What's in the News

Don't forget about GPS. No need for remembering your way by paying attention to details when you can just follow the GPS every time.

All of the people, except one, that I've known in China born after 1985 have no sense of direction.

Most of them can't count, except shopkeepers. These also apply to foreigners, but it seems to be a higher percentage of locals.

GPS was mainly invented so that people had a reason, well, one more reason, to be angry whilst driving and so they could fiddle with the buttons on the machine whilst driving, because their radio/bluetooth/cellphone/radio/cigarette/coffee simple was not enough of a distraction. 

Apparently, Albert Einstein is attributed with saying, "I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots". 

Apparently, Albert Einstein is attributed with saying, "I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots". 

All of Einstein's greatest fears were realized when Al Gore invented the internet.

All of Einstein's greatest fears were realized when Al Gore invented the internet.

So... it's Al's 'doing' that young couples on dates now spend their entire time together - sitting at a table across from each other, not speaking a single word - staring at their cell phone screens while their thumbs work furiously?
 

Chinese and Koreans are far worse than Europeans or Japanese for playing with their cellphones. My half baked theory is that because middle class kids here have to spend their teens studying and aren't allowed to go out and play ever that they act like 13 year olds well into their 20s because they missed that as teens

I have a few friends who are late 20s and they are sound but I find with people who are early 20s even if they are sound they are still teenagers here.

 

IT'S A BOY!!!!

Congrats!

Ummm... I didn't know you were expecting.

Yay..congrats 

Quote from: Granny Mae on July 23, 2013, 12:41:40 PM

IT'S A BOY!!!!

Congrats!

Ummm... I didn't know you were expecting.

  That's William and Kate's firstborn    You know, da Dook an Dutchess uv CameBritch.  Da Royals!

Quote from: Escaped Lunatic on July 23, 2013, 01:21:07 PM

Quote from: Granny Mae on July 23, 2013, 12:41:40 PM

IT'S A BOY!!!!

Congrats!

Ummm... I didn't know you were expecting.

  That's William and Kate's firstborn   You know, da Dook an Dutchess uv CameBritch.  Da Royals!

So a young, presumably healthy and horny couple managed to have a kid.  That happens tens of thousands of times every day, so really doesn't qualify as news.

Now if our esteemed Granny Mae got herself knocked up and had a kid, that would be news!

A Photo Exclusive!

Congratulations to all that consider this important.

Congratulations to all that consider this important.

So...you're obviously against babies?
/sarcasm