Shut Up / And take my Keys!
A Shut Up And Take My Money Fry post.
The new tablet is only slightly smaller than the one you already own, and nobody in the house has asked for a second. You have read the reviews twice and watched the launch video. The basket is already open in another tab. A games console you have no room for goes on sale, or gets announced, or is merely rumoured by a man in a forum. You have not finished the one you bought in the last sale. The wallet is out regardless. The summer sale opens and your library already holds forty games you have never launched. You add six more "for later". Later is a place where you will have a mortgage and no free evenings. A podcast host says "and now a word from our sponsor" and, against all your principles, you listen to the whole thing. There is a discount code. You write it down on the back of your hand. **Why it caught on:** the picture is Fry, the orange-haired delivery boy from the animated series Futurama, glaring and waving a fistful of banknotes. The line comes from the 2000s, when people used it to answer any product announcement they found irresistible. It spread because it lets you shout your own weakness for gadgets and bargains before anyone can talk you out of it.