Blackbriar 8,568 Posted February 17, 2017 Report Share Posted February 17, 2017 Oh, dear god ! I'm beginning to think that there really is no hope..... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/02/17/pavement-lights-installed-near-dutch-schools-guide-smartphone/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The one 8,398 Posted February 17, 2017 Report Share Posted February 17, 2017 Unbelievable we are paying for them being stupid Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisJones 7,973 Posted February 21, 2017 Report Share Posted February 21, 2017 Oh, dear god ! I'm beginning to think that there really is no hope..... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/02/17/pavement-lights-installed-near-dutch-schools-guide-smartphone/ Us old folk are going to need safe spaces at this rate... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Barbarian1990 220 Posted February 21, 2017 Report Share Posted February 21, 2017 If you get hit by a car when your on your phone you deserve everything you get. I'm all for natural selection Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jonjon79 13,345 Posted February 21, 2017 Report Share Posted February 21, 2017 Oh ffs, whatever happened to people being accountable for themselves? I'd be pretty pissed off if some dipstick put a dent in my car bonnet because they were looking at their phone instead of looking where they're going. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Welsh_red 4,316 Posted February 21, 2017 Report Share Posted February 21, 2017 Always feel the urge to veer straight into people (while im walking) when their walking with their heads deep in their phone. Nothing wrong with quick checking you phone while walking but actively reading something and ignoring everything else it just twp Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blackbriar 8,568 Posted February 21, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2017 A while back, some woman stepped out in front of our car, totally engrossed in her phone - lucky for her it was in a small car park, so I wasn't moving at any speed, but I still needed to brake sharply...... She never looked up, so I gave her a quick honk (ooh Matron !)......this clearly made her jump, as she started shouting - and suggested, very impolitely I might add, that I should look where I was going !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The one 8,398 Posted February 21, 2017 Report Share Posted February 21, 2017 You got to love it , your reversing out a space in a car park and they walk behind you , expecting you to stop , sod it its going to hurt them more than it hurts me 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blackbriar 8,568 Posted February 21, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2017 There does seem to be an increasing number of people who need saving from their own stupidity ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisJones 7,973 Posted February 21, 2017 Report Share Posted February 21, 2017 (edited) You can't win really. We're giving them shit for special lighting, but we were all complaining about political correctness, and lack of freedoms, when New York was talking about banning iPods for the same reason. Both systems seem to favour the chronically stupid. Edited February 21, 2017 by ChrisJones Quote Link to post Share on other sites
j j m 6,483 Posted February 21, 2017 Report Share Posted February 21, 2017 theres always a idiot around Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Seeker 3,048 Posted February 22, 2017 Report Share Posted February 22, 2017 Darwin awards (20 January 2004, Ventnor, New Jersey) A high school student accidentally dropped his cell phone from the Dorset Avenue Bridge. Fortunately the river had frozen over, so the phone landed on the ice, apparently intact. To a dedicated cell phone user, losing one's phone is like losing an appendage. And what loyal friend would not try to retrieve your arm or leg if it had somehow fallen off a bridge and landed on thin ice? The survival of our species depends on mutual support. Two days later, Bruce, 17, volunteered to fetch the phone. He figured the ice, which was only an inch thick in places, was strong enough to hold him for the rescue mission. Another friend urged Bruce to give up and go back to shore. "I can do it," Bruce insisted. A bridge attendant also warned him to stay off the ice, but, as his mother explained, "It's just something Bruce would have done." The attendant rushed to his post to call the police. He was on the phone when a bystander told him that someone had fallen in. An officer arrived at the scene moments later to find Bruce partially submerged in the 35-degree water. The officer dashed to his car for a rescue buoy. When he returned, Bruce had already gone under. His body was recovered the next morning. Bruce did not die in vain. The cell phone was recovered. (10 February 2004, New York) Exactly three weeks later, 18-year-old Lina, of Queens, jumped onto the subway tracks to retrieve her new cell phone just as the V train was rounding the corner into the Grand Avenue station. She apparently expected to hop right back up onto the platform, five feet above the tracks, but after two attempts, she was still stuck. As the lights of the oncoming train shone in the tunnel, two men tried to pull her up, but she was knocked out of their hands as the train rushed into the station, emergency brakes squealing. She died along with her cell phone Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blackbriar 8,568 Posted February 22, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2017 I see to have the book of The Darwin Awards - "for those who have benefited the human gene pool by removing themselves from it !"....Used to cheer me up no end ! If you need a little pick-me-up, I can walk recommend "The Book of Heroic Failures", which contains gems such as - The Least Successful Hospital Visit In June 2010 Mrs Connie Everett of Kitimat, British Columbia, was taken to hospital after colliding with a moose while driving to visit her sister, Mrs Yvonne Studley, who was in hospital after colliding with a moose. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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