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Posted: Jul 12 2007 08:23 pm

Medical experts are warning that people listening to their Coldplay collection on an Ipod during a thunderstorm are more likely to be struck by lightning.

While some might consider this a warning that god might be taking the opportunity to strike back at the upstart Apple religion, apparently it is a serious problem.

A jogger in Canada suffered wishbone-shaped chest and neck burns, ruptured eardrums and a broken jaw when lightning travelled through his music player's wires. A teen in Colorado, who was listening to Metallica on his iPod, while mowing the lawn suffered similar injuries.

Apparently the danger to iPod users is because the lightning is looking for metal objects in the area around where it strikes. It loves sending current down the headphone wires and tickling the eardrums with several million volts.

More info here :
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Technology/Lightning-Strikes-Reported-by-iPod-Users/2007/07/12/1183833637610.html

Posted: Jul 12 2007 10:42 pm

Could also have to do with the fact that 100,000,000 (that's one hundred million) iPods have been sold worldwide... everyone and their grandmother have one!

Or maybe it's because Coldplay & Metallica suck and god wants to make sure people know that this bad taste in music will not be tolerated. Cool

Posted: Jul 12 2007 10:49 pm

GOD HATES I-PODS!
GOD HATES I-PODS!
HE F-IN' HATES I-PODS!

Mediocre song, but it's the first thing I thought of when I read this thread. Thank God that I don't have an Ipod...
Maybe the Metallica guy was listening to 'Ride the Lightning'. In which case, God was clearly showing he appreciated the man's taste in 80's thrash metal, then sent him a music reference in the form of lightning.

That must be it.

Posted: Jul 12 2007 10:50 pm

Tishwitch wrote:

Could also have to do with the fact that 100,000,000 (that's one hundred million) iPods have been sold worldwide...

One hundred million consumer sheep, ready for the slaughter.

Posted: Jul 13 2007 04:16 pm

I don't have an iPod, nor do I want one.

I think that's been discussed before though.

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Knyte wrote:

A teen in Colorado, who was listening to Metallica on his iPod, while mowing the lawn suffered similar injuries.

hey, I guess you can say he RODE THE LIGHTNING!

Posted: Jul 13 2007 09:11 pm

JEW wrote:

Knyte wrote:

A teen in Colorado, who was listening to Metallica on his iPod, while mowing the lawn suffered similar injuries.

hey, I guess you can say he RODE THE LIGHTNING!

hehehe, good one. its like...umm, the lighting KILLED 'EM ALL

Posted: Jul 13 2007 09:46 pm

Hey, he lived. So, a better reference would be the lightning couldn't "Seek and Destroy". Someone will probably say the lightning had "No Remorse", but whatever.

Posted: Jul 13 2007 11:31 pm

The iPod didn't survive.

Sad, but true...

Posted: Jul 14 2007 12:00 am

I'd get an iPod if someone made a SID player for it.

Posted: Jul 14 2007 11:26 am

Knyte wrote:

Sad, but true...

Was that a song reference, too?

And in all honesty, I'd love to have an IPOD, because of the sheer amount of songs/albums I own. My 1000-song mp3 player's filled, and I just bought Motorhead's "Ace of Spades" and Children of Bodom's "Follow the Reaper" albums, and have nowhere to put them. And my CD player is out of batteries...dagnab...

Posted: Jul 14 2007 07:20 pm

I have a Zune.

I like it.

Posted: Jul 14 2007 07:49 pm

i have a 4 gb ipod to put all my favorites on. i dont see why anyone would need more than 1000 songs. where are you going to be where you'll have enough time to listen to those? my ipod's battery doesnt even last the whole shuffle period.

Posted: Jul 14 2007 08:05 pm

MOGHARR wrote:

i have a 4 gb ipod to put all my favorites on. i dont see why anyone would need more than 1000 songs. where are you going to be where you'll have enough time to listen to those? my ipod's battery doesnt even last the whole shuffle period.

15 hour plane ride to Japan, and a 14 hour ride to Switzerland, both like me. That's when that 40GB iPod really comes in handy.

Posted: Jul 14 2007 08:25 pm

i guess i can understand it then, but who would need that on a daily basis?

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let me sniop this topic now and say that we've had this discussion before, and it didn't really go anywhere besides tish saying "LOL I WERK 4 APPLE" and half of us saying we dont need a bi ipod and half of us do.

Posted: Jul 15 2007 12:07 am

JEW wrote:

let me sniop this topic now and say that we've had this discussion before, and it didn't really go anywhere besides tish saying "LOL I WERK 4 APPLE" and half of us saying we dont need a bi ipod and half of us do.

Seconded.

Posted: Jul 15 2007 12:24 am

Sniop the topic?

Posted: Jul 15 2007 01:21 am

A bi iPod?

Posted: Jul 15 2007 09:50 pm

It has sex with other iPods instead of the Zune.

Posted: Jul 16 2007 05:50 am

Lightning strikes at metal wire made to conduct electricity?

This spurious logic would have god absolutely furious at metal poles stuck on the tops of houses, and would indicate a most ancient of vendettas against trees.

A Greek play noted that Zeus was just as willing to strike his own temples with lightning as any other tall object.

Wow, I'm a spoilsport Sad

. Ummmm...

God hates people with I-pods, but is more subtle and intends to punish by way of the soon-to-be-revealed tendency of I-pods to cause a particularly harmful near-maelevolent form of brain cancer?

Posted: Jul 16 2007 03:46 pm

We all know that God hates trailer parks even more, though.

That's why he made Tornadoes. Wink

Posted: Jul 16 2007 03:49 pm

Knyte wrote:

We all know that God hates trailer parks even more, though.

That's why he made Tornadoes. Wink

Amen.

But God doesn't hate the iPod, nor do I have one. Sad

Posted: Jul 17 2007 01:02 am

Knyte wrote:

We all know that God hates trailer parks even more, though.

That's why he made Tornadoes. Wink

Tornados are made by the Flash, and sometimes Superman, when either one of them decides to spin around really fast with their SUPER SPEED. This is done because they-

a. Hate hicks.
2. Like spinning around really fast.

Superman caused tornados can be prevented by acquiring a piece of kryptonite from Lex Luthor's pre-crisis stockpile, which can be found orbiting earth like a radioactive moon.

Flash tornados can be stopped by putting down tripwires, which really fuck him up bad.

Posted: Jul 17 2007 01:06 am

Wikipedia wrote:

Superman can not only bring tornadoes into the world, but take them out. This rare occurrence can only be seen on TV.