Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[7 Biddies]

Oh. At the dinner party I didn't want to attend this weekend, one of the other women (someone I work with) opened Pandora's box by telling me in front of her boyfriend (who lives 4 hours away) that he wants her to get a smart phone. Just as she intended, my ears perked up.

ME: Why do you want her to get a smart phone?
HIM: Because they're much better than the 5 year old flip top she has.
ME: In what way?
HIM: They do more.
ME: Other than making and taking calls, which her phone does, what do they do?
HIM: Everything!!!! She can receive pictures and other things I send her.
HER: He doesn't like that I tell him I'll see it when I get to my email
HIM: No, I don't! I want her to see it when I send it and not have to wait.
ME: Ohhhhhhh. So, the smart phone is for YOU, not for her.
HIM: <crickets chirping>
HER: <high 5s me>

Later, he was trying to look something up on his smart phone, but it was taking forever.
HIM: This service is so slow.
ME: We still have hamsters on wheels generating the system up here. Fancy smart phones don't do us much good.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

On the smartphone topic, I've basically lived on mine for the last couple years. I relied on it for everything from texts (a can't understand well when taking on the phone) to information like where I can find something local that I need to buy. But we didn't have Internet at home or a landline. Now, since we've moved up the mountain, and are now country folk, we have horrible signal up here. It takes forever for a Web page to load (which by the way is almost always BYC for be lol) and calls are constantly dropped. So as of the end of this week, we're going back in time. Landline and home Internet will be installed and the smart phones will go bye bye lol. They're just not really practical anymore up here. Though I will really miss texting. I still have a hard time talking on the phone.

 

[N F C]

Haha, that's something I hadn't heard of before. Sounds like something out of a Carl Hiaasen novel...

He actually spent quit a bit of time in the Keys. Key West will always be home to me.

 

[chicksurreal]

When faced with rational arguments in favor of not following the herd, they judge the "abstainers" negatively in order to feel better about their own choices. Such insecurity about one's own decisions is to be pitied. You ought to hear them when, after 2 divorces and many relationships, they learn that I am not interested in having another partner ... ever again. You'd think they say, "Whatever works for you". But, instead, they talk to me like I need to be committed.

The tribal mentality is alive and well, if you don't want to fit in there "MUST" be something wrong with you. Lol!

 

[7 Biddies]

The tribal mentality is alive and well, if you don't want to fit in there "MUST" be something wrong with you. Lol!

Exactly! Otherwise, there *must* be something wrong with them. Surely, it can't be that no one's wrong ... or, right. (Simple answers for simple minds.)

 

[Blooie]

I like texting because I've had a stuttering problem most of my life. It's not as bad now as it was when I was a kid, but I'm still self-conscious about it. I feel like the person on the other end of the line is rolling his/her eyes wanting to finish my sentences for me, like I saw so many do when I was younger and talking to them face to face. I like being able to send and receive pics through my phone. My sisters (one of whom is on the kidney transplant list) and brother, one daughter, one granddaughter and her new husband live 700 miles from me. My grandson and his new family - wife Rachel, son Landyn - lived in Connecticut until a couple of months ago. I have a granddaughter who lives across the street from me. She has Spina Bifida. So when I have her here for day care and she suddenly does something we've been working on in physical therapy, I whip out my phone and either snap a pic or take a video to share with her therapists and her mom. So yep, GUILTY here - I love my smart phone!

 

[7 Biddies]

He actually spent quit a bit of time in the Keys. Key West will always be home to me.

I'm from Miami; spent years going to Islamorada and surrounds every weekend, and fishing out in the back country. Ex was an IBM salesman who had KW in his territory. Remember Ziggy's?? He actually started calling us by our names when we came in on the weekends. Ziggy just didn't do that. Was there when he threw Ted Williams out of the restaurant.

Ziggy's gone, now. So is his son Allen. I'm afraid it's all changed so much I wouldn't like it anymore.

 

[7 Biddies]

I like texting because I've had a stuttering problem most of my life. It's not as bad now as it was when I was a kid, but I'm still self-conscious about it. I feel like the person on the other end of the line is rolling his/her eyes wanting to finish my sentences for me, like I saw so many do when I was younger and talking to them face to face. I like being able to send and receive pics through my phone. My sisters (one of whom is on the kidney transplant list) and brother, one daughter, one granddaughter and her new husband live 700 miles from me. My grandson and his new family - wife Rachel, son Landyn - lived in Connecticut until a couple of months ago. I have a granddaughter who lives across the street from me. She has Spina Bifida. So when I have her here for day care and she suddenly does something we've been working on in physical therapy, I whip out my phone and either snap a pic or take a video to share with her therapists and her mom. So yep, GUILTY here - I love my smart phone!

You have yours for a specific reason. I think we're grousing about those who think everyone should have one ... just 'cuz.

Anyway, if you need to text, you can do that with a flip-top. Don't need a smart phone.

 

[chicksurreal]

On the smartphone topic, I've basically lived on mine for the last couple years. I relied on it for everything from texts (a can't understand well when taking on the phone) to information like where I can find something local that I need to buy. But we didn't have Internet at home or a landline. Now, since we've moved up the mountain, and are now country folk, we have horrible signal up here. It takes forever for a Web page to load (which by the way is almost always BYC for be lol) and calls are constantly dropped. So as of the end of this week, we're going back in time. Landline and home Internet will be installed and the smart phones will go bye bye lol. They're just not really practical anymore up here. Though I will really miss texting. I still have a hard time talking on the phone.

We live way out in the boonies too and don't even have access to landlines or cable internet service, so we use satellite hook up. That equals slooowwwww. Lol!

I don't mind. When the internet signal is super slow I just go play with my chickens.

My phone does have texting capabilities and it is great for when we can't get a good signal for sending or receiving call. For some reason the texts still go through.

 

[chicksurreal]

Exactly! Otherwise, there *must* be something wrong with them. Surely, it can't be that no one's wrong ... or, right. (Simple answers for simple minds.)

So true.