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MOBILE PHONES, EH? Where would we be without them?
In this day and age, the odds of someone not having a phone are pretty much zero.
But we have noticed distinct differences between all the phone users out there. They’re a varied bunch, alright – from the technologically-challenged to the early adopters.
So, we’ve rounded up six of the most common types of phone users we know about. Where do you fit in?
No, this doesn’t mean someone who got bitten really young by the technology bug – although it soon could.
This person is the one with the latest and greatest of all the gadgets. No matter what you have, they had that version two years ago – if not longer. They’re the ones you go to for advice when you’re looking to upgrade your phone. Although you may be you sorry you asked soon enough.
Everyone knows one of these – no matter what they’re doing, they’ve got their phone attached to their hand. They could be having dinner, talking to just about anyone, in class or work – but they’ll always be plugged into the great world wide web. Text, IM, Facebook, Twitter, email – doesn’t matter. They’re on it.
Usually all at once.
There’s always one isn’t there? They’re so attached to their screen that they chew through their data plan before they know where they are and spend the rest of the month living under a rock completely out of the loop or updating their Facebook status (from a computer) to ‘No credit, Lol, call me, lol. Lol.’
So not ‘Lol’ for the rest of us.
This one’s actually a two for one – there’s the person who is just constantly texting, always on their phone, barely attendant to any conversation IRL (in real life, duh). But also there’s the person who texts because, basically, they’re afraid of phone calls.
This poor soul is all but afraid of their phone and uses it the absolute bare minimum. You can tell this type by the look of sheer horror that flashes across their face whenever the phone lights up for some reason – any reason.
They can just about manage calls and texts but please, don’t torture them by making them aware of the more new-fangled things they can do (in theory) on their phone. They’re happy as they are. Promise.
It’s painful when your phone is so old that you’re constantly needing to recharge it and have to lug cables around with you at all times.
However if the reason you have no battery all the time is because you’re on your phone constantly, we have slightly less sympathy for you.
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you have to be in a parents shoes tbh on this one, I wouldnt want my child to overly suffer if it was a terminal situation. Medicine is great at extending life but its not matched by ensuring quality of life.
True.
Well done Belgium.
Wouldn’t it be great if we were as modern and progressive as Belgium instead we are barbaric.
Home rule = Rome rule.
Belgian police are actually notoriously homophobic and gay bashing in streets is seen as a severe problem
Really? And where did you pick up that information? As a regular visitor to Belgium (at least 4 times per year) I’ve never, in the last 10 years heard a story like that!
I live in Belgium and am totally unaware of the homophobic or gay bashing police force ?
They do have a huge unemployment problems with their foreign nationals though
I lived in Belgium through the 90s as an openly gay man. I married my partner there (civil partnered????) in 1996. I had recourse to the police on two occassions. They were polite, kind and helpful. Of course this was my personal experience. What is you statement based on?
Heart breaking but understandable. As a parent I can only say it’s parents worst nightmare !!!
The idea will be debated respectfully in Belgium with due consideration given to both sides. If they could only do the same in the Dail, we might have some hope of political and social reform. No chance of that.
No chance to many of them with the catholic cross up there arse, Jesus would not allow it, but it’s ok to rape kids
We are too backward and religious in our thinking. This will never even be considered in Ireland till another generation at least.
This is a great step forward. I can’t even begin to imagine what it is like to watch your child dying in an agonising state. My son broke his arm when he was 7 and I could barely cope with that! I can’t understand how anyone could disagree with this. We think nothing of euthanising our pets when they are dying and in pain but expect our children, the people we love the most, to spend their last days in agony. I would find that very very difficult to accept and witness.
Andrea I wish your fellow Christians, would make such a mature statement,sorry for the presumption of being Christian. It’s a major step forward to end pointless suffering.
You can’t vote but you have the necessary cognitive and emotional development to decide to end your life?
Appalling
Why, exactly?
You should hop on the next flight to Brussels and tell a terminally ill child that they have to continue suffering because the alternative offends you.
be in a hopeless medical situation of constant and unbearable suffering that cannot be eased and which will cause death in the short-term.
That does sound appalling.
I respect that many people will have a different opinion than me on this and perhaps I’m being reductive but euthanasia (in all circumstances) raises a basic question: Is it wrong for one person to intentionally kill another? I think that the answer is yes.
So by your logic,it’s ok to let another human suffer unimaginable pain,even if that person pleads for someone to end their life when all hope is lost.
@ James Dunne. What part of “unbearable physical suffering” do you not understand.
It happens all the time the world over. If you feel this way take a sign and go protest outside Shannon airport.
Pharma companies artificially prolong suffering. Deciding to die is a freedom that needs to be given back to the people.
That was replying to James
One of the conditions is that the person must drink the poison themself. So it is not one person killing another.
Here five year old drink this it will make you sleepy, lol real informed decision there Jr
There’s a lot of things society does not allow children to consent to as their not emotionally developed, but they can consent to end their life??
A life that is ending anyway.
Who are you to tell a terminally ill child that their suffering must continue because they are not ‘emotionally developed’ enough to decide that they have had enough?
Suppose its equivalent to a 30th trimester abortion for the Pro Choicers!
How old are you John?
Maybe its not too late for your mother to consider?
That’s a disgusting thing to say, and just shows that you really couldn’t give a f@ck about the suffering of the children involved. You’re just looking to make a cheap political point, and failing even at that.
Oh Jeremy.. Nasty Nasty… Who rained on your pink parade today?
@White Fang. I suppose you’re right, maybe it would help to have more context on the level of suffering a child would have to endure before the decision was made? If they were terminally ill etc? A lot of children overcome serious childhood illnesses/conditions and go on to live happy adult lives.
That the illness is terminal is of course a requirement.
Did you actually read the article? It clearly states that the child would have to be terminal and dying and in insufferable pain. They would also need their parents agreement and the backing of psychologist/psychiatrist and their doctor. Hardly as simple as saying “Mam, I’ve the flu, end it all for me will ya” which is about as simple as you’re making it out to be.
“Palliative care” – a phrase guaranteed to make my blood boil. If the proponents of this want to give it a go for themselves, we won’t stand in their way. But perhaps they could leave the rest of us the fukc alone and let us make our own decisions.
Can you explain? having been through it last year with an aunt, I didnt have an issue with the process. Food and water were withdrawn and my aunt was given as much pain relief as she wanted. It was an interesting dynamic though the doctor(foreign) was overriding the nurse (Irish) who was hesitant about giving more pain relief. The only nightmare would be have some Opus Dea or Iona loon of a doctor that would restrict pain relief to keep the patient alive for an extra day or 2.
Well said @emily. Course it’s not ‘economical viable’ for pharmaceutical companies or hospitals to hve life ended as it would do naturally.
Because it’s inherently dishonest. It’s presented as an alternative for people who have zero quality of life, intolerable pain and a need just to finish it. But it isn’t an alternative for many of those people. You keep pumping morphine into them and they keep waking up screaming. Medical staff do their best, but the plain fact is that too often, the technology we have isn’t good enough.
So what they really mean is “slightly less suffering, in order that we can feel smug about not interfering with the natural death process”. It’s imposing their personal beliefs (usually, but not exclusively extremist religious ones) on others, no matter what the human cost.
@Emily – Id probably agree with you. It comes down to time and the attitude of the medical staff. Like I was hinting at, it was a little worrying that the Irish trained nurse was less willing to relieve pain than the foreign trained doctor (sample of 1 I know) , now this was a normal old age situation and I wouldnt have wanted it handled any other way even if it was me in the bed. However if it was situation that would drag out months or longer then yep its a stupid religious based solution and not a medical and patient centered option.
Everyone noes that you can’t give terminally ill people too much morphine or you would turn them into drug addicts. Years back, the worst curse you could shout at someone was ‘May ye die roarin’ and it seems that there are still people who would inflict that curse on those in real pain.
In fairness to alot of doctors their views on it give so much morphine they will sleep and die very very quickly from poisoning. Mind you only takes one to be sued for mercy killing by relative upset that mother or granny did not live another week as they missed her voice albeit roaring in agony.
Thankfully the Catholic Church has lost all its grip on us.
@James the person in my example was religious herself, and we just kept asking are you in pain? do you want more pain relief? and we all went with that. It was the best of a very sad situation
Just believe this is wrong, whatever about as a adult taking a decision for yourself but taking a decision for someone else is wrong.
It’s just the principle of it is not a good precedent
Who is taking (making?) a decision for anyone?
I guess most countries make the decision for terminally ill patients, forcing many to linger in agony, because it’s the ‘moral’ thing to do.
I think you’re right Andrew, but you’ll be lambasted by the liberal ‘anything goes’ goon squad for the rest of the day.
I’ve already seen one dissenting commenter be told that their mother should have them killed by one of these so-called progressives.
Progressive me arse!
Do you have a point to make Filthpig? I thought you’d be more offended by the comment comparing the suffering of terminally ill children to abortion.
Then again, reactionaries are rarely morally consistent.
Children can not be found guilty of criminal offences in law because they are too young. The young have age restrictions on beer, cigarettes and sex, they cannot vote, they are deemed to young and inexperienced. So presumably they are being asked for their consent but this is the consent of a child, this is not the same as the consent of a adult.
Its very tough because of suffering and no parent would want their child to suffer needlessly. Then you have the question of the child in state care who decides or protects that child in cases such as this.
I’m old enough to have seen how communities and people get steamrolled by Government and when you want them to stop nobody in Government or the civil services are responsible, once in motion it is like trying to stop a supertanker with a rowboat. I do not trust any government enough to be happy with powers such as this. Without thinking very hard I can think of one legal government, elected within living memory that killed children who were ill, deformed or impaired.
I think killing is wrong, and I think the killing of children is repulsive. Down that path lies ruin.
Is that morally consistent enough for you?
I do hope so, because I know how poorly liberals take to having their precious morality offended!
You haven’t the first clue what you’re talking about, Pig. The individual in question has to consume the lethal compound themselves. In what reality can that be defined as killing? You’re a fool.
A child can’t drink alcohol, but according to your warped world-view if they’re sufficiently sick they can drink cyanide!?!?!
I may well be a fool, but you’re just frightening.
Im with you on this Filthpig the certainty of conviction is chilling. No doubts at all, no questions ?
I’m not sure how I feel about this. On one hand its good but on the other hand can a child really understand the enormity of the decision being made.
I imagine a child suffering from a terminal illness can comprehend the enormity of the decision much better than us adults who have never had to address our own mortality.
Does the child know he or dhe is dying anyway and starting to feel the unbeatable pain thsts only going fo get worse. Child or not in those circumstances you understand pretty clear.
As heartbreaking a choice as it is. I do believe its a good alternative just let them go to sleep and die and not die in agony.
Im afraid not a chance of law like this here. Im sure we have a child somewhere dying right now and is crying from the pain. But hey we are a moral nation so let the child suffer
I think they can. I was in hospital when I was 11 for a month. There was a girl about a year older than me on the ward. She used to scream and cry all the time and i never knew why. I asked my mam and dad why and they hesitantly told me that she had cancer and was dying. I understood perfectly what was going on at that young an age. Im 26 now and have never forgotten the pain and torture of that poor girl.
Good. Humans go through more pain than any animal on the planet. I don’t think i agree with the age though, seems a bit young. You can’t vote but you can have yourself euthanised?
And the reason why people are against the proposal is because they are selfish. “They” don’t want the child to day but maybe the child thinks otherwise. Ever thought about it?
A marker had now been set in Belgium, and just like the wholesale killing of the unborn with abortion on demand,who would bet against euthanasia on demand being introduced at some future date for people with a mental or even pysical abnormalities.
Well, that definitely isn’t going to happen.
Seriously though, euthanasia has been legal for more than a decade in certain places, including Belgium.
When is this ‘wholesale killing’ going to begin?
Hmmmm have you read the article or are you just generally angry?
@richard
@ Richard, really? Did you read the same article?
You quite obviously have never lived in the UK where millions of tiny babies end up in the waste trash can,but its just seen as normal practice by so called civilised people who have come to regard human life as expendable and just another commodity, by the way im not a nember of Opus or even religous,just a normal person who values all life.
Complete non sequitur, Richard. How about you answer my query, when does the ‘wholesale killing’ begin?
Richard fetuses do not end up in trash bag in dump. You’re warping the issues like your mind.
Personally I commend Belgium on having the decency and humanity to debate it and if its pushed through parliament all the better.
As for people alive with disabilities being killed….. What drugs are you on? ? Seriously tell us as whatever they are they should be what’s banned
I can think of past examples
Do tell, Andrew. No comparison to Nazi Germany, please, this is 21st century Belgium we’re talking about.
No it did not start out with death camps but in the very early years it’s was sick patients, sick children in orphanages and it started in their health system. Patients were moved in the system and the system took over, what happened later is irrelevant to this subject.
Yes it’s a different world now but most people believe there is progress always but that is not always the case.
So who protects the kid in care ? Certainly in this country out state institutions did not. In Belgium a Government fell because of collusion between judges and police over the abduction and murder of girls. In England there were many cases of children snatched from parents for very poor reasons which did not unravel until a decade later. Your faith in the legal system and social services is touching but a little naive
Your certanty is worrying and your dismissal of any concerns is exactly the philosphy that allows abuses of people take place.
As I said before the consent of a child is not the same as the consent of a adult. As I said I’m not sure about this and none of my concerns have been argued against.
So, you have no example.
I’ll ask again, do you have any evidence of ‘wholesale killing’ occurring in any country in which euthanasia has been legalised?
Eagerly awaiting your response.
Where are the safe guards for children in care, any links
The headline says it Belgium are expanding their program, so in ten years it will be easier to maybe push through other categories and expand it again.
Let’s not change the topic here. I asked a simple question. You claimed that you could answer it, but have been deflecting ever since.
Wholesale. Killing. Evidence. Go.
As to safeguards…
Personal will, parental approval and psychiatric assessment should ensure that this only occurs when necessary, and only in the case of debilitating terminal illness.
Does that tinfoil hat ever get uncomfortable?
Claiming that the Belgians play to further expand their program is nothing but baseless speculation.
I watched 2 family members die slowly and in pain in a hospice from cancer. The staff did their absolute best but it was a horrific ordeal to see them suffer like they did. I don’t know how the hospice staff do this job day in/day out. Anything that ends someone’s terminal suffering has to be a good thing. To me, watching someone who is terminally ill, and who is in unimaginable pain was like watching them being tortured. Anything that ends suffering like this, for adults or children is to be welcomed in my view.
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