So, what happened today?

[P.D.]

Not addicted but man, phones these days... i dont know. I find myself on the commute home just mindlessly doom scrolling and i am finding it pulls me away from things.

Take watching the match on the tv at home, i'm speaking to the lads in the Spurs chat about it. Or watching a movie you easily end up scrolling midway. Even Ben Affleck/Matt Damon mentioned this when they released The Rip on Netflix how "you have to continously remind viewers of the plot so it's different to making cinema movies to netflix movies".

So, am on a Nokia. I wont lie, i've had to open up the iPhone now and then for something or other, it's so ingrained into us, but since yesterday am trying to be as present as possible and be off the iPhone. will be difficult with things like needing Google Maps if i am going anywhere this weekend, but really i just want to stop being so damn distracted.

When I got a new phone I just didn't bother migrating all the apps so there's nothing for me to really look at, barely use it now.

One other thing that helped was getting into podcasts, I listen to loads of them - much easier to switch off and not get distracted when you have headphones on.

 

[K.D.D.D.D.Soc]

Mouldy old dough was the record I bought, much to the disgust of my father.

When I first went into a pub with my dad they had this "old dear" banging away on a standup piano who sounded just like that, ah the good ol' days, that's entertainment and pub grub was crisps with a bag on salt in them or arrowroot biscuits.

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

One other thing that helped was getting into podcasts, I listen to loads of them - much easier to switch off and not get distracted when you have headphones on.

Is that not distraction displacement hardly 'switching off'

I jest, I get what you're saying, and partake in much pod listening myself (I do get jaded with that as well sometimes tbh). At least with pods you are usually learning, informing, educating, discovering etc.

 

[P.D.]

Is that not distraction displacement hardly 'switching off'

I jest, I get what you're saying, and partake in much pod listening myself (I do get jaded with that as well sometimes tbh). At least with pods you are usually learning, informing, educating, discovering etc.

For me it's switching off because my mind isn't wandering around trying to look up 10 things at once, I can stay focused and listen and as you say even learn something!!!

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

For me it's switching off because my mind isn't wandering around trying to look up 10 things at once, I can stay focused and listen and as you say even learn something!!!

What I'm getting at, is it shows how far things have become entrenched.

The mind can't deal with quiet anymore. Pondering, daydreaming, nothingness. I'm sure that use to be 'switching off'?

 

[P.D.]

What I'm getting at, is it shows how far things have become entrenched.

The mind can't deal with quiet anymore. Pondering, daydreaming, nothingness. I'm sure that use to be 'switching off'?

Oh year I agree with that but with full time work and 2 young kids there's not much spare time going around - I used to read a lot but feel like my mind is to active to read more than a few pages.

 

[Glenda's Legs]

I am enormously annoyed at myself for almost falling for a scam when I absolutely ought to have known better.
We are on holiday at the moment, just starting week 5 of travelling around Mexico (brilliant country btw) and I’d spent a good bit of yesterday sorting out travel logistics, buses/drivers/guides, for our next couple of legs and confirming with hotels etc . So a bit of an excuse that I was in holiday “admin” mode.
Yesterday evening I got a WhatsApp from a hotel we’ve booked (through booking.com) for midway through next week (although not one I’d been dealing with yesterday). saying that I needed to provide some additional info or risk my booking being cancelled.
I was distracted and I clicked on the link which took me to what looked exactly like a booking.com page where I had to complete my email and phone number, which I did (although logically they already had my phone number as they’d whatsapped me.). Next page on the form took me to a page saying I could get a refund and to fill in my credit card details. At this point alarm bells started to ring, although admittedly more because I didn’t want a refund rather than realising it was a scam. , I wanted to confirm my reservation was good.
I contacted the hotel directly who confirmed the message was nothing to do with them. I also reported it to booking.com as the sender of the WhatsApp was using the booking,com address in their profile. They also had a UK phone number which should have raised alarm bells if I’d more alert.
End of story I don’t think any harm was done but as someone who likes to think they are alert to all these type of scams, it just shows how easy it is to get distracted and get caught out.
I often wonder how people are stupid enough to fall for these scams. Well I guess I’m in the “almost”‘stupid enough category.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

I am enormously annoyed at myself for almost falling for a scam when I absolutely ought to have known better.
We are on holiday at the moment, just starting week 5 of travelling around Mexico (brilliant country btw) and I’d spent a good bit of yesterday sorting out travel logistics, buses/drivers/guides, for our next couple of legs and confirming with hotels etc . So a bit of an excuse that I was in holiday “admin” mode.
Yesterday evening I got a WhatsApp from a hotel we’ve booked (through booking.com) for midway through next week (although not one I’d been dealing with yesterday). saying that I needed to provide some additional info or risk my booking being cancelled.
I was distracted and I clicked on the link which took me to what looked exactly like a booking.com page where I had to complete my email and phone number, which I did (although logically they already had my phone number as they’d whatsapped me.). Next page on the form took me to a page saying I could get a refund and to fill in my credit card details. At this point alarm bells started to ring, although admittedly more because I didn’t want a refund rather than realising it was a scam. , I wanted to confirm my reservation was good.
I contacted the hotel directly who confirmed the message was nothing to do with them. I also reported it to booking.com as the sender of the WhatsApp was using the booking,com address in their profile. They also had a UK phone number which should have raised alarm bells if I’d more alert.
End of story I don’t think any harm was done but as someone who likes to think they are alert to all these type of scams, it just shows how easy it is to get distracted and get caught out.
I often wonder how people are stupid enough to fall for these scams. Well I guess I’m in the “almost”‘stupid enough category.

Booking.com are scammed all the time
I apparently had booked a weekend away in the Lake District through them and strangely enough all my details were correct apart from a payment card…

It even came into my email and created an event that my wife saw as it’s a shared calendar. That was brief fun explaining that … I did wonder if she had booked it

It’s super easy when travelling to get caught out though, isn’t it

 

[Bedfordspurs]

So this may sound a tad odd but I’ve got quite a few friends in Poland mainly through running a few teams there in the past and I love the guys there. They are some of the most humble and eloquent people I’ve ever worked with

2 of them messaged me last night after the attack in Krakow to say how embarrassed and also worried they were for what’s happened and the way it will create an image of Poland being unsafe. That shows the nature of the people of course

Just wanted to put it out there

 

[Dicko]

So this may sound a tad odd but I’ve got quite a few friends in Poland mainly through running a few teams there in the past and I love the guys there. They are some of the most humble and eloquent people I’ve ever worked with

2 of them messaged me last night after the attack in Krakow to say how embarrassed and also worried they were for what’s happened and the way it will create an image of Poland being unsafe. That shows the nature of the people of course

Just wanted to put it out there

Its mad, I'm in Poland (wife is Polish), although not near Krakow and there is a real feeling of shock, like "These things dont happen here". A month or two ago there was a teenager knife attack (Something to do with a tiktok challenge) at a school and there was a huge reaction. Schools have always been considered extremely safe here, but for a week or so there were schools closing, police on the gates, no parents allowed inside the grounds etc. Just when things started getting back to normal this thing in Krakow happens.

No country is perfect and there are plenty of things I miss about England but one of the things I love most about Poland is that I can let my boys go out and about wherever they want. Go play with mates, go out on bikes, take the trams and buses on their own etc. With almost zero worries.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

Its mad, I'm in Poland (wife is Polish), although not near Krakow and there is a real feeling of shock, like "These things dont happen here". A month or two ago there was a teenager knife attack (Something to do with a tiktok challenge) at a school and there was a huge reaction. Schools have always been considered extremely safe here, but for a week or so there were schools closing, police on the gates, no parents allowed inside the grounds etc. Just when things started getting back to normal this thing in Krakow happens.

No country is perfect and there are plenty of things I miss about England but one of the things I love most about Poland is that I can let my boys go out and about wherever they want. Go play with mates, go out on bikes, take the trams and buses on their own etc. With almost zero worries.

I love Poland, really do
And the way my mates have reacted is exactly as you decribe
Admit as if they are apologising to the world