05-24-2010, 01:55 PM | #21 |
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I text non-essential stuff, but only when I have something specific to say. I don't like having texting conversations because I get bored and stop replying. I don't even want to start a text conversation because I know I'll have to either say "ok gotta go" after three messages or just leave them hanging. Messages in my outbox starting with most recent (not all verbatim but close):
-sorry have to cancel today -ok I'll be right over -yeah thursday is fine -no problem -still on for today? -thank you -send my sheet music yet? -sounds good -i would help them you mean? -can i email you? are you by a computer? etc. I don't think kids need unlimited texting. But it's really convenient. I prefer texts over phone calls for simple messages like the above. |
05-25-2010, 02:53 PM | #22 | |
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And how did people make microwave popcorn in the middle ages?!
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05-25-2010, 02:56 PM | #23 |
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I wonder a lot about refrigeration. I was reading a book where they got milk out of the cupboard. I was like... what?
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05-25-2010, 03:17 PM | #24 |
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They do that in Russia. They have cheap milk, which is chemicalled-up so it doesn't need to refrigerated, and is absolutely disgusting. The potable/refrigerated milk is usually either from a local village, or imported.
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05-25-2010, 11:43 PM | #25 |
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Well they also had ice-boxes. My dad had one as a kid...ever seen Meet Me in St. Louis? Oh dear, now that song is stuck in my head...
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05-25-2010, 11:46 PM | #26 | |
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You're right, I do definitely text the infrequent non-essential text, but honestly except for maybe some text message jokes, I use my text messaging very rarely. Mind you I do not have unlimited texts, but I have like... 300. I rarely use more than 30-50 in a month, and that's mostly used when I have rehearsals. It is handy to send stuff like, "Do you know what scenes/arias we're doing tonight?" But it's also fun to text things like, "OMG, just saw fat person in muffin top t-shirt, am scarred for life, lol rofl and whatnot." |
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05-26-2010, 12:03 AM | #27 | |
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05-26-2010, 04:48 AM | #28 |
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UHT milk. It's actually quite nummy.
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05-26-2010, 08:50 AM | #29 |
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My wife's parents used to have a "cold cupboard" when she was a kid. They had no fridge. There was a grill over an opening to the outside so it was, er, a cold cupboard. Especially in winter.
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05-26-2010, 10:07 AM | #30 | |
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It wasn't UHT milk- according to wikipedia that was invented in the '60s. This novel took place in 1920's England (it was Lady Chatterly's Lover). A cold cupboard, maybe. But what about in the summer? And where do they get ice for ice boxes? I think I remember something about a way to make ice stay ice for longer but I can't remember. Anyway I see I've somewhat hijacked this thread..
But getting back to what we were saying about technology that we take for granted, I didn't have a cell phone until college, and I got along fine without one. Then, once I had it, it was the end of the world if I lost it for a day (it doesn't help that I don't have a house phone). Then I lost it for a month (or more like it was broken), and after a while I kind of liked not having it. After that, I stopped being so good about remembering to have my phone with me, on, etc. And I stopped using it as much. It has stayed that way. Unfortunately, that didn't work for the internet. I was happy without it (when we first moved to this house) but now I have it I'm back to the old habits. Another thing I found interesting about electronics, and I've thought about this quite a bit myself, is something I read in an interview with Thich Nhat Hahn: Quote:
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I agree with most of you and think it all depends on the situation. If you were to have to go out for...something like instrument lessons and they could go overtime it would be a good Idea. But just because "everyone" else has it or just to text meaningless things. Texting is also a problem with cyber-bulling. I also think unlimited is unhelpful. With unlimited you get the feeling that you can text all you want useless or not. This feeling makes you do it more often. If you have a limit that restricts you than you are less likely to send useless junk and save those text messages for more useless things.
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I also think that phones are doing too much these days. Their more of a computer than a phone nowadays. There a lot of kids that waste there time on stupid apps. There is this app that I heard of is that you have a app that has 1 egg on it you tap the 1,000,000 times the egg hatches it says you win and than you start over again. That is the kind of stupid things that kids spend their time on nowadays!!! ____________ I think this is my longest post EVER!!!
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