Has the world gone mad??

[jm10]

Yeah that I can understand but my brother loads movies on them too. The kids once brought them over and never used them once in their 5 day stay with Granny. They were too busy playing with lego, drawing , playing ball sports outside, etc. We even have a sandpit and they love water - a big basin in with toys to play too.

Times have changed, technology for kids is what lego was to us.

My son gets his iphone when i get home, it give me time to bath and eat and he literally sits in one place and does not move and gives my wife a break so we can eat together.

He plays most of the day with toys and etc but he does love his youtube time, oh and his 1 year 6 months

I loved tech as a boy and work rather play on our dos computer or watch tv then be outside or toys. I dont wear glasses and know I’m a hard worker so this whole thing about our kids and tech is bad is just generalizing.

Ps not aimed at you @RainstormZA just quoted for reference


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[RainstormZA]

Times have changed, technology for kids is what lego was to us.

My son gets his iphone when i get home, it give me time to bath and eat and he literally sits in one place and does not move and gives my wife a break so we can eat together.

He plays most of the day with toys and etc but he does love his youtube time, oh and his 1 year 6 months

I loved tech as a boy and work rather play on our dos computer or watch tv then be outside or toys. I dont wear glasses and know in a hard worker so this whole thing about our kids and tech is bad is just generalizing.

Ps not aid at you @RainstormZA just quoted for reference


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Yeah at the end of the day, my mom needs to cook their dinner so we ask them what movie they want to watch and it keeps them quiet for an hour so that she can cook in peace. Lol.

And they love their books - always begging an adult to read to them.

 

[Clouds4Days]

Whats not normal for some is normal for others.

Regarding aspects of some issues discussed. The phone/iPad issue i feel has already been discussed times have moved on and kids need phones for communication to parents and friends and ipads for educational and leisure use. Nothing wrong with that back in the 60's kids listened to the radio as thats all they had.

As for houses someone will rent a property like that for a month because maybe they wanna go on holiday for a month . it would be cheaper paying 49k for a home for a month for a family of 4 then paying 2k a night for a hotel for 30 days.

Also sometimes there are foreigners who want to immigrate and 49k for us is 10k for them.

Rules of the road should be obided but unfortunately they are not and everyone brakes them probably on a daily basis.
Maybe someone driving on the yellow lane iratetes you but maybe you irritate them when you dont stop at a stop street and only yield at it.

 

[Raindance]

@RenaldoRheeder Qbit? Cyber currency or computing platform? Actually, probably both...

@DaveH, when I have nothing to worry about I go look for stuff to worry about. Some would call me a worryor...

Cheers.

 

[RenaldoRheeder]

@RenaldoRheeder Qbit? Cyber currency or computing platform? Actually, probably both...

@DaveH, when I have nothing to worry about I go look for stuff to worry about. Some would call me a worryor...

Cheers.

@Raindance - platform


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[Alex]

Two words - Cultural appropriation

 

[Hooked]

@antonherbst, I would say people who drive in the emergency lane, people who don't indicate and people who "endanger" the lives of others on the public roads.
My words were chosen carefully.
I do think that there are moments when I need to disobey the rules of the road e.g. my son is having a croupe attack and can't breathe and I'm rushing him to the ER (even though I have multiple nebulisers and all the meds I need at home). I'll gladly break the "rules" as long as I'm not endangering the life of my family or the lives of others around me.

I've noticed a huge change in driving habits since returning to SA about 3 years ago. In the past, no matter how many cars were behind you, you chugged along at 120kph. They would overtake when they thought it was safe - or not. Nowadays most cars pull over to the left and drive on the shoulder, so that cars can overtake them. I do the same - now, but it's actually quite dangerous. What if a car has stopped on the shoulder because of an emergency? And I'm just a little ashamed to say that I flashed my lights (now what were you thinking?) at a car in front of me the other day, to make him pull over! In all fairness though, he was literally chugging along at 90kph in a 120 zone.

 

[Vape_N8th]

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Who would be crazy enough to pay R49,000 per month RENT? If you can afford to do that, then you may as well just buy the house!

I wish I could , Yzer fontein is beautiful !

 

[Hooked]

I wish I could , Yzer fontein is beautiful !

Pity you're so far away, but if you ever come to CT, take a drive to Yzer and pop in to my place for coffee!

 

[Vape_N8th]

Pity you're so far away, but if you ever come to CT, take a drive to Yzer and pop in to my place for coffee!

I normally go to , laaiplek and stay there.

will shout when we pop through again !

 

[Neal]

The world has always been mad. I do not have much money but my mother has piles.

 

[Hooked]

The world has always been mad. I do not have much money but my mother has piles.

Oh gosh she'd better see the doctor!

 

[RainstormZA]

Times have changed, technology for kids is what lego was to us.

My son gets his iphone when i get home, it give me time to bath and eat and he literally sits in one place and does not move and gives my wife a break so we can eat together.

He plays most of the day with toys and etc but he does love his youtube time, oh and his 1 year 6 months

I loved tech as a boy and work rather play on our dos computer or watch tv then be outside or toys. I dont wear glasses and know I’m a hard worker so this whole thing about our kids and tech is bad is just generalizing.

Ps not aimed at you @RainstormZA just quoted for reference


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And speaking of which, the kids love feeding the chickens and collecting eggs.

It's worth it that I took a lot of time to tame my hens to feed from our hands. I finally got Nadia's daughter Caramel to eat out of our hand and she is still nervous but trust takes time and lots of patience.

I have inherited and passed along my grandfather's tradition with hens.

 

[Steyn777]

To underline the "crazy" going on around us, think about the following:

Our universe is a very inhospitable place with busts of radiation of various types bombarding our little planet daily. Most of this does not reach us due to earths magnetic field diverting it. However one good gamma ray burst from a "nearby" collapsing star could render our electronics useless. And in this day and age this would result in the collapse of civilization as we know it. We are so dependent on bits and bytes that we can not even perform the simplest of tasks without them.

But only crazies and nutters worry about crap like this, right?

I will stick to my mechanical mods, just in case, not that I'm a nutter or anything like that... (Note to self: I have to rethink my priorities)

Regards

I will not elaborate on this, but one must consider that all this information comes from 1 source and 1 source alone and in a time were we question everything, we do not question any of the info provided by this source.

 

[jm10]

And speaking of which, the kids love feeding the chickens and collecting eggs.

It's worth it that I took a lot of time to tame my hens to feed from our hands. I finally got Nadia's daughter Caramel to eat out of our hand and she is still nervous but trust takes time and lots of patience.

I have inherited and passed along my grandfather's tradition with hens.

Thats wonderful,
Traditions like that are so worth passing on @RainstormZA

My son loves animals and if we had more petting parks i would take him.
He really gives ours dogs a hard time thou but they love him, I’m always next to him though cause they are big and I’m extremely over protective.

My son loves water and been outside so if you add animals to the picture he would be over the moon


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[RainstormZA]

Thats wonderful,
Traditions like that are so worth passing on @RainstormZA

My son loves animals and if we had more petting parks i would take him.
He really gives ours dogs a hard time thou but they love him, I’m always next to him though cause they are big and I’m extremely over protective.

My son loves water and been outside so if you add animals to the picture he would be over the moon


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Yes They are . I have a photo of me in nappies and watching my papa's hens through the chicken wire. he also had geese too - Gerda was my favourite, she was sweet but we terrorised Gilbert bec he was an ass. Lol.

Funnily enough, I also grew up with two prized English pointers and Rocket lived to the age of 19, making me about 20 or so. Susan was 17.

So when we went to my brother for Christmas , the kids asked where Gino was when we had to put her down a week prior. They also missed Jimmy who died a year ago.

 

[Hooked]

In broad daylight, in a restaurant. WTF?????

For those who aren't on FB. A man is sitting at a window table at "MCDONALDS. NORTH RAND RD. BOKSBURG NORTH. Two guys approach him and rip the Rolex off his wrist and walk out. Another man sees what is happening and tells some kids to move away and moves off with them.

Can't blame him. Nowadays a hero is as likely to get a knife through his heart as the victim, who in this case fortunately wasn't harmed.

 

[wmrigney]

The world is going mad because everyone's mommies told them they special and can do anything they want and shouldn't let anyone tell them they can't.

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