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Finland Hosts Mobile Phone Throwing Championships
hypnosec writes "In this year's annual mobile-phone throwing contest held in Finland Ere Karjalainen has smashed the world record by throwing his phone 101.46 meters. The event, being held every year since 2000 in the town of Savonlinna, saw quite a few mobile-phone throwers participate. 2nd place went to Jeremy Gallop, a South African who managed to throw his phone 94.67 meters. Contest organizers are of the opinion that users can vent their anger on their phones and that this offers a unique opportunity to 'pay back all the frustrations and disappointments caused by this modern equipment.'"
Someone should cross breed this with pumpkin chunkin. The main category should be limited to being propelled by only the energy stored in the phones' battery.
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They're the ones with the oddball "sports".
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They finally found a use for all those Nokia Windows Phones.
Ere Karjalainen said that he is normally an iOS man but preferred the aerodynamics of the new Android phones for throwing. The exception being any iPhone running AT&T which are universally accepted as the best for throwing.
One last niche market for Nokia to fill. And it's local, too!
Nice photo gallery too (but no mentions on the phone brands!)
Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
Can only be done with unsold Window's phones and by unemployed Nokia personnel and only at the windows of the headquarters in Keilaniemi?
A trend I've been noticing for a month or so. Left side of the screen is obscured by the links to Twitter, FB, etc. Bottom is obscured by telling me I don't allow cookies and cajoling me into accepting them, helpfully giving me a button to allow cookies from all sites.
No thanks, I see this shit and I leave.
Finn National Frustration Venting? Given that this is held in Finland, may be the expression the populace's frustration at its onetime darling Nokia throwing away the mobile phone market. Actually, I think I just invented a new word in honor of this event and Nokia's CEO, Stephen Elop:
WEEE*lop. the act of needlessly throwing away a Nokia
Publicity Stunt? Could be a last-ditch effort by the country to allow Nokia to claim to still be best at something, as its "dumbphones" would probably be the only ones to survive the competition.
Finland, home of the Nokia 3310. I hope all the nearby buildings were insured.
from outerspace as well??
Hey, it's all in how you spin it!
With this attitude, how do you defend the cost of the electricity used by your computer while posting this comment? That resource could have gone to feeding a starving child somewhere. Even worse, how do you defend the time you spent writing that comment when that time could instead have gone to making money in order to feed starving children? By your own standard you are yourself despicable and so is every other person in the world. I agree that feeding starving children is a worthwhile goal, but I don't know that your perspective on the whole thing is very useful here.
On another note, flooding third world markets with free food is a disaster for the farmers in those regions who then can't sell their food and then there will be even less food grown in that region the next year. If the problem was as easy to solve as throwing some tomatoes at the third world, we'd have solved the problem completely by now because that is a very manageable proposition, but of course it isn't that easy.
There's no chance that the skinny kid in the video threw his phone 102 meters. That's the length of a football field. Or the distance from home plate to the (nearest part of the) outfield wall. I just don't see that happening using a cell phone...
Girlfriend+pier or pool=fun.
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Are you on a quest to find food for the trolls? :)
I'd wager the phones they are throwing are already broken.
WAAAAAAAAHHHHH!
those phones, when recycled (responsibly if possible) will yield more minerals than most natural deposits.
those tomatoes would not last the journey to "lol Africa is a country" and remain edible.
a big problem with the world is getting the abundance spread around. people don't want to lose their overabundance and will scream SOCIALISM!!1! at anyone who suggests they don't need that many phones or tomatoes. also, see what happens when you tell the Valencians they can't have their tomato fight any more because there's people starving. bearing in mind most of these people have been robbed by Moroccans and Somalis, probably several times.
the world is unfair. might as well enjoy it rather than being the stophavingfunguy who everyone says should lighten up.
if all you seek to do is feed them, the starving children will just become starving adults.
...they had phones to spare...
If a Samsung phone did end up winning, Apple might sue and argue that this was due to Apple's patented rounded corners being the most aerodynamically efficient design.
Most people on Slashdot are fucking idiots.
Now combine that with the Wife Carrying Contest
If it doesnt apple will just sue the entire country, the event cordinators and the manufacturer of the winning phone.
Oh wait, this isnt going on in the united states. No one outside of the US cares about apple because everyother country in the world knows they arent worth a shit. Only americans are smug enough and pretentious enough to blindly pay ungodly amounts of money for a inferior product just to have a logo to sit in starbucks and show off to everyone as they browse facebook and hope everyone that sees them thinks they are writing a novel.
Sad thing is Finland is getting its fair share of niggers too nowadays. The worst kind, Somalis.
FTFY. Oh Roberto, when will you learn proper grammar.
If it were measured in Euros, certainly Stephen Elop would hold the record for throwing away mobile phones in Finland.
Throwing most phones results in drag due to the device being constantly bombarded by signals from the carrier cellular tower.
The AT&T phones are mercifully free of such drag, and as a result can fly much further.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
wasteful destruction of perfectly usable mobile phones
They're Windows phones. Nobody wants them anyway.
Starving adults with many starving children.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/throw-phone/id546649793
Try throwing an old AT&T phone, that'll fuckin kill someone!
Or how about GPPTD? Gunpower Powered Phone Throwing Devices?
Or how about 1990's backpack phone style throwin contest? That might be close to the at&t in sharp edges, but pure weight it's got it beat batteries and all!
Or how about missile launched telephones? You've got a call BITCH, NOW PICK UP!
The better contest would be the OLD fsckin mobile phone re-enginnering hack project.
And he threw it 17 metres farther than the throw that brought a gold medal in the javelin event at the London Olympics.
only if there's a category where throws are disqualified if the phone doesn't work (call & sms) anymore after the throw
win by 3310!
Why not convert the starving children into food?
Kid-proof tablet..
flooding third world markets with free food is a disaster for the farmers in those regions who then can't sell their food and then there will be even less food grown in that region the next year.
Good. That means those farmers can use their time to do something else. If food is already being supplied - by foreigners, better agricultural process, machinery, etc - then why should someone waste their time farming? The point of work is to produce things, not work itself. And wealth is created only when things are produced with less and less human effort.
This kind of logic is what is used in India to keep agricultural productivity down; "think of the farmers". Meanwhile, millions in India go hungry.
They're the ones with the oddball "sports".
At least the game *we* call "football" is primarily focussed on manipulating a ball with your foot.
Unlike American "football" which revolves around carrying an egg in their hands ;-)
Perfectly usable cellphones that could have found better usage in third world countries are being destroyed, just for the fun of it
Given that this is in Finland, they are probably Nokia phones... (post Microsoft acquisition, the N900 actually was a great machine...)
We should start a Verizon-throwing contest.
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If the problem was as easy to solve as throwing some tomatoes at the third world
Well maybe someone needs to organize a competition where we throw tomatoes at poor and hungry people.
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Turn on airplane mode, you will win!
I believe it was Jesus that said:
"If you give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. If you don't, then there will be more fish for you tomorrow."
Or something like that.
- Holy crap, I've got MOD points! Who thought that was a good idea.