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What's the most embarrassing thing someone else has seen on your iPhone?

In the Google app "smegma" was the last search when my friend borrowed it, he had a little giggle about that.

It didn't happen to me, but my friend once found dirty text from his sister on his friends phone, that certainly cause change of mood to the evening!
 
Eso said:
No, people around here specifically state that their music collection is X GB and that a 32 GB Touch isn't enough to hold it.
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Well, then they have that many songs at whatever compression rate from however many iTunes purchases or CDs that they had.

Not everyone keeps their music at Apple's-tested-number-of-songs-compression-rate, and not all songs are the same length.
 
anything or anyone in or associated with American Idol. I can see how some
dimwit might produce it, but it's beyond me why anyone would watch it.
 
barkmonster said:
I think you need to go back to school, speak English as a first language or realise "American" is a bastardisation of the language and "International English" doesn't exist.

Not that I care where anyone's from of course, You just don't understand what I was meaning by using "Quote, unquote" in the literal sense. Maybe I should have had a little animation of a guy doing the inverted comma bit with his fingers on either side of anything I was drawing attention to with quotes?

Nice try with the sarcasm though. I imagine you learned that kind of wit from years of watching Seinfeld and actually finding it genuinely funny while "not getting" Bill Hicks (or even hearing of him because you're probably 12).

No offence of course.
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Bill Hicks was a kick a** comedian, look him up on YouTube. Look up the stuff about the Rodney King trail. Oh and for the Brit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP-3_jyCS9Q
So I'm over there in England, you know, trying to get news about the riots... and all these Brit people are trying to sympathize with me... 'Oh Bill, crime is horrible. Bill, if it's any consolation crime is horrible here, too.' ...Shutup. This is Hobbitown and I am Bilbo Hicks, Okay? This is a land of fairies and elves. You do not have crime like we have crime, but I appreciate you trying to be, you know, Diplomatic.

You gotta see English crime. It's hilarious, you don't know if you're reading the front page or the comic section over there. I swear to God. I read an article front page of the paper one day, in England, 'Yesterday, some Hooligans knocked over a dustbin in Shafsbry.' ...Wooooo. 'The hooligans are loose! The hooligans are loose! ...What if they become roughians? I would hate to be a dustbin in Shafsbry tonight. (to the tune of "Behind Blue Eyes" by The Who) No one knows what it's like... to be a dustbin... in Shafsbry... with hooligans...'

What the HELL are you talkin' about? Hooligans? Roughians? Speak English! It's Crypt, Blood. I mean, I'm sure it's a serious thing, Hooligans, but it just sounds stupid, doesn't it? I picture a bunch of pale guys with pennyloafers and no socks. (to a tune) 'We're the hooligans!' (Sound of knocking dustbin over) 'Come here, you f***ers, come here.' 'Nope! Got-to catch us! If you corner me I might become a scalliwag!' ...It doesn't sound scary at all, does it?

They have proper crime there. I'd love to put the hooligans up against the Bloods in LA... that would be a short gang battle. (To a tune, again) 'We're the hooligans!' (sound of pat on the head)-- (boom boom boom *gunshots*). '...huh? Hoola-somethin', I didn't catch it all. Mothafu*** danced up to me and patted me on the head. Pale mothafu***, look at that thing.'

It wouldn't be a long gang battle. I'm bettin' on the Bloods.”
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gr8whtd0pe said:
Bill Hicks was a kick a** comedian, look him up on YouTube. Look up the stuff about the Rodney King trail. Oh and for the Brit:
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I'd love to see a gang of bloods armed to the teeth wipe out a gang of Chavs armed with 1 litre saxo's and scooter CDs. They'd be doing a service to the gene pool if they did 😀

I suppose I was ripping on the lack of understanding of the quotes thing a little too hard there. Had a long day after a weekend of flu, saw a load of linguistic drivel and just went to town.
 
ok so we had an iPod day in school where we were aloud to take our iPods/iPhones. i let someone borrow mine for 1 period. so when i get it back i needed to check something in safari and i see they were looking up porn. it was a girl who borrowed it 😀. funny thing is my teacher saw it😱. he was cool about it but he didnt believe my story. he just told me to put it away for the rest of the class. lucky it wasnt my english teacher otherwise i would be dead.
 
Gyrferret said:
None taken. And I never watched third-rate sitcoms by the way. Don't know who Bill Hicks is either. At any rate, the guy above me was right; I was (kinda) ridiculing the over-abundance of "quotes".

As for my sense of humor, I'll be the first to admit it's warped and off the wall at times. And the reason for the quotes is that the message changes.

IE.

"I" Have porn on my iPhone.
I "have" porn on my iPhone.
I have "porn" on my iPhone.
I have porn "on" my iPhone.
I have porn on "my" iPhone.
I have porn on my "iPhone".

I did it to people's year book messages all the time. The authors of said messages would get angry sometimes, but it was all in good spirit....

Sorry for my bastardization of the English Language BTW...
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"Porn" can actually be very useful for air travel. Get a gawker or a talker beside you or just someone crowding you, you fire up something you select thats sure to offend and all the sudden you have privacy, quiet, and lots of room - lol

Of course it can occasionally backfire and THATs embarrassing, so choose carefully
 
Eso said:
I actually saw an effective ad by Microsoft for their music store. It went something about how it would cost a person $30,000 to fill up an iPod with music.

I doubt anyone around here has spent 30 grand on music, yet there's plenty of people who want more space on their iPhone/Touch.
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Did you think the ad was effective because Microsoft lied about the cost of filling up the iPod from the iTunes Store, or in spite of the fact that they lied?
 
BaldiMac said:
Did you think the ad was effective because Microsoft lied about the cost of filling up the iPod from the iTunes Store, or in spite of the fact that they lied?
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Hrm, let's see...

An average file size of 4 MB at $0.99 per song, so:

120 GB * 1024 MB/GD * $0.99/MB = $30,720

So I guess I should ask, do you believe they lied because you can't do math or in spite of the fact that you can't do math?
 
Eso said:
Hrm, let's see...

An average file size of 4 MB at $0.99 per song, so:

120 GB * 1024 MB/GD * $0.99/MB = $30,720

So I guess I should ask, do you believe they lied because you can't do math or in spite of the fact that you can't do math?
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That would be at 128kbs. Which Apple did not sell at the time. The iTunes store had already been upgraded to iTunes+ at 256kbs. Care to do the math again?

Even at $1.29 a song, you would be looking at under $20,000. And you could fill it for much less through album purchases and $.69 or $.99 songs.
 
BaldiMac said:
That would be at 128kbs. Which Apple did not sell at the time. The iTunes store had already been upgraded to iTunes+ at 256kbs. Care to do the math again?

Even at $1.29 a song, you would be looking at under $20,000. And you could fill it for much less through album purchases and $.69 or $.99 songs.
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Ah, right, iTunes plus.

You also have to consider how much music a person purchased before iTunes plus and the $.30 upgrade fee, however.

Still, my point stands. I doubt anyone around here complaining about space has spent anywhere close $20,000 on music.
 
Eso said:
Still, my point stands. I doubt anyone around here complaining about space has spent anywhere close $20,000 on music.
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Not really, because your point was in reference to an iPhone/iPod touch. Which currently max out at 32 Gb. So we are talking about $5,000 to fill it up from iTunes at $1.29 per song. And you can do it for a lot less if you buy albums and/or cheaper tracks.

And then you are not taking into account people who are ripping their CDs (which can be obtained even cheaper than iTunes albums) at higher bitrates or even lossless.
 
BaldiMac said:
Not really, because your point was in reference to an iPhone/iPod touch. Which currently max out at 32 Gb. So we are talking about $5,000 to fill it up from iTunes at $1.29 per song. And you can do it for a lot less if you buy albums and/or cheaper tracks.

And then you are not taking into account people who are ripping their CDs (which can be obtained even cheaper than iTunes albums) at higher bitrates or even lossless.
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Not really, because if 32 GB of music was all they had, why would they need additional space?

Just review the threads that people bring up the issue of space, often their music collection is over 100 GB
 
Eso said:
Not really, because if 32 GB of music was all they had, why would they need additional space?

Just review the threads that people bring up the issue of space, often their music collection is over 100 GB
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I seem to have lost track of your point. At first you claimed that people wanting to larger iphone/iPod touch obviously didn't spend $30,000 on music. Thereby implying that they must be pirating it.

I pointed out that you can legally fill up a 32Gb device with music for well under $5,000. Heck, 50 to 100 lossless album rips would do it.

Obviously, most of the largest libraries that people brag about are filled with pirated tunes, but I don't think 32+Gb of legal music is prohibitively expensive as you implied.
 
BaldiMac said:
I seem to have lost track of your point. At first you claimed that people wanting to larger iphone/iPod touch obviously didn't spend $30,000 on music. Thereby implying that they must be pirating it.

I pointed out that you can legally fill up a 32Gb device with music for well under $5,000. Heck, 50 to 100 lossless album rips would do it.

Obviously, most of the largest libraries that people brag about are filled with pirated tunes, but I don't think 32+Gb of legal music is prohibitively expensive as you implied.
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I have a CD collection that's being added to year by year since the mid 80s, I buy loads of albums both used a new and sometimes buy the odd single from iTunes. All of them add up to a library of over 50Gb and I haven't even got round to ripping a lot of the older CDs I own.

Only a moron would pay apple £15+ for a copy protected compressed digital version of a double album you could buy on CD for £10 complete with pristine digital sound, inlay cards and all the other advantages you can think of that come with physical ownership.

If your lucky, you might get an extra track that's not on the CD album and only be paying £10 for an album but you're still not getting you're money's worth.
 
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