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Post by puffy on Dec 24, 2020 14:13:43 GMT -5
I don't understand folks who keep trying to live in the past..My sister who lives in Tennessee is one of them..I'm speaking in particular about her phone.She has a home phone.She can't make long distance calls on it,but she can receive them.She has a cell phone that is 15 years old and doesn't half work..She calls me on her cell phone we can't carry on a conversation so she hangs up and I call her back on her home phone..This happened again a few minutes ago..I politely told her that this is silly and irritating..I told her to stop living in the past and tell Santa to bring her a new phone..Wasted words I know but I had to Try.
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Post by SCF Dan on Dec 25, 2020 8:03:35 GMT -5
Wait, you mean your sister's figured out a way to avoid endless e-mails, texts, long phone conversations, targeted advertising, and personal location tracking? How may I subscribe to her newsletter?  |
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Post by calabash on Dec 25, 2020 11:10:51 GMT -5
Wait, you mean your sister's figured out a way to avoid endless e-mails, texts, long phone conversations, targeted advertising, and personal location tracking? How may I subscribe to her newsletter? Pony Express. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Dec 25, 2020 11:15:39 GMT -5
I hated the dial phones. They hurt my finger. I do miss the peace of not being reachable, but, that's progress.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Dec 25, 2020 12:20:04 GMT -5
 Been having my 6S since they came out, Wife and kids on me to get a newer one, might go fo a 11Pro Max after all the hubbub is over, might buy it with my Govt check, HaHa
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Post by taiguy66 on Dec 25, 2020 12:36:42 GMT -5
I hated the dial phones. They hurt my finger. I do miss the peace of not being reachable, but, that's progress. Ron, you can always turn your cell off or have it go directly to voicemail. In some ways I think part of us likes to live in the past. |
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Post by Legend Lover on Dec 25, 2020 13:24:53 GMT -5
I feel your pain, Larry.
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Post by bigwoolie on Dec 25, 2020 14:48:46 GMT -5
Am I inside looking out
Or outside looking in?
And can I help but doubt
that Im ever gonna win
When I cannot tell
if Im the spectator...or the sport?
This world is very fast
or I am frightful slow
Yet I hold on to the past
while in my heart I know
that the past gets left behind
With any fool bound to it.
But my ways are still my ways.
'cause who's else can they be?
So I will weave today
on a loom I've built for me
a cloth both course and rustic
With a pattern vaguely primeval.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Dec 25, 2020 15:16:34 GMT -5
Dewayne I salute you. Truth in words.
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Post by toshtego on Dec 25, 2020 15:52:09 GMT -5
Luddite here.
Flip Phone.
CRT television.
Land line.
Carbureted engine in car.
Six shots in handgun.
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Post by instymp on Dec 25, 2020 19:00:00 GMT -5
Had a good Lady friend that always called me a Luddite & I didn't know whether that was a compliment or not, didn't know what that word meant.
After about a month I googled it, still don't know whether its good or bad..
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Post by Ronv69 on Dec 25, 2020 19:38:29 GMT -5
Had a good Lady friend that always called me a Luddite & I didn't know whether that was a compliment or not, didn't know what that word meant. After about a month I googled it, still don't know whether its good or bad.. Depends on your point of view. The original Luddites were just trying to save their jobs and protect their way of life. They failed spectacularly. |
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Post by bigwoolie on Dec 25, 2020 19:46:55 GMT -5
Ever see an entire place of business shut down because the computer or phones failed? Stores with product on the shelf to be sold, people with money standing there wanting to buy those products, but cant because a tiny bit of modern technology has ground everything to a halt? I have. It's gotta make you wonder...
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Post by Gandalf on Dec 25, 2020 19:56:21 GMT -5
Been having my 6S since they came out, Wife and kids on me to get a newer one, might go fo a 11Pro Max after all the hubbub is over, might buy it with my Govt check, HaHa I kept my 6S until a year or so after the 8S+ came out, then bought one. Still using it. It's silly to buy a new phone every time a new model comes out. A complete waste of money. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Dec 25, 2020 20:40:10 GMT -5
Ever see an entire place of business shut down because the computer or phones failed? Stores with product on the shelf to be sold, people with money standing there wanting to buy those products, but cant because a tiny bit of modern technology has ground everything to a halt? I have. It's gotta make you wonder... They say that after an EMP attack 90% of the population of the US will be dead in a year. I don't have any reason to doubt it. |
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Post by zambini on Dec 26, 2020 13:48:48 GMT -5
I like my landline, it doesn't need electricity and it lets me separate work calls from life calls.
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Post by sperrytops on Dec 26, 2020 14:13:12 GMT -5
Ever see an entire place of business shut down because the computer or phones failed? Stores with product on the shelf to be sold, people with money standing there wanting to buy those products, but cant because a tiny bit of modern technology has ground everything to a halt? I have. It's gotta make you wonder... They say that after an EMP attack 90% of the population of the US will be dead in a year. I don't have any reason to doubt it. And the remaining 10% will be running around like Mad Max. Something to look forward to. |
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Been having my 6S since they came out, Wife and kids on me to get a newer one, might go fo a 11Pro Max after all the hubbub is over, might buy it with my Govt check, HaHa
