There are few things on Earth as annoying or punchable as a little brother. Sure, deep down in the recesses of his subconscious, your younger brother is just trying to impress you with his antics. From that perspective, his insistence on constantly nudging you while you’re trying to beat your Angry Birds high score on your iPad is in, reality, an act of love and admiration.
Likewise, it must be remembered that an older brother’s responsibility from time immemorial is to firmly take his younger siblings in hand and instruct them upon the ways of the world: the rules, the social decorums, the hidden pitfalls, the unspoken expectations. From that perspective, then, isn’t knocking your younger brother unconscious by hitting him in the face with your iPad also a supreme act of love?
Probably not. But like giving your younger brother an Indian burn, purple nurple or atomic noogie, it is pretty funny.
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John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
22 responses to “Teenage Kid K.O.s His Annoying Kid Brother With An iPad [Video]”
I would like to be at the Genius Bar when they try to explain how that iPad got broken!
Is the brother okay?
This vid has been floating around for quite some time don’t exactly remember when it came out but it’s def old
Who the fuck cares? It’s the first time I’ve seen it, and it’s funny as hell.
I don’t fucking care cause I seen it a year ago when it came out, n if u keep living in the hole that u live in your going to keep missing out on funny shit like this
its old but it funny like hell….
You think having a life and not paying attention to every video that hits the web is living in a hole? You realize how pitiful that is right?
Probably is. The iPad isn’t hard enough to cause broken bones or a concussion. I’m curious as to whether the iPad is okay. Given the hard force of that swing, I’m sure he damaged his $700 book smacker.
But the kid brother deserved it and knew it was coming. I’d certainly smack him in the face with the iPad for forcably nudging my ass off the couch. But the brother could have worn headphones knowing he was instigating the fight playing games while the other was trying to study for his finals.
Probably is. The iPad isn’t hard enough to cause broken bones or a concussion. I’m curious as to whether the iPad is okay. Given the hard force of that swing, I’m sure he damaged his $700 book smacker.
But the kid brother deserved it and knew it was coming. I’d certainly smack him in the face with the iPad for forcably nudging my ass off the couch. But the brother could have worn headphones knowing he was instigating the fight playing games while the other was trying to study for his finals.
The brother!!!??! Who cares!?!What about the iPad!!
Totally fake. The iPad isn’t even turned on.
really…..?
Lol how pitiful is it? homey since you know enlighten me cause I would love to know
First three words that come to mind are ‘spoiled,’ ‘rich’ and ‘brat.’
Something isn’t right about this. Either way, it’s funny, although the iPad isn’t on.
Fake, fake, fake and another pointless story to pad out COM. You could always just not publish stuff on quieter days COM rather than try and feed us this kind of crap.
it’s called the iSlap, a more aggressive version of the iSpank.
It was a good thing they had the video camera running, otherwise I couldn’t have wasted 30 seconds of my life.
WTF, is this really news CoM!?!
I’m not your shrink.
Really.
Yes, little brothers can be annoying. But it’s the selfish, arrogant, pig-headed, violent big brothers who are usually the biggest assholes. I’m not really sure why this Mac blog is celebrating domestic violence, but perhaps it will succeed in inspiring some idiotic Top Gear fan to try the same thing at home. Well done, you’ve safely crossed over from being a tech blog to being an irrelevant “lads” blog. Your readership has declined, at least by one, as a result.
Do you think it’s funny or it’s Apple “news”? John Brownlee you are stupid.