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Can we just ban them in general? We used to be a proper society and had our phones on the kitchen walls with 25ft cords.
Back in the good old days when homosexuality was a felony, the cure for autism was an ice pick lobotomy, and certain people would be killed for being caught in nice neighborhoods? Proper society.
Jesus, show us on the doll where the bad man hurt you why don't you. Can we not have a joke about anything benign these days without someone coming along to make it about the wrongs of society? And before you say it, yes, the things you mentioned were wrong.
Chill out, I wasn't making a statement about race relations, intolerance, bigotry, or medical ignorance. It was just a joke about long phone cords.
You must be a miserable bastard to spend much time around if this is how to react to such things in real life as well.
Those phone cords were a mess, always tangled and over stretched... 5GHz house-range wireless landlines were peak.
Minus the lobotomies, that’s still happening.
The ice pick has evolved: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37313441/
To be fair, I think I need that lobotomy to deal with the US as a whole right now...
As long as you've got somebody willing to feed you and change your diaper - you might actually be happier.
When was that?