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# the worse thing is at college, where you get
people sending a text message to people who are a floor below, and it's not that large a building. they pay money to send a message out the window to a mast a couple of miles away and back to the same place to the other phone. why not leave the bloody phone alone, walk down the corridor, down the stairs and talk to them in person?!?

and on the rare occasions i use the text messaging thing, i write about five messages (and i spell things with proper words) worth and then my friends get annoyed at me for taking up so much space.
(, Fri 22 Aug 2003, 23:34, archived)
# yup
50p to write something you could say in 20seconds, and costs 2p.

although at my old work there was a strict no mobile phone policy, so i used to turn peoples on and send them a text to scare them a bit.

never got anyone in trouble though, since i owned up if it got mentioned, im not a nasty person
(, Fri 22 Aug 2003, 23:36, archived)
# too right,
especially if they gave you an actual phone on your desk, and everyone else was nearby.
(, Fri 22 Aug 2003, 23:37, archived)
# aye
dont even get me started on WAP, another thing that costs loads, takes ages, and doesnt answer your questions properly.

the 1st time i used it, i got given train times that were 4months out of date. very worth my 40p or whatever it cost at the time.

BAN TEXTS AND WAP i say
(, Fri 22 Aug 2003, 23:40, archived)
# i remeber when
people just spoke into phones.

mind you i remember when Busby was the BT logo, and ha'pennies were still currency
(, Fri 22 Aug 2003, 23:46, archived)
# I, without wishing to seem boastfull,
have plenty of money. But i will be buggered by greek pirates if i would dignify the phone companies smarmy marketing by using text messages at 12p a time. Its a great big waste of money, and then some.

www.lycos.co.uk do a free text thing anyway
(, Fri 22 Aug 2003, 23:39, archived)