He wrote a lot.
(Credit: Bio/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
Getting mad occasionally results in getting even, but often only in getting madder.
Ultimately, the whole point of revenge isn’t even to get even at all. It’s to feel that you have.
Edd Joseph needed to feel better about an internet transaction. As the Bristol Post declaims it, he bought a PS3 online for 80 British pounds (around $132) on the Gumtree site and the transaction went perfectly.
Except for the tiny detail that he didn’t receive his PS3.
This he deemed an arrow of outrageous fortune. So he mulled and cogitated and pondered and thought therefore of revenge and ceased to weep. (Oh, it’s “Henry VI,” if you must know).
The 24-year-old Joseph fell upon the realization that you can copy and paste things from the Web and send them as texts.
He told the Post: “It got me thinking, ‘what can I send to him,’ which turned to ‘what is a really long book,’ which ended with me sending him ‘Macbeth.'”
Joseph was mad because he knew he couldn’t get his money back. He’d paid by bank transfer (which is against Gumtree’s terms and conditions.)
On the other hand, he had an iPhone. He realized that with just one pressing of “send” he could text a whole play to … [Read more]
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