Why so much "techno" in America? - Page 6

Well we probably agree more than not.   Anybody doing the things on the second list should indeed be murdered.  

NYCJIM,

Ignoring me, eh?  Come on, tell us peons about "higher places."  I would really like to find out about them.  I imagine we don't have any around here, so I would like to know where they are and who gets to be in them?

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You can be in them.  If you leave your techno at the door and don't pick your nose.  Let's start you out small.  Get out of Dunkin' Donuts and try a Starbuck's.  From there we will see how you behave.  Before long you'll be a society man, with manners and everything.  

I'm loving this!!!

Starbuck.

That's where everybody is staring into their laptops!!! And that's a shining example of "higher places" where "society man" like NYCJIM goes!!!

Better get out of dunkin's Donuts, where it doesn't offer a wi-fi connection in the shop. There's actually more "techno" there and that's why people there got no manners.

Pass the pop corn please...:D

Never mind passing the popcorn.  Pass a literacy test.  You clearly did not get my humor with our Washington brother.  

I don't go to Dunkin' Donuts or Starbucks. 

That's pretty clear pattern. (works for high school kids though, I'm sure)

When you run out of arguements, just pretend you're too "high minded" to bother giving your arguement.

A joke in colleage physics: when the textbook, after a multi-page proves and evidence, finally went "obviously, this lead to the conclusion of...". It's "obvious" because the proof was not there! 

After all, if you don't offer any evidence or arguements, you can't be wrong.

We need an iPhone app that tells us where the wifi is and the techno-geeks aren't.That way you can be bothered by people who don't know how to fold a newspaper in small sections and read it. Of course that's somewhat irrelevant now that people are reading papers on ipads. Soon we'll have no need for lighting in the subway cars since everyone will have a glowing device. That could save the city a few bucks.

NYCJIM, I take it you're not going to be too pleased when the subways get cell service. It is coming...probably faster than the 2nd Ave line which is on a glacial scale at best.

How about cabs and the incessant t.v's playing in them and driver's on cell phones?

See a chair lift with one guy reading a book and another playing a video game and yelling at another player like Vince Vaughn might not be so bad.

atnyc, I honestly don't have a clue as to what you're talking about.  

Tog, LOL, yes, good observations.  At a supermarket there are TVs playing at every register.  And every shopper is talking on their phones as they check out.  I wonder how the cashiers feel?  I mean, talk about rude.  The cashier telling them how much their bill is becomes an interruption to their precious phone call:  "She said What?  For real?  Holy shit.  Oh my God.  Oh wait, wait, I'm at the supermarket.  [to cashier]  How much is it?  (throws the money and continues talking on phone)  "Well Bria has diarreha.  I just picked up some medicine.  (takes change without saying thank you to cashier or giving any acknowledgment whatsoever and walks out--yes, STILL yapping on phone).    

And as if standing on a long shopping line isn't annoying enough, we have to be held hostage to the inane or posturing phone blatherings of grandstanding, self-involved slobs.  Welcome to New York City!

Subway trains can be very loud.  Can you imagine how everyone will be shouting then?  Oh Jeeze.

NYCJIM won't like this, but sometimes I pretend to be talking on my phone in stores so pushy salespeople will leave me alone. Sometimes I really am talking to someone, but others, well, no, I just don't want to be bothered. I don't care if they think I'm rude. I guess I am. But it works quite well. "I vant  ...  to be .... alone ... "

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Just to add my two cents; foldable and accurate maps as well as bound "books" with pages were some pretty crazy gadgets in their day.  

Reading up until the 6th-7th century was primarily done out loud, from large scrolls and in groups of very wealthy men.  It was a social activity only.  Imagine how rude someone is being when they sit in the park alone reading Hemingway.

Society will always have its gadgets.

What I was thinking before my attention needed to be redirected towards landing the quad.

 

But my question remained unanswered. Was someone who shared my lift, who was not a stranger to my friend, rude to read a book in such close proximity to us?

We were ignoring you.

I just typed this message by thinking of the letters. I love technology. Now I am watching TV on my glasses.  

Is NYCJIM even FROM NY?  I worked in the city for years.  You walk down the street, deliberately NOT making eye contact with a living soul because if you do you're obviously from out of town and an easy mark.  Same in subway cars, if you make eye contact, you'll get "Watch u look at?", not a smile.  I remember walking thru the city once with someone from Oregon, busy "howdy-ing" everyone he passed.  I had to tell him to SHUT UP before we got knifed.  I think NYCJIM must be some sort of transplant. 

I grew up in the metro area and when I moved to Montana, it was a cultural shock getting used to people smiling and waving and saying hello to everyone. 

You're the transplant, living in Montana.  You're speaking of NY on edge the way it was 20--25 years ago.  Times Square and the Lower East Side are not as dangerous anymore.  It's DisneyLand, basically.

But anyway, I never said people should be making eye contact with people on the subway or streets or warmly greeting everybody they meet.   I just wish they'd put their phone away and be mindful (not overtly friendly) of those around them.  

Segbrown, that's actually a funny use of the phone.  I don't like pushy sales people either.

Lots of Manhattan is much more like Disney now. That's a stretch, but seriously, 42nd street is no longer an abandoned, dishelved,  pit sprinkeled with sleazy porn like it was. Manhattan also has the highest per capita # of advanced degrees in the country. Thus the very important phone calls. Self created "smoking police" roam apartment buildings and the streets, often in tight excercise pants. There's a move afoot to ban smoking in parks. The bars are long smoke free.  Baby's are stylish, whereas no one would've been caught dining with one before, now there's special treatment expected. The meat district doen't have so many hanging sides of beef in trucks, now there's trendy clubs and stylish stores. So, things have changed a little. Lots of people even know that Brooklyn is on Long Island.

So far, the one sort of holdout is Chinatown. Hey NycJim, how about that?

The thing that bothered me about NY was never the grit. Hell it was always Gotham, and deserved to have a bit of grit. It was more the snobbishness exhibited by people like Jim.; defining himself as in some higher caste because he goes to "higher places". Hence his expectation that people at ski resorts should conform to his rules of behavior. Fortunately, all of us "slobs" are pretty damn happy not having to put up with that attitude out in the untamed west.

LOL, yes, that about sums it up, Tog! 

iWill:  I don't think NY is snobbish.  I don't think I am either.  Maybe just about how people use techno gadgets on buses and trains and restaurants.  That's not snobbish.  That's just decent.

At my favorite restaurant my friends and I chose not to sit at a particular table.  (Well, I made the decision.)  Why?  Because at the table next to it, this slob of a woman had taken a table for SIX and she was by herself, with her laptop and her loud cell phone call.  How obnoxious!  We have to be drawn in to her work drama?  I wish the management had enforced the "Please No Cell Phones in the Dining Room" policy, but management can be sheepish.  Nobody wants to offend the offenders because they're paying customers.  She was one disgusting slob.  The ARROGANCE of taking up a table of SIX and working on a laptop and barking into a phone, well, it's just STAGGERING.

Welcome to 2010.  

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Originally Posted by NYCJIM 

But anyway, I never said people should be making eye contact with people on the subway or streets or warmly greeting everybody they meet.   I just wish they'd put their phone away and be mindful (not overtly friendly) of those around them.  

Don't look at me and don't speak in my presence!

LOL!!!!!!!!!  

I love how NYCJIM in a matter of a few posts went from

"I hate everyone who uses tech gadgets at anytime" and "People on chairlift texting quietly needs to be murdered"

to

"I dislike people who use tech gadgets in certain situations when they should be paying attention to something else" and "the whole chairlift thing doesn't bug me that much"

Glad that's sorted out.  Now we just need to work on the condescending comments and attitude about being "higher and more sophisticated" than everyone else.

Also....no one should be murdered for being rude - regardless of how rude.  It really bothers me when someone uses such hateful words...even if it's figurative.  A manners lesson, or maybe a slap in the face for really rude behavior - sure.  Murder? that's how psycho serial killers think.

btw, you told someone
"It might help assuage your hostility and anger"

he who talks about murdering those that annoy him is truly the one who needs to assuage their hostility and anger.

I'm not "higher and more sophisticated than everyone else."  

I am higher and more sophisticated than those who use cell phones on busses, restaurants, planes and trains.

Also, don't people in Minnesota have a sense of humor?  People who have no sense of humor should be bludgeoned. 

Um, excuse me, but why the bile?  Can . . . would you guys just give up the insult-fest?  I mean, it's snowing somewhere.  

I give up.  What bile?  I guess you have to be from New York to have a sense of humor?   Alrighty then.  I won't tell you to get bludgeoned, then.   

I'm officially out of this thread.  Hmm, I think I've said that before.   It just gets tiresome being completely misunderstood.  

Happy Skiing!

Adios!

Au Revoir!

Ciao!

Lata Bitches!

The fact that you label yourself as higher and more sophisticated than a generalized group of people who choose a different life style than you makes you pompous.  Those who are truly sophisticated do not see themselves as being more sophisticated than others and do not waste their time pondering over such superficial things.

I dunno about NYC.  We've got a thing called "MN nice" here.  Talking about murdering and bludgeoning people isn't usually considered humorous.  Anyone else on here thought those comments were "funny"?  Maybe it's just me but you came off as "insane".  You have, over and over again, said things that were insulting, offensive, borderline racist, and....dare I say...RUDE! 

I should go rape your family for your comments.  Is that funny to you?  I don't get it.....

Some of the funniest people I've ever met came from Minnesota and Wisconsin.  Some of the least funny came from New York.

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I should go rape your family for your comments.  Is that funny to you?  I don't get it.....

Actually, since you asked, in all honesty, yes it is very funny!  In fact, I was even going to type at one point, after saying techno slobs should be murdered, that they should be at the very least raped, but I didn't want to go that far.  Some humor can be over the top.

But, yes, that is a very funny line!  You may have a career in comedy writing or at least a shot at being friends with me yet!

Happy Skiing!  Do they ski in Minnesota?  Or do you all just hang out at the Piggly Wiggly hoping to spot Garrison Keillor?

PLEASE!

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I'm officially out of this thread.  Hmm, I think I've said that before.   It just gets tiresome being completely misunderstood.  

 

Happy Skiing!

 

Adios!

 

Au Revoir!

 

Ciao!

 

Lata Bitches!

 

Why are you commenting?  Shouldn't you be doing your 700th day on skis this year?  You're not texting on a chair lift are you!?

I am officially retiring from this thread.  

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Why are you commenting?  Shouldn't you be doing your 700th day on skis this year?  You're not texting on a chair lift are you!?

 

I am officially retiring from this thread.  

 

Line 1:  All of your posts from now on will be tainted by the memory of your posts in this thread.  Easy screen name to remember.

Line 2:  I'll believe it when I see it.

edit: hopefully you saw it before i edited it.

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I should go rape your family for your comments.  Is that funny to you?  I don't get it.....

Happy Skiing!  Do they ski in Minnesota?  Or do you all just hang out at the Piggly Wiggly hoping to spot Garrison Keillor?

 

Nope nope nope... no piggly wiggly in Minnesooota.  Sullivans and Red Owl eh.  And yooos guyz got Gristeedes and King Kullen.  I figured out why New Yorkers are so cranky and uptight while I was living there in the 80s.  Most folks that work in Manhattan have to get up and leave at 6 to get there on time... But, the bars are open til 4 so we've got lots of cranky and hungover peeps in line at the deli to get their tea and cigarettes... or talking on their cell phones on the new 6 pack at Huntahhh while wearing their Jets jackets if it is a Saturday  I've had some fun ski days at Huntahh with guyz named Tony, Geno, Franco, etc..  But, ripping up that 300 vert that the MidWest has to offer beats NOT skiing   If I had my choice of living either place.. Slightly better skiing but $7.00 cokes versus 300 feet with night skiing 4 minutes from my driveway and 2 dollar six packs I'll take Burnsville every time.