Move on and quit defending the fact you stepped into a thread where someone wanted advice about an expensive purchase and you decided to make numerous "stupid" (your words) remarks for no other purpose than to play a cute game with your brother. That's called being a troll. Your worthless junk was deflated, you've been called out and ridiculed enough. Move on, you obviously have nothing of value to add.
Ridculed? By whom? You? Please. You do not possess the ability. Did you read the thread? By page 2, I believe, the Original Poster said he bought a Mac, hated it, and took it back. So the thread was long dead by page 4 when I made my joke. Someone had already begun the PC/Mac divide and my post warned PC users that Mac Users are INCREDIBLY sensetive (turns out I was right). Regardless, this is not your forum, nor are you any sort of authority. I do not need your permission or to introduce myself and everyone I know just to make a post. At this point, I'm just bickering with you because you decided to name-call and now you want to tell me where I went wrong. I hardly think so. Believe me, you are certainly not going to deter me from posting what I choose to post. I hope we are clear.
So let's get this straight- you told your brother you were going to post junk in a thread where someone was laying down a 1k+ investment and wanted advice before doing so, you told him you were going to call all Mac users "not smart enough to know about computers" and you accurately predicted that the Mac users here would deflate your useless posts (escpecially useless given the OP's context) and that we would'nt be nice to you when we did it. Congrats, you need to find out how Cleo got started; whatever you are doing now doesn't suit you near as well as predicting the future would.
Uhhh, no. This is not how it went down. Suffice to say before any responses came in, I had spoken with him and was contemplating removing it due to his reaction. He got irrationally defensive. At first, he denied being defensive. But when I pasted his comments back to him, he was surprised to see his own reaction. At that point, I had his attention because he had observed it as well. We continued to talk and he explained why he thought he reacted that way but insisted that normal people having a normal day would not be so defensive. Due to this statement, I left the post there and we decided to gauge the reaction. He owes me dinner and because of all this flak, I'm going to stick it to him. Definately some sort of surf and turf. So no, I did not post something negative just to garner a predetermined reaction. I posted it because the thread was dead, the bickering had already begun, and I saw alot of my brother in the Mac-camp. I left it up to make a point to someone.
Also, can we be honest and say that up until OSX that Mac was complete garbage? And that even OSX has had some issues, despite it being LEAPS AND BOUNDS better than OS9? I used to be the tech contact among the group of designers I worked with. My job, besides design (where I garnered real hate for Mac's), was to keep all those OS9 machines on the network. What a pain in the a** that was. Every single day there was trouble. From time to time, we would get the 'happy mac' error and the only solution was to reinstall the corporate bundle. So I don't think that criticism of OSX is completely unwarrented in the community due to tragic failures of the past. Just like Ford still doesn't get a break on the Pinto, the Mac still has a reputation.
Let's assume I say-
"Enjoy being an asshat, it's your life."
Since I said "it's your life" did that diminsh the fact that I said you should enjoy being an asshat?
Did you forget? You did say this. I guess you guys are discriminated against so much that you draw your weapons at the drop of a hat. I would never have even mentioned my brother or how it all happened had you just taken me at my word. I tried to comply with all of the attacks so you people would back off but even that did not work. At this point you are acting like, well, a child. The names keep coming.
I'll try one more time. Put your pistols away. I'm done with this topic. I did not hijack a thread, there was resolution 2 pages before I got involved. The 'war' had already started when I chimed in. I said I was kidding. I said my comments were meant to be 'stupid' (but that was really because I could tell how distressed the mac crowd was) and had no problem admitting that. I was looking for peace and this is what I got instead. Had you just said 'Hey Asshat, be cool and don't generalize like that' I would have been fine and could have explained all of this. But you chose a different tact and here we are.