Pfft. If there’s even so much as a drizzle in the evening, cab drivers around the city start to act like they’re the last ride out of hell. And they get away with it because there’s very little way to police the kind of douchebaggery they unleash upon passengers. It’s aggravating. Robots, anyone?

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Allow me to admit up front that I’m nitpicking here. Have you seen the new Cybershot TV commercial? The one with the hyper-feminine girl and the French(?) song. The particular camera model is shock-proof, see, and Sony decides to illustrate that this way: the girl is trying to take a photo of a juggler, a wayward ball hits the camera, camera falls to the ground–good thing it’s shock-proof.

It’s fine, right? Except…

I WOULD LIKE TO MEET SOMEONE WHO IS ACTUALLY DUMB ENOUGH TO HOLD A CAMERA LIKE THIS.

Here’s from another Cybershot commercial. I know they’re just trying to make it seem all romantic and pretty and feminine and shit, but you know what, it’s possible to be romantic and pretty and feminine without being A COMPLETE MORON.

Because seriously, anyone who is enough of a bimbo to hold a camera with two fingers ought to be pummeled upside the head with it.