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#45
Well...ironically because I started this thread, Telus canceled my activation. Obviously, since my mom pays on one account for three phones (I just give her the money) she didn't have enough.

I'm quite pissed. Not at my mom, or Telus. Just the situation.

-Mark
 
#46
MJ5150 said:
Put me in with Mike N and Diggler. I do not send text messages. I have friends who send me text messages, and I call them back. They then ask me why I did not "text" them back. Simple I say....a phone is for TALKING.

-Mike
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And a steam engine was originally stationary to pump water from cornish tin mine, and a computer was originally to help crack the enigma code. Times and usage change, get used to it or get left behind. You'll be like these people who didn't like computers 10 years ago and then suddenly found that once they became ubiquitous they were expected to use them and didn't know how.
 
#47
My friends and I (30-50's) text each other all the time... last month, I sent 1000 texts... c'mon, what MAN wants to talk on the phone for more than 5 minutes? :D Yeah I got close friends that I talk to maybe once a month for a long time on the phone, but we don't talk much....

Texting is easy and when you have a Palm 700p, it's really easy! :D
 
#48
Cúl-Báire said:
I send SMS's (text messages), quiet a lot; especially if there is some kind of social engagement coming up.
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Thats my BIGGEST hate about mobile phones in general.

In the olden days you'd arrange to meet someone at a certain time and place, and then TURN UP.

Now you arrange a meeting, and then spend the hour before and the hour after the arranged engagement texting and rescheduling/locating the event. My wife's friends seem incapable if any kind of gathering without 20 texts being sent before hand - "we're setting off", "we're stuck in traffic", "will meet in resteraunt" (instead of pub), "are you still in pub?", "where are you now", "we're on high street"!!!! AAARRRRGGHHH just be where you said you would!

Ian

ps - Harry Potter hasn't raised childrens literacy... it's lowered adults! Sales of childrens books have increased, but less of those sales are actually to/for children. The increase is totally (and then some) acounted for by adults choosing childrens books
 
#49
IanStephenson said:
ps - Harry Potter hasn't raised childrens literacy... it's lowered adults! Sales of childrens books have increased, but less of those sales are actually to/for children. The increase is totally (and then some) acounted for by adults choosing childrens books
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That's true - I must say I have been amazed to see so many adults reading these books on trains, when I was commuting to London over the last few years!!

I would just be too embarassed to sit there reading a kids' book - at least they could have put a different cover on it!! :p
 
#51
Bruce Lindfield said:
That's true - I must say I have been amazed to see so many adults reading these books on trains, when I was commuting to London over the last few years!!

I would just be too embarassed to sit there reading a kids' book - at least they could have put a different cover on it!! :p
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There are adult versions of the Harry Potter books with different covers, just to make them a little more "credible" than the kids' versions.

The writing style is simplistic, but the stories are good, and that's the important thing - I try not to be a book snob! I've read plenty of stuff that's rather heavy going, sometimes it's nice to read something simpler like HP! :D
 

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