Don't drive and Pokemon

[Hackney]

Pete Eroleum said:

They're not saying liking it makes you a moron. They're saying wandering about like a fart in a trance
makes you a moron while walking, and a dangerous moron while driving.

[untakenname]

The average moving speed in London is under 10mph....

I installed Pokemon Go into my Mazda just for a laugh when stuck in a massive tailback last weekend, dunno what would happen if I was caught using it, DWDCA?

[ambuletz]

You can't even really play it while driving. Anymore than about 300metres a minute and it doesn't track your movement.

[Horse Pop]

I like Pokemon. I can't even play it, but wandering around in the evening, it's got people out of the house/flat. They might even be talking to each other.

This is a complete reversal from when I started playing computer games (on cassette, in the 80s!).

I love that it's got people out on their bikes. I feel like it's sort of giving the yoof of today a childhood like mine, with BMXes and wandering around in the evening trespassing.

No patience with (other) grumpy old men whinging about it.

[AW111]

Jader1973 said:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-27/drivers-warn...

I thought this was a wind up when I heard it on the radio this morning.

I passed 2 of them on my way home.


Also, while sitting in the inside lane in stop start traffic on the toll road, two motorcycle cops crept up the hard shoulder looking in every car. I think they were Pokémon hunter hunting

I saw one of those signs on the way home tonight - it made me chuckle.

[smithyithy]

Pete Eroleum said:

They're not saying liking it makes you a moron. They're saying wandering about like a fart in a trance
makes you a moron while walking, and a dangerous moron while driving.

Page 1, that's exactly what they're saying.

For the record I agree with the issue of people walking around blindly or doing it while driving.

[Pete Eroleum]

smithyithy said:

Page 1, that's exactly what they're saying.

......

No they're not. Not really. This is the internet and people almost always exaggerate their viewpoint. Almost no one face to face actually
begrudges other people's fun, as long as they don't have to put up with what on the surface appears to be a bunch of mindless drones
doing the last lager waltz well before the drinking holes close for the day. It's just a manners thing. You know, conducting yourself
with some degree of decorum when in public.