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Justin 'Mac' Long Messes With Bieber-aware Teen

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Justin Long, the iPhone griefer.

Justin Long may be best known around these parts as the semi-obnoxious Mac in the Apple's former "I'm a Mac" commercials. It seems that his days as the embodiment of Apple are over, but that doesn't mean that he's done with playing around with Apple products.

The actor appeared on Jimmy Kimmel earlier this week and part of his time on the show was him showing off his experience with a mis-text from what we presume to be a teen (or tween) who knows how to spell Justin Bieber but not much else.

Skip ahead to around three minutes into the first video to get to the goods.

Justin Long Messes With Texting Tween

Justin Long Messes With Texting Tween

Justin Long Messes With Texting Tween

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Anonymous 08/23/2010 4:12 AM
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Did anyone else notice in the third page that in the second row to the left he's got the Cydia application? Lol, the mac guy jailbreaks his iphone just like everyone else.

alextheawesome 08/23/2010 4:17 AM
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Is that Cydia I see on his homescreen?

alextheawesome 08/23/2010 4:18 AM
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Darn you, beat me to it.

zachary k 08/23/2010 4:33 AM
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"hi, i'm a mac"
"and im a PC"
"hey PC, can you jailbreak windows phones? i can download any app!"
"no, you don't have to jailbreak to get good apps on my phones, open market"
"too bad, jailbreaking is...wait, your firing me?"

JOSHSKORN 08/23/2010 5:24 AM
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I wonder what this guy would say to a DROID guy.

Mac Guy: "I'm an iPhone"
DROID Guy: "I'm a DROID"
Mac Guy: "You can jailbreak me"
DROID GUY: "What for? I'm already on Verizon. Oh, and might I mention that my camera is superior to yours...AND, I don't need a case to avoid dropped calls."
Mac Guy: "Well I have a lot more apps in my store."
DROID GUY: You also have a lot of useless apps in your store.

gmarsack 08/23/2010 5:43 AM
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That was pretty funny. :)

winner4455 08/23/2010 6:11 AM
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Ah ha ha!

chickenhoagie 08/23/2010 6:14 AM
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i just love how the mac vs. pc commercials were targeted for people who were complete idiots and knew nothing about a computer other than, oh, mac is obviously better because you "dont have to deal with all the crashes, viruses and spyware" ;).

of course the typical joe with common sense knows that the more Mac users their are, the less often you can actually say that phrase.

stingstang 08/23/2010 7:02 AM
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Aighux mourdr daugh ingluish laanguage liek dat gurl.
Because it's cool to not be grammatical. Fo sho!!

johnny_5 08/23/2010 7:06 AM
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I don't know whether to laugh or cry at her ignorance. I shall laugh. He Ha!

sshake1 08/23/2010 7:11 AM
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I love that Apple's poster boy jailbreaks his phone!

greghome 08/23/2010 7:55 AM
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I hate macs, but gotta say, I miss those PC vs Macs ads.................
good old days

sevyr 08/23/2010 8:39 AM
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"hi i'm a mac"
"heay ima tweeen"
"hallo der!!1! Can u be djayel-brocken??"
"Nop, lolz, ur funny Eduardo!"
"Wel i canz. I can also call Justin Beeber ;)"
"ITS BIEBER NOT BEEBER"
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"Drat - Mac advertisement unsuccessful :("

godnodog 08/23/2010 10:17 AM
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Mac Guy: "I'm an iPhone"
Pc Guy: "No you´re Eduardo"

godnodog 08/23/2010 10:18 AM
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therabiddeer 08/23/2010 10:43 AM
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I dont care that Justin Long did commercials for Apple, the dude is awesome.

Anonymous 08/23/2010 12:45 PM
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luv u, Justin, no matter what

ngom52 08/23/2010 1:20 PM
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It's not just tweens who text like that; my 21 year old sister texts like that too and she actually studies English in college so, yeah..... I see a pretty bleak future ahead........

tommysch 08/23/2010 2:25 PM
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ngom52 :
It's not just tweens who text like that; my 21 year old sister texts like that too and she actually studies English in college so, yeah..... I see a pretty bleak future ahead........



Studying English in college, a bleak future indeed.

Rhynn 08/23/2010 3:43 PM
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How are you failing English?!?!? You SPEAK English!!!!!

Camikazi 08/23/2010 4:22 PM
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Rhynn :
How are you failing English?!?!? You SPEAK English!!!!!


Speaking and writing are very different, writing correctly is usually much harder then speaking correctly.

theuerkorn 08/23/2010 4:38 PM
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Aside from all the Mac bla bla here, Justin points out a very disturbing trend of texting reforming the language. ... and not in a good way. Call me old-school, but no matter what technology camp you love to hate, spelling is still a universal thing to show your education or lack there of. It may be cool between peers, but an ill skill for real life. Just imagine a job application written like that (and yes, they are more frequent now). Kids (and some adults) do themselves a disservice to mangle language like that.

Go ahead and down-rate me since I didn't bash the Mac or anything like that, but this post has nothing to with which company you like to give your money right now.

Spanky Deluxe 08/23/2010 4:40 PM
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He would need to jailbreak the phone in order to enable VGA out of the SMS application.

Fetal 08/23/2010 5:10 PM
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That was funny. But i remember this guy from that really popular and i watched it couple of times "Jeepers Creepers', then Pineapple Express and Drag me to hell, Youth in revolt was latest i watched of him.

Silmarunya 08/23/2010 7:34 PM
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Isn't it sad how text speech mutilates the English language (or other languages for that matter - the way my native tongue Dutch is being mutilated is even worse)? That you use shorthand in texts is quite normal, but why 'phelt' or 'igknore'? Such words are barely shorter or even longer than the original, so what's the point in using them?

slabbo 08/23/2010 7:46 PM
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i'm pretty sure he wasn't in Pineapple Express.

Fetal 08/23/2010 8:40 PM
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Slabbo aka nimrod, he was in the deleted scenes one.

Gin Fushicho 08/23/2010 8:41 PM
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Justin Long is way cooler live than in the movies he stars in. =D

False_Dmitry_II 08/23/2010 9:12 PM
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I actually wanna see a transcript of the whole thing.

Silmarunya :
Isn't it sad how text speech mutilates the English language (or other languages for that matter - the way my native tongue Dutch is being mutilated is even worse)? That you use shorthand in texts is quite normal, but why 'phelt' or 'igknore'? Such words are barely shorter or even longer than the original, so what's the point in using them?



Those examples were what he was doing on purpose to make fun of the fact that that's what the other person's messages looked like. Then she never even mentioned it.

Anonymous 08/24/2010 2:27 AM
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" spelling is still a universal thing to show your education or lackthere of. " - thuerkorn

Sorta ;-). My Australian English spelling is "corrected" to the different US version. I don't mind as I think USA standards mostly improved spelling, but NOT pronunciation! Then we have different terms for the same thing & different meanings for the same word, even between adjacent states! That's not even national let alone global let alone UNIVERSAL!

cruiseoveride 08/24/2010 3:14 AM
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Quote :semi-obnoxious


semi? semi?? semi ??? Are you kidding me.