OT: Etiquette question

On 4/13/2011 12:55 PM, Nunya Bidnits wrote:
Wouldn't a FIOS (optical cable) phone connection have wired-in
receivers? In addition to two old wall phones, I have a wired-in base
set with wireless connection to other handsets. Mostly, the 50v copper
wiring to the house is removed when FIOS is installed. I admit I did not
know that was going to happen or I'd have tried to retain it.

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James Silverton, Potomac

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"Bob Terwilliger" wrote in message
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I participate in and attend educational meetings in relatively small groups,
25 -50 or so. I think using it in that environment is appallingly rude to do
this. It's very discourteous to the speaker. Why is he there if you're
fiddling with your iPad. At this point I think it's pretty bad form to take
notes with a laptop, though I suppose that has to change at some point.

Kent
 
face book creeps me out, i have never gone there, DH a few times has gone to
look at links you don't have to sign in for... then one day i got an invite
to be a friend from someone i trust on a mailing list, fine, i opened the
email and read it... and at the end of the email it says something
like...."other people on face book you might want to friend..." and my
sisters two emails and a friends three emails appeared...

why did this creep me out, neither or friend knows person who sent me the
invite, and friend and sister don't exchange email... way to intrusive for
me, NO thanks,

Lee
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sorry i don't understand how it could even get that far, after the first
time or two, if it was a net issue, it should have been solved by a third
line... and certainly not in front of someone outside the relationship. and
besides, why do people on welfare have two lines anyway? Lee
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part of the reason we got rid of the land line was the cost, but the other
part was when we were discussing the last telemarketing call and as we
discussed we realised for the last payment period neither of us had used it
to call out, and we only received one non telemarketing call... not worth
the monthly money, Lee
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On 4/14/2011 8:57 AM, Giusi wrote:
Unfortunately some people just don't get the idea that electronic
devices don't trump basic manners.

Best I ever saw was at a seminar I attended. First thing the speaker did
was give a friendly reminder "please turn your electronic devices off or
at least put them on vibrate". I little while later I hear a stupid
ringtone from right in front of me. Guy answers the phone and starts
yakking. People start staring at him because it interrupted the
presentation. Guy keeps talking. I kicked the back of his chair with my
foot and he kept on going. Finally the speaker said "could you please
take the call out of the room". Guy gets up and yells something at the
speaker and storms out.
 
Bob Terwilliger wrote:

Of course it's rude. Only if there was some current emergency
that required you to be in touch would it be okay to even take it
out.

I've read that people go on dates and spend the whole time
tweeting/whatever and, oddly, this doesn't lead to being asked
out again. If I was the person left sitting there for more than
a minute, I'd get the check and end the date.

nancy
 
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:01:34 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe
wrote:


Whenever anyone calls me from a cell phone and begins to break up I
simply hang up... maybe yoose want to call a phone that sounds worse
than two paper cups and a string hi-tech but I call it an intrusion
and a waste of my time. I have a land line and don't want a cell
phone... I don't want any phone I need to be a programmer to use yet
doesn't function as well as one made by Mattel. A few times I was out
with people who would start yakking on their cell phones, on and on
they'd go talking nonsense, I'd get up and walk out to my car and
drive off, I give them as much explanation as they gave when they
ignored me. In all my years of long distance driving I never once
felt a need to make a personal call just to entertain myself, I rarely
make personal calls just to chit chat from home either. When I
overhear what people say on cell phones I think they just escaped from
the loony bin... and how they scream into those things clinches it. I
don't understand what's so important to say that many folks need to
call everyone they know a dozen times a day, and every day 24/7...
yoose can't convince me these people aren't seriously mentally ill.
 
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James Silverton wrote:


I have no idea. We have underground phone cables here which are probably
older technology. But we also have more recently installed fiberoptic cable
(Time Warner Cable) which offers phone service and internet as well as TV.
AFAIK it won't work if the power is out, even if you have wired handset.
That's one of many reasons I choose the evil AT&T over the evil TWC for
phone service.
 
"Storrmmee" wrote in message
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Priorites
Last time my wife was in the hospital, a woman in the next bed was talking
to the social worker. She was complaining about being in an abusive
(mentally) relationship. The SW asked her if she could leave. The woman
replied she could not afford to. Between the cable bill and cell phone, she
could not afford an apartment.
 
On 4/13/2011 4:50 AM, Bob Terwilliger wrote:
Right on! I would regard using an iPad at dinner to be appallingly bad
manners. I'm not sure that taking phone calls is mannerly either unless
it has been explained in advance to the hosts that an *emergency* call
might be expected.

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James Silverton, Potomac

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James Silverton wrote:


Heh, that happened to me a number of years ago. I was walking
out of a department store into the mall when suddenly this woman
started yelling. Hands free wasn't that common at the time so it
really looked as if she was yelling at me. The eyes of the other
shoppers all swivelled in my direction to see what I'd done to this
poor lady.

No one would think twice anymore, I imagine.

nancy
 
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:33:51 -0500, "Storrmmee"
wrote:


I hadn't read anything about them being on welfare when I wrote that;
so I was thinking of them as a normal salaried couple with a long
standing dial up issue. There can be passive-aggressive issues in
marriage. One thinks nothing of doing it (plus it's entertaining to
watch the other one get mad and erupt) and it sets the other one off
every time.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
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"Nunya Bidnits" wrote:



I also have a car charger for my cell phone. The car battery will keep
the cell phone charged for some time. If I'm driving any, that will
keep both the car battery and the cell battery charged for a long time.

We like cordless phones in the house, for the land line. But the last
one I bought has a wired handset on the base. It works without
electricity (and I've tested it).

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA
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"Dave Smith" wrote in message
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Which is why I bought one and it's on the cheapest Telus plan - $10/month.
I called them this morning to put a block on text messages after receiving
and being charged for a spam message. I also use it for the ParkPlus system
where it is very handy.
Graham
 
"George" ha scritto nel messaggio
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That is not dinner at someone's home, though. I would tactfully ask and if
the person acted anything like that, I would pour his/her wine over his/her
head and say, "Leave! And never darken my door again!"
I once had a man refuse, even when asked to, to take his baseball cap off at
table on the terrace. There was no reason for it, no disease or baldness or
anything.
He never ate another meal at my house.
 
"Kalmia" wrote in message
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Pretty much, yes. But then again, my family is unpleasant so I don't
hesitate to tell them what I think :)

Jill
 
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