Yeah, I've been listening to a lot of Radiohead recently. I've also been playing F.E.A.R. Damnit D.! That shit is scary!
But not so scary that I can't bolt guys to the wall if they piss me off. In virtual reality anyway. And there's nothing quite like bicycle kicking a guy over a railing or into a steel box. Ouch.
I got my first Christmas gift last night. A new cellphone. I don't know how they could call that I gift. I had to go pick out the phone and plan, and deal with the salesman. Yeah. I had a headache about thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis big after the whole ordeal was done. No amount of painkiller seemed to help, so I just blew my plans for the evening and rolled into bed for a while.
It makes me wonder. Why must phone companies literally ream my ass with their shitty plans and poor selection of cellphones when I already have a reasonable idea of what I want? Is 200 daytime minutes and unlimited nights and weekends too much to ask for? And what's with this instant message shit? Why am I being charged $0.15 for every instant message? Why must I pay an extra $2 a month for a piddly 30 messages a month? It costs the company virtually nothing to fire an ascii line of code through their network. What's next? Charging 80 cents a kilobyte for telephony modems?
Fuck.
Anger and me don't get along well unless it's about cell phones or greedy assholes. Calgary has no shortage of either.
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ugh. Don't get me started on cell phones.
I have some piece of crap I got for Christmas 3 years ago or whatever...and it's all I need.
I've not got the patience to sort out all the shit you just mentioned.
Not to mention I hate talking on phones, so I only use it when I have to. I guess it does well enough.
All these mp3 player camera tv phones can fuck off.
Also, F.E.A.R... fuck yeah. How far into it are you?
Far enough to need a new pair of pants. :(
Well, you both know the importance of the cell phone to me, but truly, all I want is a small, slender phone that won't take up a ton of space in my purse and one that doesn't have a speaker loud enough that my dad could hear the person on the other line at the lowest volume.
I never wanted a phone, I despised them, but my mum kept saying it's so much better if you have one, won't you let me buy you one?.
I finally gave in Christmas three years ago and I still have the one I got then. I do need a new one though - like my camera, the battery is dead. I have to keep it plugged in recharging 24/7 and then the point of a cell phone is kinda gone...
I just have to choose one I want. I hate doing that because I don't know what I want or need. I'll just wait another year.
yay, Apples.
My phone does the same thing. The battery dies pretty quickly...but I keep it off 90% of the time anyway, and use it only when I need to...which is rarely, because as I said I hate phones.
Yeah, the phone I had before this one was doing that same stupid annoying battery thing. It was pretty old too though..three years about..guess that's the lifespan of a cell phone. You can buy new batteries for them..but I figure I'd rather put that 20 bucks toward a new phone.
I seem to be the only one here that doesn't hate the phone, but in my defense, I don't use it like I did in high school, and it's only so important to me because it's how I communicate with my family.
My old phone was about 6 years old. The battery could only hold a charge for about 4 hours, so I only turned it on when I needed to call someone.
Now, I've got some kind of camera phone. It's alright as a phone. Sounds clear, and it rings like a phone should, (ie. not like the fucking orchestra in my pocket) and it's got a decent amount of storage for numbers. But the camera on it is useless.
The camera phone thing is a novel idea, and I can see how it could be useful..if you're wanting to show someone something before buying it...or something...but the quality always seems to be horrible. ...Which is really disappointing considering those things are $100+ when purchased new and without a line activation or a "valued customer" discount.
Pfft cell phones. I am lucky if I use mine more than once week. I just have it for emergencies. I had to upgrade mine last year, not by choice though, I lost my antenna and as soon as I went inside a building or car, it pretty much had no service. Needless to say my sister works at Rogers so I got a new phone from her so no sales shit :) The only down side Rogers has possibly the worst network ever, as long as your in a city or on a major highway, its awesome. You divert off that major highway even a km and you have no service literally. I heard Bells service is supposed to be way better. Then again I don’t use it much so its still serves its purpose.
Bells service area is better, but their "service" sucks the proverbial babboon balls. No offence to babboons or balls.
In fact. All cell phone service sucks balls. Except maybe for Virgin Mobile. Anyone that hands out wrapping paper with angels fondling each other is prime in my books.
Have I mentioned how scary F.E.A.R. is? I mean seriously... I'd like to see what any sane person would do when they enter a room where there's more person plastered all over the walls than on the corpses sitting in the middle.
A long time ago Nokia set the expected life span of a cell phone to be one year. I guess there's no wonder they're constantly breaking down.
Turning it off might be an idea though - is that possible?!? I never turn it off, I use it as a watch when I'm out - I never wear a watch.. don't think I even have one that works..
But Raine - why no orchestra? I think those sound nice. They're more relaxing than your typical high pitched ringing and it's not disturbing as much as "oh a phone.."
Because the pocket orchestra always sounds like shit. I'd rather hear a rusty meat grinder working that some mauled movement my Chopin.
Now, if I could get it to play some Nine Inch Nails. That, my friends, would be a sweet ring tone.
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