One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 4

[Fermit and Sexy Sarah]

The main difference is the time and the place. Sure, groups on mass read newspapers, for EG on the train. They didn't however walk around the supermarket heads buried in their papers, like phone knobs do.

[Mafffew]

Tankrizzo said:

Pretty much everyone these days who is obsessed with their phones

Got off at a train station the other week to change trains. There were 50+ people on the platform, and me - and another bloke just along from me - were the only people without our heads bent down scrolling through social media. It was eerily silent. Quite depressing really.

I doubt they were all on social media. But anyway, why is that depressing...?

[captain_cynic]

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

The main difference is the time and the place. Sure, groups on mass read newspapers, for EG on the train. They didn't however walk around the supermarket heads buried in their papers, like phone knobs do.

Yes, back before phones you had no warning that someone was going to walk into you before they did it. Now we do. As such, I get less randoms bumping into me than in the 90's.

One thing that makes me think knob, old people trying to blame new technology for all societies ills without realising that the same ills existed in their youth as well (just not in the idealised, rose tinted version they like to remember).

[Tankrizzo]

Mafffew said:

I doubt they were all on social media. But anyway, why is that depressing...?

Yes Matthew, that is what is called a generalisation. I do realise that probably not every single person was on Instagram.

It's depressing because I'm sure in the past some people would have been talking to each other, even in their own groups. There was a group of teenage kids there as well as what looked like a group of mums with pushchairs, and every one was silent scrolling through their phones.

[Mandalore]

My favourite are the people who walk slowly scanning their phone with their headphones in, totally oblivious to the train of people slowly walking behind and trying to get past, as they walk smack bang in the middle of the footpath/train platform/passageway. I guess if they looked up, they might have wondered why so few people were around today!

Extra points for the ones, who stop the other side of a ticket barrier to answer an email.
It is as if the thought never occurred to them that they weren't the only person in existence.

[WarrenB]

Small dead end street with terraced houses each side. I park up and just about to get out of the van when the resident of the house I've parked outside storms outside.

'Did you not see the sign?!'
'What sign?'
'RESIDENTS ONLY!!'
'Oh no, sorry, I'm just..'
'I don't care! Move your van! I don't want to look at it through my window!'
'But I'm...'
'GET YOUR VAN OFF MY STREET'

30 minutes later I get a phone call...

'Hello mate, just wondering when you're going to be turning up, my internet still isn't working and you said you'd be here at 11'
'Yes I turned up but you told me to get off your street, so I did'
'Sorry mate, I didn't mean it. Can you come back?'
'No'. Hung up and rejected his next two attempts to call.

[Triumph Man]

WarrenB said:

Small dead end street with terraced houses each side. I park up and just about to get out of the van when the resident of the house I've parked outside storms outside.

'Did you not see the sign?!'
'What sign?'
'RESIDENTS ONLY!!'
'Oh no, sorry, I'm just..'
'I don't care! Move your van! I don't want to look at it through my window!'
'But I'm...'
'GET YOUR VAN OFF MY STREET'

30 minutes later I get a phone call...

'Hello mate, just wondering when you're going to be turning up, my internet still isn't working and you said you'd be here at 11'
'Yes I turned up but you told me to get off your street, so I did'
'Sorry mate, I didn't mean it. Can you come back?'
'No'. Hung up and rejected his next two attempts to call.

Jesus christ. Knobby attitude aside, surely they would have put 2 and 2 together, knowing they were expecting someone to arrive, probably in a van, to fix their internet.

It's scary people like that are allowed to breed and vote...

[Greg the Fish]

WarrenB said:

Stuff

Excellent!

[James_33]

WarrenB said:

Small dead end street with terraced houses each side. I park up and just about to get out of the van when the resident of the house I've parked outside storms outside.

'Did you not see the sign?!'
'What sign?'
'RESIDENTS ONLY!!'
'Oh no, sorry, I'm just..'
'I don't care! Move your van! I don't want to look at it through my window!'
'But I'm...'
'GET YOUR VAN OFF MY STREET'

30 minutes later I get a phone call...

'Hello mate, just wondering when you're going to be turning up, my internet still isn't working and you said you'd be here at 11'
'Yes I turned up but you told me to get off your street, so I did'
'Sorry mate, I didn't mean it. Can you come back?'
'No'. Hung up and rejected his next two attempts to call.

Amazing, karma at its finest lol

[Krikkit]

James_33 said:

WarrenB said:

Small dead end street with terraced houses each side. I park up and just about to get out of the van when the resident of the house I've parked outside storms outside.

'Did you not see the sign?!'
'What sign?'
'RESIDENTS ONLY!!'
'Oh no, sorry, I'm just..'
'I don't care! Move your van! I don't want to look at it through my window!'
'But I'm...'
'GET YOUR VAN OFF MY STREET'

30 minutes later I get a phone call...

'Hello mate, just wondering when you're going to be turning up, my internet still isn't working and you said you'd be here at 11'
'Yes I turned up but you told me to get off your street, so I did'
'Sorry mate, I didn't mean it. Can you come back?'
'No'. Hung up and rejected his next two attempts to call.

Amazing, karma at its finest lol

Absolute own goal there. Unbelievable.

[nonsequitur]

Mafffew said:

I doubt they were all on social media. But anyway, why is that depressing...?

I'm a slave to my mobile phone
so just bugger off and leave me alone.
Notifications are my way of living
the oxygen of life is what they are giving.
Facebook what's ap, and twittering too
What else is there possibly to do.
So don't bother me when my head is down
telephone zombies are taking over your town.

Edited by nonsequitur on Thursday 6th June 10:45

[AlexRS2782]

The post from WarrenB is fantastic As someone else said, surely if he was expecting someone to arrive at his house then it was highly likely the person he's shouting at is the guy he's expecting?

One from yesterday from me. The Amazon / home delivery driver, sorting through packages in his van, that i found parked on my drive when i returned home.

I asked if he could move the van as i needed to park on my own drive. I get a muttered response about being gone in a few minutes and he didn't think it would be a problem to park as it meant he wasn't blocking the road. I asked how exactly he would be blocking the road given the fact there were numerous spaces throughout the road, outside neighbouring properties & including parking bays, he could easily have used instead.

This must have triggered him as I received another muttered / sweary response, some poor persons package got thrown hard in the van (it sounded like it got damaged) and he jumped back in the van & drove off before stopping near the entrance of the road where i live, in an empty parking bay, to attempt a delivery to another property.

He hadn't even attempted to deliver anything to me so no reason why he was on my drive - only thing i think is the likely reason is because my house is right on the t-junction in the middle of the road, so probably the easist / quickest place to stop / drive up to rather than drive to either end of the road to turn around. Last time something similar happened it was a couple of years ago with an Uber driver saying he was using my drive to wait to pick up a neighbour.

Edited by AlexRS2782 on Wednesday 5th June 21:26

[cmvtec]

AlexRS2782 said:

The post from WarrenB is fantastic As someone else said, surely if he was expecting someone to arrive at his house then it was highly likely the person he's shouting at is the guy he's expecting?

One from yesterday from me. The Amazon / home delivery driver, sorting through packages in his van, that i found parked on my drive when i returned home.

I asked why he was parked on my drive & if he could move the van as i needed to park on my own drive. I get a muttered response about being gone in a few minutes and he didn't think it would be a problem to park as it meant he wasn't blocking the road. I asked how exactly he would be blocking the road given the fact there were numerous spaces throughout the road, outside neighbouring properties & including parking bays, he could easily have used instead.

This must have triggered him as I received another muttered / sweary response, some poor persons package got thrown hard in the van (it sounded like it got damaged) and he jumped back in the drivers seat & drove off before stopping just down the road at the entrance of the road where i live, in an empty parking bay, to attempt a deiivery to another property.

He hadn't even attempted to deliver anything to me so no reason why he was on my drive - only thing i think is the likely reason is because my house is right on the t-junction in the middle of the road, so probably the easist / quickest place to stop / drive up to rather than drive to either end of the road to turn around. Last time something similar happened it was a couple of years ago with an Uber driver saying he was using my drive to wait to pick up a neighbour.

This happens to me quite often! People frequently park in my driveway/parking space. Can't work out why.

[Pica-Pica]

Mafffew said:

Tankrizzo said:

Pretty much everyone these days who is obsessed with their phones

Got off at a train station the other week to change trains. There were 50+ people on the platform, and me - and another bloke just along from me - were the only people without our heads bent down scrolling through social media. It was eerily silent. Quite depressing really.

I doubt they were all on social media. But anyway, why is that depressing...?

In the past they may have all been reading a newspaper, whereas now they are..errrr reading the news.

[Liquid Knight]

PRND said:

George Smiley said:

Trump has been a huge benefit though by shaking things up.

A bit like having your toilet blocked by a massive turd. Means you have to get the plumber in and use the neighbours bog. You know, 'shakes things up'.

I got a bit fed up with Trump talk at work today so I pointed out that America hasn't had a decent President since Ronald Reagan and started a proper argument.

The only reason Trump was put forward was to ensure Killary would win. A bit like David Cameron putting his Etonian Tory boy pal "Barking" Boris Johnson in charge of the leave campaign to discredit the whole idea. It backfired like a 2JZ running too much boost.

It didn't matter who was put forward America had enough of the crap being spewed out by career politicians and Trump basically won because he didn't have any history in public office.

[anonymous-user]

Utter knob driving a pick up and pulling a trailer this evening - drove onto the petrol station forecourt at an insane speed, parked it across the end of all the pumps so no one could leave while simultaneously blocking the door to the shop, ran into the shop, bought some fags and then threw the wrapper on the floor while walking past the bin, then drove off. Like a .
I would say I hope the fags kill him but it'll be my national insurance contributions that are spent trying to keep him alive.

[Cold]

Liquid Knight said:

I got a bit fed up with Trump talk at work today so I pointed out that America hasn't had a decent President since Ronald Reagan and started a proper argument.

[Mandalore]

Pica-Pica said:

Mafffew said:

Tankrizzo said:

Pretty much everyone these days who is obsessed with their phones

Got off at a train station the other week to change trains. There were 50+ people on the platform, and me - and another bloke just along from me - were the only people without our heads bent down scrolling through social media. It was eerily silent. Quite depressing really.

I doubt they were all on social media. But anyway, why is that depressing...?

In the past they may have all been reading a newspaper, whereas now they are..errrr reading the news.

Smartphones were 10years old last year.

I also cannot say that I would have seen the same percentage of people reading a newspaper on the platform 11-20 years ago, or more.

People are more attached to their phones now than they were to a paper then. The sad truth is that they ARE attached to the point of distraction and many get injured because of it.

[nonsequitur]

Mandalore said:

Smartphones were 10years old last year.

I also cannot say that I would have seen the same percentage of people reading a newspaper on the platform 11-20 years ago, or more.

People are more attached to their phones now than they were to a paper then. The sad truth is that they ARE attached to the point of distraction and many get injured because of it.

Several fatalities of people taking selfies on the edge of precipitous locations.

[anonymous-user]

nonsequitur said:

Several fatalities of people taking selfies on the edge of precipitous locations.

Natural selection ?