Pokemon GO

not interested at all. believe it or not, my cellphone is 13 years old, and Friede and I were very reluctant to get one at all. I very rarely use it, only for very important calls and only because there are hardly any public phones anymore. and I definitely don't need all that knickknack of modern cellphones or even i-pads; all I want is to be able to make a necessary call when I am not at home.

our kids who are 14 meanwhile consider us to be completely outdated in that regard, and of course they are always up-to-date with technology, and they have Pokemon Go as well.

for some reason people believe they have to be available all the time, and a third of the population have the phantom ringing syndrome. I can live without that

do Pokemons poke?

My co-workers are talking about it right now and I never felt so disconnected to the world.

I went over my local park for a bike ride yesterday and there were kids wandering around with mobile phones everywhere looking for Pokemon. Honestly, they're not looking where they're going so next time I'm just going to mow them down.

Big "NO" from me ... currently in Japan is a massive boom of Pokemon Go, butt I don't want to hit a car upon a highway. 

Can't I just be lazy without temptation?

Blacksword wrote: I was out and about on Saturday in my local park and it seemed that everyone between the ages of 11 and 35 was wondering about like zombies staring at their phones. I suppose if it gets vitamin D deprived pasty kids off the couch and out into the sun it's not so bad.

I suppose it does have that going for it but they're not looking at their surroundings, they're just staring at their phones. It's just a matter of time before one of them runs across a road after a Pokemon without looking first...

(mind you, a pensioner did that to me whilst I was out cycling on Sunday and he definitely wasn't chasing one).

no

Icarium wrote: CPicard wrote: My co-workers are talking about it right now and I never felt so disconnected to the world. like a stranger is to progressive rock and all its sub genres, bands and suits, when prog fans talks about it.

I was rather thinking about the fact that the chief of my team is already 32 (I'm 38) and that we are working as archivists, a job for normal and serious people, right?
So, I was expecting discussions about the last article about records management or electronic archives in the last issue of La Gazette des Archives, not something like: "Holy s***, this m*****f***** has found a Leviathan near the banks of the Seine! And now, he tells me he also caught a Raichu!" 

When I see a giant bowl of cole slaw, I stick my entire hand into it and roll it around for awhile. Then I go somewhere to pee.