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From: Woody on 22 Mar 2010 05:14 J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > > > Bruce Horrocks <07.013(a)scorecrow.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On 21/03/2010 17:51, Bella Jones wrote: > > > > > I'm off to France next week for a little holiday. > > > > > > > > > > I am warned loudly to 'turn data roaming off' on my iPhone, and, > > > > > having looked, it already is off. > > > > > > > > [snip much advice from others] > > > > > > > > Leave the phone at home and enjoy your holiday instead. > > > > > > Reemember when we didn't have phones and just went away, willy nilly, at > > > will, with no way of being contacted or telling friends about the coffee > > > bar we were in or the weather? *sigh* > > > > I know. How did we cope. > > There were boxes with rotary dials on them > that you put (lots) of coins in. Over here, yes, but not abroad, they all have funny phones that don't work properly! Except america. They have really funny phones that don't even pretend to work. > Remember? No, we sent postcards. Which arrived after we got back, and then whinged about how bad all these johnny foriegners were at creating a postal system. -- Woody
From: Peter Ceresole on 22 Mar 2010 05:24 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Yes, but that relied on knowing where someone was. The mobile changed the > game because people stopped phoning locations and started phoning people. Yup. You've neatly summed up the horror. -- Peter
From: Jim on 22 Mar 2010 05:29 On 2010-03-22, Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> Yes, but that relied on knowing where someone was. The mobile changed the >> game because people stopped phoning locations and started phoning people. > > Yup. You've neatly summed up the horror. Which is why there are about five people in the world who know my mobile number, and four of them are family. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash.
From: J. J. Lodder on 22 Mar 2010 05:38 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > On 2010-03-22, J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote: > >> > > >> > Reemember when we didn't have phones and just went away, willy nilly, at > >> > will, with no way of being contacted or telling friends about the coffee > >> > bar we were in or the weather? *sigh* > >> > >> I know. How did we cope. > > > > There were boxes with rotary dials on them > > that you put (lots) of coins in. > > > > Remember? > > Yes, but that relied on knowing where someone was. The mobile changed the > game because people stopped phoning locations and started phoning people. Not quite. You could phone the answering machine, and the others could listen to that from another phone. Almost as good as having a butler, Jan
From: Chris Ridd on 22 Mar 2010 05:38
On 2010-03-22 08:58:52 +0000, Peter Ceresole said: > Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote: > >> Reemember when we didn't have phones and just went away, willy nilly, at >> will, with no way of being contacted or telling friends about the coffee >> bar we were in or the weather? *sigh* > > Ah, the good old days. Which they really were... I'd like to add a fnarr, please, for Bella's willy nilly. -- Chris |