GRUMP TIME - Just because you can...

Remember the days when you used to sit in a friend’s car on a wet Sunday afternoon, waving a cheap transistor radio around, poking other passengers in the eye with the aerial as you tried to hunt down the best signal so you can all listen to ‘the game’?

What about more recently, when you'd struggle with those tiny televisions, again, playing rotating and contorting yourself in order to see the movie you'd been banned from watching - often in bed, under the covers and long after you’re supposed to be asleep?

Technology is meant to be progressive, yet you're still watching a (possibly illegally) downloaded copy of a blockbuster movie, designed to be watched on a wall the size of the Hoover Dam, on a smartphone with a screen the size of a Post-It note.

There are apps for so many things - too many things in my view - which we get wrapped up in what we can do with our device:

• I can use it instead of my spirit level
• I can use it instead of my egg timer
• I can calculate the azimuth of this planet, the albedo of that star whilst rating the cuteness of people’s kittens on a scale of 1 to 10
• I can turn it into a fake Star Trek Tricorder, Doctor Who’s Sonic Screwdriver or hide my porn... erm - sensitive business documents behind a fake calculator app, even though nobody actually has access to my tablet!

So why do we (hypothetically, in my case (ehem)) do it?

Just because we can…!
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I see Quixote has got some competition here ? uh oh

At least Grumpy's got a face ..laugh
Btw. . Could you please turn down the brightness a bit as I'm using my phone and it's blinding me?

Mind you..I could always use it as a flash light?
I remember when you could have a pub quizz,
and some people would get some answers wrong roll eyes
No food involved?
Did you do the laundry Grumps?rolling on the floor laughing
Grump!
I have liked it better on the yellow base. Could you change it for me, please?
This is the colour I was after. I was working from my smartphone last night and things were hard to see properly..


NO MORE COLOUR CHANGES!!!!


@Seri - no food this time. I was too busy eating to write about it too.
@Moll - Baby!
At last! Here's a man who can actually multi-task! cheering
A rookie assumption.

How else can you fast forward the dialogue?
Hi Grumpy!

Technology is meant to be progressive of course. But right now it's progressing towards dumbing down the human brain. Most probably our brains will be obsolete very soon. We will be hooked up on to some device, telling us our stomach is empty and it's time to eat, or our bladder is full and it's time to pass.

Hopefully it doesn't happen in my time as I don't like to be told what to do.

Nope! I don't think it is just because we can.
It's Just because we are foolish enough to make use of every little luxury, they tell us is a luxury that only stresses us more.

You used a colour for your blog and see the stress you have to deal with.

So it's not just because we can, but just because we chose to.
@Usha. Thanks for stopping by.
I often say that the phones are getting smarter whilst the owners are getting dumber. I'm happy to meet someone who thinks the same way.

In fairness to the others, the first colour was dayglo and the second poster was just being a minx, I think.
rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing


I've got something to add to your last comment to me but on second thought, better not!! uh oh laugh wave
@Mimi. I am intregued
@MetaMaus. Thanks for the video :))))))
No, you're not!! scold


I know her, Intrigued. She is Debbie from Ontario, Canada laugh
Mimi, you know what they say about multiple profiles wink
Molly

wink wink laugh
@Mimi - tee, hee AND hee!

@ Lou handshake My smartphone is set to stop notifying me after 10pm. I'm kinda paid to be available, but there is a limit...

@ Molls - How many time? Multiple PERSONALITIES!mumbling
Don't be so pedantic, you grumpmumbling
I had an idea Grumps, do up a video clip of you doing that little jumpy twisty thing that MC Hammer does in his fabulous song- cant touch this, where he says Stop! Hammer time! ... But the twist is to change it to Grump time!
@Pat

Now you must sing me your rendition of 'Stonehenge' and dance around a 12" monolith!
Pat has never seen a 12" monolith blues
Yeah Molly. Because my monolith just happens to be 14".
Well hello, Pat batting


I need a draught excluder for the dog kennel
I was hoping you had some kind of unrequired masonry products, perhaps a block wall of a concrete slab, that I could bust up a bit for you. Thats how serious it is.teddybear
I have a toilet you could unblock?


It's been blocked longer than I care to admit
Go and flirt on your own blogs people. And let be grumpy (and jealous) on my own!!!mumbling
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