The Snark Returns: Random Musings from The GWS
The Snark Returns: Random Musings from The GWS

The Snark Returns: Random Musings from The GWS

SW/Web developer: ~12 years of C# (yay!) & ASP .Net MVC, Java (blargh!), Python (woot!) experience. I'm currently hitting faucets and writing for crypto to stake/invest . | I work part-time with animals. Sadly, my cerebellum and medulla oblongata aren't Einsteinian in proportion. However, I possess a Brobdingnagian vocabulary and get by with being a barbigerous logophile. I can probably write you into bed, if smashing Capitalism and Patriarchy turns you on. Kink is political!


Stupid People: A Pet Peeve or a Threat? (A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Irresponsible People from being a Burthen to Their Parents or Pets)

25 Oct 2022 4 minute read 5 comments Great White Snark

The problem with viewing Pits (or any other dog breed in question) as a threat or as especially vicious is that it is an obtuse, myopic and frankly stereotypical view to take, especially one borne of emotion and/or opinion. As Evelyn Waugh once obser...

Tilling My Own Grave to Keep Me Level

16 Oct 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

I'm working seven days a week, just to keep myself afloat and my life on track, now that I've got a full-time job. However, I do not yet have a guarantee that I'll have it past the end of next month, which is a considerable concern, since I still hav...

How to Let a Woman Know You're a Douche Canoe She Doesn't Want to Date (in Ten Steps or Fewer)

10 Oct 2022 1 minute read 11 comments Great White Snark

Here are a number of common/typical behaviours I see perpetrated by men who're trying to "score" with complete strangers online, but get nowhere other than onto "Blocked" lists. Despite having not previously interacted with her in a semi-public spac...

What Does He Mean when He Says Words?

9 Oct 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

"I mean, this is what makes covering Donald Trump so very difficult. What does he mean when he says words? Does he mean the words or does he mean something sort of like the words, you know?" — Zachary Wolf; CNN I'm sick of people ignoring the est...

... And Now, for Something Completely Different! (More Word Salad)

7 Oct 2022 2 minute read 4 comments Great White Snark

Since I see so much random and incoherent crap on this site, for which the author earns tips, I'm just going to give you some random sentences, by way of protest, and see if you feel it was worth me wasting our time. I figure that is about as valuabl...

The Much-Abridged Gospel of Brother Maynard

3 Oct 2022 1 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark

I'm not really sure where to put this (and it's too short for a decent post), so here goes nothing ... 72:826 It came to passThat much rubbish was played in the music clubs upon the Earth,But it pleaseth not the ear of our Dark Lord.Then lo, Satan sa...

My Failed Attempts at Smashing Patriarchy and Other Oppressive Structures: A Writing Index

23 Sep 2022 3 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark

I'll readily admit that my attempts to smash the pernicious, pervasive and systemic oppression that is Patriarchy have been unsuccessful. However, that hasn't been for lack of trying. Here, then, is a list of posts I've writ on the topic (including I...

Ain't Nobody Got Time for Cishet White Men's Bull

22 Sep 2022 2 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark

I am sick of the shenanigans of cishet white men. I am infuriated that I am part of that demographic simply because of the circumstances of my birth. I am livid that they (my so-called "peers") keep claiming to be hated and oppressed, "victims" of "c...

Windows 8+: 13 Reasons Why I Want to Throw my PC Out a Window

21 Sep 2022 3 minute read 5 comments Great White Snark

Windows has been called a virus and the slug of operating systems, not without good reasons. Here are thirteen reasons, in no particular order, why it frustrates me and wastes untold hours of my time when I'd be better off getting to grips with (and...

We will nae be fooled agin!

17 Sep 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

"Nae kin, nae quin! We will nae be fooled agin!" — The Nac Mac Feegle; Wee Free Men; Terry Pratchett Well, maybe a queen, if she's not going to be autocratic or despotic, but I doubt she will ... Anyway, that's possibly beside the point. Then again...