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Quid est Veritas?
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That sounds like paradise. The worst part about the modern world is that everyone can find you at any time. I salute you, sir!I don't have any type of mobile phone or any mobile device either. I'm in an even more exclusive club.
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Unfortunately I am the after-hours tech for my employer, so I am on call 24/7. I've always got my phone with me.I don't have any type of mobile phone or any mobile device either. I'm in an even more exclusive club.
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Actually I was referring to this reaction. I like some good old fashioned satire, I just figured maybe some thought they were posting in other more serious forum sections rather than the joke section.
I don't think it's necessary to be on the attack in any discussion, in fact I think it's pretty callous and cruel for no good reason, but I thought the humour threads were a safe space from all of that.
Or maybe pescador was kidding in a weird sarcastic way and I just didn't get the joke?
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I try to take my laughs were I can get them these days, so no worries
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As it turns out, it seems he is on the ignore list of a number of people. He isn't on mine yet, but I just ignore him the old fashioned wayActually I was referring to this reaction. I like some good old fashioned satire, I just figured maybe some thought they were posting in other more serious forum sections rather than the joke section.
I don't think it's necessary to be on the attack in any discussion, in fact I think it's pretty callous and cruel for no good reason, but I thought the humour threads were a safe space from all of that.
Or maybe pescador was kidding in a weird sarcastic way and I just didn't get the joke?
Anyway
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I'm surprised how much I get that reaction. Recently a friend introduced me to some guys I'd never met. As I'm shaking the first guy's hand, he's got a big smile and the first words out of his mouth are "So you really don't use a smartphone?" I said no I don't. He said "That's awesome!" I asked why it's awesome. He said "Because we'd all love to get rid of our smartphones!"
But I suppose it's not the only technology we've had a love/hate relationship with:
Yeah I'm sure there are plenty of jobs where it's a requirement these days. And if I were married with kids, I probably would have some kind of mobile phone to have for emergencies you know, but I wouldn't use a smartphone.
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It's all a matter of what your used to really.
We moved to my current location some 7 years ago, and we had left a location that had been in a run of 110 degree weather. We had two air conditioners (window units) running full bore 24/7 just to keep enough humidity down to be comfortable. Showering was a wasted effort because you were drenched in sweat before you were even fully dried off..
The day we got here the temp was barely 80 with a beautiful breeze running through the house from the mountains that surround, no air conditioning necessary.
That day, as my husband and I were revelling in such beautiful weather, my niece was on the couch decrying the terrible heat and lack of air conditioning! Haha
Now that I've been here a while, I actually last year once suffered serious heat exhaustion and could barely stay conscious in 90 degree weather. Granted I was ill at the time, but it was the first time in my life the heat actually ever bothered me, and it took a couple days to recover from the effects of the heat that day.
We do adjust after some time, to whatever climate we live in, even when it seems ridiculous to our minds... lol
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Quid est Veritas?
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Oh, I hate my phone with a passion, but I need it for work. Everything is apps nowadays. Back in the day, I hated my beeper too. While working late at night, I have thrown it down a stairwell, but the thing just didn't break. Would never do that with a phone though, as it breaks if you just look at it askew, and it costs far too much. When I retire, I plan to get a landline if they still exist and either discard or lock away my phone. It is not just that work takes over your life, but admin too, and the easy access to the internet spoils conversations and encourages timewasting.
The idea of a phone held next to your temple or in the palm of your hand giving constant connection to the Babylon of the internet, just gives pause as to beastly marks - wrong forum for that, though.
Great song, but the car comes from Karl Benz, Ford just mass-produced it. My wife wouldn't believe me and I had to resort to the encyclopedia to prove it. But google it and you are just as likely to get Ford as Jesuits in China in the 17th century.
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What do you mean by "admin too"?
Yeah I know what you're saying. And when I'm in a restaurant, and almost everyone around me is not talking to each other, just sitting in silence staring at their magic gadget, it gives reality a creepy science fiction vibe.
Honestly I didn't think anyone thought Ford invented it. We were taught in school that he invented the assembly line method of production. But as to the song, well, there's artistic license, you know. "Lord, Mr. Ford" has better alliteration than "Lord, Mr. Benz".
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Quid est Veritas?
In Memoriam to CS Lewis
Must be a regionalism then. It means administration, so is short for paperwork, forms and bureaucracy of any sort.
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