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llmart

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27. Yes, you are absolutely correct.

Reply to CTyankee (Reply #12)

Thu Jul 24, 2025, 10:18 PM

Jul 24

It is the reason why we are so divided and so many people with mental health issues. There is no longer any real connection with other people. They're all living in their own little world of them and their phones. They are oblivious to the people around them.

I find that us older people still strike up conversations with other people that we don't really know maybe while standing inline at the post office or grocery store or walking at the park. Even when I hire someone to work at my house, if they're young they have those earbuds in and any time I want to tell them something, I have to get their attention while they take out their earbuds and then I have to repeat what I wanted them to do.

I think it's inconsiderate and rude, but then I'm old like you.

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CBS is officially dead [View all] FakeNoose Jul 24 OP

Balance means you can't say anything liberal. /nt bucolic_frolic Jul 24 #1

But it includes conservatives too, if they happen to criticize Chump FakeNoose Jul 24 #5

Today's tolerated balance markodochartaigh Jul 24 #6

F ! MW67 Jul 24 #2

CBS Started to Die After It Forced Dan Rather Out MrWowWow Jul 24 #3

That was a targeted strike. underpants Jul 24 #7

Good call, they started to die then, today a formal death was declared dem4decades Jul 24 #8

Won't miss 'em. Permanut Jul 24 #4

I'm trying to remember the last time writerJT Jul 24 #11

I watch Survivor, amazing race, Elsbeth and Matlock RubyRose Jul 24 #35

It's not just CBS. All the major broadcast networks are circling the drain. tinrobot Jul 24 #9

I do. I'm old. CTyankee Jul 24 #12

THANK YOU Skittles Jul 24 #14

Yep. And nobody looks at you unless you ask them to stop it if they wish to TALK to you! CTyankee Jul 24 #16

I see them at the market, oblivious. BidenRocks Jul 24 #23

I'm not saying it's only young folk Skittles Jul 24 #25

With Digital Deals at the market BidenRocks Jul 24 #29

omg I never take my phone with me anywhere Skittles Jul 24 #30

Yes, you are absolutely correct. llmart Jul 24 #27

I'm old, too. I cut out broadcast/cable over a decade ago. tinrobot Jul 24 #34

I do. I watch my local CBS station n on Friday, I watch the CBS national news so I can see On the Road with Tom Hartman Deuxcents Jul 24 #36

CBS was alive? nt GenThePerservering Jul 24 #10

If trump were a true man Hornedfrog2000 Jul 24 #13

When CBS fired Dan Rather JPK Jul 24 #15

Mel Brooks' Silent Movie bmichaelh Jul 24 #17

South Park has provided their eulogy relayerbob Jul 24 #18

I can't wait to see the fallout. eggplant Jul 24 #22

And brilliantly done. CountMyVote4Reality Jul 24 #33

Wasn't CREW or some group waiting for this to go through Bev54 Jul 24 #19

No loss. Gimpyknee Jul 24 #20

You can stream it almost immediately after it airs on YouTube. eggplant Jul 24 #21

Nothing corporate owned is on the side of the people quakerboy Jul 24 #24

Thank you. H2O Man Jul 24 #32

WATCH (PARAMOUNT'S) SOUTH PARK'S RESPONSE TO THIS. Season 27, Episode 1 pnwmom Jul 24 #26

What's stopping them from canceling the cancellation? SleeplessinSoCal Jul 24 #28

So only a few days after Colbert is canceled the merger is approved. n/t totodeinhere Jul 24 #31

Yes, isn't that a co-inky-dinky? FakeNoose Jul 25 #37

They did wait a day. Kid Berwyn Jul 25 #38