JSngry

Where are you finding the appeal of Black Byrd ? I try and fail. But there are plenty of people, then and now, who enjoy it. What might I still be missing?

Dolphins @ Cowboys today, let's see who best plays up to hype, er... perception.

Regular Season in the home stretch, playoff berths still up in the air, a handful of teams seem solid, many more could go either way. Your thoughts, hopes, wishes, and despairs have a home here. For shockingly few teams, it's not too late just yet!

Phil Elliston - Wearin' It!!!

He was running to pick up his hearing aids so he could get that free iPad!

Ok then what would "under opposed" be?

Chindle's Other Helmet - Five & Out

Texas loves humanity in all its imperfections, physical, spiritual, and mental. Texas gets us. All we need now is wheelchairs for our brains, and brains in our wheelchairs.

Where is the line between "composed" and "overcomposed"?

I figured out how to "work" it at 25% (at best) efficiency. I do it to help my wife. It keeps her off my desktop, which is best for both of us. But truthfully, she uses her phone 95% of the time. I heard that if you fix a pie on a Mac oven, all you have to do is think about ice cream and it adds it automatically. I'm skeptical of that. Some things still requite manual inout. As for Our Great State...apparently part of your phone/internet bill every month goes into some fund for those who are "impaired" as it pertains to being able to communicate with the outside world and yes, hearing aids count you as being "impaired". So you qualify for either an iPad or a Razr phone. The audiologist had the request forms in her office, and sure enough, the process is slow, but as advertised. Brand new hardware, and totally free. Deep in the heart of Texas is where charity overfloweth.

I would think that a flip phone would be easy for Cocaine Bear to swallow whole. But maybe not?

So when Cocaine Bear tries to eat your car in the woods, instead of calling 911, you are going to hope that it shits out a precooked Marie Calendar for your last meal? God, if only it was that simple!

I can "work" an iPad, I help my wife on it all the time, but only after I start figuring out how Apple thinks I should be thinking, which is not how I do think. Besides, if you're going to eat that Marie Calendar pie, you're still going to have to know how to work the oven. That pie's not going to come out of the box and fix itself. What you should be asking me is how I got the state to give me an iPad just for getting hearing aids. That one still makes me laugh!

If a little thing like answering a phone call becomes technologically overwhelming, then yes, Apple is for you. Oh, Samsung is just one type of Android phone. There are several. They can all have variations in their bells and whistles (Customization!!! CHOICE!!!) I've been using a Google phone for the last few years and it's very fine, and very simple. I don't really like Google as a company, but their phones are solid. "The Great State of Texas" gave me a free iPad when I got my hearing aids (I had a choice between that and a Razr phone,which I did not want). I thought I was going to figure it out, but jeez, still totally counter-intuitive for me. I can websurf (and most other things) on my phone exponentially faster on my phone, so I gave it to my wife. She likes it well enough, but still uses her phone (Samsung) most of the time. The iPad if mostly for our granddaughter to play a few games on when she comes over. Other than that, it's this black rectangle thing that sits on the coffee table, or .. someplace. Then again, she's the type that never closes one window before opening another, so...what are going to do with that? Guaranteed slop no matter what If that works as advertised, hey, yeah! Does it?

Indeed it is and very good thing it is here!!!

Indeed it is and very good thing it is here!!!

Chazz Lippez - Balmy!!!

Dude, no phone is that hard to use unless somebody sets it up like that. No idea what dysfunctionality was going on, but it had to have been on the user end to be THAT wonked down

At 58, I began to feel like a beat down pole...

Pamella la Marque-Twant - Say It Again (But Not Yet)

Because there's no investors to con into paying for them.

Um, yeah. Have had one for years now, a decade at least. Only upgrade them when required to keep getting security updates. Phones are not central to my existence, and/so I've never not been able to do anything I've wanted to do. But I do try to plan trips in advance, get somebody else to look shit up while driving, and limit talking while driving to an absolute minimum, even if it entails being rude. Not all drivers are so inclined, those assholes. LOL. Gonna have to do a LOT better than that, bro! Your wife had her phone time out from inactivity and didn't give you the code to reopen it. It's a standard security protocol that she chose to enable and could have chosen to disable. Since she didn't do that, or didn't give you her password, the phone operated exactly the way she had it setup to operate. Did SHE know how to use her own phone? Did she know where the security settings were or how to adjust them? If not, then Apple is for her too! Or maybe she didn't want to complicate things for you!?!?! LOL 🥰 Pretty much any phone, Apple or Android, will have the one-touch ease of answering/hanging up if it's set up to.

2+ years of an iPhone where left was right, top was bottom, inside was nowhere, and an intuitive for me split-second process took forever to ferret out what I was supposed to be thinking in the first place was enough to convince me that these Apples had no taste in my mouth.

Wow.

"intuitive"= what your personal muscle memory clicks with. I would totally have to reprogram my conscious and unconscious minds to work in an Apple environment. I learned this for the few years that my wife had an iPhone. "Exasperating" is putting it mildly! I learned about computers on DOS systems. Windows 3.1 had literally just been introduced. So "getting under the hood" still works for me, because it never DIDN'T work for me. But not everybody's brain is wired that way, and for them, there's Apple, or for those for whom getting even further under the hood is desired (not me!!!), there's Linux. But Apple's proprietary business models, yes, that is the devil. What else is the devil is parking your car not knowing if you're going to be surrounded by big ass SUVs (or in Texas, pickups) to where you back out totally at you own risk. The time has come to start looking at segregating parking spaces by vehicle height and/or length. Maybe the actuaries can shed some light, maybe?