And another thing:
 

In my day, we went to a baseball game and watched the game! Heck we even brought our gloves hoping to catch a foul ball!
And we were ready too. We watched every pitch, hoping we would get our one chance to make that catch. With our gloves, not our heads.

What we didn't do was look down at our stupid phones for most of the game, completely oblivious of what is going on around us.
If we weren't going to watch the game, we could just stay home and save a few bux.

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If I buy a ticket to see an event, I watch the event. (At least they're getting out of their houses)

FWIW... They've just banned smart phones in Victorian schools. (Australia)

The reason given is bullying. I think it's a great idea but the kids will bully each other after-hours anyway.

I watched our former Rotary President sit looking at his phone through a whole lunch meeting and presentation the other day. It wasn't important work stuff which if you have, step out and take care of it. He was surfing and looking at Facebook. Gheez.

A lot of people would be lost without their smart phones.

I have and use one but I rarely look at it when in the company of other people... And never at work or on a customer site.

A few years ago a "manager" for the company I worked for was checking his email on his smart phone during my performance appraisal meeting.
To say I was pissed off is an extreme understatement. (Not my doing but he's no longer a manager :p)

I still bring my glove with me to baseball games....

I can't blame someone for using their phone at a baseball game. Between innings...

what are you watching other people for? you're at a game :)

personally, i dont care.

thank you so much for your wonderful contribution.


I care.
I care that baseball has been around for 173 years and now they have to pussify the ball parks because people can't pay attention any more.

Hey, maybe they can use NERF balls!


Maybe they should just restrict the first 30 rows to males.

Or better yet, just ban cell phones from the ball park period.

baseball sux

it is like competitive tiddly-winks

wait for football!!

one of the things that struck me most when I was in Paris was the absolute lack of staring into screens any time of day or night. No one was on their smart phones. They are banned in all French schools.

So did you actually go to a game recently or is this some geriatric memory spasm?
MrsWD and I have plans to go down and watch the Reds next month. I love the color and relaxed feel of a MLB field. We’re not fond of NFL statdia - just a whole different, more frenetic feel.

Not sure how lack of spectator participation pussyifies an event, but yea. I know you care. Care is like your middle name. :)

If I go a ball game, I only take my phone out to take a pic or two. I watch every pitch, get some beer, and dogs, watch the crowd if i'm bored, and generally make a mental note of the sites, sounds, and smells. It would honestly never occur to me to surf Facebook while there.

I periodically take my kids to various ball games. If their phones are out I’m taking them, tickets aren’t cheap!

waaaaaa

I went to a Rush concert in Vegas where an idiot next to me was filming the entire show with his phone AND narrating. Such a DB. I hope the laser and light show ruined most of the footage. Thankfully, he moved after a few songs. I hate everyone (even more than Sammy does).

Well, I don't hate everyone, but those I do hate I hate with extreme prejudice.

You had a day? You went to a baseball game?

This calls for a double-rant thread, so I won't hijack this one....and put yer phone down dammit...at concerts...

I FREAKIN' hate to see screens in front of me....much less by the two idiots on either side...btdt :(.

GOML seat ;)!

Remember when Sammy used to say that anyone who texts is a 13 y.o. girl? Then Trump came along and he hasn't said a word about it since.

Funny guy. :)

I think that you mean Tweet (not text)

And yeah, when Twitter came out, with a cute little bird and "tweets" ...that was marketing designed as neo-MySpace ...for 13 y.o. girls.

Clearly it's something else now as so many try to reach the minds o mush..

yes I did say that back when texting was becoming a major fad. That was a long time ago but I still don't text unless I absolutely have to, I believe its dumb and something more suited to giggly teenage girls.
I don't know why you decided it would be good idea to bring politics into the forum where politics don't belong, must be a character flaw. One of many.
Maybe that's just the best you could come up with? LOL

And for the record, I have dissed trump for his tweeting. in PARF. Just one more thing you are wrong about ( again, one of so many).
I don't tweet. Never have, wouldn't know how.

While we're going down memory lane, I also remember the first time I met good old speeder.
It was at dunkels and I was talking to some friends at their display table in the swap meet section.
Someone walked up and butted into the conversation, but was basically talking nonsense. Active very strange as if he thought he was an expert on something obscure but obviously wasn't. I can't remember the exact topic he was mutilating but it may have had something to do with 911 heads.

I was puzzled and taken back, compounded by the "head slap" body language of my friends who just ignored the guy until he walked away.

I asked them WTF was that all about?
They just laughed and one guy said forget about it, that's just a guy named Denis. he's a bit strange.
The other said "a bit?"

Ah, the good old days.
Reminiscing is fun.

I was at that Cubs/Houston game, there was no chance for anyone to catch that ball, it went inches past the edge of the existing netting in a 90mph line drive.

That being said, I wouldn't have a freaking infant in the prime seats like that. We like to sit in the outfield, we watch the hits and we've watched people not far from us get nailed because they're screwing around with a phone or their nachos or their screaming bratty spawn.

I also don't walk up and down the stairs unless it's between innings or between slow pitches. Don't get up yet, there's one freaking out left, cross your legs and wait like an adult!

Yep....just 3-4 years ago, Denis, Sammy, Glenn, and I shared disdain fer the lyin' POS....now PARF has driven us apart :)!

Biches...but alas...me too ;)

Nah, it's just that some of us can change our minds, on new information. And some stay butt-hurt clinging to old information.

^^^^ HRC ran....the evil witch is dead, but the lyin' POS that was elected President over her still sux :).

He's what he's been since the 70s...

Me too....a fiscally conservative that's voted mostly R....that hasn't changed one bit ;).

Except I have truly despised both political parties....well....since about 2003...I developed BDS .... remember ;)?

I think you're getting senile, Sammy. That story doesn't sound familiar at all and this is the first you've ever mentioned it. Who were the other guys, since you have this memory? You said that we met at Dunkels, now I think you're lying.

I remember that day and I was there w Tyson, Jack Olsen and hung out w my cousin and Alouis Ruf. Pictures to prove it on the old thread you dug up. My bringing up your remarks about texting hurt you so bad that you have to make up some strange story about "meeting" me 18 years ago? Weird old dude... :rolleyes:

Yeah, he's making so much work for so many people. -so sucky getting paid well and having to be picky about what job to take. yadda yadda...

Seriously, I didn't have high hopes for POTUS 45. And look at us now. If you don't see that we are living in a golden age I truly do feel sorry for you and your TDS.

^^^^ DS, BS, TS....I just can't keep up...

iDS ....Does Apple has you trademarked already ;)

...as he posts from his phone, completely oblivious of what is going on around him.

I posted from a desktop computer, not a phone.
the only time I have ever posted anything from a phone was when I was out of town. Maybe 4 or 5 times.

Have you ever gotten anything right? I mean in your entire existence? Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while, but not you.
It's hard to believe you could maintain such a poor batting average unless it was intentional, and even then that would require an impressive effort.

Of course you would deny it, you are the weird person they were making fun of. It happened. Could it be that you don't remember because you were on drugs or something? That would certainly explain your strange behavior.
no, I was not lying. I did not make it up.
And I've discussed the fact that we've met at dunkels many times in this forum, not surprising that you would also deny that. IIRC I mentioned toothpick arms and pencil neck at least once.

You just had to jump into this thread and post something stupid and completely irrelevant to the topic, and make a ridiculous reference from years ago in an attempt to attack me.
Like a cowardly little kid who tries to jump on the dogpile only when he can get away with it.
Weak.

Sammy, you're such a snow flake. Bringing up your texting comments really set you off that much that you had to lash back w some weird personal attacks? Whatever...anyone reading this can see how effeminate you really are. You're like a catty little b!tch...talking ***** about me w your girlfriends the minute I walked away according to your story and only directly to me online. Talk about a coward... :rolleyes:

I don't remember any strange encounter @ Dunkels or anyone treating me w the contempt you describe to my face. That, I would remember. And clearly we never met, you simply stood by according to your story and had to ask who I was after I left. The whole thing is bizarre. Whose table was it? You must remember, this encounter really left a mark. Can they be named or do they have a twat between their legs like you? Sewing circle biotches, lol...

I don't use drugs or drink and did not in 2002. You?

Definitely a big no to the drugs, not my thing ever. I haven't drank in years, but back then I enjoyed tilting back a beer on occasion.
If you didn't do drugs, how do you explain your stranger behavior? if it simply a case that you were goofy-weird and lacked social skills on that particular day?
No, that couldn't be it. They knew you and it was obvious that wasn't the first time you left that impression on them.

I do not recall the names of the two guys at the dunkel swap meet.
I went to several events at dunkels, I can't even say for sure which one that was. I recognized them from the OCR PCA or from swap meets at Pomona. It's possible Joe Bob introduced us.

I seem to remember they had a couple tables and carboard boxes with early 911 engine parts. A couple sets of early heads, cases, fan shrouds, that kind of stuff.

They were sitting on a tailgate of a dark colored small pickup, probably a ford ranger, maybe black. Middle of the swap meet, due north of the dunkel building.
Sound familiar? Maybe they're on this board and will pipe in.

It's funny you have to resort to calling me effeminate. You were the little pip-squeak.
I seemed to recall you weren't very tall either.

Would now be a good time to bring up the quality of work you've done for pelicans and some of those "issues?"
Naw, I think we'll save that for now.

Sure, Sammy. Bring it up. It would certainly fit your pattern of only talking schit years after the fact and never to my face or at the time of the supposed complaint. If it’s anyone I can remember doing work for, they praised me and my work effusively on this forum at the time it was performed. So please, bring it up, you pussy. :rolleyes:

And anytime you want to meet at the boxing gym and teach me a lesson, the offer is still good from years ago. Your tiny balls shriveled up to the size of raisins back then, get any braver lately? I’m a tiny pipsqueak, how can you lose? :)

No glove no love.