Texting and walking..

[Fred Bassett]

I think the only thing that humans being need educating in, is common sense - but I honestly think common sense is a thing of the past

 

How can you teach someone common sense? It's like teaching somebody how to hear. It can't be done, common sense would tell you that. I'd also be interested to know how common sense can be a "thing of the past". It either exists or it doesn't. For instance, common sense tells most people not to laugh out loud at virtually every sentence they speak or write.

[duckwaddler]

[Fred Bassett]

I suppose in this instance I shouldn't be surprised at the things that make some people laugh. Little things and all that. LOL!

Edited August 1, 2013 by Fred Bassett2

[SteveH2508]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wTfUNk1Sp0&feature=share

[duckwaddler]

That's right, never take life too seriously, it's not permanent

 

It takes 72 muscles to frown, but only 14 to smile so turn that frown upside down

[Fred Bassett]

That's bad isn't it? I must admit I get quite hacked of at that - it is very rude but you see it all the time.

[Fred Bassett]

That's right, never take life too seriously, it's not permanent

 

It takes 72 muscles to frown, but only 14 to smile so turn that frown upside down

 

I'm smiling, but in a benevolent, resigned sort of way. LOL!

[maroondevo52]

My neighbour just told me she was informed earlier today by Text her dad had died !!!

[duckwaddler]

My neighbour just told me she was informed earlier today by Text her dad had died !!!

 

 

Terrible for her I know a family that do almost all communicating via text, blackberry messaging & facebook, even when they're all in the house together!

[Fred Bassett]

My neighbour just told me she was informed earlier today by Text her dad had died !!!

 

I remember being at a barbecue a few years ago when my niece's boyfriend got a text message from his Mum. It said "Uncle Fred's dead, love Mum". Unbelievable!

[Fred Bassett]

As Milton Jones once asked, how do you text somebody to say that a loved one has died if your name is Lol?

[Consumer dude]

My neighbour just told me she was informed earlier today by Text her dad had died !!!

 

That is so horrible..

[labrat]

I like texting but with most things there is a time and a place and texting while crossing the road is not clever but how do you educate people ?

 

i feel that getting hit by a lorry would be all the education people would need..

 

would be a lesson they remembered for the rest of their (very short) lives

[Nystagmite]

My neighbour just told me she was informed earlier today by Text her dad had died !!!

 

That's awful. We had a dog of ours put down about 5 years ago. Mum waited until my sister came home to tell her. Mum said it's nothing she'd want to say by text.

 

In 2010, I was living away from home and was at uni. I was really angry to discover a relative of mine post the following: "my father in law may have two types of cancer". Thanks for that. Not. (his father in law is my Granddad)

[duckwaddler]

It's very cold and unfeeling don't you think Nystagmite?

 

When my Dad had cancer, he'd not seen or spoken to his Sister for around 30yrs, I asked him if he thought she should know, so he told me to tell her when the time came, I didn't even know where she lived, so the police were very good in helping me get her address - I wrote her a letter, explaining that I needed to speak to her rather urgently - there is no way I could have even written it in the letter to her.

 

It's not just common sense that seems to be a thing of the past, but it's also empathy, compassion, privacy, thoughtfulness etc that is too!

[Nystagmite]

Yes. It wasn't the sort of thing I wanted to hear in that way. There's one thing saying on Facebook a family member is ill and another saying they may have a serious illness.

 

I was quite angry and upset that he'd just posted something like that in that way.

 

I know sometimes that people have very little choice in how they tell people - when I was at uni, I had quite bad depression and my friends response was to contact my dad via Facebook - he didn't know my dad and had no other way of telling him that was he really concerned about me.