“I hate iPods. I mean, I really, really hate them. There, I’ve said it. My feelings towards Apple’s oh-so-clever digital music player have left me feeling ostracised and hopelessly out of the loop,” Bryony Gordon writes for The Telegraph.
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Nobody needs to worry about the Telegraph not liking the iPod.
The demographics of their readership show a large concentration of older people with political views tending towards the right.
The chances are quite remote that any potential iPod customer would be dissuaded because a Telegraph columnist doesn’t like it.
This person is SERIOUSLY insecure! I mean come on, she doesn’t hate the iPod because of anything about the iPod, she just hates it because it’s popular with a different group of people. heaven forbid you could actually LIKE something techy!
And if the longest she’s ever mobile is a trip to buy a pint of milk, then there’s no wonder she’s like that. Bryony, you need to get out more!
Btw, I don’t own an iPod yet (can’t afford at the mo), but I have no problem with other people having them. The more the merrier!
Has nobody here heard of “humour”? It’s funny, so laugh damn it!
BTW AlanAudio, is there any particular reason to bash Telegraph readers? Is this a socialists-only site?
Sorry to break the news to ya, but not all iPod and Apple loving people are left wingers AlanAudio. Lighten up and gain a semblance of a sense of humor people, it’s called sarcasm.
It’s not unusual. British women of a certain age have a tendency to dislike the iPod. There was a feature in The Independent last year, I think called ‘Grumpy Old Women’, in which three of the ten women named the iPod as something they hated.
They’ve a right to dislike them and wonder why people spend so much money on them. TI think the same about BMWs (though it’s less the cars themsleves as the pig ignorant arrogant drivers – at least in London).
Wow I didn’t know no pod owners felt that way. An odd bunch of people those non ipod owners are.
Yep its the old British humour of irony. Journalists use it lots when they can’t think of anything to write about cos it gets them noticed. Hm it worked..
That was a great article! It really made my day; thanks for sharing.
OK, Brits, help us out, here… “Tamagotchis”? “Faffing”?. I’m not sure I want to know what it means to “show off one’s Prince Albert”.
The Teletubby baby scares me, so do the Teletubbies, but I love my iPod.
What does that mean?
I hate cell phones, so friggin what.
She is just JEALOUS!
Hmm…let’s berate someone because she has an opinion! I had an old girlfriend that hated the beatles, and she was 100% entitled to her opinion. So what that I didn’t agree. Just because she doesn’t love some piece of plastic with a harddrive in it doesn’t make her insecure. Cell phones are usefull tools, but when I see some middle aged mom in her giant Ford Excursion, with a cell phone in one hand and cigarette in the other, my imediate reaction is disgust. To have such a reaction to this opinion piece shows who has the true insecurity.
a pink mini is just what she needs… i ordered one asap
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or she can watch me play with mine and be jealous.
Tamagotchi – children’s electronic keyring ‘pet’.
Faffing – Dither / fiddle about with.
Prince Albert – A piercing of the pen1s which allows the organ to be strapped to one’s thigh in order to improve the appearance of one’s trousers (pants).
Prince Albert was Queen Victoria’s husband and is rumoured to have had a big old todger and is also rumoured to have had this piercing. I expect that’s why she spent so long in mourning. It wasn’t the old fellow, it was his old fella she missed.
I’ve read it now. I think there are some valid points. My iPod ahas changed teh way I listen to music. Not always in a good way. In some ways it’s too easy. I usually just have mineon random play and I have a smart playlist that picks random songs to put onto the iPod and another to put new music on there. Another ensures I’m never without The Velvet Underground and another does the same for anything Tom Waits.
But I rarely listen to the whole of a new album any more. When I just had a CD player, I’d put the album on and listen to all of it. Now I just get snippets of albums and never get to learn of love new music in the same way as I used to. And now I’m buying less music too.
I know I have the choice to listen to a whole album, I know it’s easy to do that from the menus, and sometimes I do ‘force’ myself to listen to a whole album, but I do have a sneaking suspicion that the music on my iPod has become devalued now.
It’s like having a bad DJ with just my music to select from. Sometimes it’s superb, often it’s a disjointed mess but worst of all, there’s nobody to educate me about new music.
Maybe I should buy myself a new radio.
I kind of understand. I don’t feel that way about the iPod (I love my iPod), but that’s exactly the way I feel about Mandy Moore. Who is she, where did she come from, and why are people interviewing her all the time? I just don’t get it!!!
Hywel,
So, what’s “Prince Albert in the Can” then?
Amazing. So what if the writer hates iPods? The writer isn’t critiquing the iPod, merely expressing a personal opinion. You mean people can’t express an opinion? Jeez. Grow up already.
ok i’m trying to picture this peircing & strapping and i just cannot do it. people are so weird sometimes!
Oh you just ordered one, eh? I thought you “dropped” it. So, you were lying this whole time? Hmmph!
It is so typical Brit and their sense of humor that they take the mickey out of the whole ipod thing.
Oh well, there is always going to be separate groups of people. Some are innovators – these got their ipods as soon as they were introduced. Some are early adopters – these caught the bug from innovators. Next group will be the majority. Last group will be the laggards – these will need to be dragged, kicking and screaming into modern times.
Don’t fight the feelin’.
no i ordered one almost as soon as they came out! i can barely remember back then… i think i’ll be 100 by the time it gets here 🙁
does anyone have theirs yet?
“or she can watch me play with mine and be jealous.”
Can we watch too? We promise we won’t get jealous.
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It’s not hard to picture, all you need is to Google (“Prince Albert” and piercing). If you don’t have the stomach, basically it’s a piercing underneath the penis glans though the urethra and you put a ring through it. Like Hywel said, originally, one put a strap through the ring and use it to fasten one’s penis to the thigh. The only question I have is, how do you pee? Sounds like a mess.