No, I'm NOT retarded, thankyou.

[DancingStones]

Wait! Someone explain to me why I should feel insulted because a company that's trying to sell a product uses the word 'magical' in its ad?

I was under the impression that's what commercials do? Keep things simple while going a little over the top? Like those alcoholic beverage commercials. (No, getting drunk really does make you look like a fool and not the cool guy that gets all the (drunk) girls).

Boo @ you, apple. The fairies will hear from this! Do I sense a magical lawsuit in the works?

I agree entirely.

 

[Sassafrass]

Actually, Sassafras is an herb (or a root, I'm not 100% on that), that acts as a natural painkiller - a very effective one. So of course to the musicians, painkiller = Hallucinogen.

It's a tree, and painkiller is one of the few things it is NOT claimed to be. I don't think hallucinogens have anything to do with it, considering the third to last line is "These lyrics don't make sense."

SNIP

Back to the topic at hand, people!
The new and improved Edward Cullen sparkly toy Apple thingy gum.

NO! The iPad is silly; everyone agrees; arguing about your name is more fun.

Fine.
Just remember, ego stroking is not needed but sort of encouraged.
But not too much, just a little.

 

[Seanchaidh]

Why not call it magic? Could you go out into the forest and assemble a simple tape player from the raw materials, let alone an iPod? To the practical purposes of greater than 99% of the Earth's population, technology may as well be magic.

 

[RagingScottsman]

I fail to see a question. Am I simply supposed to just blindly rage? I shall pass and instead just do what every other person who's unimpressed by the announcement will do... not buy the damn thing.

 

[Kycho]

i only wonder how that monstrosity is supposed to be carried around... backpack?

 

[thenumberthirteen]

How are gaint Ipods, magic? Anyways remindes me of this vid.


See the onion wasn't too far off.

I remember the thread when that video came out. It was hilarious as quite a few people thought it was real.

OT: I sometimes can't believe that magic isn't involved in some modern technology. MicroSD cards, those wireless memory cards, the Mac Mini (I couldn't believe it the first time I saw one). And I work in IT!

 

[NOT WILL]

Well I am sitting on my magic box, looking at the magic screen just so I can talk to you right now! Nobody really knows how computers work, and we never need to as long as we make regular sacrifices to the computer gods Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates

Steve Jobs DIED FOR YOUR SINS Bill Gates more like bill gates of hell

(its a joke)

 

[Murriness]

I actually always have refered to the inner workings of things I don't understand as magic. How do planes fly? Magic. How do computers run? Magic. But it doesn't sound as good when the company that makes the product calls it magic. I expect techno babble from these people. Not Magic.

Also, I would like them to explain to me why I would want a giant Ipod that looks like it would be rather awkward to carry around.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Ooooh, magic?

Will it cast fireballs too?

If by fireballs you mean it will explode whenever you try to make it do something useful... then yes... it shoots fireballs.

 

[swansman]

Lol its called the iPad I wonder if it has an app to turn into an expensive PMS pad

 

[Projekt Spartan]

Well I am sitting on my magic box, looking at the magic screen just so I can talk to you right now! Nobody really knows how computers work, and we never need to as long as we make regular sacrifices to the computer gods Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates

Steve Jobs DIED FOR YOUR SINS Bill Gates more like bill gates of hell

(its a joke)

How about computer deities then? lol I think satan still counts as a deity...

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

Mahou you say?
MAHOU?!!

Spoiler: MAHOU!!!

Substitute 'Mahou is' in where 'witches are' is.

Ok, seriousness now in place, the only people it should be called 'Mahou' in front of are cavemen thousands of years ago. If they want to bring the excuse of 'magic' back into this world, then they are not helping the human race. I think I'll keep my rock. a lot more useful and magical.

 

[MurderousToaster]

Ooooh, magic?

Will it cast fireballs too?

It will cast balls of your own money that Steve Jobs is currently swimming in.

 

[TelHybrid]

Look at apple's target market... I think it's sufficient marketing.

 

[Woodsey]

Well clearly you are retarded if not you'd understand its just marketing, and saying something is magic makes it sound far more interesting.

[small]I kid, I don't think you're a retard.[/small]

 

[DeadlyYellow]

...Sounds quite sparkly to me.

Probably just left it out in the sun.

 

[warprincenataku]

I've pre-ordered two already!