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    • paleoman
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        I have a love, mostly hate relationship with my phone. I am tempted to get rid of it every day (I have one from work too, so 2X stupid!). It’s just soooo handy to take and share pics with though. But, BFD! I did that for years with a camera and film. Recently I must have drunk and dialed because I lost about 300 pics I had stored on the thing:evil: I think these non-trad things are the most demonic intrusion upon wild lands mankind has devised. What do you all think about this? Taking a poll who will support my destruction of my phone! I will take a pic and post it here. An arrow thru its GD heart!

      • Bruce Smithhammer
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          I think that like any device, you have to stay in control of it, rather than letting it control you. They can be useful, but it drives me crazy when people are glued to them, when someone pulls out their phone and starts texting while you’re in the middle of dinner, etc. I think the etiquette around phone use has gotten totally out of hand. But again – that’s the user, not the device.

          However – yes, I would love to see you shoot an arrow through one. 😈

        • David Coulter
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            What I hate most about my smart phone is that it’s a lousy phone. I guess I should put that second after the part about the suicides in China in the manufacturing plants.

            dwc

          • Doc Nock
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              DAvid, the phone making didn’t make those people want do kill themselves, their existence did that!

              As for technology, read this realizing I’ve divorced myself from cable, thereby, any TV connectivity, I don’t get the paper cause if the media lies as much about what I do NOT know as that which I DO KNOW, I don’t need to waste life time listening or reading!

              I am barely capable of using this box, but am addicted to it and emails!

              As SH says…it’s not the technology, it’s our attitudes and the control we let it exert!

              I have all this critical stuff on various aspects of my love of the outdoors in emails in extensive “trees” on my Outlook, but no idea how to back it up… or if I got one of my techie friends to back up onto a flash, how to restore it.

              Bottom line is that we LIKE the ease to capture, keep, record, store, but we don’t want to immerse ENOUGH to do the required “tech” thing of backing up and preserving in other venues!

              If you ever have an emergency in the woods, that phone might save your life! It keeps you connected at least a “bit” to your loved ones at home if something happens THERE!

              I’d say KEEP IT…and learn to respect it and what it MIGHT do, like you do a super sharp broad head!

            • robbin68
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                When I moved out of my parents I lived for almost a year with no tv, just a radio, but my wife had had enough so now we have tv. She almost always puts minutes on my phone and demands that I take it with me everywhere I go (answering the darn thing is completely up to me at that point:lol:) And the only reason I have this computer is for college homework. I just found this great site to talk to fellow bowmen. I also would like to see a pic of paleoman’s phone with an arrow thru it!

              • James Harvey
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                  Paleo, they’re too convenient for so many things. I second what Bruce said, it’s a tool. We always have a rule at restaurants, who ever takes out their phone pays for the drinks 😉

                • Doc Nock
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                    NO reason to wax serious on such a fun thread, but this phone etiquette thing fires me up.

                    My Momma, Dad, grandparents, or just anyone near me would have whupped me with a “knotted plow line” (Thanks Josey) if I’d have ever been in a group of people, and then turned my attention to an electronic gizmo or even a book! That would seem just RUDE!

                    People are buying their KIDS phones and they’re barely able to read or pull up real pants! I have to say whatever “changes” came with the technology, rests on the parental shoulders.

                    If people came to my house for a meal I cooked and paid for and their kids started texting, I’d ask them to leave the table… but hey, that’s why I’m old and don’t have kids, right?! :shock::roll:8)

                  • paleoman
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                      Well, for no other reason than to get my head out of it, I went back to a “dumb phone” today. I still have plenty of connectivity thru the work phone and laptop. I will post a pic with an arrow through the dang thing. Sorry if this thing sounds grouchy, I’ve just had it with the intrusiveness of this tech. Now I’ll have to figure out how to post a pic w/o it:?!

                    • David Bartlett
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                        Paleo,

                        I have “dumb” phone too. My family all has smart phones with which they use to occupy a good part of their lives, which basically involves texting each other, and sending neat links to each other.

                        I am out of the loop, as far as the texting and sharing pictures of Grumpy Cat, etc. I prefer it that way.

                        My phone has the technology needed to CALL SOMEONE! Wow, what a concept!

                        And it does it much better than the so called smart phones that the rest of my family has. My battery will last for over a week, which could come in handy when I get lost chasing that big one with my bow some day.

                        but back to the topic at hand, let see that “Dead” phone.

                      • Stephen Graf
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                          David Bartlett wrote:

                          …My phone has the technology needed to CALL SOMEONE! Wow, what a concept…

                          Spot on David!

                          Try a flip-phone. Nice and small, fits in a holster on your belt. You hardly even know it’s there. Flip-Phones are the height of cell-phone technology. “Smart” Phones went too far IMHO.

                          It’s like cocaine :shock:. If you never had it, you don’t miss it. But once you try it, oh my the trouble starts…

                        • Brennan Herr
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                            I am with Jim and SH. A great tool. It provides me with a wealth of on the spot intel on work subjects whenever I need it. I also really like the photo aspect for the outdoors.

                            But I too would like to see an arrow through it!:D

                          • wahoo
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                              I cannot support violence but as soon as I retire (about 40 yrs from now) I will destroy mine . Oh I can’t it’s not mine – I will get rid of it. I do love to carry a camera even though that can be a pain in the butt . I am like a lot of folks with a computer – I still have not figured out how to post photos.

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