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@Bernard said:

Ford Pinto.

Btw when I first went to Japan, the smoking regulations were quite loose. No smoking in school classrooms, thankfully, but most other workplaces were unrestricted. At my first workplace (a junior high), they had decided not to allow smoking in the teachers room because there had been a pregnant teacher, and then after she had her baby, they just kept the policy in place. But for my second job, I was a traveling teacher based out of the board of education, which was inside city hall. The city hall policy was that you could smoke in designated areas during the breaks, so before 8am, from 10-10:15am, during lunch, from 3-3:15pm and then after 5pm. The designated area was right by my desk

Fortunately, I was rarely there because I was usually at some school somewhere. After my second or third year in that job, the national law changed and then smoking wasn’t allowed anywhere in city hall — yay!!

My experience was not as dramatic as @jon-nyc 's or @bernard 's (and I believe I wrote about this at the old WTF) but I was living in Japan at the time, so it was just before 10pm. I was brushing my teeth and my husband called me into the living room where the news was on TV. (We didn't have a computer at home at that point). I couldn't process what was happening at first, it seemed like a movie, and we watched the rest of it unfold in real time just like the rest of the world. Then I couldn't get a call through to the US for what seemed like forever, I didn't know where my parents were, whether any of my family happened to be traveling (in NYC or elsewhere)... I have family in many places in Western PA, and the Japanese news didn't use any specific place names in their reporting about that part of it. That made me almost lose my mind.

I think being overseas for 9/11 was maybe somewhat similar to being abroad when a family member dies. I felt isolated from the US, and I remember feeling alienated from the Japanese people that were around me (esp at work) in ways I never had before.

In the months that followed I went crazy trying to get American flags to decorate our house. (Which, in a small town in Japan, and before the days of ordering everything online, was not very easy to do). It was another year or more before I made it back to the US for a visit, and when I finally returned, I found a country I did not recognize.

I had never been on a plane until sometime in college, and I'm pretty sure it was after the smoking ban was in place.

I do remember as a child joining my brothers in hounding my parents, who both smoked. We hated it! And they both eventually quit, my mother said our continual complaining was part of the motivation.

@wtg Love it!!

Esp. the colorful cars!!

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@Mik said:

unless I had a need for it. They're all tools.

I really just what it because it would be so much better for looking at music.

That’s not enough of a reason, or enough “uses” for the tools it has. Ah well, it’s fun to pretend.

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@AdagioM said:

The large screen is only relatively large compared to a regular phone. Probably not big enough to read sheet music at the piano.

I have an iPhone Pro Max and I sometimes read music from it, not for learning purposes of course! But music I'm already playing. (When I go somewhere and I know I'm going to be playing, I take my iPad).

I would love to have a larger screen for those incidental times, or when I'm just wanting to look at a score for reference. Being able to do that without having to carry around a regular tablet or mini tablet would be great. I'm sure I would love it for that purpose.

But probably not anything else!

Plus, I can't imagine having an iPhone without a case, and I can't figure out how a case is supposed to work with the foldable!

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Happy birthday @jon-nyc !!

@Daniel thanks for that video!

Hmm, the camera might be a deal breaker for me

Well, that and the fact that the price tag is just ridiculous and I can’t justify that kind of expense on a phone.

And also the fact that I am not actually sure I would actually like a foldable for anything other than the large screen for sheet music.

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Super creepy.

Also, this is why we can’t have nice things.

Seeing photos of my friends babies on their online accounts has always been a highlight, but I guess it will start to dwindle quickly.

It's been a long time since I've actually wanted a new phone. By which I mean, wanted some new tech, which is separate from my post some time ago about my phone getting old. Ironically, the latest iOS seems to have resolved some problems and my current (2021) phone is fine-ish... I want one of these though.

I have questions though. Like, how would a case work?

Another fun thing about the thread is when a word pops up that you know/recognize but never use or rarely see.

"Vainglorious" is one of those words.

the thread sort of reminds you "oh yeah, that word." There are lots of fun words in English!