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The Person Who Invented Text Messaging Needs To Be Flogged

Why do they text me only when I don't or can't talk back??

from JoeUser Forums
Okay, here's the deal. I am in college, and I have a lot of friends. I also have unlimited text messaging, and hours of free time in a day to use it. So why, may I ask, do I only get text messages when I'm in class and I can't respond? And for some reason, they always come during math. That class is the bane of my existence, but I digress. For example, yesterday, I was sitting in class, falling asleep (because of course I don't get the eight hours of sleep a night that I realize I need), and I hear this song start playing. Confused, I become alert, looking around for someone else to turn it off. Why? Because I never get phone calls. Ever. Then I realize that I'm probably the only college student with "Carry On, Wayward Son" as a ring tone and I scurry to turn it off. The professor, of course, doesn't miss a beat in her lecture. A few seconds later, the phone buzzes with a text. Annoyed, I hurry out of class at the end to see what kind of emergency merited someone calling me in the middle of my class. They were from the same person, a fellow student and hall mate.
What did the text say? I'll tell you.
"Want to go to lunch?"
...
WHAT?!?!?!?!?! All of that, for LUNCH!!!
Today, my phone has been completely still all day until about an hour ago, when three people started conversations with me. AT THE SAME TIME. It's like my life never balances. Nothing, sometimes for days, then boom! All at once. Why does this happen, and has it happened to you?
I really need someone to explain this cell phone phenomenon to me, I am so very confused. Thanks!!!
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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top
Not being straight would also be an effective method, now that you mention it.

You're right though, if I couldn't hold a conversation with my wife, or if she didn't understand me when I spoke to her, it would not be a very good relationship, would it? As it is, I want to talk about my video games with her but I can't because it often ends up that she doesn't understand what I'm talking about, so it's useless anyway. I tried to talk to her about planting patterns in Harvest Moon the other day... dumb move. Well, depending on the version, of course. (AWLSE if anyone wants to know)
Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top

I don't get text messaging.  I mean, really, I don't get them. 

But I also don't "get" it.  Takes me way too long to type out the little message.

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Reply #28 from JoeUser Forums Top
she's going to expect to use it with you. And you don't really want talking, do you?


Not only yes . . . but hell yes.


I agree. Mostly because I tend to use "higher" vocab in everyday speech. I don't know why...but I prefer to elevate myself above grunts and snorts that indicate displeasure or satisfaction. And of course I don't want to be the "ZOMG LOLZ" kind of person...both online and in the outside world...because let's face it, that shit gets annoying really fast.

~Zoo
Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top
OMG LOL IDKWUM????!!!1111oneoneone

I like grunts and snorts. They really do tell the story better than vocabulary ever could.

It does not help, when you've already said everything you could ever say to one another, to just start saying the same thing with new words.
Reply #30 from JoeUser Forums Top
It does not help, when you've already said everything you could ever say to one another, to just start saying the same thing with new words


Well, it's raining today.
Dear, I do believe aqueous precipitation is being produced during this solar cycle.

Hmm...maybe.

~Zoo
Reply #31 from JoeUser Forums Top
"Dear, I do believe aqueous precipitation is being produced during this solar cycle."

I do believe I would have been lost after 'believe', not because of the high class words, but more than 4 words in a sentence is too many unless we're already having an in-depth discussion...
Reply #32 from JoeUser Forums Top
but more than 4 words in a sentence is too many unless we're already having an in-depth discussion...


Heh, heh. I don't mind throwing some flowery language in mundane situations...to me it makes life a tad more interesting.

Or you can reduce it to:

Raining. Need umbrella. Bye.

~Zoo
Reply #33 from JoeUser Forums Top
OMG IDKWUM????!!!1111oneoneone


I don't get it. But then, I WAS taught how to text by San Chonino, so I can't abide the shortened words. I yell at people for not writing things out.

I don't mind throwing some flowery language in mundane situations...to me it makes life a tad more interesting.


Hee hee! Yep, I find a new word for every day. I teach the masses!
Reply #34 from JoeUser Forums Top
Rain. Umbrella.

So much wasted with 'ing. Need' and 'Bye.'

Anyway, I like using big words too, and I like making puns, and I finally figured out that my wife thinks it's funny when she's trying to be stern too, so I can always get her to laugh instead of giving me the evil look...
Reply #35 from JoeUser Forums Top
I like making puns,


I think puns are good for the soul. Hell, 'pun' rhymes with 'fun'...you can't go wrong there.

~Zoo
Reply #36 from JoeUser Forums Top
I think puns are good for the soul. Hell, 'pun' rhymes with 'fun'...you can't go wrong there.


What have I started?!?!? I'm getting a little scared, now. Though there is hope! My friend used the word "alleviate" in a text to me this weekend...
Maybe the world isn't ending in an Armageddon of grammar-less confusion...please?
Reply #37 from JoeUser Forums Top

I just found a brilliant cartoon for this topic.

~Zoo

Reply #38 from JoeUser Forums Top
Is the misspelled received for irony's sake or just a typo?