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[challenge entry] 'Ning all. Sadly too late...


Anyway, that challenge got me thinking:

I'm really big on not conforming. I tend to go for the quirkier option when choosing from a selection of items, and I don't dress according to what's in fashion. I even stopped liking Pearl Jam after their second single when all of a sudden EVERYONE was into them.

So why do I like Google so much? I even use gmail...

From the If Google Owned Everything challenge. See all 262 entries (closed)

(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Thu 30 Mar 2006, 9:29, archived)
# hmm. F5 time
Connection to server www.dooberywhatsit.com failed (The server is not responding.)
(I helped save b3ta! coder.keitaro I like pies!, Thu 30 Mar 2006, 9:34, archived)
# I use altavista for almost everything. Google almost always throws up shit loads of irrelevant results.
(I helped save b3ta! mugatu, Thu 30 Mar 2006, 9:35, archived)
# now see, if you like something just because it's popular
just to fit in with other people, then you may be called a sheep

but disliking something just because others like it is very similar don't you think?

surely a true non conformist disregards all popular tastes whether they be similar or different to their own

i think i'm just being argumentative today
(I helped save b3ta! Ironman tetsuo Back once again with the renegade mastah!, Thu 30 Mar 2006, 9:35, archived)
# I think you're right...


About the non-conformist bit. Don't know about the argumentative bit.
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Thu 30 Mar 2006, 9:56, archived)
#
www.b3ta.com/board/5800755
(I helped save b3ta! Ironman tetsuo Back once again with the renegade mastah!, Thu 30 Mar 2006, 10:00, archived)
# Me neither...
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Thu 30 Mar 2006, 10:04, archived)
# I liked Google before I started working in SEO
But it's a nightmare to get a new site ranked for anything relevant these days

/edit either that or i'm really shit at my job
(I helped save b3ta! wefbhweiufhweiu party, Thu 30 Mar 2006, 9:41, archived)
# Surely consciously going for the "non-conformist" option each time
is a form of conforming? Presumably you liked the music of Pearl Jam, why should you care if other people like it too?

Just go for what you like. Sometimes other people like the same things, sometimes they don't. Google do what they do well, they seem less cunty than many other organisations, and as cr3ative said they keep things simple. I'd really like to work for Google some day.
(I helped save b3ta! tipassoi, Thu 30 Mar 2006, 9:56, archived)
# I think you're right too.
(About the non-conformist bit)

I'm older and wiser now, and there are some Pearl Jam songs that I do like - there are a lot I don't too though. Mind you, that's coz they're shit, not coz other people like them.
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Thu 30 Mar 2006, 10:01, archived)
# I can't complain, I've stopped wearing stuff in the past because it's become "fashionable" and I didn't want to look like I was wearing it because it was fashionable
And there certainly are bands that I've stopped liking as they've become more popular, although this is generally related to them becoming more popular because their music's got more bland and populist, rather than any form of musical snobbery (although my mum disagrees on this one)

Edit: and woo to your picture! Sorry, not really functioning yet this morning, I knew there was a reason I clicked reply in the first place.
(I helped save b3ta! tipassoi, Thu 30 Mar 2006, 10:05, archived)
# stop copying my homework!
*shields paper*

(I helped save b3ta! Ironman tetsuo Back once again with the renegade mastah!, Thu 30 Mar 2006, 10:07, archived)