Texting/walking just as dangerous as texting/driving

[ChicagoBlue2]

how did you get a concussion?

I had a minor concussion couple years ago from snowboarding.

I was idiotic enough to get a bicycle without brakes. What happened was that the bicycle slipped on a pile of mud and I hit my head on the sidewalk and blacked out. 5-10 minutes later, I woke up, and saw nothing but stars. How I found my way home with how badly dizzy I was (I couldn't even see where I was going), I'll never know. Now, I was just a kid then, and didn't know anything about concussions or brain injuries, but in later years, after I started riding bicycles again, I realized that a helmet was a necessity.

 

[Barbaro]

I think texting/walking is as dangerous as texting/driving. I hate it.

A few days ago, I was at HEB. Saw a tall guy with his smartphone walking around without looking up. He almost ran into a few people, but he seemed not dazed. About 10 minutes later, I saw him again. I decided to teach him a lesson. I stood and let him walk over me. He freaked out literally, and kept saying sorry. Served him right. I hope he learned his lesson.

 

[ambrosia]

I think texting/walking is as dangerous as texting/driving. I hate it.

A few days ago, I was at HEB. Saw a tall guy with his smartphone walking around without looking up. He almost ran into a few people, but he seemed not dazed. About 10 minutes later, I saw him again. I decided to teach him a lesson. I stood and let him walk over me. He freaked out literally, and kept saying sorry. Served him right. I hope he learned his lesson.

But did you die?

 

[Jiro]

I was idiotic enough to get a bicycle without brakes. What happened was that the bicycle slipped on a pile of mud and I hit my head on the sidewalk and blacked out. 5-10 minutes later, I woke up, and saw nothing but stars. How I found my way home with how badly dizzy I was (I couldn't even see where I was going), I'll never know. Now, I was just a kid then, and didn't know anything about concussions or brain injuries, but in later years, after I started riding bicycles again, I realized that a helmet was a necessity.

just like me.... I snowboarded without a helmet... fell down pretty hard on ice... laid there for a few min... so I bought a helmet next day lol

 

[Barbaro]

But did you die?

I'm alive. I had a basket right here in front of me. I sort of bumped him gently.

 

[ChicagoBlue2]

just like me.... I snowboarded without a helmet... fell down pretty hard on ice... laid there for a few min... so I bought a helmet next day lol

I nearly ended up in the emergency room...... it wasn't until the entrance of the ER came up did I regain full use of my eyesight. I'll tell you this, though-- my mom was freaking out pretty good, and I didn't understand why, but after we returned back home, and I looked at myself, my entire body was covered with scrapes, cuts, and bruises. I certainly got a beating that day.

 

[Mewtilation]

Text walking sure, it's dangerous but not NEARLY as dangerous as texting and driving any motorized vehicle. Of course, the original post does say nearly, not as bad. :P If someone texting and walking runs into my car, well that's their fault... However, if someone was text walking and stepped in an intersection and caused someone to jam their brakes, that could cause a pretty bad pile up.... Wouldn't be very pretty at all...

 

[ambrosia]

Text walking sure, it's dangerous but not NEARLY as dangerous as texting and driving any motorized vehicle. Of course, the original post does say nearly, not as bad. :P If someone texting and walking runs into my car, well that's their fault... However, if someone was text walking and stepped in an intersection and caused someone to jam their brakes, that could cause a pretty bad pile up.... Wouldn't be very pretty at all...

no certainly not. The title article says that, but the title of thread doesn't, which is the first thing people see before they click on it.

 

[tuatara]

so ignore it then.

It's an interesting piece of advice.

It strikes me that when dealing with someone who has a mental/emotional/social problem that's radiating out into a group of people, people proposing solutions and saying how everyone should deal with it often make the assumption that

everyone else in the group has excellent mental health

and in fact are all wired the same.

But I think that's rarely ever true. Probably never. If you experience something as annoying or not a big deal, someone else may experience it as very aggravating, infuriating, something they aren't able to ignore. They may have their own issues that complicate their reactions and their ability (or lack thereof) to allow the events to fall away from them and stop creating stress/upset/anger/etc.

Some people may not be able to ignore it. Some people may be able to but at the cost of a colossal amount of effort that they can't afford to budget into their allotment of mental/emotional energy. We're all so very different.

And I agree, some people can be mean in a way that seems recreational. I don't like to see that either, especially if the person being insulted probably isn't going to understand the joke. But I also feel strongly that the people reacting have a right to their own reactions, which may well be different from yours.

We're a whole group of people each with our own problems and failings and sensitivities and needs, and when an experience reaches a bunch of us, we'll each process it in the way that we do/can, bringing all that we are (and are not) to those interactions. Sometimes there's going to be trouble. Just the nature of the beast.

Mark has alot going on, and he has the right to exist. (That right has limitations, as he's finding, getting some members' reactions to his massive posting frequency coupled with some of his content/style.) But the rest of us do too. We have stuff going on, and that affects how we react, how we're able to react/not react, and as such, we have the right to exist too.

And just telling people to "ignore it" is awfully disrespectful of that.

 

[goodonya]

They don't have any trouble at all ignoring me. I am okay with it too. Writing is something that calms my mind.
I think that a lot of people have a little bit of the wolf pack instinct without being willing to see it in themselves.

Why would they want to? It is a rough moment in anyones life to see straight up that they have done to another what they so hate themselves.

It is one those things people do if it has been done to you it does not mean you wont at some other time pass that good time on to another.

Like everyone here I have known a bit of hardship. I know what it is like. The I am so smart and your so dumb thing is really hard to watch happening amongst a group of people that society often sidelines without a thought.
We are all a bunch of tuffies in our own ways. I have watched this thing developing in a kind of disbelief. People come here to experience a kind of modern age social life but often we are also healing some wounds while being here. That is a beautiful thing. There is not a single one of us that is a higher or better life form than the rest of us. We are all flawed and it is not the deaf part of things I am referring to.

 

[Jiro]

It's an interesting piece of advice.

It strikes me that when dealing with someone who has a mental/emotional/social problem that's radiating out into a group of people, people proposing solutions and saying how everyone should deal with it often make the assumption that

everyone else in the group has excellent mental health

and in fact are all wired the same.

But I think that's rarely ever true. Probably never. If you experience something as annoying or not a big deal, someone else may experience it as very aggravating, infuriating, something they aren't able to ignore. They may have their own issues that complicate their reactions and their ability (or lack thereof) to allow the events to fall away from them and stop creating stress/upset/anger/etc.

Some people may not be able to ignore it. Some people may be able to but at the cost of a colossal amount of effort that they can't afford to budget into their allotment of mental/emotional energy. We're all so very different.

And I agree, some people can be mean in a way that seems recreational. I don't like to see that either, especially if the person being insulted probably isn't going to understand the joke. But I also feel strongly that the people reacting have a right to their own reactions, which may well be different from yours.

We're a whole group of people each with our own problems and failings and sensitivities and needs, and when an experience reaches a bunch of us, we'll each process it in the way that we do/can, bringing all that we are (and are not) to those interactions. Sometimes there's going to be trouble. Just the nature of the beast.

Mark has alot going on, and he has the right to exist. (That right has limitations, as he's finding, getting some members' reactions to his massive posting frequency coupled with some of his content/style.) But the rest of us do too. We have stuff going on, and that affects how we react, how we're able to react/not react, and as such, we have the right to exist too.

And just telling people to "ignore it" is awfully disrespectful of that.

what? telling people to ignore it is awfully disrespectful? you're joking, right? the nature of beast? what a cop-out excuse. are you uncivilized peasant then?

this is not very hard especially for a civilized person. when it comes to a "group of people" as a community... there is obviously something called a common rule, common acceptance, common whatever. when a person does something that affects the whole community... then it has to be addressed, not pushed around and pushed out.

A few ADers did address the issue to him repeatedly and spell it out to him but the other people... what a vicious bunch of hyenas. it's sickening. that alone actually affects the whole community even worse. it's no different from some sickos playing a knock-out game.

just because a person does something annoying to you (general you) by posting one too many threads a day (which is not against the forum rules) does not make it right for you to engage in mob mentality to make him go away.

Forum Rules

3.) NO TROLLING. A troll is someone who provokes members into flaming discussions by posting outrageous messages, and usually ends with name callings and flame wars.

9.) No bashing, flaming, harassing or being rude to other members. Period.

so I ask again - are you a feeble-minded peasant sniveling around like a bunch of hyenas?

 

[Mewtilation]

It's an interesting piece of advice.

It strikes me that when dealing with someone who has a mental/emotional/social problem that's radiating out into a group of people, people proposing solutions and saying how everyone should deal with it often make the assumption that

everyone else in the group has excellent mental health

and in fact are all wired the same.

But I think that's rarely ever true. Probably never. If you experience something as annoying or not a big deal, someone else may experience it as very aggravating, infuriating, something they aren't able to ignore. They may have their own issues that complicate their reactions and their ability (or lack thereof) to allow the events to fall away from them and stop creating stress/upset/anger/etc.

Some people may not be able to ignore it. Some people may be able to but at the cost of a colossal amount of effort that they can't afford to budget into their allotment of mental/emotional energy. We're all so very different.

And I agree, some people can be mean in a way that seems recreational. I don't like to see that either, especially if the person being insulted probably isn't going to understand the joke. But I also feel strongly that the people reacting have a right to their own reactions, which may well be different from yours.

We're a whole group of people each with our own problems and failings and sensitivities and needs, and when an experience reaches a bunch of us, we'll each process it in the way that we do/can, bringing all that we are (and are not) to those interactions. Sometimes there's going to be trouble. Just the nature of the beast.

Mark has alot going on, and he has the right to exist. (That right has limitations, as he's finding, getting some members' reactions to his massive posting frequency coupled with some of his content/style.) But the rest of us do too. We have stuff going on, and that affects how we react, how we're able to react/not react, and as such, we have the right to exist too.

And just telling people to "ignore it" is awfully disrespectful of that.

I sure as heck have tried to ignore it, but you can only see so much BS before you explode... that's for sure... and I have a pretty long fuse...

This is very well written and insightful. Yes, he does have the right to exist and annoy the pants of 90% of the AD members. However, we also have the right to tell him that he annoys the pants off half of the AD members. Half, or more... I'm going with more... yes, definitely more.

 

[Mewtilation]

what? telling people to ignore it is awfully disrespectful? you're joking, right? the nature of beast? what a cop-out excuse. are you uncivilized peasant then?

this is not very hard especially for a civilized person. when it comes to a "group of people" as a community... there is obviously something called a common rule, common acceptance, common whatever. when a person does something that affects the whole community... then it has to be addressed, not pushed around and pushed out.

A few ADers did address the issue to him repeatedly and spell it out to him but the other people... what a vicious bunch of hyenas. it's sickening. that alone actually affects the whole community even worse. it's no different from some sickos playing a knock-out game.

just because a person does something annoying to you (general you) by posting one too many threads a day (which is not against the forum rules) does not make it right for you to engage in mob mentality to make him go away.

Forum Rules




so I ask again - are you a feeble-minded peasant sniveling around like a bunch of hyenas?

Jiro,

I know for me personally yes it is more annoying than I can possibly describe that he posts a bagillion pointless threads a day. That, I could deal with though in general. I have a very long fuse and like to think of myself as a very civil person.

Most people's issues aren't with the fact that he posts 90 bagillion threads a day, it's the fact that he blasts BS out his butt constantly. When he says one thing and contradicts himself later on constantly, that right there is telling me he has an issue with story fabrication. Coming on some place and saying you KNOW something yet do not work in this field and then having someone who works in that field every day tell you that you are wrong can only happen so much. Telling me that he resuscitated someone but then oh a medical staff member was there in the crowd when asked what he did or how he did it is one of the many MANY examples I can list of such instances. Either you brought someone back to life or the medical professional did, you don't mess something like that up or forget it. These are the kind of things he blasts off about and is called on CONSTANTLY but tries so desperately to cover up for. This is what annoys most of the people. Yes, the threads are completely annoying but like I said, I and most just don't click on them or try to steer clear, however again... you can only do so much, he has to also make effort if he is part of this community, not just all of us. He has made no effort yet continues to post constantly and multiple contradictions. If he came out and said, I think, or possibly, or I believe... that's a hell of a lot different than saying THIS IS or whatever. That's all I'm saying. I have a hell of a long fuse, but even he has managed to cut it short. Only so many contradictions can happen before the masses start to group together and put pieces together. NONE of us are saints, including you... I've seen you troll on members before too Jiro. It happens and we're ALL guilty of mob mentality... every single one of us. ( Maybe not Calvin or Alex but they stay out of this stuff ) However, all of us are guilty. Do not point the finger at only us when all of us are guilty. I take responsibility for my actions however I refuse to sit here and ignore constant contradictions and things of the sort. If anything helps to be resolved he too has to work on what he says. I'm a very forgiving person, but I have to be given a reason to forgive someone, I don't just do it. That's all I'm saying. I'm not trying to incite an argument here, I'm just trying to point out that we're all guilty and that the reason he catches so much crap is not that he posts way too many annoying posts... it's other things man, it's other things... That's all. Everyone has to put some effort into being a community and getting along, not just us... that's him too.

 

[Calvin]

I think we have enough here.