07-24-2021, 08:50 PM
(07-24-2021, 08:09 PM)BIAD Wrote: So a smartphone is pinging and the media have moved on to implying a sound is a sign to the public to panic!
BBC:
Pavlov's Dog comes to mind...
I'm pretty sure that, since I've not gotten any of those silly "contact tracing" apps, I'll never catch the coof.
Even if I did have one, the coof would still have to come to me, since I leave my cell phone laying on a shelf at home when I'm out and about...
.
Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’