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Truth from Einstein
- Thread starter ko67
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True, true
janschutz
Corn Hauler
I agree, Very true!
And they do it while driving their all knowing cars that will brake for them. :guns
Dne'
Well-Known Member
Whenever our kids come over, getting to be rare these days, we'll eat dinner, and they're texting while eating. I look at them with concern, like please put the phones away without saying anything (so I won't be rude), but they don't understand my puzzeling looks. I look at their phone, then at them, several times. Idiocracy is pretty much here.
How about this, my middle daughter says she has 375 friends on her facebook, I say how many will come over when were moving you(we do) or visit you at the hospital when you're ill (we do), or pay your bills when you have no money(we do).
I like computers, and curse them at the same time. I miss the simplicity of the non computer era of which most of us were raised. I miss that time
How about this, my middle daughter says she has 375 friends on her facebook, I say how many will come over when were moving you(we do) or visit you at the hospital when you're ill (we do), or pay your bills when you have no money(we do).
I like computers, and curse them at the same time. I miss the simplicity of the non computer era of which most of us were raised. I miss that time
Its' not so much the technology, Dne', it's that these kids have never had to be social outside of it. They simply do not know what it is like to just sit outside on the porch/lawn on a summer night with a few friends and just talk and laugh for hours."Dne'" said:Whenever our kids come over, getting to be rare these days, we'll eat dinner, and they're texting while eating. I look at them with concern, like please put the phones away without saying anything (so I won't be rude), but they don't understand my puzzeling looks. I look at their phone, then at them, several times. Idiocracy is pretty much here.
How about this, my middle daughter says she has 375 friends on her facebook, I say how many will come over when were moving you(we do) or visit you at the hospital when you're ill (we do), or pay your bills when you have no money(we do).
I like computers, and curse them at the same time. I miss the simplicity of the non computer era of which most of us were raised. I miss that time
All this bitching about technology and here we sit conversing to others across the world to people we never really met over a box on our desk.
History has always complained about progess , no matter what form.
Its how we use this progress that matters.
And no I'm not in favor of texting or any other bad behavior in front of others.
History has always complained about progess , no matter what form.
Its how we use this progress that matters.
And no I'm not in favor of texting or any other bad behavior in front of others.
I think the difference is those of us say north of 30 can use tech things such as this forum as an extension of our natural communication and socializing. Younger kids are not all developing the simple skill set of just plain old carrying on conversation as we did. I would wager you would rather have a face to face conversation on the same subject with a person rather than across the web, no? I don't think most kids would say the same."KBMWRS" said:
Agree..
Agree with ya on the Bears O-line too.
Agree with ya on the Bears O-line too.
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Anonymous
Guest
Whatever, like happened with like normal conversation, like with other people? I mean, like the way we use to like, talk?
Deb and I were actually at a restaurant the other night and a young college aged couple sat behind our booth. Every other word out of her mouth was "like". I thought Deb was going to jump the seat back and open up a can of grammar whoopass!
Deb and I were actually at a restaurant the other night and a young college aged couple sat behind our booth. Every other word out of her mouth was "like". I thought Deb was going to jump the seat back and open up a can of grammar whoopass!
Hey at least they were talking to one another. I've witnessed couples ignore one another practically the entire meal while they were stuffing their mouths whilst texting on their phones."silverblueBP" said:
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Anonymous
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"Horseplay" said:
True, that is really irritating!
Ponyman66
Yak, yak, yak
"Horseplay" said:
Case in point, both of our kids were at the house visiting one evening and the subject came up about what they'd been doing. Just to get their reactions I asked "so how would you feel about driving back and forth on three or four miles on the same stretch of road about five or six hours every Friday and Saturday night. Throwing in an occasional stop in a parking lot to talk with the same people each time?" My daughter's reaction was the best. She got the "eeewww" face and said it sounded totally boring. My son's answer was pretty much in the same vein. I told them that when her mother and I were in our teens that's what EVERYONE did each weekend and is was THE social event everyone looked forward to all week long. Yes children, and we called it "cruisin". You met people from different areas (generally from the THREE surrounding counties!), and exercised your socializing skills. Guess I'm just too old now, but I can't see how being locked away in a room typing on Facebook or playing X-Box is that great of a thing! :shrug
Gigantopithecus
Well-Known Member
I kinda miss the cruisin days. A lot more fun than our weekends now, which primarily consist of going to the wife's friend's house, watching the pack of heathen kids run around, and listen to the adults talk about theatre(which I think sucks out loud). Utterly depressing and I rarely go, mainly because their kids drive me insane. I have nothing in common with that crowd.
"Horseplay" said:
Hey that was me and the SWMBO at dinner the other night, except for the texting part. Coming up on 25 years of marriage, and I knew her 6 years before that. I think that I have run out of things to say. :hide
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gtscode
Active Member
"Horseplay" said:
Very well said. I worry about some of the younger forum members who seem to fear woman and socialization. There were more of them on that old site. Not a lot of social skills.