how did we ever get along in the past without the latest fone to see who tweeted what and who facebooked who? without apps and updates? maybe people got by with humanity instead of walking down the high street hypnotised by a small un reliable plastic gadjet-sick of seeing a generation treating their fones like an essential human organ, wake up and look at reality.
the zombified techno generation
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, Aug 07 2012 06:33 PM
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Posted 07 August 2012 - 06:33 PM
not long now till lollipopmen are called darren.
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Posted 07 August 2012 - 06:38 PM
Says a man hiding behind an avatar and username on an internet forum.
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Posted 07 August 2012 - 07:11 PM
IIRC, before we had fones we had 'phones, wore them on our 'eads, and listened to our Walkmans.
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Posted 07 August 2012 - 07:29 PM
You can do both.
I always have this phone glued to me but don't 'not talk' to people.
I always have this phone glued to me but don't 'not talk' to people.
Then wisdom says: cherish your days, worry only lets your time slip away
Push away the thief trying to steal your gift, the fighter is the one whose feet are swift.
Push away the thief trying to steal your gift, the fighter is the one whose feet are swift.
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Posted 07 August 2012 - 07:40 PM
as always- u miss the point
not long now till lollipopmen are called darren.
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Posted 07 August 2012 - 07:43 PM
I always wonder how they used to get a team together with just home phones... Can't imagine!!
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Posted 07 August 2012 - 07:47 PM
Yes but when we were younger life was so incomplete without knowing someone you used to go to school with had fast food at a chain fast food place an hour before and they quite liked it.
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Posted 07 August 2012 - 07:48 PM
as always- u miss the point
You can't start a thread criticising the mobile phone generation and use text speak in it!
U?
Then wisdom says: cherish your days, worry only lets your time slip away
Push away the thief trying to steal your gift, the fighter is the one whose feet are swift.
Push away the thief trying to steal your gift, the fighter is the one whose feet are swift.
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Posted 07 August 2012 - 07:50 PM
Do what I do mate, don't read Facebook.Yes but when we were younger life was so incomplete without knowing someone you used to go to school with had fast food at a chain fast food place an hour before and they quite liked it.
Then wisdom says: cherish your days, worry only lets your time slip away
Push away the thief trying to steal your gift, the fighter is the one whose feet are swift.
Push away the thief trying to steal your gift, the fighter is the one whose feet are swift.
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Posted 07 August 2012 - 08:25 PM
I always wonder how they used to get a team together with just home phones... Can't imagine!!
When I played for Thornton in the 1970's very few single people had telephones at home and the fixture list in the Pennine League was a bit chaotic. I used to get a handwritten postcard every week from the club secretary. She was very efficient and it always came on a Thursday.
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Posted 07 August 2012 - 10:23 PM
In the 80's, Kirkholt ARLFC had a secretary who had no phone in his house and couldn't drive.
The club was reliant on people answering the payphone in the foyer and making sure messages got through.
The team was picked after training on a Thursday and was dictated to the Rochdale ARL PRO (over the payphone) who collated the details for all the clubs. He then dropped it into the Rochdale Observer early on Friday morning (He was a bread delivery man) and it was published on Friday evening.
If you want something in the Saturday edition now, it has to be in by Wednesday.
The club was reliant on people answering the payphone in the foyer and making sure messages got through.
The team was picked after training on a Thursday and was dictated to the Rochdale ARL PRO (over the payphone) who collated the details for all the clubs. He then dropped it into the Rochdale Observer early on Friday morning (He was a bread delivery man) and it was published on Friday evening.
If you want something in the Saturday edition now, it has to be in by Wednesday.
Looks like it wer' organised by't Pennine League
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Posted 07 August 2012 - 10:28 PM
how did we ever get along in the past without the latest fone to see who tweeted what and who facebooked who? without apps and updates? maybe people got by with humanity instead of walking down the high street hypnotised by a small un reliable plastic gadjet-sick of seeing a generation treating their fones like an essential human organ, wake up and look at reality.
we've always been zombified. It's just that different generations are zombified by different things. Suggest you read up on your George Orwell, Aldous Huxley et al.
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who think that life is but a joke
who think that life is but a joke
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Posted 07 August 2012 - 11:03 PM
It is slightly different today though. I can think of people who must spend their entire day posting stuff on FB. Most of it ludicrously trivial but they seem to be in that habit.we've always been zombified. It's just that different generations are zombified by different things. Suggest you read up on your George Orwell, Aldous Huxley et al.
Case in point, I'm at work posting this. Even 10 years ago you had to be at a PC to do this.
Then wisdom says: cherish your days, worry only lets your time slip away
Push away the thief trying to steal your gift, the fighter is the one whose feet are swift.
Push away the thief trying to steal your gift, the fighter is the one whose feet are swift.
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Posted 08 August 2012 - 05:55 AM
It is slightly different today though. I can think of people who must spend their entire day posting stuff on TRL. Most of it ludicrously trivial but they seem to be in that habit.
Case in point, I'm at work posting this. Even 10 years ago you had to be at a PC to do this.
Fixed your typo
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Posted 08 August 2012 - 06:33 AM
I genuinely thought this thread was about early-90's acid house.
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Posted 08 August 2012 - 06:56 AM
Fixed your typo
Not me though.....I'm off to bed.
Then wisdom says: cherish your days, worry only lets your time slip away
Push away the thief trying to steal your gift, the fighter is the one whose feet are swift.
Push away the thief trying to steal your gift, the fighter is the one whose feet are swift.
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Posted 08 August 2012 - 08:59 AM
When was the last time you saw a queue outside a phone box?
The OP's got a bit of a point; I often get walked into by someone who'smore concerned with what's on the screen of his shiny toy than looking where he's going.
The OP's got a bit of a point; I often get walked into by someone who'smore concerned with what's on the screen of his shiny toy than looking where he's going.
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"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore
"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes
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Posted 08 August 2012 - 11:08 AM
When was the last time you saw a queue outside a phone box?
The OP's got a bit of a point; I often get walked into by someone who'smore concerned with what's on the screen of his shiny toy than looking where he's going.
Quite often in London I get bumped into people who are reading books whilst walking.
Bloody zombies.
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Posted 08 August 2012 - 11:40 AM
there is of course nothing wrong with surfing the net for the odd half hour and using technology to aid our way through life but think a generation is being created who wouldnt know what to do without their dependency addiction toys if they all got taken away, "take this delivery van to wales and heres a map, if you breakdown heres 5p for the phone"
not long now till lollipopmen are called darren.
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