What is the best way to destroy a phone?

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aplefka

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I think people are missing the point here. Are you trying to figure out a way you can break it to get a reaction from people who think something terrible just happened?
 

queenrobot

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Aug 20, 2007
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I just want a good story to tell my new phone. I don't care about reactions from other people.
 

skyking

Lifer
Nov 21, 2001
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my wife gave her phone the camry test. drop in gravel, back over with midsize car.
it would start up and then play the three decending notes of 'game over' from the old arcade games.
 

nakedfrog

No Lifer
Apr 3, 2001
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I'm trying to think of a way it could be destroyed whilst in the throes of ecstasy, but I'm drawing a blank.
 

joesmoke

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Originally posted by: queenrobot
I just want a good story to tell my new phone. I don't care about reactions from other people.

Use the old phone to take compromising photos of all your female friends then post to atot in a non-approved thread. Then step on the old phone. tell your new phone about the bannage the old phone created.
 

queenrobot

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Aug 20, 2007
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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I'm trying to think of a way it could be destroyed whilst in the throes of ecstasy, but I'm drawing a blank.

Think hard on that one. Then maybe my husband will feel bad for me and let me buy the phone I really want. ;)
 

SparkyJJO

Lifer
May 16, 2002
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Originally posted by: effowe
Drop onto concrete? Throw into wall?

Negative, my old phone survived bouncing down several concrete steps and smacking into a wall at the bottom. Still worked, that old samsung a650 was a tank apparently.

Unless his phone is some el cheapo piece of crap.
 

queenrobot

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Aug 20, 2007
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I have dropped my phone on concrete, tile, marble, asphalt, etc. Still effing works. :(
 

MichaelD

Lifer
Jan 16, 2001
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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I'm trying to think of a way it could be destroyed whilst in the throes of ecstasy, but I'm drawing a blank.

Oh...back in 1996 I dated this girl. She could break a pencil using her vaginal muscles. I am dead serious. Sex with her was a captive experience...literally. If she didn't want you "out" you weren't pulling out. Period.

Oh...I just reminded myself of my lost, happy youth. I'm gonna make another drink now.
 

queenrobot

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Aug 20, 2007
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Originally posted by: MichaelD
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I'm trying to think of a way it could be destroyed whilst in the throes of ecstasy, but I'm drawing a blank.

Oh...back in 1996 I dated this girl. She could break a pencil using her vaginal muscles. I am dead serious. Sex with her was a captive experience...literally. If she didn't want you "out" you weren't pulling out. Period.

Oh...I just reminded myself of my lost, happy youth. I'm gonna make another drink now.

Vagina dentata?
 

Rubycon

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Aug 10, 2005
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Originally posted by: MichaelD

Oh...back in 1996 I dated this girl. She could break a pencil using her vaginal muscles. I am dead serious.

So you're saying she broke your manhood?

:laugh:

Sorry could not resist! :p

 

OCGuy

Lifer
Jul 12, 2000
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The best way to destroy a phone is to spend $300 putting games and music on it. You will surely lose/break it in the following month. :(
 

ultimatebob

Lifer
Jul 1, 2001
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Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser
Washing machine.

Nope... they often hide moisture sensors in the phone under the battery. If they show that the phone got wet, the warranty is void.
 

SMOGZINN

Lifer
Jun 17, 2005
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Originally posted by: queenrobot
I want it to look like an accident. Don't worry it is MY phone.

1. Eaten by an alligator.
2. Set it down and a black bird grabbed it and flew off.
3. A bear attacked and it was all you had to throw at it.
4. You left it in the kangaroo?s pouch
5. A man ran up grabbed it from you and made a call while running away.
6. You wanted to see what the air speed velocity of a laden swallow was.
7. It fell in the toilet, in Taco Bell.
8. Santa needed it. You didn?t ask why, but you have saved Christmas.
9. You were attempting to convert it into a stun gun.
10. You put it in your cleavage, sneezed and it was crushed.
11. It was in your back pocket when a spontaneous game of dodgeball broke out.
12. Very localized earthquake.
13. It was in love with the toaster, their wedding night did not go well.
14. Everything is better deep fried, right?
15. You attempted to call yourself collect and it disappeared with a soft *poof*
 

Atheus

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Jun 7, 2005
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Take it apart, hit all microchips with hammer, replace, fill phone case with water, reassemble phone. You can say it died because of the water but really it died because you smashed the insides with a hammer. Nobody is going to take it apart and check.

Insurance fraud?
 

queenrobot

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Aug 20, 2007
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Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser
Washing machine.

Nope... they often hide moisture sensors in the phone under the battery. If they show that the phone got wet, the warranty is void.

My phone has no warranty...so that could work I guess.
I would face ridicule for not checking my pockets.
 

MichaelD

Lifer
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Originally posted by: Rubycon
Originally posted by: MichaelD

Oh...back in 1996 I dated this girl. She could break a pencil using her vaginal muscles. I am dead serious.

So you're saying she broke your manhood?

:laugh:

Sorry could not resist! :p

My manhood, my pride, my heart and at the time, my will to live. Yeah; it was THAT GOOD. Seriously. She was the Jesus Vagina come to life. And after she attacked me in a drunken rage and I threw her out, she slept with 2 guys I knew and never spoke to me again. I was clueless at the time but have come to see her for what she was. The Devil.

She couldn't cook but oh...she was willing to do anything...and I have one twisted mind. She made my mind look boring. :Q I thought "using fruit" was exciting. She took the fruit, added some topping and made Ambrosia...without using her hands. My God...it was like seeing the Universe being born.
 

queenrobot

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Aug 20, 2007
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Originally posted by: SMOGZINN
Originally posted by: queenrobot
I want it to look like an accident. Don't worry it is MY phone.

1. Eaten by an alligator.
2. Set it down and a black bird grabbed it and flew off.
3. A bear attacked and it was all you had to throw at it.
4. You left it in the kangaroo?s pouch
5. A man ran up grabbed it from you and made a call while running away.
6. You wanted to see what the air speed velocity of a laden swallow was.
7. It fell in the toilet, in Taco Bell.
8. Santa needed it. You didn?t ask why, but you have saved Christmas.
9. You were attempting to convert it into a stun gun.
10. You put it in your cleavage, sneezed and it was crushed.
11. It was in your back pocket when a spontaneous game of dodgeball broke out.
12. Very localized earthquake.
13. It was in love with the toaster, their wedding night did not go well.
14. Everything is better deep fried, right?
15. You attempted to call yourself collect and it disappeared with a soft *poof*

:laugh:

All of those are classic!