Life Before Smart Phones | PKA

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[@KaoticOne]

Having to ask people for directions is like asking for change now 😂

[@bless7213]

Back when you could gas light anyone into believing anything because they couldn’t just google it and prove you wrong.

[@TheScience69]

Everyone gangster until they see a guy with 130 lbs of hardback encyclopedias and a guineas book of records in a wheelbarrow

[@mr.brenman2132]

Now they Google it and they're still wrong. Google is curated/manipulated garbage. People were probably more informed then.

[@imageword5576]

Yeah but the gaslighting is even worse now. Now we have too much information and a lot of it is fake/misleading. You think information isn't being censored by Google?

[@BURRDAWG_]

​@TheScience69 the omega nerd

[@baron_von_brunk]

Graduated high school in 2003 - so in just a few weeks, it'll be my 20 year anniversary. With that said, cell phones were rare in the early 2000s, and by the time I was a high school senior maybe only a handful of kids in my class had them. And the few kids that did actually have phones usually always had Nokia "brick" phones with the monochrome green screen and the Snake game. Back in those days you had limited minutes, or sometimes only had service on weekends. I didn't get my first phone until 2005, which was a tiny flip phone that didn't even have internet access nor a camera. My family still had a landline up into the 2010s.

[@__loafy__]

wow old lol

[@franky334444]

Same 😢

[@mr.brenman2132]

I'm a lot younger then you and we still had a land line into the 2010's.

[@Jonosk8severything]

I had a landline till 2017 lmao south Africa though

[@julianjaimes197]

I'm 24 and my parents didn't get rid of our homes land line til 2020 lol I kinda miss it. My parents were more consistent at picking up the landline than they are with their cell phones, especially because once you started to leave a voicemail it'd play over the speakers and the chance of someone at my house picking up when they heard my voice like doubled

[@cheetonation]

i agree with kyle, phones have made people way worse. people dont have to face reality like they used to behind/on a screen. social media is rotting the youths brain

[@mr.jamster8414]

oh, big time. I had this bad feeling, around 2019, with the phones, the social media, Greta Thunberg, this huge, random-ass push for vaccinations, the lack of real meaning making suffering with close friends, this on-flight movie look more fun than the holiday I just had, Thailands de-regulations making the place feel simply more chill compared to trips closer to "home"... and the next year proved my gut 1000% right.

[@BeyondBaito]

I still remember back when it was crazy that your friend had his own video camera. Still kind of wish it was the norm instead of cell phone cameras.

[@cosmic_rain9417]

3:04 if you cant shift, steer, text, and eat a taco at the same time you havent been driving manual very long😂

[@snowman774]

eating while driving stick is something else lmaoo

[@bruhdon4748]

Most Americans drive automatic tbf

[@MrMoles01]

​@Bruhdon it takes nothing to get used to and then it's just a automatic reflex you do without thinking.

[@CamMackay96]

​@@snowman774I mean you also just use common sense. On the highway, easy no problem. While I'm in a city constantly stopping starting and changing gears not so much.

[@Cheesusrice69222]

Bro you've never ate a greasy gas station burrito driving on a mountain road greasing the shift knob and steering wheel

[@CamMackay96]

Having your phone on the side so you can check it while you shower is WILD tbh, I've never heard of anyone ever that attached to their phone and I'm 26 lol

[@rmp5s]

That's what I was thinking...super weird. I'll put mine by the sink or something just because I don't want a dog to jump on it if I leave it on the bed. Other than that, I DO carry mine around constantly, but not because I feel a need to check it or anything like that. I could give a shit if someone messages me and I actually LOATH talking on the phone...I just carry it around because it's so damn useful! Something interesting to take a picture of?...need to turn some of my Hue lights on or off?...forgot when the D-Backs game starts?...etc etc?...no problem!!

[@snowman774]

woody thinks he looks like a judge lmfao. the way his eyes widened when everyone disagreed. even then went on to say "i judged an eating contest, I am a judge" be for real

[@AwkCrafty]

Kyle is terminally online

[@AwkCrafty]

I say as I write this comment walking my dog

[@chrishince8947]

Kyle's story was starting to sound like the movie, Nothing but Trouble

[@KaoticOne]

All of Kyle's stories sound like movies 😂

[@CamMackay96]

Lyle strikes again

[@AbuseForViews]

To this day I’m uncomfortable when everyone around me is on their phone, especially at a place like a concert. I’m only 20 but I find it insane that people refuse to speak to each other or sit with their own thoughts for more than a minute now

[@bruhdon4748]

People can’t be left alone with their thoughts and feelings anymore, it’s too scary for them. Most people genuinely haven’t been left alone with their thoughts since birth, think about how many people cook while listening to a podcast or music, then watch a movie while eating, then when they go to bed have a podcast on or whatever, people are scared of their own thoughts nowadays because they’ve never been alone with them.

[@mr.jamster8414]

@@bruhdon4748 I have, at least, if it means something. Skateboarding, cruising around alone, or the couple of times I've crossed pipes or shimmied across the side of an abandoned bridge 30 feet up.

[@youtubesucks-yx6kk]

same. They just make themselves targets honestly. it used to be common knowledge to pay attention to your surroundings out in the world and especially concert's. But nowadays people can't even go to a grocery store without it. I'll give ya one of the biggest problems when in a public setting on the phone besides the obvious. When out in public with a bunch of people, everyone thinks someone else is paying attention, therefore after a couple minutes zero of them are paying attention. When nobody is paying attention, evil people can do evil things and often take advantage of the opportunity. Nothing says I'm a target quiet like looking at a screen for hours at a time.

[@mynameisjames12189]

I miss when the only game you could play on your phone was Snake and Solitaire

[@mr.jamster8414]

I wasn't alive back then! the first phone I saw could play Sonic, Tetris, Pac-Man, a 3d racing game, bubble shooter, and this one platform game I don't remember much of, but loved the most...

[@Freakazoid12345]

​@@mr.jamster8414 First time I saw somebody playing a racing game on their phone was 2012 and that tripped me out.

[@dingus6317]

My dad’s old Blackberry used to have this game where a ball would bounce off walls and break bricks. It might’ve been called brick breaker

[@mynameisjames12189]

I asked an older lady yesterday if she would like help packing up her groceries... She looked at me like I was about to kill her

[@bruhdon4748]

Being nice to strangers is such a rare thing now, I get the same thing too, ask a stranger if they need help with something or whatever and they panic like you’re about to rob them or something

[@Freakazoid12345]

Were you though? Same thing happened to me. I was like, "What gave it away?"

[@sebastianrodriguez8609]

“And like”

[@leeweesquee]

The interweb has made ppl more angrier

[@itisisacha2358]

"So i ride a motorcycle"

[@user-vv4lo5yz3h]

Went for a walk without my phone the other day I forgot I had a phone and when I got home and saw it I was actually sad.

[@mynameisjames12189]

You don't need it buddy

[@mr.jamster8414]

do some more. get into a little mischief.

[@mynameisjames12189]

Y'all should have Poob on, he's from Forehead Fable's Podcast

[@Breakstuff5050]

I love avoiding my phone. A day without having to answer people pander to them is a good day. LOL

[@bruhdon4748]

Before the dark times.

[@seamusriley3532]

Sometimes I leave my phone at home when I go to work. I have a friend who went to a flip phone. Phones can be abused like anything but there are options to get away from it.

[@Freakazoid12345]

Same.

[@imageword5576]

Yes. I have been using a flip phone for a few years now and it's been a net positive in my life. There are a few inconveniences of not having a smart phone, but the lack of constantly being distracted by it far outweighs them. If I want to be online, I have a laptop. I recommend it.

[@willhart1523]

I hated people before phones and social media, and now i double hate peopel after lol

[@Rekon-se6wv]

Same boat. So many of them wouldnt know a damn thing about the internet until corpos and our overlords gave em easy access to the web with smartphones

[@terpz47]

Kyle complete zoned out after he gave his take😂😂

[@civmike]

I miss it

[@mr.jamster8414]

I wanna run away from all this.

[@RonRuble]

Unfortunately, I've become very dependent upon my cell phone. There's no way around it, though. I have health issues, as do many members of my family, and it's too important to my life. Literally a life-saving piece of technology. That said, I have other devices I can use if anything were to happen to the phone, such as my laptop and tablet. And I've recently picked up a portable backup charger/battery for my phone. I'm old enough I lived most of my life before there were cell phones, so I can do without the convenience features, even Google Maps!

[@Xcolombox1]

cell phones are probsbky the worst thing to happen to society

[@zestry523]

I have such bad PKA autism that i remember the weapon he used to threated the judge, he called the thumper

[@chronicfrequency4677]

Literally me in the shower watching this with my phone propped up on the window. 😅

[@markacauchi1663]

Take a drink whenever they say LIKE

[@jonathonhensley2445]

In the middle of the woods, in a desert in Australia.

[@McGiblet69]

iPhone came out my senior year of HS. Glad I was able to grow up without it. Kids these days have no idea how to just fuck around with your friends in the Summer with nothing but time

[@brandonguild1666]

Yeah I was in hs when the iPhone came out, flip phones started to become more common the last year or 2 I was in hs but no kids had an iPhone at that time. I think I was 20 or 21 when I got the iPhone 3G. i am glad I grew up without one, but it doesn’t change the fact I am way too attached to my phone nowadays. I guess I have that perspective of living without a smart phone and how it really was a much more healthy lifestyle.

[@JustAPairofLegs]

We all want to like fuck around but like theres cameras everywhere and adults get upset if we fuck around even if we aint bothering no one

[@brandonguild1666]

@@JustAPairofLegs lol right I think of that too, I used to do some absolutely crazy shit that would have gotten me in so much trouble as a teenager if there were cameras just around 15 years ago. I never even worried about it then. Now everyone has ring doorbells and complain on the community fb page that so and so’s dog shit in their lawn or some rascals stepped on their grass.

[@bruhdon4748]

Yeah it’s sad, don’t see kids having fun the way we used to as kids, it’s like they literally don’t know how to play outside anymore & when they do it usually results in them all sitting around watching tiktok anyway. Genuinely feel sorry for the younger generation that never experienced getting lost on bike rides with your friends & just enjoying being young and free outside

[@mr.jamster8414]

​@@bruhdon4748 I had this dream not too long ago. I was in the past, four years before I was born, and the world was more colourful driving around, & this parking lot, it was brighter, had more trees, and was in a different part of the city, but I've seen it before. We pulled over there, about a half hour into my dream or so, I realised "Something", and I just started running and jumping up and down like crazy, full of energy you can feel like a small child would used to have. It's hard to describe the feeling, it was like riding a big rollercoaster for the first time in your life, except that it's you throwing your own body around instead of some train that only follows a set path, and it makes for this ... indescribable Freedom in every fiber of your body. True Freedom, you have to feel it for yourself. It can't really be described. Best I've ever felt, even though I knew in the back of my head I was dreaming... I can at least lay claim to knowing what absolute freedom feels like.

[@chriswilson1968]

Life was better before. I actually had a life

[@mr.brenman2132]

You still can.

[@mr.jamster8414]

take your life back from this demon!

[@duderitoz6953]

Having to go back to maps would suck. Gps is so much easier & better; nothing more annoying than having to pull over & pinpoint where you are on a map the size of your car hood

[@eukelarTV]

kyle did everyone in that county a service that day, checked the shit out of that judges ego.

[@Rekon-se6wv]

What I hate is that we gave access to the internet to a bunch of people who didnt deserve it. Smartphones dumb it down to the point everyone is in the net. Ruined quality of content out there. Only thing I appreciate is that I feel comfortabke going outside knowing many people are into their phones

[@Kosmologiikka]

Like people.. like.. you know.. like without a phone in a like.... concert or something? And like, its cool, and like.. I don't know, like its like people don't have phones.. you know?

[@redfocus1353]

I got a stick shift but I still look at my phone while I drive skill issue fr

[@Dziugenonas]

2:55 bruh yes you can

[@stray1357]

Kyle would make a good character in an action/comedy movie.

[@TheScience69]

I stayed at my mothers. She lives in the countryside in a villiage in the middle of nowhere. A complete stranger smiled and said good morning, and i was so caught off guard and confused that i didnt say it back fast enough to not look like a freak. It was a little old lady, and my first thought was legitimately "well she cant overpower me, so how is she planning to rob me? She doesnt look homeless 🤔 wtf does she want? This is really weird. Ae fuck, is it going to be a bible thing?...oh..."good morning"

[@ZachWhoIsTall]

So Taylor isn’t smart enough to keep a phone charger in his vehicle?

[@animaniacs538]

But what about TV's? They also made staying at home fun

[@whentheleveebreaks4732]

It’s interconnected people in a way that is not natural or healthy.

[@jthen8454]

Classic woody missing the point

[@basedkitsune436]

Based

[@mr.jamster8414]

true

[@danielelise7348]

ALL I hear in this is the word *LIKE* check it 🙄

[@SmoothBlue34]

Kyle rocking a fake rug

[@StNorthgateRecordings]

Aqua, if you want DIY shows - a band on our label is going on tour. Leave the phone at home and come out. 8/11 @ Century in Philly 8/12 @ Peach Pit in Boston 8/13 @ Snugs in New Paltz, NY Come out cowards.

[@Sean-sn9ld]

Why would you wanna hunt Crows? Crows are magnificent creatures

[@Executi0ner246]

What should we do as a society? Go back to regular cell phones maybe? 🤔

[@civmike]

Not a bad idea, that’s a start. But without would be the goal. When was the last time you went to a public place where everyone isn’t just stairing in there phones like a drone. It’s crazy

[@imageword5576]

flip phones are great. You can still be reached if there's an emergency, but you won't feel addicted to pointless distractions while out in the world.

[@civmike]

@@imageword5576 exactly

[@andmillions]

It won't happen man. Smart phones have been popular for over a decade now and are the norm.

[@jakebaker4066]

Not being to talk to someone on how to get back…. You’re actually way worse dependant….

[@adunkley92]

Get a handlebar mount for your phone.. texting and riding becomes a thing haha - also satnav is nice

[@imageword5576]

I don't think that's a good idea. Our attention should really be fully invested in the act of driving, especially on a motorcycle. Whatever it is on your phone can wait.

[@adunkley92]

@@imageword5576 Oh definitely not a good idea at all

[@Geronimoe1000]

Ill try again. Texting while driving a stick shift is ez as fuck. And yes i have own car with manual transmission. Bmw m3 e46

[@mikeyjohnson5888]

fr i got a spec v and do it all the time

[@chickengenius4202]

Life was better

[@jakebaker4066]

Not having a phone only really changes you if you don’t work on a computer…

[@imageword5576]

that's not been true in my experience. I only have a flip phone and it's made a huge difference. I work on a laptop at home but not being constantly distracted by a smart phone while out and about is huge.

[@PinkStick8]

Quit repeating the word “like” Aqua!!!

[@this_time_imperfect]

Okay boomers

[@GoFizy]

Like

[@MrMoles01]

Driving a manual isnt difficult. Why do americans act like its a super power.

[@CamMackay96]

Because stupid

[@VulgarBeyondSteel]

What's the average American IQ

[@mikeyjohnson5888]

Manuals just aren't that popular in the states. Its almost a security measure because most people can't drive stick.

[@SomethingEasty]

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