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[#1]

@craigyoung, I've not actually got an iPod Touch myself. I've got a humble 3rd gen model (which I refer to as my legacy iPod!) and a 5th gen model. The only way to get a Genius playlist onto these is to create one in iTunes and manually copy it across AFAIK.

[#2]

Yes, but my parrot joke was still good though....
I have a second or third gen which is permanently on charge in the gym as the battery went after on a year or two.  I carry a 5th Gen but I have a permanent fuzzy line running across the screen which is fairly annoying.  Quite a lot of money for things which don't last all that well. 
Still - better than carrying a cassette walkman and have to rewind it using a pencil because you didn't want to waste the batteries.

[#3]

didnt you use both sides and turn it over? saved all that fafing around

[#4]

Yes, but the sides were never the same length so you always had a bit of tapes to get through.  Though I used to be so particular about my music, that I would cut and splice cassettes down to the exact length they needs to be.  What a saddo...

[#5]

do you mean to say you also open up your memory "cards" and clip bits off the corner?

[#6]

Indeed. 
And I really regret sawing the ends of my plasma screen the day I was watching an old 4:3 movie.

[#7]

But is does not annoy you with those black edges, have you tried araldite when you have a new movie?