{"id":1408,"date":"2013-08-18T20:15:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T19:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2013-08-29T16:27:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T15:27:14","slug":"it-is-just-a-telephone-and-it-is-not-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/uncategorized\/it-is-just-a-telephone-and-it-is-not-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"It is Just a Telephone and it is not Smart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again I’m in the wrong century. On the odd occasion that I do stray into the real world I’ll see people constantly walking along talking to or looking at their mobile phones. On other occasions when I go to a restaurant it’s not unusual to see four people sit down together get out their phones and start texting or doing whatever they do with them. How\u00a0 fecking stupid is that?<\/p>\n

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The only ‘smart’ thing about a phone is the company that sold someone an expensive contract to keep the money rolling in whilst they trade drivel with their ‘friends’.<\/p>\n

For the record I do have a mobile phone for emergencies and the odd call. It’s about 10 years old on a PAYG contract and the quarterly bill is sometimes around 3 pence.<\/p>\n

Don’t even get me started on the morons who go to hear live music and spend the whole concert pointing their phones at the stage. Dickheads the lot of them.<\/p>\n

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I don’t normally add addenda to blog posts but I just (23rd August 2013) read the following UK statistics, which confirms to your writer that there really is no hope for the human race – a complete species of feckwits. The only real glimmer of hope is the thought that the radiation may fry their gonads before they can breed.<\/p>\n

The average British child gets their first mobile phone aged almost 12, but nearly one in ten (9%) have one by the age of five.<\/p>\n

Parents spend an average \u00a3246 on their own handsets, compared to \u00a3125 on their children\u2019s but one in ten children under 16 (11%) have mobiles worth more than their parents.<\/p>\n

More than four in ten parents (42%) don\u2019t monitor their children\u2019s mobile spend and just a quarter (25%) cap their kids\u2019 contracts.<\/p>\n

Children spend an average \u00a311 per month on mobile bills less than parents who spend \u00a319 but more than one in ten (11%) spend more than their parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again I’m in the wrong century. On the odd occasion that I do stray into the real world I’ll see people constantly walking along talking to or looking at their mobile phones. On other occasions when I go to a restaurant it’s not unusual to see four people sit down together get out their … Continue reading “It is Just a Telephone and it is not Smart”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[18,17,1,59],"tags":[61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1451,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}