Signs that Hell froze over this weekend, or signs of the Apocalypse?
1. Transformers has an 82% Tomatometer rating.
2. Apple had (more or less) enough iPhones to meet the high demand.
3. You can no longer smoke in a Louisville bar.
Discuss.
Suburban Tribe
Sunday, July 01, 2007
2. Apple had (more or less) enough iPhones to meet the high demand.
3. You can no longer smoke in a Louisville bar.
Discuss.
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Apple has enough iPhones because demand isn't as high as expected. Before you bash me a friend who works at an apple store told me
Have I ever "bashed" anyone here? Unlike the rest of the internet, I have no personal or financial stake in Apple's success/failure. I was simply stating a fact that was reported across many news sites over the weekend: Most of the people who waited in line for an iPhone the past few days had no trouble buying one (or two)-- compared to launch shortages of the PS3, for example.
And here's a hint, dude: If you're going to post anonymously and tell everyone that a friend of yours works at an Apple store and he told you that iPhones weren't selling that well and expect me to retract a statement based on research, you've been on the web too long.
I mean, you couldn't just log on on anonymously and say that YOU work in an Apple store somewhere and the demand was low? You have to once- remove yourself from a statement that no one can verify?
Think, people, THINK!
2. Apple had (more or less) enough iPhones to meet the high demand.
Estimates show between 200k and 500k iPhones sold this weekend
They might have enough iPhones, but they are have a lot of trouble keeping up with the demand for activation.
I am in no rush to get one of these, although it looks pretty effing cool. I'll wait till they drop the price point (which may be a while if I know Apple) and make it available from other service providers besides AT&T.
I really can't believe the smoking in bars ban. Booze and Cigarettes are like the perfect combination!! How can I play pool and get my buzz on at the Mag bar without a smoke? Christ, it's the only time I DO smoke (tobacco).
it's moved down to 68%
TTFN
Kyle voltti
Re: #3
Welcome to Lexington for the past 2-3 years.
Transformers is down to 60% now.
Yeah, TF is down to 59% as of July 4. Spoke too soon, I guess. But that's still about 59% higher than I expected.
Odd how the "Cream of the Crop" reviews come out to 73%, though.
Dude, even Harry Knowles didn't like it. And that douche loves everything geek-chic. My roommate did like it so I may break down and check it out. I think I'm gonna wait until Harry Potter on IMAX for my next movie visit though. Not counting The Palace and Baxter Avenue midnight movies series. (You so missed They Live.)
And the smoking ban sucks balls. Granted, I'm a smoker, but I have no problem stepping outside to light up. I just feel that a business owner should be allowed to decide if he wants to allow patrons and employees (the forgotten ones) to smoke on the premises. But the real kicker is the Churchill Downs exemption.
Well, there's always the Old Hickory since the owner has been vocal about allowing smoking to continue in his establishment. But, I gotta be honest, I'm scared of the Old Hickory. I've only been in there a couple of times during one of the annual Schnitzelburg walks that's twice a year, and it's not really my kind of crowd.
Bonus points for putting up a new comic on a holiday.
What about the employees who don't want to passively smoke? Their only option so far has been to quit and take their chances doing something else. Or drinkers who don't want to passively smoke? just not go to a bar, ever? I'm fed up with people whinging about the smoking ban, it's not that big a deal to step outside for a cigarette. And before someone starts in with the rights argument, your rights end where mine begin - I have a right not to have to breath your goddamn cigarette smoke, and I sure as hell shouldn't have to change jobs/become a shut-in to avoid it. You want to ruin your lungs, be my guest - just take it outside. If things pan out like they have in my town, you'll have covered outdoor patios with (environmentally ruinous) electric and gas powered heaters to smoke on in no time.
Will, Dublin.
PS - I just couldn't be bothered to sign up to yet another online service for the sake of a rant.
PPS - oh, and Apple users? I get it that you prefer Apple products. I'm even willing to concede that the extra expense is justified by better qulaity, useability, whatever. But is it really necessary to continuously adopt a smug, snide facial expression and take a huge post-oatmeal-and-double-espresso dump all over everyone else's choice of consumer electronics? Really? Okay, YOU WIN AT BUYING COMPUTERZ!! Now will you shut up about it?
Wow, that guy is rant-tastic.
In New York State, smoking has been illegal in bars - and all public places - for several years now. In most public places, fine .... but in bars, it's just not right. Even has a recovering smoker (been 7 months now!), I know that bars are just that sort of place. In most bars you go to, over half the clientele will at one point in the evening go out for a smoke. There are so many smokers there that you're going to smell anyway once they come back. Why not make it legal?
That's just the sort of thing that you ought to expect at a bar. Outlawing smoking at a bar is no different than outlawing Cher at a gay dance club. If you don't like Cher, you just don't go in there.
Also, I still suspect that Cher is more detrimental to your health than smoking.
As bad and all as she is, Cher doesn't give you cancer. Nor is she played on a loop in every bar as opposed to sometimes in some bars. As far as I'm concerned, smoking in confined public places is one step behind someone peeing or beating off there. That everyone else was willing to put up with it for so long doesn't mean we should have to put up with it any longer.
Sorry to rant and all, but it does a man good sometimes (and it doesn't cause cancer!).
Will, Dublin
"As far as I'm concerned, smoking in confined public places is one step behind someone peeing or beating off there."
Thank God there are still private clubs for those activties.
Incidentally, hilarious strip, esp. panel 3.
Will, Dublin
I can't wait to see where all of this is going.
Sign that Hell is freezing over: the words "respectable gay-rights organization" were spoken on the Bill O'Reilly show, July 6, 2007, during an on-air apology by the show and one of Bill's "advisors", concerning the GLBT self-defense organization the Pink Pistols.
In the words of Admiral Ackbar "It's a trap!!"
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