Line campers... I generally hate them

This is inspired by the ridiculous line waiting from the i-phone yesterday and other stuff from the past like the PS3. Of course there are some exceptions that I can tolerate. People camping for once in a lifetime chance tickets or product is ok, as well as someone reselling the item on ebay for a good profit. I'll even excuse the parents who want to get kids presents for their birthday or xmas. But all the rest of you line campers out there need to get a life. Just the fact that they are so needy and can't wait a couple extra days/weeks for another shipment annoys me.

The i-phone isn't near xmas, so you can cross out that exception. It wasn't a once in a lifetime item, so you can cross that out too. So unless you were reselling it for profit or were getting one for your kid as a birthday present, then you are pretty pathetic to wait outside that long just because you are that desperate for a what is basically a toy. Some people think it is the adventure aspect, but no one wants to waste a day away by sitting outside in the cold or the heat. If you polled every line camper in the world, 99.9% of them would have the item delivered them for free if they could.

The only reason people do it other than the exceptions is because their lives are so pitifully driven by little gadgets, that they've completely lost touch with the real things that matter in life. Taking off work, taking of school, blowing off meetings. These are real life things that matter. A toy is not that important people. If it means that much to you, then I feel sorry for you. I think the way society today has become completely dependant and reliant on gadgets and technologies like cell phones is what angers me most, because the line camping for the tickle-me elmos never annoyed me. I honestly think many people in society today would lose their mind without a cell phone, and to me that is really a shame.

Anyway, that is my rant. You don't have to agree with me if you don't want to, but that is how I see it. Everyone has their weird pet peeves and this is one of mine. Maybe I sound like a total nutjob, but hey, it is what it is. I'm talking about the people that sit out there for days, and not just a few hours or overnight btw. That I can tolerate.

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Egg? No. I facetiously said that I was going to drive around and dump a bucket of water on them. I did not do that nor would I do ever it. It is rude, cruel, and immature.

Anyway, I don't want an iphone, nor do I ever plan on getting one. No sour grapes here if that is what is sounds like as two posters have claimed.

Yes I did mention this rant to some capacity when the PS3 came out. That also had nothing to do with the fact that I didn't have a PS3. Unlike the iphone, I wanted a PS3, but was in no rush to buy one. I casually walked into an EB in december and bought one, and honestly I regret that I did buy one. I still only have one game for it and haven't touched the system since april.

Like I said, I think the whole act of doing it speaks volumes about today's society. I live in Philly, where our mayor of all people camped outside for one. Yes, our mayor. Instead of busting his ass trying to help this city fix the record number of murders and homicides, he's camping out for an iphone. People take off of work for things like this, when all it is, is a toy. It just shows how frickin obsessed our society is today with electonics. People have based their life around them and it is important enough to them to drop everything they are doing in their life for days at a time just to get this item. It is that important to them.

Our mayor doing it really set me off, because our city is a joke right now in terms of crime, but I think he is just one example, of plenty of people right now who care more about things like iphones than real life things that matter.

Again, no one has to agree with me. If I'm the only person on earth who feels this way, then it is fine with me. But I do feel this way, and I do think it is a shame that society has sunk to this level.

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Anyway, my beef isn't really with the campers themselves, they can do whatever they want with their lives, so maybe the topic title is misleading, and it is my fault for that. Although, whenever I see a picture of them, I think of the equivalent of a bunch of junkies lined up to get a fix. But my problem is with what they symbolize. When it gets to a point where mayors start dropping everything they are doing to get some new piece of technology, then there is a big problem. The addiction of electronics today is growing stronger and stronger. People are so enfatuated with things that are really not essential to them, that they have almost lost complete touch with reality.

Kids dropping out of school to get an Xbox 360, or taking off of work to camp out and get an iphone, people shooting people for their PS3, kids killing themselves when their MMORPG items get stolen. While all that isn't the end of the world, it damn well isn't good news. That I do know. If it continues to get worse, where does it stop? Where is the line drawn? Like I said, this stuff didn't happen 10 years ago for electronics. What is it going to be like 10 years from now? Are people going to be camping outside of Best Buy for a month just to get something like a Playstation 8? Are people going to permanently quit their jobs, just because they can't wait a few more weeks to get that hot item?

I never would've even brought this up if our mayor didn't do it, because I honestly thought that people really did value their jobs more than getting a new electronic, but I guess I was wrong. Maybe I'm making a bigger deal about it than it is, but I do think it is something that is getting out of hand.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

If I came off as judgemental, then I apologize. Like I said in my previous post, it isn't the campers themselves who I have a beef with(although I personally find it really lame, and I'm entitled to that opinion), but what it symbolizes and how society's obsession with electronics is getting worse and worse.

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Originally Posted by Midna

Would it make you feel better if I waited outside my local grocery store all night the next time I need a loaf of bread?

That really has nothing to do with what I'm talking about, and is irrelevant anyway because you won't need to do that for a loaf of bread.

I'm glad people have weighed in though, because while I may not agree, I always respect and consider opposing views. Nothing I posted was meant to be taken personally by anyone btw.

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Originally Posted by Capo

But what if there's a really bad bread shortage and I just need my fucking bread? What then?!

I guess I'll let it slide.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

One day doesn't annoy me THAT much. But when people start taking off froim work, dropping out of school, then IMO it has gone too far. Am I publicly telling line campers to stop? No. They can do what they want with their lives. I'm just getting concerned about about our society. When a city mayor takes off of work to camp then you know something is seriously wrong.

But 100k is pathetic. It shows she has no cocnept of managing money. She can wait a week and walk in and buy them. That annoys me.

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