Society & Culture Smombies - enough's enough.

[Procrastinator35]

Stupid made-up words: enough's enough.

Solipzoidz....Is Way cooler.

 

[Firestarter]

Quazoozle.

 

[JackOutback]

Woozle wuzzle?

 

[Gralin]

I used to drive a hybrid camry at work, as quiet as. I said to one of my colleagues that once more people were driving cars like this, a lot of people looking at phones are going to get cleaned up.

A week or 2 later there was a story in the news about Japan car manufacturers fit noise making devices to their electric cars so that people can hear them.

Electric cars are an issue for blind people, anyone looking at their phone instead of traffic is just asking for natural selection to kick in

 

[Frank Bunn]

I've fallen over because I've stepped on the edge on the footpath twice. Broke my first Galaxy phone the first time, broke my IPhone MP3 player the second.

I've ... also ended up stepping onto an escalator and trying to walk down. It was an up escalator. At least two people on it and two people behind me but going the right way.

Thank you for your disclosure. Looking around Melbourne CBD it seems to be very common for people to be looking at their phones as they walk down the street, and inevitably some mishaps will occur. But I don't understand it. Are you able to explain why you do it? What is so important that is happening on your phone that you can't wait a couple of minutes until you get to where you are going?

 

[Firestarter]

Thank you for your disclosure. Looking around Melbourne CBD it seems to be very common for people to be looking at their phones as they walk down the street, and inevitably some mishaps will occur. But I don't understand it. Are you able to explain why you do it? What is so important that is happening on your phone that you can't wait a couple of minutes until you get to where you are going?

Nothing important enough to not watch what I was doing. I'm just an idiot.

 

[flashmanvc]

My missus is the worst at this and she's naturally clumsy at the best of times. In Penang yesterday - crazy traffic, open drains, sidewalk raised and deformed at crazy weird angles - and she's on the phone flat out, messaging friends and using Google maps. Not sure how she made it through the day in one piece.

 

[MarcusP2]

My missus is the worst at this and she's naturally clumsy at the best of times. In Penang yesterday - crazy traffic, open drains, sidewalk raised and deformed at crazy weird angles - and she's on the phone flat out, messaging friends and using Google maps. Not sure how she made it through the day in one piece.

lol in Penang? Every time I've been there I've almost fallen into those open drains they have next to the sidewalk. I'd die if I was looking at my phone.

 

[flashmanvc]

lol in Penang? Every time I've been there I've almost fallen into those open drains they have next to the sidewalk. I'd die if I was looking at my phone.

She had already twisted her ankle a few days earlier in KL, strangely enough on perfectly flat ground with her phone in her pocket. But, yeah, she's limping around Georgetown with her head in her phone trying to find stuff on maps.

 

[flashmanvc]

Mind you, I'm doing pretty much the same thing a few days later. But I was following the draft online, and that's different, right?

 

[Golden_6]

Was just looking on my phone whilst walking around the back of a parked car. My shin collided directly with a towbar. I deserved it.

 

[craigos]

Electric cars are an issue for blind people, anyone looking at their phone instead of traffic is just asking for natural selection to kick in

What about being blind and looking at your phone, surely twice as likely to get run over.

 

[Procrastinator35]

What about being blind and looking at your phone, surely twice as likely to get run over.

A mobile braile phone aye....Ha, ha.

I'm sure your trained pooch will pull you up....Dogs aren't nearly as dumb.

 

[Frank Bunn]

What if the Falls Festival stampede was caused by the kids looking at their smartphones instead of where they were going? It could be the world's first Smampede.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Now there's phubbing

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/put-down-that-phone-and-save-your-marriage-20161219-gte6j8.html

This is actually a real thing though. I'm fine with people doing what they want when they're on their own in public, but it's ****in rude and frustrating when you're at a table or something with one other person and they're on their phone.

I was once with a chick who did this constantly, one of the reasons I broke up with her.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Now there's phubbing

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/put-down-that-phone-and-save-your-marriage-20161219-gte6j8.html

This is actually a real thing though. I'm fine with people doing what they want when they're on their own in public, but it's ****in rude and frustrating when you're at a table or something with one other person and they're on their phone.

I was once with a chick who did this constantly, one of the reasons I broke up with her.

You sure you weren't just boring af?

 

[Bunk Moreland]

You sure you weren't just boring af?

Pfft, as if

 

[Frank Bunn]

Now there's phubbing

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/put-down-that-phone-and-save-your-marriage-20161219-gte6j8.html

This is actually a real thing though. I'm fine with people doing what they want when they're on their own in public, but it's ****in rude and frustrating when you're at a table or something with one other person and they're on their phone.

I was once with a chick who did this constantly, one of the reasons I broke up with her.

Just from casual observation there does seem to be a lot of females who are addicted to their phones. There is going to be a generation of children who have mothers who pay more attention to their phones than their kids.

 

[Run n Spread]

The guy had an amazing turn of speed. Bear seemed totally chilled thou. Didn't even bother putting up a cursory roar. Guy could've probably kept texting without incident.

 

[Run n Spread]

Just from casual observation there does seem to be a lot of females who are addicted to their phones. There is going to be a generation of children who have mothers who pay more attention to their phones than their kids.

Myth. People check their phones if they are strolling, on a train, doing nothing else. I seriously know of no mothers who pay more attention to their phones.

 

[Frank Bunn]

Myth. People check their phones if they are strolling, on a train, doing nothing else. I seriously know of no mothers who pay more attention to their phones.

My casual observation is different from your own. I'll look if there is any research on this.

 

[JackOutback]

To Bec fair, phones are slightly less annoying than small children. Slightly.

Not my casual observation but a swimming centre near my place had a sign saying lifeguards were targeting people on mobile phones, suggesting some adults were paying more attention to their phones than children in swimming pools.

 

[Frank Bunn]

Myth. People check their phones if they are strolling, on a train, doing nothing else. I seriously know of no mothers who pay more attention to their phones.

Not independent research but maybe an indication that there is a problem with young mums and their children.

Four-year-old children are starting school unable to speak properly because their parents are not getting down on all fours and playing with them at home, Labour’s education spokesman has claimed.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...hildren-decline-speech-language-skills-school

 

[Whats a Battle]

in south australia you're allowed to ride your bycycle on the footpath.

In Queensland you also can.

What's the logic of banning it in Victoria?

 

[Cleavy]

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/m...reetlevel-traffic-lights-20170326-gv73bd.html

trialling traffic lights on the ground for these dickheads.