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Originally Posted by barryem
Personally I think listening to audiobooks is just fine and not the least bit lazy. I do a bit of it although I read most of the time. Lately I've been thinking of getting back into listening more although so far I haven't. I have bought a couple of audiobooks in the past few weeks.
For someone to think that listening is lazy is, in my rarely humble opinion, a perfectly valid idea. I don't agree with it but I understand it and I don't object to someone thinking that.
If we're going to have an intelligent discussion about this stuff I think we have to be open to ideas we don't agree with. I don't think "lazy" is quite name calling.
By the way, I've been retired for a couple of decades and I think "lazy" has a nice ring to it. I love being lazy. I love those weeks when there's simply nothing to do. Remember that "work" is a four letter word. Sort of like other evil words: for example "okra". I better stop now before I get sick. 
Barry |
I might disagree with you.
Let me give you two sentences and I want your opinion.
Barry has lazy days now that he is retired.
Cindy is lazy because she listens to books.
One is fine and we only have 4 more years.
The other is insulting and judgy.
That would be like me saying Barry is dirty because he is an old man.
For all I know you might have been a dirty young man or you are a clean old man.
I was just stereotyping.