Nerd Word of the Day: Intexticated
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Intexticated - driving while under the influence of texting. This word has even sprouted such offshoots as DWT as demonstrated in the following newscast:
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Twittergasims…—…textorgan=textorgy=textafyer(orifice)=heatn’text=textgasim…whatchama-caext
perhaps we could do without the l and say: textaholic…..
That’s a good point, railgunrat. All distractions that can be avoided should be banned for all drivers. Close to home, a trucker sped through a stop sign, killing a car driver instantly. His excuse? He was watching his GPS. In some countries it’s a $3000 fine for using a hand held cell, never mind texting. We need stronger laws and enforcement.
What I don’t undestand is why they made the law age-specific.
Teens may very well be statistically overrepresented among the “perpetrators”, but unless I’m mistaken, people die and get hurt equally well is it’s an adult that’s the cause of an accident…
The added age and presumed extra driving experience of the adult won’t counter the lack of concentration and focus on driving – some eldery might even very well be even worse at multitasking between handling the cell phone and driving.
Making the law age specific just seems, well, dumb – and hypocritical to me…
Nearly all of us believed that we were immortal, indestructible, and that we knew it all. I owe an awful lot to my parents for keeping the skids on me. They did not wait until I was 15 to start preparing me to drive. My whole life, my parents taught me that I am responsible for my actions, and that my actions do have consequences. As parents, Mrs. Somebody and myself did not do so great. We allowed our children to make too many of their own rules, and we protected them from many of their own consequences. Fortunately, our kids are really good people, in spite of everything we did.
As grandparents, our jobs are different, and something to which we are much better suited. Our job, now, is to make sure the children know that they are loved – no matter what. It is also our job, however, to allow the parents to do their job. A parent is an extremely difficult job, but someone has got to be the heavy. Children do need a large support system – extended family, school figures, community memebers. It is the parents, though, who must have the greatest influence. No one else can replace the impact that good parents have upon their children.
Parents share this responsiblity with their driving teens. If the parent needs to confiscate cell phones (or car keys) or resort to other “unreasonable” means, then so be it. I realize that nearly all parents must work full-time (at least,) and this adds an extra burden, but we all need to step up to the plate.
Don’t forget [Cashtration] Marina.
“why are you texting while driving ?”
“because i didn’t see you officer”
Time to make bumper stickers…
— honk if you are “texty!” —
or…
—honk if you text, smoke crack and drive all at the same time!—
It must be like a game to the young people.
How can anyone find that much gibberish to text about that it can’t wait till the car is parked or stopped somewhere?
Not meaning to sound glib, but having survived my teen years, (not all my friends did) it’s amazing to me, as many of us survived as did. Not many cars had seat belts… most had drum brakes that worked less than 1/2 as good as disk & usually only 1/2 functioning… High compression, big horse engines, with less than adequate tires & steering systems. My car was a convertible with no roll bar. My best friend had a datsun (yes Datsun) pickup, which he used to transport a bunch of us kids to the lake for the day in, crammed the back full of live bodies, makes me shudder now (& he is now a paramedic). Many a youthfull distraction while driving we found… even before cell phones & crackberries etc.
Went to a couple of funerals in my senior year. The other half of my F. horn playing duo, broke his neck crashing his motorbike & a girl from our senior class lost her head (literally) partying with some navy dudes… crashed less than a mile from the school.
So kids are going to find new ways to kill themselves, no matter how many laws & safety measures you put in place. It seems the more foolproof you build things the less common, common-sense becomes anyways. I’m afraid the cemeteries are full of indespensable, indestructable, immortal people.
What’s the answer… there are “consequences” to our every action (or inaction)… just takes awhile to learn it… a lot of people seem afraid of that fact or dismiss it.
My youngest son is the newest driver in my family, with, might I add, the most restrictions (laws) on his driving that have ever existed. He is the one I worry about most , drivingwise (he has no cell or texting device).
Kind of makes a parent feel so helpless sometimes.
I have the perfect solution that would solve the problems with DWT,DWI, traffic congestion, fuel economy, other driving distractions, etc. While freeing up your time to do other things. It would also give you a large discount on your auto insurance.
Don’t say “Getting rid of cars.” or “Build more public transit.”
It’s a very smart idea and it will the norm in the future. How soon that future become a reality today depends on intelligent decisions of masses today.
By the way, there is an email going around about a story of someone being intexticated and the story pulls at your heart strings. Don’t know if it is true or not, and Snopes has it on their radar, where the story right now is undetermined to be true.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/intexticated.asp
I see it all the time in Flori-duh!
Not just kids, either. If you see a woman driving alone in a car, 92% of the time they’re on a cel phone. The other 8% are texting. Not a day goes by without the morning and evening rush hour traffic jam caused by multiple car accidents. Twittering only adds to the dilemna.
Law enforcement fails to provide any real protection from reckless operators for other commuters, as it is. All they do anymore is direct traffic around accident scenes. When enough people die on a stretch of highway, they might do something, like make a presence on the roads, but that rarely happens. And then, they announce it on the radio, giving the hours they plan to be vigilant. Not real smart…
If anyone twitters “I’m in traffic right now, uh… what a life!”
After reading that, you should call the police on the individual.
It’s for his/her own safety really!
Anything you say or twitter, can and will be used against you in a court of law!
Thank you Marina for posting the word above. Nice find on that news video. I learned of the word via an email at work from a director who sent out a safety message reminding people not to text while driving due to a recent accident of an associate.
Good work PK!
Well, I just found another feather in your HeadDress, Chief!
H4W IZ LYKWEL SXC!!!
wow the next word i’ve never heard about before
Maybe i’m not “nerdy” enough?!
hey congrats Pk Carl
B.B.
lets see if you got a summons
Hi bigbhd95, now that I’ve got an iPhone, it is very tempting to do all kinds of things while driving. Hmmm, lets see what the traffic is like ahead. Good thing I’ve got the iPhone deeply lodged into my pocket so I won’t be tempted.
So many of my high school student are intexticated. The problem with these laws is how to enforce them. Eventually, it may be illegal to have a cell phone turned on while in the car. Better yet, phones must be locked in the glove compartment, trunk, etc. Remember, driving is not a right, but a privelage.
Did you notice that when the driver did look up, he only looked straight ahead. He did not check his side nor rear-view mirrors even once.
hey, some drivers never check their mirrors anyway, so why blame texting alone for it?
Here, it’s illegal to use a handheld cellphone in a car, either for speech or texting.
Some people even take photos on their iPhone or camera while driving. I like to see pictures of you in your car, but it isn’t safe. Even if there’s no law against taking photos while driving, it just isn’t safe.
Thank you for the video warning, Marina! smile:
Seesixcm6
Some lady got pulled over for driving while breast feeding she also was texting at the same time.
Hi…new words make me proud, I think!*!…drink a driving too, textalholic
textalholic, that’s a good one leonard.
Huh, Another word I’d never use.