Cell Phone Zombies

[ws23rt]

Perhaps salvation?--I am an optimist.

[cooldude]

Here is a funny video of people texting while walking...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjVAC_vpzSI


Look at those idiots!   

They are all around us. We see them everyday. Ive even seen cops driving a car while texting.

What a shame that we as a people have become so stupid, isnt it?

[Cncguy]

I'm a little guilty of this, as I anticipate the next Charger to come up for sale. I hope once I find one,  and buy it, that will be the cure for my infection.

[sunfire69]

Saved one yesterday...not sure why....this guy was about 40 maybe 45...talking on his phone and stepped right off the curb into traffic...he hadn't noticed the light had changed...I had to yell at him to stop but he doesn't stop his call....

[cooldude]

How many thousands of dollars have people wasted on cell phones, paying the ridiculous exorbitant monthly bills, just so they can send a text while driving that says..."What R U doing?"...Or.."What ya eating"?

Thats money wasted that could have been spent on something real, like actually owning and fixing up an old Mopar.

Instead, they have what to show for  years worth of working and slavishly paying cell phone bills?

(Answer...Nothing)

For what they waste on a years worth of paying cell phone bills, they could have the money to go out and actually enjoy the hobby, and maybe buy some things like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tr5eoRkpcI

But instead, they stupidly pay the huge bills, month after month, and have nothing to show for it at the end of the year.

Some people are so easily led around by the hucksters, and convinced that they cant be hip unless they waste money here on this fad, and waste money there on that fad. Always some new fad or huckster to get their money.

And in the end, they get absolutely nothing to show for their money. Nothing.

For the price of a monthly cell phone bill, they could have been investing in stocks and bonds,which even if they perform poorly, would have at least built up some value.

But paying a monthly cell phone bill, month after month, is a 100% loss, guaranteed. But people are dumb enough to settle into the harness, and go to work day after day, to keep mindlessly paying the bills. They dont even question it anymore.

They just accept the economic slavery, like the stupid Ox accepts the yoke of its master.

And its all for nothing. No chance at getting any permanent gain for months and years of toil.

You know how the old saying goes..A fool and their money are soon parted.

[Kern Dog]

Well, THAT was depressing but true. 

[alfaitalia]

KD...you telling me you have not noticed a pattern in his depressing, everyone is out to get us, the government are out to keep us downtrodden and powerless, the youth of today are useless and are going to ruin the future for everyone, the end of the world is nye type posts? Lol. No?....must be just me then. Maybe I'm wrong and cooldude is happily on his way through life with a hop and a skip and a cheery wave!...or not.
Life's too short....gotta get on and enjoy it without worrying too much about this shit. As Jethro says (Cornish comedian...YouTube him) .."you have got to live each day as if it's your last day on Earth...cus one day you will be bloody well right!"......And the way your new leader is going....that might not be so fanciful. Oops...politics...that's me banned!

[Kern Dog]

I like the new leader a LOT more than the last 2 we had.

[69DAYTONASE]

I'd say the "new" servant of the people(remember he works for us) has the last few genuinely "Trumped" !

[stripedelete]

I didn't see any anything depressing about cooldudes post.

He said, "delayed gradification is the only way to get ahead.  Instant gratification will lead to a lifetime of working for the bank".

At least that's what I read.  And I couldn't agree more.

What's depressing is those living-in-the-moment will soon be confiscating what I sacrificed for.

[69DAYTONASE]

So true, I am reminded of a quote from British Prime Minister Thatcher:
"The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money."

[alfaitalia]

So true, I am reminded of a quote from British Prime Minister Thatcher:
"The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money."

Lol....very true. I always had plenty of time for Maggie.....I'm in a minority now though....folks only remember the bad things she was forced to do because of the economic climate of the time and soon forget the good. Fairly typical I guess.
Not sure what people spending there own hard earned money on phones has got to do with socialism though....its not like they got them through government handouts!

[stripedelete]

So true, I am reminded of a quote from British Prime Minister Thatcher:
"The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money."

Lol....very true. I always had plenty of time for Maggie.....I'm in a minority now though....folks only remember the bad things she was forced to do because of the economic climate of the time and soon forget the good. Fairly typical I guess.
Not sure what people spending there own hard earned money on phones has got to do with socialism though....its not like they got them through government handouts!

I can help with that.   The best way is to tell a story we were read in school, at home, and I think there was even a cartoon when I was a kid.  I'm 54 so I'll update it for the times.   

There were a group of squirrels living in the woods.  One squirrel was forward thinking and spent the summer working on his nest and the fall gathering nuts for the winter.   The other squirrels mocked and teased the forward thinking squirrel.   They spent these days playing in the forest, taking thier little squirrels to Disney every year or flying to the beach.  They all had the latest iPhone with expensive data plans so they could check the other squirrels status while they were lying around their oversized nest.  They went out to eat 5 times a week and paid someone to mow thier squirel lawn.  So they had plenty of time to watchHBO, Showtime and the Movie Channel.  They only drove best squirrels cars and tossed anything out that didn't work any more instead of making the smallest attempt to repair it.  All of this was placed above nuts and paying for squirrell healthcare.

Well the winter finally came and it was a bad one!  The forward thinking squirrel was fat as hell, sitting in his nest reading the Wall Street journal and contemplating the purchase of a tree in Florida, "because who needs this shit".
The other squirrels were cold and starving, so they come to the squirrel who practiced a little delayed gratification and asked him for nuts.   
===> Now when I was a kid, this was the point in the story when the live-in-the-moment squirrels froze to death.
But since I'm updating the story........

When they demanded nuts, he said, "no way Jose,   busted my ass for these nuts!".   But that didn't make any difference.  You see the other squirrels had elected a squirrel president and government that promised to take care of them.  So they cried for HER help.   She said, "From each according to thier means, to each according to thier needs".  Or something like that.  Maybe it was something about having less of the nut, so others can have more of the nut.

Anyway, she called him greedy and claimed there was no way he could have saved that many nuts without the help of the government.  So she deprivatized his nut 401K and spread it around.  There was nothing he could do since they had banned private ownership of squirrel guns years before.

Later while still a relatively young and healthy squirrell( maybe 70 in human terms) he developed a  heart problem.  He needed a simple stint to survive.   But he was told that he had lived long life and he was now a burden to those other younger squirrels lying a around thier nests ( staring at thier cell phones to find out what the other squirrels had for squirrell breakfast) and he should go back to his nest and get his squirrel affairs in order.

When he died they took whatever nuts he had managed to hide and gave one to each of his children and the rest of the nuts went to the government for redistribution.

That should clear up the correlation between pissing away money and socialism.   It did for me---when I was 6.

[Kern Dog]

Holy crap... that is some heavy stuff.

[XH29N0G]

The moral? Ditch the phone, save your nuts, and hope for the best, but the last one is not in your control.

Depressing?  I read this morning that one of the tax proposals would benefit the top 1% with 99.6% of the proceeds.  This means those who saved up till now might not hit the same fate as those who saved before.  Unfortunately, I don't think I'm at that level.

[cooldude]

KD...you telling me you have not noticed a pattern in his depressing, everyone is out to get us, the government are out to keep us downtrodden and powerless, the youth of today are useless and are going to ruin the future for everyone, the end of the world is nye type posts? Lol. No?....must be just me then. Maybe I'm wrong and cooldude is happily on his way through life with a hop and a skip and a cheery wave!...or not.
Life's too short....gotta get on and enjoy it without worrying too much about this shit. As Jethro says (Cornish comedian...YouTube him) .."you have got to live each day as if it's your last day on Earth...cus one day you will be bloody well right!"......And the way your new leader is going....that might not be so fanciful. Oops...politics...that's me banned!

Aw, shucks. There aint anything depressing in my posts at all, as long as one is on the right side of the example.  

Human history is one long repeating story of imbalance and correction. Like a see saw.

When the old see saw gets too loaded with stupidity(as it is today), there is a tilting and rolling off moment, and when the source of the stupidity has fallen off, it resets for a time. And the whole thing repeats itself sooner or later.

Wisdom isnt depressing, except to the unwise.

Its not that the groups you mentioned are out to get us, as much as they are just facilitating us in our relentless pursuit of stupidity, as we relentlessly "get" ourselves.

[Kern Dog]

How about THIS...?
People that shoot video from their phones in the upright position. I call it "Vertical Video". It looks like shit....like looking through a doorway.
Our eyes are side by side. Because of that, our computers, TVs and movie screens are all a 4x3 aspect ratio, WIDER than they are TALL.  It is a natural thing for our images to be viewed wider than tall. Lazy idiots that film pictures and video in the vertical format have infected youtube, LiveLink and every other site.
Look at 2 videos of the same thing, one shot vertically and the other shot in the right way. Anyone with more than 3 brain cells would see that a vertical aspect looks totally inferior.

Maybe there is hope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA&t=10s