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Typical iPhone user

Had a lady come into my workplace (where we sell ATT, Sprint and T-Mobile) and told me that her iPhone 3gs, that she had on T-Mobile prepaid, could not make phone calls. I told her to just take out the battery and put it back in. She didn't know how to do it and demanded that I do it for her. Since she didn't buy the phone from us, I didn't want to risk damaging the phone, and because I was busy with other ACTUAL customers, I told her that i was unable to do it. She then claimed that because I couldn't open an iPhone, my store must be "technologically behind" and that I was slow and wouldnt understand how to use something like an iPhone. Skipping the part where I embarrassed her by showing how my HTC inspire dominates, I am just pointing out how she is an average iPhone user.
Me: "do you have a smart phone?"
IPhone user: " pfft.. no. I have an iPhone."
Rage.
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mashem said:
Had a lady come into my workplace (where we sell ATT, Sprint and T-Mobile) and told me that her iPhone 3gs, that she had on T-Mobile prepaid, could not make phone calls. I told her to just take out the battery and put it back in. She didn't know how to do it and demanded that I do it for her. Since she didn't buy the phone from us, I didn't want to risk damaging the phone, and because I was busy with other ACTUAL customers, I told her that i was unable to do it. She then claimed that because I couldn't open an iPhone, my store must be "technologically behind" and that I was slow and wouldnt understand how to use something like an iPhone. Skipping the part where I embarrassed her by showing how my HTC inspire dominates, I am just pointing out how she is an average iPhone user.
Me: "do you have a smart phone?"
IPhone user: " pfft.. no. I have an iPhone."
Rage.
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Are you being sarcastic, you told here to take the battery out?
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Most iPhone users I've met are Apple fanatics and think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I can show all of them my rooted phone and they still just look at me like, "your point?, it's not an iPhone"

Stupidest thread of the week.
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I Am Marino said:
Most iPhone users I've met are Apple fanatics and think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I can show all of them my rooted phone and they still just look at me like, "your point?, it's not an iPhone"
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Ditto!! Don't worry though when that Dual core, 4.3" screen, 8mp camera phone comes out. (moto droid bionic) Bust that out and be like "What now son!? What now!?!" Lol!! But anyways I agree! People that worship Apple wth is the big deal! What do u want an award for "having" a product that has the Apple sign jeez go eat a ice cream or something..
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cjward23 said:
Are you being sarcastic, you told here to take the battery out?
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Yes. She was already giving me a hard time so I figured I'd give her an impossible task.
Also, when I told her that we WERE in fact technologically "ahead", I showed her the android phones (including mine).
She responded with "I have an android too, but it ain't no iPhone."
That's when she whipped out a Rumor Touch on Virgin Mobile. *Shoots self

Haha it could have been an Ally. In that case you would shoot her first then yourself
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i think most ppl have heard of it but anyways:
a (swedish?) study pointed out, that a lot of these apple-fanatics show the same symptoms as ppl diagnosed with the stockholm syndrome. they defend their iphone against any kind of criticism and are somewhat deaf for reasonable arguments like the iphone having no extendable storage, removeable battery, supports no flash and so on...
have to say that not only iphone users show these symptoms but also nearly any person being strongly fond of one of their posessions (car, hifi etc).
the iphone is a nice device but way too expensive and i rather stick with a phone i have more control over.
but i dig my ipod+itunes. works great.

An actual conversation that I had with an iPhone user:
iPhone user: What is that, an iPhone?
Me: No. It's an HD2.
iPhone user: Oh. My iPhone can probably do more than that thing.
Me: Oh really?
iP user: Yes.
Me: Can it turn into a WiFi hotspot?
iP: Yes. But I have to pay more for it.
Me: But can it run another OS?
iP: no
*proceeds to show iPhone user my phone booting WM6.5, Ubuntu and Android*
iPhone user staring at it.
Me:
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Haha it could have been an Ally. In that case you would shoot her first then yourself
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Haha nah. Definitely was a Rumor Touch. Girl I work with just got rid of her Ally and got a Captivate. She still swears that the Ally is a "great" phone. Then again she's an idiot.

when i had my streak everyone with an "i" phone was always like what is that the new i phone and i wld just say apple wishes and that always started a war if your using an iphone wouldnt you know if a new phone was coming out

New Snooping Internet Bill Must Be Stopped!!!

Fight Back: Congress Pushing Broad Internet Snooping Bill
"A direct assault on Internet users" is what the ACLU is calling it. A U.S. House committee has already approved HR 1981, a broad new Internet snooping bill.
They want to force Internet service providers to keep track of and retain their customers' information -- including your name, address, phone number, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses.
And get this: It's authored by lead SOPA sponsor Lamar Smith.
The ACLU, EFF, Demand Progress, and 25 other civil liberties and privacy groups have expressed our opposition to this legislation. Will you join us, by emailing your lawmakers today? Just use the form at right.
ISPs would collect and retain your data whether or not you're accused of a crime. Supporters shamelessly dubbed it the "Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act," but our staunchest allies in Congress are calling it what it is: an all-encompassing Internet snooping bill.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, who led Democratic opposition to the bill said, "It represents a data bank of every digital act by every American [that would] let us find out where every single American visited Web sites."
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Source: http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/snooping/?source=fb

This is horrible. How can you get mad at the government for wanting all of your pertinent information?
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jasecloud4 said:
This is horrible. How can you get mad at the government for wanting all of your pertinent information?
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.F*CKING TROLL
Anyway send an email NAO!!!

When do the riots start
-My life is a shooting range, people never change-

I will fill out the forms for my congress critters ASAP!
This neeeeeds to be stopped!
Also, I shared this on my tweeter....err....Twitter!
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Got extra room in that rocket and stuff to make internet work in the rocket?
WAIT FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!

Of course! I got enough room for everbody! If it gets full, we'll build a bigger one!

Oh you silly Americans, in a few years time when your all controlled by a AI hive mind this will seem so trivial

Lulz at DD
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deliriousDroid said:
Oh you silly Americans, in a few years time when your all controlled by a AI hive mind this will seem so trivial
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Oh look! Can you see it? It's the US. Yes, your neighbour. You're next Canada! *Evil laugh*

One ridiculous bill after another.

deliriousDroid said:
Oh you silly Americans, in a few years time when your all controlled by a AI hive mind this will seem so trivial
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Don't worry when we come after Canada not even your Mounties will be able to stop us.
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LordManhattan said:
Oh look! Can you see it? It's the US. Yes, your neighbour. You're next Canada! *Evil laugh*
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Sigghhh I know. We are already fighting these sopa related type bill. It's called C-11

jasecloud4 said:
Don't worry when we come after Canada not even your Mounties will be able to stop us.
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You underestimate the power of horseback mounted troops

deliriousDroid said:
Sigghhh I know. We are already fighting these sopa related type bill. It's called C-11
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Wait...there's actually enough people in Canada to have a monitoring bill? I thought that if they wanted to censor you, they'd just unplug the four of you from the national router?
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C-11? What's this aboot?

phatmanxxl said:
C-11? What's this aboot?
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This will give you the jist of it.
http://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/2495

Wow, just wow.
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lets focus our efforts on the internet instead of the deficit... We gotta look like were doing something in this "House"...

Want an iPad? Best not speak Farsi then!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18545003
Why anyone would want one I do not know, I'm typing this on an iPad 3 work have forced on us (they wouldn't exchange it for a transformer prime) and it is such a heap of junk.
Anyway, American woman in the US goes into an Apple store with her Iranian uncle and speaks to him in Farsi, sales guy hears, asks what language they're speaking and when they tell him it's Iranian he tells them they can't buy any Apple products.
When they complain to Apple they're told to order online so it doesn't happen again! Great vote of confidence in their shop staff!

My typical answer would be a pic of the Ancient Aliens guy with the text "Americans", but this isn't really an american thing at all, so:
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xaccers said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18545003
Why anyone would want one I do not know, I'm typing this on an iPad 3 work have forced on us (they wouldn't exchange it for a transformer prime) and it is such a heap of junk.
Anyway, American woman in the US goes into an Apple store with her Iranian dad and speaks to him in Farsi, sales guy hears, asks what language they're speaking and when they tell him it's Iranian he tells them they can't buy any Apple products.
When they complain to Apple they're told to order online so it doesn't happen again! Great vote of confidence in their shop staff!
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It's because she said she was going to send it to her cousin in Iran. Apple has an embargo on Iran. People should stop overreacting to everything.
And ib4l
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Definite ib4l - yet again 'humanity' shows its stoopid side by reading half a story in the news, believing what they are told as gospel, and over-reacting like normal
P.S. Please, please, please can we go back to the old emoticons? These are just pathetic...

veeman said:
It's because she said she was going to send it to her cousin in Iran. Apple has an embargo on Iran. People should stop overreacting to everything.
And ib4l
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You mean in before SECOND lock.
Same thing was locked yesterday.

Simon.TS.HTC said:
Definite ib4l - yet again 'humanity' shows its stoopid side by reading half a story in the news, believing what they are told as gospel, and over-reacting like normal
P.S. Please, please, please can we go back to the old emoticons? These are just pathetic...
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Well.. FYI, i didn't read the article.. so. yeah! :good:

veeman said:
It's because she said she was going to send it to her cousin in Iran. Apple has an embargo on Iran. People should stop overreacting to everything.
And ib4l
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Article doesn't say anything about her wanting to send it to her cousin, the wording suggests the 19 year old American wanted the iPad for herself.

xaccers said:
Article doesn't say anything about her wanting to send it to her cousin, the wording suggests the 19 year old American wanted the iPad for herself.
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BBC isn't the only news website.
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veeman said:
BBC isn't the only news website.
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It's the only one someone's bothered linking to in the thread though

IB4TL

m1l4droid said:
I made a similar thread yesterday and it got locked... but yeah I hate Apple even more now... racist pricks.
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Wasn't that closed because it was turning into an Apple v Android thread?

xaccers said:
It's the only one someone's bothered linking to in the thread though
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That's probably because you're the only person bothered enough to get worked up by this.
m1l4droid said:
I made a similar thread yesterday and it got locked... but yeah I hate Apple even more now... racist pricks.
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It should be locked. If you want to discuss Apple then go to the Apple forum. If you want to tell us what you hate then post it in the "I hate ..." thread. If you just want to be angry and swear then go away and stop polluting XDA - your views aren't needed and you should remember there are youngsters here as well as old gits like me.

Some one had to do it. This thread may go in so many directions that I be pulling the Minority Report trick on it.
Thanks Scotty
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Samsung and Child Labor in China

This is an email that I received from change.org. I find it quite startling.
My name is Li Qiang and I lead a group called China Labor Watch that investigates and exposes worker exploitation. As a rights lawyer committed to knowing every detail of China's labor laws -- and how they're ignored and broken -- I was shocked when I learned what's happening in the Chinese factories supplying electronic giant Samsung.
Children as young as 14 years old work 11 hour night shifts, 28 days a month and are denied medical care and even pay.
The exploitation of workers at Samsung's supplier factories must stop now -- and I'm confident that if enough people speak out, the tech giant will be forced to respond just like Apple had to earlier this year.
I started a petition on Change.org calling on Samsung to end worker abuse in the factories making its products. Click here to sign my petition now.
When 14-year-old Xiaofang (an alias, for her protection) got hurt after she fell down a flight of stairs at the factory, the owners and managers wouldn't even let her see a doctor. They wouldn't give her sick leave to recover and docked 6 days of her pay. Then, she was fired without any compensation.
Our investigators heard dozens of similar accounts from employees at the factory --even workers being hit by managers or forced to stand all day as punishment for a mistake. In addition to laboring in dangerous conditions every day, we discovered that children like Xiaofang working in this Chinese factory are paid only 70% of what adults are paid. The factory owners know it, but create fake IDs for the children and exploit them with lower pay and part-time hours so the authorities won't find out.
A few months ago, I saw the tremendous impact that a petition on Change.org had when it called for Apple to improve conditions in a supplier's factory. More than 250,000 people signed that petition, started by an Apple customer in Washington, DC. It was also covered by worldwide news media extensively. And in the end, Apple listened. When we found out about the horrific working conditions at Samsung's supplier factory, I knew we had to start a petition on Change.org right away.
I'm confident we can make a difference in the lives of these workers and in the way Samsung's products are made. Please click here and sign my petition calling on Samsung to stop labor abuse in factories making its products now.
Thank you.
- Li Qiang Executive Director, China Labor Watch
I love Samsung's products, but this isn't right. Sign the petition of you agree! Link - http://www.change.org/petitions/sam...campaign=10982&alert_id=JVUbGCTRtt_QLvUhQeLDP

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Leo, don't I see you in the i777 threads or am I mistaken?
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TheSkinnyDrummer said:
Leo, don't I see you in the i777 threads or am I mistaken?
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I own a nexus s and a Samsung infuse. Yeah I'm a terrible person.
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leo321 said:
I own a nexus s and a Samsung infuse. Yeah I'm a terrible person.
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No no, not trolling. I recognized you user name, but I'm not sure where I've seen you here.
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TheSkinnyDrummer said:
No no, not trolling. I recognized you user name, but I'm not sure where I've seen you here.
Sent from your mom.
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Im in off topic from time to time. I didn't know where else to post this so that it would get exposure and not break rules. :good:
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NEVER trust spam emails :| just saying..
Also, they should have an evidence to support their accusation.. a simple e-mail would not convince me
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I bet the dude who petitioned is an apple fanboy xD lol
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saywhatt said:
NEVER trust spam emails :| just saying..
Also, they should have an evidence to support their accusation.. a simple e-mail would not convince me
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I bet the dude who petitioned is an apple fanboy xD lol
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Change.org is a reliable site. It's not necessarily spam.
(do some research)
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They are a reliable site, but any "news" that comes out of China needs quite a bit of vetting before it's taken as fact. When I see some real evidence I'll step in.
Do you guys honestly thing Samsung would do this? It would give Apple one more thing to sue them for because they blatantly stole this idea from Apple and even I can't deny that

Whilst I obviously don't support child labour in any way, this forum really isn't the place for this topic of conversation. There are many far more politically based sites out there where this would be more suitable.
Thread closed.

What's up with our brothers from England and their TVs?

I see that there are still a bunch of black and white TV's being used.
But the weirdest part of this article is that you guys have to license and pay a yearly tax for your TV's??????
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20957218

Whaaa?
What is wrong with them?
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Uh, everyone in Europe pays view-and-listening tax....

ShadowLea said:
Uh, everyone in Europe pays view-and-listening tax....
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Doesn't mean it makes sense. Paying a license on a tv you own?

And they wonder why we wanted to be free from them.

StormMcCloud said:
And they wonder why we wanted to be free from them.
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Who's "we"?
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063_XOBX said:
Doesn't mean it makes sense. Paying a license on a tv you own?
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No, it doesn't. It's a remnant from the days where TV's were still new and unknown. When the governments still funded the only channels.
However, most of that licence income goes to the funding for the channels. Which in turn pays for the shows they create.

Isn't Europe in the middle ages or something like that?

The License fee, currently £145.50 per year, pays for the BBC television and radio channels which have no income from commercials. They also produce regional programmes, both radio and televison. The BBC is supposedly "independant" from the state but there is still a fair amount of interferance if you'll excuse the pun.
All other channels are run commercially funded by advertising.
There is an enforcement regime mainly based on a database of some 30 odd million properties, they assume all houses have a TV, you have to declare that you do not. Fines for not having a license can go up to £1,000.
http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/detection-and-penalties-top5/
A license is per household and covers all devices. It is still required for devices capable of watching or recording live TV even if you don't have a TV! This could mean your phone if it can be used to watch or record live TV, but not if you watch the program via their catch up service. Then it all starts to get a little blurred.
The page above claims they have hand held detection equipment, and detector vans to detect operating equipment.
Do they actually work or are they a complete bluff? The jury is still out.
Fines and convictions appear to have been the accused actually admitting their own guilt, when the enforcement officers came banging on the door.
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Enforcement Officer: "Excuse me Sir, could I see your TV license?"
Householder: "Certainly, here it is."
Enforcement Officer: "But Sir, this license is ten years out of date!"
Householder: "So are the bloody programmes!"

veeman said:
Isn't Europe in the middle ages or something like that?
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1606. The sun never sets on the British Empire.
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As has already been stated, the license fee funds the BBC.
It's worth every penny not to get advert infested TV programs on the channels that the BBC run. The advertising on all of the other channels is intrusive in my opinion.
I've been to the USA and tried watching TV there. It's a dead loss as there is even more advertising than on the commercial channels in the UK. Rather than programming interrupted by by advertising it is more like advertising interrupted by programming! I found it very frustrating.
And don't get me started on $ky TV. You pay a subscription AND advertising pushed on you! No thanks!!!

Look yanks, we pay that bloody license fee so you lot can watch Dr Who. I'm damn sure nobody over here watches that crap....
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conantroutman said:
Look yanks, we pay that bloody license fee so you lot can watch Dr Who. I'm damn sure nobody over here watches that crap....
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What is Dr.Who?
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conantroutman said:
....I'm damn sure nobody over here watches that crap....
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I do

StormMcCloud said:
And they wonder why we wanted to be free from them.
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Who's "we"?
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I do
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My deepest condolences.
Are you forced to or is there just something very wrong with you?
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m1l4droid said:
I wonder why so many people like it. I have tried to get myself to watch it (BBC Persian airs it), but every episode I watch just makes me wanna claw my eyes out.
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I hate that show.
The truth! I'm really a girl!

Doctor Who may be a bit cheesy on occasion, but i'd pay the license twice with a bloody bow attached on top if it meant we'd finally get Sherlock season 3!
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ShadowLea said:
Doctor Who may be a bit cheesy on occasion, but i'd pay the license twice with a bloody bow attached on top if it meant we'd finally get Sherlock season 3!
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My wife has been watching that on Netflix...seems decent.
-Older than I look, younger than I feel.-

I turned on Dr. Who for a few minutes and had no idea what I was watching. On the other hand, we have to thank the brits for Top Gear on BBC America