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bartist
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 11:49 am Reply with quote
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I'll procrastinate for years before buying something, or wait till it's necessary. I got my first cellphone and digital camera when I went to Maine when my father was dying. I didn't buy a car until last November...


What are you, some kind of communist?? Good god, man, if people get to where they are only buying what they need, our economy will implode and then melt into a little damp smear on the pavement!

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carrobin
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 12:00 pm Reply with quote
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Like Lshap, I have a Facebook page but seldom check it. It happened sort of accidentally, when I started getting "friend requests" and tried to answer them and ended up with a page. My sister's into Facebook, especially Farmville, but I couldn't care less.

I'm reminded of my first computer at work. I was at Harcourt Brace, in the computer typesetting department, and I was very anxious about being parted from my trusty electric typewriter and learning to use this new contraption. My boss told me I could keep the typewriter, but he promised that once I started using the computer I'd never touch it again. He was right, except that I never figured out how to print out addresses on envelopes--for that, I needed my typewriter.
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Joe Vitus
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 12:47 pm Reply with quote
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carrobin wrote:
Like Lshap, I have a Facebook page but seldom check it. It happened sort of accidentally, when I started getting "friend requests" and tried to answer them and ended up with a page.


LOL, if I tried to answer them, I suspect the same thing would happen to me.

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Syd
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 2:58 pm Reply with quote
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bartist wrote:
Syd wrote:
I'll procrastinate for years before buying something, or wait till it's necessary. I got my first cellphone and digital camera when I went to Maine when my father was dying. I didn't buy a car until last November...


What are you, some kind of communist?? Good god, man, if people get to where they are only buying what they need, our economy will implode and then melt into a little damp smear on the pavement!


Too late.

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marantzo
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 3:52 pm Reply with quote
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The only use I'd have for a cell phone would be when I go on road trip. I've asked about it before most of my trips but the price up here is ridiculous and I never got one. For me they are useless, and I don't like talking on the phone anyway unless there is a legitimate reason to use it.

Texting? Now there is an addiction that should embarrass even the most clueless. Texting while driving shouldn't be fined it should mean jail.
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Joe Vitus
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 4:22 pm Reply with quote
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Texting is nice in a flirting-leading-up-to-first-date situation.

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Syd
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 5:17 pm Reply with quote
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The person I call most often on the cellphone is myself, to leave myself a reminder to do something. The something to do is often recharging the cellphone.

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marantzo
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 5:23 pm Reply with quote
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carrobin
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 5:31 pm Reply with quote
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I have the cheapest cellphone possible, because I just need it in case someone calls to offer freelance work. I make maybe two calls a month. But it comes in handy at times--such as when I was heading for an appointment with a knee specialist and got the address wrong (a doctor's handwriting, you know). Fortunately I had the doctor's phone number and was able to get the right address from his receptionist, although I was twenty minutes late for the appointment.
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lshap
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 5:40 pm Reply with quote
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Joe Vitus wrote:
Texting is nice in a flirting-leading-up-to-first-date situation.


I thought that was what sex in the barroom bathroom was for.

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Befade
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 8:29 pm Reply with quote
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I just wanted to see if anyone had seen a new movie.......................

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Marc
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 9:07 pm Reply with quote
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Betsy,

thanks for reminding me that this is the Current Film forum. I'd forgotten.
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lshap
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 10:26 pm Reply with quote
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My apology.

Joe Vitus wrote:
Texting is nice in a flirting-leading-up-to-first-date situation.


I thought that was what sex in the back seat of a theater while watching a current film was for.

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Joe Vitus
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 10:35 pm Reply with quote
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It's an alternative.

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Joe Vitus
Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 10:36 pm Reply with quote
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lshap wrote:
Joe Vitus wrote:
Texting is nice in a flirting-leading-up-to-first-date situation.


I thought that was what sex in the barroom bathroom was for.


It's an alternative.

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