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I hear that people make up shit on the internet like 700 times a day.
At our school there are a lot of really tall moms; one such mom was approaching walk up while fussing with her iGadget, when she tripped and face planted right in front of the child pick up door. This mom is pushing 6'5 so the fall was kind of hard!
Around my way, a lot of illeg....eh...undocumented Democrats. The average height is 4'6". And God ugly, on top.
6'5"? Wow. I dated quite a few 5'10" and 5'11" plus one 6'0". All very nice. Often when women exceed 5'10" - they do not look right.
People walking and texting is pretty stupid. Good way to get hurt.
I think it's wonderful. It separates the zombies from the humans and it is a great filter before any energy or time is wasted on a sheeple.
Or view was not good enough for a selfie
Bingo!
Agreed. The cellular carriers bear some responsibility for this. When they started shoving 6 phone connectiuons through each voice channel - the voice quality went from Bell standard "landline toll quality" to "Toyz are Us". They then polished that turd, told you it was digital, and increased rates.
People shout because they have difficulty understanding their called party. Cellphones - good way to make a 20 yr old look like an 80 yr geezer who worked the Iowa's gun turrents.
Wait till it's the Jackass in the seat next to you on a plane.. Can't FN wait!
If they get rid of the rule against cell phone conversations on a plane, they're effectively getting rid of the rule against beating the shit out of people on a plane.
I'm betting the request to be reseated had to do with WIFI reception.
"Why do XXX restaurants suck?"
Because the patrons are arseholes (facepalm)...whouda thunk?
They need to install a mobile phone jammer and put up large signs. NO Phones or Photos!
What is not so obvious is why they don't just fix it, and as a bonus, make their restaurant more pleasant.
NO PHONE USE IN RESTAURANT.
That is the standard in many restaurants, particularly upscale restaurants, where I live.
Yes, an employee that can hack their data and post on their own page what self absorbed idiots they are before they even leave the establishment.
NYC restaurants are among the best in the world: 10 Madison Park, Per Se, Daniel, etc. It are the diners who suck.
It are...!
Yes they is.
It be ....
You whitey makin' shit on me, Yo?
By sheer volume, NYC restaurants are bound to have some of the best, but overall... Seattle actually has much better food.
And legal weed.
NYC still beats everyone for comedy and music, for sure, but the restaurants are overpriced, and a lot of times mediocre - especially in say midtown where its all tourists. Yes, there are a lot of good little places in Brooklyn, but you're still paying way more than you should. There are a lot of very good restaurants in NYC, surely, but you'll pay way, way more than you should. In Seattle, that level is more common, and cheaper, especially for seafood, but also for turf.
Oh, and for small towns - Portland, ME is pretty awesome, and refreshingly cheap. Actually, if Portland was warmer in the winter, it would be incredibly appealing.
"Time to hire a WiFi Employee"
IBID: Time to build a Faraday Cage around the Restaurant. Or an FC in a part of it.
And post a sign:
[large font] This Restaurant is EM-Free.
[small font] If you need to be connected to the Borg Hive Mind or to Big Bro, you may try elsewhere.
[large font] Please enjoy our Exceptional Service and Food. Bon Appetite.
p.s. Sarcasm/irony aside... if you think that this won't work, think again and recall the time when someone had the vision and courage to create non-smoking sections, then non-smoking restaurants.
I like it :)
At grand daughter's 17th birthday dinner, she never said a word to the 6 family members and was texting here friends for over an hour. Her parents never seemed to notice or said a word. I finally asked her to turn off her phone and she appeared to be offended. Family it seems is needed only as a source of money and presents. If there is trouble or if she needs money, her friends will not know her name or iphone number. Its so sad.
A young gal who lives in NYC told me that she went out and bought the most expensive phone she could just to set on the dinner table "because that's what everyone does." Amazing.
How did they maintain the same number of customers per day if meal times almost doubled from 1:05 to 1:55? While it's true that people love being connected, I question if this story is real. If wait times for tables increased, they couldn't serve as many customers, unless they extended operating hours.
You assume they are operating at full capacity always...no mention of wait time for table, only duration of time while at table.
Just say'n
Complaint: "...and needed to wait a bit long for a table."
just sayin'
But, it was supposedly posted to Craigslist, so it must all be true.
You need to rethink that.
Why?
Simple math.
So many pictures to take, so little time. The question now is, if everyone is busy with their phablets and smartphones, how do they find the time to eat so much that they are now fatter than ever? Let me google that, munch, munch.
"Time to hire a WiFi Employee"
Bullshit....time to install a cellphone signal blocker and ban a-holes that don't have any respect for the people around them. It's not just restrauants, I see the same idiots on their phones at every traffic light and stop on the road. People have sure turned into self absorbed pigs in this generation.
THIS IS AN OLD STORY AND WAS PROVEN TO BE A HOAX.
....also time to take an English class....
In the word of Gollum...Precious!
that a hilarious parallel +1
my kids have been caling my phone "the precious" for like 5yrs. makes me wince everytime.
Simple solution. Insist people turn off their phones and ask them to leave if they refuse.
The resturant that does this and turns in a good product, good service and gets the rep as a place to socially eat and chat will make a fortune.
This would be low hanging fruit if I were in the biz.
that could backfire big time
Depends on what your target market is..., and what you have to offer in return for people shutting down their "precious".
If you're an upscale restaurant it could work, else forget it.
Are you saying blacks aren't upscale? That's racist!
They has phones too, nowadays?
Little girl on TV said Obama gave her 6 phones. Actually WE are underwriting the cost of all these Obamaphones in our phone bills.
I would go to that place in a New York minute!
I hate those infernal contraptions.
5 star resturants in Charleston, SC will request you remove your hat upon entry. Makes sense. You follow our rules, put down your stupid gadgets and eat or GTFO!
100% correct regarding Charleston, SC. Customers money is no good if come dressed like riff-raff, good luck trying to get past the maitre d'.
:)
N.Y.City is a rat infested petri dish full of self absorbed douche bags.
Perfect, just change the name of the restaurant to "Summer's Eve" and set up a vinegar and water bar.
rotflmao! Good ole Dan Aykroyd. Old SNL is the best.
I thought L.A. holds this title by an parsec lead.
It does... not to mention meeting a normal, single girl in California is next to impossible
Jew York may suck, but there are plenty of hot, single women around
and most of those "hot" women are carrying unwelcome pathogens who will go home with you & cause you trouble for the rest of your life.
pathogens = crabs?
Crotch Crickets?
Yeah, Ebola gives new meaning to a "hot" woman. Read the Hot Zone.
And some are men.
NYC is just the 'training' ground for self absorbed douche bags. They graduate to pro status and take up residence in DC where they can now inflict their self absorbed douche bag behavior on the rest of the nation with policy and legislation ........with the help of NY media. .......and the behavior extends to their driving and walking.
It's very teliing no one voted you down (yet).
It's funny, but I don't believe the numbers for a second. Seems completely embellished.
Time to eliminate WIFI. Or even block reception.
I got a hand held jammer and will actually go out to my car and get it when at a restuarant. The ones with the hands free headset are the worst.
I hate to admit how much I love this thing.
PS: I had to order it from china.
I live in China. Taobao? I need one. It's no better here. I see packs of young women driving mopeds while texting. Probably texting the bike next to them.
Link? Would love to order one on this end, too.
http://www.cell-jammers.com/6-bands-gsm-cdma-3g-4g-usa-and-europe-mobile...
about 20 or 30 foot radius. love it
FYI...
Highly illegal.., maybe even a felony, but hey..., go for it.
Legality aside, I'm curious how someone becomes so antisocial they go into public and jam wifi and believe their personal space in public has a 20-30 foot radius. Sounds sociopathic.
Exactly what I was thinking. The hilarious part about jamming phones like this, its even more anti-social then those assholes who are absorbed in their phones.
De-evolution in progress
Yes. People have become self indulged ignorant iAssholes. We already knew this, didn't we?
Typical behavior of socially malfunctioning brain dead smart phone zombies.
My suggestion to the resturaunt..
Feed them dog shit and call it tapenade for starters..
Feed then more dog shit and call it veal for a main course.
Feed them a final serving and call it chocolate moose for desert.
Take a group picture and hand them a bill for $800.
Fuck you Facebook.
Serve them urinade
I'm not running for Jesus or nothing partly bc I never understood why people take pictures of their food.
I did know someone who made a site where you could send pictures of your excrement before it's gone for posterity.
Same concept right?
That follows shortly after the food pics.
That would make a crappy slideshow.
I saw this play out in an upscale place in Portland a few years ago. Me and my ex were chatting over drinks and 5 well dressed, good looking 30 somethings walk in. Very trendy girls and guys. They are seated and ordered drinks at the table next to ours. Than all 5 of them pulled their phones and didn't say a word or interact for the next 20 minutes. For all I know they were texting each other.
These folks think they are so 'in touch' 24/7, but to my mind they are the most Balkanized socially inept and isolated group I've ever seen.
A while back I had to takethe train for 4 weeks because a judge thought it would be a good idea to do so :)
But I was amazed! All those young people, it's like zombies! Thousands of people, all slacking to their next stop or start on their phones or tablets!
I also used the train a lot when I was a student, and what I remembered was that everybody was talking to each other and every day you got a new story.
Now people look to you with a panick in their eyes when you talk to them and some actually stand up and move a seat! Just to be left alone!
I think therefore that the best occupation will be a shrink in the next decade because when you have such communication issues, you'll suffer from mental health sooner or later.
Good insight Sudden Debt. They now seek to live in a bubble on their hand held devices!
it is about to get much much worse - this preoccupation with the phones are now transferring to huge transporation cost change and inventory cost absorption.
The fucking clown DeBlasio this week put in place 25 miles an hour speed limit all over the city not just Manhattan - allegedly due to pedestrian deaths by autos
mind you the frequency of injury and death has gone up dramatically vs the 1950's when autos were really fast in the City - why?
drivers today are more careful and drive slower than in the past for a variety of reasons but the pedistrians are focused on their phones for: texting / talking / music as they walk - right off the curb into traffic regardless of conditions
they dont care and transfer the responsibility to everyone else for their safety - studies show the old people are not being hit - it is YOUNG PEOPLE - why?
the fucking phones !!!!!!
Bratton stated as much in saying 75% of the accidents are pedestrian fault - but DeBlasio shouted him down even though based on stats and video
now the 25 miles /hr strictly enforced will change deliveries - rate of speed transfers to labor hours and assets deployed for : food / maintenance workers / endless various deliveries - this will raise the cost minimum 25% for deliveries and transport especially in Manhattan but Bklyn / SI / Queens -
the lower class and middle class especially families will be hammered as food prices are raised and building maintenace costs rise
The cars and trucks moved much faster in the 50-60-70-80-90's with little or no pedestrian impact - why ? people paid attention on the street -
the phrase "street smarts" came from awareness while walking
the clown DeBlasio has really fucked up this time !
Frankly, I think the process of natural selection is good.
Make_Mine_A_Double, Yes, I see this type, I even have a niece who is part of this late 20's urban professional trendy crowd. She lives for that fucking phone! She visited me awhile ago, we watched a classic British Crime Mystery trilogy. During the first film she pulled out the phone 5 times and spent an average of 2-5 minutes checking incoming information, and did some texting. Naturally, when she looked up she had missied the best scenes and the real clues as to the mystery. It is sad to miss one of the great works of modern film making like she did, all in order to keep up on her fucking phone.
I also hate the word "trendy". You see British girls all the time working to be "trendy". Trendy means you seek to be like all others and reflect others tastes in order to seem to fit in and be up with what is expected. Fuck! When I was a little kid, the 20 somethings were in the streets rioting over Americans being such "trendy" followers of a set social lifestyle. They wanted to break out and be individuals. Now the 20's work hard to be "trendy" and the girls quickly correct another girl if she looks , acts or says something not "trendy". The enforce a code on each other, all must obey it. I think this is so fucking shallow!
+100000. I always enjoy your posts.
BTW, Jack, what was the movie?
"Red Riding" Trilogy. 1970/1980/1983 Three films with a narative that runs through all, each by different directors. Made around a decade ago. http://youtu.be/Nx5rqw9tXB8
Jack, my use of the word 'trendy' is somewhat dated.
You may remember back in the mid / late 70's London scene if you were there.
These Brit shop girls would take relatively mundane clothing and mix and match and create their own fashion statement - and it was very attractive.
So the word back then was 'trendy', but it meant something else in that time. I beleive 'trendy' nowadays connotates a sort of Eddie Bauer/GAP herd behavior.
Yes I totally get it. I remembe that style, original and trendy in the good sense. God, I miss London in the late 70's!
Have you ever seen the Movie. "Me Without You". Made around 2001? Follows two middle class english girls growing up. Starts them as kids in 1974 and goes with them for two decades. They really nail Britain as it went from Punk on into the 80's. A bit girlish on the surface, but the layers underneath are really great film making.
Jack,
Show her this commercial by Volkswagen. This 1.5 min. commercial was shown in a theater in Hong Kong to unsuspecting movie goers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JHixeIr_6BM
How dare she take valuable time away from bonding over television to look at her phone!
I kid... mostly.
I'm in my early thirties and thank the gods most of my friends have good cellphone ettiqute. None of us are purists or anything, and if we get a text or an email we might glance at it and send a quick response if warranted, but the idea of spending half the time at a social gathering with your face in the screen seems to defeat the purpose of having actual meat friends. And making the waiters stand there while you dick around on your phone is - ugh! ugh! Who does that? I used to work as a waiter and fuck each and every part of doing that.
"...meat friends.." ?????
They were all sexting each other
"Than all 5 of them pulled their phones and didn't say a word or interact for the next 20 minutes."
Notification Prank - http://youtu.be/CwhOjyTXMyo?list=UU37PFGlxWgx4tU6SlhPCdCw
Solution: Install 56" flat screens in every corner of the restaurant. Play non-stop episodes of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. No one will bother to even take their cell phone out.
Fixed! TA DA!!!
I read this a while ago..
this smart phone culture is a mess..
culture?
What is this word..., culture?
The lumpy smelly shit in old milk, oft accompanied with blue green and sometimes red fuzzy stuff.
Smart phone; stupid people.
One thing about NY City restaurants - excellent food. About the only good thing about the city imo.
I lived in Brooklyn Heights for 2 years. I will never go back to NYC. Had my (company) car broken into 7 times and I had a lot of parking tickets because Im a drunk Irishman who couldn't wake up at 6:30am to move my fucking car to the other side of the street. Once I was so hung over I double parked next to a police station. They figured I had to be a cop to be so bold and I wasn't ticketed. For 5 hours.
If you don't believe this (either literally or at least in principle), then leave your phone at home the next time you go out and actually pay attention to what is going on around you.
iRetards
iTards
iholes
Pavlov couldn't have ever predicted that humans were easier to train than his dog
There's probably a great Far Side cartoon image that goes with that sentence
What my friends and I started doing is we all put our cell phones on the table then whomever picks up their phone first during the course of dinner has to pay the entire tab. Nobody has lost the game yet..
Self absorbed assholes, what else is new. Only time I touch the phone when I'm with someone at a restaurant is to silence it. Was out with an aquaintance, she kept looking at text messages, texting and doing other shit like some kind of sick compulsion. Different generation, all of whom suck themselves.
If only they could suck themselves! Maybe they'd stay home and not ruin the restaurant for others.
How about,..no WIFI on premises to better enjoy one's dining experience.
they go there for the wifi. that is why it is so busy. it is a double edged sword.
There's a coffee shop on the block I live and it's always half full of people who are obviously there for the Wifi. Maybe the kids can't afford service at home.
I recently joined a fitness center for the first time in many years.
When I was young I always enjoyed spending time at the gym. It was a fairly social place and people would chat casually between exercise sets. There was a generally understood ethic that, when you were done using a certain machine you would stand up but remain near if you needed to do more sets. If somebody else wanted to use the same machine they would ask if they could "work in" or alternate with you on the machine. People were very spacially aware of those around them and worked co-operatively.
But now the gym is a very bizarre place. 90% of the people have their phones with them at all times, usually strapped to their arms or waists with earphones or headphones permanently on. When they are between sets on a machine they will just park and use their phone, often getting caught up in phone world and doing nothing except blocking the machine for 10 or 15 minutes. Nobody talks to each other, nobody really sees each other. The only talking is people standing in place and speaking loudly, apparenetly talking on the phone into their mics.
And their are TVs everywhere, and loud music playing. If you want to watch TV you have to plug your earphones into a jack on a machine. But most just watch silent TV while staying jacked into their own phone world. It's really bad. Almost nobody actually is where they are. Almost nobody sees the world around them. Instead they live in an electronic elsewhere.
My guess is that the younger generations who have been born into this world will be even worse. I'm glad I'm old and can live without being jacked in. It seems like an insanely stressful and artificial way to live.
Ditto. And RUDE. Anybody remember that "old" word?
Yes, the old "How many sets do you have left?" question could well be replaced by "How many texts do you have left?" in most gyms I've been to...
The article is spot on imo.
I'm in my late 60's and have watched this fucking "tech circus" from the gitgo. It's all part of the "new normal" in our culture. People are just plain rude these days. Selfish and rude. Those customers fuckin with their iPhone don't give a shit about anyone but themselves.
I got a taste of this rude behaviour a couple years ago. I met three couples(all 30 somethings in age) for dinner at a popular local bar/rest. We had no more sat down and 5 of them were on their phones texting...while I talked with the 6th person. Dinner at a nice place is a treat for me these days. I didn't say anything but I was pissed at this rude shitty behaviour at a dinner table.
Makes me glad I still have a six year old Revere "dumb phone", even with it's broken outer display making screening calls impossible :)
A lot of important people must eat at that restaurant...
Seems like a good place for a terrorist to make a statement...
If only the place were big enough to fit all the "smart" phone zombies in at one time...
LOL! Self-absorbed selfish customers screw themselves. Sign of the times.
Exactly ! :)
soooooo, how efficient is the cell phone? did the extra hour spent eating because of phone usage save more than an hour? or did it actually waste more time of more than one person? does phone usage create a sort of burst of wasted time? sometimes for just the two users and sometimes for an entire restaurant staff?
i now have a small inventory of 3g phones and batteries to make sure i will have one for the next ten years anyway. the lure of the phone is the instinctive compulsion of humans to seek the company of other humans. that is how a group of people can have a dinner, spend half their time on the phone and still claim to have a good time. they remind me of my alchoholic buddy who has to bring a fifth of scotch out to play 18.
I'm reading this on my Samsung Galaxy Note 4 !!!
I down voted you using my Samsung Galaxy Note 3
Stopped going to restaurants years ago, even before the cell phone epidemic started.
Reason: food quality often disappointing, plus I got sick too many times.
Consider: Minimum wage job - floor staff under pressure at peak hours.
Kitchen staff: where are they from? Hygene standards low?
Building: food and food scraps present at all times - rodents, insects, bacteria.
Conclusion: Eeewwwww!!!!
Started cooking at home - never got sick from that, plus the meals kept getting better as we gained in experience.
Have friends over for dinner. Once you get good at cooking, they'll be more than happy to show up. Good conversation, your choice of music, no pesky customers to distract.
Singles dating: learn to cook, invite your date for a tasty home cooked meal before you head to the cinema - or better yet, get Blue Ray and you won't even have to go out.
Plus you do a pretty fancy meal that will be far cheaper than restaurants. You can impress friends with your cooking skills and growing your own parts: Hey this Kale is from our back yard"...
Best thing, when people ask what to bring, you say they can bring the wine.....
Jim Gaffigan's rant - Kale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcI7jgkwdCM
Kale isn't very likely to get your date to spend the night.
However, a properly executed chocolate mousse...,
well, let's just say that you'll probably remember the evening.
You want a recipe practically guaranteed to get her to spend the night? Here it is.
1. Get a bottle of Strawberry Stoli and a bottle of Vanilla Stoli.
2. Put both in freezer.
3. Pour her a double shot; a 50/50 mixture of each.
4. Listen to her exclaim, "Wow, this tastes just like strawberry cheesecake!"
5. Prosper.
Stoli is a really great Vodka. I never would drink the stuff until I tried Stoli, now I drink it on the rocks or maybe a splash of soda water.
But when I don't want my manhood questioned, I stick to whiskey neat.
Also, thanks for the lifehack. I will give her a whirl.
Ugh.
Jim Gaffigan is to comedy what David Cameron is to comedy...
There is another side of the coin.
I do get it often from the older guys sitting in the bar next to me. Why am I so obsessed with reading something on my phone and not talking to them, instead?
Well, I'm grateful for the technology that I can drink my beer in peace, while learning something new and interesting, without having to listen to some old biker talking about his dog, problems he has with his AC, or whatever he thinks he has to communicate to me and should arouse my instant interest.
I have a perfect excuse now, everybody is doing it, so he has to let it go and stop bothering me.
That's lame and doesn't address the issue of sitting down to dinner with people you know, and presumably they came to dinner, at least in part, to talk to YOU. So when they hunch over and diddle with their iPhone and ignore others at the table--they are being fuckin' RUDE---dude! :)
You are an idiot. I had no intention to address all the issues in the world and clearly was not talking about sitting down to dinner with the people you know. Reread the post. No, I wasn't addressing the issue of you talking with your mama about your liking of goat assholes, so what? You want to bring that up as the argument against what I wrote?
So what's your purpose of being out in public?
Why not just pick up a bottle and go home?
As opposed to the Mother Theresa below and moron above, I do live a real life and find myself in real situations where persons who happen to sit near to me are annoying and uninteresting. If I am in public it doesn't mean that I am seeking to start and carry on a conversation about anything with everybody. It doesn't apply only to the people that I don't know. Like there is one guy who tells the same story every day, over and over. I know him well, but I don't want to listen to the story. I feel no guilt browsing on my phone while he rambles on.
What I wrote should be rather obvious to people with a brain who live a real life.
A little Vagisil would go a LONG way to taking care of that chaffed twat of yours. Seriously. Inflamed acute Pussasitus. Look into it...
It so smart and funny. Ha, ha, ha!
Idiot.
Ambiance.
He is absolutely not an idiot. When I go out alone I often am posting here. However, I also engage in conversation with those who do initiate conversation. Sometimes, especially when I feel someone near me has the need, I have put away my iPad and have initiated conversation with another. Doing so has been some of the most memorable times in my life. Interactions I will never forget. If you had asked me what I was posting I couldn't tell you. The connection to another, hearing their perspectives, sadness, frustrations and situation can be life changing. When you let down your facade, do not judge and listen with an open heart, the world changes. I have surprised myself how many anonymous strangers really just need to talk to someone. Something being plugged into an electronic device cannot do.
When I go out with my husband( rarely now due to what this thread is discussing) we give each other undivided attention. Sometimes we talk about the mundane, sometimes philosophy, economics, topics on ZH, personal issues.
Because we only frequent small restaurants, not chains, the waitstaff knows us well and the chief often comes out table to chat. They really tease us because we hold hands across the table between each course as we talk and look directly at each other. This does take discipline today for me because I am tempted to check this site and respond to someone if they have commented. So to resist, I just don't check and possibly ruin the vibe between my husband and myself. How many good dinners will we have together? Every one now seems to be monumentally important and should be savored as a unique event and not wasted by distraction.
ZH has changed my life and I do enjoy participating here but never at the expense of my marriage, family or friends. As with everything, enjoy responsibly.
Miffed
I do enjoy...never at the expense...
+1000
Oh we have Mother Teresa here.
Sorry,I don't get the reference. I don't resemble her in any way. I'm no saint. But I am not as angry as you nor am I as judgemental and self absorbed. Why you feel a need to be this way is your issue not mine.
Miffed
You obviously *do* get the reference. So you are *lying* for starters.
Surely you are not as judgemental or self absorbed. You just used a simple statement of mine, regarding the fact that there are idiots around, that phone can save us from, albeit only temporarily, to go on the rampage about how goodie goodie you are, how you listen to all the nice people in your exclusive environment (golf club or yacht club of your husband?), with or without your husband (what about the dog?) and just how it is all nice and you feel so proud of being nice and so on.
Government bot. That's what you are.
The Fight Club has turned into Facebook.
And then all the morons pretend they are not Facebook characters.
Of course, you upped yourself and downed myself. Bitch!
Miffed, do yourself a favor and ignore the internet trolls. Or just tell them to pound sand as rudely and as often as possible. They get off on trying to fuck with you.
I think your description of happiness set off this self-loathing troll. Probably because you described happiness so well that they had an emotional response to it. Its actually a compliment to your writing style. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, you probably are right. Maybe someone just needs a hug.
I am intrigued that a phone can save one from idiotic people. I have never owned a smart phone and the possibility of this fact does seem seductive. However, looking at others with such a device, it doesn't appear to work as he had claimed. I will remain content with my old clamshell which is only good for calls.
Perhaps the reality is the phone makes one the idiot and if enough people use these phones, there becomes a conglomeration of idiots. So as he sits among the crowd of idiots he is prideful he is relatively less idiotic than his peers not understanding the scale of the overall situation. But, then again, I tend to over analyze.
Ok, go fuck yourself you POS troll! But he probably has the attention span of a gnat and has moved on playing with his shiny mind numbing device.
Miffed
So how much has your IQ gained since you've stopped talking to strangers and just stare at your phone? I'm sure you're a much more intelligent, better socialized, and far more interesting person for it. Must be tough to be better than everybody around you.
Go fuck yourself. Whatever I decide to do with my time, even if I am sitting next to you, is none of your business. If it bothers you so much that I am not interested in your opinions or whatever you may want to say then again, just fuck off and mind your own business.
The instrument has not been invented that could register my indifference to your remark.