OT: Etiquette question

On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:28:42 -0400, Dave Smith
wrote:


My wife's parents 86 and 87 both carry cell phones we got them, both have GPS.
The mil loves her phone and uses it quite abit to call her kids, Tom not so
much but will answer if he's called.


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Stu

Recipe of the week "Chicken Biryani"
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On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:41:30 -0500, Hell Toupee
wrote:


I think you're right. Do you kick him under the table when he pulls
that stunt?


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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
"Storrmmee" wrote in message
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When I lived in Tennessee I frequently had to drive past "housing projects"
on my way to work. What you'd call welfare. I was amazed at how many of
them had satellite dishes. I didn't have cable television (this was back
before the big switch to digital) but these folks had satellite dishes
mounted on their balconies. I wonder if that was part of the package for
living in government housing?

Jill
 
1. I don't have a landline. That concept is off the table.
2. The entire point of computer to computer is that it doesn't cost a
dime. No reason to muck it up with being charged cell phone minutes
or paying for a landline again.


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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On Apr 13, 4:50?am, "Bob Terwilliger"
wrote:

Ruder 'n hell. I would've said something. Did you?

A friend recently stopped a 16 year old house-guest from shaking his
finger in her face with his every remark. The kid's father sat there
and said nothing. Boor.

I was at a funeral last week and not one but TWO idiots let their cel
phones ring during the service. Ya cud hear it all over the church,
which was packed with over 250 ppl. Morons.
 
On 16/04/2011 10:27 AM, Storrmmee wrote:


When I think of welfare abuse, this family always comes to mind. They
had two cars. Everybody in the family had the latest in computers and
peripherals, and all the latest software. They talked her father into
moving down here after his wife died and they lived in his house. The
youngest daughter moved out to live on her own and collect student
welfare, but rarely went to school, spending most of the days at the
parents' house. They had to pure bread dogs.

The wife had a handicapped sticker on her car. Apparently she got it
somewhat legitimately a few years earlier when she was taking courses
and had injured her arm so she could not carry books far. I thought
that was pushing it for a handicapped parking permit, but to keep using
it years later was inexcusable. She was just too fat and lazy to walk.
 
On 4/13/2011 9:55 PM, Landon wrote:

They both have their own email accounts as well as email on their
phones. They don't check it. They only respond to texts.

It's not just kids. I have a dear friend whom I can only contact,
reliably, via texting. She's 72!

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
On Apr 13, 4:38?am, Miche wrote:


Double hell - I never have rec'd a call on my cell. It's never on
unless I want to make a call. Some months my minutes used are zero.
 
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:09:28 -0700, Serene Vannoy
wrote:


It may be a literary tool but very misused. I know none of you will
believe me and I don't care but I never use profanity in RL. Whenever
I'm in the company of people, especially males, whose every other word
is a profanity I know I'm in the company of the impotent... males
substitute the constant use of the F word for the erection they can't
achieve, and females for the orgasms they've never experienced.
 
On 4/14/2011 12:15 AM, sf wrote:

I would love to cancel my horrid AT&T land line. It would be a no
brainer for us to transfer to a VOIP phone service as my over-the-air
ISP would handle it well. The problem is that DH has this gizmo that
plugs into the phone line and calls the mother ship if something fritzes
in his pacemaker. The machine only works in analog mode, so VOIP for the
phone is out.

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
On 16/04/2011 2:46 PM, sf wrote:

The guy had a few jobs during the time I knew them, all short term. Once
he got a job he started looking for ways to sabotage them. He got a job
as a truck driver and within a week he pulled into the inspection
station where I worked, wanting me to inspect it and put it out of
service. There was nothing wrong with it.

I was amazed that, while on welfare, everyone in the family had their
own state of the art computer and all the latest software. I realize
that the software was the same stuff installed on all four computers.
The wife's was a laptop. To put things in perspective, this was around
1990 when the price of computers and software were a lot more expensive
than they are now.

At the same time they were happily indulging themselves in all the
modern technology, my bother and his wife were struggling. They lived in
the same neighbourhood. My brother had a decent job and his wife was a
nurse. They had four kids, one at university and three in high school.
They could not afford even a single computer.




I have a knack of being attracted to quirky people. Look at the material
you get from them. When you are talking with bleeding hearts who tell
you what they think the truth is about trying to live on welfare you can
cite families like this and point out that they are better off than
working families.
 
On Apr 13, 10:15?am, sf wrote:

I have a land line, and proud of it. Been out ONCE in 50 years, and I
never have to charge anything, never have to say "Can you hear me
now?", etc.

John Kuthe...
 
On 4/14/2011 9:48 AM, Janet Wilder wrote:

And some of my younger family members only respond to private messages
on Facebook. Actually, even my ex-husband. Never checks email.
 
On 14/04/2011 8:57 AM, Giusi wrote:
I an passive aggressive. I would be more likely to find some other
diversion, like picking up a newspaper or magazine and read it while
they are on the phone.

I used to know a guy who liked to phone and chat. I am not a phone
chatter. He was married to a rude, obnoxious cow. He had two phone
lines, one for him computer and one for his wife. He would call to chat
while she as out and then when she came home she would pick up the phone
and then give him shit for using her line.

He also had call waiting and would put me on hold while he took the
other line. I started hanging up whenever he did that.


The second last time he called he started off by assuring me that his
wife was out and that he had disabled call waiting. Then he proceeded to
bore me with his chatter. Oh oh... his wife came home early. She picked
up the phone and, finding him on it, started to berate him. Some words
slipped out of my mouth just before I hung up.

He called me up later on and told me his wife as upset with me and
demanded an apology. I assured him that would never happen. I haven`t
heard from him since, and I have to say admit that I wish I had done it
sooner.
 
On 17/04/2011 9:26 AM, jmcquown wrote:



About 15 years ago we were driving through an Indian reserve in British
Columbia and my wife commented on a dismal little tar paper shack and
how she felt for the people who had to live in such dismal conditions.
I looked over and noticed that there was a huge satellite dish beside
the cabin, and there were two brand new Dodge Ram 4x4 pickup trucks,
probably worth $35,000 or more each. Priorities.
 
On 4/13/2011 1:04 PM, James Silverton wrote:

The FiOS "box" has a backup battery which will keep the line up for
about an hour. Also many landlines are not the phone company of old that
had racks of well maintained batteries to keep the system up during
power failure. Landlines are a dying thing and phone companies aren't
putting big effort into keeping them well maintained.
 
"Dave Smith" wrote in message
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What if you weren't looking forward to their company? I find family
gatherings to be forced and tedious.

(snippage)

Hear hear! That's unspeakably rude. I had a friend from high school who
did that. We'd be talking long distance (and I was the one who was paying
for the call). She'd put me on hold to talk to her mother who was only 3
miles away. Meanwhile my phone bill was going up up up. One day I just
hung up when she clicked over to answer another call. And when I moved I
didn't give her my phone number.

Jill
 
Storrmmee wrote:

Sure, i agree, especially if the person leaves the room, steps aside or
otherwise does not check their email while trying to have a conversation
at the same time.

I have had guests who have received calls on my land line during diner
because it was an emergency of some sort and thats understandable and
acceptable..

I simply wont compete with or tolerate some one trying to have a
conversation with me and a cell phone at the same time.

The only exception to this i have made is a professional doing their job
and "multi tasking" with a telephone and/or computer while attending to
me at the same time, but that is not a social situation.


Yes.

Extraordinarily, remarkably rude, and i would remark on it as im giving
them their wraps and showing them the door.

Fortunately im am of an age where my friends are not addicted to the net
or on line "social networks" but i have experienced the phenomena with
much younger people.
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JL
 
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