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Post by coke & comics on Apr 16, 2015 0:33:47 GMT -5
The only reason I still like having a landline is that I'M OLD. Agreed. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2015 6:20:53 GMT -5
Just be aware...e-mail is considered antiquated/passe by some too. I get the "why do you bother with e-mail, I never check it, just text me or message me on facebook instead, it's the way people communicate now you know..." from friends and acquaintances in their mid-late 20s and younger (mostly from my wife and I's gaming group). Now my wife has an Iphone she swears by, but I don't own a cellphone and I don't have a facebook account, so I can't text or drop them a message on their pages, so I surmise I must be getting as old as I feel, but then I have been a Luddite in training for the past decade, so I don't really care. We still have cable (my wife wants access to some of the channels as well as the stuff we watch regularly but could get via other means. I would like to have MLB Network and NESN, but I would have to add a tier with about 30 channels I would never watch (The Premiere Sports tier) to get them and it would cost far more than those 2 channels are worth to me to get, so I have no real attachment to cable if we dropped it, but like I said, my wife wants it, so we keep it and bundle landline, cable and net access together. If cable would get its ac together and offer an package where you could pick your channels a la carte, I would be much more inclined to keep it since I could tailor what I got to my preferences, and according to some of the business articles I read in the wake of Comcast's lawsuit against DirectTV over the Rob Lowe commercials, all wired providers are seeing significant loss of subscribers as new alternatives are eating into their customer bases and regional monopolies, and they will have to find new business models to compete against these providers, so I hold some small ray of hope that change will come. -M Oooh, I am old, too. I cringe everytime I get a facebook message, ESPECIALLY if it's work-related. I don't do FB messaging via my phone, so the only time I can check them is when I'm on a desktop. And my #1 pet peeve is when someone contacts me via facebook with an order inquiry. I also direct them to emailing me. Because, well, it's entirely too much for me to have to keep track of FB messages AND emails. I won't do it. FB messages have proven to be too unreliable, and I like order information in a neat, reference-ready email. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 16, 2015 10:03:59 GMT -5
The only reason I still like having a landline is that I'M OLD. Agreed. I have a land line because my wife and child won't keep track of their cell phones and it's essentially the only way I can get them to answer the damn phone if they're home and I'm not. Otherwise I wouldn't have one. |
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Post by shaxper on Apr 16, 2015 15:12:35 GMT -5
The only reason I still like having a landline is that I'M OLD. Agreed. And the sad part is that I'm older. |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Apr 16, 2015 16:24:10 GMT -5
Agreed. And the sad part is that I'm older. Happens to us all. I still have a landline so that I can use my ATC Candlestick and Princess phones from the 70s, which I adore.
 
Both are rotary dial and in perfect working order. When I use the candlestick, I become Cary Grant in "His Girl Friday."
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Post by shaxper on Apr 16, 2015 16:41:07 GMT -5
Happens to us all. I still have a landline so that I can use my ATC Candlestick and Princess phones from the 70s, which I adore.
Both are rotary dial and in perfect working order. When I use the candlestick, I become Cary Grant in "His Girl Friday."
I have been toying with buying a rotary phone for years now. Of all the obsolete technology we've put behind us, rotary phones are what I miss the most. |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Apr 16, 2015 16:55:31 GMT -5
I have been toying with buying a rotary phone for years now. Of all the obsolete technology we've put behind us, rotary phones are what I miss the most. I absolutely love vintage phones. There are many modern "retro-style" phones available, but they employ push buttons. Unacceptable. I insist on rotary dial. This Executive Desk Phone is the one I covet at the moment for my den:  It's similar to the one Marlon Brando used in "The Formula." |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2015 17:02:09 GMT -5
Rotary dial phones can be so nostalgic for me, but I recall them being the most infuriating things to have to use.
One wrong number, towards the end of a phone number, and you've wasted, like, two minutes of your life.
But, Phil, your post has me laughing so hard.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Apr 16, 2015 17:10:11 GMT -5
Rotary dial phones can be so nostalgic for me, but I recall them being the most infuriating things to have to use. One wrong number, towards the end of a phone number, and you've wasted, like, two minutes of your life. But, Phil, your post has me laughing so hard. Yes, dialing is a skill developed through repeated use. You must be precise and firm. You can't just stab and flick like some uncultured brute.
And I fail to see what is so funny about telephonic elegance. 
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Post by Action Ace on Apr 16, 2015 21:18:57 GMT -5
I'm old enough to remember that if I called someone in my hometown I only needed to dial four digits. I have a landline and have never owned a cellphone/ smartphone. I have an email address, but I'm not on any social media sites. I do have Netflix, but I spend more time with DVD rentals than streaming. I mostly stick to tv shows for the streaming. I love sports, so I'm fine with cable as it is. I figure when I drop all the channels I don't watch, I'll still wind up with the same bill. I think my transistor radio is the only "wireless" device in my house.
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Post by berkley on Apr 16, 2015 22:30:25 GMT -5
I have been toying with buying a rotary phone for years now. Of all the obsolete technology we've put behind us, rotary phones are what I miss the most. I absolutely love vintage phones. There are many modern "retro-style" phones available, but they employ push buttons. Unacceptable. I insist on rotary dial. This Executive Desk Phone is the one I covet at the moment for my den: It's similar to the one Marlon Brando used in "The Formula." ooh, that's nice. A work of art. I wouldn't mind having a basic black rotary-dial phone. I did switch from landline to mobile a few months ago and I'm still adjusting. I made the mistake of accepting the recommendation of the guy at the Bell phone centre and took a model that turns out to be bigger and heavier than I like to carry around with me. I don't use the wi-fi on it much so the bigger screen isn't a real advantage for me. Like several others here, I'd have gotten rid of cable long ago if it wasn't for sports. In my case it's mainly hockey and rugby. Everything else I could watch through the internet or whatever. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2015 4:34:46 GMT -5
If I didn't update my car to a 90's version I'd want a car phone in it  |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Apr 17, 2015 6:14:59 GMT -5
I wish my wife would cancel her Amazon Prime account. I use Amazon a lot, but I just don't see the value. The advantage of amazon prime is really the shipping. Everything else is gravy. Where I live, I get free 5-7 day shipping with prime, which is much less attractive than the free 2-day shipping, but I am keeping it for now. Their interface on my google tv is unusable. It has good apps for my blu-ray player and fire stick. The streaming quality is generally inferior to netflix. In terms of selection, it having the HBO shows had been a huge plus. That's how I watched The Wire. But now I'm getting HBO GO. The music is improving. Google play music's interface is so much better, but also so much more expensive. I hope amazon music improves its usability, then I get stop subscribing to google play music. I wonder if the reason Amazon Prime doesn't work as well on some of those devices is they don't WANT it to? I note that everyone that has said they don't like Amazon Prime is using a 'new' type device... not the computer and/or a regular TV. It could be,say, google considers Amazon a competitor more than Netflix, and thus doesn't WANT their app to run well. I agree with the phone thing...my 14 year old will sit and stare at her device for an hour waiting for a text back rather than call one of her friends most of the time. I mostly use e-mail for business, or for things where files getting sent is a regular occurance (like my D&D group)... I think that's pretty much the norm... personal interaction via e-mail has pretty much been replaced by facebook, instagram, etc. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Apr 17, 2015 8:06:18 GMT -5
I'm old enough to remember that if I called someone in my hometown I only needed to dial four digits. I have a landline and have never owned a cellphone/ smartphone. I have an email address, but I'm not on any social media sites. I do have Netflix, but I spend more time with DVD rentals than streaming. I mostly stick to tv shows for the streaming. I love sports, so I'm fine with cable as it is. I figure when I drop all the channels I don't watch, I'll still wind up with the same bill. I think my transistor radio is the only "wireless" device in my house. I'm old enough to remember when I was a kid we had a "party line" phone. No, this isn't like the 900 numbers you call to talk to "hot girls in your area". It's when you and a neighbor shared a line. We had to listen to see if incoming calls were one ring (ring-ring-ring) or two rings (ring,ring-ring,ring-ring,ring). Don't remember which we were, but more than once the parents picked up the phone to call someone and the neighbor was on the line. Hard to imagine these days. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 17, 2015 10:46:48 GMT -5
I'm old enough to remember that if I called someone in my hometown I only needed to dial four digits. I have a landline and have never owned a cellphone/ smartphone. I have an email address, but I'm not on any social media sites. I do have Netflix, but I spend more time with DVD rentals than streaming. I mostly stick to tv shows for the streaming. I love sports, so I'm fine with cable as it is. I figure when I drop all the channels I don't watch, I'll still wind up with the same bill. I think my transistor radio is the only "wireless" device in my house. I'm old enough to remember when I was a kid we had a "party line" phone. No, this isn't like the 900 numbers you call to talk to "hot girls in your area". It's when you and a neighbor shared a line. We had to listen to see if incoming calls were one ring (ring-ring-ring) or two rings (ring,ring-ring,ring-ring,ring). Don't remember which we were, but more than once the parents picked up the phone to call someone and the neighbor was on the line. Hard to imagine these days. My Grandparents still had a party line when I was young. You only picked up if it was their ring. We never had one that I remember, but they still had party lines in areas where I live (out on the north-side desert) into the late 70s/early 80s. |
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