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Paging Dr. QWERTY
A report that a man in Colorado who underwent a medical procedure in order to better use his iPhone has now been revealed to be a hoax.
As the story went, the large-handed fellow had grown tired from years of mashing smartphone keyboards with his oversized digits and opted for a bit of elective surgery. Fictional doctors cut the man's thumbs open and sawed down the bones in order to
make his thumbs smaller and more nimble for use with the iPhone's
touchscreen keyboard.
Regardless of what you think their motives were, the perpetrators of this hoax had in interesting point.
Why, in the era of botox and butt implants, do we find it so outrageous that someone would have elective surgery to be more efficient at work? If professional athletes routinely pump any manor or substances into their bloodstream to get a leg up, why not your average IT worker?
In the grand scheme of things, I think I'd elect to have my thumbs whittled down long before I let someone inject nerve toxins into my face or shoot synthetic testosterone in my arm.
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