Now here is one that I can see the practicalities of, however most blow out of proportion: driving. Unless it's a blizzard or pissing down rain, you do not need to drive. Our ancestors walked everywhere, and there wasn't such a problem with obesity as there is today either. I can walk 2-4 kilometers a day, sometimes carrying groceries and I have a disability that makes my muscles weaker and gets me more tired quicker, yet I swear I can perform just as good or slightly above some of my peers who have nothing wrong with their bodies. I'll be trying to get my license this summer, however it'll be for practical purposes, i.e. getting to work on time, not to galavant around on Friday and Saturday nights, having to fill up the gas tank about double the amount of times that you probably ever have to.

ITT: you talk about things that for most people are no biggie, but for you are foreign

you text someone if you want to quickly message someone, it's not meant to be a substantial conversation

'hey are you going to the ___ later?'
'nope'

that's it

Parties. I have never been to a party.

Except one time, but it was an accident. They were all fucked up on something or other, and I left quickly because I had a backpack full of stolen property. (it was 3 am and I was coming walking home from stealing it all)

>>8487399
Once you experience a cellphone that doesn't just make calls, you'll get it.
Ever see some hot ass and wanted to save it and fap to it and cutyourself thinking about it later?
Two words: Camera phone.

Texting is quick and easy, its not a full conversation.

Driving is essential. You basically either need to drive or need to bum rides from someone forever. We don't live in ancient Greece with loose time constraints and things being close to each other.
Why take 45 minutes to walk somewhere when you can drive there in 2 or so?

Feeling happy.

depressionblox

>Replacing your phone every two years
Moore's Law essentially predicts that every year or so, computing power doubles. That means that their new phone may very well be 2^8 times as powerful as your crappy old one. 2^8 is 256.

>Text messages
Text messages offer the ability to be more concise, and more importantly, do not need to be real-time. I can send the girl I like a text message, have her respond an hour later because she was showering or something, and then take another hour to think up a response so witty it'll give her a seizure, while I may be a stuttering aspie in real life.

>>8487456
Same with me, but apparently normal people enjoy them.

Oh well. Back to my programming homework.

>>8487461

> ancient Greece

*smiles* Classics is my major.

>>8487499
*does action with asterisks*
I'm a faggot.

>>8487411
>however it'll be for practical purposes, i.e. getting to work on time, not to galavant around on Friday and Saturday nights, having to fill up the gas tank about double the amount of times that you probably ever have to.
Fuck you. We have no social lives.
>we'll be out on a saturday night
>we have friends to text
Go to hell. Lurk moar.

>>8487456

Nothing to really write home about, broski. I mean, if you like getting drunk and making an ass of yourself, fine. If you don't have friends there, it's gonna be awkward as fuck- especially if you hate a lot of mainstream music like I do

inb4 you're a pretentious, Aspie faggot

>>8487423
In theory, yeah, but you know that's not what people use it for. The same way people "need" a cellphone in middle school or something because what if they need it for an emergency?

I completely agree OP. Though about the driving, I'm just afraid to drive.

ITT: people have to friends to text, take pictures with at parties with their cellphone, have nothing to do on weekends, and have no friends to party with

>>8487499
Then you should know how any given polis was organized and since you live in modern times you can understand how Modern cities, especially suburbs where you definitely live use the metes and bound system (unless you live in niggeriasia (which you don't). Spreading property out over a larger distance based more on Geography (especially the diverse topography and location of lakes/etc in the US, compared to Greece (where its all fucking mountains and they just find some shithole spot in the mountains and live there). Its not the same thing then, and even then they had other ways to travel, you're just being ignorant and not taking advantage of modern mechanical engineering that is so abundant.

I don't understand Facebook or social networking in general. The only things I see from it are tons of unnecessary drama over petty shit ("POKE YOUR GRANDMA STAN!") or spam from friends and asking you to play games made by a shady, data mining company. I also don't understand why people put their entire private lives on the internet for the public to gawk at.

Whenever I tell this to someone who has bought into the social networking scam, they tell me that it makes it easier to "connect" with people. What does it mean to "connect"? I don't understand how "connecting" with someone means reading their inane tweets about what they had for dinner. I don't understand how "connecting" means calling anyone you spoke more than five words to a "friend", and then subsequently never talking to them again AFTER adding them to your friends list. How is that "connecting" to someone? And honestly, what's wrong with using a phone or email to contact someone when you have something of substance to talk about?

>>8487411
>galavant around on friday and saturday nights

oh man you guys are pathetic even by my standards, r9k makes me feel good sometimes

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>>8487411
I have to drive an hour to school every day. It'd be pretty hard to walk across a river anyway.

everybody likes to make jokes. everyone tries to be a goddamn comedian. i like to talk about one thing at a time so i can hopefully learn something or teach someone something for just an overall better understanding. but everyone i talk to jumps from one fucking thing to the next.

>>8487842
If you like where a conversation was, steer it back.
Most people don't want to talk about the same thing forever.

USfag here. I wish we could buy our cellphone plan by the GB. I use my phone for browsing the web/email/testing more then I call people on it. I would love to pay a flat $50 a month for 10GB a month.

@OP

In America we often live multiple miles away from everything, a car is a requirement, and bikes aren't a good alternative because you'll get run over.

>>8487842
I'm the exact opposite, I often jump from topic to topic. I can't get how people can keep talking about the same thing.

>
2) Text-messaging. Where do I begin with this? It defeats the purpose entirely of having a phone if you're not going to use it as it was intended; calling someone up and actually speaking to them. I'm 22, male and I don't see the need to text message.If I wanted to contact someone via text, I'd use email or MSN or some such like that. Besides, texting costs money, something I tend to save a bunch of.

With my phone plan, texting is a lot cheaper than calling. Also, talking to people... no.

>>8487908
>>8487842
You two should hang out.

>>8487855
thats what i dont get though. we have all the time in the world to talk and talk and talk so whats wrong with having one conversation be about one thing. like if someone brings up the topic of gay marriage people should state their opinions then talk about it for a bit. most people i have to be around woudl simply state theri opinion and say nothing more. then they might ask if i saw a certain tv show and i'll try and talk about why i liked it and what the show was about but theyre just like "it was cool"

>>8487963
Well, find new people to talk to.
Normal conversations live and die at the appropriate time.

For me it's instant messaging MSN/AIM and whathaveyou. Haven't used mine in like 5 years but I was always terrible at making conversation on those things, back in the day when I actually had friends to talk to. They'd generally fizzle out after we'd both find out the other was "ok" or "nt up to mch". How do you fucks spend hours and hours on it? And isn't it annoying messaging more than one person at once? How do you focus on the conversation? And do you actually meet new people through it? How?

PS I was the guy who'd take ten minutes to respond so it'd look like I was doing something rather, but really I wasn't.

>>8487980
true, so very true. the conversations we have are timeless, but out there its restricted to how much time one has before they go on to the next thing.

1. Giving a shit what randomers think.

2. Thinking people need to know what you are thinking about through facebook.

3. Cheating.

4. Anal.

5. Taking meds.

6. Whining like a little bitch.

>>8487963
lol you think people care what you think?
They just don't want weird awkward silences.

>>8487399
>I'd use email or MSN or some such like that
Cell phones do that too.

I've had 2 different phones in my life.
I only got anew one because I wanted a camera

i only socialise during events ie going to school, work etc but Now I work alone at night I never socialise anymore

Friends.
lonerblox

cell phones did not exist when I was in high school :(

>>8488052
ya thats true too. it sucks because i think i have a pretty good head on my shoulders so i think people would learn something from me., at least thats what ive been told when i was given the chance to have a good talk with someone.
and that doesnt make sense to me either. silences are awkward because because it feels like something should be said but no one cares what you say? it always ends up being LOL RANDUM or boring shit, so that people get attention. its like life has become a fucking sitcom.

>Also, a phone should just be used as such; no need for taking pictures or playing games.

You seem to be under the mistaken assumption that the electronic device in your pocket has some kind of intrinsic purpose in the universe that you're violating by using it for anything other than the function which it was primarily marketed to you for. Its purpose is to perform in whatever capacity is it capable of, in regards to what you would like it to do. Can it make phone calls? Sure. Can it also do a lot of other things? Probably. Is there a problem with that? Only if you have psychosis-level Apserger's.

Fucking idiot.

I've had a total of 4 mobile phones.

The first eventually wouldn't save messages properly. If I received a message and had one in my outbox, it would show up in my inbox as the message saved in the outbox.

I got the second phone from a friend as a gift, and the speaker in it would make that noise that normal speakers do when a mobile phone is near it. Shit for calls, people couldn't hear me when I spoke to them, and I couldn't hear them.

Got the third phone to replace that one. The speaker screwed up, so sometimes I couldn't hear people I was calling. Had to make all calls on loudspeaker.

The fourth, and current phone I own has a massive crack down the screen from falling 30cm onto carpeted floor. When I make calls with it, it sounds slightly static-y, so I bet within a few months the speaker will shit itself too.

These were all Nokias. I've come to the conclusion that Nokia is shit.

Well I don't know about the rest of the world, but texting is good for those of us eager to communicate via cellphone but too scared by scientific discovery to risk brain cancer (google it guys, I am not your mother). Plus, I mean, look where you are. /r9k/? Talking? Pshaw.

On topic though, I don't get the whole apps craze, on the whole. A few I can understand, (ie. app for a graphing calculator because one does not feel like buying a graphing calculator), but all the games and stuff just seem childish. If I'm bothering with my cellphone, chances are I'm out and about and my main reason for having it on me is the off-chance I get fucking stranded in the middle of ghettosville so I can phone a ride before I get shanked. Call me crazy but I'd like to maintain battery power just in case that should happen.

In b4 "well just don't be stupid and you won't get lost anywhere hurr durr." I accept that legitimacy of this fear is going to factor into your answer, but it's never going to be totally possible to safeguard against everything.

So when you people hang out with a friend, one-on-one, how do you spend the time, in terms of conservation? Do you find you never run out of stuff to talk about, or is it typically a mutually accepted (as opposed to awkward) silence, punctuated by only brief exchanges?

I don't see the point of clubbing.

Dancing looks retarded, the music is up too loud for anyone to talk, and flashing lights hurt my eyes.

>>8488207
Get a GPS app and you wont get lost.

>>8488249
Until the phone battery gets sucked dry from using it.

Sports: While normalfags love sport, especially in America like football, basketball, and hockey. To me what the point of watching a bunch of people passing a ball around.

Bars and Clubs: If this is the major place of where adults socialize, it seems to imply that you have to drink alcohol in order to truly enjoy going to a club.

Religion: How is religion and worship are foreign to me? What's the point worshiping a god and you still have bad stuff happening the world and evil still persists. (see: the Catholic Church) Even though people are connected by religion and do good social work that is overshadowed by people who use religion for political gain.

>>8488207
>Implying the radio waves being generated by your phone aren't passing through your skull in equal amounts regardless of whether the thing is an arms length away from your head or not.

>Implying radio waves cause cancer

>Implying you and everyone else hasn't been blasted with radio waves for the past 100 years

>Implying I'm not being trolled the fuck out of

>>8488230
well it really depends on how well you know the person. i hang out with a friend ive known for 6-7 years and sometimes there just isnt anything to talk about, we have already talked about it all.
with people i dont know i just ask a lot of questions about them which leads to lots of talking. people love to talk about themselves.

>>8488260
My phone has a 1650mAh battery; most smartphone batteries have similar amperage ratings. It goes through an entire day and night of pretty solid use (full-browser internet, gps navigation, GAMES OMG, texting, calls, etc.) without needing a charge.

Bleached hair: Seriously? What's wrong with keeping your natural hair colour? Brown looks fine. You're only wrecking your hair by bleaching it. Not to mention, dark roots look stupid.

Makeup by the truckload: So you've slathered your face in makeup in order to try attracting a guy. How do you think he feels trying to kiss face paint?

Facebook. I don't understand this shit at all. Why?

I don't understand why people kiss everyone hello and goodbye. Not just relatives, but all their friends, and friends-of-friends-to-which-they-have-no-connection-with.

>>8488295
>bleach

my dreads looked shit with natural blonde hair and just look dirty when they're black or brown

People who spend a ton of money at anime conventions. That shit is overpriced, you can get a better deal online.

>>8488350
>Implying your "dreads" aren't fucking filthy regardless of their color

>>8488358
Beat me to it, bro.

>>8488350
>dreads

you best be black

>>8488358
fuck you man that's just your opinion

but really they are clean and nice

>>8488415
Dye them pink, that would be very totemo kawaii

>>8488261
More things that do not make sense to me.

Clothes shopping: I have no fashion sense and I just want to wear a t-shirt and pants and be done with it. I do not understand why girls have to constantly go clothes shopping or in any case go to the mall just to buy new clothes once every month. I don't buy clothes unless I'm in a anime convention (otaku culture related t-shirts), or buying new clothes to replace the once worn out like underwear and socks. Unless it's something I really like, I don't buy it. Besides, I'm a college student with a fixed and unpredictable income.

OP is a jew.

Showers, like seriously? Who fucking showers.

GETTING A HAIRCUT.
FUCK THAT.
RAGE.
ASSBURGER ULTIMATE NIGHTMARE

>>8488494
I like when people touch my scalp, but I hate when the hairdresser starts talking about how shit condition my hair is in.

Dancing.

Not only do I not understand dancing, but the idea of it actually freaks me out. The more I think about it, the more freaked out I get. A bunch of people moving in very bizarre, rhythmic, meaningless patterns to music. What the fuck? If you had never heard of or seen dancing before, and you saw a room full of people doing it one day, you would freak the fuck out and wonder why these dangerous crazy people weren't being rounded up and sedated by men in white coats.

I mean you're going along, sometimes you eat food, sometimes you sleep, sometimes you shit, sometimes you do your job, sometimes you fuck, sometimes you read the paper, sometimes you watch tv, and all of these things make sense, until you go down to the club and hit the dance floor. Aliens observing us would be completely fucking baffled by this, and I am as well.

I understand the anthropological significance of dancing. It shows off athleticism and health of a potential mate. But there are a million other fucking things we could do to accomplish the same things, and most of them actually serve a purpose. But dancing? God, I'm just getting more bewildered the more I consider it.

>>8488508
It's not the fact that a stranger is using scissors on me, it's the fact that he talks to me.
Communication scares me more than death.

>>8487399
>Also, a phone should just be used as such; no need for taking pictures or playing games.
It's much better than carrying a phone, camera, game boy, game boy games and pager everywhere.

>It defeats the purpose entirely of having a phone
Phones are used for communication with people not next to you. Text messaging is a way of communicating with someone not next to you.

>>8488539
I don't care because it's not something that I'm forced to do.

ITT we are an old man?


>the kids these days with their doohickeys when I was your age we beat on the bones of dinosaurs

makeup
people who buy trinkets or stupid shit
clubs
'going out'
'cruising'(my sister does this)
talking to other people about the most inane shit that neither of you care about
carrying a conversation towards a point

I'm not just an aspie either. As in, I have aspergers, but I also grew up in a family where the only thing we talked about:

GRANDPA:YA DOIN' WELL IN SCHOOL?!
Me:Why yes, would I ever disappoint you lordship?

Recently you can imagine how they feel. All he tells me lately is to get a job.

>>8488563
>we beat on the bones of dinosaurs

I wat'd

>>8488268
Not trolling, it's just something I've heard about. It could be total crock, but I don't want to be the brain cancer that proves it's not.

Smalltalk.
I'm not talking about flirting, or the programming language.
I'm talking about "making conversation". When you are next to someone you know you have the obligation to talk about something.
Fuck that, man.

>8488539

>A bunch of people moving in very bizarre, rhythmic, meaningless patterns to music.

Yes, because ballet is meaningless. Because interpretive dance is meaningless.

> What the fuck? If you had never heard of or seen dancing before, and you saw a room full of people doing it one day, you would freak the fuck out and wonder why these dangerous crazy people weren't being rounded up and sedated by men in white coats.

If you were somehow unable to hear the music and/or were fully tone deaf, you might, but most humans have the ability to actually understand the rhythm of the music, and feel it.
From wikipedia:
> Neurologist Oliver Sacks posits that human affinity for rhythm is fundamental, so much that a person's sense of rhythm cannot be lost in the way that music and language can (e.g. by stroke).
tl;dr: humans understand rhythm of music, and dance to it.

>>8488594
Data is inconclusive at best and you could be using a headset.

There is no excuse besides you being a-

CLOWN CAR

CLOWN CAR

today after my english class the incredibly wealthy, gorgeous french chick who sits next to me hung around so we could talk. she followed me all the way to the other side of campus before going off to her class. for a normal person this would have been unremarkable but for me it made my day.

>>8488620
>humans understand rhythm of music

Check.

>and dance to it

wat

You've made some kind of leap here, from understanding rhythm, to standing up and flailing around in accordance with it, that I don't understand.

>Yes, because ballet is meaningless. Because interpretive dance is meaningless.

Well, yeah.

ITT: Every fucking aspie on 4chan comes out of the woodwork to chime on on how socially fucking retarded they are.

Jesus H. Christ.

>>8488640

They do it multiple times every day. What's your point?

They find validation in feeling like they're not alone. Good for them.

>>8488594
The lower the frequency (bigger wavelength), and the higher the power, the higher the chances of getting cancer.

Cellphones have an incredibly high frequency, especially the newer ones and a very small power (something like 25mW).
A light bulb has an incredibly low frequency (50 hertz from the grid) and an incredibly high power when compared to the antenna of a cellphone (40W).

So, if cellphones caused cancer, then simply having electric light in your home would overkill you in an instant.

>>8488665
you mean everyone feels the need for the same basic social validation, and those types who cannot find it in real life look to the internet? i am shocked and appalled at your theory.

>>8488673
Well, that's a comfort, despite what the studies say.

There isn't really much point to discussing it, though. I imagine it's akin to smoking debates back in the fifties.

>>8488725
There are no actual studies linking cell phones with brain cancer. It's an absolutely retarded urban legend, like the bullshit vaccines -> autism shit.

>>8488725
yes, i can see how holding plastic up to my ear is akin to inhaling cancer straight into my lungs

>>8488725
What studies? Do you have any links please?
I don't want to argue with you, I just wanna see some article saying cellphones are dangerous.

>>8488738
>>8488742
>>8488758

TROLLED HARD MOTHERFUCKS

>>8487399

Cell phones are really handy, I couldn't live without mine, but thats only if you have friends I guess.

One thing I don't understand is facebook, I mean I had a myspace and I get that kinda, you can use it to meet new people in your area and shit, but I've never seen anyone on facebook use it for anything other than stalking eachother and making fun of other peoples pictures, which is actually pretty cool I guess, but if I had a facebook then everyone would tag me in shit and people would make fun of my pictures so nah.

27 years old

No phone
No email
No aim
No facebook
No friends
No living family

Havn't ever sat down in a resturant to eat
Havn't ever been inside a movie theatre
Havn't ever been to a party, wedding or funerial
Havn't ever been inside someone elses house
Havn't ever been in water deeper than 6 inches
Havn't ever ridden a bike
Havn't ever played a sport
Havn't ever skated or biked
Havn't run or jumped since I was 12

If you havn't guessed I was homeschooled and now I work at a gas station and have zero chance of ever actually being alive. I took the night shift in the hopes that I will someday be robbed and shot. No luck yet.

This thread scares the shit out of me. There are this many of you freaks out there? Jesus Goddamn Christ seek help.

I hope to God I'm getting trolled.

>>8488810

What the hell, how is this even possible?

>>8488810
>>8488810

>havn't
It's haven't, dipshit.

>>8488810
>zero chance of ever actually being alive

but you're alive right now? go walk around the park or something, jeez. breathe fresh air and new positive feelings. discover the world around you. call your mom and ask her how she is.

>>8488810

You could probably knock at least half of those out by yourself, so get to work.

Jesus lord guys, I'm just a paranoid weirdo, I'm not trolling.

>>8488758
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVQB3jInm4I&feature=related
This should have it. I wish I could find the original video I was shown, it's a lot more comprehensive, but that ought to cover it.

>>8488742
What a firm understanding of social parallels (and how cellphones work in general) you have.

>>8488833
>no living family
>call your mom

HAHA GOOD ONE

People who treat dating as just a normal part of life baffle me.

People who enjoy dancing and parties are also incomprehensible.

Sometimes I go to youtube, and look up songs I like so I can read all the praiseful comments and feel oddly validated.

>>8488833

he did say he had no living family, so he can't exactly call his mom. Still dude, wow. There was no point to your life, huh?

>>8488861
social parallels? you mean to say that because your paranoid delusions about cellphones are rather quickly dismissed, you feel as though a courageous beacon of enlightenment, the son of those men who first exposed cigarettes, the grandson of the man who outed asbestos, heir apparent to title of Savior to the unwashed masses?

>>8488810
Dont be a faggot and do it yourself, but im guessing that you are a christfag.

>>8488810
duuuude...

do something--- what do you have to lose?

>>8488920
..no? I'm saying smoking was socially acceptable and commonplace before scientific studies proved it unhealthy. Sort of like how cellphones are socially acceptable and commonplace, but inconclusive scientific studies show they could be unhealthy.

Stop acting like cellphones are some kind of heroin you have to protect, man, chill out.

>>8489083
>implying i "protect" my heroin and don't just use it up, always, using it up all away

fat girls getting all dolled up
no one looks at your face, landwhale

>>8488673
>> The lower the frequency (bigger wavelength), and the higher the power

FAAAAAAAAALLSE!!!
Ever took a look at a wavelenght chart? Maybe you should. The smaller the frequency, the bigger the energy. That's why if you coul see a radio wave it would look almost like ------------------ and a visible light would be /\/\/\/\/\/\/\ and a gamma ray would be ||||||||||||||||||||
And there are lots of radio waves everywhere, and people dont get cancer to them. But try swallowing a gamma-ray bursting rock of uranium. Cancer in 3 minutes.

Go study and lurk some more, fucktard.

I don't understand how anyone looks at people in the street and goes "damn they're sexy." I've never noticed the appearance of anyone I know in my life, and I'd probably shut myself off from them completely until I got the thought out of my head.

>>8489510
haha what. i base all my personal relationships on appearances alone. i can't be involved with or even friends with anything that's ugly, it's just too horrible.

>>8489222

Nope major city. People ask why I havn't changed my life. The answer is simple, it's not within me to do so.

>>8489545
However, I don't have any friends, and I'm not particularly looking, so maybe that's the case? I still shut myself away from people when I have a disturbing thought, so I can do stuff to get it out of my head.

>>8489607
yeah i think you're just fucked up. i'm completely normal.

>>8489280
I'm just repeating what my teacher that's supposed to know about this said
I don't know if it's a matter of energy. He said something about how high voltage towers were much more harmful because of the low frequency and high power