Pope instructs followers to put the iPhone away during dinner - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Anti Christ;49117654]honest question: do you actually have a dinner table? i havent lived with anyone that has had one in my entire life. ive visited friends that had one but they never used it. ive never seen a family that actually sits together to eat[/QUOTE] Yeah and I ate at the family dinner table every night for most of my life before my dad died. It was a part of our routine. Though, cell phones at the table never really mattered because like honestly, who cares.

[QUOTE=Anti Christ;49117654]honest question: do you actually have a dinner table? i havent lived with anyone that has had one in my entire life. ive visited friends that had one but they never used it. ive never seen a family that actually sits together to eat[/QUOTE] You're being too literal. The Dinner table means wherever a family sits to eat, while some people do have actual dining rooms that are usually reserved for special gatherings.

[QUOTE=InvaderNouga;49117952]You're being too literal. The Dinner table means wherever a family sits to eat, while some people do have actual dining rooms that are usually reserved for special gatherings.[/QUOTE] no i mean it is actually a thing i havent been a part of or witnessed. when i lived with my family, we ate whenever we individually wanted. we never ate as a group, rarely even in the same room. my current living situation is mostly similar. the closest we have to eating together is if we order pizza and eat it in the same room. [editline]14th November 2015[/editline] i appreciate everyone elses answeres too btw

[QUOTE=Anti Christ;49118143]no i mean it is actually a thing i havent been a part of or witnessed. when i lived with my family, we ate whenever we individually wanted. we never ate as a group, rarely even in the same room. my current living situation is mostly similar. the closest we have to eating together is if we order pizza and eat it in the same room.[/QUOTE] That seems extremely alien, I've never known a family that does that, why wouldn't you eat together? Seems like the sort of thing I'd expect from a family where everyone just sort of ignores one another.

[QUOTE=Anti Christ;49116224]maybe they just dont want to talk to you. i have more than a few coworkers that i havent made eye-contact with in months because idc what theyre talking about, but they just keep yapping on. ill just play on my phone and let them talk until one of us has to leave[/QUOTE] jesus do you realize having an attitude like that makes everyone think you're a colossal cunt [editline]14th November 2015[/editline] like how can you keep doing that and function at work

[quote] "A family that almost never eats together, or that never speaks at the table but looks at the television or the smartphone, is hardly a family,"[/quote] Why do people think its so bad to not sit at the table and eat? Do you interact with your family so little that you have to force yourselves to talk for 30 minutes every day to be more than hardly a family?

[QUOTE=zakedodead;49118540]Why do people think its so bad to not sit at the table and eat? Do you interact with your family so little that you have to force yourselves to talk for 30 minutes every day to be more than hardly a family?[/QUOTE] Well, a busy modern way of life can mess things up. Often I would go to school in afternoon and come home after 8PM, and my parents worked in the morning, so we would not really see much of each other for the whole week. This probably happens often with families where both parents work and kids have school and stuff.

[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;49118483]jesus do you realize having an attitude like that makes everyone think you're a colossal cunt [editline]14th November 2015[/editline] like how can you keep doing that and function at work[/QUOTE] im not trying to make friends at work, im trying to make a living. i dont care if anyone there likes me because theyre not my friends anyway. if everyone just let me be like i wanted, everyone would be happier. the problem arises when people arbitrarily decide "rah rah i dont like how you live your life so im going to tell you how to live it" and try talking to someone that [I]clearly[/I] doesnt want to talk to anyone. if you touch fire, and it burns you, and then you keep trying to touch it, do you blame the fire or the person that keeps touching it?

I love going out to a restaurant and seeing the little kids at another table with an iPhone and headphones watching some cartoon or youtube video while their parents eat in silence. When I have kids, they can have a handheld console like a Nintendo 3DS (or whatever they'll have then), but no touch screens until they're like, 13 or 14, because I think touch screens make kids retarded. they can have a dumb phone until then [editline]14th November 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=*Freezorg*;49118404]That seems extremely alien, I've never known a family that does that, why wouldn't you eat together? Seems like the sort of thing I'd expect from a family where everyone just sort of ignores one another.[/QUOTE] My family doesn't eat together often because we have different schedules. I'm often at school or work, my stepmom gets home late, my dad is on some medications that don't make him hungry around dinner time. At my mom's house, it's just me an my mom and if we do eat together we just eat while watching game of thrones or something. Family isn't that important to me as an abstract concept. My parents and my brothers are important to me, but not because they're blood; because I like them as people. My cousins or my uncles and aunts? Don't give a shit.

[QUOTE=Anti Christ;49118777]im not trying to make friends at work, im trying to make a living. i dont care if anyone there likes me because theyre not my friends anyway. if everyone just let me be like i wanted, everyone would be happier. the problem arises when people arbitrarily decide "rah rah i dont like how you live your life so im going to tell you how to live it" and try talking to someone that [I]clearly[/I] doesnt want to talk to anyone. if you touch fire, and it burns you, and then you keep trying to touch it, do you blame the fire or the person that keeps touching it?[/QUOTE] do you even have friends dude

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;49114191] Me using my phone doesn't make me not present in the moment.[/QUOTE] Bullshit dude, total bullshit. Have you ever actually had a family dinner when people aren't using their fucking phones? It's great, it's some of the best experiences I've had. When people are on their phones, its boring, short lived, and tends to have one conversation between 2 people.

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;49121426]Bullshit dude, total bullshit. Have you ever actually had a family dinner when people aren't using their fucking phones? It's great, it's some of the best experiences I've had. When people are on their phones, its boring, short lived, and tends to have one conversation between 2 people.[/QUOTE] This is bollocks, I've had family dinners with people alternating between phone and conversation and it was just as lively as it is when only one or two people are on the phone Maybe it's a culture thing

[thumb]http://i.imgur.com/WkHHpZ1.jpg[/thumb] This really isn't anything new, to ignore people around you in favor of engaging with some other media.

[QUOTE=Tacooo;49117631]I bet the pope has an Android[/QUOTE] Don't be so blasphemous. Thy holiness only equips a Palm V.

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;49114268]This seems a hell of a lot like advice one gives instead of follows I wonder how many people in this thread actually sit down around a dinner table every night and don't use phones or watch tv or anything, I wonder how many of you have ate dinner at your computer, or watched tv during it, or read a book, in the past month or so[/QUOTE] I live by myself so do I get a pass for eating at my computer?

[QUOTE=cdr248;49121367]do you even have friends dude[/QUOTE] its kind of a joke that youre trying to say i dont have friends bc i work when im at work. are ya'll a bunch of slackers that just chit chat while youre at work? how is it even a problem that my intention at work is to do my job. when i want to have fun, i tend to do that at places that arent work

We always eat at the TV in the living room. We still tight as fuck

[QUOTE=Anti Christ;49123612]its kind of a joke that youre trying to say i dont have friends bc i work when im at work. are ya'll a bunch of slackers that just chit chat while youre at work? how is it even a problem that my intention at work is to do my job. when i want to have fun, i tend to do that at places that arent work[/QUOTE] its just that you come off as such an asshole that im suprised is all

[QUOTE=cdr248;49126777]its just that you come off as such an asshole that im suprised is all[/QUOTE] thats why i dont post much tbh i dont know how to say things in a way that doesnt come off as harsh or abrasive. ive been trying to post more lately so i can get better at not doing that

[QUOTE=Anti Christ;49127490]thats why i dont post much tbh i dont know how to say things in a way that doesnt come off as harsh or abrasive. ive been trying to post more lately so i can get better at not doing that[/QUOTE] well keep at it buddy

[QUOTE=Anti Christ;49123612]its kind of a joke that youre trying to say i dont have friends bc i work when im at work. are ya'll a bunch of slackers that just chit chat while youre at work? how is it even a problem that my intention at work is to do my job. when i want to have fun, i tend to do that at places that arent work[/QUOTE] I talk to my coworkers because I strive to have good productive relationships with everyone I meet, and if it makes their day better by having someone to rant their awful day to and I devote my full attention to it, so be it. I always enjoy conversation. But perhaps I come from a different age.

[QUOTE=SirKillsAlot;49140070]I talk to my coworkers because I strive to have good productive relationships with everyone I meet, and if it makes their day better by having someone to rant their awful day to and I devote my full attention to it, so be it. I always enjoy conversation. But perhaps I come from a different age.[/QUOTE] Okay but when your coworkers don't want to talk do you keep pushing it and get upset at them for not wanting to talk or do you leave them alone? Because I don't want to talk and they keep trying anyway as if they're going to change it. They won't take no for an answer.

[QUOTE=wootmonster;49114171]Enjoy your food and be present in the moment. You can do that later.[/QUOTE] Talking to your family and sharing pictures and articles is still being present in the moment, and it doesn't detract from how you enjoy your food. The only reason I can see this as holding any ground is if it were treated like manners, like putting your elbow on the table. [editline]18th November 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=proboardslol;49118940]I love going out to a restaurant and seeing the little kids at another table with an iPhone and headphones watching some cartoon or youtube video while their parents eat in silence. When I have kids, they can have a handheld console like a Nintendo 3DS (or whatever they'll have then), but no touch screens until they're like, 13 or 14, because I think touch screens make kids retarded. they can have a dumb phone until then [/QUOTE] I like how you just judge random families, as if you know how they live their daily lives. It's like you guys think dinner time is the only time you're with your family. If that is the case, then I doubt someone would be buried into the internet anyway.

It obviously all comes down to what the expectations of your current social group are. It's impossible to boil down social etiquette to "x is always okay" or "x is always bad". Some days you'll be with a group of people where everyone is on their phone, other days you'll be with people who would be completely appalled by it. If you're the kind of person who is either always upset by it or always [i]doing[/i] it then you probably don't understand how social interaction works very well. And I don't exactly set the bar very high, here.