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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: yoga-like_abana on February 25, 2011, 03:16:14 PM
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How did you ever live w/o a cellular phone, accidentally ruined mine this week and haven't got another one yet.....Found this to be a huge pain in the ass.
Like to know what you did before cell phones before you rush off to the early bird special.
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i had a pager in the pre-cell tech days
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i had a pager in the pre-cell tech days
2 way alphanumeric? :fatty:
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Old Ballz bro abana was telling me the other day about using cb radios to communicate with his buds in high school. Can't make this stuff up fellas.
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remember when you were little and your parents had a phone book? LMAO.
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i had a pager in the pre-cell tech days
Me too, until I was 17. Then I had a Sprint phone that was as long as a stapler with a pull out antenna and no service in Manhattan.
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remember when you were little and your parents had a phone book? LMAO.
Oh man, loved the phone book. Would look up funny names and prank call them. Then they would get caller ID and totally reverse that crap on you.
Now the phone book comes, I clip some of the restaurant coupons and put them some place I can never find them, and then off to the trash.
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How did you ever live w/o a cellular phone, accidentally ruined mine this week and haven't got another one yet.....Found this to be a huge pain in the ass.
Like to know what you did before cell phones before you rush off to the early bird special.
was just having this convo with a friend last weekend. it was horrible. just the "feel like meeting up with some people in aggieville, i wonder where they are" scenario should be enough to make you cringe. it was just not good.
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People actually planned crap out back then. They'd call you on your landline, set up a time to hang out, you'd show up at set time. Now it's all done on the fly and nobody follows a schedule and it's a clusterfuck.
Actually, that kinda makes sense why our economy and society are so mumped up nowadays.
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People actually planned crap out back then. They'd call you on your landline, set up a time to hang out, you'd show up at set time. Now it's all done on the fly and nobody follows a schedule and it's a clusterfuck.
This: A few of my friends are constantly late, even when people call them 10 minutes after they were supposed to be somewhere to ask where they are...it's ridiculous.
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People actually planned cac out back then. They'd call you on your landline, set up a time to hang out, you'd show up at set time. Now it's all done on the fly and nobody follows a schedule and it's a clustereff.
Actually, that kinda makes sense why our economy and society are so effed up nowadays.
Hey Grandpa, Tell me 'bout the good ole days.
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hate phones.
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i had a pager in the pre-cell tech days
2 way alphanumeric? :fatty:
yup, i can't remember the name of the company that provided the service in MHK, the pager itself was motorola...also had a bag phone.
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whenever i buy my house...i'm getting a landline. :emawkid:
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Kinda pisses me off when the phonebook dude drop off books at my house. I still get like 3 every year. I just throw them in the recycling bin but it's still really rough ridin' wasteful. If you want a phonebook, just pick one up at Dillons, eff delivering them to every residence.
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hate phones.
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hate phones.
WHY?!
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hate phones.
WHY?!
hate talking
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hate phones.
WHY?!
hate talking
lol. you talk on your phone alot grandpa???? :lol:
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I hate phones less now that I've started texting. I was a few years late on the texting thing though. Didn't think it would catch on. :surprised:
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We paid midgets to act as messengers.
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hate phones.
WHY?!
hate talking
lol. you talk on your phone alot grandpa???? :lol:
lol jfc, for important business convos and key negotiations I have to talk to many older people on the phone. Texting is great though, jfc, lol.
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hate phones.
WHY?!
their arrogance. and pushiness.
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hate phones.
Hate talking on phones. I never even answer mine. It is basically a mini computer for me.
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I often wonder this myself. I honestly don't remember what life was like without a cell phone. For fucks sake, I lived nearly 20 years of my life without a cell phone and now every time I break it/lose it/ forget to charge it I constantly feel like someone died and everyone's been trying to get ahold of me and they can't. rough ridin' horrible feeling.
You know what else I can't believe? How in the eff did I bank without the internet? Seriously? Do any of you little fuckers even know what a deposit slip is? Jesus Christ. Was cleaning out my attic a couple of weeks ago and I found some old bank drafts from the 80's that the previous owner apparently lost up there. It was full of checks that they had written and had been returned to them as receipts by their bank after the transaction was complete. Some of them were written to the local gas station in the amount of 5 dollars! Hey buddy, Where the eff are you gonna go with a gallon & a half of gas? Holy eff. Do any of you other old fuckers remember paying for crap with checks? And how it took like 2 weeks for the money to clear? & how if you were traveling across state, people wouldn't take checks because they didn't even know if "Manhattan State Bank" was a real bank or not? Jesus Christ. I often have to remind myself how rough ridin' amazing all this crap really is. And PLANES!!! OMG, People fly through the air. On things. Made of Metal! Heavy. rough ridin'. Steel! crap that wouldn't even float in a rough ridin' lake if you dropped it in. Metal?!?! Are you guys understanding the shear physics of this? HOLY crap!
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it used to be so easy to hide from people...really miss that
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I don't think I've written a check in several years. I get very annoyed when I'm checking out somewhere and someone in front of me gets out their checkbook. It seems like it takes 30 minutes for someone to fill one out.
Also remember getting direct deposit, but still having checks and being at the end of the budget. You could write a check a day or two before you got paid and know you would make it b/c the direct deposit would beat the check going through. Those were the days.
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hate phones.
WHY?!
hate talking
After we would drive home from my Grandpa's he used to make us call, ring twice, and then hang up the phone. This served many purposes. He would know we were home safe and sound, no long distance charge if no one answers, and he didn't have to talk to any of us again.
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I often wonder this myself. I honestly don't remember what life was like without a cell phone. For effs sake, I lived nearly 20 years of my life without a cell phone and now every time I break it/lose it/ forget to charge it I constantly feel like someone died and everyone's been trying to get ahold of me and they can't. effing horrible feeling.
You know what else I can't believe? How in the eff did I bank without the internet? Seriously? Do any of you little effers even know what a deposit slip is? Jesus Christ. Was cleaning out my attic a couple of weeks ago and I found some old bank drafts from the 80's that the previous owner apparently lost up there. It was full of checks that they had written and had been returned to them as receipts by their bank after the transaction was complete. Some of them were written to the local gas station in the amount of 5 dollars! Hey buddy, Where the eff are you gonna go with a gallon & a half of gas? Holy eff. Do any of you other old effers remember paying for cac with checks? And how it took like 2 weeks for the money to clear? & how if you were traveling across state, people wouldn't take checks because they didn't even know if "Manhattan State Bank" was a real bank or not? Jesus Christ. I often have to remind myself how effing amazing all this cac really is. And PLANES!!! OMG, People fly through the air. On things. Made of Metal! Heavy. effing. Steel! cac that wouldn't even float in a effing lake if you dropped it in. Metal?!?! Are you guys understanding the shear physics of this? HOLY cac!
My mom still pays for things with checks. It is extremely upsetting.
And agree on the planes. Marvelous inventions.
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I think the average plane would float, assuming there were no holes in it. :dunno:
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hate phones.
Exact opposite of this. it's my watch, communication device, etc. Pretty much everything.
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it used to be so easy to hide from people...really miss that
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I think the average plane would float, assuming there were no holes in it. :dunno:
meant the metal wouldn't float. Unless it was formed into a boat shape. Really just trying to illustrate how dense things can float through the air. and how rough ridin' amazing it is.
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Couple years ago spent a couple weeks in NZ with a group of 25ish. None of us bothered to pay for overseas coverage so no phones for the whole group. It was a real pain in the ass figuring out which bars people were at, but really enjoyed setting plans and having a general idea of what was going on for the day.