It feels like it, though, when you’re stuck behind an old lady in the grocery store checkout line.
Ugh. That’s not what he said. if it works for you, don’t carry one! He’s talking about people who look down on us for carrying one. Me, my wallet is pretty thick. Sadly it’s not money.
Same with TV and all that. I don’t watch the telly. That doesn’t mean at all I am a Luddite. I just hate ads with the fire of a thousand suns and I hate network news. So I watch everything on Netflix or DVD. That doesn’t make me better than anyone! It’s just how I roll.
Technologies such as computers and smart phones are very useful tools. But I don’t find them interesting in themselves. Nor do I understand people being involved with them while ignoring people and things around them. Personally, when an option I prefer the real over the virtual.
A cellphone is handy when out and about and needing directions, or in an emergency. But other than that, I’d probably be just fine with land lines and an answering machine. Just different views on the need/desirability of constant connectivity.
And I never understood the desire for debit cards. Credit cards seem more advantageous in many respects. But to each his own.
I wouldn’t call that that much of an exaggeration. 30 minutes would be an exageration. But let me guess, you’re a check writer, right?
The asshole in front of me a the grocery store last evening got to the register, waited for all of her items to be rung up, was given the total THEN started pawing through her bag for her checkbook. When she finally got it out she had to properly align it on the counter and asked to borrow a pen. She got the entire thing wrote out then had to re-ask the teller for the amount. After tearing it off she then had to fumble through the book trying to find her page so she could carefully write in the transaction. Then, she handed the check over to the teller to verify. The whole exchange might not have been ten minutes but it certainly wouldn’t have been a childish exageration to call it that.
We seem to live in a world where should I choose differently from you, my choice is somehow considered an indictment of your choice.
I know several people who don’t have tvs, some have no microwaves, I don’t have a driver’s license, etc, etc. Not a one of them feel a tinge of superiority because of these things. They just, for whatever reason, don’t feel the need for this thing, in their lives. Since all our lives are different, it’s difficult to understand why people find it so odd.
People seem too keen to label them Luddites, or ‘one of THEM!’, when neither is anywhere near accurate. The superior attitude, in my opinion, is much more imaginary than real. It no doubt exists, but projecting it onto everybody for every little choice, that differs from your own, seems beyond silly to me.
I don’t give a fraction of a fat rat’s ass what anyone else does; my whole gauge is if and how much it affects me. If you have some objection / inability to manage using a debit card, well, it *is *still legal to write checks and stores still accept them, but for the love of god could you please have everything but the amount filled out beforehand? Yes, you still have the *right *to use them, but don’t be a cunt about it. Same with the folks who are very involved with their electronic devices. Pay attention to the goddamn world around you *first *and enjoy all your texting, chatting, tweeting and whatnot at a time when you’re not inconveniencing everyone else.
As to the OP’s complaint, I put *anyone *who fits the description. Why can’t people just live their lives the way they see fit and STFU about it already?
I tend to think like a Luddite, when the tech doesnt work, or is taking too much of my time and income to fix or upgrade…or I realize I just spent hours on the Dope for no particular reason:D then I go work with my hands in the garden…
yeah, interesting times we live in.
Hah, I love the people who “don’t own a television” but watch stuff via Netflix or other streaming options. I mean, it’s one thing to be smug because you’re spending your nights working on your collection of short stories or reading obscure Eastern European authors or really getting into exhibits of Laotian neo-Renaissance art lately. But the people who proclaim “I don’t even own a television” and then are watching the same stuff just via a different source crack me up. And it’s not even about cost but rather pride that they can’t tune in to the Kardashians even if they wanted to, as though the girls creep out of the TV vents at night and whisper into your ear.
Note that I don’t mean you Anaamika. You’re clear about you not being better. But your example just reminded me of that weird subset of bragging television non-owners.
But the thing is, everyone inconveniences everyone else in some way. We all just have to live with it, for the sake of our blood pressure.
True, but some ways seem much more . . . unnecessary than others. As in my example, I’m willing to cut some slack to the little old lady who just *has *to pay via check, but there is no reason in the world for her to wait until the very last moment to forage through her purse and commence the whole check writing routine. Just as I have nothing against mobile devices, but there is no, and I mean NO excuse to have one on during a movie / live performance. It’s called consideration for those around you.
A 90-second search engine!? That’s preposterous!
Seriously, who’s calling the kettle black here?
Yeah, I was wondering if the OP was still in an 8-bit world.
A DVR is your friend. I hate ads too, so we record anything we want to watch and start 10 minutes later, just late enough to skip past all the ads. And we don’t watch Network News - unless you count the Daily Show.
Even the Super Bowl. We skip past the game to watch the ads. And the Kentucky Derby. We avoid the news and skip past all the dreck to see the interesting jockey and trainer interviews.
You sure you want to do this?
AWWWWWW NOOOOOO!!! Boy, you sure have to get up early in the morning to get one over on you! You must be a private investigator, or detective because, wow, I just cant see how you saw through my carefully contrived deception.
You people are sure nitpicky. Theres some topics that take little more time to find than others.
Name one
Elvis’ “Hunka, hunka burnin’ love” theory as relates to Jewish homosexuals in the Gilded Age.
Because no one on the SDMB would ever correct someone else’s error about someone other than themselves, personally.
No, I’m not a check writer. You’re an idiot.
I used to have a Blackberry that work paid for. Had it for years. They moved me into a different department with a new title that doesn’t get blackberries, so I had to give ti back. I have been without a cell phone for about a month.
It has been oddly peaceful.