On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!

Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'


Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


megan walker - Aug 18, 2011 6:08:02 am PDT #20919 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

We switched to no contract plans. I hardly every use my phone as a phone, so I have limited minutes, but unlimited text & data for $25/month. The best part about the no contract plans? No taxes, so the $25 is actually $25.

Hmm, at that differential, a phone would pay for itself pretty quickly, especially if, like me, you're happy to keep it for years. Who do you use for service?


sumi - Aug 18, 2011 6:08:06 am PDT #20920 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

I hope that they were socks that had attempted to escape and now can be safely matched up with a lonely mate?

Is it breakfast yet?


smonster - Aug 18, 2011 6:12:38 am PDT #20921 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

AT&T is royally pissing me off right now, too, enough that I'm considering switching to Verizon or possibly Credo (non-iphone smartphone, oh noes!).

amyth and I once attended a team-building customer service training that involved Fear Factor-style eating contests (during the SARS epidemic), the trainer suggesting calling customers "ma'am" while you really mean "bitch" as good customer service, holding hands while listening to Clay Aiken singing about god, and the Electric Slide. We typed the whole thing up on lj but I can't remember in whose journal, couldn't find it in mine, and amyth's is gone.


Amy - Aug 18, 2011 6:14:12 am PDT #20922 of 30001
Because books.

We don't have contract phones, either. I use Net10, and it's simple and pretty cheap for the amount I use either the phone or the text function. I have a slider with a full keyboard, which I like, and while it's not easy to use the web on the phone, I sort of like that.


§ ita § - Aug 18, 2011 6:15:43 am PDT #20923 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Last team-bonding thing I was involved in we were throwing eggs at each other, but that worked out pretty okay.


Jesse - Aug 18, 2011 6:22:08 am PDT #20924 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I keep thinking about downgrading my cell service, but I can't decide if I'd rather keep my current number or get a 617 one. And now I realize I could do both via google voice, right? And I am even more paralyzed by indecision.


SuziQ - Aug 18, 2011 6:24:58 am PDT #20925 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Not that I want to play any goofy games, but I'd like to know who is on my team and if I have a team leader. You would think that information would be pretty basic in such a corporate environment, but not in my case.

I'm stuck with AT&T for another year and a half, I think. We already have the $30 messaging plan, so that won't be a change for us.


Nora Deirdre - Aug 18, 2011 6:41:10 am PDT #20926 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

AT&T Wireless subscribers. ATT is doing a bit of a dick move and forcing everyone who starts a new account (or decides to change their messaging plan) to have an unlimited messaging plan which is $20 for individuals, $30 a month for family plans. They used to have 3 different messaging plan tiers, then they went to 2, now just 1.

If you're not switching anything up, things will stay the same, right?


Sparky1 - Aug 18, 2011 6:41:28 am PDT #20927 of 30001
Librarian Warlord

Hmm, at that differential, a phone would pay for itself pretty quickly, especially if, like me, you're happy to keep it for years. Who do you use for service?

We use Virgin Mobile.


§ ita § - Aug 18, 2011 6:54:09 am PDT #20928 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Go team Google Voice! I can't work out what they get out of it, but it's cheap and convenient for me.

Why does my face swell up the morning after a bad night's sleep? Is it tossing and turning, or is it sleep deprivation? After I went back to bed last night, the dreams were all about race-motivated sexual harassment. I have no fucking idea. It was pretty horrible, and I ended up getting out of bed again just to make it stop.