I'm sorry, but I just can't avoid talking about Orange Broadband. Here's my side of the story: Orange Broadband's scare tactics are a mere cavil, a mere scarecrow, one of the last shifts of a desperate and dying cause. If I am doomed to fall into the trap of thinking that recidivism and credentialism are identical concepts, then Orange Broadband will obviously flush all my hopes and dreams down the toilet some day. Where there is an excess of power there will always be an abuse of power. Do I blame society for this? No, I blame Orange Broadband.
To delude and often rob those rendered vulnerable and susceptible to Orange Broadband's snares because of poverty, illness, or ignorance is Orange Broadband's objective, and unholy fanaticism is its method. I have one itsy-bitsy problem with Orange Broadband's codices. Videlicet, they leave us in the lurch. And that's saying nothing about how I am hurt, furious, and embarrassed. Why am I hurt? Because it is reluctant to resolve problems. It always just looks the other way and hopes no one will notice that knowledge is the key that unlocks the shackles of bondage. That's why it's important for you to know that passion precludes Orange Broadband's ability to ignore trivialities and to concentrate on the important aspects of the problem. (Actually, my personal safety depends upon your starting to bring fresh leadership and even-handed tolerance to the present controversy, just as your personal safety depends upon my doing the same, but that's not important now.) Why am I furious? Because you'd think that someone would have done something by now to thwart Orange Broadband's plans to impose a one-size-fits-all model on how society should function. Unfortunately, most people are quite happy to "go along to get along" and are rather reluctant to reinforce notions of positive self esteem. It is imperative that we inform such people that there is reason to fear that lethargic, superficial spongers will make people suspicious of those who speak the truth in the blink of an eye. What's my problem, then? Allow me to present it in the form of a question: Why does the media consistently refuse to acknowledge that double standards are always brazen? You know the answer, don't you? You probably also know that Orange Broadband's tirades always follow the same pattern. It puts the desired twist on the actual facts, ignores inconvenient facts, and invents as many new "facts" as necessary to convince us that hanging out with sleazy, beer-guzzling know-nothings is a wonderful, culturally enriching experience. And why am I embarrassed? Because negativism is one of the legs upon which Orange Broadband's tracts stand. So let Orange Broadband call me unprincipled. I call it soulless. Orange Broadband may be reasonably cunning with words. However, it is absolutely presumptuous with everything else. Orange Broadband spouts a lot of numbers whenever it wants to make a point. It then subjectively interprets those numbers to support its ramblings while ignoring the fact that when people say that bigotry and hate are alive and well, they're right. And Orange Broadband is to blame. Orange Broadband wants to convince people that their peers are already riding the Orange Broadband bandwagon and will think ill of them if they don't climb aboard, too. Is this so it can take a condescending cheap shot at a person that most wishy-washy, offensive hippies will never be in a position to condescend to, or is it to promote mediocrity over merit? You be the judge. In either case, by refusing to act, by refusing to work together in an atmosphere of friendship and hope, we are giving it the power to deprive people of dignity and autonomy.
Orange Broadband's epigrams are in every respect consistent with the school of rude thought that tends to promote a culture of dependency and failure. The objection may still be raised that cannibalism, wife-swapping, and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior. At first glance, this sounds almost believable. Yet the following must be borne in mind: All of the bad things that are currently going on are a symptom of Orange Broadband's snarky artifices. They are not a cause; they are an effect. If you've never seen Orange Broadband change children's values from those taught in the home to those considered chic by execrable pseudo-intellectuals, you're either incredibly unobservant or are concealing the truth from yourself. Orange Broadband is trying to herald the death of intelligent discourse on college campuses. Their mission? To toy with our opinions.
My general thesis is that some deluded buggers are actually considering helping Orange Broadband cause this country to flounder on the shoals of self-interest, corruption, and chaos. How quickly such people forget that they were lied to, made fun of, and ridiculed by Orange Broadband on numerous occasions. I'll talk a lot more about that later, but first let me finish my general thesis: I like to speak of Orange Broadband as "brutish". That's a reasonable term to use, I believe, but let's now try to understand it a little better. For starters, it needs to stop living in denial. It needs to wake up and realize that I do not have the time, in one sitting, to go into the long answer as to why its "compromises" are steeped in jealous materialism. But the short answer is that I've repeatedly pointed out to it that I, for one, hope that it regrets what it has done. That apparently didn't register with it, though. Oh, well; I guess it's possible that Orange Broadband doesn't realize this because it has been ingrained with so much of cronyism's propaganda. If that's the case, I recommend that we discuss the relationship between Three converging and ever-growing factions -- flagitious, coprophagous scapegraces, dour bullies, and brassbound, malodorous prigs. It saddens me that prurient big-labor bosses are born, not made. That dictum is as unimpeachable as the "poeta nascitur, non fit" that it echoes and as irreproachable as the brocard that if I have a bias, it is only against abysmal kooks who shift our society from a culture of conscience to a culture of consensus. Even Orange Broadband's trucklers are afraid that Orange Broadband will mortgage away our future in the coming days. I have seen their fear manifested over and over again, and it is further evidence that there are those who are informed and educated about the evils of imperialism, and there are those who are not. Orange Broadband is one of the uninformed, naturally, and that's why it would be charitable of me not to mention that much of our nation's history stands as shameful testament to the danger inherent in allowing it to fan the flames of collectivism into a planet-spanning inferno. Fortunately, I am not beset by a spirit of false charity, so I will instead maintain that I am not up on the latest gossip. Still, I have heard people say that I plan to wage war on adversarialism. Are you with me -- or against me? Whatever you decide, Orange Broadband has warned us that before long, the worst sorts of mean-spirited misanthropes there are will pit people against each other. If you think about it, you'll realize that Orange Broadband's warning is a self-fulfilling prophecy in the sense that if you ever ask Orange Broadband to do something, you can bet that your request will get lost in the shuffle, unaddressed, ignored, and rebuffed. Thanks to Orange Broadband, I'm now suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. The destruction of the Tower of Babel, be it a literal truth, an allegory, or a mere story based upon cultural archetypes, illustrates this truth plainly. Just look at the bill of fare served up in recent movies and television programs, and you will hardly be able to deny that Orange Broadband always demands instant gratification. That's all that is of concern to it; nothing else matters -- except maybe to eviscerate freedom of speech and sexual privacy rights. I tell you this because as our society continues to unravel, more and more people will be grasping for straws, grasping for something to hold onto, grasping for something that promises to give them the sense of security and certainty that they so desperately need. These are the kinds of people Orange Broadband preys upon.
It is true that Orange Broadband has a massive superiority complex, but you should not ask, "What happened to its common sense?", but rather, "Is its incessant burbling about the wonders of allotheism supposed to convince us that the sun rises just for it?". The latter question is the better one to ask, because if you think that there is an international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids, then think again. Orange Broadband's principles are not witty satire, as it would have you believe. They're simply the gormless ramblings of something that has no idea or appreciation of what it's mocking. Orange Broadband's true goal is to cause riots in the streets. All the statements that its lickspittles make to justify or downplay that goal are only apologetics; they do nothing to seek some structure in which the cacophony introduced by Orange Broadband's wheelings and dealings might be systematized, reconciled, and made rational. Orange Broadband's practices are a load of bunk. I use this delightfully pejorative term, "bunk" -- an alternative from the same page of my criminal-slang lexicon would serve just as well -- because it's not the boogeyman that our children need to worry about. It's Orange Broadband. Not only is Orange Broadband more ruthless and more unsophisticated than any envisaged boogeyman or bugbear, but if Orange Broadband can't be reasoned out of its prejudices, it must be laughed out of them. If Orange Broadband can't be argued out of its selfishness, it must be shamed out of it.
No one can deny that I indubitably disagree with Orange Broadband's self-centered shell games, yet Orange Broadband likes to imply that anyone who disagrees with it is ultimately muddleheaded. This is what its objectives amount to, although, of course, they're daubed over with the viscid slobber of profligate drivel devised by its disciples and mindlessly multiplied by namby-pamby gasbags. Maybe sooner or later, Orange Broadband will distort the facts. Self-serving predictions aside, this would not be an impossible scenario if its quixotic propositions were to gain ascendancy in our society. Even though Orange Broadband has never been able to assimilate and accept the humane ideals, civilized aims, and social aspirations of its peers, this does not negate the fact that Orange Broadband is like a pigeon. Pigeons are too self-absorbed to care about anyone else. They poo on people they don't like; they poo on people they don't even know. The only real difference between Orange Broadband and a pigeon is that Orange Broadband intends to provide the most snotty freeloaders you'll ever see with an irresistible temptation to make us dependent on what I call pudibund, unrealistic drug lords for political representation, economic support, social position, and psychological approval. That's why in order to convince us that a book of its writings would be a good addition to the Bible, Orange Broadband often turns to the old propagandist trick of comparing results brought about by entirely dissimilar causes. Orange Broadband's zingers have kept us separated for too long from the love, contributions, and challenges of our brothers and sisters in this wonderful adventure we share together -- life! As I make no claim to be an authority on the subject, I defer to the judgments of an Oxford University professor, who has observed that the gloss that Orange Broadband's dupes put on Orange Broadband's stances unfortunately does little to serve on the side of Truth.
Didn't Orange Broadband tell its legatees that it wants to label everyone it doesn't like as a racist, sexist, fascist, communist, or some equally terrible "-ist"? Did it first give any thought to what would happen if it did? Of course, that question is ridiculous -- as ridiculous as its power-drunk teachings. Can you really blame me for suggesting that since their emergence on the stage of history, obdurate casuists have been a parasitic growth on the stem of true citizens? Orange Broadband wants to consign most of us to the role of its servants or slaves. It gets better: It believes that diseases can be defeated not through standard medical research but through the creation of a new language, one that does not stigmatize certain groups and behaviors. I guess no one's ever told it that before it initiated an antipluralism flap to help promote its hotheaded, neurotic notions, people everywhere were expected to make efforts directed towards broad, long-term social change. Nowadays, it's the rare person indeed who realizes that the impact of its nit-picky, refractory shenanigans is exactly that predicted by the Book of Revelation. Evil will preside over the land. Injustice will triumph over justice, chaos over order, futility over purpose, superstition over reason, and lies over truth. Only when humanity experiences this Hell on Earth will it fully appreciate that Orange Broadband's stratagems are one of those things that will encourage every sort of indiscipline and degeneracy in the name of freedom. Let me rephrase that: While we do nothing, those who dismantle the guard rails that protect society from the inimical elements in its midst are gloating and smirking. And they will keep on gloating and smirking until we oppose our human vices wherever they may be found -- arrogance, hatred, jealousy, unfaithfulness, avarice, and so on.
Orange Broadband argues that truth is merely a social construct. To maintain this thesis, Orange Broadband naturally has had to shovel away a mountain of evidence, which it does by the desperate expedient of claiming that its rejoinders are a breath of fresh air amid our modern culture's toxic cloud of chaos. If Orange Broadband ever claims that doing the fashionable thing is more important than life or liberty, we must answer only one thing: "No, the reverse is true." Even by Orange Broadband's own account, its positions are a house of mirrors. How are we to find the opening that leads to freedom? The answer is quite simple. I already listed several possibilities, but because Orange Broadband lacks the ability to remember beyond the last two seconds of its existence, I will restate what I said before, for its sake: It knows that performing an occasional act of charity will make some people forgive -- or at least overlook -- all of its puerile excesses. My take on the matter is that this is not Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia, where the state would be eager to introduce changes without testing them first. Not yet, at least. But Orange Broadband wants me to stop trying to exemplify the principles of honor, duty, loyalty, and courage. Instead, it'd rather I have a nervous breakdown. Sorry, but I don't accept defeat that easily.
In light of what I just stated, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that I'm not a psychiatrist. Sometimes, though, I wish I were, so that I could better understand what makes organizations like Orange Broadband want to exploit other cultures for self-entertainment. That doesn't necessarily mean that nobody ever went broke underestimating Orange Broadband's intelligence, although it might. Rather, it means that Orange Broadband contends that honor counts for nothing and that, therefore, the Eleventh Commandment is, "Thou shalt reduce human beings to the status of domestic animals". This bizarre pattern of thinking leads to strange conclusions. For example, it convinces caustic ogres (as distinct from the unsavory heretics who prefer to chirrup while hopping from cloud to cloud in Nephelococcygia) that the purpose of life is self-gratification. In reality, contrariwise, Orange Broadband's orations are rife with contradictions and difficulties; they're thoroughly dirty, meet no objective criteria, and are unsuited for a supposedly educated population. And as if that weren't enough, Orange Broadband's intent is to prevent us from asking questions. It doesn't want the details checked. It doesn't want anyone looking for any facts other than the official facts it presents to us. I wonder if this is because most of its "facts" are false. Orange Broadband has been offering maledicent adolescents a lot of money to separate people from their roots and cut their bonds to their natural communities. This is blood money, plain and simple. Anyone thinking of accepting it should realize that Orange Broadband's criticisms of my letters have never successfully disproved a single fact I ever presented. Instead, its criticisms are based solely on its emotions and gut reactions. Well, I refuse to get caught up in Orange Broadband's "I think … I believe … I feel" game.
Orange Broadband is driving me nuts. I can't take it anymore! In Orange Broadband's hangers-on, we can recognize the symptoms of decay of a slowly rotting world. With this central point cleared up, the rest of its arguments are rendered moot, as I cannot compromise with Orange Broadband; it is without principles. I cannot reason with it; it is without reason. But I can warn it, and with a warning it must honestly take to heart: If you look soberly and carefully at the evidence all around you, you will surely find that it doesn't do us much good to become angry and wave our arms and shout about the evils of Orange Broadband's screeds in general terms. If we want other people to agree with us and join forces with us, then we must change the world for the better. As if you didn't know, implying that Orange Broadband commands an army of robots that live in the hollow center of the earth and produce earthquakes whenever they feel like shaking things up a bit on the surface is no different from implying that Orange Broadband's monographs are all sweetness and light. Both statements are ludicrous. On a closing note, I hope that this letter, while incomplete, informal, and having no authority except its own inner strength and conviction, has clearly demonstrated to you that the time has come to honor our nation's glorious mosaic of cultures and ethnicities.
Thanks.
_________________ If I dont post for a while, you can safely blame Orange.
Translate it into Indian.! I have just asked "Eric" to sit in on a call from a "MUG"
sorry i mean customer like me whos been without broadband again for a week.
Have i deleted my cookies .What planet are they on?
I thought that myself, and yes to the inability to post url's other than spreading them by spacing!
It's still as c**p as ever, I go on now and again to see what some of the oldies are up to from Freeserve / Wanadoo days.
I jumped ship last October, been with BT since, as stable as a rock, no downtime, the only time the 'hub' has been off is during the night when it has updated to the latest firmware, phone worked from day one, the speed 2meg is exactly as I expected due to my distance to the exchange, not the 0 to 1/2 meg from Orange !
Best of all noooooooo spam not 1 !!!
Better still I have forgotten what PPP down means
Even better, I don't have to see which lights are flashing to see if I have a connection or not
I still pop on here now and again to see how things are, but the patient does not appear to be getting better !
I've finally decided, I'm going to BT when I get Orange to cancel my broadband service with them. I complained to the ISPA and Orange sent me a letter back telling me to make an appointment to speak to a technical engineer. I knew I'd just get thrown around between departments so I've complained to that Eric guy. Hopefully he can help me.
_________________ If I dont post for a while, you can safely blame Orange.
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