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  • #61
    Originally posted by Dissident
    How did you ever get by without one before you had cell phones.
    I was younger then. I didn't get a phone for ages while others did, because I didn't like the idea. But before my gap year it wasn't really needed. Now It'd be hard to do without. I could do without them, just not as well.

    Originally posted by Dissident
    It's an insult to answer cell phones on dates and especially during sex.
    I agree, which is why my phone is off during sex/dates. However if I was expecting an important call, then I'd make an exception. If my phone's on and rings, not answering is the same as someone saying they want to talk to me in person and ignoring them. I don't see a difference between a phone conversation and a face to face one.
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    • #62
      Originally posted by Starchild
      Do people actually still use their phones to make phone calls? I use mine mainly for text messages and taking photos. Phoning is so quaint.
      Why is it quaint? Air time is dirt cheap and text messaging is for little children. Why type things on a stupidly small keyboard when I can just call and be done with it in half the time.
      Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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      • #63
        Originally posted by Dissident
        I wouldn't even respond to a fire/smoke alarm during sex. As I don't know when the next time I'll be able to have sex will be. .
        Ahh, that may be the reason I don't mind so much. If I'm having sex, ie. I'm with my girlfriend, the chances are O had sex about an hour or two before and will do again after the phone call. Part of not seeing each other for a while, livjng apart and all, means when we get to spend a weekend or so together, sex stops becoming a big issue...
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        But he would think of something
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        • #64
          Originally posted by Drogue

          I think we differ fundamentally, as you see being always contactable as a bad thing, and I see it as a necessity - I *hate* being uncontactable, so I try to always make sure I am. Though I managed remarkably well in Salzburg being out of service area
          hmm reread what I said before-- I believe my idea was that the requirement or necessity that people be immediately contactable and accessible is what I don't like. I have a blackberry and a cell phone so I can often be reached... But guess what? When I don't want to be bothered I turn them off.

          I turn them off in restaurants, in the movies, at a meeting and pretty much every evening as soon as I get home.

          If anyone desires being accessible, fine, leave them on, it doesn't bother me that you want to be reachable 24/7. I just enjoy time when I can enjoy what I am doing
          You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto Luongo

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          • #65
            Originally posted by Alex


            Me too.

            That's why I don't have a cell phone.
            I have one but it has a remarkable thing called an off switch . .. works great
            You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto Luongo

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            • #66
              Originally posted by Oerdin


              Why is it quaint? Air time is dirt cheap and text messaging is for little children. Why type things on a stupidly small keyboard when I can just call and be done with it in half the time.
              Cause I can type out a text and send it off faster than it takes to call someone, them to answer, ask my question, and get a reply?

              And texting, at least over here, is the cheaper option. Everyone texts. Picture messages are becoming increasingly common. Phone calls are an increasingly small portion of the revenue of mobile networks, at least in the UK/Europe.
              Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
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              • #67
                Originally posted by Ming


                No... calls don't mean urgency... and in many cases, what others think is important isn't something I would consider important

                There are very few calls that are truly urgent--

                and realistically, even the ones that are . . .there is often little you can do that you couldn't do upon getting the message in 10 or 20 or 30 minutes.


                I'm just imaging these " connectaholics" bringing their cellphones into a swimming pool or something
                You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto Luongo

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                • #68
                  I do bring mine to the swimming pool/gym. I keep it in my locker on silent. My phone isn't generally further than a metre from me normally. Leaving it at home is like leaving the house without shoes on.
                  Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
                  -Richard Dawkins

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                  • #69
                    I still maintain that people with cellphones should be shot.

                    They are a public nuisance.
                    Only feebs vote.

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                    • #70
                      Originally posted by Agathon
                      They are a public nuisance.
                      So are SOME teachers
                      .01/10
                      Keep on Civin'
                      RIP rah, Tony Bogey & Baron O

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                      • #71
                        Originally posted by Starchild


                        Cause I can type out a text and send it off faster than it takes to call someone, them to answer, ask my question, and get a reply?

                        And texting, at least over here, is the cheaper option. Everyone texts. Picture messages are becoming increasingly common. Phone calls are an increasingly small portion of the revenue of mobile networks, at least in the UK/Europe.
                        Around here there are so many competiting networks that talk time is dirt cheap. $39.95 get you around 3000 anytime minutes per month a free night and weekend minutes with long distance thrown in free. It's cheaper then a land line. Text messages generally cost extra or if you can get a plan which costs the same gives you half the talk time but unlimited free texting. Mostly children are the only ones who text and adults just pick up the phone.

                        With voice activited autodial I just don't see how texting would be faster then calling unless you only want to send a one sentence message.
                        Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                        • #72
                          Don't you also pay to receive phone calls as well? Not sure if that's still the case but that's what I've heard.

                          In the UK, the big players are Vodafone, O2, Orange, T-Mobile, Virgin Mobile and 3. There's no such thing as long distance and our "off-peak" would be the equivalent of your nights and weekends. The big money comes from contracts or add-on services like the 3G rollout that's properly begun.

                          My contract with O2 gives me 300 offpeak minutes and 500 free text messages a month for £20. Going over that limit its 12p per text. I got my phone free as part of the contract and can upgrade if/when I renew the contract in a year's time.

                          You've got to remember that I'm a young adult in Europe who's barely known a life without mobile phones (going all the way back to my first one in Canada). I've grown up with texting. It's a deeply ingrained cultural thing now. Everyone I know texts, barely anyone calls. Texting, for us, is just as fast. It's more discreet, allows you time to consider a reply, and lets you store the message for a later date. Things a phone call doesn't.
                          Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
                          -Richard Dawkins

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                          • #73
                            Originally posted by Ming




                            Those can wait a week
                            What if all of the Eventis people were spamming the forum with aardvarks and creating copycat threads? Would you interrupt sex to ban them?
                            "You're the biggest user of hindsight that I've ever known. Your favorite team, in any sport, is the one that just won. If you were a woman, you'd likely be a slut." - Slowwhand, to Imran

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                            • #74
                              Originally posted by Jaguar
                              What if all of the Eventis people were spamming the forum with aardvarks and creating copycat threads? Would you interrupt sex to ban them?
                              NO!

                              I'm not a moron
                              Keep on Civin'
                              RIP rah, Tony Bogey & Baron O

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                              • #75
                                Standard rule of thumb is that in terms of mobile take up and, more importantly, the cultural aspect of mobile phones, America is 2-3 years behind Europe/Asia. That's admitted even by the American business execs.

                                There's a good article here:
                                News Archives - ClickZ
                                http://www.clickz.com/features/insight/article.php/3371391


                                Interestingly, a lot of British companies are being hired to run the new phone campaigns in America because we've got such a lead on knowing how texting works on a mass level. Also gives you an idea of how pervasive text marketing/usage is here.
                                Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
                                -Richard Dawkins

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