# The iPod fad is getting out of hand... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ipod-fad-is-getting-out-of-hand/352446 "2006-04-12T22:40:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ipod-fad-is-getting-out-of-hand/352446/1 "2006-04-12T22:40:39Z")
[iAttire](http://www.iattire.net/index.php) Some people have too much money and not enough brains. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ipod-fad-is-getting-out-of-hand/352446/2 "2006-04-12T22:44:18Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > [iAttire](http://www.iattire.net/index.php) > > Some people have too much money and not enough brains. My eyes! The goggles do nothing! And in the image sequence at the left, in the image of the iPod with tiara and sceptre, they spelled ‘sceptre’ wrong. It should not have an O. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ipod-fad-is-getting-out-of-hand/352446/3 "2006-04-12T22:51:23Z")
I like how they proclaim, “Each costume is handmade!” Below that is a picture of a mechanical sewing machine. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ipod-fad-is-getting-out-of-hand/352446/4 "2006-04-12T22:54:12Z")
I can see making these things for yourself (there are all sorts of ipod cozy knitting patterns), but to pay someone else to make it? No thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ipod-fad-is-getting-out-of-hand/352446/5 "2006-04-12T23:16:05Z")
You guys. I swear. You’re taking food from the mouths of the children of people who work in the Nike factories in Viet-Nam. Nine years old, and already sewing iAttire. Who are we to rob them of their newly found careers??? 😃 Seriously? I finally bought a used one a few months ago. Why? Not because I thought it would turn me into a svelte bony-hipped man with dreadlocks and a career in jazz. I got it because there are SO many accessories for this brand of MP-3 player, that I put the travel package together that I’d wanted for years now. ( the RoadTrip, by Griffin Technologies ). It’s not more snootie-patootie than most of the rest of the Apple line of products. Somewhere out there is the ad executive responsible for the upcoming campaign in Maxxum Magazine for the " iGasm " cerebral-cortex plug-in device. 😉 Cartooniverse, or should I say, iTooniverse ---
**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ipod-fad-is-getting-out-of-hand/352446/6 "2006-04-13T02:48:19Z")
You’ve got to admit - that bunny costume is really cute - it even has a cottontail 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ipod-fad-is-getting-out-of-hand/352446/7 "2006-04-13T02:51:17Z")
> [@LunaV](#): > > I like how they proclaim, “Each costume is handmade!” Below that is a picture of a mechanical sewing machine. :rolleyes: That’s still handmade. It just means not produced on an assembly line. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ipod-fad-is-getting-out-of-hand/352446/8 "2006-04-13T03:39:18Z")
> [@LunaV](#): > > I like how they proclaim, “Each costume is handmade!” Below that is a picture of a mechanical sewing machine. :rolleyes: Might you be thinking of hand-sewn, which they didn’t claim? Machine sewn is still handmade if it’s not in a factory assembly line. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ipod-fad-is-getting-out-of-hand/352446/9 "2006-04-13T03:57:53Z")
When the iPod goes the way of the Atari I am going to act all smug because I never had one. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ipod-fad-is-getting-out-of-hand/352446/10 "2006-04-13T05:21:20Z")
People who feel the need to purchase one of these products ought to save their money and just hang big signs around their necks that read, “Please! KICK my ass!” ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ipod-fad-is-getting-out-of-hand/352446/11 "2006-04-13T05:46:32Z")
iPuke ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ipod-fad-is-getting-out-of-hand/352446/12 "2006-04-13T05:50:26Z")
> [@Seven](#): > > iPuke iConcure ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ipod-fad-is-getting-out-of-hand/352446/13 "2006-04-13T08:29:25Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > iConcure iLaughed. ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ipod-fad-is-getting-out-of-hand/352446/14 "2006-04-13T08:49:16Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > iLaughed. iBeatDeadHorse. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ipod-fad-is-getting-out-of-hand/352446/15 "2006-04-13T11:35:58Z")
At first I thought they were just cute little costumes (awww, look a the bunny!), then I looked at the prices. $39.99 for a “ghost” costume. A glow in the dark cotton square with a plastic tombstone, forty bucks. Cut the prices by about 75% or more and they can be cute again. I can appreciate paying a living wage in CA to produce these. But you can also pay a living wage for polishing pennies, doesn’t mean I want to buy a roll of them for $20. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ipod-fad-is-getting-out-of-hand/352446/16 "2006-04-13T12:23:50Z")
There’s a comedian out there who has a routine where he says, “when you die, before you get into heaven, you need to list for a kid from Ethiopia all of the things you bought off eBay.” Now, I know this isn’t eBay but still, it made me think of that guy. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ipod-fad-is-getting-out-of-hand/352446/17 "2006-04-13T13:35:44Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > Might you be thinking of hand-sewn, which they didn’t claim? Machine sewn is still handmade if it’s not in a factory assembly line. Yes, you got it. That’s exactly what I pictured in my head, someone with a needle and thread piecing the costume together. I have a hard time sewing a button back on my shirt (it always comes out crooked!), so I confess to some ignorance in regards to sewing. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ipod-fad-is-getting-out-of-hand/352446/18 "2006-04-13T15:41:15Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > [iAttire](http://www.iattire.net/index.php) > > Some people have too much money and not enough brains. [You really and truly do not even know the half of it](http://www.extraneo.it/goatse/goatse_ipod_skin.html). Link in and of itself safe for work. Your reaction may vary and you have been warned. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ipod-fad-is-getting-out-of-hand/352446/19 "2006-04-13T15:52:24Z")
> [@Stark Raven Mad](#): > > iBeatDeadHorse. iBurningYourHorse. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ipod-fad-is-getting-out-of-hand/352446/20 "2006-04-13T17:50:45Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > [You really and truly do not even know the half of it](http://www.extraneo.it/goatse/goatse_ipod_skin.html). > > Link in and of itself safe for work. Your reaction may vary and you have been warned. I don’t get it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ipod-fad-is-getting-out-of-hand/352446.md?page=2)