[Vivienne]

Just some random thoughts out my head.

On Tuesday, I was speaking ON AN ACTUAL 'PHONE to a friend. She had to give me details of an address. At that moment, I had a pen & paper beside me, and could quite easily have immediately written down the information.

However, my friend insisted on sending me a text with the address, etc. on it. Which also cost her as well.

Just a thought.... but, isn't this actual madness? Does everything in today's World require electronic communications for them to have any substance?

[Yudster]

Does everything in today's World require electronic communications for them to have any substance?

No.

[ladbroke]

Does everything in today's World require electronic communications for them to have any substance?

You've got to love the irony of this being written on an internet message board...........

[Vivienne]

You know, you're quite correct, Ladbroke.

[Console]

However, my friend insisted on sending me a text with the address, etc. on it. Which also cost her as well.

Just a thought.... but, isn't this actual madness? Does everything in today's World require electronic communications for them to have any substance?

No, people are stupid and don't think.

[Vivienne]

The radio is currently playing "Locked up", and I have a bizarre image of Console behind bars.

[ladbroke]

Would they be 'ACTUAL' bars?.....

[Vivienne]

Yeh, sorry, I was just relishing the image.

[foot-loose]

Just some random thoughts out my head.

On Tuesday, I was speaking ON AN ACTUAL 'PHONE to a friend. She had to give me details of an address. At that moment, I had a pen & paper beside me, and could quite easily have immediately written down the information.

However, my friend insisted on sending me a text with the address, etc. on it. Which also cost her as well.

Just a thought.... but, isn't this actual madness? Does everything in today's World require electronic communications for them to have any substance?

No, it makes a lot of sense to me.

I frequently dont make out road names properly and have to ask the person to spell them using the phonetic alphabet. For example, in different accents, the post code AB1 2NS could easily be heard as ED1 2MF. Communicating this information in the written format means that not only do you have it written down correctly, but it is in a place where you will not easily lose it.

Not bad for the cost of a text.

[S4B]

She'd have better off just texting you.

[MK Chris]

Can I just add that 'A' can only sound like 'E' if you have a silly Scotch accent.

[Yudster]

Or a really bad Hull accent. My friend is from Hull and all her "A"s come out more like "E"s.

[MK Chris]

Oh, that's true, I forgot about that. I take back what I said about the Brummie accent because the Hull accent is ten times worse - that is the worst accent in the country by a mile.

[foot-loose]

Can I just add that 'A' can only sound like 'E' if you have a silly Scotch accent.

actually the majority of folk I speak to are english and believe me, they have some pretty crazy accents. Also, those with Asian accents can also be hard to follow.

[MK Chris]

I always use a phonetic alphabet on the phone anyway. None of this 'F for Freddie' nonsense either, the proper phonetic alphabet.

It annoys me when I ring a call centre and I give them information (like a phone number or postcode) and they don't repeat it back to me, because I don't know if they've got it right or wrong then.

[Vivienne]

Here's another piece of stupidity. I am perhaps looking for w/end work, so in my e-mail was a little letter asking me if I could contact said person. Once again, why not pick up the bloody 'phone, get dialling, arrange appointments. Now, when I go to 'phone back said person, said person is not bloody there, so now I will have to wait on a call. Thus, this delays everything when it could have all been sorted out nice & simply without the technology. Rant over.

[Console]

Once again, why not pick up the bloody 'phone, get dialling, arrange appointments.

It occurs to me that the following is a good enough reason: -

Now, when I go to 'phone back said person, said person is not bloody there, so now I will have to wait on a call.

[Vivienne]

Sorry, I don't even understand and can't be arsed to decipher.

[MK Chris]

What Console means, Viv, is that perhaps the reason he asked for an email is that he is going to be away from his desk for a bit...?

It would appear to me that the stupidity is only coming from one area of this particular situation.

[kendra k]

I always use a phonetic alphabet on the phone anyway. None of this 'F for Freddie' nonsense either, the proper phonetic alphabet.

How do you speak the proper phonetic alphabet? IPA is really more of a written thing, unless you say, "b-aI-t m-i" or something like that. Or maybe, "Bilabial voiced stop, low-hight unrounded dipthong, alveolar stop."

Sorry, I'm being a pedant.

[MK Chris]

Haha, piss off Kendra, don't be out-pedanting me.

OK... I use the international radiotelephony spelling alphabet. Happy?

[Andy B]

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