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why is the phone evil?
i say it's because all someone has to do is know your fucking number and they can contact you whenever they feel like it. like when you're having sex. oh, and telemarketers. a business should not have that much access into your personal life.
i say it's because all someone has to do is know your fucking number and they can contact you whenever they feel like it. like when you're having sex. oh, and telemarketers. a business should not have that much access into your personal life.
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Re: prove it
Thu, March 4, 2004 - 8:53 AMPhones are for losers who have nothing more important to do than to be on call for some other loser.
Talk is a reminder that they are alive.
Since their own mental voice is so meager, they need someone else's voice to fill the empty space in their heads.
If you want to get ahold of me. Write me a letter. Illiterate bastards! -
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Thu, March 4, 2004 - 10:24 AMI can't stand talking on the phone. I can barely tolerate speaking to most people in person. Before cells, my ringer was always off and I am still holding out against owning a cell. Far Far Far too intrusive. If it weren't for email I would barely have any friends. -
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Sat, March 6, 2004 - 7:02 PMHeh, polyenmity.tribe.net
My phone ringer is always off and I always hate it when the message light is blinking. I got a Treo as an upgrade to a Palm V (and so that I can tribe remotely) but damned if I'm going to accept calls on it!
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Thu, March 4, 2004 - 11:43 AMPhones reinforce the delusion many are under that they can somehow force their obsessive linear temporality onto me. -
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Sun, March 7, 2004 - 11:13 AM> linear temporality
Indeed. I decline to use Instant Message services for much the same reason as the phone. I am not interrupt driven!
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Sun, August 21, 2005 - 7:34 PMThe NFL suspended Tennessee left tackle Brad Hopkins for the season opener after he pleaded guilty to assaulting his wife.
Hopkins had expected the punishment from the league after he grabbed his wife's neck because she wouldn't stop talking on a cellphone in March.
"I'm not sayin' its okay but I understand..." i understand too he should get a medal!
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Fri, September 30, 2005 - 6:32 PM"Phones reinforce the delusion many are under that they can somehow force their obsessive linear temporality onto me."
Hagbard, I am gasping! I have never seen my nebulous sentiments made flesh, and so succinctly and beautifully put! -
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Fri, September 30, 2005 - 7:48 PMYay!!
Boy, that even takes the 'sting' out of that 'obsessive linear temporality' I understand far too well & the knowledge that some people will attempt to force all kinds of crap down your throat, for whatever reason....
Thanx for joining us! :)
love all-ways,
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Sat, October 1, 2005 - 8:28 AMThis is not a healthy tribe for me Ive been here a while occasional posts news or funny stuff/i really do hate cells although they have a great use when you on the road use/and i hate landline even though i was a bell kid<Daddy worked 30 yrs at Ma Bell> now i work for a telecom sales>phones suck and the peeps that use them can kiss my arse>naw just jokin pls buy landline service from my company > this is a plug from my heart >i luv my work meatspace >the peeps at ZTEL/TRINSIC are some of the finest peeps ive meet in my life>If you live in a verizon or quest region we can provide your landline service at same price or lower/if you live in a sbc or bell south region we can provide long distance/ if you would call my sales dept and said Roger advised you to call can you imagine my hero status>you would be helping Gulf Coast folks feeding a bunch of kids and teenagers and old folks>call our Trisnic referral line 1-866-983-5463 mention Roger referred you from the web> you would really be appreciated and be sure to add me as a friend so that i can be of service to you and thank you in proper manner>
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Thu, March 4, 2004 - 2:48 PMCell phones cook your brain.
People who talk on cell phones in public are mindless drones pitching their consumer lifestyles on behalf of the corporate greed monsters.
People who call me at home in the middle of the day while I work are stupid for thinking I am dumb enough to pick up the phone to hear their pitch on behalf of the corporate greed monsters.
Phones are technologically nonsensical. The same functionality could have been inserted into wrist watches 20 years ago.
Phones represent the beginning of the food chain that feeds the corporate phone company greed monsters.
The sound of a telephone ringing ranks right up there with the idea of allowing car exhaust fumes to mingle with the same air people breath.
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Thu, March 4, 2004 - 10:31 PMfucking thing keeps waking me up.
The only time I like it is when I'm rubbing one out with someone too far away to actually have real sex with, but then I get all sad anyway because I can't get laid by someone who lives in this freaking state. -
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Thu, March 4, 2004 - 10:36 PMoh yeah, then the bill gets outrageous because I keep calling girls who live a gajillion miles away from me because all the hot single rockin girls that I meet are at out of state rock fests because there are no hot single rock girls around here anywhere.
There's like four in the entire world. -
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Fri, March 5, 2004 - 3:13 AMyeah that's another thing: unexpected charges. they never seem to be subtle, you always find an $80 call to someone who should've been in your call plan but some technicality made it frickin $20/min.
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Sun, March 7, 2004 - 12:21 PMGreat link, GORdon. I wasn't even aware that this organizations exists. But I can sure as hell say I'd love to get rid of the general din of psychic white noise that the massive amounts of ambient RF and EMF radiation in this area tends to put in my head. -
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Sun, March 28, 2004 - 11:30 PMhere here..I had a cell for a brief period instead of a land line..now I have neither, really..we'll I have a land line which I never ever even listen to the messages and I have a work cell which I only allow to get messages and then I retrieve them later and return the call if i must. I like being to talk to people on my own terms. My grrl..answers her cell all the time.."all the time" and it drives me nuts It bothers me that she thinks that her time is better spent with some voice instead of living life now in the moment and with me..I think I might see if I can flush it down the toilet where it belongs.
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Wed, October 5, 2005 - 1:55 AMi have three indictments. first, its obviously an addictive drug. you might like get one hookup or go see a show or something when you first get one. you get a rush from it, try it again..but its never the same. before long, you waste your days trying to recapture some lost thrill but all you get is pain.
second, its the number one...i can't figure out how to say this properly...cockblocker. The cell phone comes out and you might as well forget about any loving going on because someone else is going to be chasing the monkey (see #1). love is good, chasing monkeys is evil.
third, its mostly a tool to suck cash out of you. if it wasn't evil, they would be able to quote you an honest price and give you decent gear. the price just goes up and the crap doesn't work. ripoff ergo evil. -
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Wed, October 5, 2005 - 2:48 PMThe phone is evil because it encourages conversations that are not face-to-face. Simple enough.
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Sun, November 6, 2005 - 10:58 PM1. The home phone ringer stays switched OFF. No answering machine.
2. NO ONE gets my home# from me under any circumstances! As a substitute, I have toll-free voice mail phone# which I provide for contact purposes. Folks call that 866 number, hear my voice, leave their message, and I receive an email with a compressed wav file attachment containing their recorded message. I sign onto the email web site to check for messages, every day or so.
3. No direct line to my office workstation. Ringer volume stays LOW on my phone. So low that sometimes I don't hear it, and the receptionist comes around and slips me a callback note.
4. No cell phone yet. If I decide to get one for security purposes, it will remain POWERED DOWN until it is needed.
Works for me ...
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Mon, September 11, 2006 - 2:49 PMThe phone is evil because most of the time, people are calling to give you some kind of fact, like an address or an appointment time, and you have to write it down anyway, so why don't they just email you, so you can have it in writing in the first place!
