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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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regicide said
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| it is just the headache of getting calls at inconvienient times |
I very much agree with this one. I make a habit of not answering all my calls for this reason. If I answer every call, then I miss one or don't answer it, people will say "why didn't you answer?" It's none of your fking business why I didn't answer. Maybe I was talking to someone and didn't want to be rude to them by answering my phone. Because I don't answer every call, now people don't ask me why I didn't answer. They are used to me not picking up on command. |
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hepcat
Joined: 07 Mar 2005
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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| I had a used cellphone, which I bought when i arrived. I rarely used it, but the money I paid to use it seemed to spontaneously disappear. The battery soon bit the dust, and I said to hell with it and got a landline so I can occasionally say "Sorry, you got the wrong number" to Korean-speaking people call me. Also, my company has minders that sometime need to arrange a visit to fix something in the apartment. I'm one of those who think that cell phones are unhealthly, in any case. |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Deep in rural Japan, phoneless, uncontactable, and loving it... |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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| A lot of the social skills mysteries of the board are meeting their explanations in this thread. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 1:46 am Post subject: |
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| Cell phones = major health hazzard, GPS spy tech & slavish cultural trapping. |
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splok
Joined: 30 Jan 2006
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| I've got a landline that stays unplugged and a used cell that I bought a while back that's still in the box (I did make one call with it to find out the number though). I've always thought that phones are for me to call other people, not the other way around (unless I'm specifically expecting a call). Besides, who likes getting woken up at 6am by Koreans with the wrong number? |
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endofthewor1d
Joined: 01 Apr 2003
Location: the end of the wor1d.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:57 am Post subject: |
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| flotsam wrote: |
| A lot of the social skills mysteries of the board are meeting their explanations in this thread. |
that's a good point. but to be fair, it's probably good for a few of these people to not be shelling out their hard earned won for mobile phones, as it seems unlikely that anyone would be that bothered to actually want to talk to them. could you imagine the conversations?
dev: hello?
caller: hey dev. what have you been up to today?
dev: oh nothing much. i spent most of the day on dave's trying to show those people how much better i am than they are. i've tried the mcdonald's route, starbucks, labeled clothing, mobile phones, etc... but they just don't seem to get it yet.
*click*
bippitybop: hello?
caller: hey bippitybop. what's up?
bippitybop: that's none of your fking business!
*click*
igotthisguitar: (nervously whispered) morpheus?
caller: *sigh* no, igotthisguitar. it's me. would you like to go out for some galbi tonight?
igotthisguitar: only if you can prove to me that you're not the tiny evil leprechaun that the government implanted in my ear.
*click*
for those of you who are so worried about getting calls at inconvenient times, i've got some good news. i recently read that the next generation of mobile phones will include features which allow you to silence your ringer and/or turn off the phone completely at will. |
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Corporal
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:48 am Post subject: |
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| endofthewor1d wrote: |
| flotsam wrote: |
| A lot of the social skills mysteries of the board are meeting their explanations in this thread. |
that's a good point. but to be fair, it's probably good for a few of these people to not be shelling out their hard earned won for mobile phones, as it seems unlikely that anyone would be that bothered to actually want to talk to them. could you imagine the conversations?
dev: hello?
caller: hey dev. what have you been up to today?
dev: oh nothing much. i spent most of the day on dave's trying to show those people how much better i am than they are. i've tried the mcdonald's route, starbucks, labeled clothing, mobile phones, etc... but they just don't seem to get it yet.
*click*
bippitybop: hello?
caller: hey bippitybop. what's up?
bippitybop: that's none of your fking business!
*click*
igotthisguitar: (nervously whispered) morpheus?
caller: *sigh* no, igotthisguitar. it's me. would you like to go out for some galbi tonight?
igotthisguitar: only if you can prove to me that you're not the tiny evil leprechaun that the government implanted in my ear.
*click*
for those of you who are so worried about getting calls at inconvenient times, i've got some good news. i recently read that the next generation of mobile phones will include features which allow you to silence your ringer and/or turn off the phone completely at will. |
It would have been better if I had been bippitybop though. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:22 am Post subject: |
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anyone, send my your cell phone number via PM and we'll chat
never too busy to fit in another native speaker for a few minutes here and there.
wa's up? |
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