So, let me get this straight. You bought a $650 phone and physically damaged it. You then, rather than fixing it, continued to use it and then physically damaged it more. Apple, rather than charging you $650, offered to swap it our for less than half the price. And this was a bad thing? What was it you were expecting?

Other than the box, i see nothing in the cards reminiscent of Jaws, other than a great white shark (which really looks lothing like ‘Bruce’). Ripoff city.

You’re looking for sexism where there is none.

Because those four women are freaking hilarious.

In 1989 I purchased two Panasonic video phones, one for me and the other to give to a buddy. They ran about $400 each, the unit comprised of a black and white screen, I’d say about 4 inches tall with a little cd camera on top. The ‘video’ itself was pixelated video (think pxl2000) that ran about 10 frames per second.…

Yeah, and nazi shark men was actually the plot of Benchley’s book ‘White Shark’. Seriously.

The Amiga was hardly a failure - for about ten yeas it was the dominant setup for video production. Though not found in many homes, you would have been hard pressed to find a newsroom or video production company not using a 4000 with a video toaster in the mid to late 90’s. It eventually died when other tech surpassed…

You can probably make a safe assumption that the racism follows all minority groups - There aren’t too many hillbilly saying “Those goddamn blacks are ruining America, but you know who I really love? My Jew neighbors. Those guys are A-OK with me!”

Hey now, that shit is not JUST for the poor. I’m on that middle class side and thats where I keep all my stupid shit too! (Though admittedly, no ugly Christmas sweaters. Do they make ugly Chanukkah sweaters? I should get on that...)

A rotary phone could have worked if you had a modem with a coupler and self dialed. The rotaary phone would also need to have a ‘pulse’ mode. Yes, technically it would work, but it wold have been archaic even thirty years ago. Dude, if you’re on the level and your parents bought you a rotary phone and a coupler modem…

I don’t doubt that they did, but then again, a bunch of people bought iPhone 5Cs this past week. Doesn’t mean it was the prudent thing to do and doesn’t mean that MOST people did the same thing.

Arken, no one was ever buying rotary phones in the 80’s. Plenty of people had been renting them from AT&T, but that had waned significantly by then. If people WERE buying new phones, they were buying touch tone. We got rid of all of our rentals in 1981 or 1982, and wouldn’t have dreamed of actually purchasing such…

In the early 80’s, perhaps. By the mid 80’s, phone rentals had ground to a halt. AT&T was spending tons of money trying to convince people to not buy telephones because they would break or fail, simply because that business model had ended its lifecycle. In 1985, an Apple phone would not have a rotary dial, pure and…

They did have LCD tech for portables then, albeit very new stuff. Apple would use very new stuff. Which is why the rotary portion is laughable.

That used to bother me a lot when watching the Goldbergs first season. Adam Goldberg (the creator of the show) explained it something like this - the show is a hazy memory of the 80’s, and each episode, though contained in one storyline, picks and grabs different things that happened to him at different times, which…

Here’s Radio Shack’s 1985 catalog phone pages. You COULD buy a rotary phone then, but tone technology was prevalent. Apple would not have released a phone in 1985 with a rotary dial. It would be the same as them releasing a corded phone today. The tech is still used, but it isn't the mainstream device being sold.

Damn you and posting here before me.

The perfect crime is one in which the crime itself is never known about. Once someone comes looking for the missing body, the crime is no longer ‘perfect’.

Ridiculous thinking, Rogue. Women molest as well. Are you uncomfortable with male elementary school teachers too?

true, it is a costly investment - but a typical year would cost at least 3 or 4 grand to sod in the first place, and then tack on about a hundred bucks a month to water the thing. after about ten years, it amounts to about the same.