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The OP seems to have trust issues with his wife in the first place, which is why I wrote what I did. I have been married for many years, yet never had a reason to not trust my wife. She's the finest human being I have ever known, and I treat her accordingly. Some would say she's better than I deserve, but that would be an insult towards her intelligence (and I would never marry a stupid girl).

Dude, he was just joking. :rolleyes:

Oh, I can guarantee you that they know - and hopefully they know it to its full extent, even.

So you just enjoy being a jerk to people? I'm not calling you one, but if I worked with you and you did that to me I certainly wouldn't want you around me.

Ask the OP. He's the one who suspects that his wife left the iPad in the rain on purpose, so as to get an excuse for buying a new one.

See my post above, btw.

Once again, he was likely joking. Either way your advice is like trying to put a fire out with gasoline. If someone is lying in a relationship, the last thing that you want to do is treat them like a 5 year old and interrogate them. You might as well simply say "You are a liar and I want a divorce" and get it over with.

Bottom line? Your advice was horrible and I certainly hope that you STOP treating people like that.
 
This may not get the blemishes out, but I write it anyway.

I would have a serious talk with her about the surrounding topics to her statement, after she has told you her side of the story. Talk with her about how great the new iPads are compared to the old ones, how it's important to take care of one's things, how careful she usually is with electronic devices, how you can't afford a new iPad anyway (if true) etc. Watch her reactions carefully, and check for inconsistencies with her initial statement of having forgetfully left the iPad in the rain. Also, do observe her reactions (voice, body language, etc) to your approach, regardless of what she answers. Finally, IF there is a sufficient amount of guilt, remorse or inconsistencies on her side, confront her with your suspicion and she will tell you the truth.

This might seem like an interrogation technique, which it is. And a very efficient one, too. Remember that even if your gut feeling is not always right, it's never wrong either.

You forgot to include using a searing white light and a garden hose. What's next torbjoern, water boarding or unleashing SEAL Team 6 on her? You obviously watch too many cop shows. Wow, just wow.
 
if it's not too late, i would ziplock bag it inside full of uncooked rice for 24 hours. it'll definitely help! we have done it to 2 iphone 4's and they work 100%.

you have to stop yourself from powering it on though. wait a full 24 hours!
 
This may not get the blemishes out, but I write it anyway.

I would have a serious talk with her about the surrounding topics to her statement, after she has told you her side of the story. Talk with her about how great the new iPads are compared to the old ones, how it's important to take care of one's things, how careful she usually is with electronic devices, how you can't afford a new iPad anyway (if true) etc. Watch her reactions carefully, and check for inconsistencies with her initial statement of having forgetfully left the iPad in the rain. Also, do observe her reactions (voice, body language, etc) to your approach, regardless of what she answers. Finally, IF there is a sufficient amount of guilt, remorse or inconsistencies on her side, confront her with your suspicion and she will tell you the truth.

This might seem like an interrogation technique, which it is. And a very efficient one, too. Remember that even if your gut feeling is not always right, it's never wrong either.

Quite possibly the most ignorant and self contradicting thing ever written on the Internet.
 
This may not get the blemishes out, but I write it anyway.

I would have a serious talk with her about the surrounding topics to her statement, after she has told you her side of the story. Talk with her about how great the new iPads are compared to the old ones, how it's important to take care of one's things, how careful she usually is with electronic devices, how you can't afford a new iPad anyway (if true) etc. Watch her reactions carefully, and check for inconsistencies with her initial statement of having forgetfully left the iPad in the rain. Also, do observe her reactions (voice, body language, etc) to your approach, regardless of what she answers. Finally, IF there is a sufficient amount of guilt, remorse or inconsistencies on her side, confront her with your suspicion and she will tell you the truth.

This might seem like an interrogation technique, which it is. And a very efficient one, too. Remember that even if your gut feeling is not always right, it's never wrong either.

Bravo as others have said so far for a great post!

For me, the thread title was going to make me say something along the lines of "MacArthur Park"....
 
You forgot to include using a searing white light and a garden hose. What's next torbjoern, water boarding or unleashing SEAL Team 6 on her? You obviously watch too many cop shows. Wow, just wow.

Incredible. I encourage the OP to investigate to what extent his gut feeling is right (not necessarily confront directly, though), and you start comparing it with torture immediately? I should like to know what this is all about.

Btw, I never watch cop shows. I've seen a few in my life, but most of what you see on those shows is BS anyway :cool: Trust me.

I think you took the OP way too literally. It's pretty obvious that he wasn't serious.

Well, to me it wasn't really that obvious. What in the post made you think it was a joke?

Dude, he was just joking. :rolleyes:
Again, this was not really obvious. Why was it obviously a joke? Or as CH would have said: "I have the chat-log right here! Where does it says that it was only a joke?"
So you just enjoy being a jerk to people? I'm not calling you one, but if I worked with you and you did that to me I certainly wouldn't want you around me.
When applicable, I have even been paid for "being a jerk to people" as you so eloquently put it. But not to colleagues or subordinates, of course. That was for the IA to do.
 
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Dude, if you don't understand that your post was bad advice then I simply pity you. I am done arguing it.....:rolleyes:
 
Dude, if you don't understand that your post was bad advice then I simply pity you. I am done arguing it.....:rolleyes:
If the OP trusts his wife (despite the posting) there is no reason for him to follow my advice in the first place. You and the others seem quite selective about what you take seriously and not, and now you're chickening out already? How convenient! Well, fine, do as you like!
The fact that it's insane for an adult to leave an expensive electronic device in the rain simply so you can buy a new one?

Nobody use sarcasm with this guy or I'll shoot myself!
It's insane to leave an expensive electronic device in the rain for whatever reason, and the OP states in clear text that this is what happened.
 
Btw, I never watch cop shows. I've seen a few in my life, but most of what you see on those shows is BS anyway :cool: Trust me.

Trust you? I'm a retired cop so don't try to BS me. My instincts say you're loss prevention or security guard at the most. Your 'interrogation' lesson was unremarkable and pedestrian.
 
Certainly not. And if the tables had been turned (husband left iPad in the rain, wife consults MR), I would give the wife the same advice. I have used such techniques in my work so I know they're efficient on adults. Not always, of course - and it's a matter of practice too. For instance: pathological liars could circumvent this especially if they were more skilled in the game than I was, in which case it would be nearly impossible to ambush them.

It's great you work with techniques like what you mentioned ( which were extremely vague and personally it sounds like an episode of 'lie to me' too many before bed), however..what you typed, was flat out creepy. He's not trying to ascertain whether she killed someone, nor is an iPad worth risking a relationship with insult. It's an iPad....that may or may not be ruined..

Finally, the way you continued to respond...well...is also creepy. You may be the greatest human lie detector on the planet...advice given as you did and conversation delivered in the tone you used seem more like 'I forgot my meds' though.

I mean no offense, I'm juts trying to explain that you're being creepy.

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I have never watched or read or heard about 'lie to me' so I can't relate to that, unfortunately. You're right about an iPad not being worth risking the relationship over, which is why there wouldn't be any reason to lie about it in the first place.

There are many inconsistencies in what has been posted in reply to my posting (some of which coming from the same posters). First, they compare it with using torture, and then they say that it's barely noticeable. The latter was intended from my point (it's not supposed to be experienced as an interrogation, so I'm kinda glad to see that). But what is true? Is it too harsh or is it un-noticeable? Both can't be true at once.

I guess what you're writing about creepiness explains the above, so thanks for a frank and honest answer (as opposed to a lot of the self-contradicting BS which I have seen from others). Without any diagnosis, there is no medication either - so the only medicine I take is paracetamol, but I do remember to take it. And no, I'm not offended by your posting at all.

EDIT: Interesting that you used the picture of "Herr Flick", which is what a colleague of mine used to call me. It has to be mentioned, though, that he was a good friend of mine and that he meant it as a compliment.
 
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It's insane to leave an expensive electronic device in the rain for whatever reason, and the OP states in clear text that this is what happened.

No, it could have been an honest mistake. I assumed that it was an honest mistake... I've done the same... not with my iPad, but leaving things out where they shouldn't be. I assumed that the OP was making a joke when they said their wife must have left it out on purpose... If I though otherwise I wouldn't have posted at all.

I'm also going to assume that since you note you are in Norway that there is a bit of a cultural/language gap and that you are a much nicer person than your posts are conveying. That is the big problem with a written conversation, it's so hard to see the body language.

We've been having a late summer... how's it been in Norway?
 
If the OP trusts his wife (despite the posting) there is no reason for him to follow my advice in the first place. You and the others seem quite selective about what you take seriously and not, and now you're chickening out already? How convenient! Well, fine, do as you like!

It's insane to leave an expensive electronic device in the rain for whatever reason, and the OP states in clear text that this is what happened.

If it's not intentional, then it doesn't have to be insane. It can be an accident.

Judging from...

1) The only thread this guy ever started is entitled "Happy Columbine Day."
2) He writes on his web site (in his sig) on misanthropy and his distrust of humans.

...I'd say your original post makes sense (to you).
 
He writes on his web site (in his sig) on misanthropy and his distrust of humans.

If you had actually read what I have written on my website about misanthropy, you would see that it's my distrust of humankind as a whole (really, its existence has to be some kind of error) - not necessarily towards each and every single human being. But I guess that was a little too much to expect, now wasn't it, yet still you have the nerve to make reference to it here?

But yes, I do see myself as a misanthropist, and I'm proud of being one.
 
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OP have you talked to the wife yet? Im sure we re all dying to find out whether or not it was intentional!

btw... rain in the summer? where are you from Asia?
 
Certainly not. And if the tables had been turned (husband left iPad in the rain, wife consults MR), I would give the wife the same advice. I have used such techniques in my work so I know they're efficient on adults. Not always, of course - and it's a matter of practice too. For instance: pathological liars could circumvent this especially if they were more skilled in the game than I was, in which case it would be nearly impossible to ambush them.

You wouldn't find it at all condescending if your SO (or a close friend, since I doubt you've held onto many romantic relationships in your life) decided it was necessary to "explain" to you that it is important to take care of your possessions, and that iPads are expensive? IDK what your line of work is, but that's not how you treat an adult whom you claim to respect. It may be efficient, but relationships require a hell of a lot more than efficiency.

And yes, it was obvious to everyone else that he was joking in his last line.
 
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@Virgo: not a chance I will be the first to stop. Wtf do you take me for?
 
This may not get the blemishes out, but I write it anyway.

I would have a serious talk with her about the surrounding topics to her statement, after she has told you her side of the story. Talk with her about how great the new iPads are compared to the old ones, how it's important to take care of one's things, how careful she usually is with electronic devices, how you can't afford a new iPad anyway (if true) etc. Watch her reactions carefully, and check for inconsistencies with her initial statement of having forgetfully left the iPad in the rain. Also, do observe her reactions (voice, body language, etc) to your approach, regardless of what she answers. Finally, IF there is a sufficient amount of guilt, remorse or inconsistencies on her side, confront her with your suspicion and she will tell you the truth.

This might seem like an interrogation technique, which it is. And a very efficient one, too. Remember that even if your gut feeling is not always right, it's never wrong either.

I read this to a friend and we both laughed out loud! MR is so entertaining...
 
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First double jeopardy, then ad hominem and now you're trying to make me look ridiculous? What's next?
 
You wouldn't find it at all condescending if your SO (or a close friend, since I doubt you've held onto many romantic relationships in your life) decided it was necessary to "explain" to you that it is important to take care of your possessions, and that iPads are expensive? IDK what your line of work is, but that's not how you treat an adult whom you claim to respect. It may be efficient, but relationships require a hell of a lot more than efficiency.
Maybe I would find it condescending, maybe I wouldn't. It's all in how it was said. If my SO (as in "significant other") had mentioned it briefly during a conversation - be it a concealed interview or not - I wouldn't have any reason to see it as condescending albeit she was stating something obvious. However, if she had started do draw it up for me, I would probably have gotten upset.
And yes, it was obvious to everyone else that he was joking in his last line.
Yeah, and that certainly gave them the right to flame me for not catching that it was a joke. Out-****ing-standing. Most of the posters in this thread behave like a bunch of sheeple (exceptions are h00ligan and snberk103), and I'd rather be a nutcase or a sociopath than one of them.
 
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btw... rain in the summer? where are you from Asia?

No. Just that temperate rain forest on the west coast of North America that ranges from the panhandle of Alaska, right through all of coastal British Columbia down to top of California. It's a small bit of geography, so it's not hard to miss us.... ;)

Norway, on the other hand may or may not be temperate rainforest. I could look it up, but can't be bothered. However it is (geographically speaking) quite near Scotland. And if you've ever been Scotland then you'll know that in that part of the world the question is not "Is it going to rain today?" but "Is it going to stop raining today?" Which, ironically, is the same question we've asking ourselves for several months now out here in the Salish Sea. Also, I'm going to hazard a guess that if there is any kind of desert at all in Norway, it's way up north and is an arctic desert.

But, they do call it Junuary here.....

And boy, I'll bet my iPad would have been totally flooded by now if I'd left it out. I might have needed to get a new iPad 2.... I wonder if I could do it on purpose and fool myself?
 
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