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Heads Up Conservatives! Coach Deion Sanders Threatens to Bench Prime-Time Smart Phone Users

Coach ‘Neon Deion’ Sanders goes off on his Jackson State players in a pre-game rant where he threatens to bench any player who won’t put away his smart phone. He who has ears, let him hear.

Heads Up Conservatives! Coach Deion Sanders' Threatens to Bench Prime-Time Smart Phone Users

Coach ‘Neon Deion’ Sanders goes off on his Jackson State players in a pre-game rant where he threatens to bench any player who won’t put away his smart phone. Do conservatives need a heads-up warning to ‘Get off your phone! Get locked in!’ if we’re ever going to actually restore this republic?

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18 replies on “Heads Up Conservatives! Coach Deion Sanders Threatens to Bench Prime-Time Smart Phone Users”

I have a landline and a cell phone. My friends and family have my landline number, very few have my cell phone number because it’s for my convenience if I need to make or receive a call. Most of the time it’s in my purse or on my desk. I don’t use it as a computer because I have a desktop at home.
I quit Facebook last summer because it was a time-waster for me. If there’s something I want to tell friends or family, I call or email them. If Facebook is the only way to find out what’s going on with them, then that’s info I probably don’t need. Facebook is a lazy, impersonal way to update others. I don’t miss it one bit.

Good for the coach! I get tired of seeing the zombies walking around with their heads down staring at their phones. There is nothing so important that it can’t wait. If there’s an emergency of some sort, the alarm will go off.
I remember when the first video iPods came out. I purchased Season 1 of Lost and my husband and I watched the episodes on that 3″ screen even though we had a 64″ TV. About halfway in, I realized the stupidity of that and it ended.
I have a smart phone, but I only use it when I need it. I quit social media, so I don’t have that going on, but I do get a gazillion emails a day and I’d rather wait until I get home in front of my 27″ monitor and I can type any responses on a real keyboard. I have to admit though, on one bad habit. I’ve never been able to watch TV without also doing something else. Lately, it’s been playing games on the iPad…

Good show, again, guys. Scott, I really liked your comments today. I think you think like me a lot more than I realized — this is the loss, for me, when you are acting as a foil for Bill. Maybe ask Bill if you could be yourself for X number of minutes each show, not just play the bad guy.

Great points. I’m technically not a Boomer but I’m way past Boomer-ness on this subject. I quit FB when I (a) realized what an enormous time-suck it is, and (b) read about the dopamine hits and the algorithms they were using to manipulate me. I am allergic to being manipulated and tracked.

So I hardly use my phone either. One of these days I will quit threatening and really get rid of it and install a landline instead.

Zo really nailed the narcissism thing. The image of folk staring into the dark pool of their online life and becoming increasingly cut off from the actual world, just like Narcissus, is compelling.

I resisted getting a mobile for years. Friends would say “Why don’t you get one? If you had a mobile we could contact you while you’re in the pub.” My reply was “Exactly…”

I don’t have this problem with phones. I’m a tech guy and have worked with or in the tech field for decades but that’s a trap I’ve managed to avoid.

I don’t do FaceBook though I have an account simply because it allows my family (my kids and grandkids) to post photos and information on their activities to the greater family without having to write each of us an email covering the same thing. Even then, I only look at Facebook about once a month or so. Don’t try to talk to me on Facebook unless you don’t mind a response that’s weeks later.

I don’t post on my Facebook account as a rule unless the reverse applies. I.E. a near miss by a hurricane a couple years back prompted me to post some things showing what was happening and what I was doing about it so everyone would know we’re OK and the situation was being handled well. I think that was the last time I put anything up on my FaceBook page.

One of my best buddies decided that he’d get on Twitter when Trump was in office just to see what the trends and comments were. That was a mistake as it turns out, it opened the whole can of worms for him and he got to doing the “my phone is more important than our conversation thing”.

So I applied my standard means of dealing with that kind of thing.

When someone does that, whatever we’re doing comes to a screeching halt.

He comes over for a movie in my man cave home theater on most Saturday nights. If he picks up his phone, I pause the movie. He protests and tells me I don’t need to do that. I respond that if he came over to watch a movie then we’ll watch the movie. The whole movie. If he has something important enough to do on his phone that it can’t wait, I’ll pause the movie.

He quit doing that and just watches the movie now.

If am at dinner and someone, anyone I’m with at the table, picks up a device and interacts with it I put down my utensils, stop eating and stop conversing, until they put the phone down.

Etc. Everything comes to a halt. If it’s important enough for you to shift your attention to it then it’s important enough for me to stop doing what I’m doing, pause the movie, stop eating and conversing, whatever.

This is sort of a passive/aggressive response because I can’t say “Hey, dipstick, put down your phone and pay attention.” to friends and adult family members. I’m not doing it so that people can use their phone uninterrrupted either. I’m doing it so that they know when they do that phone thing I’m going to stop doing what I’m doing too. If I get and take a call, it’s important or I wouldn’t have taken it at all. If I get a text message it can wait until I can give it my undivided attention because it’s a freakin’ text message not an air raid siren that requires immediate response.

Eventually people learn not to be phone zombies in my presence, or they go away and don’t come back.

Either is fine with me.

Holding the phone horizontal whilst talking got its start back when the Kardashians were on. When they held the phone normally it would block their face. Heaven forbid! Then it got picked up by everyone who was a wanna be Kardashian. I read it somewhere a couple years ago. Sounds plausible.

Scott “America – you ain’t playing”. This is a true statement but you don’t seem to realize the statement goes far beyond cell phones. “You ain’t playing” also describes the majority of the population that, because of their conditioning, is out of touch with the actuality of life, In other words, they are not in the game, they ain’t playing. Instead of living within life they are living with what they think about life and what they think about life is not life itself.

Just on Friday – Mrs. Ron stopped at Kroger to get just a few things for the weekend. There was a woman on her phone exactly as Scott described: phone level with her mouth, parallel to the ground, speaker on. Mrs. Ron could hear both parts of the conversation, and it was not quiet. Now as happens in a grocery store, once on a path you tend to have the same people around you and this woman was following the same path.
Mrs. Ron called me exasperated. We decided what we would do in the future, two options. 1) Pretend to be on our own phone a speak in a loud enough voice that the person on the other end of the speaker phone can’t hear well or 2) react to the conversation the people are having for the public consumption. If they make a comment about it being a private conversation, that opens the window to say – Not if you are having it on speaker for everyone to hear.

I’d open my phone and start loudly streaming some movie with a good gun shootout, and do it right next to the lady. I’m sure that a choice excerpt from Scarface would be great for that lady’s friend

Better yet the shootout from Heat. Fun fact: while they originally intended to use post production sound effects for all the gunshots, the director decided that the sound they got from the blanks fired during filming was better, so the sound is actually quite realistic.

The worst for me is people having a conversation with each other on the phone … while sitting at the table with each other. Seriously? Be talking and looking at each other’s faces and, you know, interacting as you interact.

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