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I don't even know what to say
So I'm just going to sit here, and shake my head in disgust.
posted by
Sira890
on March 21, 2008 at 8:46 AM
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Re: Re: I have to admit
> As far as that sign is concerned - have you considered wearing high heels?
Good idea, although the risk reduced in one point (the sign) would heighten the overall risk. As you might imagine, a person repeatedly running into the same sign isn't exactly a benchmark for dexterity 
posted by
hagi
on March 20, 2008 at 9:58 AM
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I'm a lucky one I suppose, because I also don't get the texting thing. It takes me ages to find the letters and my thumb has grwon nearly twice its size once I have finished a three word text. So, I guess, thumb, cheek, nose and skull will remain undamaged for some time to come.
posted by
vogue
on March 20, 2008 at 9:20 AM
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Naut
I'm old I suppose because I just don't get the whole text messaging thing... Can't it wait?
posted by
Troosha
on March 20, 2008 at 7:49 AM
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Re: I have to admit
Well, look at that, hagi! I found someone who actually did what I used to do - read a book while walking! I got out of the habit, but used to do it regularly! I still read when I'm on my damn elliptical machine, working out - the only way I can stand the boredom! As far as that sign is concerned - have you considered wearing high heels?
posted by
Nautikos
on March 20, 2008 at 6:32 AM
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Re: It isn't just kids!!
Text messaging while riding a
bike, KaBoom? Hell, I'm a pretty experienced cyclist, but I wouldn't
dare! It's completely idiotic...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 20, 2008 at 6:25 AM
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There's a hell of a lot of silliness going on in England, this only being the latest one, Kabu...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 20, 2008 at 6:20 AM
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Re: Nautikos
Krisles, I hear the claims adjuster talking...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 20, 2008 at 6:18 AM
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Re: Oh, geez...
That's a milder one of the many expressions they use, shelly...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 20, 2008 at 6:16 AM
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They need some good, old-fashioned drill, sam...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 20, 2008 at 6:15 AM
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Re: Nautikos
Well, Justi, sometimes they turn into persons of the
same sex, to avoid any charges of homophobia...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 20, 2008 at 6:13 AM
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Them's excatly my sentiments, Samantha...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 20, 2008 at 6:11 AM
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Re: Leave 'em be. Perfect fodder for the health care industry, injured but
You're right, Pat! Stupidity is the only completely incurable disease...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 20, 2008 at 6:10 AM
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Re: That's crazy about padding the lamposts!
You mean they have more cell phones per capita then we have here in Canada, Ginnie? Incredible...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 20, 2008 at 6:09 AM
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Naut, I think a new walkway for text messengers must be installed
posted by
Ariala
on March 20, 2008 at 6:08 AM
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Re: Would that make them.....
LOL, Corbin...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 20, 2008 at 6:07 AM
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Re: Nautikos
Specially padded suits and dresses for cell phone use - now there's an idea, Wiley...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 20, 2008 at 6:06 AM
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I have to admit
I have run into things like lampposts or, more often, people. For a while, I had a bad habit of reading books while walking (because just walking seemed sooooo boring), I dropped it because it became too hazardous. Now I run into things just because I'm daydreaming.
Well yea, and there's this damn sign I often run into. It's designed so that normal people would notice and avoid it, but I'm 157 cm's short so it's right above my line of sight and yet low enough to collide with my forehead. Ouch.
posted by
hagi
on March 20, 2008 at 1:41 AM
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It isn't just kids!!
Now, when I ride by a kid text messaging while peddling a bicycle, (I kid you not!), I say, 'I suggest you put that thing away' I whizz by so there is no danger to me, even if the kid is bigger 'n me, but I ran across and adult doing the same thing, and I just didn't know WHAT to say!! I'm with Whiley, let them get their own pads!!
posted by
KaBooM62
on March 20, 2008 at 12:54 AM
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Next up they'll be needing their wn roads to drive on so they don't get hurt when they run into other cars while they text. Silliness has one the game in England lately me thinks.
posted by
Kabu
on March 19, 2008 at 8:16 PM
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Nautikos
Whoa! Someone isn't thinking.....they better leave those posts alone....if they start messing with them, they are taking responsibility for keeping them wrapped perfectly, and for any claim any idiot who walks into them and gets hurt makes from here on out...they are admitting that they are a hazard and that they need to do something about them.....it's already bad enough that we're all going to be paying the increased premium for the carpal tunnel for all these texting fools.....okay, shove my soap box back in under the sofa....I'm off and running.......I really am starting to wish some alien ship would zoom down and take me off to a nice planet with no technology.....I HATE FRIGGIN' CELL PHONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (okay, i feel better
)
posted by
Krisles
on March 19, 2008 at 6:39 PM
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Oh, geez...
posted by
shelly_b
on March 19, 2008 at 4:39 PM
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Hang up, walk, keep right except to 'hit a lampost,' er, to pass! lol sam
posted by
sam444
on March 19, 2008 at 4:15 PM
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Nautikos
Does that mean the padded lamp post becomes a person of the opposite sex or something good and wonderful?
posted by
Justi
on March 19, 2008 at 4:07 PM
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wow just let them run into things...............
posted by
Samantha39
on March 19, 2008 at 3:03 PM
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Leave 'em be. Perfect fodder for the health care industry, injured but
curable. Except the stupid part. You can't cure stupid.
posted by
Pat_B
on March 19, 2008 at 3:02 PM
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That's crazy about padding the lamposts!
When I first visited Britain...about 10 years ago...I was shocked at the number of people on cellphones..and they were much bigger then! They seem to love their technology! (I can slag them off a bit..I'm married to one!...a Brit that is not a cellphone!)
posted by
ginnieb
on March 19, 2008 at 2:23 PM
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Would that make them.....
PAD-estrians?????
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on March 19, 2008 at 2:03 PM
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Nautikos
Seems to me those folks ought to have themselves padded, or maybe put in a padded cell. LOL
posted by
WileyJohn
on March 19, 2008 at 1:18 PM
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