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iLickit might not be sanitary, but brings new meaning to 'oleophobic'
If you're the kind of person who complains in the comments whenever we post a useless app, then just move right on from this weekend post (or go check out Paradise Monkeys, it actually looks like a good one). But as weird and pointless as this app may be, we have to give the folks behind this iLickIt game credit -- they really took the multitouch screen to a place it probably shouldn't go. The idea is that you get a plate of food from Grandma, and then you have to lick it clean... by actually licking your iPhone or iPod touch. No thanks.
Actually, iLickIt isn't the first app that's asked you to lick something that's been in your pocket (and who knows where) all day long -- there's other ice cream-licking related apps on the store already. But its claim to the very first "iPhone game you play with your tongue" may actually be legit -- it actually times how long it takes you to lick up the food and turns it into a little game. Though we can't really recommend it, it is coming to an App Store near you, so just in case your tongue hasn't had enough to do lately (and yes, I'll just let that one go), there you have it.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Chris Dewald said 10:40AM on 10-03-2009
This app is going be really popular with flu season coming up.
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(01) said 10:53AM on 10-04-2009
+1
Seriously, there had better be a health warning or something on this app...
Richard said 12:41PM on 10-03-2009
If you had put any other minority group, other than "redneck", I'm sure your post would removed.
Don't know if TUAW will remove this shadow white-southern bashing, but I'll report it just the same.
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Caleb said 11:59AM on 10-03-2009
Lighten up.. I live in Southern Florida. I went to school with rednecks my entire life. No harm meant.
Sheesh.
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puhsitch said 12:14PM on 10-03-2009
Oh Richard, how I dream for the day that we finally stop discriminating against others simply because of the color of their necks. It is appalling that in this day and age, I still see "no white southerners allowed" signs hanging in the storefronts of some of the more isolated urban hipster communities.
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Far Eel said 1:09PM on 10-03-2009
Redneck is a minority?!?
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Dan said 2:08PM on 10-03-2009
A suggestion for a new feature: have a counter (with many digits) that rapidly spins upwards showing how many bacteria you're consuming every single moment while you're fondly licking your iPhone or iPod Touch. :)
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Autobot said 2:24PM on 10-03-2009
Sounds sexy
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Richard said 3:19PM on 10-03-2009
Yep, slurs directed at whites are fine ,however, racial slurs directed at non whites is not OK.
Thanks puhsitch for clearing that up.
I'm writing to AOL and ad sponsors about this, because if a comment was made derogatory in nature to a non white group, it would be pulled. The TUAW staff should be ashamed.
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Jeremy said 4:26PM on 10-03-2009
'Redneck' is not a slur, and rednecks are not a minority. Richard is taking political correctness to a laughable level.
And buddy—if you're going to complain to AOL about what you call 'slurs', be prepared to slog through thousands of comments, stories, and blog posts. You'd be better off focusing on something of actual importance.
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Caleb said 5:45PM on 10-03-2009
Richard,
1.) I am white.
2.) The group that this was directed at, primarily people from the Bithlo region, would not be the least bit offended by this joke.
3.) If you are offended because you've gone all this time believing that you're a redneck, I am sorry to inform you that you are not, in fact, a true redneck.
Everyone,
Please, let's just take a step back. I only meant this as a harmless joke, and I think that it's absurd that everyone is reporting this here, and whatever there. I do not hate white people. I am white. I do not hate rednecks. My family has rednecks in it. I love them. This is just the type of humor that they think of, so it is the first thing that I thought about.
This is the last time I will post a JOKE about a FUNNY APP on TUAW. Good grief.
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Quinn Taylor said 5:52PM on 10-03-2009
I'm somewhat surprised that a reader would add a comment containing this kind of innuendo, and disappointed that others would upvote it. Let's keep it clean, please? There's really no call for it. Besides, the app seems silly enough without requiring any mocking from us.
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puhsitch said 8:50PM on 10-03-2009
Caleb, don't worry, you only pissed off one person as far as I can tell.
Richard, you'd have a better argument if you were stepping up for a group that is oppressed and/or has been oppressed in the past.
How about from now on, to avoid silly arguments, any time we want to use the term "redneck," we'll instead use a more objective definition. Something like, "typically-Southern under-educated white reactionary political/social conservative." By removing ambiguous labels, there will be much less to angry about!
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Vijay said 9:05PM on 10-03-2009
I love the part in Harold and Kumar 2 where the two rednecks have a cyclops baby named Richard.
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Cheddar Bob said 9:11PM on 10-03-2009
1. I am a redneck.
2. I like redneck jokes....
3. Shut up...
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doc said 9:38PM on 10-03-2009
This is pure funny to me because Jeff Foxworthy made his entire career on the Punchline "You know you're a Redneck when......". his shows have been on multiple nationally televised terrestrial networks(non cable) without any censorship of the word Redneck. You see people the FCC doesn't see it as a slur so stop tripping.
We could go down the list King of the Hill, Hee Haw, Jeff Dunham, 45% of all Country music songs, etc.. are all non censored uses of the term. Nobody sees it as socially irresponsible as of yet.
Like it was said before after you have been oppressed, persecuted, enslaved and lynched for your skin, religion, sexual orientation or gender then and only then can you complain about so called derogatory remarks.
Now go lick an iPhone App and play nice.
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Chocolate Starfish said 9:58PM on 10-03-2009
Quinn, "innuendo"? That's disgusting! You're thinking of the sister app "iRimit"
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samuel lavoie said 11:06PM on 10-03-2009
that's errr strange app... anyway there's something for everyone as theyr say!
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Quinn Taylor said 1:09AM on 10-04-2009
(Sigh) I give up. Google "bearded clam" and see what pops up, then tell me that your choice of wording was strictly coincidental. At least I'm not posting under two fake identities and trying to stir to pot after the fact. (http://www.tuaw.com/profile/2936488/)
Obviously, people prefer to vote me down and the original up. Whatever. Thankfully my ego doesn't depend on what other people think. I suppose I expected a little more maturity and restraint from posters here, but it seems I'm in the minority. C'est la vie.
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bdahl said 1:13AM on 10-04-2009
Oh please Richard, as I quote your very words,
http://www.tuaw.com/profile/902577/
"This is the perfect computer for the little lady to find recipes on during her break time from ironing and cleaning the house."
I think I am going to report that one because it is chauvinistic, and I could be a woman that would be very offended by that saying if it was directed toward me.
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