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No, people metaphorically slumping over and giving out is what affects me. The way they walk is not the symptom that I care about, that's why I mentioned votes
by thinkfurther 9y ago
No, people metaphorically slumping over and giving out is what affects me. The way they walk is not the symptom that I care about, that's why I mentioned votes and wallets first thing. There is a difference between "I don't care if I walk like a zombie as long as I'm not one in my brain", and "I don't care how I walk, no matter the reason". You may not care, but that does not make me not care.
Plus:
> The problem of text-walkers has become such a problem that cities such as Antwerp in Belgium, has introduced ‘text-walking lanes’ so that they do not irritate or endanger other pedestrians.
> The scheme is the brainchild of a local mobile phone business, Mlab, which says many smartphones are broken in collisions between pedestrians.
> China has already started segregating footpaths with special lanes for those using their phones.
> Initiatives are also being introduced in a number of European countries to place fixed warnings on the ground to alert pedestrians to the presence of roads and tram tracks.
The streets are already plastered with ads, now they'll also get plastered with reminders of just how cringe worthy so many people became so quickly. I know this is arrogant, but I'm just as unapologetic about that as smartphone addicts are. Kinda like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE&t=8m18s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE&t=8m18s
- jpttsn 9y agoJust parsing here: the walking doesn't affect you, but it is a symptom of some other "slumping over" tendency which you abhor, and which furthermore has other, more severe, effects on your lived experience?