Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 31, 2011

Are they texting each other?

1st today- 1st time on- What up people!!!

GBT

Thank-you

The Asocial Network.

The background fades into itself as they are unable to communicate face to face.

I don’t get it …..???

The Anti-Social Network.

Face to Face, 2011 style.

@Gweedo In the library, maybe, but the assorted bleeps, twerps, ticks, and odd lighting would still be a problem in the theater.

Here’s an eye chart for ya:

http://www.crookedmonkey.com/images/LOL-OMG-Eye-chart-girls-funny-v-neck-300-far.jpg

I hope they stocked up on Tweet & Low.

I’ve seen young couples on a date do this.

Why do people leave on their ringers in meetings/library/theater/church/funerals and they say, “I have to take this.”? Obviously those present are less important than that phone. I can envision them at the Pearly Gates, “Hold it Pete, this may be important.”

The parallel play of 3 yr. olds.

tragic

Better here than while driving.

It seems like the driver of every 3rd or 4th car is either talking or texting on a cell phone. It would be an easy law for the local police to enforce. I wonder why they don’t?

The movie “7 Pounds” with Will Smith is a great reminder as to why its not a good idea.

My comment is “no comment” ‘cause it’s so unbelievably true.

….and another thing about gun control: the second amendment says that………….

what?…oh, was that last week?

never mind!

My daughter and her husband have the computers in their house networked. They communicate that way rather than face-to-face verbal out loud talking. Both are fat—

Nem,,, The police are too busy talking and texting themselves. A lot of police departments have gone to cell phones to avoid police scanners picking up their communications.

People who text while driving, should be be arrested, before they kill someone, like maybe, themselves.

When they say they have to take this it reminds me of past times when someone without a pager was asked why he didn’t have one. He said he was the boss and no one would dare page him.

When you consider that they may be talking - or TEXTING, I should say - about Jeff’s latest (and maybe LAST) gig as the Red Rascal, then perhaps it’s best they not say anything out loud for others to hear.

nighthawks, if you insist.

I wonder if more people are injured or killed by legally licenced cell phone talking/texting drivers than by legally permitted gun owners?

According to the Washington Post, 28% of all accidents are said to be caused by people using cell phones while driving (1.4 million annually!)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/12/AR2010011202218.html

According to the National Safety Council, motor vehicle deaths for January through November of 2010 totaled 31,740. If approximately 28% of them were caused by cell phone drivers, that’s 185 deaths/week, or more than 26 deaths per day.

Compare that to the six people killed by a nut in Tuckson. Where is the outrage?!

I feel like an avant-garde trend-setter. My niece is deaf and I didn’t know sign language. So, for the past 8 years, we would text each other. Now the whole world is doing it! They must be deaf or something—or stupid.

I dont think they are texting each other, just keeping each other company while texting others or surfing the web. underscoring the way guys dont need to actually talk to each other to be friendly

Yup, oral conversation is dead. Gone the way of the dinosaurs.

to the cartoon: Mike Golic must have read this this morning as he was going on about Green Bay players texting to complain about a team photo and arguing about it on Twitter when they WERE IN THE SAME LOCKER ROOM. told a story about his kids sitting right next to each other on the couch and texting to each other.

Ah, Nemesys: Now to make this a fair comparison, we would all have to get on a road walking at each other shooting guns every day and see how many die from that since we all get into cars and drive them at each other everyday and narrowly miss. This is the kind of orange and apples comparison that makes me really regret the everyone who goes on a comments section isn’t forced to have a logic class like every gun user should be forced to take a real gun safety class and pass a real test of shooting. Then maybe they could be like the millions of drivers who DON’T accidentally kill anyone every day.

Oh, even if we take such an inaccurate comparison even partly seriously, you are also really arguing for a law to make sure shooters don’t shoot drunk since liquor and rugs play a large role in many of those accidents.

^freeholder:

liquor and rugs play a large role? rugs???? not sure I want to explore that one…

freeholder, you cannot certify one logical fallacy by creating another. I never mentioned people who drive, only people who drive using cell phones, so you created your own red herring of “people who shoot every day” (people do indeed carry every day, but not shoot). You’ve added your own marshmallow fluff and hot dogs into the fruit salad while bemoaning the lack of good taste.

28% of all accidents are caused by people using cell phones while driving. By any standard, that’s a hell of a lot of unnessisary death that nobody seems to care about, maybe because most people do it themselves. It’s funny the freedoms that people prioritize, ain’t it?

And btw, even though your own comparison was bogus, some states (such as Georgia) already have laws against hunting while intoxicated, and they’re good laws to have.

longtimecomicsfan, it’s a well-known fact that people wearing toupees are at a much greater risk for being mistaken for beavers. Drunk hunters account for several thousand every month. It’s tragic.

Nemesys, Thanks for the laugh Mike

Every now and then one of the boys in my high-school class will hide his phone where (he thinks) I can’t see it, in his lap under the desk, and start texting away. I’ll wait till he’s really wrapped up in whatever critical message he’s composing, and then bellow to the whole class, “I sure hope that hand going like mad in your lap is because you’re texting, ‘cause the alternative’s too disgusting to behold!”

That usually makes them put the phone away for… oh, as much as ten minutes…

puddleglum In our school district, if a student is caught with a phone, or any electronic device, it is confiscated. The students must leave them in their lockers. I am surprised that you don’t do the same.

It’s good to see an organization like MADD find common cause with Nemesys’ group, Drunks Against Mad Mothers and address the scourge of distracted driving, but the Post just says 28% of accidents are caused by distracted driving, it doesn’t say anything about the % of fatalities, Freeholder’s right. Apples and Oranges.

Puddleglum,,,, You teach in an all male school?

Texting and tweeting; the first, primitive stage of human cyborg telepathy.

Alan Watts talked in the sixties about implanting the (then-just-dreamed) cell phone. Then if your friend doesn’t answer - he’s dead!

And continuing from there, we’ll need a ‘Privacy’ mode for those moments that we really, really DON’T want a ‘telephonus interruptus’ (if you catch my meaning…)

Trivial nitpicking-if (presumably) that’s Zipper’s coffee, why is the handle pointing away from him?