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Re: Benzinha, we have a happy coincidence
Maj, the cable providers are trying to provide all communications and watching services and then the loud sucking noises should begin soon afterwards as our pockets empty.
No, I have not seen the behemoths, but will go look soon, just to laugh. My youngest son sold his mammoth telelvision in Oklahoma before moving home and now, he doesn't want one again.
We have a gang going around kicking in doors, even of the wired and security protected houses and businesses and then grabbing only the plasma t.v.s that they have scoped out earlier and running before anyone gets anywhere near them.
posted by
benzinha
on March 22, 2008 at 9:06 PM
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Benzinha, we have a happy coincidence
The cable provider does TV and internet (and now high speed phone, cheaper long distance). The digital signal is already decoded for our older TV's. And "hidf" does loomk a little better on reg TV's, no need for Jumbotron in the front room.Just sit a little closer than we do...or could
Have you seen the "entertainment centers" for those behemoths! You could house two people in there in Rio de Janiero.
posted by
majroj
on March 22, 2008 at 8:58 AM
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Re: This cell phone thing is quite asinine, beninzha. We have a cell phone.
saul_relative, what a happy and educated family you must have.
posted by
benzinha
on March 19, 2008 at 2:11 PM
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Re: Benzinha, my wife and I used to instant message from three feet away!
yes, majroj, all cell. Then it will be especially easy to shut down this nation from one minute to the other.....
Our cable company is encouraging this, too. Andl, they are busy setting us suckers up for their HD and digital total conversion....no more analog, so the poor will not have entertainment and national communication sans $$$$$.
They are moving the channels that we old people watch, because they know that we are watching the local stuff more and when we watch the national stuff it is newsworthy stuff and educational stuff and mind expanding stuff or the old movies. They are moving those channels, one a month, to their NEW HD lineup, the much more expensive package.
RATSSSSS..............
posted by
benzinha
on March 19, 2008 at 2:10 PM
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This cell phone thing is quite asinine, beninzha. We have a cell phone.
It doubles as the house phone. It sits on the kitchen counter. I do not take it with me when I am out. I rarely answer it (even when I am the only person home). I talk on it about once every other day. My teenage boys talk on it about once a day. The wife talks on it about two-three times a day (and usually long distance). I find that artificial umbilical cord to the rest of the planet not so appealing. That people need to fill their mundane existence with vapid chatter and small talk is depressing...
posted by
saul_relative
on March 19, 2008 at 7:59 AM
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Benzinha, my wife and I used to instant message from three feet away!
It was ICQ, you hear the "AH-OOOO-Gah" 's back and forth. Hilarious.
What are people doing and thinking who do not have mass media, Internet, cell phones?
Oh, and by the way...one local phone company which has wires, optic and cell is beginning to start selling (or "celling") the idea of not having a landline into your home, go all cellular as they are in India.
Idiots. Greedy idiots.
posted by
majroj
on March 19, 2008 at 7:15 AM
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Re: I wear my cellphone on a string around my neck
Homegirl, if I had one, it would be like a necklace around my neck, too. I could only remember it and deal with it like that.
Husbands and wives do like them, I find. As I don't have either, I don't need a phone. Clients catch me at home or not at all, leaving voice mail messages.
Strange, homegirl, is ten thousand people walking around in a major plaza in downtown Tokyo talking on cell phones to each other in the plaza. What are they talking about??!?!?
posted by
benzinha
on March 18, 2008 at 6:04 PM
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Re: Every time the phone rings I curse
I love my family, too, but am so glad when they hang up. I only like to talk for extended periods to grandchildren and they don't like to do that, so I am happy.
posted by
benzinha
on March 18, 2008 at 5:21 PM
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Re: You're are so absolutely right!
Nautikos, good for you. I listen to audio books while I am driving around town, much more fun than answering a telephone while idiots try to make me hit them.....in traffic.
posted by
benzinha
on March 18, 2008 at 5:20 PM
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I wear my cellphone on a string around my neck
Sad, isn't it. Still you will rarely catch me on it. Most clients reach me by email, but since my husband travels so much, it is nice to know he can say Hello whenever he wants.
I used to point and laugh at people walking down the street talking on a "car phone". That was about 10 years ago. But now that they're called cell phones, it's not so strange.
posted by
homegirl
on March 17, 2008 at 7:04 PM
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Every time the phone rings I curse
No planning or thinking anymore, just hivetalk, verborreah. How can I miss you if you never go away (shut up)? Imagine Romeo and Juliette with cell phones? Absence makes the heart grow fonder, so get out of each other's ear.
But whan my wife or my family calls, I'm sorry when they hang up.
posted by
majroj
on March 17, 2008 at 5:33 PM
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You're are so absolutely right!
I restrict my sell phone use to the absolutely essential - some business, and only the most important personal stuff. The main problem is the huge amount of time I have to spend in my car some days, unavoidable in a large city like Toronto...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 17, 2008 at 1:20 PM
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