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- Johnnell, on 07/14/2008, -9/+197Come on people, it's already in the top stories..
http://digg.com/apple/Apple_Customers_Insulted_by_ ... - SillyRabbits, on 07/14/2008, -28/+189Congrats on your interpersonal office skills. Unable to take a little good-natured ribbing about your computer? Hint for you, that's not 'respect' he's showing you.
- thefinger, on 07/14/2008, -28/+125If you have college debts, where the hell are your priorities? When you're budgeting, make sure to strike overpriced Apple gear off of your list of things to buy. Sheesh.
- inactive, on 07/14/2008, -141/+231A guy at work made yet another snide remark about the price of my Mac Pro a couple of months ago and I finally just got fed up with him and snapped, "Listen, *****, did you buy this computer?"
"Uh, no."
"Do you pay my salary every week? Wanna pick up the tab on my college loans?"
"Nope."
"Then what the ***** business is it of yours what computer I use?"
He got this sheepish look on his face and walked away. He's shown me respect ever since. Look, I understand Windows users hate those "Get-A-Mac" commercials, but it's not like we all get together and decide what commercials Apple runs with. And more to the point, why do people get upset about a commercial with two grown men pretending to be computers? Are Windows users are really that insecure?
Anyway, it's nice to see at least one Apple guy not taking such abuse lying down. More power to him. - Hedgecore, on 07/14/2008, -24/+104You left out the part where you probably put down your apple branded laptop bag on the sandwich he was trying to eat, hung your sweat covered Apple logo adorned hat off his monitor, and shoved it in his face to show him you got a Mac all while giving him a good deliberate view of the Apple logo tattoo on your forearm.
If he thinks you paid too much, then he thinks you paid too much. He wasn't hanging around your house at 2am trying to get a piece of your mom. It's just a computer. (One you paid too much for.) - SSUK, on 07/14/2008, -10/+86Nice to see he didn't get to you.
- Natitude, on 07/14/2008, -29/+100I'm gonna go against probably what most here think, but I agree with this reported.. seriously, it's just a friggen phone...
- PeanutCheeseBar, on 07/14/2008, -24/+95Buried as duplicate: http://digg.com/apple/Apple_Customers_Insulted_by_ ...
- inigomntoya, on 07/14/2008, -2/+69I wonder if the crazy donut guy in our office thinks he is getting respect too...
- alex7575, on 07/14/2008, -6/+62"A guy at work made yet another snide remark about the price of my Mac Pro a couple of months ago and I finally just got fed up with him and snapped, "Listen, *****, did you buy this computer?"
"... And more to the point, why do people get upset about a commercial with two grown men pretending to be computers?"
So it's ok to make snide remarks about PC's being crappy, but it's NOT ok to make snide remarks about Macs being expensive?
Get a life...
-Fellow Mac user. - inactive, on 07/14/2008, -6/+61People get excited about and are willing to wait for different things.
Some wait overnight for tickets to see their favorite band, others spend time clamoring to everyone about some vintage violin they just found, others spend hours every weekend tinkering under a car. Saying "it's just a phone" is like saying "it's just a band" or "it's just a car".
Bottom line: Let people get excited about the things they like without being a jerk and ruining it for them. To each his own. - Misinformant, on 07/14/2008, -2/+55But note he dodged the question if he's ever seen a woman naked...
- Portagine, on 07/14/2008, -4/+50Meanwhile in other news I couldn't give a ***** less about iPhones.
But I am eating Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal right now and it is evoking more emotions than any phone ever could.
You people ***** baffle me. - brundlefly76, on 07/14/2008, -4/+49Besides being a douchebag, he lacks originality. He was trying to emulate the hilarious (and ancient) routine of Trimuph The Insult Comic Dog at the Star Wars premiere line.
Unfortunately, Spillman didn't realize that you don't just copy someone else's schtick and you're automatically funny - you just embarrass yourself. - slapded, on 07/14/2008, -17/+59it is just a phone
- lebatte, on 07/14/2008, -4/+40Oh wow, it's Michaela Pereira from TechTV.
- AntBing, on 07/14/2008, -2/+37I'm not allowed to be friends with people who don't know how to capitalize their name or country of origin.
- inactive, on 07/14/2008, -10/+40And maybe they would wait in line for bread - IF WE WERE IN AN ACTUAL RECESSION.
- dehemke, on 07/14/2008, -11/+41Good thing he backed off before you slapped him silly!
- AquaOSX, on 07/14/2008, -0/+29Jackass submits duplicate story about jackass, gets called jackass.
- thefinger, on 07/14/2008, -8/+35Yeah. These Apple folk get real hostile. Bound to have been a cat fight. The guy would have broken a nail or something.
- RadioFreeOpium, on 07/14/2008, -1/+28I agree, You let someone teasing you about your computer throw you over "the edge" like that? You must have come off as a neurotic ass, and I'm sure your coworkers have all heard about it. You should have been more diplomatic, maybe ask him what he uses, and tease him about vista's suckage or something
- elvenseven, on 07/14/2008, -7/+32Douchebag
- haentz, on 07/14/2008, -12/+37What the ***** business is it of yours what computer he bought?
- atcrawford, on 07/14/2008, -1/+22Where am I?
- Linux user - pennvneff, on 07/14/2008, -1/+20That story really turned me on and I'm not even gay.
- freshyill, on 07/14/2008, -1/+20Well the store must have been out of bread. Here in American, we eat expensive cell phones when the bread lines run out.
I remember during the recession in the early '90s, it was really rough because cell phones were really big and they tasted particularly bad back then, so the bread lines all across American ran out really quickly. - tbeseda, on 07/12/2008, -29/+47via Gruber: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/07/12/jackas ...
- Hayes, on 07/14/2008, -0/+17This never happened.
- beesaretasty, on 07/14/2008, -1/+18Sounds like somebody has a case of the Mondays
- inactive, on 07/14/2008, -4/+20Enjoy your piece of ***** laptop
Why dont go you to starbucks and write about it. - JaredClayton, on 07/14/2008, -13/+29Meh. Whether or not they are lining up for a phone or whatever, i'd still get pissed off with having some journalist in my face questioning me. So what, they're there for the phone. I especially find it extremely stereotypical when somebody like that queries whether 'I've seen a woman naked' or not because your interested in gadgets and technology. I know half of you guys would of lined up if you had the money to spare for a phone like that, whether you needed a phone like that or not.
A note though: I have a girlfriend, no i don't have an iPhone and no i haven't lined up for anything such as that. But i can see their side to things.
Kthnx. - inactive, on 07/14/2008, -0/+15Just one friend?
- inactive, on 07/14/2008, -1/+16Is it better to be feared or respected? I say, is it too much to ask for both?
- pintomp3, on 07/14/2008, -5/+19i don't think the interview was a pc vs mac thing. i think the reporter was making fun of the "nerd culture". he was trying to do the insult the comic dog thing, but he wasn't very funny:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3261002880 ... - goodnewsevery1, on 07/14/2008, -7/+21For those trying to compare these morons waiting in line for this thing to waiting in line for other things...your missing the big point.
Tomorrow, any Joe Idiot can walk in the store and buy the same phone. Your waiting in line so you can have it, what 12 hours before the smart person who didn't wait in line. Lines like this speak loud and clear about the commercialism that purveys the US and how easy it is to lead the sheepish consumer convincing them they have to have this bloated phone that is buggier than Windows. - insanesocrates, on 07/13/2008, -40/+54the guys name is Eric Spillman, he works for KTLA....what a douchebag
- leetninja, on 07/14/2008, -1/+14clak apparently IS the crazy donuts guy ...
- Magnus150, on 07/14/2008, -16/+29We're not insecure, just tired of the douchebaggery that those commercials perpetrate.
Enjoy your Fisher Price "My First Computer" - peterredding, on 07/14/2008, -1/+14No you didn't.
- sindrit, on 07/14/2008, -3/+16No, a Mac is a fashion accessory.
- darkane, on 07/14/2008, -7/+20Actually, if you weren't busy being such an *****, you'd realize that this one was submitted 32 hours before the one you linked to. Why don't you go bury the other one?
- Wuss, on 07/14/2008, -10/+23I think most of of you Apple fan boys are missing the point. People may be verbalizing their jokes around the price of the phone and the service, but the end point is that it's not normal to be that fanatical about a common appliance, i.e. a phone.
It's just as illogical to be waiting in line all day for a trendy toaster. And what's even more illogical, is that it will be readily available after the initial launch day, so why wait in line for a day? - WiretapStudios, on 07/14/2008, -1/+13you guys missed haentz joke, that was referencing the original guys reaction.
- NYCowboy, on 07/14/2008, -6/+18I guess fanboys can't take a joke, we need to get Triumph out there fast
- dexter411, on 07/14/2008, -1/+12The word you're looking for is "depression." I know, they're similar and confusing.
- WileEPeyote, on 07/14/2008, -3/+13What if you get excited about making fun of people waiting in line for something they can get next week without waiting in line...
- holdit, on 07/14/2008, -3/+13So you have people waiting in line for literally days to buy a consumer electronic and it's the guy making fun of them that's the jackass. Right on, gotta love Digg.
- Medicamusic, on 10/28/2008, -3/+13What about Carlos Mencia? lol
- Baronvontito1, on 07/14/2008, -1/+11I like you.
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