PigLick on 4/9/2009 at 04:30
you can turn phones off you know.
Aerothorn on 4/9/2009 at 05:02
Quote Posted by CCCToad
People still use T-mobile?
Heck yeah! Despite what this story may make it look like, they are by far the most consumer-friendly of the Big 4 (at least, according to a pretty detailed, 40-page white paper I read a couple of years ago before choosing a phone company). No locked-in phones, and their monthly "no contract" option is now just as good (and in some ways better) than the old cell phone contracts. The fact that they got the best coverage in my home city was just a bonus.
Of course, I don't live there anymore:(
While I'm ambivalent about the paper charges, it does sound like one would have the legal right to opt-out in this circumstance if it was a big deal.
june gloom on 4/9/2009 at 22:27
T-Mobile are dicks. They sent me a replacement phone but never told me I had to send the old one back, and charged me $400 for it.
SubJeff on 4/9/2009 at 22:56
BT are bigger dicks.
After telling me that when the engineer comes around I may be charged £140 if he finds it's my fault (it wasn't!) that the phone doesn't work they a. don't send anyone around when I take a frikking day of work because they can only say he'll be there "between 8am and 6pm" and b. tell me its fine and working at their end so I call my OWN number and get who? My neighbour who is furious that his number has been changed without him asking. This entire process takes a month btw because they can't sort themselves out.
THEN BT refuse to change his number back because he is with Tiscali, and Tiscali say they can't do it because BT changed it.
olol
gg England.
And fuck BT to hell. And back.
And back again.
Fuck them.
PeeperStorm on 5/9/2009 at 01:34
Quote Posted by Queue
I'm right there with you on that one. I haven't had a cellphone since 2003 due to the ridiculous nature of some the fees and the fact that I hate the notion of being able to be reached anywhere 24-hours a day...
Here's what Ambrose Bierce had to say about the telephone:
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
Cell phones are just like that, but moreso.
Fafhrd on 5/9/2009 at 01:54
The ability to have the entire internet and GPS enabled Google Maps IN MY POCKET so massively outweighs the possible inconvenience of someone I don't like getting my number and calling me that if you were to drop both into a balance scale, 'people-I-don't-like calling me' would be catapulted into the Sun.
Renzatic on 5/9/2009 at 03:07
I agree with Queue totally. Cellphones are the biggest annoyances to me. Hell, I'm annoyed by phones in general. When I'm out and about, hanging out with someone or just doing what the hell ever, the last thing I want is for someone to call me up then proceed to yack away while I'm trying to slip a "I gotta go" in between breaths.
And even worse is when someone calls me at my house and goes into a deep conversation right after I say hello. See, when I'm home, I'm either entertaining guests, engrossed in a movie, a videogame, reading a book, drawing, eating, or some other such BS and don't want to be interrupted for too long. Nowadays, I use the phone as device for setting up meetings. No more Just jumping on, going "hey, lets meet at X at X o'clock, k see you there" for a couple of minutes, then hanging up is optimal for me. Anything longer and I start getting annoyed. Everyone I know knows this about me. My friends, family, loved ones, distant acquaintances, even a few dogs know this. Yet 99% of them try to drag me into a conversation and take at least 6 goodbyes or my "dinner is getting cold right in front of me" cutoffs before they'll let me hang up.
Then you've got the guy I work with. He will...literally...call me 12 times in a row, leaving a voice message each time, before he'll finally give up and start calling my home phone 12 times, leaving messages on my answering machine. I mean do you have an idea how annoying it is when you're trying to talk to someone and the phone keeps ringing over and over and over and OVER again. Even if I hit ignore and send him to voice mail, he'll call right back. I could excuse it if it's something of the utmost importance...but it never is. It's always something stupid. No amount of screaming, cajoling, or beatings will stop him from doing this.
At the end of the day, I'll check my voice mail and see I have 36 messages waiting. 30 of them will be from him, saying nothing more than "ANSWER YOUR PHONE", "WHY DON'T YOU EVER ANSWER YOU PHONE", "BLAH LAH LAH LAH ANSWER". Do you have any idea how annoying it is going through and deleting 30 shit messages? No matter how many times I tell him not to leave a message unless it's for something important, he'll still do it. Surprising this is coming from someone who's 55 years old. I'd expect more maturity and respect from a random adolescent kid.
So yup. I hate cell phones. I hated them before I got one, and I hate them twice as much now. That 4 years I spent without one was the purest bliss I know, and having immediate access to Google Maps and the internet is no consolation for me at all.
Edit: Wow, going back through that, I do sound kinda like an asshole sometimes.
Tocky on 5/9/2009 at 04:04
Never ever give anyone your home number. That is for bestest friends and bestest family. My cell is in my truck and will stay there unless I need to use it like a walkietalkie with my wife at the mall.
Before cell I had the best job ever. I left the shop about 9 and wandered the countryside without ever having to turn off my music and look up information while steering around a 10 car pile-up.
You're nosh so very ashhole Mellie.
Matthew on 7/9/2009 at 09:15
Or, y'know, use text messages for short interactions about dates / times etc? At least, it seems that's what we in the UK* prefer to do.
*(by which I mean me and am extrapolating shamelessly)
Queue on 7/9/2009 at 22:29
Quote Posted by PigLick
you can turn phones off you know.
Then what's the point of having one? I can divorce my wife, too, but I'd still be paying as well.
Quote Posted by Renzatic
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I'm beginning to think cellphones may be the catalyst that finally brings about the downfall of society. For example: since when did ANYONE think it polite, or at the very least in good taste, to take a rather loud shit while talking on the cellphone? WTF!? Is your 99.9% of-the-time useless conversation so important that you can't hang up the phone to release a greaser? I can't count how many times I've encountered this, and simply don't understand the mind-set that says this is appropriate or acceptable. At that rate, how the hell do you wipe your ass properly while talking on the phone? I take that back, from the odors wafting about, most people don't even understand the purpose of toilet-paper. I'm so sick of smelling ass everywhere I go.
And while on the subject of restroom etiquette, to all you trashy, thick-dicked, Pete Rose haircutted, retarded ass-monkeys that don't do so--WASH YOUR FUCKING HANDS! I don't want to touch anything, taste anything, or be exposed to anything that may be smeared with your bodily excretions you fucking pig. Just for giggles, one day, and because I'm nuts enough to do so, I hung around the restroom at Wal-Mart for thirty minutes to see how many people didn't wash their hands (I always look like a perverted creep, so it's okay). Results: 80% of the shoppers / 100% of the employees.
Ugh.
