Funny Pictures Thread. It begins again
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GasBandit
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I think restaurants and movie theaters should be able to have short range cell jammers installed. It might not stop the die hards from taking pictures of food, but it'll stop the 10 minutes of "whatever" before ordering and after eating.
I think they should have "cry rooms" for people with phones. Glassed-off, soundproof, poorly-ventilated cry rooms. Also, let people smoke in there. Also, put a big Smoke Eater in there to put a constant 85dB of white noise BSSSHHSHSHHHHHHHHHHHHH constantly. Or, y'know, they can sit in the no-phoning section.
--Patrick
I doubt the owner was doing this while being waited on in their own restaurant.
I get what you mean. Though this was concerning everyone and both people in your example are the problem, regardless of what they assume, that doesn't mean they know it. My wife and I don't have smartphones, so it's easy for us to ride the high horse of "we don't do that stuff"--yeah, 'cause we can't. I do wonder how we'd be if we had phones that did anything but calls and texts.
I also wonder if the kind of crap in the 2014 example is a phase. My little cousins have to be told by their moms to put down their electronics until they know what they want. So maybe it's something people go in and out of. My friends used to do that shit, fucking around on their phones and taking pictures of the food, back in 2010, 2011. More recently, they don't fuck around with their phones until after they order ...
... and I'm suddenly realizing why I don't hang out with my friends that much anymore. That is really fucking annoying.
I think it's an Instagram thing.
I don't know; I'm working to become old as quickly as possible. My manager who's 25 years older than me ends up keeping me up to date on new modern conveniences like ordering groceries for pick up or using my Kindle to access the local library.
I don't know; I'm working to become old as quickly as possible. My manager who's 25 years older than me ends up keeping me up to date on new modern conveniences like ordering groceries for pick up or using my Kindle to access the local library.
Hang on, I just got an idea for an awesome new YouTube channel.
...if we can figure out how to get the target audience to watch it.
--Patrick
Eh. Fubbing (Phubbing? I dunno, I heard it as a dutch word first ) is annoying as all hell, and people seem to feel entitled to it. They "need" this and that, and so on.
OI have a smart phone. I have never, once, used it when I was near the front of a waiting line, so that I'd never be busy when my turn was up. I've never used it in a restaurant for anything but looking up a translation of a menu item (sorry, Italian restaurants that only give out menus in Italian - I like to make sure it's not a liver-and-kidney pizza I'm ordering). If I'm going out in a way I might want to take pictures, I'll take my camera. Better picture, easier and faster to take, so not as much redoing.
It really doesn't seem to be a phase. Some people just seem oblivious to everybody else being also, you know, people. Obviously it's a phase for some, but I know far too many people who just won't stop it - and yes, sorry ,I do cut them out of my circle of friends if it's too bad. Getting together with a friend for the first time in 6 months to have them spend more time with their phone than with me? Acceptable if there's family in surgery, or it's the first time they're away from their newborn, or something like that. Not if it's just checking up, keeping up, chatting, mailing,....If I'm not worth your time, you're not worth mine. We'll stay in touch on Facebook or something, thanks.
) is annoying as all hell, and people seem to feel entitled to it. They "need" this and that, and so on.OI have a smart phone. I have never, once, used it when I was near the front of a waiting line, so that I'd never be busy when my turn was up. I've never used it in a restaurant for anything but looking up a translation of a menu item (sorry, Italian restaurants that only give out menus in Italian - I like to make sure it's not a liver-and-kidney pizza I'm ordering). If I'm going out in a way I might want to take pictures, I'll take my camera. Better picture, easier and faster to take, so not as much redoing.
It really doesn't seem to be a phase. Some people just seem oblivious to everybody else being also, you know, people. Obviously it's a phase for some, but I know far too many people who just won't stop it - and yes, sorry ,I do cut them out of my circle of friends if it's too bad. Getting together with a friend for the first time in 6 months to have them spend more time with their phone than with me? Acceptable if there's family in surgery, or it's the first time they're away from their newborn, or something like that. Not if it's just checking up, keeping up, chatting, mailing,....If I'm not worth your time, you're not worth mine. We'll stay in touch on Facebook or something, thanks.
I don't do jumping photos because I'm a white man and I can't.
Phone-snubbing. Spending your time on your phone, snubbing the people you're with. I didn't invent the word.
I always end up speaking to the person that runs the automated isle more than I do a cashier. I scan and sack too fast for the damn machine to keep up.
