Free IBM Computers For UK Households

Albanach writes "The Scotland on Sunday newspaper is reporting that UK firm Metronomy are offering 200,000 IBM PCs free of charge to UK households. Of course, there is a catch - advertising. Accepting the terms and conditions will get users a free IBM PC running Windows XP, but they will also be required to watch three minutes of TV style advertising for every hour of computer use and undertake to use the PC for a minimum of 30 hours per month."

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Re:Why the U.K.?

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If you're going to pretend to be British at least have the intelligence to disguise your North American upbringing.

"Welfare"? Nobody in the UK would call it welfare - that's such an Americanism it's unbelievable. As is "hawking". Try using more colloquial terms in future: eg, "benefits" instead of "welfare", "flogging" instead of "hawking". By the way, nobody uses the word "horrid" here either, apart from people living in a time warp.

"Realized"? Oh dear. Worse than using Americanisms is using American spellings. Outside North America the word is spelt "realised". Perhaps if you actually were from the UK you'd have learnt that.

If you truly are British care to tell us where your from? Want to name half a dozen British retailers you'd find on the typical high street? Care to explain the offside law? Or tell us what top job a Swede holds in England? Want to tell us what's bigger over here, Frasier, Friends, Scrubs, Sienfeld or Will and Grace? Want to tell me what the most famous football terrace in Britain's called? Or name the comics you grew up reading when you were a kid? Or which TV quiz conundrum round? Didn't think so.

Apart from all that, nice troll attempt. Now stop pretending to be something that you're not, you pathetic little man.