Time Traveller Caught on Tape

[Deathpool]

I can just imagine wearing one of those hearing aids.

 

[J-WO]

Pardon?

 

[Star Girl]

From the article

Clarke replied, "Who says the person in question went back to see the Chaplin premiere? How about, the person went back to an earlier period and got stuck there or was in town doing something else and just happened to stroll on by."

So you get stuck in time with a working mobile phone? Then parade it through town and where people are filming instead of phoning help and potentially getting back to where your meant to be?


...ahuh.

 

[Deathpool]

Pardon?

I've done it again for trillionth time.

 

[J-WO]

Stop whispering into that skull, dear, we can't hear you!

 

[sloweye]

I think she was ringing Baldrick to let him know his slug balancing act had be knobbled.

 

[Ursa major]

She may be phoning the fairies (as it were).

There have always been some people who talk to themselves (more or less surreptitiously). It's just that nowadays we tend to assume they're using a mobile phone, whether or not they are.

 

[Forve]

Instead of thinking "She just has hand over her ear"
someone though "Some block has invented time machine in the future and the first person he send back into the time was his mom who always loved Charlie Chaplin's movies, so now he could finally bring that girl from IT over (yes, he lives with his mom, as do most of the people who believe this story) + he had to invent phone which could transverse time, because his mom would not just go without being able to call him every 3 hours"

 

[J-WO]

She may be phoning the fairies (as it were).

There have always been some people who talk to themselves (more or less surreptitiously). It's just that nowadays we tend to assume they're using a mobile phone, whether or not they are.

Those handless, walk-down-the-street-phones freak me out. Its impossible to tell if someones a frantic business man or a raging nutter.

 

[Ursa major]

I recall the first time I saw someone using a hands-free phone. They were standing in the corner of a meeting room (very close to both walls as if they were a child ordered there by a teacher), aparently talking quietly to themselves. The man's longish hair was hiding his earpiece, adding to the feeling that I was watching someone not all there**.







** - Which they weren't, in the sense that their attention was elsewhere.

 

[Dave]

I've often thought that if someone from the past was brought to the present i.e. Adam Adamant, The Sleeper Awakes, or Rip Van Winkle, he would believe everybody to be completely mad; talking to themselves.

I also think that Ray Bradbury is a genius with his prediction of iPods (the shells in Fahrenheit 451) (as well as TV screens on all every wall and an obsession with the private lives of soap stars.)

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening

The Sound of Silence, Simon and Garfunkle.