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    Re: Burning sense of disgust

    I don't use Facebook ot twitter etc and I really don't care if other people do as long as its not on my Network that is
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    Re: Burning sense of disgust

    Really?

    If I'm on a bus, or a train, I'm going somewhere. All I'm doing on the thing is going somewhere else - I don't want to interact with my fellow sufferers - I just want them to leave me alone. The very fact that you KNOW that these "ignorant" people are on Facebook/Twitter etc suggests that you're either psychic, omnipotent, or just plain nosy

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    Re: Burning sense of disgust

    Quote Originally Posted by Prya View Post
    Science fiction has taught me that one day we will all have personal jet packs, fly through space and have light sabers! How is that a bad thing?
    Still waiting for my flying car, personally. Come on, where is it?

    Also - with regards to the OP it really doesn't bother me (so long as we're not talking about the person in control of said vehicle), though people who insist on sharing their latest happy hardcore download grind my gears somewhat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Splash View Post
    Still waiting for my flying car, personally. Come on, where is it?
    No need for flying cars when you're wearing a jet pack!

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    Re: Burning sense of disgust

    Quote Originally Posted by Lucio View Post
    Still, Technology is good! I have friends who I never see, who never need to ask how I am and generally only talk to me in messages of 140 characters or less
    Hey man the requirements for not getting posts deleted were them not saying "lol I agree!" so get off my back

    Also I thought it would be good to hold up my irrational opinions to some intelligent people.

    However don't get me wrong I'm not being facetious I genuinely do feel the way I've stated.
    Apologies to Chalfag for calling him stupid. He was actually making quite a witty joke about the actor that does the voice of the Brain(Also about the fact that the Brain's voice is 40% Orson Welles).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Prya View Post
    No need for flying cars when you're wearing a jet pack!
    But, but - I was promised a flying car! Jetpacks are all well and good, but what about when you need to buy your monthly supply of vitapill meals (just add water!)?

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    Re: Burning sense of disgust

    Best to just take a chill pill, stop worrying about what other people are doing and read a book.
    Humans, the only animal stupid enough to pay to live on the planet Earth.

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    Re: Burning sense of disgust

    I could see your point if people were twittering at a party or around friends, but what else are you supposed to do on a bus? How is it different to reading a book, listening to an iPod/Walkman, or staring blankly into space?

    Being old enough to remember travelling on buses before mobiles/internet, I can't recall ever talking to strangers (except the occasional "nutter"). People would sit as far apart as possible and avoid eye contact. Nowadays everyone can be productive (or wasteful) with their time, tweeting/surfing/emailing rather than reading the back of the bus ticket for 30 minutes.

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    Re: Burning sense of disgust

    I got my first smartphone at the start of 2010, and upgraded to a better one (Orange San Francisco) about 10 months later. I would hate to be without one now. I don't use it for facebook or twitter. I do use it to amuse myself when I'm on the bus by surfing Hexus, or Wikipedia. I use it for emailing my friends.

    I once used it to help a friend on this very forum by signing in to another forum that I hadn't used for ages to put dibs on a bargain piece of hi-fi equiptment for him. I've bid on ebay with it, I've topped up my wife's mobile phone account when I forgot to do it at home and she needed a working phone in a hurry, I've bid on ebay with it, and I've settled a few pub arguments with it. In short, it genuinely makes my life better and more interesting, and mobile internet can be very useful.

    As Funkstar has already said, you can now get an Android smartphone for 40 quid in the shape of the T-Mobile Pulse Mini- and that comes with 6 months of internet included! I bought one purely to see how usable such a cheap phone actually is, and I must say that after a quick play I'm pretty impressed, especially after I figured out how to calibrate the touchscreen (it's crap out of the box).

    In this age of austerity a lot of people are getting upset about cuts to library services, and my natural instinct is to agree, because on the one or two occasions a year I visit one of my local libraries I love it and inevitably find some good stuff to read. But on the other hand, I can find out pretty much anything I want to know on Wikipedia. And if the cost of entry to the internet is now 40 quid, I'm not sure that library closures are in fact a real threat to the intellectual development of our young people, however poor they may be.

    I've even read a couple of classic books on my San Fran for free using the (free) Amazon Kindle for Android app. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Treasure Island were both highly enjoyable. Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Heart of Darkness proved to by slightly hard going on the small screen, so I'll give them another go when my Kindle (a random but very welcome gift from my wife) arrives tomorrow.

    I hope this doesn't sound patronising- it's good to see a bunch of new users getting involved in a lively discussion. Welcome all.

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    Re: Burning sense of disgust

    I can put videos on mine for the kids, I can download childs games (Where's Wally FTW) to keep little 'uns quiet when we're out if necessary (perhaps in restaurants when its taking a bit for the food to arrive), I can access my emails, I can see my callout rota for work so I can make plans easier, I can record stuff on my telly remotely, I can watch live TV on it.

    I never saw the point in them either, until I bought one. I concede there's nothing it can do that I couldn't do via another means, however to do them all from one device is...well...handy.

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    Re: Burning sense of disgust

    Quote Originally Posted by Prya View Post
    No need for flying cars when you're wearing a jet pack!
    the jetpack brigade will be the future motorcyclists/organ donors
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    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK View Post
    the jetpack brigade will be the future motorcyclists/organ donors
    It's just a progression of natural selection. Take off, easy enough. Flight, again pretty simple especially after taking off. Landing, may involve a steep learning curve, a couple of generations down the line though and all the bad landers are out of the gene pool leaving a highly evolved species of jet pack equipped humans to fly the skies!

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    Re: Burning sense of disgust

    People should live together in communes/co-operatives. Technology is bringing us slightly closer together but it isn't a proper substitute for real life interaction.

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    Re: Burning sense of disgust

    Quote Originally Posted by Prya View Post
    It's just a progression of natural selection. Take off, easy enough. Flight, again pretty simple especially after taking off. Landing, may involve a steep learning curve, a couple of generations down the line though and all the bad landers are out of the gene pool leaving a highly evolved species of jet pack equipped humans to fly the skies!
    yeah, taking off is pretty crucial to flight being easy
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    Re: Burning sense of disgust

    Quote Originally Posted by harryslimes View Post
    People should live together in communes/co-operatives. Technology is bringing us slightly closer together but it isn't a proper substitute for real life interaction.
    No one is claiming it is a proper substitute for real life interaction. Did you ever stop to consider why people were on Twitter, Facebook etc? And to be blunt, what other people choose to do has no effect on you and doesn't harm you so not sure why it gives you a "burning sense of disgust". If it gives you this feeling why not stop paying so much attention to what other people are doing and concentrate on your own journey home?

    I myself use Facebook to keep in touch with mates and relatives that don't love a short bus ride/ drive or walk away. It means I still get to talk to them and find out how they are doing etc, im still being sociable towards them, im just not doing it face to face although when time and money permit I do and have travelled to see people.
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    It didn't fall off, it merely became insufficient at it's purpose and got a bit droopy...

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    Re: Burning sense of disgust

    Quote Originally Posted by harryslimes View Post
    People are trivialising their existence.
    Pray tell what is so meaningful and non-trivial about existence.

    As far as I can tell, the best thing to do with one's life is to have as much fun as possible, before dying and after a couple of generations being completely forgotten.

    If people find going on Twitter or Facebook fun (esp. since public transport is so boring), then what's it's to you?

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