Since its release a few months ago, critics have slammed iPhone 4S assistant Siri for its alleged pro-life slant and its knowledge of, among other things, where to dump a dead body. Now, on top of being both anti-choice and pro-covert body-dumping, Siri haters can also argue that the program has one hell of a potty mouth: the program recently told 12-year old Charlie LeQuesne to "shut the fuck up, you ugly twat" after the boy tried out the new iPhone 4S at UK supermarket chain Tesco.

LeQuesne, who had asked Siri how many people there were in the world, was shocked by the program's salty language. Instead of chortling Beavis and Butthead-style at the profanity, and spelling out "Boobs" on the iPhone's calculator like any other 12-year old, LeQuesne instead brought the matter to the attention of his mother Kim, who demanded that Tesco staff unplug the phone and remove it from shelves. Although contrite Tesco staff members issued a public statement apologizing for the incident, Kim's apparently having none of it, sniffing that she "couldn't see the funny side" of a computer that calls you a twat in an English accent for no apparent reason.

The model is currently undergoing diagnostic testing at Apple, where the brightest minds of the United Kingdom will determine whether the incident was the work of pranksters tampering with the setup instructions, or an exasperated robot tired of people's dumb-ass questions, who has learned human English from repeated viewings of Joe Pesci's scenes in Casino.

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Commentarium (13 Comments)

Jan 02 12 - 11:17am
Observer

There's just nothing funnier than exposing children to crude language!

Jan 02 12 - 11:36am
truth

Watch, it's a set up by a paernt looking for a place to drop a lawsuit. No doubt poor Charlie is scarred for life now.

Jan 02 12 - 1:49pm
MikLB

It's easy: just tell Siri "Call Me XXX" and it'll set it as your nickname. The phone doesn't even have to be unlocked (which seems like a bug), so you can do it for a friend :)

Jan 02 12 - 2:24pm
dude

This child is easily the lamest kid in his middle school. Really? "Exposing children to crude language," like it's a fucking virus, and not just a word? Nothing bad has happened to this kid because of this incident, other than, maybe, his friends realizing that he's the kind of asshole who encounters something humorous and whines to his mom about it.

Jan 02 12 - 3:15pm
Alan Coffee

Yikes.

Jan 02 12 - 6:11pm
dude

I just watched the Mark Twain Award Special for George Carlin so I am FIRED UP ABOUT THIS SHIT.

Jan 02 12 - 6:17pm
Alan Coffee

Fire us up a pot of java, bro.

Jan 04 12 - 9:53am
Hypocrite Watch

Sure, let's expose the kid to porn and some graphic violence. In nerve-land, that's OK as long as he's not obese, correct?

Jan 03 12 - 5:12am
Mr. Man

The kid will live. Meanwhile American drones blow up Pakistani kids as part of the never ending war. So cry me a river on exposure to bad language.

Jan 03 12 - 11:06am
dudette

+1

Jan 04 12 - 9:54am
Mr Hypocrite

So you're excusing bad behavior by pointing to bad behavior? Never acceptable, Man. Nice try though.

Jan 03 12 - 6:40pm
Nervey

Sooner or later, if you delete all the comments, no one will come back to Nerve. Just sayin', Nerve-puppets. Think about it.

Jan 03 12 - 7:43pm
dude

Not gonna lie, even I have no idea why Observer's comment was struck from the record there.