Well...that's certainly a new one!

[customersruinmylife]

Haven't posted in a while. I broke my computer and typing on a tablet is hard. But here goes!

Group of girls come into the pub. They are all busty, blonde, wearing very little and are made of plastic. I am 100% serious when I say that they spent their entire time in the pub taking photographs of each other, and each time they did they would screech "Snapchat!!" "Facebook!!" or some other social networking site.

The first complaint arrived.

SC: I need you to turn the music up. Turn it up as loud as it will go!

It was 1pm and we were serving lunch. I doubted that the diners wanted shit chart music deafening them at that time. I explained that to her, but worded more politely.

SC: Well you're just boring!

They all screeched in disappointment when the SC returned to the group. Then the selfies resumed. Customers and staff were staring at them in amazement. There was literally no interaction between them. All they were doing was taking photographs of themselves.

One of them approached the manager.

SC: I need you to sort out the lighting in this pub! All my selfies look like shit!

Manager is six months pregnant and feeling awful at the minute. She stared at SC, and then she simply turned on the spot and walked away. The SC's face was buried into her phone and she didn't even notice that M had gone!

The group left shortly after. I heard them complaining about how disappointed they were in the pub, and how they were going to find a "real place to party"

Good luck with that at 1pm in a town with five pubs!

[Android Kaeli]

If they really wanted to party then they should go get their own booze, food, and entertainment -- or maybe I just think too logically.

[Argabarga]

Stop by my place later, ladies, we're going to have a lobotomy party..... it'll be great.

[gerund]

we're going to have a lobotomy party..... it'll be great.

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me...

[/Old Joke]

[Argabarga]

But a GOOD one!

[Ironclad Alibi]

Stop by my place later, ladies, we're going to have a lobotomy party..... it'll be great.

Don't they need to have a brain to do that? Sounds like they've already been to too many lobotomy parties.

[sirwired]

I've never understood the modern phenomenon of people going somewhere to eat, and then spending any non-food-intake moment buried in their phones. Why even go out with another person if you aren't going to interact?

Maybe I'm not the best person to ask this question though... although I am certainly tech-savvy (I have a very decent job designing computer installations and I was in college during the Dawn of the Internet in the late-90's) I virtually never even log on to my Facebook account, I'm not on Twitter, and certainly not on Instagram, snapchat, etc. The only person I regularly text is my wife.

[Monterey Jack]

I feel the same way about people furiously texting away while at the movies...why pay $20 for tickets and snacks, and then choose to look at the tiny screen in your hand instead of the GIANT one that you ostensibly paid to watch? And then the flashing little squares of light in my peripheral vision keep distracting me during the movie...

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I feel the same way about people furiously texting away while at the movies...why pay $20 for tickets and snacks, and then choose to look at the tiny screen in your hand instead of the GIANT one that you ostensibly paid to watch? And then the flashing little squares of light in my peripheral vision keep distracting me during the movie...

This is why I don't go out to move theaters these days . . . I'll stay home and wait for what I'm wanting to see to come on one of the pay movie channels.

[Seshat]

I've been to a photography party: we had a bunch of friends, three of whom were photographers. One had a small studio set up at her place, next to a back yard that was nice to socialise in.

She put up a neutral backdrop, set up a chair. We did some group shots, then sat in the back yard, chatted, nibbled on food, and in ones, twos or threes, went up to be made much of by the photographers. Sometimes we'd suggest a pose, or lend someone an accessory, or otherwise interact with the model and/or photographers.

Then we did some more socialising, and went home.



These girls seem to think they're doing a photography party. IMO, they need one of those 'Partying: You're doing it wrong' memes.

[Crossbow]

I weep for the state of humanity.

[Cecily]

I feel the same way about people furiously texting away while at the movies...why pay $20 for tickets and snacks, and then choose to look at the tiny screen in your hand instead of the GIANT one that you ostensibly paid to watch? And then the flashing little squares of light in my peripheral vision keep distracting me during the movie...

And this is why I love pay-per-view.

[thatcrazyredhead]

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me...

[/Old Joke]

I love you.

Good to see you back, crml! I've missed your posts. If you decide to take up a collection for a new computer, I'm in for $20.

[Shyla]

I really like your manager.

[Silent-Hunter]

Hey yeah, you should take up a collection! I don't know if you'd get enough just from friends, but it could be enough to help you save up for one.