Obi Wan did it first. It’s one of the most perplexing statements in Star Wars cannon.
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I once had (before cell phones & internet) a landline that was a lucky-dip as whether it would be working or not.
Over the course of a few days or a week, my little note pad would gradually fill with notes of necessary calls, until on occasion I’d find the phone actually working.
Then, I’d make all my phone calls in one sitting.
Later, once the cell phone became popular, I was the last person I knew to adopt it & was dragged kicking & screaming into the modern era.
I hated the ‘being at everybody elses demand’ that a mobile communication device brought, although working life normalised it as a necessity.
Now I’m quite used to having a smartphone & use it quite a bit, although I don’t do all the popular social media apps everyone does.
One day, I took my motorcycle for a ride & at some point I realised I’d not taken my phone. I was briefly spooked for a second at my percieved vulnerability having gotten too used to having a ‘device’ with me…& then I remembered I used too love not having a phone.
Nowadays, I regularly leave my phone behind & just go about my business without it.
It’s so refreshing to just be free & ‘alone’ in an age where everybody just thinks you should be instantly contactable.
My family have gotten used to my ‘get back to them later’ attitude & now send texts knowing I’ll respond that evening.
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I make a point of leaving my phone behind if I’m eating locally with my dad and his friends; breakfast, lunch, etc.
It’s surreal to be nearly 40 at a table while a bunch of guys in their 70s and 80s are glued to their phones 
I always give em schtick for it. Will ye young lads ever get off them dating apps, stop sending nudes to the nursing home group chat, etc etc.
Tbf they’re getting photos of their grand children and showing them off 
Its actually great to see them use technology this way
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You bastard, that was my favourite pawn!
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It’s quite irritating that cell phone comm providers do not offer high fidelity audio. They technology is here. It would cost them a bit more to implement. Sigh My hearing is substandard so I’d really appreciate HD Audio.
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Happy St PADDYS day
This is illegal and your country WILL be sanctioned for continuing to make this mistake, despite an entire nation and its diaspora correcting you every year… It still persists.
1,000 years dungeon for all.
It’s insulting, Irish people don’t even know how to pronounce the letter T properly. How dare you single out our peoples disabilities like this
Also, Patty is the (hiccup on my), patty is a girls name, how dare you demasculate a great welshman… I’m not sure what my stance is. Fake anger and lampooned moronity? I think the situation allows for made up words not sanctioned by a dictionary.
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I don’t want to know what would happen if they tried reporting on Swiss folks customs. Like when they burn the Böögg in Zurich… 
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Obviously you wait for these two guys to eat the small g’s before you pronounce it. It’s all in the timing.
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Speaking of landlines, I have this memory that the advantage of landlines was that they had their own power supply (very low) and if there was a power outage, landline phones still worked. I guess that was pulse dial.
The landline’s advantage was nullified by devices with buttons and displays and built-in phonebooks that could not even make calls unless they were connected to main power. (And from there to mobile it’s only a small step, there was no longer an advantage to lose.)
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That’s right.
I’d forgotten that little fact.
Our place had a LOUD dual bell up on the (exterior) house wall that rang with the phone so that whoever was nearby could answer the handy workshed phone that barely made any noise at all when it rang.
I still have the old fire-alarm bell or whatever it was hanging in my shed, which I took down a decade or so ago, during renovations.
I don’t miss it. Used to scare the **** out of me when it fired up
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Yes, landlines remained active during a power outage until phones became wireless and had to sit on a base to recharge. I still have an old wired phone that plugs into the phone jack in the wall. I also had fogotten how loudly they ring. They had to be heard over the whole house. I believe mine has a small switch on the bottom where you can set the ring volumn to high or low.
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I’ll try to remember to take a photo of this auxilery phone bell thing next time I’m near it.
I do recall the dial phones themselves were quite loud anyway, but this thing was like a school bell or fire alarm or something.
If the phone rang & you were near the bell… oh yeah… you practically dived for cover.
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Remember when players flamed Hello Games for not having “herds” that were “promised” by showing a custom beta release video?
Honestly, it saddens me that so many players seem to look at the negative side of a game vs. just enjoying it for what it is. Too many also think that their every “want” is a serious “need” in a game. Sigh.
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Anyone flaming them for “not having herds” is obviously just wrong. There definitely are herds, though not as large as pictured there. Numerous varieties of fauna will spawn as a group with that group for the most part taking close enough pathing that they stay in a ‘herd’ formation. Even if they want to whine about the size of the herds being smaller than pictured generally, I’ve gotten close to that result using automated feeders.
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Yep. Now. The initial release had a few animals in a group though. Not that you’d call a herd. A pre-launch trailer showed a herd so many claimed that herds were “promised.” (Not).
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did the tide come in? When I started this expedition it started me in the water.
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