'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
New research shows that chimps have sex toys:
I quibble with use of the term "sex toy". According to the article, it's not being used for the sex itself, but to attract the female's attention to the male's erection so that they can have sex. It's like tight jeans.
wow, thanks for that warning Lisa. I have gone alllllll the way over to the office kitchen and now have large-ass cup of coffee.
Someone is coming for a second look at my place tomorrow. YAY!
It doesn't make any sense to me, a text message is a couple orders of magnitude less data than a phone call.
It's like tight jeans.
Now I'm imagining Chimp!Brook!Shields doing a commercial for Chimp!Jeans.
I agree with Vortex. It's certainly a tool, but not for Teh Sex itself.
Phone companies have a history of deliberately taking advantage of users -- for instance, dial tone actually costs them less than ring tone, but you have to pay extra for it now because it's less popular.
I like texting as a way of avoiding phone-tag. “Be there in 20 minutes” kind of stuff. And in combination with Twitter it is sort of like going back to ye olden days of Usenet. I’m not willing to pay for a futurephone so that was my lifeline in LA last winter, but normally I don't use it much.
Except at work, I almost never listen to my voicemail anyways. I just see that someone called and usually call them back.
Noooo! Don’t be that guy!
I have two friends who'd do this. To be fair, I can kind of understand it if you think the caller just wants to chat, but they’d do it even when they knew exactly why I'm calling. Like, my message is: "I just got to the hotel, so I’m going to go eat and then do X and Y. If you’re free tonight you can join us at Z." And the call back opens with "Are you in town yet? Have you eaten? What are you doing tonight?" Maddening!
It's a profit center. See also the recent findings that the long-ass "# is not available. To leave a message, press 1 after the beep" yadda yadda recordings are in fact deliberately designed to make you use up more airtime.
Still don't have a cell phone. Probably more a comment on the simplicity/dullness of my life than anything else.
But I probably will get one soon, because I want a way to communicate with Hubby when I'm in the grocery store.
because I want a way to communicate with Hubby when I'm in the grocery store.
Very good use. It's helped me several times when DW requests nonexistent items when I go off to the grocery store.