Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 12, 2020

Do I get to keep a tablet?

To show just how smart Pig is, that’s his right hand.

You can’t send tweet with one hand , therefore the question does not arise .

Fallacy of the excluded middle. You can instead just give up your freedom of choice.

imagine asking this kind of scenario with Rick Allen, the one-armed drummer of Def Leppard

There’s a thing called a smartphone?

If the phone was smart, it would prevent connections to fake media as Facebook, Twitter, etc.

It would also block spam and robo-calls without bothering us.

I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous…

Smart phone no problem…. I like to use my computer anyway

Pig is OK he only has a left trotter, he can live without something he doesn’t possess!

First, is it an iPhone or an Android? Will I get a new one every year? 4G or 5G? Limited or Unlimited plan?

I’m 32 and still don’t have a smartphone. It’s like smoking—if there are books and books about how to quit something, I save time and just don’t start.

One hand less means half the texting speed…and that means people will keep asking ‘are you someones’ granny?’Nope. Throw the damned thing in the recycler and be done with it.

I have an Iphone and only use it to make phone calls and to look up numbers!

I wouldn’t know, I don’t have a smart phone.

And here’s old man Stephan bitching about smartphones again. If he’s not bitching abot 2020, he’s bitching about smartphones.

Easy, I don’t read GoComics on my phone.

yes, it is very sad that we have gotten to this point

Anybody need a hand?

Well, since this could only be a choice forced on you by some other person, I would temporarily go without the phone until I found an effective way to go after that person.

Smartphone. Not even up for debate. I’m a gamer and need both hands for the controller. Plus near everything I do on a smartphone I can do on PC.

Shades of “Monty Python” …. tis only a flesh wound ! … Croc Power !

Will Larry the Croc ever catch Zebra? When pigs have hands!

Easy choice for us left-handers.

Most likely the one hand will fall off from lack of use anyways so yeah! I pick the cell!

But how are you going to carry two things or heavy objects? Get a prosthetic?

Definitely the smartphone. The hand can be used for so many things, some of which I’d rather not mention.

First you’d have to buy me a smartphone, then I would happily lose it.

What a tricky way for someone to steal your smartphone!

Being a leftie, or a southpaw, or the “sinistram” being my dominant hand, I have to say I’d miss my phone. Not much, but some. (And we write funny because we spend our formative years being forced to try and write with our non-dominant hand. On the other hand, if there’s anything to this left-brain, right-brain business, you could argue that we lefties are the only people on the planet in our right minds. 8>})

Never had a smartphone, and I’ve made it to 67 years old!

Pig’s knuckles for someone.

But without my left hand, how would I keep my smart watch on my wrist?

Pig has two left hands, apparently

Be pretty hard to text with one hand….

Oh, definitely the smartphone.

Which I would replace with a small tablet that didn’t have phone capability.

That’s your RIGHT hand, Pig.

A harder decision for those of us who are left handed

What’s sad is that the question itself invokes thought……

Modern version of an old Jack Benny joke. Robber points a gun at him and snarls “Your money or your life!” Loooong pause. Finally, Jack Benny says, “I’m thinking.”

I’m thinking paraphrase here – " Smartphone? , WE DON’T NEED NO SMARTPHONE "

Lose the smart phone – I can’t navigate that much of it anyway. Sigh!!

Silver lining for someone.. get to make pig knuckle soup.

I’d give up my left hand… of course, playing boogie-woogie on the piano would suffer

I don’t have a smartphone. And I’m ambidextrous without giving up anything.

I’m left handed, so definitely keeping it!

Don’t have a cell phone. Don’t want a cell phone. Won’t touch a cell phone. Have turned down offers of gift cell phones – and those awful “book reader” things. Gross and disgusting.

Easy. I don’t have a smartphone. (I’m posting this on my computer.)

Try it with a different appendage and see what you get.

Since I don’t have a Smartphone and have no intentions of ever getting one, I guess I get to keep both of my hands!

May I sleep on i?. And I want to watch “My Left Foot” again.

Am I the only one who would choose to lose the smartphone?

I’d toss the phone in a heartbeat. I have two and sometimes I feel like I am chained to it through work.

Ease choice, loose the smartphone. Especially easy for me as I don’t have a smartphone (NO, I AM NOT VIEWING GOCOMICS OR POSTING ON A SMARTPHONE, I am using a tablet). You don’t need a smartphone.

Now for me if the choice were to loose an arm or my tablet the choice is still easy. My tablet. I still have and use my laptop so I can go without my tablet. It would be a little inconvient as most of the time I’m using my tablet I don’t really have enough room for my laptop and the mouse I operate it with (yes, it does have a touchpad but the mouse is easier for me). But if I have to I can make do.

All I have is a flip-phone, and yes, I’d rather have both hands than any kind of cell phone.

sigh…to think this may cause people to stop and think, is pretty scary

Being left-handed, and not having a smartphone to begin with, I find my answer to be a no-brainer. See, Rat? It can be easy!

I’d just use my iPad.

I write with my left hand. Bye phone! Besides, I just use my desktop anyway.

I’m left-handed and learned to do most things right-handed because many tools were only made that way at one time.

BUT let me comment on the cartoon—apparently I am the only person here who has never had a cell phone let alone a smart phone, so the message conveyed is moot for me. Mobile phones work so poorly where I live that I understand maybe half of what people say when they call me using one and it appears no company is tackling that problem.

And I cannot fathom how folks afford them anyway.

There are other electronic devices that do the same thing as the phone…