Oh, hey you guys, I’m just looking up stuff on MY IPHONE

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Sorry, I didn’t see you there. Looks like you caught me sending and receiving email on my iPhone, which also has Google and even the internet! Oh man I can’t wait to join the ranks of you obnoxious bastards. The new iPhone was unveiled yesterday, and unless you were living under an e-rock at your i-job, you watched the Mac Rumors liveblog and had little daydreams about going to the store and buying the iPhone last night.

Do you have or plan to get the new iPhone?
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Or maybe you didn’t because your i-job has g-tasks and Facebook friend requests from cute guys that you’re going to ignore for awhile so that he thinks you don’t like him. Or maybe you work outside, in which case your life is probably more fulfilling than mine, but instead yesterday you were just extremely hot. Either way, you were going to buy the iPhone last night because WTF it’s so cheap ($199 for the discount drug store version, $299 for the baller edition), and then they announced that actually, parlie, you’re not buying shit because it doesn’t get released until July 11. And then you picked up your laptop and you flushed it down the MStoilet.

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Now I understand, it takes time to ship the secret new bat-product through their supply line of elves and fancy packaging, but July 11nd is like 20 Christmases from now! I’ll end this now because I’m about to turn into a 5 year old child and start throwing spaghetti at the internet, but if you would like to help me rant and rave about the injustices we’ve suffered here, then this is the spot to do it.

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163 Responses to “Oh, hey you guys, I’m just looking up stuff on MY IPHONE”

  1. 10 Jun 2008 at 8:09 amStanley said:

    Isn’t the standard rule for Apple products to wait for version 3.0? Hold fast, young parlie. The next one will come with a free unicorn and cost a nickel. I swear!

  2. 10 Jun 2008 at 8:24 ammc said:

    gawker told me yesterday that I can’t get one because I have a job. coincidentally, I also can’t get one because my job doesn’t pay living wages. I’ll continue to drool on my friends’ iphones.

  3. 10 Jun 2008 at 9:01 amStreet said:

    Just what I need! To spend exorbitant prices on a communication device, when I can use Skype or various other programs to phone people for free.

  4. 10 Jun 2008 at 9:02 amStreet said:

    *erm….not spend *prices*, but monies. yah.

  5. 10 Jun 2008 at 9:08 amStanley said:

    4: The new iPhone prevents comment errors on the internet. NO REALLY I PROMISE.

  6. 10 Jun 2008 at 9:20 amStreet said:

    :shock: Then I simply MUST get one right away. What was I thinking?

  7. 10 Jun 2008 at 9:25 amlisa said:

    Cute =) Not wanting one though :P

  8. 10 Jun 2008 at 9:27 amChad Day said:

    if charlottesville had 3G, sure, but it doesn’t — so no real benefit to upgrading.

  9. 10 Jun 2008 at 9:30 amdieter said:

    @8 ATT is expanding 3G into about 75 new markets- we could very well be one of those markets.
    They have 3G in Waynesboro for goodness sakes!

  10. 10 Jun 2008 at 9:44 amWingnut said:

    @8,9 AT&T has announced that it will have FULL NETWORK 3G coverage by the end of 2008. this is, of course, a pile of pie in the sky corporate bs, but they are indeed working on expanding their 3G coverage (and killing antenna workers in the process, if you believe the news). C’ville is one of the few “urbane” areas in VA that doesn’t currently have 3G coverage, as my AT&T LG picked up 3G once i got to Richmond and held it all the way to Norfolk on Mem Day weekend.

    /still gonna wait for 3.0, even lower prices, more networks, more competition, more SDK apps.

  11. 10 Jun 2008 at 9:45 amWingnut said:

    and doesn’t the old dictum “never buy a new car or new beer because it’s on sale” apply here? i know the iPhone is no longer new, and that a lot of bugs have indeed been worked out with firmware upgrades, but it’s been less than a year since 1.0. imagine what’s going to come out for Christmas?

  12. 10 Jun 2008 at 9:47 ambelmont yo said:

    ATT: Your World, Delivered (to the NSA)

    Fuck them.

  13. 10 Jun 2008 at 9:51 amecho said:

    The NSA had access to all your cell phone calls long before AT&T started cooperating with them.

  14. 10 Jun 2008 at 10:05 amChad Day said:

    AT&T has said many things. I’ll believe it when I see it. :)

    I’d even have a hard time with the purchase if 3G was here.. $200 to basically speed up my phone? eh.. better things to spend the money on right now.

  15. 10 Jun 2008 at 10:09 amshenanigans said:

    I love this article dissing the Iphone. Gawd, if I had one, I’d spend the entire day just cleaning fingerprints off the screen.

  16. 10 Jun 2008 at 10:11 amecho said:

    @15: Yes, I told you that page is great.

  17. 10 Jun 2008 at 10:16 amWingnut said:

    @14 ditto Chad. Mrs Nut said that if i had any more internet access, she might have to kill me.

  18. 10 Jun 2008 at 10:18 amThor said:

    You could buy the non-phone one, use the free wifi all over town and talk on Skype all day long!

  19. 10 Jun 2008 at 10:22 amEthan said:

    Do any of you actually need an iphone, or do you just want to look all hip and cool?

  20. 10 Jun 2008 at 10:23 amOdie said:

    parlie, I know I already said this yesterday, but seriously, your newfound productivity is scaring me. the only explanation is that your addiction to pot, the evil gateway drug, has morphed into a meth habit.

    /word of advice: breaking into Miller’s for meth money is ALWAYS a poor choice. Just say no.

    //keep posting you magnificent bastard.

  21. 10 Jun 2008 at 10:24 amOdie said:

    @19 ummmm hip and cool, obviously. this is charlottesville.

  22. 10 Jun 2008 at 10:26 amSmiley said:

    Broken Back = parlie productivity increase

  23. 10 Jun 2008 at 10:30 amStanley said:

    parlie: a veritable broke-back mountain of blog posts.

  24. 10 Jun 2008 at 10:31 amOdie said:

    i think the guy in the post’s picture is parlie before he started smoking pot.

  25. 10 Jun 2008 at 10:37 amChad Day said:

    @19 I actually pretty much need mine at this point.. due to being out all weekend, having something available to look up sports schedules, answer all the “which field are we reffing on” questions, and be able to easily get my mail, etc. I used to have a motorola Q for this, but the battery life was abysmal.

  26. 10 Jun 2008 at 10:39 amecho said:

    @25: The battery life on my Q is terrible. It’ll last from 7AM until about 10PM unless I remember to charge it midday.

  27. 10 Jun 2008 at 10:45 amChad Day said:

    @26 mine would die a hell of a lot faster than that. even bought a new battery for it and it did little to change the problem.. i constantly had to have it plugged into my car charger if i dared leave the house. i don’t miss it at all.

    that being said, if i wasn’t so lucky to get my iphone through work, i would never pay $400 for a phone. $200 for a brand new iphone if you don’t have one though is worth it, imho.

  28. 10 Jun 2008 at 10:52 amshenanigans said:

    It’s just another stupid gadget. Remember when everyone just had to have a RAZR®? Now they’re these ugly clunky pieces of metal but everyone wanted one SOOOO bad because it was SOOOO thin or whatever.

  29. 10 Jun 2008 at 10:55 ambelmont yo said:

    @ 13 While deplorable, that was a purely gubmint program. Check this shit out.

    /dont get me started of the “retroactive immunity” deals…

  30. 10 Jun 2008 at 11:01 amecho said:

    @29: That’s ridiculous. It’s a good thing I have all my conversations about my illegal dealings face-to-face.

  31. 10 Jun 2008 at 8:16 pm26 world said:

    Eh, who really cares if people want them or not, need them or not. We all have things we want and don’t need, and they probably cost too much, whatever that means. I don’t understand why people take such an emotional stake in whether Apple succeeds or fails, or is any better or worse than any other product.

    I have an iPhone. I like it. It’s very useful for what I need. I think it looks nice. Apple aesthetics appeal to me. It’s not a “stupid gadget” any more or less than any other phone or computer. This whole thing is just like what happens in music when people hate certain bands just because too many people like them.

  32. 10 Jun 2008 at 11:06 pmorchid said:

    @31 that’s why i’ve always hated dave matthews.

  33. 10 Jun 2008 at 11:58 pmecho said:

    @31: Read this.

  34. 11 Jun 2008 at 12:10 amStanley said:

    33: where’d you find that link, echo? Clever School?

    Seriously, make an argument or chill out and comment about your drinking plans. But this hooey-yippee!-linking to some blog you found that states emphatically opinions in such a snarky way that engaging those opinions is futile—insofar as you deploy your linking as a refutation device— grows tired.

    Ya need a new schtick.

  35. 11 Jun 2008 at 12:15 amecho said:

    My dear friend Stanley,

    I’m sorry you were not entertained by my comment. It turns out that I am not being paid to entertain you, so as far as I’m concerned, it really doesn’t matter if you appreciate my comments. If the internet would rather I didn’t comment, then let them say so. Thor, could you start a poll? If I need to stop tainting the internet, I would like to know.

  36. 11 Jun 2008 at 12:28 amStanley said:

    35: I enjoy your comments, in general, as I have enjoyed your company in person [fist-bump].

    I was letting loose a bit in response to what I see as another comment in a series in your constant linkage to that blog (the opinions expressed upon which are not really designed to invite discussion, which, hi). But really, whatever, man, it’s on the internet.

    (That said, if Thor lets us have a union thread, you and I might go head-to-head, broseph.)

  37. 11 Jun 2008 at 12:49 amecho said:

    [fist-bump]

    That fist-bump being “said,” I find websites that I find entertaining/remotely relevant, and I share them. If you’d like, I can have you screen them before I share them with the world. My “constant linkage to that blog” has lasted for 2 days and I believe it was well received due to the comments of other Villains also commenting/linking to it (see article A and article B). Maybe there was only one good post on that website, but I found it and thought it worthy of sharing. I’ll stick to bad one-liners and feces links from here on out.

  38. 11 Jun 2008 at 12:53 amecho said:

    @36: My comment is “awaiting moderation.” Probably because of 2 links. I could wake up a mod, but that would be a bad idea.

  39. 11 Jun 2008 at 1:01 amStanley said:

    Word ‘em up. I’m happy to pick this conversation up tomorrow, or over eight beers, mutually purchased for each other.

  40. 11 Jun 2008 at 1:40 amStanley said:

    With the revelation of #37, I’ll just admit I’m being a snot and go to bed.

  41. 11 Jun 2008 at 10:05 amJack said:

    @31: Thanks. With that said, I just wanted to let the world know that I love my iPhone. I also love that Microsoft’s existence pays my mortgage.

  42. 11 Jun 2008 at 10:07 amt(h)om said:

    person A is a douchebag and does not own an iphone.

    person B owns an iphone and is not a douchebag.

    person A gets an iphone, and is still a douchebag.

    Does person A’s douchbag status transfer via the shared status of iphone ownership onto person B?

    please return your exam booklets in three hours with at least 2,000 words in response.

  43. 11 Jun 2008 at 10:33 amdieter said:

    @35 Hey Echo, you said I need to stop tainting the internet. Where is the internet’s taint?

  44. 11 Jun 2008 at 10:37 ambelmont yo said:

    Um, t(h)om… I was told there would be no math.

  45. 11 Jun 2008 at 10:40 amecho said:

    @43: Oh, it’s right here.

  46. 11 Jun 2008 at 10:51 amshenanigans said:

    @31: I know it’s hard to admit it to yourself but it’s a gadget. Gadgets are marketed much differently than just your plain old computer or phone. Welcome to the herd.

  47. 11 Jun 2008 at 12:14 pm26 world said:

    @33 That website is a gadget. As is your use of it.

    @46 With that logic, Nike shoes are gadgets, as are Reebok women’s shoes. “Lifestyle” advertising is indeed different, but doesn’t really alter the product, only how the product is viewed by the consumer. My iPhone is still a phone, browser, etc. Your plain old computer or phone are marketed similarly, in a way, just not as successfully. In that regard, it’s all gadgets, which, fine.

    Whether people buy the ads or buy the product only changes the product as far as other people are concerned, which doesn’t really concern me. And thanks for the ad-hoc therapy, but that’s what my television is for.

  48. 11 Jun 2008 at 1:36 pmThor said:

    What would we run a poll on?

    Should we add smart phone discussions to the same blacklist as politics?

  49. 11 Jun 2008 at 1:39 pmshenanigans said:

    They need a support group for people who buy the overmarketed gadget du jour and then try to rationalize it.

  50. 11 Jun 2008 at 1:46 pmThor said:

    @49… what about a Firecrotch?! :)

  51. 11 Jun 2008 at 2:00 pmshenanigans said:

    You mean, they could take that shot? We’d have to charge $30 for it though and you’d have to wait in line at OXO for 3 hours.

  52. 11 Jun 2008 at 3:33 pm26 world said:

    Apropos. The restaurant scene has always been the Ville’s overmarketed gadget du jour. Maybe you could bring back the Appletini.

  53. 11 Jun 2008 at 3:44 pmecho said:

    I played pool against a guy in Blacksburg who was drinking an appletini. I was not going to let him beat me. I won.

  54. 11 Jun 2008 at 4:16 pmshenanigans said:

    Passé is different than overmarketed.

  55. 11 Jun 2008 at 5:49 pmorchid said:

    yeah, cosmos were overmarketed. and are passe’. and gross.

  56. 11 Jun 2008 at 6:03 pm26 world said:

    That’s true. For example, the restaurant scene in Cville, as I mentioned, is overmarketed, whereas attempts to be clever like naming a drink after some TMZ star’s lame snark against Lindsay Lohan, are merely passe.

  57. 11 Jun 2008 at 7:06 pmbelmont yo said:

    after some TMZ star’s lame snark against Lindsay Lohan, are merely passe

    I know those are words, but for the life of me I do not know what they mean. Forgive me.

  58. 11 Jun 2008 at 7:10 pmDonk said:

    I think 26 world is referring to the firecrotch.

    And I was under the impression that the drink’s name was from a local source.

  59. 11 Jun 2008 at 7:11 pmlolo said:

    26 world, you need to stick around.

  60. 11 Jun 2008 at 7:40 pmbelmont yo said:

    Ahhh. I see. But does not “firecrotch”, the term for the redhead that left you tied to the bed, predate both the Lohanator AND the “Is It In You?” cocktail?

    /tried that drink once, was disappointed my sweat did not glow.

  61. 11 Jun 2008 at 7:46 pm26 world said:

    B’Yo, type “firecrotch” into your general internet search engine of choice and hopefully the words will gain meaning…

  62. 11 Jun 2008 at 8:28 pmbelmont yo said:

    OK… Here:

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=firecrotch

    /from the google. or were there no redheads before lindster?

  63. 11 Jun 2008 at 8:45 pm26 world said:

    Not trying to challenge what you’re saying at all — I’m just saying I think it was recently (re-?)popularized because of a certain comment made about LiLo…

    For every urban dictionary link, I would bet there are 10+ that reference Linds, Paris, and the various d-bags du jour they pass around, because of that one incident caught by TMZ that immediately and voluminously spread around the internet like…well, like something that’s caught spreads.

  64. 11 Jun 2008 at 9:29 pmLu Sid said:

    Unacceptable. Here I thought our villains had created firecrotch?! I am so disappointed. Our creative geniuses are merely thieves! Come on guys we seriously need to step it up a notch. We have some pretty creative insiders here (and by inside I mean BEHIND the bar).

    Forget the the math. New assignment: Make irresistible Cville drink. Spread across town (like plague).

    /side note: I totally commend you for taking firecrotch and making it your own (aka welcome to the internets).

  65. 11 Jun 2008 at 9:44 pmsoviet russia said:

    a lindsay lohan is a shirley temple that’s been liberally sprinkled with powdered sugar, and contains no cherry.

    the end.

  66. 11 Jun 2008 at 9:48 pmFirecrotch 2.0 said:

    a Roman Polanski is 14-year old scotch with a cherry in it.

  67. 11 Jun 2008 at 10:56 pmDonk said:

    Yeah,

    So I think the point of this recent thread is…

    26 world.. you’re missing the inside joke.

  68. 11 Jun 2008 at 11:16 pm26 world said:

    @67: From what I’ve read, that’s the point of this site.

  69. 11 Jun 2008 at 11:19 pmmc said:

    well, there are really two points to cvillain:

    1) you’re missing the inside joke

    and it’s fraternal twin

    2) you guys suck for your inside jokiness

    They are often equal, though point #1 has been winning lately.

  70. 11 Jun 2008 at 11:31 pm26 world said:

    Well, #1 is fine. We all have our inside joke crowd (though I often think that “you just don’t get it” is an easy play to make, and tends to just shut things down). And #2 I guess I don’t really subscribe to too much, since I’ve taken the time to post and respond. @68 was merely an observation.

  71. 11 Jun 2008 at 11:36 pmStanley said:

    69: You forgot:

    3) Drinking heavily while maintaining that we have a blogging problem.

  72. 11 Jun 2008 at 11:36 pmDonk said:

    Well, I understand that totally came off all jerkface.

    What I really mean is… at least my impression of it is that it originated with a certain cVillain…. but I am not going to be the one volunteering the name of which crotch the fire may belong to. And it’s becoming way bigger of a deal than it’s worth.

  73. 11 Jun 2008 at 11:42 pmmc said:

    70: And #2 I guess I don’t really subscribe to too much, since I’ve taken the time to post and respond. You totally have and it’s awesome! we need new people in here or we just implode in a jerky flirty insidery disaster zone, as described in point 1.

    71: truth. as evidenced by my posting at 9am and midnight. I need to fucking quit already.

  74. 12 Jun 2008 at 12:41 amecho said:

    And it’s becoming way bigger of a deal than it’s worth.

    You have no idea, but for all I know, I am the only one who does.

  75. 12 Jun 2008 at 9:22 amThor said:

    I will be the first to claim that I don’t have a blogging problem.

  76. 12 Jun 2008 at 9:43 amshenanigans said:

    @26 world: Don’t be such a douche. The Firecrotch was in no way named to refer to Lindsay Lohan but as a joke referring to redhead pubes. It’s funny because I’m a redhead. Y’all will have to guess whether my pubes are red or not. And therein is the charm of the drink. But thanks for thinking it was something shallow and that we all read tabloids. My friends have been using the term firecrotch for years before LiLo was ever coined such, so pretty please, shut your trap.

  77. 12 Jun 2008 at 9:46 amshenanigans said:

    NOw I’mall worried about whether or not I spelled whether right? Is it right? Aghhhhhh, damn you booze!

  78. 12 Jun 2008 at 9:54 amLovely Day said:

    @76 you have pubes? Who’d have thunk it?

  79. 12 Jun 2008 at 9:55 ambelmont yo said:

    at least my impression of it is that it originated with a certain cVillain….

    Yes. But was it not eduardo that invented the drink the “firecrotch”? Methinks it was.

  80. 12 Jun 2008 at 10:01 amshenanigans said:

    Eduardo invented the mix and Caroline named it and I serve it. It is a cVillain compilation and everyone must love it or I wwill donkeypunch them. Mmkay.

  81. 12 Jun 2008 at 10:02 amThor said:

    Can we get Kru to sponsor our website with a featured firecrotch drink!? IT COULD GO VIRAL!!!

  82. 12 Jun 2008 at 10:07 amshenanigans said:

    It’s CRU mister and I don’t know if PK will be into it, classy lady that she is. 10 bucks to whoever has the balls to call Kluge estate and propose that. 977-3895

  83. 12 Jun 2008 at 10:12 amecho said:

    @82: What’s the worst she can do if you ask? Say no.

    /I’m going to keep posting until someone fixes my spam problem. Thor, I’m looking at you.

  84. 12 Jun 2008 at 11:09 amOdie said:

    what is CRU?

  85. 12 Jun 2008 at 11:10 amThor said:

    http://www.klugeestateonline.com/media/fact_cru.pdf

  86. 12 Jun 2008 at 11:21 amshenanigans said:

    @83: WTF Odie? We’ve only explained what it is like 20 times.

  87. 12 Jun 2008 at 11:26 amOdie said:

    well now i know Shen, and knowing is half the battle (wait, is this the 80’s thread?)

  88. 12 Jun 2008 at 11:38 amshenanigans said:

    @83: Dare you to call…
    @87: You get a C- for not paying attention in class

  89. 12 Jun 2008 at 11:41 amecho said:

    I’m already on the cVillain blacklist. May as well get on the Kluge blacklist too.

  90. 12 Jun 2008 at 11:42 amdieter said:

    @88 I called and they gave me this number to call 977 0019

  91. 12 Jun 2008 at 11:57 amshenanigans said:

    Haha awesome. Call them!

  92. 12 Jun 2008 at 11:57 amdieter said:

    @88 tag Shen you are now it.
    I think it’s PK assistant- perhaps my accent fooled them- she was married to a german right?

  93. 12 Jun 2008 at 12:07 pmshenanigans said:

    No way. I am not calling Patricia Kluge and asking her to give us free CRU for our official cVillain drink, the Firecrotch. You do it.

  94. 12 Jun 2008 at 12:09 pmdieter said:

    You gave us a number a dared us to call it. I did that and got a better number. Now it’s someone else turn.
    To be honest I’m skerrid of her.

  95. 12 Jun 2008 at 12:40 pmbelmont yo said:

    To be honest I’m skerrid of her.

    Wait a few days. She’ll mellow out once she gets enough dalmation puppies for her coat.

  96. 12 Jun 2008 at 1:19 pm26 world said:

    @76 “But thanks for thinking it was something shallow”

    omg! you’re, like, totally right. I, like, totally didn’t realize it had such a deep ontological meaning! I respectfully bow before someone who so artfully uses such argumentation as “don’t be such a douche” and “shut your trap.” Hey, did you perhaps come up with the “need more cowbell” t-shirts at Mas, too? Genius.

    /yer friends are super-clever

  97. 12 Jun 2008 at 1:21 pmecho said said said:

    OH SNAP

  98. 12 Jun 2008 at 1:42 pmshenanigans said:

    Omg, you totally use big words like ontological. You are so kewl. They have shirts that say that at Mas? HILarious!

  99. 12 Jun 2008 at 1:44 pmshenanigans said:

    And my friends are pretty clever. Thanks douchey!

  100. 12 Jun 2008 at 1:44 pmdieter said:

    @98 is 26 world the new FF?

  101. 12 Jun 2008 at 1:51 pmThe Chinese said:

    没有号, FF更是一驴洞

  102. 12 Jun 2008 at 3:52 pmDonk said:

    Ok.. before this whole thing just devolves into snarkiness.

    Lurkers.. let me tell you the secret about being on the ‘inside’.

    Participate.

    And even better… show up at some of the cVillain functions (or half the bars in this town).

    The intarwebs gives people a sense of anonymity which can turn them into a complete asshat. Meet some of the folks and start putting faces to names and see if you don’t feel a little better about being part of the ‘clique’.

  103. 12 Jun 2008 at 3:58 pmLu Sid said:

    Well said Donk.

  104. 12 Jun 2008 at 4:09 pmbelmont yo said:

    Lurkers.. let me tell you the secret about being on the ‘inside’

    You’re gonna have to pretty much fight if you don’t want to be someone’s punk. Get a little drunk on Pruno, fashion a shiv from a toothbrush handle and go to town on someone bigger than you. If this fails, pretty much your only option is going to be joining a gang of people that are the same race as you, like the Arayan Nation or the Latin Kings.

  105. 12 Jun 2008 at 4:19 pmparlie said:

    re:104 don’t forget the possibility that they might have to toss salad. or give up their fruit cup. really, there’s a virtually inexhaustible cache of disgusting food-based metaphors for gay prison sex.

    but this thread is about iphones, which btw, are OMFG.

  106. 12 Jun 2008 at 4:23 pmwhite on rice said:

    but this thread is about iphones

    True, but if you want one the day they come out, you’ll probably have to do somethings that you thought only happened in prison.

  107. 12 Jun 2008 at 4:29 pmparlie said:

    i already have a tattoo of a tribal iphone around my bicep. with a dolphin.

  108. 12 Jun 2008 at 5:00 pm26 world said:

    @102: I get what you’re saying, but I say this as respectfully as I can…what you suggest assumes people want to be “on the inside.” (which means?) Isn’t it possible for people just to participate and comment on site topics without being “an insider,” since otherwise, everything’s just an inside joke. Which again, is fine, but not what I thought this place was supposed to be…(especially with all the digs at the C’ville Drinking Club).

    I’ve lived in Cville for a very long time, and over the last decade and a half, I’ve managed, bartended, waited, and had copious amounts of alcohol in many more than half the bars in this town, and many other bars that have long since closed down. I don’t mean that as some kind of one-ups-manship to anyone at all, just to say that I’ve been on many versions of “the inside” and sometimes I just want to sit out a round.

    I do like checking in with this site every now and then. It’s interesting to see how Cville’s “inside” has evolved. If I have something to say, I’ll say it; if someone calls me a “douche” and tells me to “shut my trap,” well, then, I’m going to chuckle and snark back. It’s my nature, good or bad. It actually gave me a good laugh today, and hopefully others took it equally as non-seriously. I actually hadn’t planned on saying anything further, but your note is directed at lurkers, when it seems as if what you said about anonymity can apply to everyone…veteran posters and new people alike.

    As for the anonymity, I don’t have anything to hide, and I don’t write things I wouldn’t say to a person outright. That said, it’s Cvillain itself that created this whole structure of “anonymity” thing, so you can’t really have it both ways…

    /sent from my iPhone

  109. 12 Jun 2008 at 5:09 pmshenanigans said:

    @108: Sorry dude. I was still a little drunky this am (too much fun w/ the Drinking Club last night) and thought you were insulting us and so I had to get a little sassy on you.

  110. 12 Jun 2008 at 5:16 pmshenanigans said:

    And I said, “Pretty please shut your trap”. See, that was nice, right?

  111. 12 Jun 2008 at 5:30 pmLu Sid said:

    26 world:

    Thanks for the honest and thoughtful reply.

    Just as any neighborhood, ours has all kinds. We have the neighbor that invites everyone over (even the smelly kids from the last house on the block), we have the funny guy that makes you laugh till you pee just a little, we have the mouthy woman who never seems to know the difference between her life and yours, there is your neighbor that hates everyone on the block but you, and of course we have the dad who constantly yells at people to slow down. No matter the crowd, we all came here to play. Want to join in and sing real loud? Do it. Want to be a part of the fun, but only mouth the words…we don’t mind. If you just want to grab a beer, sit back and watch the ciaos? Consider this an invitation.

    All and all everyone around is pretty great, we just have our moments. You will always have friends here no matter what a few may say. Lurkers need love too.

    Join the party in whatever way you want and I promise from here on out there will be no biting (well, maybe some playful nips here and there).

  112. 12 Jun 2008 at 5:40 pmmc said:

    108: I’m having serious flashbacks.

  113. 12 Jun 2008 at 5:48 pmThor said:

    @112, MC, true. People should stay on track, but you know .. it’s kinda hard to do sometimes. I want people to stay on track, but sometimes the thread makes sense.

    P.S. I agree with La Grape: “The way to bring a topic back on topic is to bring it back on topic.”

    @108, 26 World.. You can do anything you want on this site; there are plenty of regular commenters who don’t show up at our parties. We love everyone equally, no matter how many comments, how often they comment, how many parties they come to, or how deep they are inside.

    /waiting for it..

  114. 12 Jun 2008 at 5:54 pmparlie said:

    @111 just so we’re clear, thor is the dad who tells everybody to slow down. i’m the guy who dated his daughter and talked her through her first beej.

  115. 12 Jun 2008 at 5:54 pmparlie said:

    oh man i’m in trouble.

  116. 12 Jun 2008 at 5:56 pmThor said:

    @114, YOU ARE GROUNDED.

  117. 12 Jun 2008 at 6:02 pm26 world said:

    111: thanks for the kind invite — I accept. I wasn’t really bristling at anything except the assumption that “lurkers” are just wannabe “insiders,” and that it’s really just a point-and-clique site.

    112: that’s really not where I’m coming from, at all. I don’t mind the inside-y-ness from others, as I’ve said. And I like the snarkiness — I actually enjoy a good banter, especially as long as it keeps it on the clever tip and doesn’t devolve into plain-old name-calling, which is just kind of boring to me. And if it does devolve, well please don’t worry, I’m not going to get offended and I don’t certainly don’t require apologies…I just don’t have witty comebacks for that.

  118. 12 Jun 2008 at 6:16 pmmc said:

    how deep they are inside.

    really Thor? really? that’s just a bit too easy.

  119. 12 Jun 2008 at 6:57 pmbelmont yo said:

    Just as any neighborhood, ours has all kinds

    Oh christ, which one am I? I am hoping for the boo radley type who peers suspiciously through his venetian blinds… but I’ll probably end up with sumpin else. Damn it.

    People should stay on track

    Um yeah, good luck with that. I was born to jack! Wait.. that sounds wrong.

    You can do anything you want on this site

    Exactly! Except: politics, religion, personal attacks, spam, multiple links, inline picture posting, porn, pr0n, and nazi recruitment. See how easy that was?

    Its like “Virginia is for Lovers”*
    *heterosexual missionary position with the lights off. for procreation purposes only. use only under the bonds of wedlock. any attempt at alternative orgasm, or additional enjoyment will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law

    I don’t mind the inside-y-ness

    Im dead inside too. Let’s write meaningful poems. Or do some journaling.

    and doesn’t devolve into plain-old name-calling

    You’re a towel,

  120. 12 Jun 2008 at 7:07 pm26 world said:

    @119 “You’re a towel”

    You should give me a wring sometime. You’ve clearly got my number.

  121. 12 Jun 2008 at 8:24 pmcaroline said:

    wow, I got here late.
    hey 26, I called it the firecrotch cause a hott villain redhead serves it up.
    mmmkay.

  122. 12 Jun 2008 at 8:25 pmcaroline said:

    and it’s RED gatorade, derr!

  123. 12 Jun 2008 at 8:37 pmdieter said:

    @102 I’d come to a cvillain event but I’m a xenophobe

  124. 12 Jun 2008 at 9:23 pmFloozy said:

    @120 26 World … very fucking funny. I like you muchly.
    Caroline.. emailing as we speak… do you hate me?

  125. 12 Jun 2008 at 9:27 pmcaroline said:

    yes.

  126. 12 Jun 2008 at 9:29 pmFloozy said:

    Oh crap…. but look on the bright side… you don’t know who you are hating so it’s all good.
    /I was in Starlight last week naaah nah na naaaah nah.

  127. 12 Jun 2008 at 9:35 pmcaroline said:

    did we make out?

  128. 12 Jun 2008 at 9:37 pmFloozy said:

    No, but I did have some suspicious foamy stuff floating on my coffee….

  129. 12 Jun 2008 at 9:44 pmcaroline said:

    did I make your coffee fer you? What was I wearing?

  130. 12 Jun 2008 at 9:46 pmdieter said:

    @128 @128 what the both of you wearing?

  131. 12 Jun 2008 at 9:47 pmdieter said:

    @129 as well

  132. 12 Jun 2008 at 9:48 pmcaroline said:

    merv the perv

  133. 12 Jun 2008 at 9:50 pmFloozy said:

    Crotchless yoga pants and a vibrating corset Dieter…. duuuuuuuuh. What else would I wear for a trip to Lumber Liquidators?

  134. 12 Jun 2008 at 9:55 pmcaroline said:

    floozy why didn’t you introduce yourself?

  135. 12 Jun 2008 at 9:57 pmFloozy said:

    I thought the crotchless yoga pants spoke for themselves C… obviously I was wrong.

  136. 12 Jun 2008 at 10:02 pmcaroline said:

    meet me at the free for all..

  137. 12 Jun 2008 at 10:03 pmbelmont yo said:

    but I’m a xenophobe

    man, me too. most people suck. what is so hard about the golden rule anyway?

    /meanwhile, on the fashionista island of saphos…

  138. 12 Jun 2008 at 10:56 pmdieter said:

    @133 sorry thought somebody might be wearing a nice sundress

  139. 12 Jun 2008 at 11:41 pmorchid said:

    @119 “Except: politics, religion, personal attacks, spam, multiple links, inline picture posting, porn, pr0n, and nazi recruitment”

    you forgot fictitious love affiars.

    @123 it’s ok, we don’t like foreigners either. oh wait…

  140. 12 Jun 2008 at 11:44 pmSHIM said:

    orchid+caroline=sweet echo

  141. 13 Jun 2008 at 1:15 am(echo) said:

    @140: Bothered on multiple levels.

  142. 13 Jun 2008 at 3:03 ammc said:

    119: I am hoping for the boo radley type

    I’ll love you forever for that.

    /dominating the recent comments because I’m drunk and happy.

  143. […] What a week! We told you how to donate some organs, a fire broke out, echo died, while finding new iphones we met some newbies, we discussed some teaching woes, and apparently here and there some of us worked at […]

  144. 13 Jun 2008 at 1:02 pmshenanigans said:

    Thor is a firecrotch

  145. 13 Jun 2008 at 1:13 pmorchid said:

    @140 orchid + caroline > sweet + echo

    not least of all because we’re both alive & only one of them is.

  146. 13 Jun 2008 at 2:15 pmThor's daughter said:

    @116: But daddy, I love him! I HATE YOU!

  147. 13 Jun 2008 at 2:16 pmecho said:

    @140, 145: I was told there’d be no math.

  148. 13 Jun 2008 at 2:22 pmdieter said:

    echo + zombie = Fresh Brains!

  149. 13 Jun 2008 at 2:25 pmecho said:

    I would play with my name and post something as zombiecho, but I may never be able to switch back. I’m not ready to take that chance yet.

  150. 13 Jun 2008 at 2:26 pmdieter said:

    If you were dyslexic would zombieecho want fresh brians?

  151. 13 Jun 2008 at 2:28 pmcaroline said:

    what are fresh brians?

    /want some

  152. 13 Jun 2008 at 2:29 pmecho said:

    Why do I have to be dyslexic to want fresh brains?

  153. 13 Jun 2008 at 2:36 pmdieter said:

    @150 This is a fresh Brian

  154. 13 Jun 2008 at 2:38 pmecho said:

    Apparently I am dyslexic.

  155. […] by parlie’s curmudgeonly diss on the current iPhone buzz, I decided to compile this list of “things that used to be cool in cville but are no longer […]

  156. 26 Jun 2008 at 12:41 pmshenanigans said:

    My roomie just dropped her new iPOD on a wood floor and the awesome glass screen shattered into a million awesome pieces. FAIL.

  157. 26 Jun 2008 at 12:42 pmshenanigans said:

    iPHONE. My bad.

  158. 26 Jun 2008 at 12:51 pmThor said:

    Haha, sucker!

  159. 26 Jun 2008 at 1:14 pmChad Day said:

    Yeah, can’t believe she did that kind of damage to it from only 2 feet. It looks like she bashed it with a hammer. I’ve dropped mine onto the asphalt from higher and not even had it nicked.. bad luck. :(

    The upshot is that since the 3G is coming out, the Apple Store might be more open to just replacing it w/o the repair charge ($250).. when my phone got water damage at Foxfield, which isn’t covered, they still replaced it free. Seems to be really hit or miss, and how much the tech (sorry, genius) doesn’t care about his job/is in a good mood, etc.

  160. 26 Jun 2008 at 3:32 pmscoriole said:

    speaking of- i’m off to the istore, er, apple store at short pump. anyone need anything?

    /definitely Not getting an iphone.

  161. 26 Jun 2008 at 4:11 pmcbob said:

    Ahem. I dropped my iphone on CONCRETE and it didn’t screw it up much more than some scuffs and an air bubble under the screen. But the air bubble didnt show up until months afterwards. Mine’s tough and I am not delicate with my electronics.

    Like Chad I was hoping to take mine to the Apple store and maybe get a 3g one but then I unlocked my phone to put apps and stuff on it - so I kinda voided the warranty myself. Oh well - now I can do shit that the iPhone should have been able to do out of the box - send SMS, video, built in chat client, built in games, and no more dependance on web-apps. I think if I had to do it over again I wouldnt have bought one, but I like mine. But the first/second gen stuff with Apple is always way less feature rich than the 3rd and 4th. The new ones might kick ass. This one is pretty and sexy but it doesnt do a lot of the stuff I wish it did (when I got it).

    I’m thinking about turning my speak and spell into a phone anyway.

  162. 26 Jun 2008 at 7:46 pmparlie said:

    oh yeah? i haven’t broken my iphone yet either! AND i wrote a program that turned my honda into a car accident.

  163. […] since sliced bread.  You may recall one of our own being one of those trendy types who is probably waiting in line as we speak. According to a poll in that same thread, 25% of you will be getting the iPhone […]

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