I put luddites who must remind everyone else how wonderful they are

The BBQ Pit
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I don’t pit. I PUT.

There’s an old saying: if you are wondering if someone is a vegetarian, don’t worry they will tell you. Today I learned the same about luddites.

Thats great you see no need for a computer, cell phone, credit card, or a debit card. Your 28 and Im 47.

You need to research something, you drive 15 minutes to the underfunded public library and spend an hour or two processing mostly out of date printed materials on the subject. I’ll look up the answer and get it about 90 seconds via a search engine.

You don’t have a cell phone? Have fun retrieving out of date answering messages, and oh, thank goodness you have never had to use 911 for you or another’s safety. As for me, I can call, text, or email anyone I want at anytime, and if in an emergency, I can call 911 too. Or if Im lost, I have this thing called a SMART PHONE that allows me to go on a map app and find exactly where to go, saving time.

Yeah, who needs a credit card, or credit? You don’t need any of THAT to buy a car, or a house. Wanna buy a $1000 living room set, surely you enjoy carting around loads of $100 bills, or writing a gaaaghcheck which takes 10 minutes it process and approve.

You don’t carry around a debit card, if you need cash you go to the bank, and withdraw money? Good for you. Another 15 minute drive, WHEN the bank is open, you fill out a slip, wait in line for 20 minutes, and get your $500 in cash. Surely, my method of walking up to an ATM machine at CVS anytime I want and while I am most likely buying stuff I need is so much worse.

I get it, Miss Luddite. You have failed to exit your comfort zone to try and appreciate new and exciting technologies that millions have slaved over countless hours and lifetimes and careers to provide for you and others to make the world a better place. It is your right not to participate, for whatever stupid reason.

Why, I even celebrate you and wish I could still live such a simple, ignorant unaware life.

Just spare the 97% of us who have embraced new technology and have rejoiced in how it has expanded and improved our lives for the better of the guilt and your self-praise, OK???

This message also goes out to my idiotic co-worker who refuses to use an iPhone app paid for by our company to record and upload his receipts for expense reports, instead opting to scan them and upload them to his computer, which has to take 3-6 hours longer a years to do.

Or the moron sales reps who constantly asks me to email her pdf files all available on our company’s shared server available via smartphone, which she has been thoroughly trained on. I don’t mind, but you are taking my time, and missing the WOW factor of emailing your client the pdf file within minutes of their request rather than relying on my schedule

Miss Luddite, trust me I am a bit jealous of how you are able to successfully function on modern society. But please don’t rip us who not only want to function, but embrace new technology and want to thrive in 2015.

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It doesn’t take ten minutes to write a check.

You have some validity to your point; don’t throw it away by childish exaggeration.

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It might, assuming calligraphy with a quill pen on papyrus using a hand crippled by polio, but we’d need an hourglass to be certain.

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They really have no debit card??? Holy cow…

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I have a debit card…which I have never actually used.

Let’s be fair: some Luddites are not smug, self-approving, and “holier than thou.” Some are just out of it. They don’t grok new technology. They’re more victims of rapid technological change than adherents of ancientry.

This is most common among the elderly, who sometimes don’t have the level of social support network regarding new technology that younger people have.

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The OP is an idiot who doesn’t know what “Luddite” means.

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One has one’s people do all that stuff for one.

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Really? I thought he got it pretty much bang on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite#In_modern_thought

What part of that are we getting wrong? :confused:

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Wow, it takes some serious dedication to be 28 years old and only deal with the bank at a teller window. I’m about the same age and I’ve never seen the inside of my bank. That’s not failing to get out of a comfort zone, that’s actively seeking out a septuagenarian’s comfort zone. I’m almost impressed with the effort there.

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Well, the OP does not know how to spell and punctuate.

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The subset of hipster that is annoying me lately is the thin wallet crowd. I’m still trying to figure out where hell this came from as something desirable.
“OHH my GOD! I don’t know how you can carry that thing around, My wallet is 3 nanometers thick and weighs less than a pubic hair”
And fucking so what? They act like the 15 business cards , and 7 pieces of plastic a normal person carries is the burden of Atlas.

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I don’t carry a wallet at all, why should I?

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Don’t forget their annoying cousin, the “I don’t even own a television” types. Many of them are vegan too

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No you don’t. You made a typo in the title and your coverup attempt failed. Luddite, by the way, even without a “Miss” in front of it, is capitalized. Look it up. It should take only 10 seconds, tops. You have a cell phone.

I don’t have a cell phone, never mind a smartphone, because I have no use for one. When I needed a cell phone, I had a cell phone. Two, one after the other.

Screw 911. I never had to call it from a cell phone, even when I had them. Not having to in the past doesn’t mean I wouldn’t need to in the future, but that’s what the herd with cell phones who also don’t need them are all about.

Who draws the Ludditeness line in the sand? You?

I have three computers: a Mac desktop, an iPad and an iPod. Actually six. Three are on a shelf — a G3, a G4 and a Mac Plus. The Plus is worth more than my desktop. I also have a car full of computers.

As much as I’d like to have a 1953 Pontiac straight eight with three on the tree, its Wurlitzer juke-box dashboard and an illuminated hood ornament, I value more my car’s computers, seat belts, airbags, ABS, air conditioning, rear-window defroster, 12-volt circuitry, no pointy metal things aimed at my chest and vastly improved everything else. But I don’t have a cell phone so I’m a Luddite because I don’t need one.

I haven’t been inside a bank since . . . hmm . . . well, Saturday. But it was to use the bank machine and the rest of the building was closed. I haven’t written a cheque in two or three years. Maybe four.

Am I a Luddite because I go to libraries? I love libraries. There’s lots of information available only in libraries. If you doubt it, you’ve never been in a library, or have never been in a decent one. Or maybe you’re too modern to pick up a book. Any book.

I’m loaded down with credit cards, each from a different bank, and a debit card. I use the credit cards sparingly, one of them only once every five years. Other people don’t have credit cards for any number of reasons; not having good credit probably is the least of them.

Having credit cards doesn’t equal having good credit, no matter what the card hawker inside Walmart tells you.

You’re an ad man’s dream. And you’re 47.

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I’m 62 and like Kemn above, i guess you’d call me a semi-luddie. I have had a home computer and internet since they became affordable in the 1990’s, work with computers, and like to think I’m comfortable with technology. That said, I do not have a cellphone (I did for 4 years when work required it) or smart phone or I-phone and don’t plan to acquire one. That is a personal choice and I certainly don’t make a fuss about it to anyone.

If there is anything ‘modern’ that I reject, it would be the constant ‘immersive’ media like Facebook and Twitter (I just joined Facebook within the last 2 months, mostly due to a friend being sick and subsequently passing away) and I hope never to Twitter during my life. Why? Not in the belief that I can stop such technology, but simply that I am a private person and I don’t wish to have my life left out for everyone to see. Just me. YMMV.

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I like to carry the things I should need with me in a wallet, why shouldn’t I?

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You haven’t been standing in line behind some of those people. I have.

I’ve actually made comments to people about writing War and Peace at the register because they were going on and on writing one damned check.

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I carried a flip phone for years, strenuously resisting getting a smart phone. “It makes calls,” I said, “Why does it have to do anything else?”

Now that I have made the switch, I’ll never go back.

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Then you’re not the sort of person that the OP is pitting (putting? w/e. :slight_smile: )

It’s one thing to not have or use a phone/computer/credit card/whatever simply because you don’t see a need for one, another thing entirely to reject something out of hand and then consider yourself somehow superior because of it.

I don’t own a television. I don’t go on about it, or consider myself in any way superior because of it. shrug. Please don’t lump us all in together.

Also, I’d probably starve to death within a month if I had to switch to a vegan diet. :slight_smile:

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OTOH, you get to put on a dress and smash things.