The Virtual Pub
Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Mozo on July 03, 2007, 03:46:57 PM
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In so many recent posts, here and elsewhere, we have covered this subject before. Such is my detestation of this electronic locust plague, that like a sore tooth, I cannot ignore it.
In private, in publlc and in business, I think the mobile phone is the greatest single nuisance since the introduction of piped music ... Nay, much worse, since it is easier to escape the latter.
How many intimate moments are disrupted by a fonefreak partner's mobile Kermit alarm "Just a moment, honey ... This is important". Or, with your architect ."Now here's where we are going to put the childens ...." . Or over your morning caffee latte, a solitary mobile addict at the next table, "Getaway, you don't say, You don't say, getaway. He didn't. He did ? You don't say..."
Why go on? You may know that even in an hospital recovery ward where all you want to do is sleep, all through the night, the braying, whining, giggling and whispering of staff and patients with electronic tumours growing from ears.
Shall we ever reclaim our private earspace?
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Got a new one just recently...still can't work the bloody thing!!
I never mastered the texting thingy on the old one and I had it for 18 months!
Technology...no good for old brains cells cry:
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In so many recent posts, here and elsewhere, we
Well. . . .? We. . . what exactly? Or did you have a senior moment half way through your post?
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In so many recent posts, here and elsewhere, we
Well. . . .? We. . . what exactly? Or did you have a senior moment half way through your post?
Do try to keep up with fashion dear.
One no longer has a "senior moment" ~ it is sooooooo last year!
Nowadays one has a CRAFT moment*
*As in Can't Remember A Fucking Thing
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In so many recent posts, here and elsewhere, we
Well. . . .? We. . . what exactly? Or did you have a senior moment half way through your post?
Do try to keep up with fashion dear.
One no longer has a "senior moment" ~ it is sooooooo last year!
Nowadays one has a CRAFT moment*
*As in Can't Remember A Fucking Thing
::)
Note to self: "Must keep up with the times". Now which dealer should I go to for an Anglia? Was that Ford or Morris?
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Surely you want J.R. Hartley
Oh sorry, I thought you said angler drumroll:
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Voted 'business use only' in the main that is, but HATE the bloody thing with an overwhelming deep and unparrarelled never to be repeated passion of monstrous proportions too truth be known. evil:
Would be lost without it though tbh, sadly, and would be out of business within weeks.
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Voted 'business use only' in the main that is, but HATE the bloody thing with an overwhelming deep and unparrelled never to be repeated passion of monstrous proportions too truth be known. evil:
Would be lost without it though tbh, sadly, and would be out of business within weeks.
I'll second that! evil:
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Voted 'business use only' in the main that is, but HATE the bloody thing with an overwhelming deep and unparrelled never to be repeated passion of monstrous proportions too truth be known. evil:
Would be lost without it though tbh, sadly, and would be out of business within weeks.
I'll second that! evil:
We are in the minority though it seems.
Go into ANY pub...apart from here and the 'Blood 'n' Guts', and you'll witness hoardes of the soft shites, sittin' there fiddlin with their high tech contact instruments.
Walk down any street, and there they are, fiddlin' and texting...shite in the main too.
Now texting. DON'T get me fckin' started! evil:
What in Gods name is THAT all about ey?
If you need to speak to someone...RING THEM
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In so many recent posts, here and elsewhere, we
Well. . . .? We. . . what exactly? Or did you have a senior moment half way through your post?
I hope his lifeless form isn't slumped over the keyboard. eeek:
Mind you, my dark suit is cleaned and hanging in the wardrobe after the last false alarm.
Anyway, where is the "I don't care, it never rings" option in the poll.
I have had my phone for 3 years now and it never rings, well not since the "Vodafone" label and those little stripes and things came off the glass bit on the front.
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Too kind DS!
Nobody has had their attire cleaned because of me for a long time ... sad24: In the small hours of this Oz a.m. I dozed off while still posting!
Mozo lives! (He thinks)
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In so many recent posts, here and elsewhere, we
Well. . . .? We. . . what exactly? Or did you have a senior moment half way through your post?
I hope his lifeless form isn't slumped over the keyboard. eeek:
Mind you, my dark suit is cleaned and hanging in the wardrobe after the last false alarm.
Anyway, where is the "I don't care, it never rings" option in the poll.
I have had my phone for 3 years now and it never rings, well not since the "Vodafone" label and those little stripes and things came off the glass bit on the front.
Perhaps you should switch it on? point:
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In so many recent posts, here and elsewhere, we
Well. . . .? We. . . what exactly? Or did you have a senior moment half way through your post?
I hope his lifeless form isn't slumped over the keyboard. eeek:
Mind you, my dark suit is cleaned and hanging in the wardrobe after the last false alarm.
Anyway, where is the "I don't care, it never rings" option in the poll.
I have had my phone for 3 years now and it never rings, well not since the "Vodafone" label and those little stripes and things came off the glass bit on the front.
Perhaps you should switch it on? point:
Eh??
Can you switch it off? The house phone has no switch.
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Couldn't find an option that I agreed with. confused:
Mine is mainly for emergency only, normally to ring to say that I'm stuck on a train and won't be home at the usual time so don't drop the children off until later.
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Eh??
Can you switch it off? The house phone has no switch.
If in doubt, do what they do in that Famous Grouse advert, and toss it in the Loch, or in your case, the cess pit.
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Couldn't find an option that I agreed with. confused:
Mine is mainly for emergency only, normally to ring to say that I'm stuck on a train and won't be home at the usual time so don't drop the children off until later.
You're not one of those that tells the whole carriage too I hope? whistle:
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Eh??
Can you switch it off? The house phone has no switch.
If in doubt, do what they do in that Famous Grouse advert, and toss it in the Loch, or in your case, the cess pit.
It was after that when all the letters came off the little window on the front.
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What bloody letters on the window. confused:
Are you sure we're talking about a mobile phone here?
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Couldn't find an option that I agreed with. confused:
Mine is mainly for emergency only, normally to ring to say that I'm stuck on a train and won't be home at the usual time so don't drop the children off until later.
You're not one of those that tells the whole carriage too I hope? whistle:
No Angry9: either I keep the converstion to a minimum or send a text.
Actually I've noticed that there are less mobile conversations on the train now. Maybe more people text instead.
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Couldn't find an option that I agreed with. confused:
Mine is mainly for emergency only, normally to ring to say that I'm stuck on a train and won't be home at the usual time so don't drop the children off until later.
You're not one of those that tells the whole carriage too I hope? whistle:
No Angry9: either I keep the converstion to a minimum or send a text.
Actually I've noticed that there are less mobile conversations on the train now. Maybe more people text instead.
Probably one of the few occassions I would deem texting useful.
Problem with texting......apart from all the fartin about taking 20 minutes to write one short sentence, and doing irrepairable damage to your eyesight.... is that you never know if the recipient has received the message.
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What bloody letters on the window. confused:
Are you sure we're talking about a mobile phone here?
Yes, all the pictures I have seen of mobile phones have them!
Above the dialling keys there is a little square window, below where it says Nokia.
When I first got the phone, the window had Vodafone written on it with some vertical stripes on either side.
The stripes wore off first, then the letters.
It never really bothered me as nobody rings and the kids are happy because I do what they ask and always take my mobile with me 'just in case'. ::)
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Ahh yes, I just about remember them now...similar to this one?
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi27.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fc172%2Fb0nz0%2Fold_mobile_phones_010.jpg&hash=eb7338dcc0b2927e98e44c47455483c831c96edc)
Anyway DS. Why don't you openly publicise your number on here, and we can all ring you to make you feel more wanted...like. cloud9:
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Ahh yes, I just about remember them now...similar to this one?
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi27.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fc172%2Fb0nz0%2Fold_mobile_phones_010.jpg&hash=eb7338dcc0b2927e98e44c47455483c831c96edc)
Anyway DS. Why don't you openly publicise your number on here, and we can all ring you to make you feel more wanted...like. cloud9:
Now you are just being silly. I told you it was a Nokia. noooo:
The number to ring is 07951857990 if you want to.
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No point in us ringing if you don't know how to answer it ~ is there?
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The number to ring is 07951857990 if you want to.
Yea, right. ::)
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The number to ring is 07951857990 if you want to.
Yea, right. ::)
A pound to a pinch of **** that Nick rings it after midnight.
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The number to ring is 07951857990 if you want to.
Yea, right. ::)
A pound to a pinch of **** that Nick rings it after midnight.
Well I'm not going to. It's probably the number for the local mental institution.
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The number to ring is 07951857990 if you want to.
Yea, right. ::)
A pound to a pinch of **** that Nick rings it after midnight.
Well I'm not going to. It's probably the number for the local mental institution.
Berek's number? redface:
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Google it gentlemen, google it. ::)
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Google it gentlemen, google it. ::)
Happy days... ;D
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Google it gentlemen, google it. ::)
Happy days... ;D
Indeed.
Loving Nick's avatar over there these days.
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Google it gentlemen, google it. ::)
Happy days... ;D
Indeed.
Loving Nick's avatar over there these days.
Yea. What's that all about Mr Nick?
Are WE the new dark side, cloud9: or are you referring to the other evil: 'dark side'?
DS. You are just as I expected. A complete and utter fraud.
I really wouldn't have expected any less though tbh. ;)
What ever happened anyway. Did the gurk ever ring you back?
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Google it gentlemen, google it. ::)
Happy days... ;D
Indeed.
Loving Nick's avatar over there these days.
Yea. What's that all about Mr Nick?
Are WE the new dark side, cloud9: or are you referring to the other evil: 'dark side'?
DS. You are just as I expected. A complete and utter fraud.
I really wouldn't have expected any less though tbh. ;)
What ever happened anyway. Did the gurk ever ring you back?
No, he probably changed his number and I understand that Gavin and Justin are now happily settled together in Felixstowe. evil:
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The Mrs was on the blower last night getting her contract changed, took about an hour of some terrorist trying to charm her in the 'make tham feel comfortable and they'll buy anything' mode. He asked if anybody else in the household used a mobile and she passed him on to me.
What kind of phone would you like?
The one I use, that's why i bought it...
How much do you spend?
?5 to ?10 a month, depending on how many inane texts from the wife I have to reply to.
Well we can do you 500 mins and 500 texts for ?15 a month.
That's more expensive than what i told you I spend.
But then you could use it more.
I don't want or need to use it more, hence i spend the amount i said. Do you suggest that i send every text twice?
No we're just offering a more flexible package.
Flexible as in if i don't use it it will cost me ?15?
No, the unit cost will be cheaper.
Cheaper based on usage that i'm not likely to need. Anyway what phone were you offering?
Nokia 6300, it's...
I want a Nokia N95
That isn't available on this price plan
But you've told me this is the best plan for me and that it's flexible.
It is flexible but we can't offer that phone.
So you want me to sign up to a contract i don't want, for a price more expensive than i pay now with a product i don't want to use?
No, we are offering a great phone and a great package.
I want a Nokia N95
It isn't available on this tarrif
I want a Nokia N95
It isn't available on this tarrif
I want a Nokia N95
It isn't available on this tarrif
I want a Nokia N95
OK sir, we aren't able to meet your requirements so i'll go now.
Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
The wife didn't see it as the same victory as me, i got a telesales tw@t to hang up on me! cloud9:
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Way to go Happy drumroll:
Chalk up one for the good guys!
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