Tuesday, July 7, 2009

The cheeky English

Andrew Sullivan linked to a BBC article where they had a 13-year old review a Walkman (having its 30th anniversary, doncha know):




Another notable feature that the iPod has and the Walkman doesn’t is “shuffle”,
where the player selects random tracks to play. Its a function that, on the face
of it, the Walkman lacks. But I managed to create an impromptu shuffle feature
simply by holding down “rewind” and releasing it randomly - effective, if a
little laboured.




This killed me. A thirteen year old Amurrican would have said:




This dont work right. Theres no shuffle. WTF? My stepdad's a
asshole.




http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8117619.stm via Daily Dish

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