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Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts |
Blue tooth was invented to torture men. I love to be on the phone chatting every time my wife gets into her car, and we just chat all the way to her every destination. I don't have that many d*** words in me.
Thanks I needed that
Al Angello The Comic Juggler/Magician
http://www.juggleral.com http://home.comcast.net/~juggleral/ "Footprints on your ceiling are almost gone" |
George Ledo Magic Café Columnist SF Bay Area 3042 Posts |
LMFAO!!!!!
That's our departed buddy Burt, aka The Great Burtini, doing his famous Cups and Mice routine
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Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts |
Am I the only one who has fallen victim to the evil blue tooth?
Al Angello The Comic Juggler/Magician
http://www.juggleral.com http://home.comcast.net/~juggleral/ "Footprints on your ceiling are almost gone" |
Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21219 Posts |
You are showing your age. Most men love blue tooth.
Danny Doyle
<BR>Semper Occultus <BR>In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell |
silvercup Loyal user 223 Posts |
I prefer a sweet tooth. IMHO Blue Tooth is unnecessary and dangerous.
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Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts |
Blue tooth just keeps me chatting.
Al Angello The Comic Juggler/Magician
http://www.juggleral.com http://home.comcast.net/~juggleral/ "Footprints on your ceiling are almost gone" |
mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
It used to be that only doddering old folks and the deranged walked around talking to themselves. Blue Tooth has allowed everyone to look nuts.
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dave_matkin Inner circle 4522 Posts |
Equality, diversity and inclusion in action!
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
How far is too far? Would you for example like a chip implant? Having a blue tooth, a face book and all that, makes Al perhaps feel he is part of the system. Al would feel like a ghost if such was taken away from him. Without it the people with the high tech stuff would laugh at him, because he would be a primitive savage to them. There are other people, who call they ghosts, who try and drop of the system. They tend to avoid this high tech stuff that makes them part of the system.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
Tommy |
Vlad_77 Inner circle The Netherlands 5829 Posts |
French sociologist Jacques Ellul wrote this in his book The Technological Society. It was written in the 1950s. Note that "technique" is synonymous with technology in Ellul's writing.
"In the modern world, the most dangerous form of determinism is the technological phenomenon. It is not a question of getting rid of it, but, by an act of freedom, of transcending it. How is this to be done? I do not yet know. That is why this book is an appeal to the individual's sense of responsibility. The first step in the quest, the first act of freedom, is to become aware of the necessity. The very fact that man can see, measure, and analyze the determinisms that press on him mean that he can face them and, by so doing, act as a free man. If man were to say: "These are not necessities; I am free because of technique, or despite technique," this would prove that he is totally determined. However, by grasping the real nature of the technological phenomenon, and the extent to which it is robbing him of freedom, he confronts the blind mechanisms as a conscious being. At the beginning of this foreword I stated that this book has a purpose. That purpose is to arouse the reader to an awareness of technological necessity and what it means. It is a call to the sleeper to awake." |
Destiny Inner circle 1429 Posts |
I am always suspicious that half the people I see in the street yacking away on their blue tooth are totally full of it - great pretenders hoping complete strangers will be impressed by their feigned importance. I remember being in a supermarket in the mid nineties as mobile phones (or cell phones to you barbarians) became affordable, and a guy who didn't really look like a high powered business man was in the checkout queue barking orders to someone on his phone for all to hear. "Those papers better be on my desk by the time I get back there, or some of you will be looking for new jobs next week"
What a rude self important %&^%&^%$ I thought - and then, half way through his next sentence, the phone he was talking into... rang. |
Mary Mowder Inner circle Sacramento / Elk Grove, CA 3659 Posts |
LOL
I really enjoy thinking when I'm alone. It takes a lot of process time to deal with my world. Why hand that time over to idle chat? Let those folks yammer away at someone else. -Mary Mowder (putting the "f u" in fuddy duddy.) |
Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts |
That is exactly the way I think of it Mary when I'm alone I am busy sorting out my life, or listening to loud music. All of my chatting is done internal.
Al Angello The Comic Juggler/Magician
http://www.juggleral.com http://home.comcast.net/~juggleral/ "Footprints on your ceiling are almost gone" |
Mary Mowder Inner circle Sacramento / Elk Grove, CA 3659 Posts |
I suppose I'd be making my point more strongly if we didn't all know I were sitting here trolling the Café.
-Mary |
Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts |
Mary
Right now I'm packing for my two show day tomorrow, paying my bills, listening to loud music, drinking expresso, talking to you, and my phone is ringing. I guess my wife is at a red light and bored. Gotta go blue tooth wants me to stop everything, and chat.
Al Angello The Comic Juggler/Magician
http://www.juggleral.com http://home.comcast.net/~juggleral/ "Footprints on your ceiling are almost gone" |
Mary Mowder Inner circle Sacramento / Elk Grove, CA 3659 Posts |
I remember a PBS adaptation of some Kurt Vonnegut. I think it was called "Between Time and Timbuktu".
One of the places the lead character Stony Stevenson went had a belief that it was unfair that some people were smarter than others. The way they balanced things was to make smart people were headphones that constantly gibbered in their ears so as to dumb them down. Sometimes it is worth some unpleasantness to tell your partner you need some alone time. She might be thinking you're lonely when she's not home. At any rate you owe it to your relationship to tell her you will be answering the phone less often so she should call when her need is greater. Explain it from a place of Love and offer a quid pro quo of reasonable balance. A festering annoyance is not good for youse. Good Luck. -Mary Mowder |
Al Angello Eternal Order Collegeville, Pa. USA 11045 Posts |
Mary
This woman has me wrapped around her little finger, and I will answer the phone whenever it rings. I love her, and I hate the d**n blue tooth.
Al Angello The Comic Juggler/Magician
http://www.juggleral.com http://home.comcast.net/~juggleral/ "Footprints on your ceiling are almost gone" |
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