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The father spends 10 hours a day on twitter and facebook looking at memes about liberals and millennials.
- With some random sports channel or fox news absolutely blasting in the background the entire time
- The father demanded his kids look unhappy for the photo as he hands his phone over to the waiter to take the pic.

Honestly if you're going out to eat with someone the phones should stay in pockets or bags
If you're making the effort to go out you should be there not on your phones
- It depends. I spend so much time with my beat friend that we don't always have things to talk about. Sometimes we get coffee and just sit around and read or look at shit on our phones.
  
  You beat your friends?
- Tbh I wouldn't mind my kids looking at their phones.. what does it matter if the games they play are analog or digital? I'm talking about the sitting in the restaurant kind of situation, where kids usually draw, read or do other stuff to entertain themselves.
  
  It's not a matter of analog or digital games but a matter of going out to eat with people you care about and sharing that time with them
- I get the sentiment, but I have adhd and even with meds, it is sometimes a struggle to pay attention to someone, and I need something extra to do while holding a conversation at times. I need to have something to do with my hands so it's a quiet phone or some clicking toy or pen, so take your pick.
  
  I've got ADHD as well (mines inattentive)
  I find doodling to be a good addition, especially if I'm having lunch with fellow doodlers
  Because not only does it keep my hands busy so I stop bouncing my legs but it can also feed into conversations as well (once has lunch with a fellow doodler who we sketched stuff behind each other, it was really fun)
- I have autism and probably ADHD, eating without something else to stimulate me is absolute misery and if you tell me to put away my phone i'm going to start avoiding eating with you.
  
  The something else is... The person you're eating with?
  
  I take observing the ambient isn't enough stimulation in that case?

With what did they take the picture?
- Honestly, given how old this meme is, I wouldb't be surprised
  
  I knew it!
- Taking a family photo seems like it'd be within the spirit of the rule.
  Staging it so the teens look sad is the second most likely scenario.
  Most likely is they staged the photo and made up the discount caption for internet points.
  
  Would... would people do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?
  
  The best part is the best discount for this they could imagine was 10%
- That's the trap the restaurant uses to get out of giving 10% off.
- A Polaroid
  
  Polaroids don't fit in the interweb tubes, silly!
- You're on to something...

At least they can't give you QR menus.
- That's the secret - they can.

Yea cause kids totally wanna have a conversation with their shitty father.
- Why is the father shitty
  
  In this case it's because he's clearly making them pose for the photo for internet credit

Moral of the story: always travel with your laptop.

if someone keeps pulling out their phone while you’re eating with them, have you considered that you might just not be good company?

Picture taken with a vintage kodak film camera.

How was the photo made then?
- https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/6398153 The world’s top scientists have already solved it luckily!

Thas a gen X tho
- Oldest millennials are now 42.
  So tons of millennials with teenage children.
  We got old.
- Ok, boomer.
  
  Completely ignoring that Gen-X was ever a thing, lumping them in with a bigger group, is probably the most Gen-X thing ever.

"Joyful parents and dismayed kids..."
"Hurray! Our children are unhappy! This is our goal as parents for some reason..."
You know you're the parents right? You don't need to rely on the authority of others to tell your kids not to have their phones out at dinner? You can just do that yourself.
So if my wife and I want to look up the answer to a question, or check our calendar, we get charged more? Good business strategy there...

So confused by this. Peter Griffin is definitely a boomer himself.
- Boomer is someone born from 1946 to 1964, I would assume he's closer to early gen x. Idk what his actual birth year is though
  Edit: I looked it up, September 22nd, 1963, yeah I guess you're right
  
  @yokonzo Great edit, thanks for looking it up.
  I'm late GenX/Xennial (analog childhood digital late teens/adulthood) so to me he definitely talks, thinks, and dresses like someone from an older generation.
  When it first aired I was in my early 20s and he was already acting middle-aged.

I'll give a pass to a quick check if it's potentially something vital, but your latest post and the responses can wait for an hour. Focus on the moment at hand. Same gripe I have with people who sit there and film an entire concert rather than watch it.
- this sentiment is just gonna make people not want to be around you though, maybe be more interesting to talk to if you want people to not pull out their phone?
  It's perfectly fine to just spend time around others without interacting with them, it's basically just parallel play for adults.
  And in many cases this sentiment is just straight up ableist, people with autism/ADHD commonly use their phone to keep themselves stimulated and happy, if you tell such a person to put away their phone you're being a massive dick.
  
  I may not actively tell them to put it away, but it'll be noted for the future to determine if I feel like bothering to go with them.
  I have a young kid, if they have a friend over and put on some single player game while their friend just sits there I'm going to point out that it's rude to have someone over and not include them in what you're doing.

More like, everyone poses for a funny pic

I feel like the original post rustled some jimmies