Wave Hoax Tricks Gullible iPhone Users Into Microwaving Their Phones
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I went to the base clinic one day while really sick, they gave me some pills for everything to help me get "better". While I was in the shower, my wife brought me the pills (3 different prescriptions) and I took them. When I got out of the shower, she asks, "Why do they have you taking heart medication?" Yeah - they put someone else's bottle in the bag - if she'd only looked at the name on the bottle. I'm always very cautious about medication too.Funyahns said:
I saw that story a while back too and thought it sounded too good to be true, so I checked it on snopes. I'm thinking there should be a mandatory moment in everyone's life, around age 10-13 or so, where they're given instructions over the internet similar to this WAVE thing, and see what they do. If they don't follow it, or research it, they have good sense; if not, it's a learning experience for them and hopefully they'll learn from it and do research next time.Funyahns said:
This reminds me of those times in school when, to prepare people for work, they'd have some lessons having us read some stories or watch videos of employees doing ridiculously obviously stupid stuff, like being rude to customers, slacking off, constantly being late, not wearing eye/head/hands/foot/mouth protection while working on dangerous equipment, etc. all being things that everybody on the planet should already know. My thoughts were always something along the lines of "I don't know what's worse, that they all think we're stupid enough that we even have to be told not to do this kind of obviously idiotic crap or that the fact that lessons like this exist means that there's people out there right now that actually are."camazotz said:
I get a similar reaction from reading articles like this. I don't think our education system is off the rails, I just think that no matter how good our education might be or could be there will always be plenty of really really stupid people that do really really stupid crap like this regardless.
If I feel anything for these people, it's disgust and maybe pity at the most, I don't even laugh at stuff like this anymore.
No, although that's just as terrible. I can't quite remember what it was, but it had something to do with waterproofing one's cell phone, or something like that, and then everyone who tried only crushed their phones in the wash or shorted it out from the water.killerbee256 said:
While some people think that way, I just find it funny to watch people learn the hard way on topics that should really be common sense. And, just the amount of carelessness involved, if you had a phone worth $600+ would you not at least try to be careful with it?Aeshi said:
Putting it in a microwave would be the LAST thing most people would do, as microwaves COOK things, and I don't personally know anyone who would want to cook something that valuable, even if they were told that they could get a faster charge.
Not saying it's not a cruel prank, but really, if you look at nature, well, natural selection, this is just an example of it, hopefully these people learn and adapt rather than not, because if not, they're going to have a bad time.
This. I've seen several cases of people who honestly knew how to handle a debate use researched and peer-reviewed sources to support incredibly dumb stuff, like the Flat Earth Society, homosexuality being somehow immoral or one of the many Lizardmen conspiracies spawned by David Icke and his ilk.immortalfrieza said:
The educational system really only gives you a set of really powerful tools. You can use them to become the next Ken Follett or Stephen King, you can become the next Neil DeGrasse Tyson - or you can fall back in with the Tinfoil Brigade and do the worst thing possible, which is giving airs of legitimacy to crackpot theories.
Brother did this. Brother said it'd work.
Started a small house fire.
God, I'm a terrible person.
Seriously, I can't tell whether I'm supposed to be ashamed for out piss-poor excuse for a species or laughing my ass off at our piss-poor excuse for a species.
A little bit of both, I suppose.
Started a small house fire.
God, I'm a terrible person.
Seriously, I can't tell whether I'm supposed to be ashamed for out piss-poor excuse for a species or laughing my ass off at our piss-poor excuse for a species.
A little bit of both, I suppose.
lol. This hoax was passed around years ago with the conspiracy that "Steve Jobs knows that if people realize they can charge their phones in the microwave, they won't have to buy any charging cables from Apple. Therefore he made a smear campaign stating that microwaving your phone would destroy it in order to make more money". A friend of my sister almost fell for itDoom972 said:
I wonder how many of these phones were already bricks that people decided they wanted to have some fun with and get attention.
Things were a bit unorthodox in my middle school, the smarter kids were kinda the elites of the social order, and some of them liked to bully and make fun of kids that weren't considered as smart or who got worse grades. Because of that I've never really looked down on idiots with negativity so much as pity, because it's going to make their life harder.
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BigTuk said:
Whenever people say stuff like this I wonder if they really mean it, because while stupidity and naivete may not be admirable traits, I doubt anyone could consider them some sort of crime worthy of being harshly punished.Genocidicles said:
Things were a bit unorthodox in my middle school, the smarter kids were kinda the elites of the social order, and some of them liked to bully and make fun of kids that weren't considered as smart or who got worse grades. Because of that I've never really looked down on idiots with negativity so much as pity, because it's going to make their life harder.
I'm pretty sure Darwinism only takes affect if the action prevents them from surviving or reproducing, despite what Apple might want you to believe, I don't think people will die from not having an iPhone 6.RJ 17 said:
I showed the ad to my 11 year old daughter and her reply to it was "that's got to be fake a phone has metal in it".
So to me that shows the mental age of these people.
So to me that shows the mental age of these people.
You should be ashamed of yourselves about this whole ordeal! My wife is recovering from gal bladder surgery and she laughed so hard over this that she hurt herself!
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HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
I'm sorry, yes its a cruel prank, yes people WILL do absolutely, obviously stupid things, it's just the fact that there are pics. Pics! It's bad enough that they were yelling about it but the pics! That is what seals the comedic value. No people laughing about this does not make them psychopath/sociopaths. People laugh at others misfortune at times, especially when, while coaxed, is their own fault in the end. Schadenfreude, and its perfectly natural. Its bad that people lost new phones but really. A microwave. The waterproof thing is mildly believable as there are waterproof electronics.
But it was putting it in the microwave.
That said...
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
I'm sorry, yes its a cruel prank, yes people WILL do absolutely, obviously stupid things, it's just the fact that there are pics. Pics! It's bad enough that they were yelling about it but the pics! That is what seals the comedic value. No people laughing about this does not make them psychopath/sociopaths. People laugh at others misfortune at times, especially when, while coaxed, is their own fault in the end. Schadenfreude, and its perfectly natural. Its bad that people lost new phones but really. A microwave. The waterproof thing is mildly believable as there are waterproof electronics.
But it was putting it in the microwave.