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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2018 5:36:49 GMT
I'm glad my kids are older,and did'nt go through the kid stage of owning a mobile.I don't think I would of brought them one tbh.I think it would of driven me crazy if they were the type of kids who are always staring at their phones,or up half the night on them.
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Post by fenrisulfr on Apr 21, 2018 7:31:53 GMT
Just wondering what some of these peeps talk about for so long and when they actually do meet up with whom they've been rabbiting to do they still have a normal conversation or have they said it all on the phone.........
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Post by yazz on Apr 21, 2018 10:11:38 GMT
I wouldn't have met my man without my mobile phone. I mainly use it for the interwebs. I carry it in my handbag, which means I don't hear it, which makes my kids complain, but I'm not surgically attached to it like them. 😀
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Post by cricket on Apr 21, 2018 10:59:55 GMT
I remember the phonebox in the village.it wasnt a hardship as we knew nothing else.It wasnt just a phonebox though,it was a navigating tool for giving directions to our track,a meet up place for our gang as kids and to meet boyfriends out f parental view when older. No good in emergencies though ,as we had no house phone till i was 15.If someone had needed an urgent ambulance ,by time youd run to the phonebox called and run back home theyd probably have pegged it. I have a very basic brick phone that tolerates occasional washing machine events, dries out and sort of still works.Great for the rac if you are up a hill with engine failure,kids and dogs onboard after 7pm.....if you can get a signal.I have had to actually drive to signal points to be able to call someone...then get cut off often perhaps when a cloud passes the local mast.Never used the land line number that came with the broadband as calls so expensive.I dont like being called nor being expected to call anyone as it interrupts what i am doing ,so most contact via email when i have time.The cold callers are good for a rant at as stress relief though...if they can get through.I always give a made up phone number online,so I wondered how they got my number,but every active sim card number has probably been sold on as data very many times.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2018 15:04:26 GMT
I can remember when I was 15,and any guy that rang our house for me via the landline(Thats all we had then!)my Dad would say to me....."You've got 5 minutes"!and he meant it too!How times have changed eh?
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Post by chillicamper on Apr 22, 2018 6:20:02 GMT
Got a smart phone - I probably use it too much in the day - but mainly for accessing the interwebby thing. It gets turned off (not just to silent) by 9pm and doesn't usually go back on till 9am. If there's an emergency, people can get me on the land line.
It mainly gets used for the camera (and emails when I'm at the dreaded day job, but need to answer someone about a pen that they want to order).
it's also been useful if the van's broken down, for looking up ideas on how to fix it at the roadside.
As with anything, it can be used for good or bad. But in the old days, when my VW beetle broke down, it was the Haynes manual and a lot of head scratching. Now, if the camper breaks down I can speak to a number of vastly more experienced guys and gals who can usually point me in the right direction in minutes.
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Post by duckman on Apr 26, 2018 21:54:12 GMT
I ditched my landline a few years ago as I thought it was a waste of money.I get 100mb of data a day that I use for my laptop with my phone that means I don't spend too much time on the net. I would rather use a mobile phone than use a public phone any day especially in a noisy railway station.
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Post by boaty on Apr 26, 2018 22:50:09 GMT
I don't use my mobile phone often, but wouldn't be without it. Today, when I was feeling a bit miserable, I watched a short video of my granddaughter playing "drums" with wooden spoons on pots and pans. Cheered me right up, then when I got home my son phoned me up for a made-up game of counting with my grandson on the way home from pre-school. Priceless.
The camera comes in handy too.
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Post by duckman on Apr 27, 2018 22:53:00 GMT
With a landline can tell when you area not home.
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Post by cricket on Apr 28, 2018 14:33:23 GMT
With a landline can tell when you area not home. or that you are deciding not to answer it.like me.I have left the phone to ring itself out when people have been here to their shock that i would not answer it.people just dump things to run to the summoning beast.I get texts which are a more leisurely way to get stuff.When in the wilds alone i keep it on lest i fall into a ravine so i can get pinged and found...does that really work?But then I often run out of charge...credit...signal bad patchy here.when no signal feels like shelter from the intrusion.
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Post by VanWoman84 on Apr 28, 2018 16:08:28 GMT
Ringing 999 works as long as you have battery. You don't need credit and the emergency calls go on a different network. It may be better coverage.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2018 17:02:18 GMT
With a landline can tell when you area not home. Thats not true as I never answer the phone , anyone that knows me knows that , and will either e mail or FB messenger me . The land line as far as I am concerned is for internet connection or my wife's work as mobiles do not have a signal , but thats ok ,cos I don't do them either
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Post by Compo Simmonite on Apr 28, 2018 17:12:41 GMT
I never answer the house phone either. In fact only a couple of weeks ago we turned the ringer off (permanently) to save us having to ignore it.
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Post by lonewolf on Aug 20, 2018 16:09:20 GMT
I have an old pay as you go Nokia phone, its only used for emergencies when out and is turned off 99.999 % of the time, we have a land line at home for ever day calls.
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