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 | jeff [email] said at 2:39 PM 01-14-2003:
Don't do it. Cell phone owners outweigh convenience & individual phone cost to quality. As someone on the occasional receiving end of big-city cell phone conversations, it drives me fucking nuts. The sound quality is absolute shite, it messes with your entire lifetime's concept of listen/response timing, and getting hung up on or waiting 5 minutes for the person to be audible again is akin to having rusty bent nails thrust through one's penis shaft and twisted virgorously.
Keep a landline, just get a discounted service plan that you usually don't hear about. |
anotherben.. said at 2:45 PM 01-14-2003:
i have no landline and i think it is great. i have sprint..and tho i have heard many a complaint about them i have had nary a problem. the money that would normally go to a landline now helps fray the cost of my cable modem. plus...my cell plan has unlimited internet access...so when i am not at home (as soon as my phone to usb cable arrives) or if my cable service acts up i still have internet access. last but not least...you dont have to worry about figuring out how to make the usually inconveniently placed phone jacks work with your vision for your furniture arrangement. |
Lisa T. said at 5:02 PM 01-14-2003:
i would recommend sprint also. i haven't had any problems with them at all! |
 | milky [email] said at 5:03 PM 01-14-2003:
yeah, but ya know, FUCK CINGULAR.
Stupid contract... |
Bryan said at 3:16 PM 01-14-2003:
Right, I have AT&T because of its roaming plans. I think the only thing to get used to is the daytime/unlimited ratio of minutes. I keep my conversations short until 8 PM when the nights and weekends are unlimited. I have had no problems with dialing 911.
You might want to check your talk habits to make sure you won't blow your minutes out of the water. Also, some cab companies are wary about cell phones. Pizza companies, too. They often won't deliver to anything but a landline. |
anotherben.. said at 3:29 PM 01-14-2003:
i have had no trouble with the pizza deliverers..and my area code doesnt even match the city i live in. sprint has $45 - 500 anytime minutes/unlimited night and weekend minutes...which i have never managed to run out of. for $10 more you get the unlimited internet access. sure you feel a little nerdy the first time you use mapquest on your phone..or buy movie tix.. but deep down inside you sort of feel like a minor deity at the same time. |
 | xmeredithx [email] said at 3:56 PM 01-14-2003:
brandon's phone number for his apartment is listed as his cell number. so he can buzz his apartment from the street below, it rings to his cell phone, which is usually in his pocket, which he answers and buzzes himself in. i should have let him say this, but it's really neat. |
 | brandon [email] said at 4:01 PM 01-14-2003:
The reason for this is that I lose my keys constantly. |
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| brandon [email] said at 4:08 PM 01-14-2003:
Yes, sometimes in airports. Don't you remember, you were there, I'm almost positive you were! Sometimes, though, I lose people, too. Snide, unforgiving people with a compulsion to bring up unfortunate key mislocations. Have you lost me yet? |
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| xmeredithx [email] said at 4:11 PM 01-14-2003:
oh, i remember. i've never been so happy to see someone get on an airplane in my life...how could i forget?! |
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| brandon [email] said at 4:14 PM 01-14-2003:
Now have I ever wasted less time watching someone's car pull away. I scarcely remember the sound of the engine turning over, before the automatic doors clicked together behind my heels. |
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| xmeredithx [email] said at 4:15 PM 01-14-2003:
lucky you ducked back into the airport, i considered running you down. |
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| brandon [email] said at 4:17 PM 01-14-2003:
That's funny, you running anywhere for anything just doesn't seem possible... could it be? Nope. Not possible. I think your narcolepsy hit you in the terminal. |
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| xmeredithx [email] said at 4:19 PM 01-14-2003:
i meant with the car, but i get it...it's one of your "how fast do fat women run" jokes. funny. fyi, you're not too skinny yourself, jackass. |
 | kiche [email] said at 4:27 PM 01-14-2003:
why are we being subjected to this? |
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| brandon [email] said at 4:30 PM 01-14-2003:
*unscrews Kiche from the machine that holds open his eyelids and forces him to watch, pats him on the ass and sends him on his way*
There ya' go, little feller! Free to gambol and frollick in the wild! |
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| xmeredithx [email] said at 4:32 PM 01-14-2003:
there's no need to be an asshole to kiche just because you're pissed at me. i can't help it that i'm in love with bibbly! |
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| brandon [email] said at 4:32 PM 01-14-2003:
You think you're funny. Seriously, now that we're over, I can tell you that you are ANNOYING. |
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| xmeredithx [email] said at 4:33 PM 01-14-2003:
well if that isn't just the pot calling the kettle black, i don't know what is! newsflash: flatulence isn't funny anymore! |
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| brandon [email] said at 4:35 PM 01-14-2003:
However, fatasses, like yourself, remain a comedy gold-mine. "Ohhh, I'm an editor! Oh, I don't have time to exercise." Spare me, tubby. |
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| brandon [email] said at 4:38 PM 01-14-2003:
I'd like to say: "Can we please stop, before someone really has her feelings hurt," But I'm afraid it would be the same answer as, "Meredith, you've gained a ton of weight since I last saw you, Can you PLEASE STOP EATING so much?" |
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| xmeredithx [email] said at 4:40 PM 01-14-2003:
what the fuck are you talking about, bitch? i play hockey three times a week and i lift....when did i ever say i didn't have time to exercise? it sounds like something your pansy ass would say: "oh it's too cold to go running in chicago!" poor baby! maybe you could ride your bike, but oh wait, someone stole your bike because you are a fucking retard who left it in the hallway outside your apartment and HEARD it being stolen but yet couldn't get your lazy ass up to investigate. riiiiiiiiight. |
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| brandon [email] said at 4:44 PM 01-14-2003:
It's like that Atom and his Package song, fatso:
"What do you do when you weigh 1,500 lbs/ You play goalie / What do you do when you weigh 1500 lbs / you play goalieeee"
I may be a little out of shape. But at least I don't appear to have phagocytic tendencies towards toddlers and stray dogs:
"Is that a fat roll, or a digestive vacuole with a half-digested golden retriever"
"OMIGOD, did you just spit up a weeble-wobble?"
-- highlights from our last visit, bitch. |
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| xmeredithx [email] said at 4:58 PM 01-14-2003:
i'm so fucking glad i slept with every guy in my hockey league, and every one on my street. you prick. and i'm so glad i dumped you. and i'm so glad i hawked that ugly fucking ring on ebay! |
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| milky [email] said at 12:52 PM 01-15-2003:
you guys _did not_ break up! I'm glad y'all stopped foolin'. |
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| xmeredithx [email] said at 12:54 PM 01-15-2003:
i meant to write "thank you cleveland, good night" before i left last night but i forgot. |
 | ed [email] said at 10:13 PM 01-14-2003:
Flatulence will always be funny. |
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| milky [email] said at 1:23 PM 01-15-2003:
Unless the moment is perfect and well, what comes out is foul. I could care less about the sound...that's where the entertainment is.
But the smells. I make my own eyes water... |
 | josh [email] said at 3:36 PM 01-14-2003:
Pizza companies, too. They often won't deliver to anything but a landline.
Untrue- in most areas they'd have no way of knowing. Only a few cities have an area code just for cell phones. |
Woody said at 3:26 PM 01-14-2003:
An interesting idea for a single person, but you might consider some scenarios, like when a friend/family member stays over and you have to go out. They have no phone, you can't call them, etc. I don't know of anybody doing this yet. |
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| kiche [email] said at 3:39 PM 01-14-2003:
in nyc many people have a cell phone and no land line. |
 | mary [email] said at 11:34 AM 01-15-2003:
This situation comes up quite a bit around the Dirtfarm. It's annoying. |
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| josh [email] said at 11:57 AM 01-15-2003:
You have a cell phone! The only person who I can think of that hangs out at the Farm that doesn't have one is Sonny. And he _has_ one, he just never paid his bill so they cancelled it.
If Erica and Kara both have them, everyone does. |
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| kiche [email] said at 12:20 PM 01-15-2003:
i have no cell phone. but i will probably have one in a few months. |
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| josh [email] said at 3:38 PM 01-14-2003:
Everyone at the Dirtfarm does this : Ben, Brad, Angele, Sonny, Ricky, Myself. Sonny did let his lapse, though.
Mark (also from Killoggs) was the first person I know to do this, like over a year ago. |
 | kara [email] said at 3:43 PM 01-14-2003:
My boyfriend Chris hasn't had a land line in over two years. Things are fine except for the fact that his phone is all broken and has poor reception. That could happen to a regular phone too though...
If you do decide to get a regular phone just get no long distance on it and use the cell for that perhaps.
I think conversion to all-cellular is just what needs to happen to America. It's the eventual solution to the fact that we've been running out of phone numbers in the 90s. |
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| milky [email] said at 3:57 PM 01-14-2003:
I don't really like cell phones, but I have an Invader Zim faceplace on mine.
Which I used today to call Pop-A-Lock. Hooray for cell phones! |
Geoff said at 10:07 AM 01-15-2003:
Dude you are now my personal god. Where'd you find one of those? |
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| milky [email] said at 11:19 AM 01-15-2003:
e-bay.
Deadstock from Hot Topic.
I have to post a pic of my Zim plush doll next.
Type 'Invader Zim' on e-bay and look. You'll find one. It was worth my money. |
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| milky [email] said at 12:59 PM 01-15-2003:
You want the doll!
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Geoff said at 1:07 PM 01-15-2003:
Actually I want Grr. I love that robot thing. |
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| milky [email] said at 1:22 PM 01-15-2003:
It was a hard choice and...I still want Gir. These things are disappearing too fast...You can get Gir with the suit and without... |
Geoff said at 3:51 PM 01-15-2003:
Hrm books for classes or those. Some choices are too hard to make. |
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| brandon [email] said at 3:59 PM 01-14-2003:
Losers. I haven't had a land-line phone since 1999. It's been cheaper than a regular phone, and since I get free long-distance within my plan, what would have cost me literally thousands of dollars in long-distance calls has been included in my low monthly fee. 4 years. I am the champine. Of course, the reception sucks and I'm constantly dropping calls |
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| xmeredithx [email] said at 4:08 PM 01-14-2003:
don't you have a landline phone now? |
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| brandon [email] said at 4:10 PM 01-14-2003:
*shut-up, I had to buy it for the DSL. It's not like I actually use it or anything* |
Woody said at 4:29 PM 01-14-2003:
I make sure I offend and alienate anybody not within the local calling area. Cheap LD, works like a charm! |
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| ed [email] said at 10:17 PM 01-14-2003:
I've been land-line-less for a while. It's definitely working for me. I haven't had a single telemarketing call. We'd get 5 or more a week on the old (unlisted) land-line.
I use AT&T's nationwide plan, no roaming charges, no such thing as "long distance". I get 500 anytime minutes and 2000 night & weekend minutes. It costs me $34.99. I like it. |
 | amy [email] said at 11:24 PM 01-14-2003:
On the landline we were averaging 15 hangups a day from telemarketers. As soon as the cable modem is hooked up we are going to dump it. Right now it just stays unplugged all day.
The solution for houseguests is to give them your cellphone if you are separated. You can always call them from work or a pay phone. Now you can also rent cellphones pretty inexpensively at the airport. Besides that they should have their own damn cellphone.
Plus, long distance is usually free plus all those 3.99 a month extras from the land line like call waiting and caller ID. |
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said at 12:36 AM 01-15-2003:
Last February I signed up with Verizon, 40 bucks or so for 600 anytime minutes, free weekends, no roaming, which is good since I live in Baltimore and work in Rockville, and free LD, which is good, since 99% of my friends live everywhere but here. However, I had to take said plan and no other because of what they unsarcastically refer to as my "credit history." On 1/1 my account was suspended (!) because I went over a hundred dollars on my account...I'd gotten rid of my land line, and apparently I talk a lot, and it's 35 cents per minute after the 600 (I have a hard time believing it and can't wait to see the bill). They fixed it after I made an impromptu payment (note: I've never missed a payment, they take that shit right from my checking account). But then Sunday morning they suspended me again for the same reason! This time they claim I spent over $130 above my 600 minutes...I call bullplop! But I had to pay it again impromtu-like with my Mastercard because they couldn't just take it out of the account. The customer "service" rep did not seem to understand my frustration. Of course, I can change my plan in two weeks (or drop T-Mobile), when a year is up, but the moral here may be to really monitor your phone usage if you drop that land line. |
caleb said at 8:30 AM 01-15-2003:
i use t-mobile. about $40/mo, 500 anytime, unlimited weekends (which is when i make all my check-in calls w/friends and family). i eventually went up to $70/mo for 2 phones, 800 anytime, unlimited weekends, and unlimited between the 2 phones. was perfect for that out-of-state girlfriend. 'course, now, i'm paying for an extra phone i don't need... but reception has been great, even on the road. not any service problems to speak of. |
Bryan said at 9:35 AM 01-15-2003:
One time, when I was stuck in a hotel room by myself, I wanted something to do. To order movies off the screen, I had to swipe my credit card thru a little reader on the nightstand. I tried running my Minneapolis library card - and it worked! Free porn. Then, I tried an old Best Buy gift card - and it worked too!
Moral: little card readers in hotels are easily fooled. Get all the Kobe Tai you can handle after being stuck at a wedding with no "roommate". |
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| milky [email] said at 12:51 PM 01-15-2003:
any card with a strip used to open all of the employee parking gates at LSU. |
Lisa T. said at 1:22 PM 01-15-2003:
see, now why didn't you share this little bit of info while we were at lsu??? that would have been extremely useful..... |
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| milky [email] said at 1:26 PM 01-15-2003:
It stopped working the middle of my extended soph year...I got towed twice and a stern "how the hell did you get in here and why did you feel the need to part as well?" more than once...
*shrugs*
But there was a time lapse on the vending machines and the laundry machines. It was on Sundays, and if you swiped your card, anything was free.
You knew about that, right? Someone in Kirby taught me. |
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| josh [email] said at 1:44 PM 01-15-2003:
My friend used to use his Pepsi Choice card when we were in high school... |
meenk said at 12:26 PM 01-15-2003:
I am making a similar transition, as I realized that I use my land line (aside from the DSL, which I don't really need, and don't plan to take to my new house next week) about 20 minutes a week, but use my cellphone at least twice as long, in a weekend alone (not much phone usage, when I am at work, period). If you do switch, don't go with at&t. Their customer service is awful, and you will get service, at least as good, with ANYONE else. Myself, I am switching to sprint when the contract is up. |
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| brandon [email] said at 2:49 PM 01-15-2003:
I was so low-tech. I used to wrestle the wooden barriers out of the metal holders, drive the car through, and then replace them. I also drove through one once, while high on mushrooms with a friend's bronco. It broke like a twig, but I think it had been run through before many times. |
 | linus [email] said at 10:55 AM 01-24-2003:
I got a Sprint phone. I got a good deal on a phone and plan but the bastards made me put down a $100 deposit because of my credit. Anyway, so far, so good.
Thanks for all the advice, ya'll! | |
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