Cell phones

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 7:20 pm

Hehe.... HF = Hands-Free. It means you can keep your cell phone in your pocket, backpack, whatever and still call & receive calls.

Sorry, I take all shit too seriously

OnTheBounce · Post by **OnTheBounce** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 7:42 pm

Kashluk wrote:HF = Hands-Free. It means you can keep your cell phone in your pocket, backpack, whatever and still call & receive calls.

It also means that you look like you're talking to yourself. This leads to getting strange looks from people like me who eschew cell phones.

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S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 8:46 pm

You could have just said hand free instead of all that

Yeah you look dumb with that stuff, I used to work in a grocery store and we all had a laught when these people came in.

They can piss you off when they keep talking on the phone while you talk to them tho.

chrisbeddoes · Post by **chrisbeddoes** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 12:16 am

Cell fones have a huge profit % for the phones company.

Mobile phones communication cost exactly half of what land lines cost to the communications company.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:51 pm

Not to mention text messages.

MurPHy · Post by **MurPHy** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 5:02 pm

chrisbeddoes wrote:Cell fones have a huge profit % for the phones company.

You phreaker you!

Seriously though, if my sister didn't talk on her cell phone all the time, she'd have at least 500 bucks in the bank right now. She does that text message BS, and it costs her something like a buck to send and recieve that shit. The cell phone company that she has here really rapes you.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 5:05 pm

Doesn't competition work?

Menno · Post by **Menno** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 9:57 pm

Kashluk wrote:Doesn't competition work?

Competition works fine. Teenage girls don't care about money because DADDY/BROTHER/MAN/SUCKER pays for it all. So instead of getting plans within their means and usage, they get these bizzare packages with 600 Text Messages [where they barely use even 50 of them] and night/weekend packages blabbing all day/night on the phone. Teenage girls are the biggest syphon on a man's wallet. True, all women are, but teenage girls are the worst. They will literally bleed you dry. New Law: Women can't have cell phones until they're 21.

OnTheBounce · Post by **OnTheBounce** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 10:04 pm

Menno wrote:Teenage girls don't care about money because DADDY/BROTHER/MAN/SUCKER pays for it all. So instead of getting plans within their means and usage, they get these bizzare packages with 600 Text Messages [where they barely use even 50 of them] and night/weekend packages blabbing all day/night on the phone. Teenage girls are the biggest syphon on a man's wallet. True, all women are, but teenage girls are the worst. They will literally bleed you dry. New Law: Women can't have cell phones until they're 21.

:sniff-sniff:

Is this resentment from the past, or do I smell trouble in paradise?

BTW Menno, nice...um...beret. (I'm so glad they didn't have those when I was in...

)

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requiem_for_a_starfury · Wed Jan 07, 2004 10:13 pm

Menno wrote:they get these bizzare packages with 600 Text Messages [where they barely use even 50 of them] and night/weekend packages blabbing all day/night on the phone.

You've obviously not met any British teenage Girls lately, the ones I recently worked with would send 50 messages an hour, if they didn't have to work. Darn funniest thing watching them go out for a OH SHIT I HEAR THE ICE CREAM TRUCK!!!!!111!1111oneone break. Ciggie and lighter in one hand, phone in the other they're quite adept at messaging with one hand and smoking with the other.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 10:14 pm

Menno wrote:They will literally bleed you dry.

Vampires too? Dang.

Most girls I know like all that TXTNG shit and can usually do it faster than I type, and my brother and sister always whine about getting a new phone every few months. Bizarro. I bet the next big 'advancement' in putting more dumb shit on phones will be instant messaging, so we can combine kewL aolers with..metrosexuals?

I dunno, society is stupid. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

OnTheBounce · Post by **OnTheBounce** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 10:16 pm

requiem_for_a_starfury wrote:You've obviously not met any British teenage Girls lately, the ones I recently worked with would send 50 messages an hour, if they didn't have to work. Darn funniest thing watching them go out for a OH SHIT I HEAR THE ICE CREAM TRUCK!!!!!111!1111oneone break. Ciggie and lighter in one hand, phone in the other they're quite adept at messaging with one hand and smoking with the other.

Would these be "Essex girls"?

Someone please explain this term to me. I've been wondering for some time now, ever since I saw references to it in FoT and one of Requiem's maps.

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Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD · Wed Jan 07, 2004 10:18 pm

Megatron wrote:I dunno, society is stupid. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

dont worry, everything always gets worse and society is no different.

Menno · Post by **Menno** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 10:22 pm

OnTheBounce wrote:
:sniff-sniff:

Is this resentment from the past, or do I smell trouble in paradise?

BTW Menno, nice...um...beret. (I'm so glad they didn't have those when I was in... )

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Haha, resentment from the past, present, and FUTURE. My sister has bled me dry. Luckily my girlfriend doesn't use cell phones that much....GASP!....a responsible female! Who woulda thought it?

Haha, and yes that beret is goofy. That's a regular French Beret though put on my head with my horrible Photoshop skills [or is it "skillz"?] The Army berets look cool, but that mainly depends how your head is shaped. You're right though, for most guys it does look a bit goofy.

But if you had one, you could go up to a girl in a bar and point to your headgear and say "OMG I'm an ArmY RaNGEr!' to impress them.

requiem_for_a_starfury · Wed Jan 07, 2004 10:22 pm

OnTheBounce wrote:Would these be "Essex girls"?

In this case no they're from Suffolk.

OnTheBounce wrote:Someone please explain this term to me. I've been wondering for some time now, ever since I saw references to it in FoT and one of Requiem's maps.

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Ladies from Essex have a reputation, for their intelligence (or lack of) and their mores (again or lack of).

Some Essex Girls Jokes might help give you an idea.

OnTheBounce · Post by **OnTheBounce** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 10:56 pm

requiem_for_a_starfury wrote:Ladies from Essex have a reputation, for their intelligence (or lack of) and their mores (again or lack of).

I really have to say that those jokes shed a new light on Sharon. Maybe I should take her next time I re-play the core campaign for..."morale" purposes...

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requiem_for_a_starfury · Thu Jan 08, 2004 2:08 am

The game needs an recruit called Tracy, it's a cosmic law or something that every Essex girl called Sharon has a best mate called Tracy.

avenger69ie · Post by **avenger69ie** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 2:51 am

ala the fat slags from Viz?

requiem_for_a_starfury · Thu Jan 08, 2004 3:01 am

Or Birds of a Feather.

avenger69ie · Post by **avenger69ie** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 3:33 am

oh dear god.. I'M so ...OLD!!!