Where were you when?

He's like Walter Cronkite,
but with perspective issues.

Wow, it's been a rough couple of weeks here in America, and just when you thought we could endure no more, this happened:

"Call it the nightmare before Christmas. A lot of folks hoping to kick back and relax with a movie at home on Christmas Eve were out of luck, thanks to a Netflix outage that had thousands of unhappy customers taking to social media to vent their frustration..."

I'm sure that one day we'll all be telling our grandkids where we were during the Great Netflix Outage of 2012. Sure, The company apologized and the service was restored, but is sorry really enough? I mean how many people were forced to switch over to Hulu, or god forbid, talk to one another?

Do the Netflix people up there in their ivory tower even realize that
Hulu is like 80% Korean soap operas? Do they have any idea?

"Five channels and one of them is PBS?
Godammit, I hate the 20th century!"

Ok, so kidding aside, thousands of people went on social media to vent their frustration? Holy shit, for serious? Did people actually discover that Netflix was down and immediately hop online to commiserate with friends about it? What did we do in past centuries when the cable went out? Get on our primitive non-cellular phones and rail against having to watch regular broadcast television like a bunch of savages? Are we so fragile and internet-dependant as a species now that we can't go a couple of hours without instant access to full seasons of Project Runway? 

Above: Aliens taking a wise
preventative measure.

In a jaw-droppingly pathetic twist, it turns out that the outage was limited to devices which stream the service to your televisions like PS3's and Blu-Ray players and not say, computers. So people could have actually been watching Netflix on the very same computers and iPhones they were using to whine about being deprived of Netflix for a few hours. Let's all just remember this when the aliens come and obliterate us from orbit rather than letting us spread our stupid to the stars.

During the blitz, Londoners took shelter in the city's underground
tube stations while the Germans bombed the shit out of their homes.
Fun Fact: Not one of them complained on Twitter.