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Ways to break tablets / smartphones that are Unique to IRISH people

  • 14-09-2019 5:50pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭


    How do Irish people break their mobile gear that the rest of the world would find impossible?

    No brands mentioned in my opening post, I own both apple and Android devices.


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  • #2
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,452 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Dropped from the Blarney Stone.

    Or hit with a shelelagh.


  • #3
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,539 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    I'm not sure we have any unique device-breaking powers tbh.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




  • #4
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,539 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    kneemos wrote: »
    Dropped from the Blarney Stone.

    Or hit with a shelelagh.

    That'd be more how tourists break them with "things they think are essential to Irish people and true representations of Irish culture", which frankly, is a bit of a mouthful.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




  • #5
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,452 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    That'd be more how tourists break them with "things they think are essential to Irish people and true representations of Irish culture", which frankly, is a bit of a mouthful.


    A ha. I won't be beaten.


    Hit with a sliother.


  • #6
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    kneemos wrote: »
    A ha. I won't be beaten.


    Hit with a sliother.

    And do many break phones in that manner?


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  • #7
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,539 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    kneemos wrote: »
    A ha. I won't be beaten.


    Hit with a sliother.

    Well now, I might have to allow that one.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




  • #8
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,539 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Liliana Tart Cube wrote: »
    And do many break phones in that manner?

    My best guess is a rogue sliother making contact while people film at the side lines, but even that is a long shot.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php




  • #9
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,452 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Liliana Tart Cube wrote: »
    And do many break phones in that manner?

    Statistically speaking,not many.


  • #10
    alchemist33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    Left beside the immersion that was left on


  • #11
    Sir Osis of Liver.
    Registered Users Posts: 2,796 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Flaggon of Linden spilled into charging port.


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  • #12
    listermint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,106 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    I used to repair phones back in the days when a phones battery would last two weeks. None of this touchscreen jazz.


    Had a device that was dropped in for warranty repair from one of the large phone stores.


    Smelt it , opened it up. It had clearly been dropped into a sileage pit....

    BER


  • #13
    BDI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭BDI


    Well if a phone got a bit successful
    and ideas above it’s station
    we would drag it back down
    and feel better in our situation.


  • #14
    The Satanist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 693 ✭✭✭The Satanist


    listermint wrote: »
    I used to repair phones back in the days when a phones battery would last two weeks. None of this touchscreen jazz.


    Had a device that was dropped in for warranty repair from one of the large phone stores.


    Smelt it , opened it up. It had clearly been dropped into a sileage pit....

    BER

    Maybe it was up somebody's arse.


  • #15
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,646 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Apparently back in the day the biggest cause of damage tophines was men placing them in their shirt pockets and then the phone falling out into pint glasses as they leaned over tables.

    This would be back in the early 00's that i read this.


  • #16
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,784 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    Apparently back in the day the biggest cause of damage tophines was men placing them in their shirt pockets and then the phone falling out into pint glasses as they leaned over tables.

    This would be back in the early 00's that i read this.

    The clever (and cool) ones kept it clipped to their belt in a leather case.


  • #17
    BDI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭BDI


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    The clever (and cool) ones kept it clipped to their belt in a leather case.

    The memories

    I thought this was a dream


  • #18
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,090 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    The Satanist wrote: »
    Maybe it was up somebody's arse.

    All my phones were like that when I lived in Portlaois for that 18 months.


  • #19
    AMKC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,309 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    I had a flip phone once from a make that was big at the time but like Nokia is gone now. Anyways it was pissing me off so I went to give it a gentle kick and instead I split it in two with one half landing in my neighbours back yard lol. I got it back but ye it was not going back together so that was the end of that. Not the worst phone I ever had but not the best either.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • #20
    Mehaffey1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,617 ✭✭✭Mehaffey1


    listermint wrote: »
    I used to repair phones back in the days when a phones battery would last two weeks. None of this touchscreen jazz.


    Had a device that was dropped in for warranty repair from one of the large phone stores.


    Smelt it , opened it up. It had clearly been dropped into a sileage pit....

    BER

    Round bales or stack, much prefer the acidic smack off the smell of bales myself???


  • #21
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,492 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    My best guess is a rogue sliother making contact while people film at the side lines, but even that is a long shot.
    While the sliotar might have otherwise been on a long flight, it will be the close shots that break the phones.


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  • #22
    Blitzkrieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,660 ✭✭✭Blitzkrieger


    kneemos wrote: »


    Hit with a sliother.

    Is that hugely different to being hit with a baseball or a cricket ball? Hockey puck, football, etc....


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