I read an interesting article today about the dangers of using a cellphone while walking. Yes, I know it sounds ridiculous, well it is. The danger is walking into lampposts, where a study found that 1 in every 10 people get hurt while trying to walk and text (or talk) at the same time. So 118 118, the company that conducted this study, is providing lamppost padding to protect people from cellphone mishaps. (I can see the show already, “When Cellphones Strike!”) If this lamppost padding makes a difference down London’s East Side streets then padded lampposts shall be implemented all over Liverpool, Birmingham, and Manchester.
Are you kiddin’ me? What scares me the most is that this story makes the movie, “Idiocracy“, a plausible reality in 500 years. I’m sorry, but if you can’t walk while avoiding stationary objects, well, then you shouldn’t be walking. You should probably do nothing because you are no longer able to perform the most basic movement of a human being. You know, walking upright, that defining moment in human evolution. Well I fear, my fellow bloggers, that walking just went out the friggin’ door.
Note: The study stated that 68,000 people in the U.K. had cellphone related injuries last year.
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I read this article and I have unfortunately seen Idiocracy. I would have to say that when they made this movie they actually found a way to send some one into the future and this is what they saw.
Idiocracy is really bad. Which is a shame because it was the same director of Office Space (Mike Judge) and the script got some enormous buzz in pre production. The movie tragically had one joke that stopped being funny almost immediately.
The concept was great and I can see why Greg used it to make a good point about how reliant were are becoming on technology. So much so that we forget basic survival techniques like look where you are going.
It’s funny when my class returns from library I consistently tell them, “Don’t read and walk that’s how people run into lamp posts.” I just say it to try to be funny. After reading this blog I realize there might be some legitimacy to these warning.
Bravo. I haven’t laughed that hard in a while. This is how we know humans no longer are subject to evolution, and that’s not a good thing…
They should hand out respirators for breathing too!
Keeker:
Many of us forgot how to add, subtract, divide and multiply when the calculator became omnipresent. We’ll get over the reliance on technology.
Does anyone have any extra clothes pins?
Will, you might as well through in the fact that spell check has destroyed our ability to spell. I sure am guilty there!
I still add and subtract and multiply and divide in my head. I can spell, I just can’t type. This story is evidence that we have killed evolutions chief operating principle, survival of the fittest. We protect the stupid. Can you think of any other reason there are actually directions on shampoo. Instead of letting people learn to act like responsible adults we create ways for them to not have to. We are moving backwards in evolution. If we were moving forward then genius and physical attributes would be become more common. However the weak and stupid are not being weeded out. They are being protected from themselves and their own idiocy. Read the Stella awards, or the Darwin awards, look at jerry Springer or whole butt load of other stories that are proof our evolution is moving backwards not forward.
Right on Jim, it is what I refer to as Social Darwinism.
“Note: The study stated that 68,000 people in the U.K. had cellphone related injuries last year.”
What in god’s name is a “cellphone”? 68,000 MOBILE PHONE related injuries, possibly. Nobody in the UK uses a cellphone. Okay, so I’m nitpicking..
Personal Foul. Nitpicking. Comment #9, offense. 15 yard penalty. Automatic First Down.