I Foen U Lol!

[Chez Daja]

Hahahah, I love this title. xD

So anyway, this is a phone-related thread, about... phones. Who would've guessed, right?

How many of you own mobiles?

Do you text or phone people more?

Funny phone stories?

It's a simple thread, but please don't turn it into a spamhole.

Anyway, I do own a mobile. I have done for a few years now, and for the first few weeks of having it, texted a lot. Now, I'm not really a phone type of person as I am, for some reaosn, extremely phone-shy.

I don't like the texting system, so I try to avoid it altogether, although it's a good mean of contacting my mother or brother if I'm not home.

However, I do use the phone more, as I often call my best friend, who is also one of the only people I can talk to on the phone without freaking out.
I also speak often to my mother on the phone, and also have random friends that I can give a ring without getting extremely nervous with. If you speak first; I'll chatter straight after and you'll have your ear talked off.

And funny phone story... Hm... Well, it's not really that funny, but it was extremely embarrassing.

One night, and this happened just lately, I was calling my best friend at 1am -- he wasn't online, but he'd told me to give him a call at that time since he'd be on his Wii. Anyway, since I told him I would call him, I gave him a call at 1am.

It turns out his mother was sitting with him and was next to the phone at the time; she picked up and said hello. I, thinking she might've been angry that I was called so late, hung up real quick and even turned my phone off out of fear. Like I said. I'm a ***** on the phone.

So... what about you guys?

[U2Girl1966]

I've had a cell phone for a couple of years. I usually don't text message people, but in the clusterf*ck following Katrina, text messaging was how I was able to keep in contact with my parents and friends in New Orleans.

[MiwaMiwa]

I have a cell phone, but it doesn't seem like it.
let me explain why exactly:
1. The main speaker doesn't work, so I have to flip it around and talk through the speaker phone...I look like a retard doing this, people actually stare and laugh at me. it's embarassing.
2. The screen is broken. I can't tell who is calling me, so I don't answer it unless it rings three times. A lot of underclassmen (but more like boys, not men) have my number, and still like to call me. I don't want to talk to them, so I began the "three rings" rule for people who actually matter.
3. In my town, every single number begins with a "6". And it's not in the area code. well, seeing as how the 6 button doesn't work on my phone, it makes it beyond impossible to call ANYONE within a five mile radius of my house. And that's practically everyone I know.

Anyways, in conclusion, yes I have a cell phone. Do I benefit from it whatsoever? No. Did my parents get new "razr"s last week and not get me one? ...sadly yes. -_-;

[Fishie]

I have to be honest, I have a cell and I usually text more then talk on the phone mainly when I'm in class. At our school cell phones are against the rules we get it taken away if we're caught with it on campus, you get the idea.

Anyways this one time my teacher had a sub and he's a pretty cool sub. He didn't care if we had our PSP's, iPods, or even our cell. So I was texting one of my friends one day planning to break up with my girlfriend I had at the time and as I was talking to my "friend" after saying that I'm gonna break up with her, I noticed that the number after I sent the text had my girlfriend's number on there, I was like "Oh shit!!". I mean, it sucked cuz I should've looked before sending it and making sure it was my friend's number. Anyways as soon as I realized I f*cked up, my girlfriend replied back to me and well words were said and we broke up. I learned that next time I'll call my friend instead of texting him.

[Leroy]

Well, it depends. People I'm close with, I'll call, but for those I'm really just only acquainted with, or don't even know at all? I text them.

[Yuki-onna]

I have one, and I wuv it. I feel naked without it. Honestly, you can't live in Eurape without a cellphone. I text, call, am in constant contact with my friends, it's faboolous.

Except for the times when they phone me at night and I forget to put my chica (phone) on silent, and it's the crack of ****ing noon and they want a long pieced ass of advice and I want to kill myself WITH my phone...

Yeah. Otherwise, it's great.

[Jin]

What part of the country do you live in to not be able to get a cell, Kirk? Kenora? If so, please tell everyone that my cell phone number is NOT the number for Ernie's Bait and Tackle and that that store is out of buisness, most likely because everyone kept phoning me and not them. >=(



Anyways, yes, I have a cell, or mobile phone, whatever you'd like to call it. I originally got it because my parents don't think logically. Due to a seisure they decided to take the precaution of giving me a cell phone in case I have an attack and need help. A lot of good a cell phone will do when I'm unconcious and having a seisure. God I hope that isn't genetic. Anyways, I still have and it they still pay for it. Why? I have no idea. We got used to it I guess.

Texting. No. Texting is the evilest thing ever created. Due to the fact that it takes at least 3 hours to send the simplest message, it's caused people to use txt tlk even more than they used to. Seriously, if you have to find your friend in the food court, just call them!

The only phone stories I have are when people call me about the aforementioned Ernie's Bait and Tackle. It's been happening for over 2 years now and supposedly a radio station in Kenora aired my number for a contest related to that store. I used to get at least a call a week, but it's down to about 2 or 3 a month now. Lately, I've begun to have fun with them. They ask if they have the store, I say yes, but we don't sell guns anymore (the most common question), instead we sell drugs. "Oh, I see." An actual response. "Yes, would you like to buy some drugs? We have a sale." "No thanks." "Alright, if you change your mind, just call back." "I will, thank you." Another example: "Yes, I was wondering what you needed to get into the industry of Gun Smithing." "Well, you need to get a 4 year degree at either a university or a college before you can even think about it." "Oh, they have actual gunsmithing courses?" "Yes, and if you really want to make the big money, after your first degree, you'll need another 4 years to get your master's in gunsmithing." "Oh wow, I didn't know that." "Yeah, a lot of people don't." "Well thank you very much." "Not a problem, good bye."

Not once in either caller's voice did I sense a sign of disbelief. Gullable people.

My spelling and grammar is terrible in this post. Oh well.

[Storm]

How many of you own mobiles?

i OWN t3h mob lolz! Yeah, I have a VK 530 (or was it 350 :/), which is a little metallic pink flippy thing my mum got for me second hand since I was using an old nokia 3210 for yonks, which had a deaying batterylife and signal. It was pretty funky though, I had a green phone cover with red eyed treefrogs on it! My first one was a nokia 5110.

Do you text or phone people more?
I dont really do either much. Being a student, money is precious to me and i'd much rather spend it on CDs. I text more though. I'm really bad at talking on the phone. By the time the person picks up i'm likely to have forgotten what I was going to talk about!

Funny phone stories?
I remember one time my friend Max (Waterprince) phoned me randomly and we spent more time laughing down the phone than talking. Ironically it was the longest phonecall either of us ever had! Another time I was on the phone to my friend Andrea who spent 5 minutes trying to figure out what she phoned up about, which ended up being as simple as a New Years get-together at her house. Both were funny at the time, but aren't interesting being talked about.

About 3 years ago, my friend got a phone for Christmas and gave us all her number. She didn't have my number on her phone, so I sent her a text that said: "Congradulations! You have won £1000 worth of condoms from rubbaluvdirect, plus the chance to have a one-nighter with one of our sexy male or female models! Please text IWANNA back t this number". She believed that it was some perverted company that got her number.

2 months later, on my friends 16th, we were all hyped up on fizzy drink and sugar and decided to do some prank calls. One of our friends can do an amazing impression of Paul O'Grady, so we phoned up the person she had a crush on and re-enacted the text I sent her in Paul O' Grady's voice. He just laughed and put the phone down. We also kept phoning the number of another guy saying "Annie loves you" in wierd voices on thier answerphone. I can't remember what else we did, but in the morning we were surprised nobody had called the police!

[Maridia]

Currently I do have a cell phone, which is amazing. Mostly because I only got it about 2 months ago. I have a charcoal color Razor by T Mobile. I'm a fan of it though since I only get people I know who will call me there on it anyway. I tend to just call someone rather than texting since it's just quicker to hit 1 button than type things out.

As for funny stories? Well on a regular phone years ago I would sometimes talk to my friends for hours. Once I talked on the phone for 6 hours with someone. Yet my father I can't talk to on the phone for more than 10 minutes haha. Sometimes I still will talk for a while, like for maybe an hour or so if it's the right person and I'm in a talkative frame of mind. Also I have amusing ringtones put to certain people I know. For example my old grandmother had "I can't drive 55" by Sammy Hagar as her ringtone

[Rasler]

I own a mobile phone, but do not often use it. I still haven't figured out how to check my voicemail or text-message. I can live without text-messaging, but I seriously need to figure out how to check those damned voicemails. I am one of those people who shun phones. I very rarely even use phones period.

The primary reason I have a large aversion to telephones comes from the following story:

Throughout my childhood, my three sisters were quite the phone addicts. It was an unbearably large source of irritation for me. The advent of the cordless phone only made this problem worse; they could now roam the house freely instead of being confined to the 2-3 rooms the comically long cord allowed.

The phone menace was made magnitudes worse when we upgraded from dial-up. They could now speak on the horrible telephone while also hogging the precious computer. Their AOL addiction was as bad as the phone problem, but that's a story for another time.

To this day, my disdain for telephones is strong enough that I only use telephones about twice a month. And never for more than 3 minutes.


I also have no strong desire to use phones. I see everyone I wish to speak to at school/work, so I find telephones to be largely unnecessary for me.

[Malahk Musashi]

I have a halfway decent little cell phone... it's a flip/camera phone which is always a boost. I tend to use the texting very rarely because Cingular insists on charging 3 appendages per text... And overall, it's not a BAD service, although it's not as good as they claim. I get tons of dropped calls >_>.

All my tele-funnies mostly revolve around drunk dialing and the like, so I don't really have too many specific stories XD. Although one particular bit of hilarity resulted in my friend using a text2phone service for deaf people to call me while I was trashed. He started spouting things like "y helo thar b00tsax, I am in need of t3h luvins" and the t2p operator was saying them like they're spelled... making it ultra hilarious.

[Helter Skelter]

I'm not great with telecommunications technology, namely mobile phones, and I only got my first one when I was 16, almost 17. I've never really had a massive need for one. Anyway, I got a new one this past Christmas, hoping it'd be a bit more complicated, a bit better than my first one. I was wrong. Its battery power is shit, and it's difficult to use because the buttons are designed in a horrific manner. I've started using the old one again, but I take both of them around with me.

Funny phone stories? Well, none that I've been particularly amused by, but there's a couple of incidents that stand out as unusual, and phone related. On a couple of occasions, my girlfriend has gone out and had a merry old drunken time with "The Girls" and has left me slurred, incoherent voicemails. One involved her friends serenading me in the background, and another involved the same friends talking about how "Heather says you've got a wide ****!" and a selection of other rants. What a fantastic night that was for me. The two friends in question aren't bad, it's just the alcohol I resent. Good in moderation, bad when it makes you think it's alright to invite strange men into bed.

[Tifa]

My cell's a Samsung DH-807. Nice slide model <3 I don't really use it that often though. I always carry it with me and use it as an alarm sometimes, but I don't really call that many people ... more or less, I text since I'm either in class or with friends who might or might not be watching something. Plans are usually made over IM too. I can phone for an hour or more if it's with a friend I rarely (or have never) seen though.

I don't really have any funny cellphone stories. Other than the fact that my friend's cellphone vibrates in a circle. And, maybe, nerdy ringtones my friends and I have. The one I've been using for the last year or two has been from the Final Fantasy VII Advent Children movie. It's particularly amusing when it rings while I'm in my Tifa cos since my apron pockets start to ring the victory tone. Unfortunately, I can't be a super nerd and open it at the right time anymore since sliding doesn't work as well as flipping the top open (like my old cellphone could). ... ... I kind of want the Panasonic phone. Like. A lot.

[OmniTense]

Getting a phone call is like being struck with a flaming arrow through the neck and finding that there is a bill attatched.
Phones are expensive and loud.

Not to mention that most of the people who want to call me are trying to persuade me to work extra shifts or cover.
I see all my really good friends everyday at college.

So phones are evil ! >.<