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I simply cannot believe the single mindedness and tunnel vision people seem to have these days. Is an epidemic. It used to be older folk who would walk in to shops and then just stop dead in the middle of the isle that is too small... looking at "the shiny", completely bemused by the lights and music playing in shops.
Now everyone is always glued to there bloody phones, hobbling about like a drunk roomba, bumping in to things too afraid to look away from the shiny screen for fear that they might miss a new cat video. The same people that go to some kind of event, and then proceed to watch the air show / concert / race through there 4" phone screen. Why would you do that?
The same idiots whilst on the way to said event will stop at traffic lights, whip out there phone. Update Facebook - "Stopped at traffic lights, YOLO".
Today, on the motorway whilst filtering i could see in the distance two cars in L2 and L3, stopped holding up traffic with the windows down.
I thought, this could be interesting. Looks like some kind of incident and they are having a colorful language competition through the windows before pulling to the hard shoulder to sort it out.
Oh no, nothing like that. They had both stopped for a chat. On the motorway. In rush hour. Blocking L2 & L3. Completely oblivious to the complete and utter carnage they were causing behind them. People were beeping, trying to squeeze round them. But both women were smiling at each other, gassing away. They looked a little put out when i came filtering past between them and interrupted there conversation.
I live near several schools, and this kind of blinkered self righteous behavior is ripe with the school run mums. Between 8-9 and 3 - 4pm it is absolute carnage outside my house. (Very quiet the rest of the time thankfully). I often sit and watch them slowly crash in to each other. Usually at least one of them is looking down at their lap as they saunter across the road, on the wrong side, and in to the front of another mum.
And once they have crashed. what happens? Both cars stay exactly where they were, blocking the road whilst the mummy's get out... Already on their phones. and just amble around in circles looking lost wondering what to do next.
Has the whole f
king world lost the ability to see / feel and THINK about things outside of their 1 foot WiFi bubble?
(I am a 30 something IT manager techno geek, not an old man.)
I simply cannot believe the single mindedness and tunnel vision people seem to have these days. Is an epidemic. It used to be older folk who would walk in to shops and then just stop dead in the middle of the isle that is too small... looking at "the shiny", completely bemused by the lights and music playing in shops.
Now everyone is always glued to there bloody phones, hobbling about like a drunk roomba, bumping in to things too afraid to look away from the shiny screen for fear that they might miss a new cat video. The same people that go to some kind of event, and then proceed to watch the air show / concert / race through there 4" phone screen. Why would you do that?
The same idiots whilst on the way to said event will stop at traffic lights, whip out there phone. Update Facebook - "Stopped at traffic lights, YOLO".
Today, on the motorway whilst filtering i could see in the distance two cars in L2 and L3, stopped holding up traffic with the windows down.
I thought, this could be interesting. Looks like some kind of incident and they are having a colorful language competition through the windows before pulling to the hard shoulder to sort it out.
Oh no, nothing like that. They had both stopped for a chat. On the motorway. In rush hour. Blocking L2 & L3. Completely oblivious to the complete and utter carnage they were causing behind them. People were beeping, trying to squeeze round them. But both women were smiling at each other, gassing away. They looked a little put out when i came filtering past between them and interrupted there conversation.
I live near several schools, and this kind of blinkered self righteous behavior is ripe with the school run mums. Between 8-9 and 3 - 4pm it is absolute carnage outside my house. (Very quiet the rest of the time thankfully). I often sit and watch them slowly crash in to each other. Usually at least one of them is looking down at their lap as they saunter across the road, on the wrong side, and in to the front of another mum.
And once they have crashed. what happens? Both cars stay exactly where they were, blocking the road whilst the mummy's get out... Already on their phones. and just amble around in circles looking lost wondering what to do next.
Has the whole f
king world lost the ability to see / feel and THINK about things outside of their 1 foot WiFi bubble?(I am a 30 something IT manager techno geek, not an old man.)
If you tell everyone from birth that they're a special snowflake is it surprising that they act like it when older?
If you promote the merits of self-gratification regardless of wider impact and the principle of success only being measured in relation to other people, is it surprising that people aren't compassionate?
If you promote the merits of self-gratification regardless of wider impact and the principle of success only being measured in relation to other people, is it surprising that people aren't compassionate?
Bloody hell, society is dead and people don't use their indicators!
On the other hand, a stranger picked up something I dropped the other day and then ran after me to give it back to me. So perhaps society lives? Unless he got in his car afterwards and didn't indicate before pulling away.
On the other hand, a stranger picked up something I dropped the other day and then ran after me to give it back to me. So perhaps society lives? Unless he got in his car afterwards and didn't indicate before pulling away.
Its going to get worse, have you seen the new Seat advert where the "highlight" of the car they are selling includes them showing a twitter client for the dash where the "tweet" is getting read to the driver. The advert tells you nothing about the car other than the fact its on 0% APR and comes with fecking twitter.
Still either a population or currency reset will have us back to the dark ages fairly soon. Russia bombing Syria and bombs going off in China today is going towards that.
Still either a population or currency reset will have us back to the dark ages fairly soon. Russia bombing Syria and bombs going off in China today is going towards that.
Edited by oldaudi on Wednesday 30th September 13:52
_dobbo_ said:
Bloody hell, society is dead and people don't use their indicators!
On the other hand, a stranger picked up something I dropped the other day and then ran after me to give it back to me. So perhaps society lives? Unless he got in his car afterwards and didn't indicate before pulling away.
Well done, one example. Facetious prick.On the other hand, a stranger picked up something I dropped the other day and then ran after me to give it back to me. So perhaps society lives? Unless he got in his car afterwards and didn't indicate before pulling away.
I'm also convinced it's getting worse but then I often wonder if it's actually just some strange nostalgia and maybe it has always been like this? I can't pinpoint when it started to seem worse so am I just less tolerant and just notice the selfishness and incompetence more now? Are there just less consequences to being a dick so it's socially more acceptable?
fk knows! but the one thing I do know is that either way it must be pure bliss if you are wired to be one of the ignorant and/or arrogant types (I'm special, fk you as long as I'm alright, and the rules don't apply to me etc). Might request a lobotomy and join in.
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k knows! but the one thing I do know is that either way it must be pure bliss if you are wired to be one of the ignorant and/or arrogant types (I'm special, fk you as long as I'm alright, and the rules don't apply to me etc). Might request a lobotomy and join in.Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff