America has tycoons such as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates who have changed the world with their unique inventions. From products that are full of glitches and hardware that's incompatible with basic software such as Flash, we truly salute our American chums. The UK might not have might such an impact, but we have got Alan Sugar.
Thanks to Amstrad, we can now send e-mails from our office phone and deface our own properties with a hideous looking Sky dish. Until The Apprentice hit our screens, Alan Sugar was a fairly unknown individual.
But thanks to the wonders of the picture box, his presence has grown with legions of idiots shouting the phrase ?you're fired.? Sugar is roughly seventy thousand years old and people his age don't usually embrace modern things like Twitter. However, Alan Sugar does take to the service regularly and yesterday caused a stir with his flurry of Tweets during the two minutes to honour our soldiers.
Without going on about the subject too much, even the cynical swine here at hecklerspray appreciate the services our soldiers past and present have given. We are more than happy to say that we don't have as much bravery as those on the frontline. Somehow, a hurried walk past a gang of kids on the way to the shop for milk isn't the same as being stuck in a battlefield being shot as part of a pointless war on oil terror.
At the same time each year that is the the eleventh month on the eleventh hour, a two minutes silence is observed to mark the end of World War One. This has been a tradition since 1919, but as life changes, people?s busy lifestyle take over and simple things can either be forgotten or ruined via an unfunny ringtone going off. Twitter is a hub brimming with activity with millions of its users posting content every second ranging from reports on what hilarious thing happened to them on holiday or asking their followers what topping they should put on a baked potato.
Basically, there isn't a way of silencing the people who use Twitter. It'll always be plagued with rubbish hashtag games and Stephen Fry threatening to leave. However, with important events such as Armistice Day, there was a vague attempt from people to stop what they were doing. A campaign to get a track featuring two minutes of silence to number one in the hit parade was launched via Twitter and users were encouraged to stop what they were doing.
This might be a simple task for some, but what about if you have a product to plug? Alan Sugar is just the person who is constantly using the service to plug his cockney business skills to us. Not only will he remind us of his book, but he?ll happily retweet user?s comments saying that what they just read was more influential than The Bible and more enjoyable than The Very Hungary Caterpillar. Initially, Sugar wanted to encourage users to embrace the two minutes silence, but it kind of backfired. Proof:
Oh dear, it looks like he is more concerned of announcing an egotistical competition of when he hits 125k followers. Do we care? No. not particularly, but it does seem like he couldn't keep himself quiet for two minutes. But in typical fashion, it wasn?t his fault, bloody technology failed him. The Metro reports him saying:
?Just out of a meeting: Why would I tweet at 10.59 ‘no tweets for 2 mins’ and then tweet straight after, obviously a tech glitch looking into.?
Alan Sugar is lucky. If X-Factor wasn?t hogging the front pages due to its fixing allegations then some tabloids would be printing images of the Amstrad owner so you could burn them in the street to show outrage and disgust.
Pat Viliors says
Come on, do you really think Sugar has a memory-span of one minute? Have you never heard of glitches? If I wanted to disrespect the war dead, I wouldn’t call for silence first.
I think you’d be better directing your venom at the extremist Muslims who burnt poppies and chanted ‘British soldiers go to hell’. Now that’s what you call direspect.