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| tomdrobin | Feb 27 2013, 12:25 PM Post #1 |
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A visit to the museum.![]() Out For A Drive. ![]() Intimate Date. ![]() Dinner With Friends. ![]() Conversation With BFF. ![]() Coffee With Friends. ![]() Cheering On The Team. ![]() A Day At The Beach. ![]() Einstein Was Right.
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| Banandangees | Feb 27 2013, 03:33 PM Post #2 |
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These pictures.... they are NOT an exaggeration. Our youth, and even many adults, the world is passing them by and they are totally unaware. These texting cell phones are the worse thing that ever happened to our young folks...... and they hate to be interrupted by some member of the family daring to carry on a conversation about their day. It's sort of like us old fogies, on these forums.
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| Sea Dog | Feb 27 2013, 09:20 PM Post #3 |
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Probably, when the wheel was invented, old farts everywhere said the world was going to hell in a handbasket. |
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| ngc1514 | Feb 27 2013, 10:52 PM Post #4 |
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I'm not sure the source, but think it might have been in the two volume collection of Harlan Ellison's TV review columns in the LA Free Press - "The Glass Teat" and "The Other Glass Teat." The author expressed surprise after a couple appearances on talk shows with a live audience that most of the audience members watched the show on the many monitors scattered around the studio rather than the live action taking place in front of them. These columns were written in the 60s and early 70s. We are seeing the same thing with new technology. Now we can carry our studio monitors around with us and put a layer of electronics between ourselves and the real world. If it appears on our electronic devices it (whatever it may be) becomes more real. An example is the quote from Einstein. He never said it. But we accept the attribution because we see it on our screens. de omnibus dubitandum.... Doubt everything |
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| retired | Feb 28 2013, 06:34 AM Post #5 |
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My Daughter texts my Grand Daughter when it's time for dinner or just to chat. They are both in the same house. They all have thumbs of doom. |
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| Pat | Feb 28 2013, 08:49 AM Post #6 |
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I've witnessed similar site as the photos depict--we all have. It was the same in Europe. We now have new causes of accidental death, death by cell phone use. I doubt it is on the death certificate, but true none the less. I read where a woman was texting while walking and walked in front of a bus. Another of a college coed falling into a deep manhole. Both perishing in the process. We even have sexting now for those more amorous. I will say that I enjoy Skype. |
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| Deleted User | Feb 28 2013, 11:00 AM Post #7 |
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so sad its funny |
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| tomdrobin | Feb 28 2013, 11:24 AM Post #8 |
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http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2013/02/27/282883.htm Makes you wonder if the texting and smart phones have something to do with it. I'm an avid cyclist, and it terrifies me to think if all the nitwits surfing, texting and facebooking while driving. Young people don't realize the danger to themselves and others. |
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| ngc1514 | Feb 28 2013, 11:01 PM Post #9 |
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Evolution in action. |
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