This just makes me hate kids (especially teens) even more.

Satanic Lily: This just makes me hate kids (especially teens) even more.

I have more hate for their "parents".

So "NYC Prep," basically a younger version of "Real Housewives"?

/waiting for the college version

Because they have Blackberries? Get over it. There are plenty of better reasons to hate them.

dead_dangler: I have more hate for their "parents".

This.

/still young enough to fall in the "teen category
//has a blackberry
///bought it and pay for my service myself, because I have a bloody job

These brats need to be locked in a room with pencil and paper and not let out until they have a two-page essay on the fall of Rome (or something) that your average WWII era teacher would accept as reasonable.

The horror?

Hey subby, get off my lawn. I've hated children long before they all had cell phones.

dreadprophet: ///bought it and pay for my service myself, because I have a bloody job

Why not make the bloody job pay for it?

Kids like to text.

Newspapers post what kids do to seem hip.

FARKers like to complain about kids.

The cycle is complete.

Meh. I like the iPhone better. And I have a teen that has had a cell phone since he was 9 or 10 - he has NEVER abused the privilege by overdoing it with apps, texts, or talking over the plan minutes. It all depends on whether the kid is a status seeking brat or not.

Spoiled brats, in my day all we had was Pagers and Gameboy...

skinink: My company had a conference awhile ago, and it was unbelievable how many attendees lost their Blackberrys. Hopefully these kids can take better care of theirs.
I felt old the other day when I realized there's now a whole generation out there who doesn't know what it was like before Blackberrys, cellphones, PCs and the internet. But that doesn't mean they can walk on my lawn either.

this.

In all honesty, I'd rather be on a bus with a bunch of kids texting than on a bus with a middle-aged hambeast screaming into her cell phone about how everyone she works with is an idiot.

TheWizard: The horror?

Hey subby, get off my lawn. I've hated children long before they all had cell phones.

also this.

Approves.

Working at Chuck E Cheese, I have a lot of kids loose their cellphones. I had to help a girl that was maybe 9 or 10 find her phone the other day. She was upset that she might have missed an "important text message"


/wasn't allowed to have a phone until I could pay for it myself.

*I* don't even carry my cheap-ass, $100/year cell phone unless I'm traveling. I don't know what people have to yammer on about all damned day.

Even then, I'd rather use an iPod than a BlackBerry. BlackBerries are for government workers and corporate tools.

/My lawn, get off it.

But this picture is incomplete. For one thing, features like BlackBerry Messenger allow teens to bridge the gap between phone and computer, sending, in effect, real time text messages to fellow BlackBerry customers as well as friends sitting at home computers. That expands the phone's reach beyond the rich kids.


I must be missing something. Some BlackBerry models are $50 or less, with data plans in a similar range per month. I'm not sure only "the rich" can afford such a thing.

skinink: My company had a conference awhile ago, and it was unbelievable how many attendees ...

...sat down and immediately set up laptops and started clickety clicking away. I swear there were people on one side of the table IMing people on the other.

This went on non-stop through the presentations, breaks, lunch, you name it.

TheWizard: Why not make the bloody job pay for it?

Haha, because I don't think I can manage the "company phone" angle at this point. Maybe eventually.

skinink

My company had a conference awhile ago, and it was unbelievable how many attendees lost their Blackberrys. Hopefully these kids can take better care of theirs.


Lost Blackberry == out of touch while on the road at a conference

"No, I'm sorry I didn't get your voice mail/email/text message [while I was in the bar]..."

Fear the Clam: *I* don't even carry my cheap-ass, $100/year cell phone unless I'm traveling. I don't know what people have to yammer on about all damned day.

Even then, I'd rather use an iPod iPhone than a BlackBerry. BlackBerries are for government workers and corporate tools.

/My lawn, get off it.

FTFM

I went to Waterloo, so I'm getting a kick out of all these rugrats buying RIM devices.

It's an odd dichotomy for me. When I first began my job the company offered to pay for my cell service and data plan. I was very excited and it's a perk I still enjoy. But I have started taking my vacations in areas where I know I will have bad service.

A few months ago I went up to Cornucopia, WI. I checked my coverage map and there was nothing. The only person that could get service was on Verizon, and they struggled with one bar. It was a small slice of heaven.

dofus: These brats need to be locked in a room with pencil and paper and not let out until they have a two-page essay on the fall of Rome (or something) that your average WWII era teacher would accept as reasonable.

How about a two page essay on these fancy new electronic thingamajigs to bring the old geezers up to speed?

If and when me and the gf ever have kids (hopefully never) they're not getting a goddamn cell phone/blackberry/iphone, etc.. until they're old enough to have a job and pay for it themselves. Articles like this make me wish I could've shaken the hand of that WW1 vet that recently passed away.

MightyPez: It's an odd dichotomy for me. When I first began my job the company offered to pay for my cell service and data plan. I was very excited and it's a perk I still enjoy. But I have started taking my vacations in areas where I know I will have bad service.

A few months ago I went up to Cornucopia, WI. I checked my coverage map and there was nothing. The only person that could get service was on Verizon, and they struggled with one bar. It was a small slice of heaven.

Yeah... the company cell phone is right up there with "how'd you like to go to Europe for two weeks?". They leave out the "working 16 hours a day" part as well as "the only think you'll see is the airport and your hotel" part.

Impooter: Because they have Blackberries? Get over it. There are plenty of better reasons to hate them.

No, no, no. I hate them because they are shallow, spoiled and stupid.

FTA: "Teens beg parents to splurge on both a smartphone for texting and an iPod for listening to music; they are fans of multitasking. Says Camille, "Having a [larger] iPod on your desk, since those are allowed in school, and a separate phone to text with in class makes it much easier to get away with.""

Don't BlackBerry's have multimedia capabilities already? (Along with GPS, WiFi, and all that other crap) Get a damn memory card for it and you can fit an entire Ipods worth of music on it. Why do you need both if you are always carrying a phone?

Satanic Lily: This just makes me hate kids (especially teens) even more.

I'ld just finished a set at Folk Life a couple of years ago, and Randy Sabien, Moe Dixen and I were headed for the first beer of the morning. We passed this cute little kid, I don't know, maybe seven-years-old. She was sawing away on her fiddle, giving it her best. Randy says "Jeez but she is farking awful!" Moe just shook his head, "Come on Randy, you were crappy once." To which Beaner replied, "No. No I wasn't."

/apropos of I don't know
//shameless name dropper
///it was too late in the morning for whiskey

Impooter: Because they have Blackberries? Get over it. There are plenty of better reasons to hate them.

Being a bunch of pussies one of them.

7th Son of a 7th Son: If and when me and the gf ever have kids (hopefully never) they're not getting a goddamn cell phone/blackberry/iphone, etc.. until they're old enough to have a job and pay for it themselves. Articles like this make me wish I could've shaken the hand of that WW1 vet that recently passed away.

And said "You had it good trooper, nothing but shrapnel, shellshock and mustard gas. And at least the Germans were men. Today we're surrounded -- snowflakes to the left, douchebags to the right, morans coming down the middle and wharrgarbl raining from the sky."

I use a BlackBerry for work, so I really am getting a kick out of these replies...


/yada yada yada
//Slashies!!

Debbie Gibson > Madonna > Britney Spears. Also Debbie is talented, she's been in a few Broadway productions and has done theatre over in London. Britney can't do shiat without an Autotune.

skinink: Debbie Gibson > Madonna > Britney Spears. Also Debbie is talented, she's been in a few Broadway productions and has done theatre over in London. Britney can't do shiat without an Autotune.

W.T.F.???????

dreadprophet: TheWizard: Why not make the bloody job pay for it?

Haha, because I don't think I can manage the "company phone" angle at this point. Maybe eventually.

that made me laugh also. Hey, why not have your job pay for your house? Your car? Weed?

We will get our revenge when they all die of brain cancer at 45.

"We all have BlackBerrys, that's so New York"

actually, i thought iPods and iPhones were more NY....

Maybe it is a generational thing but when I first got my blackberry, the "corporate" types had BBs and the "fun, young, creative" types had iphones. I always assumed Iphones would be more appealing to the younger market (I hate them but whatevs).

But I guess I kinda get the NYC Prep kid's comment, "so NY" meaning they are just wannabe yuppies.

pxlboy

actually, i thought iPods and iPhones were more NY....

I'd guesstimate fewer than 1/6 of my Manhattan friends have Iphones. But again, I hang out with more corporate/lawyer types.

/yeah I know...

This just in: rich people spend more on basic commodities than middle-class people.

Further breaking news: rich kids get cooler toys.

How is this new? Haven't teens had "digital toys" in one way or another since the early 90's? The first Game Boy came out in 1989. It cost $90. Cartridges were $40, and you could expect a whiny kid to get at least one cartridge every other month, if not more frequently. I recall lots of kids (not me) in my middle-class neighborhood had Game Boys, plus some other gaming system like an NES.

So now kids are getting Blackberries or iPhones instead of Game Boys. Necessary? No. Something new or surprising? No.

dead_dangler: W.T.F.???????

Nevermind. Wrong thread, also was posting from my Blackberry...

Lollipop165: pxlboy

actually, i thought iPods and iPhones were more NY....

I'd guesstimate fewer than 1/6 of my Manhattan friends have Iphones. But again, I hang out with more corporate/lawyer types.

/yeah I know...

Myself and most of my friends (creative types: developers, graphic designers, etc) here in Philly have iPhones. The rest are evenly divided between the G1 and those not-quite-a-smartphone-but-has-a-QWERTY-keyboard phones. Only 1 or 2 BlackBerrys.

skinink: dead_dangler: W.T.F.???????

Nevermind. Wrong thread, also was posting from my Blackberry...

I understand... the rapture that comes from listening to Debbie Gibson tends to put one in such a state of ecstasy that it's impossible to perform simple tasks....

Lollipop165: pxlboy

actually, i thought iPods and iPhones were more NY....

I'd guesstimate fewer than 1/6 of my Manhattan friends have Iphones. But again, I hang out with more corporate/lawyer types.

/yeah I know...

i'd say 8/10 of manhattanites that i've met have iphones. it's become a running gag, lately - especially when you're all at a restaurant and everyone lays their iphone on the table. but gain, i hang out with ad agency/film types.

If you identify yourself by your cell phone, you've just outed yourself as one of society's useless people.

Y know what snowflakes have done to me?

1) sold my country to the chinese
2) wanted to fight me then hit me from behind in the head
3) made a phone that caught on fire when it fell off my desk
4) had a drunk cop in a truck screaming he was going to kill all the homeless and drove on the sidewalk trying to kill me, so I dodged and punched his truck
5) did I mention selling my country to chinese?
6) all had life handed to them
7) never worked a day in their lives when in my day we had paper routes at 8 years old
8) sold my country to the chinese

I am so so so tired.

my cell phone caught on fire when my cat broke my desk, chair, fan lamp and everything else on my desk

dead_dangler: If you identify yourself by your cell phone, you've just outed yourself as one of society's useless people.

Boomer kids:

"Shouldn't we, like, try and do something about all of the hate and war and oppression in the world? OK, I mean, sure, like, I'm not too sure what to do, but, like shouldn't we do SOMETHING?"

GEN Y kids:

"Eau, mah, Gahd, we, like, totally all have such, like cool things and we are, like, eau mah Gahd, seau seau trendy and like, we are like, totally elite or some sh*t and, like eveybody at school totally wants to do me, like, I am seau hawt and eau , mah Gahd, have you seen my kewl sunglasses and my Blackberrry and, like, eau mah Gahd I am such hot sh*t, totally and you are all such, like loosers, totally. Is that how you spell "loosers"? Tsk, whutevver... totally"

40 years of feminism has brought us three fatherless generations of spoiled, self absorbed crap stains whose highest aspirations are pole dancer and bar bouncer or anything where they can buy kewler stuff and whore attention.

Eau, mah Gahd, indeed.

Anyone else notice that all three ads on fark for this page are for cell phones?

TsukasaK: Anyone else notice that all three ads on fark for this page are for cell phones?

Ads? That's sooo 2007

I'm going to be that douche that comes into the thread and says he doesn't have a cellphone.

Just like the douche who goes into TV threads and boasts how he doesn't have a tv.

The cycle is now complete. Your welcome.

/23 Don't own a cell, will never own a cell
//If my car breaks down in the rain, I'll walk the 4 miles to the store and be proud of it dammnit.
///I'm a renaissance man that doesn't fit my age or place in time.

MightyPez: It's an odd dichotomy for me. When I first began my job the company offered to pay for my cell service and data plan. I was very excited and it's a perk I still enjoy. But I have started taking my vacations in areas where I know I will have bad service.

A few months ago I went up to Cornucopia, WI. I checked my coverage map and there was nothing. The only person that could get service was on Verizon, and they struggled with one bar. It was a small slice of heaven.

Psst. If you're on vacation, press that little "Off" button on our phone, and you can stop "worrying". If you need a phone that badly on vacation, buy some cheap pay as you go dealie.

Honestly, people aren't slaves to their phones, they're willing servants.

dprathbun: Satanic Lily: This just makes me hate kids (especially teens) even more.

I'ld just finished a set at Folk Life a couple of years ago, and Randy Sabien, Moe Dixen and I were headed for the first beer of the morning. We passed this cute little kid, I don't know, maybe seven-years-old. She was sawing away on her fiddle, giving it her best. Randy says "Jeez but she is farking awful!" Moe just shook his head, "Come on Randy, you were crappy once." To which Beaner replied, "No. No I wasn't."

/apropos of I don't know
//shameless name dropper
///it was too late in the morning for whiskey

Newsletter?
/yes please.

We all have cell-phones (new window)

skinink: My company had a conference awhile ago, and it was unbelievable how many attendees lost their Blackberrys. Hopefully these kids can take better care of theirs.
I felt old the other day when I realized there's now a whole generation out there who doesn't know what it was like before Blackberrys, cellphones, PCs and the internet. But that doesn't mean they can walk on my lawn either.

squishedhead: Meh. I like the iPhone better. And I have a teen that has had a cell phone since he was 9 or 10 - he has NEVER abused the privilege by overdoing it with apps, texts, or talking over the plan minutes. It all depends on whether the kid is a status seeking brat or not.

Radio Boy: Myself and most of my friends (creative types: developers, graphic designers, etc) here in Philly have iPhones. The rest are evenly divided between the G1 and those not-quite-a-smartphone-but-has-a-QWERTY-keyboard phones. Only 1 or 2 BlackBerrys.

Am I the only smartphone user in my early 30s who has actually used a rotary phone?

Satanic Lily: Don't BlackBerry's have multimedia capabilities already? (Along with GPS, WiFi, and all that other crap) Get a damn memory card for it and you can fit an entire Ipods worth of music on it. Why do you need both if you are always carrying a phone?

Yeah, but, if you don't have an iPhone, an iTouch is still really nice. It's the apps and games that make it better than just a blackberry, and there really does seem to be an app for everything ('cept boobies :-( ). Yeah, the old geezers here don't understand apps, but then our parents didn't understand VCRs, either. :-)

// Am an old geezer, too.
// My lawn, get off of it.

Gunderson: Approves.

Get that herpes-riddled skank off my computer screen! I hate you.

I love it when Gen Whine brags about being the most wired generation ever. Who built your shiny toys that have rendered you incapable of forming a coherent thought? Gen X. Who built the internet upon which those toys are based? The Boomers. Who designed and built the computational infrastructure upon which the Internet is built? The Greatest Generation. And who elucidated the mathematical foundations of modern computer science? Abe Vigoda.

Now shut up and come here little Millenneloi. Daddy Morlock is hungry.

GoSurfing: I'm going to be that douche that comes into the thread and says he doesn't have a cellphone.

Just like the douche who goes into TV threads and boasts how he doesn't have a tv.

The cycle is now complete. Your welcome.

/23 Don't own a cell, will never own a cell
//If my car breaks down in the rain, I'll walk the 4 miles to the store and be proud of it dammnit.
///I'm a renaissance man that doesn't fit my age or place in time.

Works for the county road department. Now almost up for full pension.

GoSurfing: //If my car breaks down in the rain, I'll walk the 4 miles to the store and be proud of it dammnit.
///I'm a renaissance man that doesn't fit my age or place in time.

Oooh. Big Renaissance man. can't fix his own car, or use a cell phone. I think the phrase you're actually looking for "unskilled man".

I think the only advantage BlackBerry gives these kids is that PIN to PIN messaging doesn't get assrape charged as a text message (SMS) by the carrier. Because what the phone carriers charge for texting is technically assrape. It's a 40 lb box of assrape, and the teenagers are too goddamn stupid to see it. They like getting assraped, because the young kids these days can't do math. What they can do is pay for assrape, so the phone companies assrape them.

Teenagers: willing to pay for assrape.

black_knight: Am I the only smartphone user in my early 30s who has actually used a rotary phone?

Nah, I got your back. Hell, I can still remember when, after the AT&T breakup, we had to purchase new phones.

Why? Because ours were leased as part of the monthly monopoly phone service.

"Slim design gives BlackBerry another advantage over the iPhone"

WTF? There isn't a single blackberry on the market that is as slim and sleek as the iPhone.

Has the author of this article ever actually seen a blackberry?

It's 2009.

People are still shocked by disposable income?

dofus 2009-07-19 10:15:57 AM
skinink: My company had a conference awhile ago, and it was unbelievable how many attendees ...

...sat down and immediately set up laptops and started clickety clicking away. I swear there were people on one side of the table IMing people on the other.

This went on non-stop through the presentations, breaks, lunch, you name it.

My company fixed this problem. Every meeting starts with "All cell phones and Blackberries to silent, all laptops closed. If you don't need to be at this meeting enough to pay attention, get back to work, we don't need you, though you may be assigned tasks which may not be to your liking."

Oddly enough, most folks immediately find they can do without their electronic pacifiers long enough to participate in the meeting.

Hebalo: GoSurfing: //If my car breaks down in the rain, I'll walk the 4 miles to the store and be proud of it dammnit.
///I'm a renaissance man that doesn't fit my age or place in time.

Oooh. Big Renaissance man. can't fix his own car, or use a cell phone. I think the phrase you're actually looking for "unskilled man".

Oh well would you kindly explain to me then how you fix a fuel pump on the side of the road, without having said replacement jerkoff?

And yes, I DID bang on the FUEL TANK WITH A ROCK FOR 10 MINUTES.

black_knight: skinink: My company had a conference awhile ago, and it was unbelievable how many attendees lost their Blackberrys. Hopefully these kids can take better care of theirs.
I felt old the other day when I realized there's now a whole generation out there who doesn't know what it was like before Blackberrys, cellphones, PCs and the internet. But that doesn't mean they can walk on my lawn either.

squishedhead: Meh. I like the iPhone better. And I have a teen that has had a cell phone since he was 9 or 10 - he has NEVER abused the privilege by overdoing it with apps, texts, or talking over the plan minutes. It all depends on whether the kid is a status seeking brat or not.

Radio Boy: Myself and most of my friends (creative types: developers, graphic designers, etc) here in Philly have iPhones. The rest are evenly divided between the G1 and those not-quite-a-smartphone-but-has-a-QWERTY-keyboard phones. Only 1 or 2 BlackBerrys.

Am I the only smartphone user in my early 30s who has actually used a rotary phone?

I think you must be! Where the heck did you find one?

/kind of misses rotary phones.

squishedhead: black_knight: skinink: My company had a conference awhile ago, and it was unbelievable how many attendees lost their Blackberrys. Hopefully these kids can take better care of theirs.
I felt old the other day when I realized there's now a whole generation out there who doesn't know what it was like before Blackberrys, cellphones, PCs and the internet. But that doesn't mean they can walk on my lawn either.

squishedhead: Meh. I like the iPhone better. And I have a teen that has had a cell phone since he was 9 or 10 - he has NEVER abused the privilege by overdoing it with apps, texts, or talking over the plan minutes. It all depends on whether the kid is a status seeking brat or not.

Radio Boy: Myself and most of my friends (creative types: developers, graphic designers, etc) here in Philly have iPhones. The rest are evenly divided between the G1 and those not-quite-a-smartphone-but-has-a-QWERTY-keyboard phones. Only 1 or 2 BlackBerrys.

Am I the only smartphone user in my early 30s who has actually used a rotary phone?

I think you must be! Where the heck did you find one?

/kind of misses rotary phones.

Nope, you aren't. The first phone I used was rotary.

Not only that the ONLY phone I own is an old Western Electric black rotary.

And I'm 23, so I've got you beat.

squishedhead

Sorry, didn't mean to reply to you...

Mentat: I love it when Gen Whine brags about being the most wired generation ever. Who built your shiny toys that have rendered you incapable of forming a coherent thought? Gen X. Who built the internet upon which those toys are based? The Boomers. Who designed and built the computational infrastructure upon which the Internet is built? The Greatest Generation. And who elucidated the mathematical foundations of modern computer science? Abe Vigoda.

Now shut up and come here little Millenneloi. Daddy Morlock is hungry.

Suck it, kids. My "Generation X" still has the most badass moniker, ever. Also, we'll be the first to be shafted out of SS, Medicare, and other entitlements, so you can learn from us.
We built the closest progenitors of your computers and your cell phones, with boomer help. We thought that having flying toasters as a screensaver in Win3.1 was the farking end all, man. Win95 gave us muthafarking multi-tasking! While you were learning how to masturbate, we were paying outrageous sums for broadband. Our cell phones actually "rang" and digital music was of the MIDI variety embedded at Geocities websites.

I piss on all of you.

/not really - in fact I have no idea where this rant was supposed to lead
//btw, this was my first phone. I was 22:

Stay Cool Babylon: Mentat: I love it when Gen Whine brags about being the most wired generation ever. Who built your shiny toys that have rendered you incapable of forming a coherent thought? Gen X. Who built the internet upon which those toys are based? The Boomers. Who designed and built the computational infrastructure upon which the Internet is built? The Greatest Generation. And who elucidated the mathematical foundations of modern computer science? Abe Vigoda.

Now shut up and come here little Millenneloi. Daddy Morlock is hungry.

Suck it, kids. My "Generation X" still has the most badass moniker, ever. Also, we'll be the first to be shafted out of SS, Medicare, and other entitlements, so you can learn from us.
We built the closest progenitors of your computers and your cell phones, with boomer help. We thought that having flying toasters as a screensaver in Win3.1 was the farking end all, man. Win95 gave us muthafarking multi-tasking! While you were learning how to masturbate, we were paying outrageous sums for broadband. Our cell phones actually "rang" and digital music was of the MIDI variety embedded at Geocities websites.

I piss on all of you.

/not really - in fact I have no idea where this rant was supposed to lead
//btw, this was my first phone. I was 22:

That phone is legendary. I'd rather have that cell phone then a "modern" cell phone.

And you know you are important if your antenna is bent, because damnit you don't have the time to retract it all nice and slowly, you have things to do!

Bunner

Ha! It's actually quite the opposite nowadays, at least with the younger Ys, from my experience. Thanks for the poorly put-together blanket statement though. I'm not the biggest fan of my generation (Generation Y to be exact), and you are right about most of the ones which grew up worshiping the alcohol and drug-using idols that the Boomer generation gave us, but there is hope. Honestly, I kind of hope you're trolling. We feel that the Boomers screwed up the world, and that we have to fix all the problems they left us (because the Gen X'ers won't do shiat about it anyway).

As for cell phones, I barely use mine but they are quite useful while on the go. Get used to it, old farkers. Like someone said earlier in the thread, I'd rather have quiet Gen Y'ers on a bus texting than some loud mofo squawking into their phone.

Gooble741: We feel that the Boomers screwed up the world, and that we have to fix all the problems they left us

Yeah. I know. It's sort of a religion with you guys.

Sorry, no troll.

Gooble741: Get used to it, old farkers

I am used to it. I ain't that old.

With any luck, one day you'll be old too.

Self absorption as a status symbol was leftover from teen marketing strategies for boomer pop bands.

We're sorry you turned it into a religion but it wasn't our idea. : )

That phone is legendary. I'd rather have that cell phone then a "modern" cell phone.

And you know you are important if your antenna is bent, because damnit you don't have the time to retract it all nice and slowly, you have things to do!

I actually had a reason for using it, but I couldn't stand talking on it in public. This was '96 or '97, and cells were still considered fairly asshatish. As for the antenna, mine wasn't bent, but the tip had popped off. So I had to reach in there with tweezers sometimes, to pull it out.

/REAL ringtones!

stirfrybry: dreadprophet: TheWizard: Why not make the bloody job pay for it?

Haha, because I don't think I can manage the "company phone" angle at this point. Maybe eventually.

that made me laugh also. Hey, why not have your job pay for your house? Your car? Weed?

My job does pay for my house and my car. If I needed them to do the job, I make sure to include it in negotiations.

GoSurfing: Hebalo: GoSurfing: //If my car breaks down in the rain, I'll walk the 4 miles to the store and be proud of it dammnit.
///I'm a renaissance man that doesn't fit my age or place in time.

Oooh. Big Renaissance man. can't fix his own car, or use a cell phone. I think the phrase you're actually looking for "unskilled man".

Oh well would you kindly explain to me then how you fix a fuel pump on the side of the road, without having said replacement jerkoff?

And yes, I DID bang on the FUEL TANK WITH A ROCK FOR 10 MINUTES.

I was more commenting on the fact that you're bragging about being a Renaissance man, and yet both examples you give in your post were the antithesis of it.

A true Renaissance man would find a way to solve his problem that wasn't as lame as your solution, and he's certainly have working knowledge of (and own) a cellphone.

Unless you meant Renaissance in the douchey Renfair way.

I have a freind who owned a Blackberry until it was eaten by a squirrel.

/true story
//has Blackberry :(

Shouldn't they have iPhones? blackberry's are for adults.

Good for them. I hope it fulfills all their dreams.

/and thank you for concentrating yourselves in big cities

I have a Kyocera SE47 phone, bought in 2002. No camera, no fancy ringtones, no QWERTY keyboard (just the standard phone pad), limited text messaging, no internet, no Bluetooth and just the four games it came with on a 2 inch by 1.5 inch screen. It rings, I slide it open, I talk. That's a phone, and it's all I need.

/off to the store to pick up more onions

blackberry's are terrible. get yourself a real farking phone.

Nick Nostril: Good for them. I hope it fulfills all their dreams.

/and thank you for concentrating yourselves in big cities

Ouch.

And "Ah hahahahahahahahahahahaahaha" : )

belowner: Nah, I got your back. Hell, I can still remember when, after the AT&T breakup, we had to purchase new phones.

Why? Because ours were leased as part of the monthly monopoly phone service.

You should have seen the "quizzical dog" look my 15 year old nephew gave me when I told him that when I was just a little younger than he was (1974) you actually had to rent your phone from the phone company, and had to give it back if you quit their service. Most apartments and houses had the same phone for many tenants and owners... it was just left there after the last people moved.

After the breakup my folks had to shell out almost $50 apiece (in 1976 dollars, more like $250 - $300 today) for two new phones - a rotary for upstairs, and a touch-tone "princess" model with lighted buttons (ooooh) for downstairs, kept in the hall on the "phone table". Yes, there was furniture specifically designed for use with telephones. Ours had a lift-off top with storage underneath for phone books connected to a padded seat.

/lawn, BRB.

dreadprophet: ///bought it and pay for my service myself, because I have a bloody job

Butcher?

Gooble741: We feel that the Boomers screwed up the world, and that we have to fix all the problems they left us (because the Gen X'ers won't do shiat about it anyway).

You're damn right we won't. Gen X is riding the missile all the way down to the target.

Gooble741: We feel that the Boomers screwed up the world, and that we have to fix all the problems they left us (because the Gen X'ers won't do shiat about it anyway).
You know what they say: Old age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill.

Frakin' Zarquon! Who's working the greenlight here today?

That didn't even rise to the level of "Not News"...

/Just when you thought CNN couldn't get any more substance free...

MightyPez: It's an odd dichotomy for me. When I first began my job the company offered to pay for my cell service and data plan. I was very excited and it's a perk I still enjoy. But I have started taking my vacations in areas where I know I will have bad service.

A few months ago I went up to Cornucopia, WI. I checked my coverage map and there was nothing. The only person that could get service was on Verizon, and they struggled with one bar. It was a small slice of heaven.

Dude, just turn it off.

Mentat: Who built your shiny toys that have rendered you incapable of forming a coherent thought?



The medium is the message. Cell phones will destroy arguments longer than 140 characters.

/Fark posts not excepted.

Blackberries suck, I got the Storm when it came out and I found out that no matter who you get the phone from the internet connection is via RIM and they limit downloads to 2 megabytes and they even choke off youtube to the point it looks like a cubist painting in an earthquake. I got a Samsung Omnia with a changeable battery and all the 16 gb chips you want to stuff in it. It runs avi, mpg and wmv with a number of other video formats without having to run it through itunes. Suck it ipod drones.

hershmire: The medium is the message. Cell phones will destroy arguments longer than 140 characters.

I wonder what Orwell would have thought about Twitter.

"Yeah, we decided that NewSpeak was just too doubleplusunsimple."

error4829: Spoiled brats, in my day all we had was Pagerspony express and Gameboymorse code...

FTFY

Jimmy Scheisskopf: dreadprophet: ///bought it and pay for my service myself, because I have a bloody job

Butcher?

Indirect government work, so consider a bucket of blood rather than the thimble you were thinking of >_>

/just kidding
//sort of

Mentat: hershmire: The medium is the message. Cell phones will destroy arguments longer than 140 characters.

I wonder what Orwell would have thought about Twitter.

"Yeah, we decided that NewSpeak was just too doubleplusunsimple."

62 characters. You'll have to try harder.