Random Rants

[Giles]

I went to a restaurant in ChinaTown, Yokohama a year ago (again with Johnny) and that is how we ordered (well he did because it was in Kanji…..)

[madmonday]

my family blesses our food at every meal & then we take out our phones & ignore each other.

when we are out we don't usually take out our phones until after we order because I'm old & like to torture my kids & wife while I can get them in the same place, hahahaha

it's funny because it's not a hard & fast rule, just something we do  :-\

I got a buddy that does restaurant stuff that I'm going to ask about this phone / electronic device phenomenon  . . .

[Giles]

Pics here:

http://www.ironheart.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=7085.msg409757#msg409757

[No.88]

@madmonday:

I got a buddy that does restaurant stuff that I'm going to ask about this phone / electronic device phenomenon  . . .

I completely forgot. I did this last October on a trip to NYC at JFK. But it was done on an ipad.

Edit: I have often pondered knocking over a glass of water, accidentally-on-purpose, when there is a smartphone within its radius, and inwardly chortle at the unfolding meltdown of its owner. 

[Finkster]

@No.88:

… ps I do not own a smartphone. I have a payg Nokia 6100 that I've had for ever. I only ever turn it on when I'm travelling & need to get hold of the office. Which is rare.

  Perfect! … same here - Nokia 6300

[Dion]

Yep, here another smartphone repudiator. My 6300 is over 7 years on duty, which smartphone can say that?

[Giles]

Time to fess up…..

I have an iPhone 6S+ and love it.  It is the cause of much phone envy from @Madame Buttonfly.  Prior to getting this, my phone was used mainly as a phone and wifi hub.  Now I can actually work on the thing and given how much I travel, it has transformed my trips away….

[Finkster]

@den213:

Yep, here another smartphone repudiator. My 6300 is over 7 years on duty, which smartphone can say that?

A phone is for phone .. period

[No.88]

If people are using their phone for conducting their business affairs, & not running into me in the street or tapping away on it at our dining table, or taking poxy photos of themselves every 5 minutes, I have no issues & they have their place.

Yours Curmudgeonly,
No.88.

[Giles]

Give me a little credit.  Really think I'd even consider doing that sort of shite

[No.88]

Hahahahaha!! Touche. (I can see my avatar in the background).

Back at yer!

NB: My previous post was not directed at you personally. Hence why I edited it, as it could have been read the wrong way.

[Giles]

@No.88:

NB: My previous post was not directed at you personally. Hence why I edited it, as it could have been read the wrong way.

I did not read it as directed at me.  Fret not…

Nice shirt BTW....

[No.88]

@Giles:

Nice shirt BTW….

I've nicknamed it the 1skew9.

[Giles]

We're having a Mercedes Vito delivered next week. Its been named Vanny da Vito

[Black Orchid]

@Giles:

We're having a Mercedes Vito delivered next week. Its been named Vanny da Vito

Love that [emoji38]

[Chris]

Reading the last couple of pages feels like a whole lot of this

[madmonday]

what you say?

I can't stop staring at the guy in your avatar, hahahahaha

[Seul]

@Giles:

We're having a Mercedes Vito delivered next week. Its been named Vanny da Vito

[Broark]

I really want to go on a rant about how much I hate SXSW but I want to wait until its over to see if I have any stories about how ridiculous it is this year first…

[Chris]

Forgot today begins Daylight Savings Time.  I hate Daylight Savings Time.

I miss living in Arizona, one of the few places that refuses to participate in the stupidity of "spring forward, fall back."