The Buckets by Greg Cravens for April 27, 2021

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    Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 3 years ago

    You did.

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    whahoppened  over 3 years ago

    Now if someone asks “Where’s your brain Bucket”, you can show ’em!

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    Qiset  over 3 years ago

    I call it my external memory.

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    some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Use it or lose it.

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    James Lindley Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I only remember a few phone numbers, but I can still read a map.

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    Sir Ruddy Blighter, Jr.  over 3 years ago

    There’s nothing wrong with relying on technology… those were all useful skills at one time because we had no alternative. Now we do. At some point in history, hunting, fishing, and farming were essential survival skills for everyone. Now only a relative few need to do it for everyone.

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    Michael G.  over 3 years ago

    Think of the convenience of carrying your memory in a pocket or bag!

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    John9  over 3 years ago

    I used to have a decent memory, but then maybe I didn’t. I don’t remember.

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    P51Strega  over 3 years ago

    Bah, we all think we remembered, but half the time we were wrong.

    LOL

    It’s so embarrassing to say what you thought you remembered, and be wrong, that the safe alternative is to have the correct info “written” down somewhere.

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    karmakat01  over 3 years ago

    WELCOME TO TECHNOLOGY! you are just starting to be like your FATHER!!! MUAHAHAHA!!! lol

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    Allan CB Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I used to carry a book around.

    It had names, addresses, phone numbers. When someone moved (and in the before time, when numbers actually were associated geographically) changed numbers, I’d use whiteout, and write the address and phone number anew.

    Then I got a Nokia 5190 and all my phone numbers went in there. That was 1998.

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    poppacapsmokeblower  over 3 years ago

    Do you know how little brains we have if they fit in a phone?

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    Doctor Toon  over 3 years ago

    I dont even have a cell phone, my wife has one that has to do the thinking for both of us

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    j.l.farmer  over 3 years ago

    you did!

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    cuzinron47  over 3 years ago

    I don’t think of it as dumbing us down, it’s that much more we don’t have to remember. De-cluttering own brains.

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    cabalonrye  over 3 years ago

    I still have a set of maps and a compass in the car, because the day the GPS stops working or goes buggy I don’t want to end up crying like a little girl because I don’t know where I am and where I am going.

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    InquireWithin  over 3 years ago

    I could never remember phone numbers, unless I’d used them a dozen or more times. I can still recite my dad’s old office number and my old home number, but that’s about it. All others were either looked up in the phone book or held in my pocket on tiny scraps of paper which inevitably got lost or went through the wash.

    And don’t get me started about the times I’d be trying to find my location on a huge fold-up map, and plot a route that turned out to be wrong because the construction detours took me miles out of the way or the map was out-of-date.

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    Seed_drill  over 3 years ago

    I’ve read that widespread literacy really did diminish the average persons working memory.

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