Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for September 07, 2023

Actually Andy, you don’t need any help being lazy, you wrote the manual on being lazy!

what do you know – I’m finally relieved for the future of AI.

Do that yourself you two lazybums.

Buzz-off Capp!

Laziness and efficiency are just different points of view of the same thing.

Laziness and efficiency indeed! These so-called “smartphones” completely lay out one’s private life for the edification and delectation of Big Brother. The words “I’m not worried, I’m not doing anything wrong!” are some of the sorriest and most foolishly naïve words ever spoken. What you don’t know can & WILL hurt you. We’ve no way whatsoever to know or correct the information & misinformation about us that’s been gathered about us that’s out there, nor do you know what’s actually considered “right” or “wrong.” That’s Big Brother’s prerogative to decide, and Big Brother can change his mind about that, and his opinion of you, at any time without notice. Outside of China & unlike in Orwell’s novel 1984, Big Brother hasn’t to date needed to openly forced himself on us and terrify us into compliance. Rather, Big Brother & Crew have seduced us with convenience. Our latter-day Big Brother’s sinister motives are much the same, however. The intention is still to track us and know everything about us and then use that info to control and exploit us.

As the saying goes among the IT cognoscenti, “Dumb people use smartphones, smart people use dumb phones!”

Rube looks just about ready to dump those drinks over Andy and Chalkie’s heads!

They also enable the women to order their hubs to get off their lazy butts and fetch their own drinks!!

Déjà vu? Am I crazy or I saw this strip before?

Why aren’tcha sittin’ with yer wimmins, guys?

The new way to mooch drinks from your phone…the Capp App.

As if Andy could be any more lazy

I’d guess rube get his drink and brought it to him, then threw it to him.

Andy would have texter’s thumb.

Rube is not looking in the fetching mood.

i think red gets evicted tonight

When I’m upstairs in my bedroom and my Dad needs me for something he sends me a text. It’s better than shouting. He hasn’t got a Smartphone though.

xxx

My dad did this, well, sort of. He was the first out of the 3 of us, the other 2 being mum and me to get a mobile phone. He sat up in bed one sunday morning trying to get the hang of his “latest gadget” as mum called it. The first call he made on his phone was to the house asking my mother if she would make him a cup of tea. I once described my dad as a cheeky chancer and mum said that that was the best description of him she had ever heard,☺.

Hell Andy, I’ll drink to that, you buyin’?…

Funny, but it seems odd for modern technology like smartphones to exist in Andy Capp’s world. Oh well, at least Chalkie’s the one with the smart phone and not Andy.

And Rube doesn’t have to walk all the way over to say “Get them yourself!”