Guy Fawkes, iPhonemania and The Death Of The Retarded Bar Argument: The (Friday) Nooner!
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iPhonemania Officially Jumps The Shark
I'll admit it: When the iPhone first came out, I completely lost my shit. My friends were parading their new gadgets in front of me, and I, consummate sucker for anything new and moderately pointless, was ready to shell out big bucks to get one of my own. Can you blame me? It was like aliens from some remote and futuristic planet (one 3 or 4 years more advanced than ours) had landed and brought their crazy, otherworldly small electronics with them. It has a TOUCHSCREEN! How cool is that?!
Then as the months went by a strange thing started to happen. Whenever I found myself in an idiotic argument, someone would whip out their iPhone and definitively end it. "No way, dude - England is DEFINITELY smaller than Illinois," I'd say, and within minutes, BOOM: "England itself is smaller, but the United Kingdom AS A WHOLE is bigger." It doesn't matter where you are: iPhones give you the ability to end any disagreement. What does that mean? It means the death of The Retarded Bar Argument. Do you really want to live in a world where you can't spout off misinformation at a bar without getting fact-checked on Wikipedia?
This video of two douchebags dancing around like morons seals the deal: iPhonemania has officially jumped the shark. Maybe if the iPhone was just released a few weeks ago these costumes would be understandable, but c'mon guys: Lots of people have iPhones now. They've been around for a while, and they're widely commercially available. Did I dress up as my

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