Phone addiction. U haz it?

[shortylickens]

I am older and the only thing I use my cell phone for is to make phone calls and maybe two times a week a text message.

35.

I just check my emails and do all writing from a computer. Its also nice to get weather info and maybe traffic (if its available).

 

[vi edit]

Men can only think of one thing at a time. They are trapped in the single waffle square where they are currently working and they need to leave that square and move into a new one to do anything else.

Women's minds are like spaghetti. Their thoughts are intertwined and all linked in one big jumble. They can do 17 things at one time and jump from one task to the next easily.

I look at it more like this.

Mens brains are a 4 way intersection with a stop sign. There's an order and method to right away, and the tasks are handled one at a time. It's simple and conventional and only results in small fender benders if something doesn't go right.

Womens brains are a 5 way intersection with a traffic cop in the middle. He's got the white gloves on and waiving everyone through. Most of the time it's only a couple cars at a time he's got to process and manage. It's all good. He's there dancing around flashing his hands and traffic is flowing great.

But there's those days. Those days where glovesie got dumped by his girlfriend, he's hung over, it snowed that morning and it's 8:00AM rush hour. Traffic is flowing at him faster than he can manage it and it's just a colossal pileup in the middle of the intersection as he cracks down and can no longer manage things.

Those are the days when I've been up working all night and my wife has to get the kids out of bed her self and in the car and off to school. Those are the days I wake up to a call of my wife in tears saying that she hit a stop sign with the car "because she didn't see it" and then I stagger downstairs and find that every light is on in the house, there's a half eaten waffle on a plate still on the table, there's a undrank cup of coffee on the counter, the dish washer is open with the soap tab tossed in there. Just a fucking trainwreck of a day for her.

I don't have those days. I'm a well oiled machine when it comes to the kids and my mornings. It's because I serially process everything and don't try doing 20 things at once. I can do in 20 minutes what takes her 40.

Human brains can only process so much at once. Women may be able to handle 2 or 3 different things at once, but they aren't multi-cored computers. Some shit is going to fall through the cracks and when they break, they break bad.

Oh and I never burn anything and I never set a timer and do almost all the cooking

 

[dank69]

Was his seat leaned back like a wanna be? That'd be my idiot buddy its not the phone hes stoned out of his mind and half retarded to begin with.

Nope. Narcissistic yuppie.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Texting and hit by a train???? How is that even possible?

http://www.coloradoan.com/story/new...wellington-train-crash-idd-year-old/23177865/

 

[Carson Dyle]

I love this photo.

 

[Muse]

Eh, I turned off the ringer of all my cordless phones in the house yesterday. I've been getting a spate of spam calls. Unlisted number, they leave no messages. If you aren't going to leave me a message, I don't even want to know you called.

I do not walk around with my cell phone out, ever.

 

[Muse]

I love this photo.

You know there have been studies that the radiation from cell phones cause brain cancer.

 

[HeXen]

Let's discuss what doesn't cause cancer. It will be a much shorter discussion....well it just now ended.

 

[IronWing]

Texting and hit by a train???? How is that even possible?

http://www.coloradoan.com/story/new...wellington-train-crash-idd-year-old/23177865/

Whoa! Time to put another bumper sticker on the Corolla of death. Be right back.


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[ImpulsE69]

I keep reading this thread as "Porn Addiction. U haz it?"

 

[MongGrel]

I have a Tracphone for emergencies. Except I never take it with my anywhere except to work. Half the time it's dead because I forget to turn it off and don't use it enough to remember to charge it up.

Friends find it weird that as techy as I am, that I don't use a cell nor any gadgets when outside of my house. Don't even listen to MP3's to mow the lawn. It's like when I go anywhere, the need or want to use gadgets of any sort never come to mind nor would I feel comfortable doing so. I feel naked without observing my environment constantly.

+1

Except I don't even carry that.

My phone sits on the kitchen counter and needs recharged a lot, also.

 

[TheSlamma]

Thankfully nope don't have it.

Parents.. your kids hate your smart phones too BTW

 

[pcgeek11]

I love this photo.

This is what is wrong with the youths today. Whole bunch of stupid right there.

 

[Red Squirrel]

It amazes me how attached some people are to their phones. I sort of understand it with youth, I was attached to my Nintendo when I was a kid. iphones are the Nintendo of this generation. But I see this in adults a lot, like adults that are much older than me. My parents even.

I find myself fiddling around on my phone and generally enjoy the technology and I do have a bad habit now of checking Facebook or forums on it from bed when I'm not tired enough to go straight to sleep. But when I'm in a social situation such as visiting my family, I'm actually the only person not staring at my phone 90% of the time.

 

[Carson Dyle]

I've never gotten into texting and only use it occasionally, but if you're a 25 year old today, you've probably had a phone in your pocket or next to you 24x7 for at least the last ten years. To me, that's mind-boggling and easy to see how you'd become very dependent on that attachment to the outside world.

That photo above is frightening, but I've also been to bars and restaurants where literally everyone in the room is texting. Sitting at a bar full of young people during happy hour, where twenty years ago people would be yakking it up and downing drinks, now it's like a library, everyone with their chins in their chests, focused on their phones.

I can't even imagine being tethered to all of your friends and all members of your family at ALL times. I wouldn't want it, and resisted getting a cell phone for as long as I could. Think about it: Mom texts junior and he gets the message instantly. She knows he did, because he always has his phone and he always jumps on any incoming message. Missy texts her boyfriend - "Where are you?" and again, there's no escaping. It's made the world a very different place, with very different social rules.

 

[HeXen]

It amazes me how attached some people are to their phones. I sort of understand it with youth, I was attached to my Nintendo when I was a kid. iphones are the Nintendo of this generation. But I see this in adults a lot, like adults that are much older than me. My parents even.

I find myself fiddling around on my phone and generally enjoy the technology and I do have a bad habit now of checking Facebook or forums on it from bed when I'm not tired enough to go straight to sleep. But when I'm in a social situation such as visiting my family, I'm actually the only person not staring at my phone 90% of the time.

I think how phones are used today is a completely different kind of attachment than any of us had to our Nintendo's. This level of attachment held by many is to the level of someone being attached to their pacemaker. To be in a moving car and looking at your phone is prioritizing over your life or at least a car wreck...that's pretty bad, I think it goes beyond just being young, it's an obsession compulsive disorder.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I think how phones are used today is a completely different kind of attachment than any of us had to our Nintendo's. This level of attachment held by many is to the level of someone being attached to their pacemaker. To be in a moving car and looking at your phone is prioritizing over your life or at least a car wreck...that's pretty bad, I think it goes beyond just being young, it's an obsession compulsive disorder.

Yeah that is true. The Nintendo was in a room, I could not wait to get home to play it, but it's not I dragged it with me everywhere either and could still function without it. Heck I was probably playing with K'nex in the basement more than I played Nintendo. Building useless stuff like a wind powered crane or lego man murder roller coaster was probably STILL more productive than poking people on Facebook or sending game requests. :awe: