Addictive Behaviour

[Bob Dobson]

It's been hard to overcome my addiction to the hokey cokey, but I've turned myself around- and that's what it's all about.

[Shurm]

It's been the in out in out I've had to give up !!!

[davemac]

The hokey cokey was written in 1940 by a band leader called Al Tabor (1898-1983) and was written for dance hall usage to get the audience to do group participation dances. When he died he had a relatively quiet funeral until they came to put him in his coffin, they got his left leg in.......then all hell broke loose.

[egg&chips]

I laugh every time I read this joke. Some things get better as they mature. Sadly, I don't.

[Restless]

Originally Posted by egg&chips

I laugh every time I read this joke.

Thats funny. I do the complete opposite.

[jaysay]

I believe that this wasn't Long John Silvers favorite dance, he had problems with put your left leg in bit

[davemac]

Originally Posted by Restless

Thats funny. I do the complete opposite.

What are you trying to say ! You don't have a sense of humour !

[davemac]

Originally Posted by jaysay

I believe that this wasn't Long John Silvers favorite dance, he had problems with put your left leg in bit

He once set fire to his wooden leg, he was burned to the ground. He tried to claim off the insurance..they turned him down........they said he didn't have a leg to stand on.

[Judith Addison]

The biggest addiction of modern life is the mobile phone. An article in the "Daily Mail" today says that the average Londoner checks his phone 150 times a day, i.e. once every 6 and a half minutes. However did we manage to live before the mobile phone was invented? Somehow we seemed to manage quite well! Personally I've always regarded a phone as a nuisance and an interruption. Can't understand this modern mania for constant contact! Meanwhile, people ignore those around them and are lost in their own private world of the mobile phone!

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Judith Addison

The biggest addiction of modern life is the mobile phone. An article in the "Daily Mail" today says that the average Londoner checks his phone 150 times a day, i.e. once every 6 and a half minutes. However did we manage to live before the mobile phone was invented? Somehow we seemed to manage quite well! Personally I've always regarded a phone as a nuisance and an interruption. Can't understand this modern mania for constant contact! Meanwhile, people ignore those around them and are lost in their own private world of the mobile phone!

Indeed, anti-social networking has arrived ... come to think of it; dogs do a better job of keeping in touch by sniffing yellow snow Not to mention what it's doing to the language ... texting, that is, not the sniffing of yellow snow. Oh, and the increasing carnage on the highways. A few months ago the OPP released figures showing a significant increase in accidents which involed a vehicle crossing the centre line. Speculation is that the asshole behind the wheel was probably using his phone. Distracted driving is the new road hazzard. And for those of you who do a lot of driving: Is it just me, or are there more pedestrians than there used to be, stepping off the curb right in front of your vehicle? I personally don't want to end up in a wheelchair or on a slab just so that some richard cranium couldn't wait until he got home to find out what was for dinner.

Sorry about the mini rant, folks. But this cell phone bs really rattles my cage.

[Restless]

Originally Posted by davemac

What are you trying to say ! You don't have a sense of humour !

nope! if anything it is perhaps my humor is more finely tuned... Nah scrap that, Sounds pretentious right? I suppose its because I don't like dancing and I hate the hokey-cokey with all of my tiny heart?

I can almost hear someone say "what about the locomotion. Dont you just love being able to touch and be touched by strangers?" Oh I would hate the locomotion too - If the song hadn't been written by Carole King; of whom I do love....

[Restless]

Originally Posted by Eric

Sorry about the mini rant, folks. But this cell phone bs really rattles my cage.

I can agree...However; I do love my nexus 4

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Judith Addison

The biggest addiction of modern life is the mobile phone. An article in the "Daily Mail" today says that the average Londoner checks his phone 150 times a day, i.e. once every 6 and a half minutes. However did we manage to live before the mobile phone was invented? Somehow we seemed to manage quite well! Personally I've always regarded a phone as a nuisance and an interruption. Can't understand this modern mania for constant contact! Meanwhile, people ignore those around them and are lost in their own private world of the mobile phone!

I've said that for a long time Judith, before the mobile, if you wanted to make a call you had to hunt for a phone box that hadn't been vandalized, now you see people walking into lamp posts whiles talking on the phone, my granddaughter has one welded to her hand, I've never seen her without it, which actually came in handy while I was in hospital

[Less]

Originally Posted by jaysay

I've said that for a long time Judith, before the mobile, if you wanted to make a call you had to hunt for a phone box that hadn't been vandalized, now you see people walking into lamp posts whiles talking on the phone, my granddaughter has one welded to her hand, I've never seen her without it, which actually came in handy while I was in hospital

Yesterday I saw the cheapest hands free mobile device in action.
A woman was driving along B'burn rd wearing a tightly tied head scarf which was keeping her mobile clamped to the side of her head she was chatting away oblivious of all the chaos around her.

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by Restless

Dont you just love being able to touch and be touched by strangers?"

Yeah ! Right up to the point I was given a restraining order