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May. 23rd, 2007 01:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackIronically[1], when I actually spoke to someone, he was very helpful. I have a reasonably good contract, and a new phone.
I couldn't STOP them giving me a new phone, the deal with the phone was better than without. The phone costs nearly as much as the contract! I wondered if maybe they could just... give me the contract a lot cheaper (or cheaper AT ALL) and not manufacture so many extra phones, please, despite the fact that would indirectly put me out of a job.
I mean, I could go and sell it on ebay, but once I've got it, it's probably cool. It's the INHUMANITYNEFFICIENY of it that annoys me, not the specific waste of my time. Though that annoys me too, as I explained at great length and depth in my previous post, using the word "fiants".
[1] I decided my acid test for "irony" would be "if this were a play, would it be dramatic irony". This seems to identify situations we would all agree are ironic, and leave all of Alanis Morrisette's examples out in the cold, and generalise fairly well to intermediate examples.
Does that make sense?
I couldn't STOP them giving me a new phone, the deal with the phone was better than without. The phone costs nearly as much as the contract! I wondered if maybe they could just... give me the contract a lot cheaper (or cheaper AT ALL) and not manufacture so many extra phones, please, despite the fact that would indirectly put me out of a job.
I mean, I could go and sell it on ebay, but once I've got it, it's probably cool. It's the IN
[1] I decided my acid test for "irony" would be "if this were a play, would it be dramatic irony". This seems to identify situations we would all agree are ironic, and leave all of Alanis Morrisette's examples out in the cold, and generalise fairly well to intermediate examples.
Does that make sense?