Completely agree.
Anyone who read this cliche-ridden, hackneyed portrayal of family life and found it funny needs to go just step away from the keyboard and go back to their Everybody Loves Raymond boxsets.
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What iPads did to my family! Too funny!
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Completely agree.
Anyone who read this cliche-ridden, hackneyed portrayal of family life and found it funny needs to go just step away from the keyboard and go back to their Everybody Loves Raymond boxsets.
I found it funny and well-written and I've always wanted to slap Debra so I don't think this applies.
I'm sure it won't kill the family budget to go out and get a few more iPads.....after the market last week, Apple stock needs a boost anyway!!!
FWIW it raised a dry smile with me. Cheers for the link
Just ignore the misers. If they don't find it funny, fine. But some of them just have to make their opinions known left, right and centre. And you know what Dirty Harry said about opinions
I owe you guys an apology. After reading your replies I decided to revisit the article and I've had a Road to Damascus moment. It's truly a work of comic genius. The OP is right, zingers like "Hey, if you're going to eat pizza and use the iPad, at least wipe it! How gross!" are indeed brilliantly witty. I can see now how the OP found the article to be "too funny!".
Maybe Steve Carell could snap up the rights to this blogpost and turn the whole hilarious story into a fun movie the whole family can enjoy.
Maybe Steve Carell could snap up the rights to this blogpost and turn the whole hilarious story into a fun movie the whole family can enjoy.
Who ever claimed it was hilarious? The OP was using the term as per '"a funny thing happened on my way to..." as in he (and others) can relate to a weird/unexpected yet tantalisingly true situation.
awmazz said:
Very well said. I found it witty also and cute as I stated earlier. I don't understand the sourpusses lol
Thanks to the OP for posting this.
Please tell me this was written ironically
I was referencing that classic novel where the hero writes his name inside the cover of an old Russian book but looks at the front cover instead just before he gets mind-wiped when joining the army (you can only remember the very last three seconds before they press the button), and so spends the rest of the story calling himself Warren Peace.
Amongst other adventures, he gets shipped out to a tobacco growing planet which has been completely set alight by the local rebels so everybody buys packs of filters on the black market to non-smoke.
Why, what epic did you think I meant?
Sounds like my house as well. I've gotten very little time with the iPad 64gb since it came home - and it was supposed to be mine.
... which means you can multi-task on your iPad without waiting until 4.0 in the fall...I avoided that whole forseeable mess by buying two.
Do me a favor and crawl back under your rock and take your sarcasm with you. Guys, I am out of here!!
I enjoyed reading the story. Thanks for it.
Being in the IT industry and a big geek we have three desktops and seven laptops around the house for a family of four. So I can relate to the story.
Anyway, I preordered the 3G. When my wife got home that night and used it for less than a minute, she said she needed one. We immediately headed out to the Apple Store and got her one. My kids have been wanting one also, but at ages 6 and 8 we feel that they can continue to use their iPad Touch and DS's.
I'm sure their iPad will come soon enough, though.
Thanks again for sharing this story with us.
Being in the IT industry and a big geek we have three desktops and seven laptops around the house for a family of four.
So I can relate to the story.Anyway, I preordered the 3G. When my wife got home that night and used it for less than a minute, she said she needed one. We immediately headed out to the Apple Store and got her one. My kids have been wanting one also, but at ages 6 and 8 we feel that they can continue to use their iPad Touch and DS's.
I'm sure their iPad will come soon enough, though.
Thanks again for sharing this story with us.
Do me a favor and crawl back under your rock and take your sarcasm with you. Guys, I am out of here!!
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I thought it was just my lack of a sense of humor, but glad it's the story that wasn't funny and not me.