I was on the streetcar today and I was looking at some guy looking at his iphone. He was browsing around the internet on it, it seemed, and the look on his face really bothered me. The look on his face was intent, like he was maneuvering some kind of important relationship thing with his phone.. but no he was only actually browsing the web on his phone. I don't even know why it struck me or why it's interesting to point out to anyone. He was just really into it and being some sort of weird iphone power user on his way to work.
More than anything I wanted to ask him when exactly he decided to be a slave bitch, or if it's an issue he deals with or is aware of.
How the fuck do you ask someone this?
I'm fielding this thought out there because I really want to know when it goes away. When being angry goes away. Not even kidding at all.
as soon as you want it to.
of course, then you herniate from laughter, so it's good to keep some of the anger in your pocket.
just in case...
Hey h-town. You're in Toronto too, yeah? (I remember you mentioning Kensington in another thread...)
2 cents and a tangent.
The city's infested with faux-cyborgs, and they drive me batty, but they're entirely ridiculous, so I kind of love them for it. If that makes any sense.
"I am the epicenter of Bay St. If I do not finish this soduko puzzle on my iphone, the stock market will crumble. Must maintain my privacy-bubble at all costs. Must not acknowledge public space. I will pretend to take an important business phone call on the subway."
But of course, you're talking about Jamison Houpotchkin the III, and that guy's just a douche. Just like every day: he gets up, has his power drink, puts on his suit and grabs his phone. He will google various things and ride the streetcar until 6:30pm, after which he will return home, fail to masturbate successfully and wind up watching the Biggest Loser on Tivo instead. Asking him about his slave bitch moment will just cause him to google more things.
But the rest of them are pretty funny.
tl;dr - soon. Leaving random post-its on the main subway line with messages to the cyborgs helped me with the same kind of anger a few years back. "It didn't work. We're still here." That kind of thing.
This has obviously been fucking with your process, so try fucking with his. Next time you see him, praying to his IGod, just walk up to him, peer at his appliance, and say in a non threatening, quiet voice, "Sorry, but can I just. . . ." and as you say it, slowly, but with no hint of caution, reach across, and take the thing, out of his hands, and just walk off with it. If you do this with the righteousness and conviction you convey in this post, he will be so mindbombed by your behaviour, that he will need at least 2 minutes before it sinks in. All you need is 5 or 10 seconds though. If he doesn't immediately challenge your actions, (and I'm guessing he wont) then he is not going to do so at all. The bonus being, you get to keep his IPhone as a Trophy.
Technically you haven't robbed him, because you gently took it from him, after requesting it, and he never asked for it back.
Also, I expect you could just about manage a "Do not even think about it, cuz i'm a batshit crazy motherfucker" look, especially in your vest, and titfer. (Hat) Wear something else, that's a little crazy too, like a feather boa, or cover your hat with tinfoil, just for extra gravitas. What's the worst that can happen?
I don't understand how someone's facial expression while using an iPhone could possibly cause serious anger.
Amusement?
Yes.
Serious anger?
Do you take steroids or some shit?
Maybe he was researching something he was intently interested in?
Quote from: Ne+@uNGr0+ on April 23, 2010, 01:27:21 AM
I don't understand how someone's facial expression while using an iPhone could possibly cause serious anger.
Amusement?
Yes.
Serious anger?
Do you take steroids or some shit?
I didn't really get what I was trying to say across. I was out all night drinking and partying with friends. I wasn't feeling seriously angry with that guy, he just reminded me of one of my first acid trips when I was a kid and I started peaking during the morning traffic rush, and I was just angry with- I don't know maybe people's complacency. Never mind I said anything.
Quote from: Nurse Rhizome on April 22, 2010, 06:26:22 PM
Hey h-town. You're in Toronto too, yeah? (I remember you mentioning Kensington in another thread...)
2 cents and a tangent.
The city's infested with faux-cyborgs, and they drive me batty, but they're entirely ridiculous, so I kind of love them for it. If that makes any sense.
"I am the epicenter of Bay St. If I do not finish this soduko puzzle on my iphone, the stock market will crumble. Must maintain my privacy-bubble at all costs. Must not acknowledge public space. I will pretend to take an important business phone call on the subway."
But of course, you're talking about Jamison Houpotchkin the III, and that guy's just a douche. Just like every day: he gets up, has his power drink, puts on his suit and grabs his phone. He will google various things and ride the streetcar until 6:30pm, after which he will return home, fail to masturbate successfully and wind up watching the Biggest Loser on Tivo instead. Asking him about his slave bitch moment will just cause him to google more things.
But the rest of them are pretty funny.
tl;dr - soon. Leaving random post-its on the main subway line with messages to the cyborgs helped me with the same kind of anger a few years back. "It didn't work. We're still here." That kind of thing.
There is something very soft-core Chicago about Toronto.
Quote from: BadBeast on April 22, 2010, 11:40:44 PM
This has obviously been fucking with your process, so try fucking with his. Next time you see him, praying to his IGod, just walk up to him, peer at his appliance, and say in a non threatening, quiet voice, "Sorry, but can I just. . . ." and as you say it, slowly, but with no hint of caution, reach across, and take the thing, out of his hands, and just walk off with it. If you do this with the righteousness and conviction you convey in this post, he will be so mindbombed by your behaviour, that he will need at least 2 minutes before it sinks in. All you need is 5 or 10 seconds though. If he doesn't immediately challenge your actions, (and I'm guessing he wont) then he is not going to do so at all. The bonus being, you get to keep his IPhone as a Trophy.
Technically you haven't robbed him, because you gently took it from him, after requesting it, and he never asked for it back.
Also, I expect you could just about manage a "Do not even think about it, cuz i'm a batshit crazy motherfucker" look, especially in your vest, and titfer. (Hat) Wear something else, that's a little crazy too, like a feather boa, or cover your hat with tinfoil, just for extra gravitas. What's the worst that can happen?
Reading back through this, I seem to have missed out the most obvious and practical course of action, which is, quite simply to get a fucking grip, and stop projecting on this poor fucker, who, after all, has no responsibility for the way you feel. Own your rage, and take responsibility for it yourself, or it will consume you, until you can no longer make a rational decision.
This edit is me, owning my antisocial tendencies, and attempting to make redress, and moderate what I said earlier. So if I can do this, I don't see why you can't take enough control of your own shit, enough to see someone use his own phone, without getting bent out of shape.
Quote from: h-town on April 23, 2010, 07:41:32 AM
Quote from: Nurse Rhizome on April 22, 2010, 06:26:22 PM
Hey h-town. You're in Toronto too, yeah? (I remember you mentioning Kensington in another thread...)
2 cents and a tangent.
The city's infested with faux-cyborgs, and they drive me batty, but they're entirely ridiculous, so I kind of love them for it. If that makes any sense.
"I am the epicenter of Bay St. If I do not finish this soduko puzzle on my iphone, the stock market will crumble. Must maintain my privacy-bubble at all costs. Must not acknowledge public space. I will pretend to take an important business phone call on the subway."
But of course, you're talking about Jamison Houpotchkin the III, and that guy's just a douche. Just like every day: he gets up, has his power drink, puts on his suit and grabs his phone. He will google various things and ride the streetcar until 6:30pm, after which he will return home, fail to masturbate successfully and wind up watching the Biggest Loser on Tivo instead. Asking him about his slave bitch moment will just cause him to google more things.
But the rest of them are pretty funny.
tl;dr - soon. Leaving random post-its on the main subway line with messages to the cyborgs helped me with the same kind of anger a few years back. "It didn't work. We're still here." That kind of thing.
There is something very soft-core Chicago about Toronto.
Chicago is soft core. Lived there for years.
You know, he could have been reading something small. I tend to make that face when reading things that are small.
Or, screw you Sigmatic, it's my right to make the fundamental attribution error.
Quote from: BadBeast on April 24, 2010, 03:06:40 PM
Quote from: BadBeast on April 22, 2010, 11:40:44 PM
This has obviously been fucking with your process, so try fucking with his. Next time you see him, praying to his IGod, just walk up to him, peer at his appliance, and say in a non threatening, quiet voice, "Sorry, but can I just. . . ." and as you say it, slowly, but with no hint of caution, reach across, and take the thing, out of his hands, and just walk off with it. If you do this with the righteousness and conviction you convey in this post, he will be so mindbombed by your behaviour, that he will need at least 2 minutes before it sinks in. All you need is 5 or 10 seconds though. If he doesn't immediately challenge your actions, (and I'm guessing he wont) then he is not going to do so at all. The bonus being, you get to keep his IPhone as a Trophy.
Technically you haven't robbed him, because you gently took it from him, after requesting it, and he never asked for it back.
Also, I expect you could just about manage a "Do not even think about it, cuz i'm a batshit crazy motherfucker" look, especially in your vest, and titfer. (Hat) Wear something else, that's a little crazy too, like a feather boa, or cover your hat with tinfoil, just for extra gravitas. What's the worst that can happen?
Reading back through this, I seem to have missed out the most obvious and practical course of action, which is, quite simply to get a fucking grip, and stop projecting on this poor fucker, who, after all, has no responsibility for the way you feel. Own your rage, and take responsibility for it yourself, or it will consume you, until you can no longer make a rational decision.
This edit is me, owning my antisocial tendencies, and attempting to make redress, and moderate what I said earlier. So if I can do this, I don't see why you can't take enough control of your own shit, enough to see someone use his own phone, without getting bent out of shape.
I'm not mad at anyone using their iphone, shit- I own a blackberry :kingmeh:
Quote from: Sigmatic on April 24, 2010, 07:13:11 PM
You know, he could have been reading something small. I tend to make that face when reading things that are small.
Or, screw you Sigmatic, it's my right to make the fundamental attribution error.
I was just thinking that, about how hard it can be to read tiny tiny text, especially when you're on a moving vehicle.
I don't care what anyone else thinks, getting enraged at the sight of some shitneck using his iPhone on public transit makes perfect sense to me.
My anger, in this instance, is directed at humanity in general for their tendency to be overwhelmingly fascinated by shiny things, to the point where the shiny things become the impetus for everything else.
maybe I'm reading too much into this.
Do you feel the same way about laptops?
How about books?
Or should everyone just stare placidly into space, doing nothing?
Don't tell me that we should be interacting with each other on the bus, because the last place I want to meet people and make friends is on my morning commute. Not that I do that anymore, but I did for roughly 13 years, and, no.
Quote from: h-town on April 25, 2010, 06:06:46 AM
Quote from: BadBeast on April 24, 2010, 03:06:40 PM
Quote from: BadBeast on April 22, 2010, 11:40:44 PM
This has obviously been fucking with your process, so try fucking with his. Next time you see him, praying to his IGod, just walk up to him, peer at his appliance, and say in a non threatening, quiet voice, "Sorry, but can I just. . . ." and as you say it, slowly, but with no hint of caution, reach across, and take the thing, out of his hands, and just walk off with it. If you do this with the righteousness and conviction you convey in this post, he will be so mindbombed by your behaviour, that he will need at least 2 minutes before it sinks in. All you need is 5 or 10 seconds though. If he doesn't immediately challenge your actions, (and I'm guessing he wont) then he is not going to do so at all. The bonus being, you get to keep his IPhone as a Trophy.
Technically you haven't robbed him, because you gently took it from him, after requesting it, and he never asked for it back.
Also, I expect you could just about manage a "Do not even think about it, cuz i'm a batshit crazy motherfucker" look, especially in your vest, and titfer. (Hat) Wear something else, that's a little crazy too, like a feather boa, or cover your hat with tinfoil, just for extra gravitas. What's the worst that can happen?
Reading back through this, I seem to have missed out the most obvious and practical course of action, which is, quite simply to get a fucking grip, and stop projecting on this poor fucker, who, after all, has no responsibility for the way you feel. Own your rage, and take responsibility for it yourself, or it will consume you, until you can no longer make a rational decision.
This edit is me, owning my antisocial tendencies, and attempting to make redress, and moderate what I said earlier. So if I can do this, I don't see why you can't take enough control of your own shit, enough to see someone use his own phone, without getting bent out of shape.
I'm not mad at anyone using their iphone, shit- I own a blackberry :kingmeh:
Maybe this rests in Brand Loyalty issues. You like your Blackberry, but deep down, you realise that it really doesn't hold a candle to the IPhone, and the guilt you feel at knowing this, is conflicting with your programmed loyalty to your Blackberry, resulting in anger towards anything that challenges your own Technology. (Just a thought)
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on April 25, 2010, 06:22:16 PM
Do you feel the same way about laptops?
How about books?
Or should everyone just stare placidly into space, doing nothing?
Don't tell me that we should be interacting with each other on the bus, because the last place I want to meet people and make friends is on my morning commute. Not that I do that anymore, but I did for roughly 13 years, and, no.
I get what you're saying, but you don't have to resemble a dorky cell phone ad while you're doing it.
In retrospect, he wasn't that bad.
Quote from: BadBeast on April 26, 2010, 02:06:04 PM
Maybe this rests in Brand Loyalty issues. You like your Blackberry, but deep down, you realise that it really doesn't hold a candle to the IPhone, and the guilt you feel at knowing this, is conflicting with your programmed loyalty to your Blackberry, resulting in anger towards anything that challenges your own Technology. (Just a thought)
I feel complete with my blackberry. It's like a paid subscription phantom limb. It's amazing AND it has Brick Breaker.
It's possible that caring about other people's facial expressions on the bus may be a sign of "I wish I had your problems" syndrome.
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on April 27, 2010, 12:34:11 AM
It's possible that caring about other people's facial expressions on the bus may be a sign of "I wish I had your problems" syndrome.
I think you're right. I definitely wouldn't mind having a condo, sometimes.
Being on the bus lately feels like I'm in some b-movie church of subgenius propaganda video on youtube these days and I'm definitely feeling the grind. I can't afford to see the dentist (long overdue,) I live paycheck to paycheck, I never went to college or university even though I used to dream about being the kind of person who did. My own blackberry isn't even hooked up to the internet because I can't afford a *nice* cell phone plan. I guess I am jealous.
Fuck, I hate him more now :x
Quote from: h-town on April 27, 2010, 12:50:46 AM
...
Fuck, I hate him me more now :x
what do you want to be when you grow up?
(i still haven't figured it out myself)
Quote from: h-town on April 27, 2010, 12:50:46 AM
I never went to college or university even though I used to dream about being the kind of person who did.
Have you given up on the idea?
I've found that people who didn't go to college right after high school tend to be more serious about their education and are much more interesting to talk to and much more valuable study partners.
there is truth in what Net says.
i fucked around for three years in Austin before i screwed my head on and buckled down at University. I did very well because i didn't feel the need to play at the expense of education. my best study partners were a persian guy that was serious about his education because it was what allowed him to stay here, and a guy in his forties that didn't have any desire to rawk out with the youngsters.
if you want to go to college and you can afford to buckle down (i.e. you don't have to work your ass off already just to make payments on all your crap) then you can do well, and if you do well you can get scholarships to really help out.
sounds like you're beating yourself up about not doing it, but chances are, you can.
DO IT.
if you don't do it now, you'll beat yourself up later for not doing it now.
better Nate than lever.
What Net and Iptuous said - thirded.
I was away from school for 8 years and still prefer working with people who didn't go straight through non-stop: high school-bachelor's/college-masters-doc.
In addition to scholarships, there's also research work, TA-ing and a tonne of other things available to take care of the tuition/rent/groceries issue.
If you want more institutionalized hedgumacation, it's doable. And I don't think there's a 'kind of person' in the way you mean. But now I'm just being picky/pedantic.
(Off-topic time warp to earlier in the thread - never been to Chicago. I had no idea what you meant, but Toronto's super-soft core something or other.)
Quote from: Ne+@uNGr0+ on April 27, 2010, 01:59:53 AM
Have you given up on the idea?
I've found that people who didn't go to college right after high school tend to be more serious about their education and are much more interesting to talk to and much more valuable study partners.
Quote from: Iptuous on April 27, 2010, 02:21:16 AM
there is truth in what Net says.
i fucked around for three years in Austin before i screwed my head on and buckled down at University. I did very well because i didn't feel the need to play at the expense of education. my best study partners were a persian guy that was serious about his education because it was what allowed him to stay here, and a guy in his forties that didn't have any desire to rawk out with the youngsters.
if you want to go to college and you can afford to buckle down (i.e. you don't have to work your ass off already just to make payments on all your crap) then you can do well, and if you do well you can get scholarships to really help out.
sounds like you're beating yourself up about not doing it, but chances are, you can.
DO IT.
if you don't do it now, you'll beat yourself up later for not doing it now.
better Nate than lever.
Quote from: Nurse Rhizome on April 27, 2010, 02:47:47 AM
What Net and Iptuous said - thirded.
I was away from school for 8 years and still prefer working with people who didn't go straight through non-stop: high school-bachelor's/college-masters-doc.
In addition to scholarships, there's also research work, TA-ing and a tonne of other things available to take care of the tuition/rent/groceries issue.
If you want more institutionalized hedgumacation, it's doable. And I don't think there's a 'kind of person' in the way you mean. But now I'm just being picky/pedantic.
(Off-topic time warp to earlier in the thread - never been to Chicago. I had no idea what you meant, but Toronto's super-soft core something or other.)
I've always found that people who waited before going to school were smugly self superior about their choices. :lulz:
hey. we're being supportive.
we're pointing out that it's not a 'missed the boat' type of thing.
mebbee you're right, but fuck it....
doesn't change the fact.
he should DO IT.
NOW.
Quote from: Iptuous on April 27, 2010, 03:21:58 AM
hey. we're being supportive.
we're pointing out that it's not a 'missed the boat' type of thing.
mebbee you're right, but fuck it....
doesn't change the fact.
he should DO IT.
NOW.
I'm poking fun, Ipt. There's a maturity difference and a great deal of wisdom that comes with those few years, I can see how your experiences would be as you described them.
But yes, h-town. If it is at all feasible to do so, a degree is a great thing to have.
After reading this thread, I don't really have a strong opinion about the OP, but I do know that I need to shout it loud next time I head up to toronto, because there are more people from the area than I thought.
I am planing on going back to school this year as a part time student. I'm not sure at all what I plan on doing as a career but marine biology, mathematics and psychology all interest me.
Part-time studying is fucking hard. But go for it!
Quote from: h-town on April 27, 2010, 06:53:56 AM
I am planing on going back to school this year as a part time student. I'm not sure at all what I plan on doing as a career but marine biology, mathematics and psychology all interest me.
huh. that's interesting, because i just happen to know that there are a great many dolphins that are really hung up, to a debilitating degree, on such things as the Riemann Hypothesis and the twin prime conjecture. you could really do a lot of good!
:wink:
seriously, though... if your interests are broad, then you could pick a field that could work towards some childhood dream type thing, but also has a lot of standard work type options to pay the bills.
i went into engineering to build a giant robot that i can ride in.
but working for a govt. contractor making flight sims is paying the bills in the mean time...
Quote from: Iptuous on April 27, 2010, 02:21:16 AM
better Nate than lever.
I hate you just a little bit right now. :lulz:
Grant Morrison gave a talk at Disinfocon one year, and in one tangent he talked about the walkman phenomenon
in the 90s, when the walkman got popular, suddenly you'd see all these people listening to music while they were in public.
and at first it pissed him off, he was like, "Yo, is the real world NOT IMPORTANT ENOUGH that you need to shut it out?" He felt it was disrespectful - that people are becoming so introverted that we're losing some element of human connection. It got worse when cell phones got popular, and even worse when wireless bluetooth headsets started to appear. You've got people walking around having conversations with invisible people, only barely connected to the meatspace we share. And then years later, of course, Grant Morrison got a cell phone and ipod and whatever, and now he's part of the problem too.
He says that this is a microcosm of one of the big spiritual challenges on humanity's horizon. In the next century, as it becomes easier and easier to escape into the digital, we're going to be further and further apart. There's a japanese poet who laments about this high cost of modernity - why is it that I feel lonliest when I am on the train, when I am completely surrounded by humanity? There is a chasm between every human being. And in crowds, that chasm is wider.
But you can't fight it. You just have to roll with it.
Quote from: Cramulus on April 28, 2010, 03:07:07 PM
But you can't fight it. You just have to roll with it.
I don't know if i agree with that.
If you genuinely compliment a stranger in a crowd it immediately and lastingly puts you on their radar as an actual person standing next to them.
i'm sure there's all kinds of ways to fight the slide into the lonely crowd.
Quote from: Cramulus on April 28, 2010, 03:07:07 PM
Grant Morrison gave a talk at Disinfocon one year, and in one tangent he talked about the walkman phenomenon
in the 90s, when the walkman got popular, suddenly you'd see all these people listening to music while they were in public.
and at first it pissed him off, he was like, "Yo, is the real world NOT IMPORTANT ENOUGH that you need to shut it out?" He felt it was disrespectful - that people are becoming so introverted that we're losing some element of human connection. It got worse when cell phones got popular, and even worse when wireless bluetooth headsets started to appear. You've got people walking around having conversations with invisible people, only barely connected to the meatspace we share. And then years later, of course, Grant Morrison got a cell phone and ipod and whatever, and now he's part of the problem too.
He says that this is a microcosm of one of the big spiritual challenges on humanity's horizon. In the next century, as it becomes easier and easier to escape into the digital, we're going to be further and further apart. There's a japanese poet who laments about this high cost of modernity - why is it that I feel lonliest when I am on the train, when I am completely surrounded by humanity? There is a chasm between every human being. And in crowds, that chasm is wider.
But you can't fight it. You just have to roll with it.
This is the future we wanted. If we hadn't wanted it, we wouldn't have built it.
If I have any anger towards people with i-phones or cell phones or whatever it is the following:
a) Texting while crossing the street and not paying attention to traffic.
b) Texting while driving a car. Now this really fucking gets to me. As I said to Mrs Mang the other day:
"If I get killed by a texting driver, I hope to god that they're an MIT student (or similar) and were sending a breakthrough formula for a Unified Field Theory of Gravity or something else of importance. Knowing my luck, I'll get offed by some dick who thought it was so crucially important to write 'LOLOLOL!!' before ploughing into the intersection we're sitting at."
c) People in public spaces intent on showing just how hard they're working. "LOOK AT ME, I'M TREATING THIS B&N CAFE AS MY OWN PERSONAL OFFICE." Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. I'm there to get a cup of coffee or read a book, I don't need to subjected to your vacuous conference calls you corporate narcissistic asshole. (Same goes double for airplanes)
d) People who call you on the phone and then ask if you'll 'hold' because their cell is ringing. Uhh...I didn't ask to speak to you in the first place!
I've always been a little Ted Kacynski (minus the blowing people up part) about cell phones. I only recently in the past year got a cell phone but it was a pretty rudimentary one. I got it while my wife was pregnant mostly so if she went into labor she could get a hold of me if I wasn't home or in the office. But I just don't get into the whole being connected all the time trip. I like talking to people in person. I like talking to people, when I want to talk to them. It's why only certain people get my cell phone number. I just think isolation is going to grow as more and more of us get immersed and dwell in the digital world.
I like my iphone because I don't like talking on the phone, and it helps me stay connected/meet up with friends (in other words, I use it as a tool to make time to see them, rather than as a tool for chitchat), as well as stay current with what's happening with my kids when they're at their dads.
The incredible convenience of cell phones, and being able to do things like text my friend a simple question about her cat's food while she's traveling, far outweighs the annoyances of, say, people talking on them in cafes, which is simply a matter of bad manners.
I do HATE HATE HATE when I've made plans to hang out with someone and they take a call while we're hanging out. Unless you have good reason to think it's an emergency, don't fucking do that.
The social protocol involving these devices has not yet caught up to the terrifying rate at which they are being invented.
When I'm in the middle of talking to somebody, and they get a text, and they stop talking for a second so they can send a reply, I always want to swat the phone right out of their hands. Infuriating! :argh!:
When I get a text I usually let it sit until there's a good moment to check it. People often tell me, "Hey dude, don't know if you heard the beep, but you got a text."
DUH, dipshit, just because my phone beeped does not mean I'm going to put my palm in your face and tend to my digitial device. This little piece of plastic in my pocket is not the boss of me.
Quote from: Cramulus on April 28, 2010, 06:56:39 PM
This little piece of plastic in my pocket is not the boss of me.
Yet.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on April 28, 2010, 07:01:13 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on April 28, 2010, 06:56:39 PM
This little piece of plastic in my pocket is not the boss of me.
Yet.
I'm sure they're working on a Manna iPhone app....
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Quote from: Iptuous on April 28, 2010, 07:10:04 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on April 28, 2010, 07:01:13 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on April 28, 2010, 06:56:39 PM
This little piece of plastic in my pocket is not the boss of me.
Yet.
I'm sure they're working on a Manna iPhone app....
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
One day, they'll jam phones into our mastoids, and we'll HAVE to listen to telemarketers.
Mark my words.
Quote from: Cramulus on April 28, 2010, 06:56:39 PM
DUH, dipshit, just because my phone beeped does not mean I'm going to put my palm in your face and tend to my digitial device. This little piece of plastic in my pocket is not the boss of me.
SERIOUSLY.
The reason I like texts is
because I don't like jumping to attention every time someone makes a bell ring in my house, you know? It's supposed to be a tool for communication, not a Pavlovian response training device.
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on April 28, 2010, 07:35:11 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on April 28, 2010, 06:56:39 PM
DUH, dipshit, just because my phone beeped does not mean I'm going to put my palm in your face and tend to my digitial device. This little piece of plastic in my pocket is not the boss of me.
SERIOUSLY.
The reason I like texts is because I don't like jumping to attention every time someone makes a bell ring in my house, you know? It's supposed to be a tool for communication, not a Pavlovian response training device.
Wait til they mandate the shock feature.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on April 28, 2010, 07:39:36 PM
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on April 28, 2010, 07:35:11 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on April 28, 2010, 06:56:39 PM
DUH, dipshit, just because my phone beeped does not mean I'm going to put my palm in your face and tend to my digitial device. This little piece of plastic in my pocket is not the boss of me.
SERIOUSLY.
The reason I like texts is because I don't like jumping to attention every time someone makes a bell ring in my house, you know? It's supposed to be a tool for communication, not a Pavlovian response training device.
Wait til they mandate the shock feature.
:x
Quote from: Doktor Howl on April 28, 2010, 07:39:36 PM
Wait til they mandate the shock feature.
I object, unless they make nipple attachements.
Quote from: LMNO on April 28, 2010, 07:53:23 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on April 28, 2010, 07:39:36 PM
Wait til they mandate the shock feature.
I object, unless they make nipple attachements.
No, the Free Market™ has already determined the optimum positioning for the electrodes.
Cell phones - reasons for hatred:
People who text while driving. Now this is something that really fucking annoys me. As I said to Mrs Mang the other day "If I get killed by a texting driver, I hope they are some super smart MIT genius and the reason why I died is because they had to text their colleague a valid formula for a Unified Field Theory of Gravity. At least then, I would've perished for something reasonably important. However, my luck will be that I will be offed by some dick who chose that exact moment to type 'LOLOLOL' while ploughing into the intersection we happened to be sitting in."
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on April 28, 2010, 07:35:11 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on April 28, 2010, 06:56:39 PM
DUH, dipshit, just because my phone beeped does not mean I'm going to put my palm in your face and tend to my digitial device. This little piece of plastic in my pocket is not the boss of me.
SERIOUSLY.
The reason I like texts is because I don't like jumping to attention every time someone makes a bell ring in my house, you know? It's supposed to be a tool for communication, not a Pavlovian response training device.
Oh, it's a total training device for me. My ingrained response is to clench my jaw tightly enough to shatter the teeth of any regular being. Muscles I didn't know I had tighten and strain to near breaking, tendons jumping out of flesh as though trying to escape. Then there's my hands, which by some cruel twist of fate I can still manipulate in spite of their claw like appearance. They reach into my pocket and grab the offending device. At this moment, I am unable, in spite of every muscle memory or will, to simply throw the fucking phone at a wall and watch it gloriously shatter.
My next step is to carry the phone between my teeth for a day, so when it rings the initial jaw clench will rend in twain.
Then I can get a new one and hate it just as much.
Umm... Cellphones aren't mandatory, yet.
You can still get by on a land line. If you hate cellphones so much, why do you have one?
Quote from: LMNO on April 28, 2010, 08:21:15 PM
Umm... Cellphones aren't mandatory, yet.
You can still get by on a land line. If you hate cellphones so much, why do you have one?
Oh, I hate land lines just as much - and they're less convenient. So I either have one of them or I have very little means of making plans with anyone. Including my girlfriend, who I can only see on weekends, so it becomes pretty necessary to talk the other days of the week. It's unfortunately a necessary evil.
Quote from: LMNO on April 28, 2010, 08:21:15 PM
Umm... Cellphones aren't mandatory, yet.
You can still get by on a land line. If you hate cellphones so much, why do you have one?
I don't hate cell phones. I hate TELEPHONES... the old-fashioned "far-talking" thing. I like cell phones because they allow me to text.
If my ipod could text and email without the need for a hot-spot, I wouldn't even bother with a subscription cell.
I know...
monkeys = irrational humans
NO F'N WAAY
Quote from: Sigmatic on May 01, 2010, 01:42:38 AM
If my ipod could text and email without the need for a hot-spot, I wouldn't even bother with a subscription cell.
They make them. They're called mobile phones.
Quote from: Placid Dingo on May 22, 2010, 03:14:59 AM
Quote from: Sigmatic on May 01, 2010, 01:42:38 AM
If my ipod could text and email without the need for a hot-spot, I wouldn't even bother with a subscription cell.
They make them. They're called mobile phones.
Dude, there's this new thing! It's called a "shiv". Here, let me show you.
ok what i want to know is what the fuck the Christan religion about?
some guy that had extra mind powers that told every body he was a god and they
belived him so he told them that they had to follow these certain rules to go to heaven
and if they didnt they would go to hell :?
like wtf??!! :argh!:
Troll harder, noob.
Quote from: Sigmatic on May 22, 2010, 09:38:30 PM
Quote from: Placid Dingo on May 22, 2010, 03:14:59 AM
Quote from: Sigmatic on May 01, 2010, 01:42:38 AM
If my ipod could text and email without the need for a hot-spot, I wouldn't even bother with a subscription cell.
They make them. They're called mobile phones.
Dude, there's this new thing! It's called a "shiv". Here, let me show you.
I see your picture. That's not a shiv. It's a carrot.
EDIT: BTW I'm just playing around but let me know if i'm doing it in the wrong place or just being a jackass. That's not my intention.
Quote from: Fyxen on May 23, 2010, 12:33:50 AM
ok what i want to know is what the fuck the Christan religion about?
some guy that had extra mind powers that told every body he was a god and they
belived him so he told them that they had to follow these certain rules to go to heaven
and if they didnt they would go to hell :?
like wtf??!! :argh!:
Here's a friendly suggestion. LURK MOAR.
Here's an example of what happens when you don't. (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=24803.0)
what that's all Christianity really looks like to me. :argh!:
well then what is your view on Christianity? :?
Quote from: Fyxen on May 29, 2010, 11:14:25 PM
what that's all Christianity really looks like to me. :argh!:
well then what is your view on Christianity? :?
You're doing it all wrong. We have standards we expect our trolls to meet or exceed.
well I'm not your troll.
so i don't have to meet or exceed any of your standards
I think you most certainly are. Also, welcome to my ignore list from here on out.
no.
I'm not
just cause I'm new and your an asswhole doesn't mean I'm a noob or a troll
it just means your an asswhole with nothing better to do than sit at home on your fat ass
next to your computer and call people names.
like a 5 year old.
that is what it means
good bye
:facepalm:
Fucker isn't even trying but hey, wtf, I'm just about drunk/bored enough to poke the fucking thing with a stick for half an hour or so.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on May 30, 2010, 12:34:21 AM
:facepalm:
Fucker isn't even trying but hey, wtf, I'm just about drunk/bored enough to poke the fucking thing with a stick for half an hour or so.
It lasted 7 posts.
Quote from: Fyxen on May 30, 2010, 12:04:30 AM
well I'm not your troll.
so i don't have to meet or exceed any of your standards
But if you don't, we lose our funding. :cry:
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on May 30, 2010, 12:48:01 AM
Quote from: Fyxen on May 30, 2010, 12:04:30 AM
well I'm not your troll.
so i don't have to meet or exceed any of your standards
But if you don't, we lose our funding. :cry:
This has me laughing.
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on May 30, 2010, 12:48:01 AM
Quote from: Fyxen on May 30, 2010, 12:04:30 AM
well I'm not your troll.
so i don't have to meet or exceed any of your standards
But if you don't, we lose our funding. :cry:
This fucking "No Troll Left Behind" program is ruining the system. Trolls are now 'trolling to the tests,' as it were, and there's no room left for creativity or individual trolling. These days it's just about getting the numbers: troll as many people as you can, as hard as you can, as quickly as possible. Numbers go up, quality goes down, and everyone's left scrabbling for funding. Horrible, horrible.
Quote from: Cainad on May 30, 2010, 01:19:18 AM
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on May 30, 2010, 12:48:01 AM
Quote from: Fyxen on May 30, 2010, 12:04:30 AM
well I'm not your troll.
so i don't have to meet or exceed any of your standards
But if you don't, we lose our funding. :cry:
This fucking "No Troll Left Behind" program is ruining the system. Trolls are now 'trolling to the tests,' as it were, and there's no room left for creativity or individual trolling. These days it's just about getting the numbers: troll as many people as you can, as hard as you can, as quickly as possible. Numbers go up, quality goes down, and everyone's left scrabbling for funding. Horrible, horrible.
:lulz:
hmmm i have a question.
Q: what if cats and dogs are controlling our minds with alien technology that they got years ago? :lulz:
i mean i know its out there but just think about it.
why Else would we go around picking up their poop?
Quote from: Fyxen on May 29, 2010, 11:14:25 PM
what that's all Christianity really looks like to me. :argh!:
well then what is your view on Christianity? :?
Most of my friends are Christian. I think it's silly, but I like them anyway.
yeah same here most of my family is Christian and i still love them
but i just don't understand why out of all the gods and goddesses out there they choose this Jesus guy...
when i see Christianity i see this guy that had things that the others didn't so he became all powerful
and gave his followers specific rules to follow or else.
and i just don't see the point of a religion like that
but hey if it makes them happy why stop them?
Fyxen, your threadjack is weak, old man.
:Jedi wave: this is not the board you are looking for!
Quote from: Fyxen on June 01, 2010, 11:18:43 PM
yeah same here most of my family is Christian and i still love them
but i just don't understand why out of all the gods and goddesses out there they choose this Jesus guy...
when i see Christianity i see this guy that had things that the others didn't so he became all powerful
and gave his followers specific rules to follow or else.
and i just don't see the point of a religion like that
but hey if it makes them happy why stop them?
You really want to know? Because the Christ message is a perfect con.
"Your life sucks, I know...
but it's a test. If you become obedient and endure your suffering, you will be rewarded in heaven. The more your life sucks, the better off you'll be later. Trust me."
Those on the bottom are able to cope with their misery without complaint, and those on the top can easily run the show.
Quote from: LMNO on June 02, 2010, 02:10:24 PM
Quote from: Fyxen on June 01, 2010, 11:18:43 PM
yeah same here most of my family is Christian and i still love them
but i just don't understand why out of all the gods and goddesses out there they choose this Jesus guy...
when i see Christianity i see this guy that had things that the others didn't so he became all powerful
and gave his followers specific rules to follow or else.
and i just don't see the point of a religion like that
but hey if it makes them happy why stop them?
You really want to know? Because the Christ message is a perfect con.
"Your life sucks, I know... but it's a test. If you become obedient and endure your suffering, you will be rewarded in heaven. The more your life sucks, the better off you'll be later. Trust me."
Those on the bottom are able to cope with their misery without complaint, and those on the top can easily run the show.
Like some huge, sick conspiracy?
It's worse than a conspiracy... because everyone buys into it.
oh my god your right :aaa:
fuck wow
Yeah, so how are we going to hide from the scary Angels, when they Rapture everyone, so we don't have to go where they go?
we fuckin shoot all the evil angels its easy.
we just need really good guns :lulz:
I meant the supposedly "good" Angels, you numpty!
yeah i know we shoot them too.
then just nothing happens and they are proved wrong.
Way to prove a point. And there are a whole host of them due to arrive to finalise the eschaton, once and for all. Your puny weapons will be useless. Michael's Elite Seraphim Commandos are the Stormtroopers of Jehovah. And it is written that none shall prevail against the Host of Heaven. So it's hide, or burn forever in the Lake of fire with Lucifer and his rebellious Angels. Or join the happy clappers for an Eternity in mind numbing pious boredom.
well fuck shit :argh!:
guess I'm staying with Lucifer :lulz:
oh wait i don't have to as fun as that sounds :D
I'm immune cause I'm not a Christian.
or at least i view it that way.
Quote from: BadBeast on June 04, 2010, 09:05:42 PM
Yeah, so how are we going to hide from the scary Angels, when they Rapture everyone, so we don't have to go where they go?
Oh, didn't you hear? The rapture happened a few years ago; some dude and his family on a farm in Illinois were taken up to heaven. Apparently no one else qualified.
:lulz:
So all that bollocks about fiery Lakes and burning for all eternity was a bit wide of the mark then?
Prophetic License even?
Oh, I dunno. If I had a choice between Lake of Eternal Fire or living in a world where people WANT to and DO sing Taylor Swift at karaoke I'd get myself a nice pair of asbestos trunks.
I've often thought this IS hell because things can always get worse.
Quote from: BadBeast on June 04, 2010, 09:58:14 PMMichael's Elite Seraphim Commandos are the Stormtroopers of Jehovah.
Priceless! :lulz:
Well, however many "really good guns" she's got, I don't want be fucking with no Seraphim.
hmmm this is true i would not truly want to either :oops:
i feel that i would do best in hell anyways.
and the weather is warm so why not? :lulz:
Quote from: Professor Freeky on June 04, 2010, 10:37:32 PM
Quote from: BadBeast on June 04, 2010, 09:05:42 PM
Yeah, so how are we going to hide from the scary Angels, when they Rapture everyone, so we don't have to go where they go?
Oh, didn't you hear? The rapture happened a few years ago; some dude and his family on a farm in Illinois were taken up to heaven. Apparently no one else qualified.
:lulz:
well fuck
i guess we all just didn't qualify :lulz: :oops:
I probably wouldn't qualify on my credit score alone. Never mind my moral inadequacies.
I won't qualify because I've threatened to kill god on numerous occasions and, if he's really omniscient, he knows I mean it :evil:
:lulz:
Quote from: BadBeast on June 04, 2010, 10:58:52 PM
So all that bollocks about fiery Lakes and burning for all eternity was a bit wide of the mark then?
Prophetic License even?
IT HAS BEGUN
(http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/files/2010/06/BPJune4.jpg)
(http://static.providingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/new/2010/04/oil-rig-explosion-Deepwater-Horizon.jpg)
:horrormirth:
damnations!!!
i thought i had more time than this! :argh!:
:eek: :horrormirth:
:aaa:
mmmm lips
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Quote from: BadBeast on June 07, 2010, 11:34:43 PM
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:horrormirth: :cry: