Seriously, Apple?

I must have missed this in the whole "let's make our iPods really obnoxiously smaller" phase of the brand, but Apple legitmately thought that its users were going to eat the iPod Shuffle. No, seriously, you can google it.

I know Apple's all about controlling the user experience and making sure it's easy to use even for the, shall we say, less-technically inclined of us. But to think they'd eat the electronics is a little bit of a stretch.

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Rick Astley Russian Roulette

Traditionally, when two people have equal, legitimate claims to something the issue has been resolved in one of a few ways:

• Rock, paper, scissors.
• A court of law.
• Gladiatorial combat.
• Political Campaign.
• Via lengthy debate, where the winner is the one who can more masterfully argue the "c'mon, dude" principle.

These methods may have been all well and good in the past... but this is the 21st century, where the future is yesterday! We need a new method that is true to today's culture - something fast, sexy, definitive, pointlessly competitive and moderately annoying.

Well, all you lazy, technologically adept mediators of the world, I've got your answer: Russian Roulette. Rick Astley Russian Roulette.


I just wanna tell you that you lost the argument at hand.
What you need:

An ipod (with earbuds), a copy of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up", and 5 other random songs.

Instructions:

1. Create a playlist on your ipod with Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" and the 5 other songs.
2. Set the iPod to randomize all songs.
3. The two parties in the argument each put an earbud in their ear.
4. One person takes the iPod and navigates to the created playlist, but before even diving into the songs in the playlist, hits "play" when the playlist name is highlighted. This then starts the playlist on a random song.
5. If Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" (the "bullet") plays, that person loses the argument.
6. If a song other than Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" plays (an "empty chamber"), the iPod is passed to the other person.
7. Repeat steps 4-6 until someone gets Rick Rolled.

There you have it. A fast, decisive, moderately annoying method of solving any dispute, all tucked nicely into a sleek little iPod. Be warned - while this method is generally less fatal than real Russian Roulette, the loser will probably want to kill himself anyway for having just been Rick Rolled.

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