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Post by Caller on Jun 24, 2009 21:54:21 GMT -5
We're thinking about implementing a "Customers on cell phones will be refused service" policy in the store because of this. It never fails that their phone rings JUST as they get to the counter and then you have to sit and wait while they gab away instead of paying or while they bitch about what they think the prices are supposed to be while at the same time having an O.M.G. moment with their boyfriend.
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Post by Yvondith on Jun 24, 2009 22:20:24 GMT -5
I hate em too... only reason I have one is because I don't have a land line phone. If I did, I wouldn't use mine at all.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Jun 25, 2009 0:15:46 GMT -5
Our species has gone several, billions of years without it and now, in a one short decade, our culture has become so dependant on them. It sickens me.
Anyways, as to not continue to derail Yhazors awol thread I have some fitness talk. I have been lifting weights at home in an attempt to build some strength. I have two 15 pound weights which I curl with daily. I do about 20 curls each arm every hour or or so after work. My left arm is developing nicley. It feels a lot tighter and when I flex it actually looks a lot more solid. Not so with my right arm. My right arm still feels the same and its not looking anymore solid. I work both arms equally yet my left arm is getting stronger faster but my right arm is taking its time. I really don't get it. :?
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Post by Caller on Jun 25, 2009 1:06:12 GMT -5
You left handed? It wouldn't be surprising if so because you use that arm all the time. If not then you're weird? Iono I'm no bodybuilder.
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Post by Yvondith on Jun 25, 2009 1:09:19 GMT -5
Mmmm. Muscles. Manly arm muscles. BTW, it's Dej's birthday. Happy birthday Dej! *confetti*
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Post by UltimateCloud on Jun 25, 2009 3:12:21 GMT -5
Our species has gone several, billions of years without it and now, in a one short decade, our culture has become so dependant on them. It sickens me. Hang on a minute. Couldn't the same thing be said about computers? I mean, mobile phones are essentially a by-product of computers (especially phones these days). So by condemning mobile phones, aren't you really condemning computer technology as a whole? I dunno, I don't get this whole "mobile phone hatred" thing that people seem to carry around with them these days. The reason why you guys don't seem to like them is not because of the phone itself; but because of the manors and politeness that the people who use them lack. Now I hardly think this is the phone's fault. People who lacked manors and decorum existed long before the mobile phone. It hasn't done anything to change this; people have always had bad manors. The reason that I'm so defendant of the phone is because that it is a fantastic piece of technology that I wouldn't be able to live without (much to your disgust, I'm sure ). Most of my life these days revolves around a computer. All my work, responsibilities, social life, the forums... all of this is organised and dependant on a computer. To be able to take all of this mobile, without the need to be "sitting" at a computer is a great ability. I can do everything I would normally do on a computer on my phone these days, which is what I use it for and why I wouldn't give it up. Asking me to give up my phone, would be like asking me to give up a computer. Which is something that I'm not prepared to do. Computers and the technology they bring are such a fundamental part of our lives that I just cannot grasp how people can hate them. Would you rather sit there and do everything on pen and paper? I just don't get it. Saying that our species is "less" because we now have become dependant on computer technology is like saying "Ok, lets not bother trying to invent anything that makes our lives easier. We're happy with our hand pushed ploughs and mud huts, right?"
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Jun 25, 2009 10:06:51 GMT -5
Actually, YES, we have de-evolved because of technology. Yes it makes our lives easier but we are becoming lazier in the process. Look at schools nowadays. They don't use pen and paper anymore they are requiring students to buy their own laptops. You write your essays with a computer, you have a spell check. The students are not learning how to spell or write properly cause they have their computer to do that for them. Not to mention that compouters come with their very own calculator. Again, they don't have to learn. They have the computer that can give them the answers they need without truly understanding. And what about the familys with a lower income? They wish to send their children to school yet most schools require their students to have laptops. How is a low income family ever going to be able to have their children educated if it costs so much? And its true it is more the manorism of people with the phones that piss me off. But it still stands that these manorisms would not exist if the cellphone did not. Sure, other rude manners would exists regaurdless. But not these particular ones. Also, while we let our technology make our lives easier and more carefree than they already are, people in other not so fortunate countrys are dying of poverty, disease, war, famine etc. Now don't you think that money that is spent on this technology, and of the making of it, be better spent elsewhere? I didn't know there were that many people who disliked cellphone technology. I honestly thought I was in a very large minority here. EDIT>> I have recently seen a comercial for Google map on cellphones. It lets you see where your friends are. I don't know about you but I wouldn't feel comfortable if everyone I knew always had access to my exact location. Seems kinda creepy. Like an invasion of privacy or freedom.
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Post by Office Ninja on Jun 25, 2009 10:41:08 GMT -5
Is this a bad time to say I work for a large cellphone provider in the US?
Heh.
I use mine all the time because of my job. If not for my job I would so throw this sucker out. I hate them. People who sit and have their eyes glued to them when we are out and about just piss me off. you cant go 5 feet in the mall without seeing some stupid teenager texting like a retard.
When I was a teenager I didn't have to be in contact with my friends every 5 seconds. I don't understand the youngsters these days. Damnit, now I feel old.
HAPPY FREAKING BIRTHDAY DEJ!
*Does the happy birthday dance*
And Mmm. Norfy muscles.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Jun 25, 2009 10:51:51 GMT -5
Kik works for a cellphone company?! DIE, DEVIL! Oh and happy birthday to Dej. I missed it before.
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Post by Yvondith on Jun 25, 2009 11:36:13 GMT -5
There is one main reason I dislike Cellphones, one being that everyone talks/texts while driving. It's just too dangerous to do that. The car accident I was in years ago was caused by a Cellphone. If people did that with Laptops & Computers I'd be angry about that as well. Well they sorta do now, with the world's obsession with "twittering" and other bullshit. The rude mannerisms is something I think I've grown accustomed to. However endangering others is unacceptable. At any rate, that is my reasoning. If people were responsible with the technology then I wouldn't have a problem. Cellphones + Driving is a sensitive issue with me though... I mean damn is a lifetime with a reduced neck turning radius worth a few minutes gabbing on the phone? Was Dej's broken arm, or Julie's shattered glasses in the face worth it? Was the pain my Granny went through, months of physical therapy, and a totaled car worth it? Absolutely not. /endrant *Sheepishly raises hand* Good point, I suffered from this when I was in high school. We really didn't have computers, but I was still expected to type up reports. Had to use my uncle's computer to do them. I simply would not have made it in college without a computer though. Then again, my field was computers! But I also look at my recent years in college, and they expected all fields of study to have computer access. They had a library but it was still inconvenient to go there. But, I digress.
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Post by masaia on Jun 25, 2009 17:33:57 GMT -5
Sad to say that my daily life is impossible without a cell phone, but not because of my friends/family talking. My cell phone is also my email for work. The thing is constantly buzzing off every two freaking seconds with a message of some sort. I even have resorted to picking up the phone while driving... cuz you don't ignore your boss (at least mine).
Would I want to go back to not being reliant on it? Hell yes. But for the time being, it is something I have to have. My customers, as much as I don't want to deal with it at times, need me to have that in case they have their "emergencies" XD
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Jun 25, 2009 18:42:25 GMT -5
I have no problem if they are for work. Hell they've been used for work since long before they were used by kids and texting and all that crap. You remember thos big cell phones from waaaaay back that were the size of a clown shoe?
In other news, Michael Jackson died today. I was never a huge fan of him but I always loved this song and video.
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Post by Yvondith on Jun 25, 2009 18:55:49 GMT -5
Wow, totally was NOT expecting to read that today. I read Farrah Fawcett died this morning, but now MJ? Totally unexpected. I didn't approve of his child touching ways, but he had some damn good music in the 80's. That bums me out, big time.
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Post by Caller on Jun 25, 2009 18:59:25 GMT -5
I actually gasped when I heard about MJ. It was completely unexpected. I knew he was sick but didn't know THAT kinda sick *ba dum pish*
Seriously though it sucks. He was wacko but his songs were awesome. I have Thriller, Billie Jean, Smooth Criminal, Bad, and Beat It on my mp3 player. I like his songs.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Jun 25, 2009 19:24:39 GMT -5
The man had a legacy. He was the first to have syncronized dancing on a music video. Not to mention Weird Al wouldn't even have a career if it were not for MJ allowing him to record parodys of his songs i.e. Fat/Bad, Eat it/Beat it.
He was wacko cause he had a messed up childhood. I do feel sorry for him and his past.
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