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More Cowbell Warrior Princess
Joined: 01 Jul 2006 Posts: 5657 | TRs | Pics Location: Alive on Earth |
“If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.” - Unknown
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NacMacFeegle Member
Joined: 16 Jan 2014 Posts: 2653 | TRs | Pics Location: United States |
Love the Rhett and Link video- one of my favorite bands!
I have a deep loathing for phones, so many times people just use them to talk to people whom they will see in person before too long! Smartphones have made things even worse, since now people are not only distracted by calls and text, but by twitter, facebook, and the many other time wasters on the internet. I usually carry a flip phone for emergencies, but most of the time I just leave it turned off.
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wolffie Member
Joined: 14 Jul 2008 Posts: 2693 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle |
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Fri Oct 30, 2015 10:57 am
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bumper sticker
Vol. 1 of Exploring Washington's Historic Mines (Oso Publishing) has a photo of a couple miners in front of their cabin, holding a guitar and a fiddle. "In those days" the caption reads, "many people played their own instruments". Imagine.
Edison thought his recording/talking machine would replace courtroom stenographers; instead, it replaced the singer, the orchestra, the piano player, and everybody else.
"Without the automobile that has rendered me unable to walk, how am I going to get to the hospital?" (Phillip Slater, in either The Pursuit of Loneliness or Earthwalk, early 1970s, in a chapter on technology titled, "The Extensdions of Man, or, 'Say Hello to the Nice Fist'").
A friend of a friend was running with earbuds. Ran right in front of a van. Last I heard: hemiplegic, blind, asking my friend for help in ending her life.
You can't get to the wilderness if you take the city with you.
What I like about my SPOT: although it does ruin the solo wilderness experience, it's a responsible courtesy to the SAR angels who have to come searching for me if I eff-up. I can send an "OK" to my family, but it does not enable me to communicate much beyond that. I'm not really getting away from it all, but I can still pretend.
And it really does ruin the wilderness experience. It is not like it used to be.
Some people have better things to do with their lives than walking the dog. Some don't.
Some people have better things to do with their lives than walking the dog. Some don't.
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coldrain108 Thundering Herd
Joined: 05 Aug 2010 Posts: 1858 | TRs | Pics Location: somewhere over the rainbow |
I hate the Phone Zombies. The ones who walk into you because they have their brains glued to their phone while walking down the sidewalk. Then they get all pissed that you weren't looking out for them. "can't you see I'm being an idiot - so it is on you to move out of my way".
Sort of the same attitude those folks have in the woods - it is everyone else's job to be on the look out for ME. I don't need a map, don't need any extra gear, I don't even need to know where I'm going - there are plenty of other people out there who's only purpose for living is to make sure I get back safely - so I don't need to bother myself with any of that.
Since I have no expectations of forgiveness, I don't do it in the first place. That loop hole needs to be closed to everyone.
Since I have no expectations of forgiveness, I don't do it in the first place. That loop hole needs to be closed to everyone.
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Voxxjin made of hamburger
Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Posts: 657 | TRs | Pics Location: Dupont |
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Fri Oct 30, 2015 12:38 pm
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More Cowbell wrote: | Does a ringing phone or non-stop texting of a hiking partner make you want to scream when you've driven 2 hours to get away from it all? |
One reason I hike solo. Plus I am usually in areas where there is no reception in the first place.
Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war
Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war
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iron Member
Joined: 10 Aug 2008 Posts: 6392 | TRs | Pics Location: southeast kootenays |
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Fri Oct 30, 2015 1:06 pm
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i need to find that bumper sticker for my bike commute. i've been thinking of something like that for awhile...
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treeswarper Alleged Sockpuppet!
Joined: 25 Dec 2006 Posts: 11279 | TRs | Pics Location: Don't move here |
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Fri Oct 30, 2015 1:42 pm
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Not much of a problem here. Once you get out of the valley, there isn't much in the way of reception.
That drives some people crazy.
A friend of mine and another guy were cutting up some wood next to a road. Two cars pull up and fearfully ask him where are they? He is a bearded burly guy and said he was all sweaty too. Oh, and he's a banjo player too.
Their google map showed them being somewhere that they were not.
They could not believe that they were not where it said, and were upset that their phones did not work either, and looked scared.
I think he convinced them of their location and then he wrote a song about it--we still play instruments around here, called, Your Cell Phone Won't Work Here.
What's especially fun about sock puppets is that you can make each one unique and individual, so that they each have special characters. And they don't have to be human––animals and aliens are great possibilities
What's especially fun about sock puppets is that you can make each one unique and individual, so that they each have special characters. And they don't have to be human––animals and aliens are great possibilities
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Badger Member
Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 1172 | TRs | Pics Location: Alki Beach, Washington |
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Fri Oct 30, 2015 2:13 pm
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I was visiting some friends one time and they (he and his wife) decided to hang out and chat with people online. After about 10 minutes I stood up and left. They were floored and wanted to know why I was leaving....
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More Cowbell Warrior Princess
Joined: 01 Jul 2006 Posts: 5657 | TRs | Pics Location: Alive on Earth |
Just saw this today.
“If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.” - Unknown
“If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.” - Unknown
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Navy salad Member
Joined: 09 Sep 2008 Posts: 1865 | TRs | Pics Location: Woodinville |
Most of the time I really don't care about some stranger being glued to their phone. Two exceptions:
- Probably 75% of the time I get stuck behind someone doing 40 mph in a 55 zone, it's because they are on their phone and unaware of the correct speed limit
- People in the gym who look for some comfy place to locate themselves (mostly whatever workout station I'm wanting to use) to send text messages, update their facebook page, take selfies, .....
- Slight variant of above: They are actually moving (sitting there moving bars or foot pedals back and forth), but with virtually no required exertion, thus enabling them to sit there for 10 - 15 minutes at a time
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Josh Journey a.k.a Josh Lewis
Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 4836 | TRs | Pics
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cascadetraverser Member
Joined: 16 Sep 2007 Posts: 1407 | TRs | Pics
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I have kids and it is even worse....The biggest mistake of my parenting career was giving my son his first cell phone....
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Randito Snarky Member
Joined: 27 Jul 2008 Posts: 9514 | TRs | Pics Location: Bellevue at the moment. |
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Sat Oct 31, 2015 2:52 pm
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I wonder how many of these rants were posted using a handset.
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tigermn Member
Joined: 10 Jul 2007 Posts: 9242 | TRs | Pics Location: There... |
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Sat Oct 31, 2015 8:46 pm
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RandyHiker wrote: | I wonder how many of these rants were posted using a handset. |
Yea... exactly...
While I think I can count on two fingers the times I have talked on a cell phone while actually hiking (one was work related), I personally don't care what other people do on a hike.. I don't see talking on a cell phone any different than people walking and blabbing to each other on the trail. In fact the walker/talkers are usually louder anyway as you get to hear both ends of the conversation. At least with a cell phone unless they have it on speaker, you only hear half of it.
What do I care....
Everyone is out there for different reasons. Your reason is no more valid than someone else's.
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Waterman Member
Joined: 21 Mar 2015 Posts: 590 | TRs | Pics Location: Big Snow Quadrangle |
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Sat Oct 31, 2015 8:55 pm
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Leave phone off, buried deep in the pack. Anything else that's beeps or chirps,leave it home.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
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