David Silverberg's "Terms and Conditionals": the things you just agreed to

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/05/31/agree-to-disagree.html

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My brain went straight to David Cronenberg’s “Terms and Conditions,” which I now need to see.

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Shades of ‘Unauthorized Bread’, amirite?

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I make really bad pasta, I am pretty tempted to accept these terms and conditions.

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number 9 coal.

Brilliant stuff.
This savage, yet surrealist satire of consumerism reminds me of Douglas Adams, RIP.

If technical problems prevent or unreasonably delay delivery of
Content, your exclusive… remedy is either… or mixing the blood… with the moustache grease of a Russian hacker. We will accept North Korean hacker moustache grease if a Russian hacker cannot be sourced in time.

Shouldn’t this word be something like “substitute”?

I think the idea is that you, the customer, have to manufacture the remedy, using the ingredients specified.

I did see, long ago, the threat of a school of land sharks in a license agreement.

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