Snails - Response on Threads

[AJMoore]

Then people are able to commit the directions to memory... seems like "brains" are in short supply when one requires an electronic device to do everything except wipe an ... .....

I must ask. Do you prefer a set of encyclopedias to research or the Internet? Why would I have calls go to my home phone when I'm rarely there and when I am I don't want to work? Why have a need to go home to check messages?

I understand your point and totally agree. For reasons I'll never understand people seem incapable of speaking into a cell phone at conversational levels, they tend to shout! But - that said, I find someone speaking on a cell phone in a low tone no more disturbing than two people having a conversation in the booth behind me in a restaurant. I think, IMO, what we find uncomfortable about the cell phone (or any phone really) is that our brains don't like just hearing one side of the conversation.

I'm with you on so many levels, I too am being hauled kicking and screaming into the 21st century but once comfy with a piece of technology I wonder how I lived without it. Try it, hide your TV remote and see how it goes.......

Miss your avatar Bear.

@Tibs - QB, oh my. I use QB Pro and all it has done for me is proven I'm not an accountant! Hate books.

 

[tiburonfirst]

nice to see you here, aj!

i have to say qb support was very nice once they located me in their records of paying customers
i think i'm all set for billing but windows event viewer shows quite a few errors concerning qb. i will close my eyes, get through billing and then to try solve the mystery, lol

now starting supper, bbl

 

[tiburonfirst]

flyby - now trying to find a copy of ms office 2003 to download ....... sigh

i had the presence to save my product key but that seems to be no help. ms no longer sells replacement cds for office 2003 ......

 

[FranC]

Still wishing you luck Tib.

 

[tiburonfirst]

thanks, frannie!

and a good night to all!

 

[Fudgey]

Enjoy your Friday!!!!

(sorry Tib....cleaning will be over before you know it)

 

[Mac]

I resisted for a long time. In fact I was 30 years old before I got one and I smashed it into a thousand pieces within 6 months. I didn't get another till right before I ended up needing one because I was using it to run a business. To this day I use a cheap flip phone and have no interest in staring at tiny little computer screens. My life is so different now. I have technology in my face 24/7. Its all anyone wants to talk to me about. It's ironic that I go to an e-cigarette forum to get away from it. Super duper ironic.

I HATE rude cell phone people. It is extremely insulting to walk up to someone while on the phone with someone else. It's rude to both of the people you are talking too. I think most people know that. But it happens to me like everyday. Go figure..

 

[DJJames]

im a techy person. but still observe and demand phone etiquette respect

 

[notsoogood]

HI from me JaG! Sorry I wasn't here to say that earlier.

 

[FranC]

Good morning....I brought coffee

 

[tiburonfirst]

thank you, frannie! appreciated especially on cleaning day

morning, y'all

 

[CES]

morning y'all. thanks for the coffee Fran!

 

[SilverBear]

I must ask. Do you prefer a set of encyclopedias to research or the Internet? Why would I have calls go to my home phone when I'm rarely there and when I am I don't want to work? Why have a need to go home to check messages?

Miss your avatar Bear.

I'm not sure that comparing encyclopedias to the internet is really valid or applicable.

The root underlying reason for my hatred of cell phones is that they are a PHONE, period. I always have - and always will - consider the telephone to be the most intrusive of inventions. Back in landline-only days, that intrusion was confined to the home. Now, with cells, that intrusion is omnipresent; they are ringing everywhere and I don't even OWN one.

This is getting into "Outside" territory, so I will stop.

The avatar will return... in time.

 

[SilverBear]

I HATE rude cell phone people. It is extremely insulting to walk up to someone while on the phone with someone else. It's rude to both of the people you are talking too. I think most people know that. But it happens to me like everyday. Go figure..

Starting up again, briefly...

If I am talking with somebody and their cell rings, one of two things happen:
1. They ignore it and continue talking with me. Rare. I = happy.
2. They answer the call. REGARDLESS of whether they say "excuse me" or not, I walk away.

Stopping again.

 

[CES]

when the class that I'm teaching this semester started, i told students that if they forgot to silence their cell phones that they had to answer them by saying "i'm in the best lecture ever, i have to call you back". So, yesterday, i got a bit distracted - in part because the keyboard and mouse were missing from the computer i was going use for the powerpoint of my lecture. Forgot to silence MY phone......and of course it rang (even though no one ever calls me except when I'm teaching or in the elevator) . ...I answered it saying "I'm giving the best lecture of my life, i'll have to call you back".

 

[tiburonfirst]

haha! at least you obeyed your own rules!

and it's friday - time to get ready for joan .....

 

[CES]

Time for me to get ready too.

Have a good day y'all

 

[DJJames]

Gooood mawning............. wait... hold on one moment... i have a text on my iphone... brb....

 

[SilverBear]

Gooood mawning............. wait... hold on one moment... i have a text on my iphone... brb....

:: turning 180 degrees, walking away... farting as I do it ... leaving you gagging in its musky wake ::

 

[DJJames]

:: turning 180 degrees, walking away... farting as I do it ... leaving you gagging in its musky wake ::

but.... YOU were the one texting me!!!