Congratulations, you have just excelled at mediocrity

“Congratulations you’ve just created your email account”

Congratulations, you have just correctly entered your name in the box that says “name.” At what point in the ‘getting an email account’ process warrants a congratulations. Congratulations, you just swam the channel, congratulations you just finished a marathon. Hell, congratulations you just ate your weight in doughnuts, you now have diabetes you idiot, would still be valid. But at what point is a congratulations required for the most simplistic of tasks? Well it was touch and go there for a while but then I remembered what my name was.

Maybe I’m being unfair. Maybe I missed the part of the form where you were required to cure cancer. But this just isn’t on the internet, where the crazy people live. The crazy people have forgotten to take their meds and have wandered out into the real world. Now mediocrity is being applauded and failure ignored until it leaves (all eyes turn to George Bush). You cannot argue with this. In America today the children involved in what we here call primary education are having graduation ceremonies each year. Congratulations, you learned your ABCs. Now I want those who are a bit slow to take a second. I am not wailing on little kids, it’s the dumb asses who think a graduation for the 4th Grade is anything other than a pointless exercise that, I think, should all be shipped to some hellhole. How about Milton Keynes?