[Closed] First World Problem - prohibitively expensive iPhone Facebook grumble....

wait an hour so and then post a link to this thread and they can read what stw thinks?

3rd option.

Start with 'nice things in 'costing money' shocker'

😈

4th option (if you're not too bothered about him still being your friend)

Suggest that he must really regret not having tried harder at school/picked a shit degree/been lazy at work etc 🙂

There are people who can't afford iphones? How frightful! What kind of dystopian Dickensian hell has this country become?

Post something Daily Mail-eque such as 'All people on job seekers allowance get given iPhone 5s when they sign on'.

There are people who can't afford iphones? How frightful! What kind of dystopian Dickensian hell has this country become?

I blame Thatcher.....

[i]I blame Thatcher..... [/i]

Thatcher! Thatcher! iPhone Snatcher!

I've heard that there are even some people who dont have any televisions in their houses! Unbelievable! Something must be done to stop this nightmare.

[i] there are even some people who dont have any televisions in their houses[/i]

funnily enough the people who don't tend to be those that could most afford to have one.

it's the poor who can't really afford a telly who end up with something the size of their drawing room wall with a £100/month sky package attached to it.

it's the poor who can't really afford a telly who end up with something the size of their drawing room wall with a £100/month sky package attached to it.

They get that free when they sign on (or so I read in the Daily Mail).....

"iPhone? How dreadfully common."

footflaps - Member
Post something Daily Mail-eque such as 'All people on job seekers allowance get given iPhone 5s when they sign on'.

I was thinking along this line, but somehow shoehorning it into the 'free lunch' scandal too!

wwaswas - Member
it's the poor who can't really afford a telly who end up with something the size of their drawing room wall with a £100/month sky package attached to it.

Drawing room wall - nice one. Every one knows they put them in the library.

Saw a peach of a story on the BBC website. In there amongst the stories of war, famine and pestilence is a tale of woe surrounding the availability of the new iPhone.

I quote...

"Several networks said that stock of the latest premium model - the 5S - was severely limited in the UK, and would be likely to cause disappointment."

Disappointment! Oh please God no!!! Not disappointment.

Ahem.... I think you'll find I now have a legal, constitutional right not to be disappointed.

I shall be contacting my lawyers

sits smugly in the fact that i'm on the list to get a 5S, your not.. you are all pikeys..

i watch as you weep into your pea soup.

😆

Bless those who thought C in 5C stood for cheap.

your not

tsk tsk [b]you're[/b] not

is even smugger 😉

you are all pikeys

Please could you not use that word? Lots of people find it offensive..

Cheers

I find the phrase "Aww, diddums" is good at defusing that kind of situation.

Please could you not use that word? Lots of people find it offensive..

I'd wager that more people don't.

Lots of people find it offensive..

I wouldn't have thought we had many Pikeys on STW.....

Awe diddums, pea soup too hot, get Mummy to blow on it for you..

You/re still in awe of me, I can tell.. 😆

*sent form my GalaxyS3

Does Pikeys offend??

Really?? 😯

Ok, well sorry for any offence caused.. 😀

*sent from iPad

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There is no irony in the fact that you have posted this banal dilema on a different social media site.

Post a pic of this phone and tell him you're waiting for this to come down in price so that us 'normal' people can afford phones made of gold. It's $50,000 now, and you've only got $25,000 that you're willing to spend on a phone at the moment.

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iPhone 5s? I'm sure the Apple presentation said they were only $99, sounded very reasonable to me 😉

And anyway isn't there always wonga.com to help poor people buy things they can't afford?

I'm sure the Apple presentation said they were only $99

On a 2 year, expensive, contract....

I'm sure the Apple presentation said they were only $99
On a 2 year, expensive, contract....

On a slightly serious note, I'm staggered they can get away with stating $99 as a headline price with a tiny * next to it. You couldn't advertise a car as being on sale for $99, but with 24 monthly payments of a grand. Or maybe they do?!

Car dealers do that on autotrader constantly, but then motor traders are even dodgier than builders 😉

you can tell how poor people are becoming because there are loads more bikecycles on the road. all those poor people who can't afford a car!

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djglover - Member
There is no irony in the fact that you have posted this banal dilema on a different social media site.

Phew! That's alright then.

It wasn't really the dilemma bit of my OP I was particularly showcasing to the people of STW. More my utter amazement that someone could come out this this gem:

what about the people who genuinely can't afford iPhones! what a crock!

and actually be serious about it.

The dilemma bit at the bottom was really just me filling space and was perhaps rhetorical. Waffle, if you like. A bit like this post too.
Oh and I've just noticed a speeling meestake in my OP too, which has somewhat disappointed me.

I reckon that the Tories should introduce 100% iphone tax, just to see Owen Jones and Laurie Penny go into meltdown 😀

I was going to suggest a 100% ringtone tax as well, but realised that may be open to legal challenge as disproportionately affecting the poor 😈

brakes - Member
you can tell how poor people are becoming because there are loads more bikecycles on the road. all those poor people who can't afford a car!

Not true. I heard from a friend who knew some bloke who reckoned he'd heard about this fella that had bought a bike that had cost more than what his car did. And he had to pedal it himself!!

I told him it was bobbins, but he wasn't having any of it....

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^^^that is very disturbing