iPods more popular than beer… WTF :)
The world is getting crazy. There’s some new research made by Ridgewood company between undergraduate students in the USA which showed that you are more “in” if you have iPod than if you go to pub with friends.
Nearly three quarters, or 73 percent, of 1,200 students surveyed said iPods were “in” – more than any other item in a list that also included text messaging, bar hopping and downloading music. In the year-ago study, only 59 percent of students named the iPod as “in,” putting the gadget well below alcohol-related activities. This year, drinking beer and Facebook.com, a social networking Web site, were tied for second most popular, with 71 percent of the students identifying them as being “in.”
Though beer might soon regain its No. 1 spot, as it quickly did with the Internet a decade ago, the iPod’s popularity is still “a remarkable sign,” Weil said. “For those who believe there’s an excessive amount of drinking on campus, now there’s something else that’s common on campuses.” I’m saying what’s wrong with this world, or at least, with american one? I don’t know anything better than going to some party with your friends, dancing with hot chicks, chit-chatting about nothing and of course, drinking a beer. May be the America is a bit different, but I really don’t see this trend in my country and I hope it will never be like this, admiring someone just because he has the iPod…
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LOL, I don’t even own one, and i wown’t cause i live without it. I prefer beer then a stupid ipod, its like if you ask students about wether they prefer to stay at home and play PS2 then go out with their friends they will tell you they prefer stay at home with the PS2 rather then go out and have fun with friends! I am just 26 but in the old days we really use to have fun and nowadays students seem more stressed with school and technolgy growing too fast! I am like you Martin, i prefer going out drinking beer and dancing with some hot chicks rather then holding a stupid ipod! Maybe because i am also european hehe
LOL, probably those 1200 students that were surveyed is still below the high school level.
I own an iPod and, I have to say, I love it. But not as much as a night-out with friends. Oh, and when i do that, believe me, i don’t just sit in the corner listening to my podcasts! lol
Anyway, maybe there is a little bit of misinterpretation of the text…it doesn’t really state that whoever has an iPod is cooler or in. What it says is that the object itself is cool, right?
I don’t see why thats surprising? Yank have always been shandy lightweights passing out off 3 pints of their piss weak beer.
Awesome-O: I’ll ship you a pack of beer for your iPod, but I know you won’t do it. So don’t fucking lie, you tard.
And don’t call us Yanks for living in the states.. I don’t live anywhere near New York, I dislike NY greatly(for not reason other than corrupt politicians and citizens that feel they are the middle of American society). You can call me an American, or.. Heman! Master of the Universe!(jokes) But seriously, do you see us calling you filthy french, tea-drinking pansies, or neo-nazis on this board? No, because I don’t believe all French are filthy or that all Brits are pansies or that all Germans(or Swiss)are neo-nazis. It’s a generalization people make and it’s not true. So saying all yanks are lightweights(or even calling a Midwest/West Coast guy like me a yank) is like saying all Europeans are afghanis because your landmass is connected to the middle east… Stupid..
A pack of beer? Oh no, not just A pack.. Multiple.. as a matter of fact, a case of Crown Royal Special Reserve oughtta do it.. oh and in my tangent above, I was calling the generalization stupid.. not you. That’s just not couth.
HAHAHA….I Know On My College Campus Beer Is About As Equal With Ipod’s!
loool americans have al2ways been quite idiots in theses cases so no wonder they still continue to be.
Why beer??? I prefer wine… or tequila…
Yeah, I remember a time where people used Walkmans simply because they enjoyed the music. Nowadays, you have little fuckers running around with iPod’s simply because its cool to be seen with one. And a lot of them make it a mission to ensure that EVERYONE can see that they’re listening to an iPod.
Makes me want to kneecap every school kid who walks around with one.
Ye, ipod is a boring, crappy design thing from apple who wanna take over the world. geez, they even design the cars so a ipod can fit it.
Ill take a beer any day over a ipod, actually i would take the ipod, sell it and buy more beer(prefer vodka)
HEY , why this discussion if we can have both BEER AND IPOD and even CHICKS as well LOLLLL
Why can’t you drink beer and listen to music? I don’t know who in their right mind would rather sit at home listening to some shit quality MP3s than go out with their friends and have some drinks.
Awesome-O: It’s a British thing to call all Americans ‘Yanks’. Simply different meanings in two different places. Like how you call ‘jelly’ ‘jello’.
Get over the fricking ipod crap. Go out and by yourself good ol’ made in taiwan generic brand 5gb player that is as light as a feather, does everything, and costs 1/5th of an ipod.
People hate Gates coz he screwed his friends over… I say… thank god for Bill for sorting out those arrogant cunts from Mac… fuck them and their community.
I have mp3 player on my mobile )) so fuck iPods)) beer rule -)
fuck the ipdos man! don’t spend your money on apple shit buy beer! yanks are ALL americans not just new Yorkers. And no i’m not from afganistan or irak i’m from amsterdam! and we KNOW how to party
if you still want your money to go to apple buy apple cider:)
my MP3 played was £10 and I can add as much memory as i like via SD Card, way way chepaer than IPOD. I hate Ipod just cos everyone has one, id rather go for the best or a good cheap make, as long as it works who cares if it looks cool?
ipod suxx