Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 13, 2022

You could always get fired for not doing your work. Then you can spend all your time on the phone until you can’t pay your mobile bill.

It’s 7 AM and I’m on Gocomics.

Get you head out of your butt and your eyes off your phone, AND SEE THE REAL WORLD

There are all kinds of addictions…

I’m getting up as early as I can to see the Seahawks game in Munich. Probably catch the second half.

I’m retired. So I can spend all the time I want as I want (except for “honey do” stuff). But at my age, those tiny little phone screens are WAY too small. I use a laptop. Spouse uses a desktop.

Solution 1: Wait ’til after 5 to play with the phone.

Solution 2: Use a timer to limit yourself.

He went through all those things and not once went to Go Comics. Too bad he missing all the good things.

Feels like deja vu.It is sort of ironic that Pearls is in a sort of strip loop when you consider the topic, maybe it is a Groundhog day thing and I’m really a character played by Bill Murray.

The same folks (like me) record their shows on DVD and feel like they’re ahead by fast-forwarding thru commercials. The ads will find you.

I always start the day with GoComics.

Shut the phone off until your work is done

Noticin’ a pattern.

Why does one need to check Candy Crush? Are the lives refilled?

Society has become obsessed and isolated….rude and callus!

I look at it in the morning to see if it needs recharging and if there is anything IMPORTANT on it. I also look at it when I make my shopping list and then read it at the stores.

Hey, pal, here’s an idea. Why don’t you just take that phone of yours and toss it so far across the room that it won’t bother you into using it?

The Internet proves the existence of self created Black Holes…

I use my phone as a wi-fi hotspot. Without it I wouldn’t be able see gocomics on my laptop!

Booze is healthy. Screwdrivers, Sea Breezes, Madras….

Good to know it’s not just me.

Turn off notifications

The laziest comic strips are the ones where the cartoonist complains about smartphones.

So glad I don’t have a smart phone, just a rarely used Jitterbug for emergency.

“There stands the glass…”- Webb Pierce

Unfortunately that is how the workforce is today.

And this is why my workplace makes us lock up both our mobile devices and booze in the lobby.

I use my tablet for reading and web browsing. I use my phone for playing music in the car, phone calls, and texts. Oh, candid cat pictures when I don’t have a camera handy.

I don’t think the hour it takes me to go through nearly 40 comics a day is a waste of time.

He never checked his email.

I don’t do any of that stuff. If it ever rings I pick it up.

And, even worse, it doesn’t have to be a smartphone, which I do not have. But I get the same effect with my desktop computer….

I don’t know about the less healthy and fun than booze part, but yep, they are all magic time stealers. Missed Pinterest.

If you let your phone control you, you’re the problem.

I’m there at 0500.

This is why I turn off notifications