>>> I don't own a smartphone'
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>I have a cell phone that I use for outgoing calls 10 or 15 times a year -mainly when I'm running late for a client.
>No one knows the number so I never get incoming calls.
>Someday I'd like to find out what all these people are talking about with these things hanging out of their ears.
>Do they ever stop talking?
Many are schizophrenics and the dummy blue tooth earpiece is just for the benefit of onlookers who otherwise become concerned.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.