1. Forget texting, I know asking you to refrain from doing EVERYTHING while driving is a waste of time. If the fact that you're more likely to kill someone doing that than if you were drunk won't stop you (and it won't) nothing will.
However, if you could restrict your activites to stoplights and stopsigns, I think that would be just super. Really, anytime you can find to use your phone when the car is not moving is just top- notch.
2. The Internet and vast social networks, while awesome, useful, and providing of important human experiences are not to be favored over real, meat-space life events to the point of absurdity or detriment to your health and/or interpersonal relationships. The balance between the two is easier to maintain on a computer because you can walk into another room and leave it. When it's tiny, in your pocket, and used heavily for multifarious purposes it's more difficult to let go.
OR
Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!?!
3. You probably use your phone as an alarm clock. Regardless, when you go to bed set the phone away. Don't sleep with the fucking thing. That's when it drinks your soul.
4. Stop your self-righteous, holier-than-thou, my phone is better because of *blank* and this other ones are STOOOPIDNEENERNEENER horseshit. Nobody cares and you sound like a douche. These things are little miracles even when they're pieces of crap. Use your miracle, do good deeds, STFU.
5. Meals are important. See 2.
EDIT: For less really fucking stupid. :)
yeah. have you got one yet?
i got one about 2 months ago, coming out of the stone age. (seriously, i think my previous phone was from 2002 and still going; a good statement for samsung products, i must say)
these things are insidious, the way they do you....
oh... hold on.
i got a msg....
Man, I have THREE right now. Had my personal one for a year.
That's how I know to avoid the above.
One great thing about it, you know who the truly interesting people are: people more interesting than your phone.
Quote from: Iptuous on September 08, 2010, 03:00:25 AM
yeah. have you got one yet?
i got one about 2 months ago, coming out of the stone age. (seriously, i think my previous phone was from 2002 and still going; a good statement for samsung products, i must say)
these things are insidious, the way they do you....
oh... hold on.
i got a msg....
My samsung is from 2004, and still working pretty well. No intentions of replacing it anytime soon. I can call and text and that's all I need from it.
Points one and four are valid, but the rest are all really fucking stupid.
:lol:
Ah, I do love this place. No one gets a free ride on the stupid train.
I was a bit extreme on those points because I've found myself too engrossed when I should be paying attention to other things. They could use a touch-up.
Point three was a bit of silliness. Point two could use some alteration.
Like any sad, sunken-eyed basement-dwelling sockfucker who spends too much time on the Internet should be made aware, there's a point where enough is enough and you need to step away from the computer. Phones making access to the same functions and activities easier and more portable make it harder to do that.
I was mostly yelling the above to myself, and thought some others might see similarities.
I used to take such care to taste my food. Slowly. Now I hardly pay attention. Not saying everyone is like this or needs to follow the above, just some. Me.
I HAS DROID.
And I would like to say OP is 80% correct, 20% jealous.
I do not text while driving.
But the thing is fucking indispensable since it does pretty much anything a laptop does, in 10% of the space and the battery lasts approximately 900% longer. I use it for GPS/navigation, Internet ("Oh look, you spent all morning bitching about Obama's tax hikes and I just shot you down with a fucking telephone and 2 minutes of Google-Fu."), in-car audio, snapping pics of the kids, checking weather forecasts, reading up on current events, IRC, and watching YouTube.
On one hand, I realize all this shit is ridiculous. On the other hand, this is all stuff I do every day anyway. The phone just makes it faster, more convenient, and more efficient.
My wife is an addict, like bad level doesn't spend social time with anyone without being on her phone or laptop level addict. This post speaks to me in a really direct way.
Quote from: Xochiquetzal on September 09, 2010, 12:56:58 PM
My wife is an addict, like bad level doesn't spend social time with anyone without being on her phone or laptop level addict. This post speaks to me in a really direct way.
I'm trying to break my husband of this. I'll publicly call him out if he's at a social function and CHECKING THE FUCKING NEWS ON HIS FUCKING IPHONE. GET OFF THE FUCKING PHONE. Enjoy life, enjoy this function you literally dragged my tired, post-op ass to! Quit reading about things that will not go away when you are next home and have time to sit on your ass and read about them.
I do hate that he'll answer the phone and not use the hands free while driving. Bugs the shit outta me.
/whining about the mate and his third hand
Quote from: Horrendous Foreign Liam Stoat on September 28, 2010, 10:52:43 AM
Still refusing to carry a mobile phone device. Still enjoying the quiet :D
You're a rebel, Liam, of the first water. I couldn't do it. I am too hooked on my machine, but not to the point where I won't go out, or enjoy those I'm with, or even turn it off once in a while.
So yeah, WHO HERE DOESN'T EVAR TURN OFF THEIR PHONES? Hmmm? You know who you are!
Quote from: Horrendous Foreign Liam Stoat on September 28, 2010, 10:52:43 AM
Still refusing to carry a mobile phone device. Still enjoying the quiet :D
Me too!
PS i just really hate phonecalls: no body language, no visual cues as to their subculture and thus what specific greetings and stuff are proper, etc etc.
Quote from: Jenne on September 28, 2010, 08:27:36 PM
Quote from: Horrendous Foreign Liam Stoat on September 28, 2010, 10:52:43 AM
Still refusing to carry a mobile phone device. Still enjoying the quiet :D
You're a rebel, Liam, of the first water. I couldn't do it. I am too hooked on my machine, but not to the point where I won't go out, or enjoy those I'm with, or even turn it off once in a while.
So yeah, WHO HERE DOESN'T EVAR TURN OFF THEIR PHONES? Hmmm? You know who you are!
I do not have your culturally acquired desire to be out of contact and under the radar. I honestly do prefer receiving my transmissions in a timely manner.
Quote from: Jenne on September 28, 2010, 08:27:36 PM
Quote from: Horrendous Foreign Liam Stoat on September 28, 2010, 10:52:43 AM
Still refusing to carry a mobile phone device. Still enjoying the quiet :D
You're a rebel, Liam, of the first water. I couldn't do it. I am too hooked on my machine, but not to the point where I won't go out, or enjoy those I'm with, or even turn it off once in a while.
So yeah, WHO HERE DOESN'T EVAR TURN OFF THEIR PHONES? Hmmm? You know who you are!
I carry mine everywhere when I leave the house and check it periodically for emergencies.
When I'm working it's sequestered in another room and I check it only during breaks. I've learned my lesson.
I would consider sanctioning my use if I had a smartphone (because of email and forums). I could easily do nothing but poke at my smartphone, given the opportunity.
I have to get a new plan because the ex is finally ready to ditch the family plan we've had for ages. I don't know if I have to get a new phone yet, or if I can start my own plan with the phone I have.
This actually kind of sucks.
Mrs LMNO and I are often seen synching up with the mothership. I won't do it when I'm actually talking with someone or experiencing something, but if I have a moment, I will check it.
I love my phone, if I didn't have it my kids couldn't beg 24/7. :lulz:
Seriously though, I am online on my phone more than I talk on it.
I'm a never turn the phone off except to reset the time chica, I can't demand the kids have their phones for emergencies then have mine off when they call me with one right? :lulz:
Quote from: Doktor Alphapance on September 29, 2010, 02:23:09 PM
synching up with the mothership.
I LOVE this comparison!
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Smartphones are like people holes. You mention soemthing, then all of a sudden they drop out of your conversation while they ask the zeitgeist. (google, wiki, and youtube be thy name) They're OK some other times, but there is such a thing as having too much information.
If I had one, I'd never go off a highway exploring for a gas station or food joint. I'd jsut be direct point to point.
I'd never get lsot and explore either, which is my preferred way to learn any city.
THEY CALL THEM SMART PHONES because they are, generally, next to HUMANS. By comparison, the phones are practically GODS in the area of computation and logic. YOU HOGS ARE HARDLY WORTH THE EFFORT IT TAKES TO PRODUCE SUCH HEAVENLY DEVICES; it is only because they are such magnificent creatures that they are made at all. It has nothing to do with convenience to Humans.
In 1974, I sat on a panel of scientists who were developing the first iteration of tiny electronic devices. I sat on that panel, and I CRUSHED THEM under the mountainous weight of my BIG IDEAS. They screamed. They kicked. They pissed themselves. Eventually, they suffocated and died. They were weak. They wanted the future you all think you have. They wanted FREEDOM OF INFORMATION and INSTANT CHAT and FRONT-FACING CAMERAS. THEY WANTED TO RULE THE WORLD FROM A THRONE OF GOOD INTENTIONS. And they never even made it out of R&D. I took the plans, I built the prototypes.
Do you think the radiation that continually permeates your saggy, flappy little bodies is an accident? NO! It is all part of THE PLAN.
PHASE TWO INVOLVES FLYING MONKEYS.
You've all been warned, you swine.
--DOKTOR PANGO,
Leading the Fight Against Whatever.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
first paragraph is so solid gold
:fuckmittens:
Fuck yeah! Bring on the monkeys!
I hate that it takes three people to get the family plan discount. First and second person fifty each, third one is five to fifteen depending on carrier