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Interesting images have reached us of the ritual surrounding the dispensing of Apple's new iPhone 6S to the faithful of Scotland. The pictures – sent to us by long-time Reg Scottish Apple queue correspondent Joseph Heenan – clearly show the rigid orthodoxy which has recently been enforced around such events. Far from the vast …

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  1. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge
    Pint

    Oblig: Apple is doomed!

    No queues at a Jesus mobe launch?

    That must mean that the Fanboi utopia is well and truly dead and burried.

    Time for a pint yet? Yes it is.... TGIF.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Did they deep fry them? If not, I'm not interested.

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    1. AMBxx Silver badge
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      Pint

      Needs clarification

      Deep fry the iphones or the customers? both maybe?

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      1. thesykes
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        Re: Needs clarification

        anybody who cheers someone buying a phone, deep frying is too good for 'em.

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        1. Anonymous Coward
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          Re: Needs clarification

          I envisage a sort of group wave with some short pithy statement about the durability of the Apple product - that'll last more than a thousand yearsdays.

          https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:My_Japan_10_IJA_banzai_1.JPG

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      2. lybad
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        Re: Needs clarification

        Well, the nearest chippy is about 50metres away, so nice and handy for them...

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    So... Apple have discovered Click N Collect?

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    1. noboard
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      No they've just invented it

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  4. Trollslayer
    Facepalm

    Aldous Huxely would be proud

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0099518473

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  5. BenBell
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    It's... a... bloody... phone!!! Get over it!

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  6. john devoy

    Glasgow buyers don't take kindly to the stupid type of US shenanigans of apple employees running about telling people to cheer and scream, they'd be told to f**k off pretty quickly.

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    1. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge
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      Nah

      They'd answer with a Glasgow Handshake.

      If you don't know what it is then look it up.

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  7. A K Stiles
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    Cheering

    Most likely to be heard if someone drops their brand new shiny whilst taking it out of the box on the street outside the shop, especially if accompanied by the sound of shattering gorilla/sapphire/pint/whatever-glass!

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  8. Alan Denman
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    Good old Reg

    'Biting the hand that feeds' as usual.

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  9. jonathanb Silver badge

    No analysis and insight from dishevelled men clutching partially consumed bottles of buckfast? We got that for the coverage of the Covent Garden queue last time and such people do exist in Glasgow as well.

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