IKEA Bookbook - one of the funniest corporate mickey takes I have seen.

[Tim]

This has already had over 16 million views on YouTube . . . priceless :)

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Warning - this video might offend Apple fans.

[Marco]

Love it, Timbo! :thumbsup:

:D

Marco.

[Ninanina]

Love it... :lol:

[Gordon Steadman]

Not offended at all, I thought it was very clever indeed. Why it should annoy Apple fans when it pays such good humoured homage I can't imagine:)

[walpurgis]

Nice one. Deserves a medal!

[archiesdad]

At last, technology even I can work without any trouble.

[Tim]

Not offended at all, I thought it was very clever indeed. Why it should annoy Apple fans when it pays such good humoured homage I can't imagine:)
Haha, just poking the bear Gordy ;)

[Gordon Steadman]

Haha, just poking the bear Gordy ;)
Watchit you. Bears have big teeth and sharp claws:ner:

[Spectral Morn]

This has already had over 16 million views on YouTube . . . priceless :)

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Warning - this video might offend Apple fans.

Love it.

Bookshops are constantly under threat from the madness of people buying virtual books, they don't own (only rent, read the small print), can't lend, can't resell, on tech that ruins your ability to sleep. Who would have thought the story of the Emperors New Clothes would ever be true, spending money on virtual nothingness. Crazy.


Regards Neil

[MCRU]

Not offended at all, I thought it was very clever indeed. Why it should annoy Apple fans when it pays such good humoured homage I can't imagine:)

It's very easy to annoy apple fans, they are obsessive, bit like Naim owners I suppose!

[The Barbarian]

Nice bowl of over hairy Lychee's there

[MCRU]

Love it.

Bookshops are constantly under threat from the madness of people buying virtual books, they don't own (only rent, read the small print), can't lend, can't resell, on tech that ruins your ability to sleep. Who would have thought the story of the Emperors New Clothes would ever be true, spending money on virtual nothingness. Crazy.


Regards Neil

I hope for a technology backlash sometime soon, people texting while driving, walking across busy roads typing away, utter madness!!!

[The Barbarian]

The amount of people i see texting while driving & even worse while they have kids in the car makes me very cross.

[Marco]

I hope for a technology backlash sometime soon, people texting while driving, walking across busy roads typing away, utter madness!!!

Brainless, moronic idiots, who are cocooned inside their own ‘little bubble’, completely oblivious to the world around them! Folk want to be constantly ‘plugged into’ some gizmo or other, 24/7, almost as if *THAT* is their life! :mental:

Are you controlling technology, or is it controlling YOU?

Here’s the acid test… Switch off your computer, mobile phone, tablet, or whatever other electronic communication pish you’ve got, for just ONE DAY, and see how you’d cope…………………….. How much would you miss it???

Who wants to give it a go? ;)

I can go weeks without using my (ancient) mobile phone, and if I didn’t have this place to run, I could quite happily live without a computer, or being ‘connected’, as it were. No Problem!

Marco.

[The Barbarian]

I did it all over Christmas . Got a mobile rare i use it anyway.

[Ninanina]

The amount of people i see texting while driving & even worse while they have kids in the car makes me very cross.

+1..... very upsetting ... :(

[Marco]

We all love music here, right? But who feels that they have to have a pair of headphones stuck inside their lug-holes every time they go out of the house??

No-one seems able to just enjoy some peace and quiet anymore…. On the very rare occasions I’m on a bus or a train for any length of time, I’m quite happy either looking out of the window or reading a (real) book or a magazine - or shockarooney - TALKING to another human being…..!

I DON”T need a fooking Kindle, Tablet, mobile phone or an MP3 player to keep me ‘occupied’!!

Marco.

[Ninanina]

We all love music here, right? But who feels that they have to have a pair of headphones stuck inside their lug-holes every time they go out of the house??


Well never for me... I'd much rather wait until I get home to hear my music properly ;)

[Marco]

EXACTLY, Bev!

Or perhaps, for pleasurable, or even safety reasons, you like having your wits about you (as if you’re being distracted listening to music, you leave yourself more vulnerable to being mugged or goodness knows what), or just simply enjoy listening to and interacting with the environment around you?

I know that I do.

Marco.

[Ninanina]

EXACTLY, Bev!

Or perhaps, for pleasurable, or even safety reasons, you like having your wits about you (as if you’re being distracted listening to music, you leave yourself more vulnerable to being mugged or goodness knows what), or just simply enjoy listening to and interacting with the environment around you?

I know that I do.

Marco.

Yes Marco... I prefer to hear my music at home with the 'proper' system, which has taken an age to get right!!... :D

[MCRU]

Brainless, moronic idiots, who are cocooned inside their own ‘little bubble’, completely oblivious to the world around them! Folk want to be constantly ‘plugged into’ some gizmo or other, 24/7, almost as if *THAT* is their life! :mental:

Are you controlling technology, or is it controlling YOU?

Here’s the acid test… Switch off your computer, mobile phone, tablet, or whatever other electronic communication pish you’ve got, for just ONE DAY, and see how you’d cope…………………….. How much would you miss it???

Who wants to give it a go? ;)

I can go weeks without using my (ancient) mobile phone, and if I didn’t have this place to run, I could quite happily live without a computer, or being ‘connected’, as it were. No Problem!

Marco.

Imagine it if I did not answer the phone or any e-mails for one whole day, people phone me because their plug has not arrived within 24 hours of ordering, or they need to know if the fuse they just bought is directional, sadly I need technology to feed the wife and kids!

I sometimes wish I had no phone though! :)

[walpurgis]

I never answer my mobile, I keep it on 'silent'. If I see the occasional, rare, missed call, I text or ring back (if I feel like it). People have learnt that they won't get hold of me easily.

[Marco]

Imagine it if I did not answer the phone or any e-mails for one whole day, people phone me because their plug has not arrived within 24 hours of ordering, or they need to know if the fuse they just bought is directional, sadly I need technology to feed the wife and kids!

I sometimes wish I had no phone though! :)

It’s different if you’ve got a business to run, but does your average ‘Joe’ really need to be strapped to some form of technological device 24/7?

I think not! :nono:

Marco.

[Andrei]

The thing that I used to love about mobile phones was their cost. If someone was not prepared to pay a dollar to speak to me - yippee.

[The Black Adder]

Marketing and design awards again for Ikea, again I shouldn't wonder.

It's a truthful bit of marketing. Ikea's ad is designed with an intent of tongue and cheek but you can also see how pathetic the Kindle (and it's other cheaper bandwagon subsidiary wanky devices) really are. It does make you see that the simplistic thing about a book is that it's a book... not a device. It's fully open to mockery but for function it's still the best thing.

You can survive and even run a business without an iPad, you just need to organise yourself. Again, communication skills, self organisation together with self awareness has now vanished due to devices such as these. And the backlash to when they fail is that people get angry because the skills for dealing with such an immediate change in function have been depleted.

Giving kids iPads in cars for example and/or 'when they are out for a meal' is also simply wrong. I was out with my cousins on Saturday and two families kids had iPads. Tapping away, completely oblivious to what was going on or being said. It was really sad to see.. They are supposed to be gaining social skills. For me it marks a real tel-tail downturn in the next generation in regards to being able to communicate. It's not the kids fault, they will only do what their parents do or allow them to do.

IMO.. it's good for kids to be bored, it's up to the parents to engage more.

Another instance was the last time I went in the pub with a friend, most of the pub were 30-50 year olds, all tapping... nobody talking. We sat down and it felt like a doctors waiting room...

I honestly do think that some people would rather tap than talk.:mental:

Maybe we should start an AOS pub chain... now that! would be good... no such devices allowed... lol

[Marco]

Well said, Joe (and as a parent yourself, too)… I find myself nodding my head robustly in agreement!

:exactly:

We’re breeding a nation of zombies….

Marco.

[shane]

My daily commute involves a half-hour bus ride in the company of crying babies, school kids learning how best to deploy their limited range of profanities and at least ten sets of leaky headphones. My only defense is to block out the whole lot with a half-decent pair of phones which give me excellent isolation from the outside world. Once they're in place, I can enjoy the view from the top deck quite contentedly.

[struth]

a little from column a, a little from b. Nothing wrong with devices as they are just that...a device. children need to be envolved but they also need to enjoy things. if you really think they will get anything out of listening to adults prattling away your mistaken.
that said just giving them computers and abandoning them is wrong too... like most things moderation and eduction with carrot n stick usually works.
my 7 year old grandson was very pleased to announce yesterday that he had earned and saved enough to get a new game...it meant something more as he had been involved in the aquiring process...job done

[Marco]

Ha - I like it, Shane! If you can’t beat 'em…. ;)

What if instead, in your daily commute, peace and tranquility surrounded you (well, one can dream) - would you still have your phones plugged in?

The problem for me is that I’m so used to living in a peaceful, quiet and stress-free environment, that any ‘din’ (such as you describe) immediately jars my ears, as it’s totally alien to me, and so I just can’t stand it!

Whereas, you go into some folks houses and it’s bedlam, so I guess they become attuned to living with a constant din (considering it ’the norm’), and therefore carry on behaving the same way in public. Thank goodness, I distance myself from that shit as much as possible.

Marco.

[shane]

Thank goodness, I distance myself from that shit as much as possible..

Count your blessings....