Hunyo 2, 2020

The Apple Store in Madison is chicly sculptural, boarded up in black.

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In normal times, that black expanse is all sparkling clear glass.

49 (na) komento:

MayBee ayon kay ...

Yeah my husband needs his iPhone fixed and the stores aren't open to do it.

Gk1 ayon kay ...

Poor resource management. For the cost of that you could easily hire a bunch of Korean shop owners with semi-auto rifles and post them on the roof. Shoot or fire on the rabble once and voila! That's the end of that!

Meade ayon kay ...

In Boy Scouts we called it being prepared.

Laslo Spatula ayon kay ...

Horizontal version of the 2001 Odyssey Monolith.

Just need apes* in front banging bones. Sideways.

(*movie reference intended only. please.)

I am Laslo.

Rory ayon kay ...

Looks like a mausoleum.

walter ayon kay ...

Blackout Tuesday
(Think Different)

Lurker21 ayon kay ...

The Apple Store is just a front.

That's the local office of "The Men In Black."

tcrosse ayon kay ...

Black Plywood Matters

Temujin ayon kay ...

Looks like a spiffy new target.

Original Mike ayon kay ...
Naalis ng may-ari ang komentong ito.
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM ayon kay ...

iSore

Jerry ayon kay ...

Just means they'll have to be going in the back. Which is probably hardened enough to slow them down long enough for the alarms to get the cops.

If the cops even want to bother...

stlcdr ayon kay ...

I wonder what Apple's Robocop looks like?

Mr. Forward ayon kay ...

Ask Again Later

James Graham ayon kay ...

The next time you're in Paris checkout the windows of stores.

They all have drop-down metal shutters as easy to lower as a window-shade.

Glass breaks, steel doesn't

gerry ayon kay ...

Apple is fortunate to have hipster clientele who can appreciate the latest in radical chic retail.

Carter Wood ayon kay ...

Apple renovated the Carnegie Library in downtown D.C. last year, also providing a home to the D.C. Historical Society.

Looted and set on fire this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=espZQ9Jv9MI

traditionalguy ayon kay ...

Ah ha. Someone just decide the Protesters are really smash and grab armed robbers operating with the local police’s blessing.

jg ayon kay ...

what a brave display of solidarity
it's a floor wax and a dessert topping

PM ayon kay ...

xlnt Christo memoriam.

Not Sure ayon kay ...

Needs graffiti

Kai Akker ayon kay ...

My single bit of lefty-inspired jealous schadenfreude came when I heard they had smashed the glassy Apple store in downtown Philadelphia. I was glad, glad; so bad. Don't ask me why! Just miserable, blackhearted hatred must be the only explanation.

BarrySanders20 ayon kay ...

Looks like a big dark computer screen. Imagine blogging on that.

rhhardin ayon kay ...

Riots ought to be more understated. More like Trump tweets.

Deevs ayon kay ...

Is it black to go along with people's black out Instagram posts, or is that just coincidental?

space ayon kay ...

great excuse to close and prevent looting like other cities.

Mary Beth ayon kay ...

Would it be uncharitable to accuse them of pandering? Maybe it's pragmatism that just looks like pandering.

Achilles ayon kay ...

All for democrats to get power over other people.

Char Char Binks, Esq. ayon kay ...

FUCK THA POLICE!

Birkel ayon kay ...

I call it "electing Democratics" and getting what you deserve.

gbarto ayon kay ...

Very sharp looking. I hope it doesn't show crowbar scratches. And that it's thick enough.

If I were Apple, I'd be emptying it out the back.

I wonder what happens to China's economy if Apple boards up its stores instead of selling high margin goods from China. But think of all the geniuses out of work.

Mr. O. Possum ayon kay ...

Its origin and purpose still a complete mystery.

Rick.T. ayon kay ...

Blogger walter said...
Blackout Tuesday
(Think Different)
—————-
Ok! How about Whiteout Wednesday tomorrow?

Mary Beth ayon kay ...

Is this in an area where there has been rioting and looting? If not, is this essentially different from following someone around the store because you're afraid they will shoplift?

Carter Wood ayon kay ...

A band of apes saw it first. Frightened and fascinated, compelled and excited. And one picked up a bone, crashing it down, crashing it down, crashing it down.

Queue Strauss.

Wince ayon kay ...

"They're gonna put y'all back in plywood!"

rehajm ayon kay ...

Blackout Tuesday

So they blacked out Apple Music which for $14.99 a month you get to be forced to listen to their selected black playlist instead of the music you enjoy listening to. But no credit for the lost day/s of service.

....and you can still buy an iPad online so more like Half-Blackout Tuesday?

Jim at ayon kay ...

And here I thought it was Apple's nod to whatever stupid virtual signalling crap my leftist friends are doing on Facebook today.

Paul Zrimsek ayon kay ...

It's like, how much more black could it be? And the answer is none, none more black.

Original Mike ayon kay ...

Is this in an area where there has been rioting and looting?"

No, not yet.

Not Sure ayon kay ...

...and you can still buy an iPad online so more like Half-Blackout Tuesday?

If Apple truly cared, they wouldn't board up their stores. It's like they're calling peaceful protesters "looters".

Rob ayon kay ...

Apple could have draped matte black paper on the inside of their glass windows, but they chose to use black plywood on the outside. No fools they.

stevew ayon kay ...

See how woke they are? Instagram was covered with black images today today. Blackout Tuesday, get with it!

cubanbob ayon kay ...

Wow! Madison has what, $250,000 About the same as Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Where is all this violence coming from? I live i n Dade County Fl, population 2,500,000 and while we are having protests, we are not having vandalism, looting and arson. Why is it everywhere that Democrats run things, always turn to shit?

tommyesq ayon kay ...

Looks like the gate to Mordor...

Yancey Ward ayon kay ...

But Apple is on their side???!!!! So why board it up?

Kevin ayon kay ...

In normal times, that black expanse is all sparkling clear glass.

Once you go black...

exiledonmainstreet, green-eyed devil ayon kay ...

cubanbob said...
Wow! Madison has what, $250,000 About the same as Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Where is all this violence coming from? I live i n Dade County Fl, population 2,500,000 and while we are having protests, we are not having vandalism, looting and arson"

The Miami mayor was on Tucker Carlson tonight. He is the ONLY GOP big-city mayor in the nation. That tells you something right there. He is also an ex-firefighter who served on the force during the Miami riots in the '80's. I notice that people like him and the Police Chief of Detroit (who was a kid in Detroit in the '60's and served in LA during the Rodney King riots) don't have the same tolerance for violence and mayhem that say, DeBlasio and Lightfoot have. That's because they already have experience cleaning up after the riots and understand what it does to communities.

He acted quickly and put the brakes on. And he clearly loves his city.

mikee ayon kay ...

Neat. But the question to be answered is, "Will it burn?"
And we all know the answer, don't we?

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