“Police warned owners of Apple’s new iPhone yesterday to hide the handsets in public amid fears that they could be the target of muggers,” Nicole Martin reports for The Telegraph.
“Scotland Yard believes that high-value handsets are the driving force behind street robberies, especially among young people,” Martin reports. “The warning comes as stores across Britain are preparing for the launch tomorrow of what has been described as the ‘God phone.'”
“Queues are expected to form [today] outside more than 1,300 Apple, O2 and Carphone Warehouse shops, which will be selling the £269 device from precisely 6.02pm,” Martin reports. “The combined phone, digital music player and internet browser has become one of the most sought after gadgets in history.”
Full article here.
Will I become a God by owning an iPhone, is it what God uses or is it actually God?
It is God. There have been some theological disputes but there is now consensus in the theological community. One or two iPhone-as-God deniers do not change that fact.
It’s a trilogy, M.X.N.T.4.1.
God, the phone and the holy bandwidth.
Make that trinity. (long day already)
Zune owners given warning to stop ‘accidently’ leaving their devices on park benches and bus seats, amid bomb fears.
Now I want my iPhone ringtone to sing:
“Always look on the bright side of iLife.”
Zune owners were warned to hide their prize amid bugger fears.
Mauritius — [cough] TowerTone [cough]
I fart in your general direction.
I used to have to hide my prize amidst my Scottish Terrier’s bugger fears…..
In that case by hiding your Zune in your underwear (where they belong) will surely make it indistinguishable to thieves as they will think you’ve just crapped in your pants.
“Police warned owners of Apple’s new iPhone yesterday to hide the handsets in public … “
That’s going to make it awfully hard to answer your calls!
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HYPE.
None of the definitions of the word hype come close to providing a meaningful description of the level of overblown, grandiose, BS foisted on the public (mostly by itself) concerning the iPhone. The only other mindless circle jerk group think I can come up with that even comes close is global warming.
Is that the zeitgeist of our age? Everyone spreading FUD about global warming over their rudimentary iPhones?
Do you sense an attitude MDN?
Yes, some of us actually have one that wasn’t prescribed.
1. to stimulate, excite, or agitate (usually fol. by up): She was hyped up at the thought of owning her own car.
2. to create interest in by flamboyant or dramatic methods; promote or publicize showily: a promoter who knows how to hype a prizefight.
3. to intensify (advertising, promotion, or publicity) by ingenious or questionable claims, methods, etc. (usually fol. by up).
4. to trick; gull.
5. exaggerated publicity; hoopla.
6. an ingenious or questionable claim, method, etc., used in advertising, promotion, or publicity to intensify the effect.
7. a swindle, deception, or trick.
[Origin: 1925–30, Americanism; in sense “to trick, swindle,” of uncert. orig.; subsequent senses perh. by reanalysis as a shortening of hyperbole]
Just dump a clip in the mugger, make sure you kill them, don’t stop pulling that trigger.
Remember your in fear of your life and you have every right to kill the bastard in self defense.
Dead men tell no tales. First one is always the hardest.
I’ve done in my first in grade school, bigger classmate was trying to rob me of my lunch money, he lunged and I sidesteped him and used his momentum to ram his skull into a concrete filled steel pipe, splitting his skull in half with his brains spilling out.
I was only 8. Nothing happened, all the kids were to young to say anything anyway.
Be surprised how much people don’t see even when it happens right in front of them.
The reason people get robbed is because they are perceived as weak, a easy prey. Get hard and watch yourself and the wolves will pick a easier target.
To Daddy’s Goin’ On A Date:
“Mauritius — [cough] TowerTone [cough]”
No, we’re not the same person. My acrophobia would never let me do TowerTone’s type of work. I’m also afraid of widths and depths but that’s a different story.
“Scotland Yard believes that high-value handsets are the driving force behind street robberies, especially among young people…”
Or muggers. They could also be the driving force behind muggings. Just a thought.
Watch out for the young gangs, notably the black boys. In Africa it’s in their nature to team up and hunt a prey down. So they are faster physically, try to avoid situations where one can be ambushed. Carry a device that can be used effectively the first time against each of multiple targets. You’ll only get one chance at each in a group, perhaps only on two or three , until they begin to realize what they are up against and change tactics or hopefully flee.
Forget mace, that’s a joke. Forget stun guns unless they are on you, but you shouldn’t even get to that point. Pull your pistol and cap a couple, they will haul ass fast. Wipe the gun and casings and coat with oil, grease and dispose.
Keep your mouth shut, tell no one. Take off for about a month or two until you compose yourself and can act ignorant.
The police hardly won’t pursue these cases if they know the victums were perps themselves. Just figuring it was gang warfare.
@ Simple Solution: OMG, no you di-int.
Use knives with medium strong blades that don’t bend and are two sided. Preferably picka knife that’s scary to look at. Don’t flash it as a method of self defense, they will just pick up a stick or pull a gun.
Wait for them to get their hands on you and then strike, look for a body location that has little coverage, like the legs in winter time.
my god
@ Simpleton, er, Simple Solution
this is a Mac fan blog
take your racist baggage to the right venue for your jollies please
D G O A D-
Mauritius Kestrel is the smart one.
I’m the pretty one (according to my cousin…)
TT:
TT:
P.S. Your initials remind me of the The GateKeeper System in “The Net.” I clicked on your initials while holding the CTRL and SHIFT buttons but instead of government secrets, all I got was a HUGE list of right-wing propaganda blogs. Your new name is Ruth, btw.
Round these parts (Australia) carrying a concealed bread and butter knife in a public place much less a handgun will have you strip searched and sent to some Caribbean paradise for questioning faster than you can say Woolloomooloo. Simple Solutions sounds like he’s dearly in need of a holiday though.
Wow, pretty strong statements coming from Scrotum Yard, but what do you expect from a a mouthpiece of AENUS, the group of terrorist nations (Australia, England ‘N Unites States)? Citizens with iPhones can experience the rest of them being stripped of their human rights and dignity. Most likely they will have to congregate somewhere late at night far away from they Orwellian satelitte eyes of big brother and pull out their iPhone and decide whether or not to call someone.
And CC from Anustralia, it has gone way beyond a bread and butter knife that you have to conceal. You can get massacred just for watering your lawn.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22688984-5006784,00.html
I can imagine the pussy down there must be pretty dried up and gritty by now.