The day has come when zombies roam the world... the zombie apocalypse is upon us, and it's a little disconcerting.
You maybe a zombie if you meet the following criteria:
1.- You have an insatiable desire to check your phone after every other activity in your life.
2.- You walk around looking at your palm, all farking day.
3.- You're at a restaurant with your woman/man, and you both pull out your stupid phone. I guess it could be better than listening to her bitch about you all night long though.

I have a healthy usage pattern with my phone...
- check email in morning/afternoon bcos gmail is blocked at work.
- check shopbot/ebay price of item before buying.
- show cat photos to my friends self.
- if I catch bus/train... play chess.
+ nobody ever calls me, and I don't call anyone.
Average total daily usage <10 mins., wtf are people doing all freaking day on their phones?

Or have I just become an old fart who doesn't understand the nuances of today's communication, or why people need to do it at traffic lights and beeps now mean go.



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There must be a huge pack of very insecure people around, "ooohhh what are they saying about me', I wonder whose dating/ whatever her tonite.'

who gives a flying fig.

I was at my daughters house recently, (I'am from out of town) and along with 4 grandkids 8 - 15 years, after small talk for 10 minutes they all went back to their phones. another 15 minutes I said see you later and walked out, An hour later daughter phones me and says 'where the hell are you? we've been looking all over the house" Told her if she wants to see me, phone goes on bench and we spend time together............. FFS

If I'm in the street and see a phone zombie I just walk straight at them.....If they don't get out of the way they get a solid little hip and shoulder.........so enjoyable

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log man said..
If I'm in the street and see a phone zombie I just walk straight at them.....If they don't get out of the way they get a solid little hip and shoulder.........so enjoyable

I love it! Do you mind if I adopt your method?

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log man said...
If I'm in the street and see a phone zombie I just walk straight at them.....If they don't get out of the way they get a solid little hip and shoulder.........so enjoyable

No you don't. Youd be too scared if they looked a bit ethnic or tanned or yellow or albino or gay or female or transgender of being viewed as racist or imtolerant

Phone zombie in a shopping mall walk straight in the water feature and then sue the shop!!! WTF the stupid woman should sued for polluting the pond!

Saw/heard an unusual thing at the coffee shop at work the other day.

Some guy turns up with the phone held against his ear, but its obviously on hands-free, as you can hear the other person quite loudly. It seemed strange hearing both sides of a boring conversation.

He only realised after 10 minutes, and turned it off. I just don't get it. How do you not notice that the volume is so loud?

Oh well, this is just confirmation that there are enough people that can't walk and chew gum at the same time, and using a phone and driving is a bad idea for a lot of people.

I recall a niece and nephew wanting phones at 10yrs and 12yrs old.
I said "you are not that important..."
They looked like I just cancelled Xmas, Easter and birthdays til further notice.
That was 10ys ago but I guess now they are essential so you can watch all your friend's lives unfold in front of you - oh hang on, didn't we manage that before...?

True story... I've just come back from the beach, and at a pedestrian crossing a pregnant woman almost walked in to my car while thumb flipping on her phone. She altered course at the last moment and continued without lift her gaze.

A zombie just ran up the back of my wife's car while she was stopped at a crossing out front of school while dropping the kids off at school . It was a mother txting with her kids in car my wife said she had a heart attack because she thought that they were going to push her onto the kids crossing &it was only 40km speed at that time . Probably was doing 70 by the look of it .
Well nobody hurt no cops called bit of damage but nothing not fixable . Could have been a lot worse .
I hope she learned her lesson .

Been thinking for a while that we need to start a movement where if we see somebody on the phone whilst driving, or texting at the lights, we all honk our horns to give them the ****s.
It needs to be a socially unacceptable as drink driving or smoking inside a kindergarten. That may help with the driving thing....

Could maybe extend that to screaming something like loser and pointing at those who feel the need to pull the phone out in a restaurant lol

In the crib room the other day, everyone was reading newspapers, no social banter, bloody readers.

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Rex said..
In the crib room the other day, everyone was reading newspapers, no social banter, bloody readers.

whats a crib room? does any one play that any more cribbage is old school

Re; the dark side of zombiism - stats...


...I've been to numerous car accidents over the past 8 years as a 'Road Accident Rescue' volunteer - only 3 didn't involve mobile phones.

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Darkspi said..

Rex said..
In the crib room the other day, everyone was reading newspapers, no social banter, bloody readers.

whats a crib room? does any one play that any more cribbage is old school

Bit of copy and paste here but being an ex UG Miner rings true to me.

Cribbing refers to the timber boards and posts lining mine shafts, so miners would carry a crib bag that contained the iron or wooden bolts and rings used to secure cribbing as they worked. The materials (timber, bolts, etc) would be stored in a crib room at the end or top of each shaft & this was where workers retreated to while they ate their lunch, which they often stored in their crib bag along with their cribbing bits, tools, etc

I drive from Palmwoods to Coolum every Monday for work.

This one section of the road is flat and straight. Goes for 3kms. I'd say 20% of the people I pass are on some device. The Bruce Hi-way is safer.

I buy a $10 'pay-as-you-go' credit voucher for my phone, which is valid for 3 months. If I don't use it all up, it accumulates so long as I buy a new voucher before the 3 months is over. Two months after I buy each credit, they send me an email survey asking me why I've "stopped using my phone". The survey is a single multiple choice question, and they give me $5 credit for doing it. That's what allows me to stretch out to 3 months instead of needing to buy a new voucher before 2 months has passed, which in turn leads to them sending me the survery again each time. It's been going on for a couple of years now.

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log man said..
If I'm in the street and see a phone zombie I just walk straight at them.....If they don't get out of the way they get a solid little hip and shoulder.........so enjoyable

I love it! Do you mind if I adopt your method?

Enjoy

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log man said...
If I'm in the street and see a phone zombie I just walk straight at them.....If they don't get out of the way they get a solid little hip and shoulder.........so enjoyable

No you don't. Youd be too scared if they looked a bit ethnic or tanned or yellow or albino or gay or female or transgender of being viewed as racist or imtolerant

Nah mate.......shirtfronted a tranny about a week ago

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Mark _australia said..
Been thinking for a while that we need to start a movement where if we see somebody on the phone whilst driving, or texting at the lights, we all honk our horns to give them the ****s.
It needs to be a socially unacceptable as drink driving or smoking inside a kindergarten. That may help with the driving thing....

Could maybe extend that to screaming something like loser and pointing at those who feel the need to pull the phone out in a restaurant lol

Geez Mark, No smoking inside the kindergarten, no drinking while you drive.........it's a fricken nanny state mate!!!

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log man said..

Mark _australia said..
Been thinking for a while that we need to start a movement where if we see somebody on the phone whilst driving, or texting at the lights, we all honk our horns to give them the ****s.

Geez Mark, No smoking inside the kindergarten, no drinking while you drive.........it's a fricken nanny state

Humans are incapable of focusing on more than 1 thing at a time, it's a biological limitation.
So if an emergency braking situation arises while you're doing anything other than focusing on driving, you will fail that operation.

But I would like to see autonomous braking systems made MANDATORY in the next 5 years... then driver-less cars.
Secretly I also look forward to been able to trigger the brakes by sticking my leg out while I ride by.

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FlySurfer said..

log man said..

Mark _australia said..
Been thinking for a while that we need to start a movement where if we see somebody on the phone whilst driving, or texting at the lights, we all honk our horns to give them the ****s.

Geez Mark, No smoking inside the kindergarten, no drinking while you drive.........it's a fricken nanny state

Humans are incapable of focusing on more than 1 thing at a time, it's a biological limitation.
So if an emergency braking situation arises while you're doing anything other than focusing on driving, you will fail that operation.

But I would like to see autonomous braking systems made MANDATORY in the next 5 years... then driver-less cars.
Secretly I also look forward to been able to trigger the brakes by sticking my leg out while I ride by.

Agreed, however women tend to ''multitask'' which is one of the major con words of this century. No excuse for anyone be on their phone while behind the wheel.

Personally i think you'd be stupid not to use your phone every chance you can.. It's a palm size device that literally puts just about every piece of information ever conceived at the reach of your fingertips.

I get what your saying and when it comes at a cost to social interaction or health and safety there is a problem but mark my words there will be a day when phones/the Internet is physicaly implanted in your retina or atleast worn on the face like glasses.

Just about every single thing on this planet can be abused with unhealthy practices and there are people who cannot be told or taught to use with moderation but abusing somebody or hip and shouldering them? Isn't a fix or solution.

I'm replying from my phone right now <gasp>

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kiteboy dave said...
I'm replying from my phone right now <gasp>

Stone him!

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log man said..

myusernam said..

log man said...
If I'm in the street and see a phone zombie I just walk straight at them.....If they don't get out of the way they get a solid little hip and shoulder.........so enjoyable

No you don't. Youd be too scared if they looked a bit ethnic or tanned or yellow or albino or gay or female or transgender of being viewed as racist or imtolerant

Nah mate.......shirtfronted a tranny about a week ago

OK imposter, what have you done with the real loggy? Or is loggy just on this planet to point out failings, social injustice and be disagreeable about absolutely everything

BTW - I recommend Shaun of the Dead... it's a great documentary about the zombie apocalypse in the UK!

Apparently a real sign in Sweden

Went to dinner last night at the local Thai restaurant. A family with 3 kids was sitting at a table near us. Two of the kids were on separate iPads, and the other was on a large Samsung phone. The mother was on her iPhone, and the father was staring out the window. Quality family time.

Taking your phone out of your pocket is bad enough, but bringing iPads to the restaurant on purpose is even worse. I can only imagine that if they are using them continuously when they are out at a restaurant, then what must go on at home?

I used to go to a fortnight diner with friend, had a beer and after a while they were all on their device........... no one talking to each other............. just showing "cool" items they had found on FB, Youtube............. Fckuking boring as bat sh1t! Don't go anymore! Was making me feeling like an outcast?