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Offline JohnF

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Re: Is this the future?
« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2014, 18:40:31 PM »
It's not the case that this is the world we live in, it's the world some idiots chose to live in.

So...  because their particular lifestyle choices are different to yours, they are "idiots"?

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Re: Is this the future?
« Reply #11 on: August 16, 2014, 19:23:03 PM »
Only 5?

Two years ago we had a family wedding in Olu, and one evening there were 14 of us having a meal at the Chinese Breeze. When I looked around the table only three people, who just happened to be the three oldest family members (including myself), were NOT engaged in some sort of internet tomfoolery or playing an electronic game. The two teenage girls were texting each other even though they were sat opposite to each other and less than six feet apart.

I mentioned the this fact to the gathering but not one of them chose to switch off and engage with the others in the old fashioned way so I just sat there and for the next five minutes made loud beep and boop noises. It didn't stop them >:(

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Re: Is this the future?
« Reply #12 on: August 16, 2014, 19:30:17 PM »
I just sat there and for the next five minutes made loud beep and boop noises.
Not at the table surely. That sort of thing should be taken to the toilet if completely necessary; certainly not at the table!

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Re: Is this the future?
« Reply #13 on: August 16, 2014, 20:55:07 PM »

So...  because their particular lifestyle choices are different to yours, they are "idiots"?

JF

JF I know lots of people whose particular lifestyle choices differ from mine who are "idiots" including people who go up a mountain with the specific purpose of going back down on two planks of wood    ;)

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Re: Is this the future?
« Reply #14 on: August 16, 2014, 21:00:04 PM »
It's not the case that this is the world we live in, it's the world some idiots chose to live in.
H, I hope you have noticed that I have resisted making derogatory comments about people who finish a sentence with a preposition. I understand such criticism does not meet with general approval across the internetted world in which we live.

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Re: Is this the future?
« Reply #15 on: August 16, 2014, 21:10:59 PM »
I shall not end a sentence with a preposition
I shall not end a sentence with a preposition
I shall not end a sentence with a preposition
I shall not end a sentence with a preposition
I shall not end a sentence with a preposition
I shall not end a sentence with a preposition
I shall not end a sentence with a preposition
I shall not end a sentence with a preposition
I shall not end a sentence with a preposition
I shall not end a sentence with a preposition

That's 10. I couldn't be bothered writing the 100 you might have asked for   ;)

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Re: Is this the future?
« Reply #16 on: August 16, 2014, 21:43:46 PM »



  ;)

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Re: Is this the future?
« Reply #17 on: August 16, 2014, 22:24:33 PM »
Sorry didn't mean to post pic again! Brilliant though!   ;)

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Re: Is this the future?
« Reply #18 on: August 17, 2014, 06:06:38 AM »
Why cant the parents/people say 'OK we are eatıng now so all phones etc off'.

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Re: Is this the future?
« Reply #19 on: August 17, 2014, 07:02:57 AM »
What, and not let the little brats loves have their own way?  :-\




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