the latest gadget or widget from the Apple corporation, would you consider calling them, even just under your breath, “boring and sad”?
And yet if, the next day, you met a bloke in a pub and he argued a passionate case for why the last Holden Commodore, as the fruit of the automotive design, engineering and manufacturing capability of this great country, was the best one, you’d probably consider them quite reasoned, admirably patriotic and possibly the sort of bloke you’d like to have a beer with.
Caring about some inanimate objects, and the giant corporations that make them, is deemed socially acceptable, at least in this country, while getting excited about, say, trains, makes you a sad person with too many anoraks and greasy hair.
This has been rammed…
