Family interaction by text

[transam]

british people send more then 10,000 texts a year to others with in the confines of their own homes.

The most common are

1) I love u
2) Dinner is ready
3). bring me a cup of tea
4) Turn the telley down
5) whats for dinner
6) night night
7) Turn the heating up

 

[JohnD]

all from women, then

 

[mattylad]

We often get No.5 and send No2 to our attic dwellers.

These are mythical squeeky beasts that only arise from slumber at about 1pm, all forms of communication appear to be a high speed squeek (I think it may be some form of RTTY) and most legible communication will be by text message (thank god as I cannot decode the audio).

 

[Brigadier]

It's "fam", not "family".

 

[Doug99]

This actually happened yesterday. My son arrives unexpectedly at my front door with his 2 little boys.
Son: Hi dad did you get my text?
Me: What text?
Son: The one I sent you.
Me: Don't know
Son: You must have received it as I sent it a couple of hours ago.
Me: Don't know
Son: When did you last check your phone?
Me: Don't know. Was it important?
Son: Yes
Me: If it was that important why didn't you just phone me?
Son: Get with it dad. Nobody phones anymore.
Me: Couldn't have been that important then.
Son: Yes it was.
Me: What was the important message?
Son: "Hi Dad, are you in as I am popping round with the boys to say hello"
Me: Hang on a mo! On eventually finding my mobile phone I reply to the text "NO... I'M OUT"

 

[ReganAndCarter]

That's the trouble. People expect you to be looking at your phone 24/7 these days. I can be near mine for hours and nothing will happen. Minute I go for a shower or Donald Trump, a text comes in that I don't hear because phone isn't in bathroom with me. But I never remember to check the thing when I return.

 

[tony1851]

Slightly off topic but how many times do you walk down the street and some idiot is rapidly approaching you , head down and immersed in their phone?
It seems that no matter which way you go to avoid them, they somehow seem to walk directly towards you.

 

[transam]

I heard on the radio that in Australia ( sydney afai remember) they are putting/trialing traffic light signals in the pavement at pedestrian crossings

due to a number of accidents , those on there mobiles need not have to look up now to see if it is safe to cross


On a building site the only time some talk to one another is when they are working , sit down for tea & every one is on there mobile

Go in a cafe and youngsters cannot use a knife and fork at the same time as they have to have a mobile in one hand

bloke from the council down our way push's / steers his mower one handed up and down the lawn ,as he has mobile in the other hand

 

[HawkEye244]

british people send more then 10,000 texts a year to others with in the confines of their own homes.

Not as worried about government spying then .. ..

 

[securespark]

My F-i-L sent me a text yesterday:

Him: Just checking Is my phone working
Me: No.
Him: OK, Sod it!!

 

[^woody^]

Get with it you lot. Only grandma's and grandpa's send texts nowadays.

 

[JohnD]

very popular among the inmates of DIYnot.

 

[HawkEye244]

very popular among the inmates of DIYnot.

sometimes texting is important when you are trying to communicate with a potential suitor in a club as the music is too loug to have a reasonable conversation

 

[Brigadier]

sometimes texting is important when you are trying to communicate with a potential suitor in a club as the music is too loug to have a reasonable conversation

Isn't that picture messaging, Hawk?

 

[ReganAndCarter]

I heard on the radio that in Australia ( sydney afai remember) they are putting/trialing traffic light signals in the pavement at pedestrian crossings

due to a number of accidents , those on there mobiles need not have to look up now to see if it is safe to cross

These signals in the pavement will be useful for the blinkered lemming pedestrians who cross on a green man signal but never think to check the traffic has stopped.