be A NEW THING - an updated, overhauled, revamped and supposedly "better than ever" THING.
I'm not dense. I am fully aware of the fact that bringing out a supposedly "new and improved" THING is the capitalists' way of trying to shame the weak of brain and will into buying that new THING to replace the perfectly good and functional THING they already have, just so that they can keep up with the neighbours. Just ask any parent of a brat who claims to support a football team and wants a replica shirt which is not going to make him die of embarrassment in the playground!
I would be quite content to just leave consumerism and materialism to the Heat magazine generation but unfortunately THEY now manage to reach into my home and tinker with THINGS I already have and with which I am quite content.
Take blogging, for instance. Writers' block is a big enough obstacle to overcome as it is but then THEY went and firked around with the system and bollocksed it up by introducing a "new, improved" Blogger system! I didn't ask for it.
I was quite happy with the old system, thank you very much. I mean, I don't go round to THEIR house unannounced and redecorate THEIR lounge or knock through THEIR walls to make a kitchen-diner, do I?
It's probably just me, obviously, but the updated version seems to make it harder and more irritating to blog than before. The "new, improved" Blogger promises to automatically save your postings - not mine it doesn't! Each time you fill in the word verification nonsense and then hit "publish post" it shows an error and makes you repeat the whole process - well, with me it does. The "new, improved" system also seems to have a cyber censorship/critique facility built in. Many is the time I have been two thirds of the way through writing something, something which is obviously of great importance and value to society, when Blogger apparently decides it is shite and the whole lot just disappears off screen, never to be seen again!
Then there is my broadband supplier. I used to be reliant on those Nazis at Telewest. Ok, THEY kicked me offline every so often for no reason, but I could handle it. Then THEY got taken over by the Grand Wizards of Fuckuppertry, Virgin (aka Virgin Media).
Now I get lobbed off more times than a 14-year-old boy's knob! THEY have also taken over my telly and the whole system freezes whenever it feels like it, forcing me to switch everything off and then power up again to get normal service resumed. Whoever thought that a bunch of dickheads who are completely incapable of making choo-choo trains run along rigid tracks regularly and on time would be able to operate an integrated system of high-speed, cyber connections and co-ordinated cable television services must be a suitable case for treatment.
No, THEY can all go to Grantham and THEY can take their THINGS with them!