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jaybee2003
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Posted: 18 Feb 2007 11:47 pm |
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"I thought you were going to say that if you live in the country you can plant them in the ground and hope that they won't grow."
Arno's garden is equally as "interesting"....
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David Harcourt
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Posted: 19 Feb 2007 02:22 am |
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In our family, old cellphones never die; they get passed down to the next most deserving.
So Emma had a phone, upgraded, and Ann got her old one.
Darcy is in line for Ann's phone when Emma next upgrades. After that, it will me that gets the phone that Emma had to have a year or so ago or else life as we know it would cease to exist.
Meanwhile, Selina (the wonder woman who makes the shop work while I type messages like this) has two cellphones which she brings in each day and lays gingerly and lovingly down on a table in the back room (where they talk to each other and, for all I know, mate). One is a Telescum phone and the other is a Vodaphone. Apparently they have different "plans", which means that she texts on one and phones on the other. Or something. I dunno.
Stop the world. I want to get off.
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giraffeinfall
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Posted: 19 Feb 2007 08:06 am |
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David Harcourt wrote: I thought you were going to say that if you live in the country you can plant them in the ground and hope that they won't grow.
I suppose I shouldn't knock mobile phones. I have used them more in the past 24 hours - as Emma unsettles into Otago University - than I have at any time in the past 20 years.
Joys of Parenthood (#9468986860-294960596-069429669-096878 in a series...)
so has she only just recently got there?
Homesickness... The argghhhh, arghhhhhh and arghhhhhhhhhh feeling..
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jaybee2003
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Posted: 19 Feb 2007 08:40 am |
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I fear the day will come when you are unable to buy a cell phone that is actually only a phone.
When I finally replaced my old cell phone recently, my simple request to the assistant was for a basic phone that enabled me to send and receive calls and texts - nothing else.
Repeatedly I found myself saying - No, thank you, I don't need a phone to access the internet. I have a good camera, why on earth would I want another in my phone. Why would I want to listen to music through my phone, or watch video clips or any other of the mysterious i and e thingies that the latest cell phones offer. I want a PHONE.
Finally, begrudgingly, and convinced I would regret it, he did sell me a simple phone.
Now my new phone and I are very happy together.
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giraffeinfall
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Posted: 19 Feb 2007 12:44 pm |
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My phone is so old it doesn't even text!! *
Which is fine, though, as I don't know how to anyway.
I watch kids to whom I'm related sitting virtually side by side texting each other, and its all l can do not to turn .... poof!! ....into a querulous / cackling old granny on the spot..
* I gave it to a telephoney type bloke the other day to establish this fact for me once and for all - and apart from implying in a disbelieving tone that it should have a label slapped upon it saying
'Mrs Noah., Top Storey, The Ark'
he also says it says I missed a message on it about three years ago.
He could be having me on, of course, after all he's Australian...
but if he isnt , I don't know who that could have been. I don't even knew the number to have given it to anybody.
Must've been a wrong number !!
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David Harcourt
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Posted: 19 Feb 2007 07:30 pm |
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giraffeinfall wrote:
so has she only just recently got there? Homesickness... The argghhhh, arghhhhhh and arghhhhhhhhhh feeling..
Yes, she arrived last Friday, and promptly became very ill and very homesick: a toxic combination if ever there was one.
Ann has been very similarly crook in the past 24 hours so we have at least established that there is a physical basis for the illness which may be partly or even wholly independent of the emotional malaise.
Being on the sidelines, 600 miles from the action and utterly helpless to do anything about it, has been more fun than anything I can remember since I had appendicitis 45 years ago.
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giraffeinfall
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Posted: 19 Feb 2007 08:36 pm |
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oh gosh, yes that's a graphic picture in a few words.
Thank God for the mobile phone. I know you felt as if you couldnt do a thing, but I can promsie you your voice being right there on the spot, after all, helped immeasurably, no matter what was said or how you felt after you had hung up.
I can promise you this because... from my hotel room I rang a church, plucked out of the phone book as best I could read it though my tears, and flung myself on the mercy of the voice of the total stranger, the cleaner, who happened to answer...
and even that helped.....
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David Harcourt
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Posted: 19 Feb 2007 08:52 pm |
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Well, it's nice to think the very, very little I could do made a difference.
She seems to be settling down a bit.
Fingers crossed...
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giraffeinfall
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Posted: 23 Feb 2007 08:12 am |
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David Harcourt wrote: ... more fun than anything I can remember since I had appendicitis 45 years ago.
Aside: lucky you didnt strike this op 45 yrs ago.. reported by Reuters today:
Friday, February 23, 2007. 9:35am (AEDT)
Brawling surgeons leave patient in the lurch
A routine appendix operation in Belgrade went badly wrong when two surgeons started fighting and stormed from the operating theatre to settle their dispute outside, a newspaper reports.
The daily Politika reports that surgeon Dr Spasoje Radulovic was operating when his colleague Dr Dragan Vukanic entered and made a remark that started a quarrel, the anesthesiologist on duty says.
"At one moment Vukanic pulled the ear of the operating doctor, slapped him in the face and walked out," she said.
Dr Radulovic followed and an all-out fight ensued, resulting in bruises, a split lip, loose teeth and a fractured finger.
The operation was completed successfully by the attending assistant doctor.
- Reuters
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David Harcourt
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Posted: 23 Feb 2007 06:15 pm |
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Hahahahahaha.
If this was a cartoon the characters would be surgeon Spastic Radish and Dr Dragon Volcanic.
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SouthernLight
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Posted: 25 Feb 2007 03:37 am |
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I do have to wonder.... at the time that 'standard phones' where invented whether, people wrote lengthy letters to each other admonishing the new fangled and annoying sounding things...
If they did... it would have taken a lot longer to obtain a response than it does in this modern age of computers, internet and message boards... oh, and of cell phones.
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giraffeinfall
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Posted: 25 Feb 2007 03:42 am |
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Verily !!
( and how are ya southern?..long time no see..)
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jaybee2003
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Posted: 25 Feb 2007 04:59 am |
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| Why is it if someone is in a building, say a business or in their home, they will usually deal to a call (business or personal) in the next room, assumingly for some degree of privacy. Yet those same people, again dealing with either business or personal calls will happily answer their cell phone be it in a restaurant, on the street, on the train and talk away on their cell phone very publicly where everyone can't help but eavesdrop?
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giraffeinfall
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Posted: 25 Feb 2007 05:33 am |
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I cant come up with a sensible answer.
I'm still stuck on "why do I run to grab the (household) phone when it rings even at the risk of doing myself an injury?
( and yes in spite of having an answering machine) ...
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jaybee2003
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Posted: 25 Feb 2007 05:53 am |
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giraffeinfall wrote: I'm still stuck on "why do I run to grab the (household) phone when it rings even at the risk of doing myself an injury?
( and yes in spite of having an answering machine) ...
~chuckles~ Yes, I find myself doing that too. If I don't make it to the phone and they don't leave a message, I spend the next few hours, deliberating over who it may have been, hoping it wasn't anything urgent.
The only times we consciously set out not to answer the phone is when we have dinner guests or are entertaining, but we both find our minds wandering, wondering who it was and what they wanted.
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David Harcourt
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Posted: 25 Feb 2007 11:42 pm |
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All this tells me is that you're both females. *
What you are both denying yourselves is one of the greatest pleasures of modern "civilisation": NOT answering a ringing telephone.
Other great pleasures among many still available to human beings in the Third Millenium AD:
* orange juice (see other thread)
* the colour red (ditto)
* children between the age of two and four
* peeing outdoors
* ditto standing up (in Denmark and Norway, women are trying to have this formally banned)
* most Japanese food
* Japanese gardens (except rock gardens, like the one at the Ryoanji Temple, which are way over the border into weird control-freak territory. Have you ever thought about how much the Japanese loathe and fear nature? They must find the New Zealand and Australian bush simply terrifying. But I digress...)
* Jane Austen
* clouds
* rain
* sunsets
* the sea
* rivers
* lakes
* waterfalls
* water (the non-purified by kidneys kind)
* gold
* the smell of lemons
* ditto coffee
* tiramisu
* trees, and especially leaves
* flowers, especially ill-disciplined ones
* lots of things about women which I won't discuss here because I'm too scared to except to point out that when James Thurber was asked what he considered to be the greatest wonder of all time he said "a woman's body"
* James Thurber
* William Shakespeare
And so on.
Most of these things are free.
I wish gold was free.
Here endeth the disquisition.
* Just as that comment, although true both literally and in terms of its implications - i.e. that most women simply have to know - tells you that I'm a chauvinist pig.
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rupert-bear
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Posted: 26 Feb 2007 01:20 am |
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and the smell of freshly mown grass (when mown by someone else)
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jaybee2003
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Posted: 26 Feb 2007 06:41 am |
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For myself I would need to include
* Music - particularly a well played cello, flute, piano or harpsicord
* The fragrance of freshly washed sun-dried sheets
* The aroma of baking bread
I note an omission from the big list above
* To incite, to stir up
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giraffeinfall
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Posted: 26 Feb 2007 08:02 am |
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tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu
tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu tiramisu ....
no argument there... 
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David Harcourt
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Posted: 26 Feb 2007 07:41 pm |
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Music is a good one, but where do you start?
* Mozart, of course
* Bach
* Beethoven
* Puccini
After that there are lots of bits...
And in art:
* Vincent
* Turner
* Botticelli
After that there are lots of bits...
And I forgot to mention:
* sunshine
* mountains
* driftwood
* the sound of seagulls
* kingfishers
We really do have a lot to be grateful for, do we not?
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