Turning the dial up to 11

Disclaimet: This blog entry is a joke and I am OK with anyone who likes this meme.

OK this a bad meme from 1984, we didn't really have the internet, but we sure had memes in the 80s and believe me, I got a bad one for you. This one comes from the 1984 movie, “This is Spinal Tap,” now I'm not gonna call the characters by the their actual names because I couldn't care less the joke is that Moron is telling Smart Person that his amplifier is louder because it goes to 11. Then Smart Person responds to his idiotic statement by saying, “Why don't you make 10 louder?” That's a very excellent question to which Moron replies, “these go up to 11.” It's too bad Moron's intelligence doesn't even go up to 1, but that's the joke and I'm not talking about the movie, I'm talking about the fact that a whole bunch of stupid morons embraced his statements as being the smartest thing ever.

OK, in case you are one of those stupid morons, let me explain something to you that you will probably not understand, but it's worth a try, (well in this case it's more like a shot in the dark.) The dial on your amplifier does not specify any units of measurement. The numbers do convey information, but they only say that the highest number is the highest volume and the lowest number is the lowest volume, so if you want your speaker to be louder and go to 11, I recommend that you buy a louder speaker and put a sticker on top of the real dial that goes from 0 to 11. Then your speaker will go to 11, but I'll still hate you, because you're a moron.

Now, I think I get the appeal of this meme, I understand why you want to embrace it, you want to embrace something dumb so that you don't feel smart because you think that being smart is for nerds. But there's a fine line between not being dumb, and being a nerd, and guess what morons? You crossed it!

By now some of you are saying that after the movie, several amplifiers were made that actually do go up to 11 because of some technicality in the wiring, but is that what you really want? You really hate nerds that much, even the ones that make all of your awesome audio equipment that you're gonna make them go through more complicated work, just so that you can have 2-6 extra lines printed on a plastic cover and have it mean something. So congratulations! now your speaker goes to 11 of something, but you don't know or care what it is because you're too stupid to realize that —the movie scene that the concept came from— is making fun of the concept, itself.

So let's wrap it up shall we! If you think that, “turn the speakers up to 11” is a good meme, you're stupid, because you're actually trying to be like a stupid character. So why not even be less nerdy by being more stupid! Why don't you just dress up like a clown and and write the word, “moron on your forehead,” because god forbid that you would show any sign of intelligence otherwise you'd be a nerd!