04-29-2009 | 08:27 PM
#26
RE: twitter
MAN, ask one simple question and everyone gets all a TWITTER over it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is funny, I now know what twitter is and don't care anyway. I'm tooooo old for this stuff, I can't keep up anymore.
thanks guys this has been a blast reading .
sticks
This is funny, I now know what twitter is and don't care anyway. I'm tooooo old for this stuff, I can't keep up anymore.
thanks guys this has been a blast reading .
sticks
04-29-2009 | 08:31 PM
#27
RE: twitter
ORIGINAL: bonebreak
Texting is less invasive. You send a text, and that person can look/respond to it at their leisure. You can text someone while they are sleeping, or in a meeting, eating, or pretty much anywhere, and it is far less intrusive than a phone call. I have no problem answering a text in just about any situation, but I may not want/be able to talk on the phone. Most of my texts are for information that is not enough to warrant a phone call. I can text my wife that I will be home late, instead of having a 15 second conversation.
Texting is less invasive. You send a text, and that person can look/respond to it at their leisure. You can text someone while they are sleeping, or in a meeting, eating, or pretty much anywhere, and it is far less intrusive than a phone call. I have no problem answering a text in just about any situation, but I may not want/be able to talk on the phone. Most of my texts are for information that is not enough to warrant a phone call. I can text my wife that I will be home late, instead of having a 15 second conversation.
sticks
05-01-2009 | 10:29 AM
#28
RE: twitter
ORIGINAL: Gray Beard
I have a much bigger problem with both cell phones and texting, it's called driving and dialing/texting and having arguments on the phone while trying to drive. In my area where it's a plague, it's hard to look into a car while driving down the busy freeway without seeing most the people with a phone on there ear or in there hand reading. As soon as they are on the phone they slow down and start drifting into the other lanes. How can someone be driving on the freeway with there phone in there hand and pushing buttons and reading. I would like to have a law making it OK to paint ball drivers on the phone. Some of these drivers need to be shot at with live ammo, I almost got hammered last week on the freeway by a guy texting and drifting between lanes. I have a cell but it's never turned on, anyone I wanted to speak to it was done at home, not in my car. Clark county did a survay and it turned out 81% of traffic accidents involved cell phones in one form or another.
I have a much bigger problem with both cell phones and texting, it's called driving and dialing/texting and having arguments on the phone while trying to drive. In my area where it's a plague, it's hard to look into a car while driving down the busy freeway without seeing most the people with a phone on there ear or in there hand reading. As soon as they are on the phone they slow down and start drifting into the other lanes. How can someone be driving on the freeway with there phone in there hand and pushing buttons and reading. I would like to have a law making it OK to paint ball drivers on the phone. Some of these drivers need to be shot at with live ammo, I almost got hammered last week on the freeway by a guy texting and drifting between lanes. I have a cell but it's never turned on, anyone I wanted to speak to it was done at home, not in my car. Clark county did a survay and it turned out 81% of traffic accidents involved cell phones in one form or another.
05-01-2009 | 10:49 AM
#29
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RE: twitter
Three years ago, some woman went through a stop sign, crossed three lanes of traffic, and smashed into the side of my two year old Subaru Outback, burgundy, LL Bean Limited, H6-3.0. Yeah, I exaggerate about the car because I loved that car. Loved.. as in past tense.
I was doing 35 mph at the time, slowing down for a red light. She T-boned the car so hard that it slid sideways and caught the curb and fliped. Witnesses said that the car went about 5 feet in the air, flew about 10 feet before landing on the roof and sliding another 35 feet or so along the ground on the roof. She was talking on her cell phone at the time and "didn't see the stop sign". I had a scratch on my head and one on my arm. Julie, my significant other, had a scratch on her elbow. We both had our seat belts on.
She was able to get out by simply opening the up-side down door. I helped her release her seat belt, helped her down, then helped her crawl out. I, on the other hand, had to wait for them to pry open the door before I could get out. They took me to the hospital where I was examined and released. Yeah, the car was totaled.
Cell phones, texting, some of you may thing it's the greatest thing in the world.. well, I can bear witness, via personal experience, that they have their place, and in a car is not the place for either activity. Period. End of story.
I was doing 35 mph at the time, slowing down for a red light. She T-boned the car so hard that it slid sideways and caught the curb and fliped. Witnesses said that the car went about 5 feet in the air, flew about 10 feet before landing on the roof and sliding another 35 feet or so along the ground on the roof. She was talking on her cell phone at the time and "didn't see the stop sign". I had a scratch on my head and one on my arm. Julie, my significant other, had a scratch on her elbow. We both had our seat belts on.
She was able to get out by simply opening the up-side down door. I helped her release her seat belt, helped her down, then helped her crawl out. I, on the other hand, had to wait for them to pry open the door before I could get out. They took me to the hospital where I was examined and released. Yeah, the car was totaled.
Cell phones, texting, some of you may thing it's the greatest thing in the world.. well, I can bear witness, via personal experience, that they have their place, and in a car is not the place for either activity. Period. End of story.
05-01-2009 | 01:32 PM
#32
RE: twitter
ORIGINAL: bruce88123
At least not behind the wheel and moving.
At least not behind the wheel and moving.
Hogflyer
05-01-2009 | 01:51 PM
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RE: twitter
IMO, it doesn't really matter if you are holding the phone or not. If your car's an automatic then you are physically able to drive it one handed and hold a cell phone. The problem is talking on the phone is distracting (hand held, speaker phone, blue tooth head-set, or otherwise), and the drivers aren't paying attention to their driving.
05-01-2009 | 02:28 PM
#34
RE: twitter
The point is that the driver should devote 100% to driving. Phones and texting should wait until parked. Don't even use when stopped at a street light as I've seen too many sit through green lights being distracted. Remember that the NEXT texter may kill YOUR child and never notice them. There is enough carnage on the roads now with simply poor drivers, don't give them more to deal with. Don't forget to strap down your kids also and wait until stopped to discipline them if needed.
05-01-2009 | 02:32 PM
#35
RE: twitter
ORIGINAL: hogflyer
Blue Tooth! I won't hold a phone and drive, but I'll talk while driving using my blue tooth so I can still concentrate on driving.
Hogflyer
ORIGINAL: bruce88123
At least not behind the wheel and moving.
At least not behind the wheel and moving.
Hogflyer
There is NO call/text worth killing someone over.
05-01-2009 | 03:46 PM
#36
My Feedback: (1)
RE: twitter
A car, driving a car, is not the time to multitask. That's my opinion.. and I believe I have enough experience with this particular topic to be able to give an informed opinion (See post # 29).
We are going well away from RC here. Perhaps this is not the best place to discuss cell phones and cell phone use. And, yes, I am guilty of following the pack on this one, but perhaps we ought to belay this discussion in this forum and get back to RC topics for Beginners.
CGr.
We are going well away from RC here. Perhaps this is not the best place to discuss cell phones and cell phone use. And, yes, I am guilty of following the pack on this one, but perhaps we ought to belay this discussion in this forum and get back to RC topics for Beginners.
CGr.
05-01-2009 | 04:40 PM
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RE: twitter
ORIGINAL: Gray Beard
I have a much bigger problem with both cell phones and texting, it's called driving and dialing/texting and having arguments on the phone while trying to drive. In my area where it's a plague, it's hard to look into a car while driving down the busy freeway without seeing most the people with a phone on there ear or in there hand reading. As soon as they are on the phone they slow down and start drifting into the other lanes. How can someone be driving on the freeway with there phone in there hand and pushing buttons and reading. I would like to have a law making it OK to paint ball drivers on the phone. Some of these drivers need to be shot at with live ammo, I almost got hammered last week on the freeway by a guy texting and drifting between lanes. I have a cell but it's never turned on, anyone I wanted to speak to it was done at home, not in my car. Clark county did a survay and it turned out 81% of traffic accidents involved cell phones in one form or another. Twitter looks like something that could be fun on the puter and a good way to stay in contact with some of the other guys use it if you like. I like my paint ball gun idea though, maybe people would get the idea sooner or later.
I have a much bigger problem with both cell phones and texting, it's called driving and dialing/texting and having arguments on the phone while trying to drive. In my area where it's a plague, it's hard to look into a car while driving down the busy freeway without seeing most the people with a phone on there ear or in there hand reading. As soon as they are on the phone they slow down and start drifting into the other lanes. How can someone be driving on the freeway with there phone in there hand and pushing buttons and reading. I would like to have a law making it OK to paint ball drivers on the phone. Some of these drivers need to be shot at with live ammo, I almost got hammered last week on the freeway by a guy texting and drifting between lanes. I have a cell but it's never turned on, anyone I wanted to speak to it was done at home, not in my car. Clark county did a survay and it turned out 81% of traffic accidents involved cell phones in one form or another. Twitter looks like something that could be fun on the puter and a good way to stay in contact with some of the other guys use it if you like. I like my paint ball gun idea though, maybe people would get the idea sooner or later.
There have been studies done where they proved that talking on the cell phone is as dangerous as drink driving. In Australia there are fines and points off the license, and there have been for some time. I was tailgated by a truck driver who had a cell phone in one hand and a cigarette in the other. He must have had his knees on the wheel (I hope he at least had his knees on the wheel).
Tim
05-01-2009 | 05:07 PM
#38
RE: twitter
ORIGINAL: bruce88123
Can't be done. If you are paying any attention to hearing the phone or to talking on it - you are not giving 100% to driving as you should.
There is NO call/text worth killing someone over.
ORIGINAL: hogflyer
Blue Tooth! I won't hold a phone and drive, but I'll talk while driving using my blue tooth so I can still concentrate on driving.
Hogflyer
ORIGINAL: bruce88123
At least not behind the wheel and moving.
At least not behind the wheel and moving.
Hogflyer
There is NO call/text worth killing someone over.
05-01-2009 | 06:39 PM
#39
My Feedback: (1)
RE: twitter
Folks, the topic of this thread is way out of the bounds of the Beginners forum. We've read, posted, and discussed this to the point where we know where a lot of us stand on this issue.
There is always a place for good, challenging, and stimulating discussion, and I certainly have enjoyed and participated.
I've discussed this with other Moderators and have decided that it's played out and gone it's course. So, it's time.
CGr.
There is always a place for good, challenging, and stimulating discussion, and I certainly have enjoyed and participated.
I've discussed this with other Moderators and have decided that it's played out and gone it's course. So, it's time.
CGr.
