I Don't Hold With These New-Fangled Devices!

[+ quoththeraven]

...or Stephen King's lesser 2006 novel, "Cell" in which everyone who uses their cell phone hears a certain pulse on it when they use it, after which they become mindless zombie-like killers. Our hero and a few other survivors not affected by the pulse (their own cell phone broken or lost) must find a way to survive.

 

TruHart1

 

He's written worse. I actually liked it better than Under the Dome, which I did not finish, or From a Buick 8, and it wasn't as self-indulgent as Duma Key.

It at least read as though it had been edited.

[+ quoththeraven]

1940: "You will have an electric operator at your disposal 24 hours a day."

 

2016: https://beta.finance.yahoo.com/news/this-four-letter-word-will-get-you-better-customer-service-on-the-phone-194426834.html

 

With a few exceptions, customer service calls are the bane of my existence.

 

TIAA and Lands End have great customer service. Amazon is great as long as you don't have a technical question. Comcast is the pit of hell.

[+ quoththeraven]

While I've said this before, and y'all know how I hate to repeat myself:p, but to me it seems as if there is a tiny delay in cell phone transmissions-less than in early day long distance calls or early VOIP systems. This makes me disinclined for long involved conversations on cell phone. I think this might be one reason (along with its more surreptitious nature) of the popularity of texting among the young. I mean I remember my older sister as a teenager. We actually got a second phone line mainly due to her-not that I didn't occasionally have some long phone calls. I can't imagine she would have found texting with its lack of emotional content as satisfying. Nowadays I sometimes prefer texting. But only because of the delay/difficulty I find in during long involved cell phone calls.

 

Gman

 

There is some delay/feedback, but it may have to do with phone quality as well as or in addition to transmission issues.

[+ Gar1eth]

While I've said this before, and y'all know how I hate to repeat myself:p, but to me it seems as if there is a tiny delay in cell phone transmissions-less than in early day long distance calls or early VOIP systems. This makes me disinclined for long involved conversations on cell phone. I think this might be one reason (along with its more surreptitious nature) of the popularity of texting among the young. I mean I remember my older sister as a teenager. We actually got a second phone line mainly due to her-not that I didn't occasionally have some long phone calls. I can't imagine she would have found texting with its lack of emotional content as satisfying. Nowadays I sometimes prefer texting. But only because of the delay/difficulty I find in during long involved cell phone calls.

 

Gman

 

There is some delay/feedback, but it may have to do with phone quality as well as or in addition to transmission issues.

 

I have an iPhone-6 plus. You'll have to form your own opinion on its quality.

 

Gman

[+ quoththeraven]

I have an iPhone-6 plus. You'll have to form your own opinion on its quality.

 

Gman

 

Oh, well then that shouldn't be the problem.

 

Would still personally not be caught dead with an Apple product except maybe a lower-level iPod.

[+ Gar1eth]

Oh, well then that shouldn't be the problem.

 

Would still personally not be caught dead with an Apple product except maybe a lower-level iPod.

 

I'll admit to only having occasionally used cheap android phones. But they have all been so much slower than my iPhone.

 

Gman

[gallahadesquire]

...or Stephen King's lesser 2006 novel, "Cell" in which everyone who uses their cell phone hears a certain pulse on it when they use it, after which they become mindless zombie-like killers. Our hero and a few other survivors not affected by the pulse (their own cell phone broken or lost) must find a way to survive.

 

TruHart1

He's written worse. I actually liked it better than Under the Dome, which I did not finish, or From a Buick 8, and it wasn't as self-indulgent as Duma Key.

It at least read as though it had been edited.

 

This is the plot of ТЕЛЕФОН, which had the same plot: People answer a phone and become zombie killers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefon_(film)

 

With a few exceptions, customer service calls are the bane of my existence.

 

TIAA and Lands End have great customer service. Amazon is great as long as you don't have a technical question. Comcast is the pit of hell.

 

TIAA has great service, but don't try to get money out of them. They don't like that. Plus, their "funds" and services have gone WAY down in Morningstar's ratings.

A friend had to spend four hours trying to get money out of TIAA.

[+ quoththeraven]

This is the plot of ТЕЛЕФОН, which had the same plot: People answer a phone and become zombie killers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefon_(film)

 

 

 

TIAA has great service, but don't try to get money out of them. They don't like that. Plus, their "funds" and services have gone WAY down in Morningstar's ratings.

A friend had to spend four hours trying to get money out of TIAA.

 

I've never had any problem.

 

Vanguard had more funds but its customer service, while competent and efficient, is more brusque.

[instudiocity]

There is a thread about Tesla just waiting.

 

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/3/37144/3169532-albert.jpg

 

“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits"

... Albert Einstein

[Nvr2Thick]

I thought my carbon monoxide detector or smoke detector (I have one alarm for both) had gone haywire and was thinking about calling my landlord. It's a good thing I didn't as the sound turned out to be beeping on a YouTube video I was watching. The host/commentator was the one with the malfunctioning alarm.

 

This is a common situation in amateur porn. In the seedier-looking homemade videos you'll invariably hear a smoke detector's low battery beep.

[rvwnsd]

I recently acquired two rotary phones from the house I grew up in. (They still have our phone number typewritten on the dial.) Someone thought it curious that one of them had a sticker on it listing the phone numbers of the fire department, police department, and ambulance. I had to remind her that there was no 911 in those days. Local businesses often provided the stickers as advertising.

PO5-1313 and FI7-1313, perchance?

[body2body]

it was nice when the exchanges had names. My childhood home phone number was DI6-5849. DI stood for Diamond, and when you were asked for your number you would reply Diamond 65849. It seemed to make numbers easier to remember. Ah, simplicity, Ah, nostalgia. Of course in the 50s most homes had one telephone, yet you always seemed to be able to reach any person or business you wanted to talk with. Today I have a personal and work cell, 4 phones at home, 6 lines at my office, and I never seem to be able to reach anyone. I know "How old are you?".

[+ Gar1eth]

it was nice when the exchanges had names. My childhood home phone number was DI6-5849. DI stood for Diamond, and when you were asked for your number you would reply Diamond 65849. It seemed to make numbers easier to remember. Ah, simplicity, Ah, nostalgia. Of course in the 50s most homes had one telephone, yet you always seemed to be able to reach any person or business you wanted to talk with. Today I have a personal and work cell, 4 phones at home, 6 lines at my office, and I never seem to be able to reach anyone. I know "How old are you?".

 

Our exchange was Swift. I still remember my number too, and the Time and Temperature number. Po(rter)3-2211.

 

Gman

[LADoug1]

it was nice when the exchanges had names. My childhood home phone number was DI6-5849. DI stood for Diamond, and when you were asked for your number you would reply Diamond 65849. It seemed to make numbers easier to remember. Ah, simplicity, Ah, nostalgia. Of course in the 50s most homes had one telephone, yet you always seemed to be able to reach any person or business you wanted to talk with. Today I have a personal and work cell, 4 phones at home, 6 lines at my office, and I never seem to be able to reach anyone. I know "How old are you?".

WE4-6868. Webster. Ah memories. And how is it I remember this 55 years later?

[+ deej]

Some of those telephone exchanges are still used to identify the neighborhoods they were attached to, particularly in Manhattan. SoHo (South of Houston), for example.

[MikeBiDude]

Some of those telephone exchanges are still used to identify the neighborhoods they were attached to, particularly in Manhattan. SoHo (South of Houston), for example.

For me the exchange was "Terminal" which made some laugh, but we had Terminal Island here in SoCal in Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach and that's where the name came from.

[+ Gar1eth]

There is a classic Twilight Zone episode where a man has an adversarial relationship with the appliances in his home. He's convinced they are trying to kill him. Of course everyone thinks the guy is bonkers. In the end, the guy winds up dead and it's clear to the audience that his appliances killed him. Or did they?

It's about to get bumpy but follow me on this ---->>

 

1. I posted today about Will and Grace. 2. When I was looking up episodes today on YouTube, I found one with Gene Wilder. 3. Thinking about Gene Wilder, I decided I wanted to review the Wikipedia article on Young Frankenstein. 4. Reading the article, it mentioned an actor named Richard Haydn was in it. 5. I couldn't remember who he was, so I looked him up in IMDB (He played Herr Detweiler in The Sound of Music). 6. Looking at all of his credits listed on IMDB, he was the guy killed by his appliances in the Twilight Zone episode.

 

 

Gman

[rvwnsd]

[body2body]

It's about to get bumpy but follow me on this ---->>

 

1. I posted today about Will and Grace. 2. When I was looking up episodes today on YouTube, I found one with Gene Wilder. 3. Thinking about Gene Wilder, I decided I wanted to review the Wikipedia article on Young Frankenstein. 4. Reading the article, it mentioned an actor named Richard Haydn was in it. 5. I couldn't remember who he was, so I looked him up in IMDB (He played Herr Detweiler in The Sound of Music). 6. Looking at all of his credits listed on IMDB, he was the guy killed by his appliances in the Twilight Zone episode.

 

 

Gman

Six degrees of separation!

[+ Gar1eth]

 

That theme song gives me the heeby-jeebies-along with the old Westinghouse Commercials in the 1960's. They used to echo the name Westinghouse at the end. I hated it.

 

Gman