On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 20:49:49 -0000, Simon Mason wrote:

On Tuesday, 29 November 2016 20:43:31 UTC, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 20:39:36 -0000, Simon Mason wrote:

On Tuesday, 29 November 2016 20:25:17 UTC, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:


Are they expensive?

http://amzn.to/2fzoscc

For ****'s sake! That's the sort of thing you buy when trekking across the ****ing Sahara, or going to the North Pole!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CxkFROtWQAECAXg.jpg

Don't they have mobile signals over there? And how often do you have to phone someone anyway?

My Dad is 85.

Surely you can get to a mobile signal or a landline every so often. If it's an emergency and he's trying to call you, you're not going to be of much help over there anyway!

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