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Argh its like being trapped in a recurring nightmare. Get some new material, like I dont when I repeat myself endlessly about peak oil etc.
 
editor said:
You normally get new the latest shiny Apple products just about as soon as they become available, so I thought you may have been equally keen to check out what is their biggest store in the known universe.

Did you watch the video, btw? What do you think of it?
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No, have no interest in going to see a new store opening. I don't need to watch the videos either, they're all a bit ridiculous. Nor do I get so heated about it and feel a need to pre-empt a store opening and post about it on my website a few days earlier because I'm likely to be at a festival when it opens ;)

Sure, I got an iPad on release, happy I did. I haven't ever queued for anything else. I've not got any generation iphone on release day either....

You seem more interested in the store opening than I to be honest.
 
Kanda said:
You seem more interested in the store opening than I to be honest.
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LOL. I made no mention of it here. You brought it up in post #7930 and then went on about it again two posts later just to mention something I'd written on another website!

Seeing as you seemed so interested, I thought you'd like to see the video.

:D
 
No harm in funny it funny you posting up about a store opening before it had opened. With all the same cliches as usual, just cos you were at a festie when it opened. ;)
 
editor said:
You normally get new the latest shiny Apple products just about as soon as they become available, so I thought you may have been equally keen to check out what is their biggest store in the known universe.

Did you watch the video, btw? What do you think of it?

If I was expected to whoop, clap, chant, hug and high five like that in public, I'd want the products for free!

Oh, and apparently Apple employees are not allowed to talk about their discounts as part of their employment contract, but there's an outdated guide here.
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They're not allowed to talk about it!?
 
editor said:
Oh, and apparently Apple employees are not allowed to talk about their discounts as part of their employment contract, but there's an outdated guide here.
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which is not only outdated but utterly irrelevant in the UK as we're covered by European and UK employment law not US ... so what has this got to do with the thread or the current topic of conversation at all in relation the the CG store?
 
Yep, I asked because it was the only thing I could rationally think would make doing that high fiving stuff bearable.
 
When I bought the iPad I asked the guy in the store about it. He said they enjoy it and volunteer for it. It makes a change to the usual day, bit of fun etc... bonkers!
 
Well a lot of people do put up with far worse at work, especially working in retail. I really couldnt face doing it myself but there are plenty of other personality types that probably could. Heck if I was much younger maybe I could have just about stomached it, hard to say.
 
Kid_Eternity said:
Yep, I asked because it was the only thing I could rationally think would make doing that high fiving stuff bearable.
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Its not the high fives I have a problem with, its the clapping. Its totally vacuous and empty. Clapping is a human response to signal you've enjoyed something, a quality tackle, a well delivered performance whatever. Standing clapping for no obvious reason for ages is weird to watch and much be even stranger to actually do. Bit like saying a word over and over, quite quickly it loses all meaning.
 
Sunray said:
Its not the high fives I have a problem with, its the clapping. Its totally vacuous and empty. Clapping is a human response to signal you've enjoyed something, a quality tackle, a well delivered performance whatever. Standing clapping for no obvious reason for ages is weird to watch and much be even stranger to actually do. Bit like saying a word over and over, quite quickly it loses all meaning.
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The clapping is a response to enjoying the apple products?
 
GarfieldLeChat said:
is it... or is it that they like many other cults have been whipped up in to a mass hysteria?
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Not sure clapping is the Apple staff whipped up into hysteria. I don't want to imagine what they are capable of if they got one of those American 'Motivational' dudes to actually get them all going before hand. Perhaps they do, just all us Brits can manage is a bit of clapping.
 
Badgers said:
Get all my games from FAAP. Keep only about 10% of them but it is a great little app for sure.
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I've stopped using it so much now, the novelty of endless free games started to wear off after I realised I had 'Games V' folder.

Oh one other I got was a proper old school RTS, quite like a fired up C&C clone. Surprisingly good. Err..ahh Warfare Inc.
 
Sunray said:
Not sure clapping is the Apple staff whipped up into hysteria. I don't want to imagine what they are capable of if they got one of those American 'Motivational' dudes to actually get them all going before hand. Perhaps they do, just all us Brits can manage is a bit of clapping.
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Have you not watched the video all the way through? They do a whole lot more than just clap - they hug, they whoop, they shout, they chant and high-five each other while beaming with joy - and it would be an understandable mistake for a passer by to assume that they were some sort of cult whipped up into a form of quasi-religious hysteria.
 
Sunray said:
Not sure clapping is the Apple staff whipped up into hysteria. I don't want to imagine what they are capable of if they got one of those American 'Motivational' dudes to actually get them all going before hand. Perhaps they do, just all us Brits can manage is a bit of clapping.
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I think that's what passes for hysteria in the UK mate... ;)
 
Sunray said:
I've stopped using it so much now, the novelty of endless free games started to wear off after I realised I had 'Games V' folder.

Oh one other I got was a proper old school RTS, quite like a fired up C&C clone. Surprisingly good. Err..ahh Warfare Inc.
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Yeah WI is pretty cool, first played it on the Palm Centro!;)
 
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