Today’s headlines .........

[pulisa]

Never had a Smartphone and never will have one. Horrible things.

[Catkins]

Currently on my smart phone (don't have a laptop and don't want to sit in the office on the computer).

There have been times when you'd have had to prize it from my fingers. I'm a lot better now. It stays downstairs at night and it's in a different room in the evenings when I watch TV. I still probably use it more than necessary, but I have improved a bit.

[Lencoboy]

The thing is, if we were forced to jettison our smartphones tomorrow we would probably revert back to previous methods of going online, such as laptops and even conventional full-sized, fixed-position PCs, as we used to before the 2010s, so online addiction as a whole will probably never disappear completely.

[Lencoboy]

Never had a Smartphone and never will have one. Horrible things.

If that's the case then I presume you post on this forum with either a laptop or a fixed-position old-school PC?

[pulisa]

Indeed I do, Lenco. Is that a bad thing? I use my Alcatel to text and to make phone calls. I don't need constant access to the internet. Too many people are addicted to their phones.

[Lencoboy]

Indeed I do, Lenco. Is that a bad thing? I use my Alcatel to text and to make phone calls. I don't need constant access to the internet. Too many people are addicted to their phones.

I absolutely agree Pulisa.

It does ironically seem that over the past 20-odd years or so, the Internet has largely contributed to our penchant for nostalgia, in which it has since provided us with endless windows on the past at the immediate touch of a button (e.g, YouTube, social media, etc), and in turn, that nostalgia appears to have stolen the future in many respects.

On the other hand, the Internet seems to have begat too many know-it-alls, wannabe 'experts' and indeed, keyboard warriors, of whom usually fall within the 2 former categories!

[Catkins]

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[Lencoboy]

The sh1t is really starting to hit the fan for Boris now as more of his 'aides' and other personnel have handed in their notices over the 'Savilegate' thing.

Looks like most of the public have now wised up to this current debacle whereas had Boris's snide remarks at Starmer about JS been made, say, a year ago (when Boris was still 'king' in the opinion polls, and still hailed by many as the finest leader since Churchill), a lot of the public probably would have actually revelled in it and Starmer would have not doubt been dubbed 'public enemy number one'!

Now it seems to be more the other way round!

[pulisa]

Whenever I see Rishi Sunak I always think of Randall in Monsters Inc

https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Randall_Boggs

[Catkins]

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