to hate this new scab on the face of socierty

[SunWukong]

The smart phone addict, how many hours do they waste every day, desperately checking if someone's liked their comment, retweeted their inane drival, or replied to their post.

Think what other more productive things they could be doing in that time, like looking where they are going, paying attention to the road when driving, and not looking like a right shit when their mates are trying to talk to them in pubs etc, the list of better things they could do is endless.

theo thanks for that memory! We could make things out of toilet roll middle bits or climb a tree. Prehaps frolick around some fields. Dance a welcome jig in P&C spaces. Make bunting out of Fruit Shoot tubes, go and get our babies ears pierced.

The possibilites are endless! My phone is going down the loo.

I am converted.

Dance in crocs?

Matthew wright thinks that mn'ers are scabs on society.

so op, you are a scab too .

aw op, old age happens to us all it's a young persons game innit

Mate of mine got a new job. Texted his wife to let her know.

As he was driving back, he got stuck in stationary traffic.

At this point, his phone beeped. Thinking in a moment of paranoid madness that it was new job telling him they'd made a terrible mistake & had meant to give it to one of the other candidates, & failing to notice the police car also stuck in the traffic jam alongside, he picked it up. It was, in fact, his dw texting back to say well done.

Fined £60.

I know at least two other people who've been nicked for it - it definitely happens!

Matthew wright thinks that mn'ers are scabs on society.

Yeah, but he may well be a scab on the bottom of society, so pfff.

pfffff back

Pffft, pffft, pffft!

what EVA trevor!

You win. :(

Pfffffffffffffff

Actually, no. I win. My smartphone told me so.

damn.

Oh dear, do you think we might have derailed the thread?

Smartphones don't interest me in the slightest. I don't want to check my email or look at websites when I'm out and about. Hell, I'm not even on Facebook, that's how unsociable I am (DH is my representative in the wider world ). If I could spend all day every day travelling on trains there still wouldn't be enough time to read all the books I want to read (and no, I don't want to read them on a device made by slave-labour in China with a battery full of cobalt mined by children in war-torn African states and which will conk out after a couple of years).

The most basic PAYG phone is all I've ever required - no contract, no insurance, no great shakes if I lose it. I spend a lot of time going through household budgets with people as part of my job, and everyone I talk to with a contract smartphone is spending £30-£50 per month on it, sometimes more. Each to their own, I am just very when people claim that these phones simplify their lives or give them more control.

derailed? wreckage?

it looks pretty.