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LOL!
I downloaded this one a few months back, it tickled me so much. My favorite part is where she jumps from him beeping -- had she fallen asleep?
I do wish those kids had gotten a better up close of his face afterwards...
I downloaded this one a few months back, it tickled me so much. My favorite part is where she jumps from him beeping -- had she fallen asleep?
I do wish those kids had gotten a better up close of his face afterwards...
Oma is German for grandmother isn't it?
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jep, Oma is german for grandmother. I was wondering about the staged thing as well, but I dont think so 
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i am curious about the iPod phenomenon and how it separates people from people, or does it just fill a void because people are separated?
How have we gotten to such a place in our society of individual isolation?
I am not talking about you Jospseph Conrad, Earnest Hemmingway, Tom Clancy guys who enjoy living in the wilderness of Montana or Borneo, I am talking about urban dwellers with earphones.
Used to be only good looking female joggers, but now it is an epidemic.
Another for instance, notice the speed that the HOV lanes have on our expressways. My wife and I buzz by nearly stalled traffic of up to six other lanes. We are in the HOV (Two people or more) lane. The HUGE MAJORITY are ALONE in their cars. Listening to iPods? Cell phones.
iALONE?
As a past and future ballroom dancer I love music. (Need a knee replacement, soon, and I'll be back) But Anne and I very rarely listen to music while we drive. We do an apaprently strange thing. We TALK to each other. We are together 24/7, you would think that we would run out of things to say, but we don't.
My sister has an iPod. She is mystified that I don't want one. Anne understands.
And our children? Anne, Tucker, Chumley (our spaniels fly with us) and I were on a flight to San Francisco recently. As the plane was landing the annoucement came on to shut off all electronic devices. The plane was descending. Concurrently ear pirecing screams from the young kid in front of us. It sounded like he was being tortured. The flight attendants ran to him, fearing that his ears were being hurt by the change in cabin pressure --- but the pain he was experiencing was an "electronic withdrawal." His mother had turned off his video iPod!
iSad. Maybe I would get a "wePOD?"
How have we gotten to such a place in our society of individual isolation?
I am not talking about you Jospseph Conrad, Earnest Hemmingway, Tom Clancy guys who enjoy living in the wilderness of Montana or Borneo, I am talking about urban dwellers with earphones.
Used to be only good looking female joggers, but now it is an epidemic.
Another for instance, notice the speed that the HOV lanes have on our expressways. My wife and I buzz by nearly stalled traffic of up to six other lanes. We are in the HOV (Two people or more) lane. The HUGE MAJORITY are ALONE in their cars. Listening to iPods? Cell phones.
iALONE?
As a past and future ballroom dancer I love music. (Need a knee replacement, soon, and I'll be back) But Anne and I very rarely listen to music while we drive. We do an apaprently strange thing. We TALK to each other. We are together 24/7, you would think that we would run out of things to say, but we don't.
My sister has an iPod. She is mystified that I don't want one. Anne understands.
And our children? Anne, Tucker, Chumley (our spaniels fly with us) and I were on a flight to San Francisco recently. As the plane was landing the annoucement came on to shut off all electronic devices. The plane was descending. Concurrently ear pirecing screams from the young kid in front of us. It sounded like he was being tortured. The flight attendants ran to him, fearing that his ears were being hurt by the change in cabin pressure --- but the pain he was experiencing was an "electronic withdrawal." His mother had turned off his video iPod!
iSad. Maybe I would get a "wePOD?"