It's always amazing how simple things seem to be extremely hard to get right. ...an Mp3 player that remembers where you were in playback. And doesn't screw up your file sorting. ...A podcatcher that actually finds podcasts. (and remembers where you were in playback)
My Samsung S4 gets used for: I use it at work to connect my Surface, Chromebook and Tablet to the internet. Use it to watch Media from my NAS boxes at home Google Play music Used for getting torrrents on my NAS boxes etc.. I don't however tend to re ad news articles and forums on it, I use my tablet for those things mainly.
I get livid when I'm getting off/on a train and the chin to chest zombies are dawdling their way down the platform completely oblivious to the people around them. The muppets who insist on texting someone just at the moment they start walking up a 3-flight stair case holding everyone up. It's intolerable! Why do you do it? Why can't you wait 30 seconds and get out of the way? I get irritated because it effects my "flow" if you will, having to dodge around them and slow down appreciably so as to not run into the back of them. Spend fifteen minutes on any London terminal platform and you'll feel my pain. That being said, they should all be shot.
Right with you on that, as I said earlier, nobody seems to have a sense of 'in the way' anymore and they always expect me to be the one who moves out of the way. Sometimes I just stand still and let them walk into me. This is why I will always move to the side of a pavement before doing anything with my phone, get out of the way first then sort out stuff.
I was going to state in my post that Japan spoiled me, I spent 4 weeks there and noticed that the majority of them did nothing to impede anyone else walking. Phone calls were held to the side of the pavement, out of the flow. They wouldn't eat/drink whilst walking. It all just worked, but in good ol' civilized britain the general rule is **** you, and **** you too.
Yeah, very popular, passing into a new room/square/place and simply stopping dead in your tracks to look around...thus blocking the passage. I've found a very uncivilised way to deal with this...I have a pushchair with a fairly cute child in it and a solid aluminium step-bar on the front. If you stop in the doorway, your ankel is mine!
Very similar to my experience of Sweden. Those lot have developed queueing to an art form and they manage to accomplish this whilst still not being in anyone else's way. I really don't care if people don't look where they are walking, they can walk into a pole, fall off a curb or step in front of a tram for all I care, that's their own stupid fault, I just wish people would watch where other people are walking (mainly me but others too if they want). 130kg of fat man seems to have a similar effect
As somebody who could be described as a "chest to chin zombie" when I get off the train or walk up the stairs, I think you're completely right and it annoys me too. I've become acutely aware of getting in the way of the flow when I'm on my phone, so I actively try to take my surroundings into account. As such, I can't remember the last time I've bumped into somebody, and most of the time I'm walking faster than those around me on the pavement or at the station. But I also know that I'm part of the minority here. Most people don't do that, including much of my family, and it infuriates me. If people can't suitably multitask in those situations, they shouldn't choose to use their phones. At best it's impractical, at worst it's bloody dangerous (thinking of people who don't look around when crossing the road). I also make a point of looking up when it's clearly important to do so, your phone is a big distraction, as such when crossing roads etc. you shouldn't look at it. Again so many people don't do that, I've seen so many near misses from people who just walk blindly after maybe an initial glace, it's only a matter of time before I see something more serious.
The people who do that constantly are probably in the same group of people who have to tell evryone on facebook when they have wiped their arse.
