Author Topic: Oh dear, how patronising can you be?  (Read 3146 times)

tiermat

  • According to Jane, I'm a Unisex SpaceAdmin
Oh dear, how patronising can you be?
« on: 15 April, 2008, 04:18:26 pm »
From Linux.com I followed a link to a site which is producing a graphic (read comic style) linux guide for newbies...

I had a quick scan and it seems so patronising, it's painful.....

Link here, if you care to look: Hackett and Blackwell

think I'll stick to www.toddandpenguin.com
I feel like Captain Kirk, on a brand new planet every day, a little like King Kong on top of the Empire State

Re: Oh dear, how patronising can you be?
« Reply #1 on: 15 April, 2008, 04:22:37 pm »
It's a pdf file, so why do I have to enable javascript to see it?

andygates

  • Peroxide Viking
Re: Oh dear, how patronising can you be?
« Reply #2 on: 15 April, 2008, 04:31:46 pm »
Patronising cartoons work for me.

Look, Fisher-Price is the correct level for the average user.  Grumble all you like, but that's the truth (I see it every day here at work) and Bill Was Right.
It takes blood and guts to be this cool but I'm still just a cliché.
OpenStreetMap UK & IRL Streetmap & Topo: ravenfamily.org/andyg/maps updates weekly.

Julian

  • samoture
Re: Oh dear, how patronising can you be?
« Reply #3 on: 15 April, 2008, 04:34:32 pm »
That's about my level.  :thumbsup:

Re: Oh dear, how patronising can you be?
« Reply #4 on: 15 April, 2008, 05:23:59 pm »
Hackett and Blackwell

They'll be Crosse that you got the name of it wrong too.
"Yes please" said Squirrel "biscuits are our favourite things."

Mr Larrington

  • A bit ov a lyv wyr by slof standirds
  • Custard Wallah
    • Mr Larrington's Automatic Diary
External Transparent Wall Inspection Operative & Mayor of Mortagne-au-Perche
Satisfying the Bloodlust of the Masses in Peacetime