Samsung has developed the Samsung Northern, a mobile phone aimed primarily at Northern men.
‘Our other phones typically have 200 emojis’, a spokesman said, ‘to represent the full range of human emotions. Market research in Warrington indicated that 3 would be plenty. It seems that people are intimidated by anything with a broader emotional range than themselves, so we’ve gone with 'Happy, Sad, Don’t Know.'
The Samsung Northern also has a Pienav, which plots the most direct route to the nearest Gregg’s in an emergency. Northerners had mixed emotions about the phone (emoji 3), telling researchers that while it stereotyped Northerners and contributed to an unhealthy and lazy comedy trope used by second-rate satirists, bloody hell there’s a Gregg’s just round the corner.
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