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Siri Tells Little Boy to 'Shut the F--- Up,' Calls Him 'Ugly' | NBC San Diego

For all the kind and helpful advice that Apple's Siri personal assistant gives out, don't ever catch it on a bad day, or it'll tell you off in ways your mother would not approve.

If a report from The Sun is to be believed, a demo unit for the iPhone 4S caught fire for telling 12-year-old Charlie Le Quesne to "Shut the f--- up, you ugly t---."

Charlie reportedly asked Siri "How many people are there in the world?" and that was the answer he got back. Together with his mother and the manager, they asked the demo iPhone 4S the same question and got the same answer back yet again. Needless to say, the demo unit was unplugged and sent back to Apple for "diagnostic tests."

The errors seems to have stemmed from Siri thinking that the questioner's name was "Shut the f--- up, you ugly t---."

All this happened at a U.K. Tesco supermarket. It's worth noting that on U.K. iPhones, Siri's default voice is that of a male and not female like it is in the U.S. So you'll have to picture Siri cursing the poor boy out with a male British accent. I bet it sounds even funnier that way.

Source: Siri Tells Little Boy to 'Shut the F--- Up,' Calls Him 'Ugly' | NBC San Diego

ROM Spaceknight

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In the Archie's Weird Mysteries cartoon at one point Jugghead utters paean to the hamburger- all that is good and right about the world, as he describes the food.

In many respects that's how I feel about the ROM comic. I was a precocious reader and read comics from roughly the age of three, but I gave them up as I grew up and it wasn't until a long time later I started reading them again. The comic that hooked me back in was ROM Spaceknight #6 of all things.

ROM was of course a licensed property, but at its core was a classic Marvel experience, ostensibly done in the classic Marvel way- up came the guest experiences by long forgotten characters, loose ends from old series were tied up, even the Hulk black and white magazine got explained in continuity and its characters added in.

Secret Invasion was of course nothing more than a verbose and lacuna-riddled "homage" shall I say to the Dire Wraith invasion of many years before. The Dire Wraith infiltration of Earth was a definitely horror-story type tale, with extreme cruelty and savagery shown by the wraiths and their subspecies, and the often shown no quarter given or taken Spaceknight vs Wraith battle was in its own way magnificent.

The later addition to the lore in the closing comics that the Wraiths were in fact a mutated form of Skrull - themselves the Deviant strain of an alien race, added the final binding Marvel touch.

Unfortunately since it was a licensed property ROM like the Shogun Warriors before it had to be shunted into the background and its core concepts tamed and elided. However, ROM is now a cult favourite. With sufficient imagination a new ROM comicbook could be created. It wou