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In college I was dating a girl who sounded like she was five when she talked on the phone. More than once she would answer the phone and the caller would ask her if anyone else was there. She would hand the phone to her roommate and the call would turn out to be an obscene one.
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Mehrabian’s Elements of Personal Communication: 7% Verbal 38% Voice, Tone 55% Body Language Case in point: Quote:
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As i have a 9.7 ebook reader i don't always bring it with me, especially if it's a rainy day and my backpack is packed with umbrella, office laptop... But i keep the same book i'm reading on the smartphone too. Some people felt obliged to start a conversation with me because i was long staring at my phone so clearly doing nothing ;-) |
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I would like that cover
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Somebody needs to start selling ereader covers or skins with that cartoon!
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I saw that this morning and thought of this thread.
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ROTFLOL! Love it!!!
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1.) American culture is anti-intellectual. See the book "The Age of American Unreason" by Susan Jacoby 2.) Most humans in the geopolitical north are genetically primitive stone age humans. A primitive paper book might signal, socially, to leave you alone more to them.Try going back to the Neolithic past, with a time machine, with an eReader and see what happens ! 3.) American culture is hyper extroverted and reading is an introverted activity. Idiot Americans think being an extroverted barely literate plebeian simian will make you more successful than a bookworm introvert. Meanwhile idiotic extroverts created the great stock market crash of 2008 but the elite bookworm Warren Buffet prospered during this time--in great contrast to the idiot extroverts. The headphone suggestion sounds good. Some music like classical baroque induces alpha brainwaves conducive to reading. Last edited by bagpiper1; 06-27-2018 at 07:30 PM. |
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Never mind.
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I just paraphrase Carl's Jr. (gobble and git food chain)
Don't bother me, I'm reading. I was brought up to mind my own business, and I usually do. IF you are reading, unless there's an impending happening, like a snake crawling under your chair, I won't say anything. If you want me to know, you will mention it. Whether or not I'm even interested and answer is another category. No one would believe what I'm reading anyway. Favorite fiction is Sci-fi. But I also collect books on the Mars Rovers. Definitely non-fiction. I don't care what American Culture thinks. Nor does American culture care what I think about it and I don't expect it to. I use an ereader, and I can switch to a scientific type pdf about Cassini (Saturn) and/or Galileo (Jupiter) on the fly. Both on the ereader. So are some books about Curiosity, the Mars rover. That usually stops any questions fast. If that's rude, so be it. I'm totally against the belief that everyone should tell all on Facebook just to keep the general populace happy. BTW - if I do have my phone in hand, I'm either searching for something online, or watching baseball. Neither one of any interest to anyone else. I don't have any social apps on the phone. Long deleted or disabled. About the only thing I read on the phone are some of the geological pdfs put out by the National Parks Service for background info on the park. I collect those and the phone is more readily to hand than a 10 inch tablet which has been packed where it is hard to reach while riding in the car. |
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