One Phone Text Is To Much!

[OldAirmail]

One good thing about cell phones & texting -

Distracted Walker Falls Into Train Tracks: Caught on Tape

Girl Falls In Mall Fountain while texting

Stupidity cures it's self.

[Blaquehardt]

Breaker-Breaker
Anyone remember when "good buddy" was your best friend, "fag" was a cigarette and "joint" was a place your mother warned you about?
OOPS! I guess my old "trucker days" are returning like a "flashback"
Threes and eights...

[Bass]

............. (how do you watch the event if you are typing all the time?).
Last thing is if you can't say it in person then maybe you shouldn't say (type/text) anything...

Hi Blaquehardt.
I recall this in your first post.

I'm still waiting for you to respond in one or two questions you've made in here!
Its called feedback.....

Ref my post here

viewtopic.php?f=25&t=165375&p=1237313&hilit=feedback%2C+please#p1237313

Please dont take it offended

[BLAZE]

That makes as much sense to me as text speak does to you. If you think about it CB radio was similar to texting in many ways. It had its own language which was unintelligible to people unfamiliar with it. It never caught on over here in the UK like it did in the US.

Like anything else, modern technology is fine if it's used sensibly. It's not the technology itself but the people who allow themselves to become addicted to it. The more of them there are the more profit for the phone companies.

I understand your point Hagar. The difference though is the C/B radio was governed by (Are Buddys) the F.C.C. and alot of what sounds like slang or gibberish was written in stone by the F.C.C. as the proper way to speak. like for example:

(10-1) Receiving poorly, (10-2) Receiving well, (10-3) Stop transmitting, (10-4) OK, message received, (10-5) Please relay message, (10-6) Busy, please stand by, (10-7) Out of service, and signing off, (10-8) In service, and taking calls, (10-9) Please repeat message, (10-10) Transmission complete, standing by, (10-11) Talking too fast, (10-12) Visitors present, (10-13) How is the weather?, (10-16) Make pickup at.. On up to 200 I bleleve.

Of course like anything else, People twisted it here and there to the point of what sounds like gibberish to the outsider. I think the difference is cell phone text gibberish is nothing but lazy shortcuts to language. But C/B lingo is SLYLE. ...

[OldAirmail]

I wasn't looking for anything like this, but it does fit in here.

Distracted by Cellphone, Airbus Captain Forgets Landing Gear

"The report maintains that the copilot looked over to find the captain distracted by his cell phone after repeatedly failing to respond the copilot’s request to set the missed approach altitude."

[beaky]

If I may play devil's advocate...
It's easy to blame the technology for accidents and rudeness, etc. but like any advance in tech, the device just facilitates what's always been there (stupidity)... it just sort of streamlines it.
I'm not quite old enough to remember when telephones first arrived on the scene, but I know that plenty of people back then bitched and moaned about how those devilish gadgets were tearing apart the fabric of society, etc. They said the same thing about television, the car, steam, mass production, women wearing trousers, electricity, and probably about the wheel.

I've certainly been annoyed by unwanted texts, voice calls, etc., and all the public rudeness and inattention can be infuriating... but there's no stopping it, beyond your personal life. If you find it maddening now, wait until people start having comm-capable computers installed in their heads! You'll be wistfully recalling the "good old days" when you could maybe leave your mobile at home and go for a walk... and maybe see someone else who was not talking to someone who wasn't there. Enjoy it while you can. Personally, I hope I'm dead and gone before "mobile connectedness" takes that next quantum leap, and I try to enjoy these last days of society as I understand it.

Another thing that helps me be philosophical about it is the fact that in my current line of work, that "damn phone", which I often want to hurl off a bridge or smash with a hammer, is my lifeline. I wouldn't get any work without it, because I rarely get more than two or three days' notice of a potential booking.
Just yesterday, in fact, I was set to do some side work today for a 2-man service/install company; might have netted $100 for a long, dreary day. Oh well, I had no union booking, so that would have to do.
Got a call in the afternoon (while at work in a theater in Newark) from my union business agent (who usually texts, BTW) to ask if I was free for a 730 AM call in the city with another local (the one that does almost all the movie and TV stuff in New York City). The offer, as usual, had a very limited shelf life. I had about 5 minutes to call the first guys, see if they'd let me cancel, then call my BA back. I've been looking for an "in" with that other local, and the call was a guaranteed 10 hours at nearly $40/hr. Drool.

I was able to wriggle out of the first booking (fortunately those guys are very understanding), called my BA in time, got the relevant contact info and touched base with that foreman in less than 10 minutes....and wound up getting the TV gig done today in about 5 hours. About $300 (net) for 5 hrs' work is what I call a pretty good day!
Met some great guys from that local, and yes, we immediately exchanged contact info with our phones. As a bonus, one of them wants to buy the car I'm thinking of selling, and another might move into a vacant room we have here at the loft. None of this would have happened without that goddamn phone.
And without what I call my "not so smart phone", I'd just be a dumb schmuck showing up at the union hall every morning... or even worse, I'd have to get a real job (tried that before, and it doesn't suit me). I do a lot of scurrying and keep very irregular hours, but I'm used to it, and the phone makes it possible.

For me, anyway, my mobile phone is empowering, and kind of fun sometimes.
But I'm not a Tweeter, and I don't post on Facebook about what I had for breakfast. "Mobile phone mania" seems silly to me... I grew up in a house with two rotary phones (one mounted on the wall!!) and no answering machine. If you weren't home, nobody could bother you. And most of the time, neighbors looked out for each other, without crossing the line of being nosy. It was nice- unhurried and quiet, for the most part.
But if someone told me in the 60s that someday I'd have a thing in my pocket that allowed instant communication, entertainment, shopping and a global library of just about any information I could imagine (not to mention a hi-def digital camera!), I'd have been pretty excited about that!!! Old people miss the good old days mostly because they were younger then; as I get older I am realizing this fully. The world I was born into was a bit slower, quieter and gentler, but in a lot of ways compared to now, it was dull and primitive. And we used to get junk mail, door-to-door salesmen, and many other annoyances that come with being "civilized".

And it's not impossible (yet) to enjoy the benefits of all this crazy wireless stuff without being annoyed by it: turn the damn thing off when you don't want to be disturbed (like how we old-timers used to leave the phone "off the hook"). Or turn the ringer down... or just ignore that 13th text from so-and-so about how bored they are, etc, etc. My habit these days is to screen all calls and texts in a second or two, and if I'm not interested at the moment, I ignore it. If it turns out to be urgent, they'll leave a message or try again (not much different than the pre-wireless days, really). It's also good to leave it at home whenever possible, and basically don't give in to other people's expectations of how much you should use it.

[beaky]

PS I am looking forward to Fozzer's "opinion" on the mobile phone

Matt

.... ... ... ...!

I've said it all before, you all know my feelings about the dreaded Mobile Phone (and their owners), so I wont repeat it all over again... .....

...just read all my previous posts regarding the subject... ...!

God...I hate the bloody things with a vengeance known to the Borg!.... ...!
Any time I am in someone's company, their bloody Mobile is going off all the time...or they are busy "texting"...and ignoring me!

Paul...living in peace and quietness... ...!

Land-line phone...and long lengths of copper wire... ...!

"I will vaporize you, and your accursed Mobile Phone!"...>>>

"Resistance is futile", Paul...

[Hagar]

Good to see you posting again Sean. I always enjoy reading your refreshing outlook on life.

The world I was born into was a bit slower, quieter and gentler, but in a lot of ways compared to now, it was dull and primitive. And we used to get junk mail, door-to-door salesmen, and many other annoyances that come with being "civilized".

Well, we still get all those things.

[H]

Except when I first got a cell phone and found 'advertisement' texts from the phone issuer (I'm docked time usage per message), I've never used a texting application since... and, to me, anyone using it while driving is insane.
Also, one can wind up with this sort of exchange:

Texting...

[beaky]

Good to see you posting again Sean. I always enjoy reading your refreshing outlook on life.

The world I was born into was a bit slower, quieter and gentler, but in a lot of ways compared to now, it was dull and primitive. And we used to get junk mail, door-to-door salesmen, and many other annoyances that come with being "civilized".

Well, we still get all those things.

Sadly, it's true... but my point was: it's nothing new, and although it's easier than ever for others to disturb us, it's just as simple as ever to ignore them. I take great pleasure in ignoring calls and texts on my mobile phone, and it's ridiculously easy.

[Fishbed7701]

I must say I dislike texting as much as the rest of you do. Odd thing is, I'm 16 years old and every single person I know has a phone, and I don't. I don't even want one. It annoys me to no end when I'm conversing with someone and the pull out their phone and start texting; when this happens, I immediately stop talking and walk away. I have no reason to really text people anyway, why do I need to know what they're up to every 30 seconds? It seems to me nowadays that cellphones are the 4th basic need of human life. I see people who can't afford to pay for their house, car, and other things, but they still have the newest smarthphone and are constantly using it. If I want to talk to someone, I talk to them face to face. It's not meaningful if it isn't that way.

[BLAZE]

I must say I dislike texting as much as the rest of you do. Odd thing is, I'm 16 years old and every single person I know has a phone, and I don't. I don't even want one. It annoys me to no end when I'm conversing with someone and the pull out their phone and start texting; when this happens, I immediately stop talking and walk away. I have no reason to really text people anyway, why do I need to know what they're up to every 30 seconds? It seems to me nowadays that cellphones are the 4th basic need of human life. I see people who can't afford to pay for their house, car, and other things, but they still have the newest smarthphone and are constantly using it. If I want to talk to someone, I talk to them face to face. It's not meaningful if it isn't that way.

Yeah, that is freeking ignorant!
It's real nice to hear a person of your age speak this way. It makes me think there's still hope for a non-robotic-brain-dead future for the human race.

[OldAirmail]

I must say I dislike texting as much as the rest of you do. Odd thing is, I'm 16 years old and every single person I know has a phone, and I don't. I don't even want one. It annoys me to no end when I'm conversing with someone and the pull out their phone and start texting; when this happens, I immediately stop talking and walk away. I have no reason to really text people anyway, why do I need to know what they're up to every 30 seconds? It seems to me nowadays that cellphones are the 4th basic need of human life. I see people who can't afford to pay for their house, car, and other things, but they still have the newest smarthphone and are constantly using it. If I want to talk to someone, I talk to them face to face. It's not meaningful if it isn't that way.

My definition of a "cranky old bastard" is someone who isn't willing to put up with stupidity anymore.

At 16, you must be smarter than I am. Welcome to the club.

[BE58D]

I'm a texter, I hate talking on the phone. Besides, it allows me to respond when I able to.

[Aashvi78]

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