Cyber cattle market, mooings and elucubrations...

Wednesday, 24 June 2009


I must be really bored. Or just very geeky. I am a 26 year old female thing, with a good job, and I have spent my afternoon setting up a flashy pink profile on another social networking site and even paying cyber dosh for it (because a profile with a simple template just isn't like, cool, like OMG, totally awesome enough). This magical place with the most original name and tag line is MyYearBook.... "You've got friends!" which is adorned with giant smileys with an ecstasy tablet on the tongue.

Why am I now talking about it on another social toilet seat? Not because I have bowel issues but because it helps me flush my frustrations and thoughts. Also, everyone knows that ladies do not have bowels and do their numéro deux like they buy their Chanel Numéro 5 - in secret, but the smell always gives it away.

Oh, I am such a lady, n'est-ce pas?

Anyway, that is what these online platforms are for, right? To offload egotistical goods onto the already overpopulated cyberspace. Now the irony is that I am also offloading and not once but twice....oh well, jamais deux sans trois comme on dit.

Back to MyYearBook, I spent the afternoon accomplishing my duty and enacting the symptoms of juvenile Alzheimers : you know, talking to yourself about yourself,setting up a picture of your own face in case you forget it and writting an autobiography about you to pretend you're cool, famouuuuuuus and soooo mental.

Yay, I did my first mooing.

It was a Frenglish mooing by the way (half between Meuh and Moo).

This must be the biggest cyber cattle market I have ever seen. What is impressive is that the farmers are very active. Screw swine flu and foot and mouth disease. With so many cows and bulls online, they are one click away from the perfectly cooked burger, or roast, or barbeque....depending on one's way of handling meat.

Five minutes after having logged in, I got bid on and got owned. Shall I be happy or release the bovine spongiform encephalopathy madness? Well, I am for sure impressed to have generated instant admiration quicker than it takes for Jordan to lose her knickers. But to get bid on online by strangers? Meh, I don't know if I am more disappointed to be worth 97 electronic dollars or just annoyed by the auction style of the purchase.

Where the hell is the buy it now option?

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