I can commiserate with Arlo. Have had a cell for over 15 years and still am not sure what might my number be. Leave home without it a couple times a week.
My husband has a phone that he has had for a long time. He doesn’t know when he gets a text, he doesn’t know how to retrieve his voice mail. He never takes a picture because he can’t remember how. When he needs to respond to a text he will hand me his phone to do it for him. Don’t even get me started on adding a contact.
@Da’Dad- Not only that, but many of us despite how long we’ve had our phones, still do not know the things it’s capable of doing because we primarily use it for calls, texting and social media exploring.
The Old Sarge retired from the Army more than 30 years ago; he retired from Sprint in 2010. He worked in network operations for 10 years, and still spends a horrifying amount of time swearing at his phone. I’m just like Janis: “Give me that! I’ll fix it.”
In many ways I truly dislike my phone. It is too d*mn big now to fit in my shirt pocket like the older ones did. It is too d*mn big to be comfortable in a pants pocket. Unfortunately, I have to have one so I can receive the signal/code for the “Three factor identification” required at work. On weekends, I often have to have my wife call my phone a half dozen times a day because I just end up leaving the d*mn thing somewhere in the house.
It took me a minute to get the reference, from the opening scenes from “2001 – A Space Odyssey”. Where the so-called ape men somehow get the idea to use a bone for a weapon, and it suddenly gives them the advantage so they can kill other animals. Us trying to master our own technology is a pretty good analogy.
Tyge Premium Member 12 months ago
Arlo confronts the monolith from “2001: A Space Odyssey!”
SpacedInvader Premium Member 12 months ago
We all have our own monoliths to conquer.
Richardf8 Premium Member 12 months ago
Eh, loses points for no femur flinging.
Jesy Bertz Premium Member 12 months ago
“My God! The cell phone is full of stars!”
Rhetorical_Question 12 months ago
Dawn of mankind?
Da'Dad 12 months ago
I can commiserate with Arlo. Have had a cell for over 15 years and still am not sure what might my number be. Leave home without it a couple times a week.
Ermine Notyours 12 months ago
It would be more poetic if the iPhone debuted in 2001. The iPod debuted in 2001, but didn’t look like a black monolith then. Oh well.
janis nerowski 12 months ago
My husband has a phone that he has had for a long time. He doesn’t know when he gets a text, he doesn’t know how to retrieve his voice mail. He never takes a picture because he can’t remember how. When he needs to respond to a text he will hand me his phone to do it for him. Don’t even get me started on adding a contact.
Kenneth Buhagiar Premium Member 12 months ago
I like Arlo as Moonwatcher
Richard Howland-Bolton Premium Member 12 months ago
Dmn!!! Now I’ve got Also Sprach Zarathustra running through my head.
nosirrom 12 months ago
Arlo looks like he needs a padded cell (phone).
Bigdeer Premium Member 12 months ago
Ground control to Major Tom….
1504jarvis 12 months ago
I’m sorry, I can’t do that Dave.
deblee77 12 months ago
Before cell phones, it was programing the VCRs. How many people had their kids do it for them?
Gameguy49 Premium Member 12 months ago
I learned how to have mine stream my music channel while I’m on the treadmill and I can use it to make phone calls. Good enough!
big_daddy35 12 months ago
Funny, but in the movie doesn’t the monolith bestow knowledge?? LOL
Just-me 12 months ago
Reminds me of the obelisk in Kubrick’s 2001 A Space Odyssey.
[Traveler] Premium Member 12 months ago
That’s pretty much my wife. I believe there must be some electrical force in her body that screws up electronics so that they don’t perform correctly.
ladykat 12 months ago
My late husband refused to learn how to work a cellphone and a computer.
david_42 12 months ago
I have extremely dry fingers and most of the time my wife’s cellphone will not respond to them. I have gloves that “fix” the problem.
Forest Dweller 54 12 months ago
My Lady is the same, she’s attached to the hip with that thing.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member 12 months ago
That is my remote control that has 50 buttons, 45 of which I have no idea what they do and there is no manual for it.
Emperor Rick 12 months ago
Some of us are still evolving.
DawnQuinn1 12 months ago
I rarely take mine anywhere. I prefer to be left alone. My cell is used for phone calls only. Forget cruising the net, texts, photos,and games.
Say What? Premium Member 12 months ago
Darn it, Jim, I told you to stop spying on my parents! My dad would contact you to complain but he can’t get his phone to work for him.
Gina Carson 12 months ago
He works it just fine when he’s watching p_orn videos.
trainnut1956 12 months ago
Kids who haven’t seen 2001 won’t get it.
djtenltd 12 months ago
@Da’Dad- Not only that, but many of us despite how long we’ve had our phones, still do not know the things it’s capable of doing because we primarily use it for calls, texting and social media exploring.
assrdood 12 months ago
If you think phones are complicated, don’t buy a new car.
MuddyUSA Premium Member 12 months ago
Does Arlo have cell phone phobia?
paranormal 12 months ago
Looks like a scene from 2001 A Space Odyssey…
David Huie Green PrepareBeforeOrDispairAfter 12 months ago
2001 a space odyssey version gone awry.
Uncle Bob 12 months ago
The Dawn Of Clueless Man…
jarvisloop 12 months ago
For a little bit of Kubrick: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/stanley-kubrick-explains-meaning-of-monolith-2001-a-space-odyssey/
jarvisloop 12 months ago
Perhaps the monolith offers a way out; not sure about a cell phone, though:
https://www.livescience.com/space/could-earth-be-inside-a-black-hole
sjsczurek 12 months ago
I’ve seen 2001: A Space Odyssey several times, and I still don’t get what the big black monolith was supposed to represent, what it was about.
wjbillthompson 12 months ago
Just like my wife and me.
GG_loves_comics Premium Member 12 months ago
The Old Sarge retired from the Army more than 30 years ago; he retired from Sprint in 2010. He worked in network operations for 10 years, and still spends a horrifying amount of time swearing at his phone. I’m just like Janis: “Give me that! I’ll fix it.”
Pipe Tobacco Premium Member 12 months ago
In many ways I truly dislike my phone. It is too d*mn big now to fit in my shirt pocket like the older ones did. It is too d*mn big to be comfortable in a pants pocket. Unfortunately, I have to have one so I can receive the signal/code for the “Three factor identification” required at work. On weekends, I often have to have my wife call my phone a half dozen times a day because I just end up leaving the d*mn thing somewhere in the house.
KEA 12 months ago
They’d be more impressive if an accurate name, like pocket computer, was used.
alexius23 12 months ago
Play Also Sprach Zarathustra
Bozoid the Magnificent Premium Member 12 months ago
Excellent 2001 reference.
yoda1234 12 months ago
“Thus Sprach Zara-Janis”
eced52 12 months ago
I thought he was attacking the Monolith in 2001, A Space Odyssey.
John Schneider 12 months ago
It took me a minute to get the reference, from the opening scenes from “2001 – A Space Odyssey”. Where the so-called ape men somehow get the idea to use a bone for a weapon, and it suddenly gives them the advantage so they can kill other animals. Us trying to master our own technology is a pretty good analogy.