On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:16:13 +0100, Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson"),
the pathological attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again:

FLUSH yet more of the idiotic DRIVEL

....and nothing's left, again! LOL

--
ItsJoanNotJoann addressing Birdbrain Macaw's (now "James Wilkinson" LOL):
"You're an annoying troll and I'm done with you and your
stupidity."
MID:

On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 21:13:11 +0100, Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson"),
the pathological attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again:

FLUSH the two idiots' endless sick drivel

--
AndyW addressing Birdbrain:
"Troll or idiot?...
You have been presented with a viewpoint with information, reasoning,
historical cases, citations and references to back it up and wilfully
ignore all going back to your idea which has no supporting information."
MID:

On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 21:08:59 +0100, Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson"),
the pathological attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again:

FLUSH all the incredibly idiotic BLATHER

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"I seen and heard many people but you are on top of list being first class
ass hole jerk. ...You fit under unconditional Idiot and should be put in
mental institution.
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On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:10:46 -0700 (PDT), Uncle Monster
wrote:

I've had a TracFone for years then one day I received a notice from them that my analog phone would no longer work so they sent me a new digital one. It's a little Nokia phone and it's quite old now. I don't own a smartass phone and have no desire to. I just want something that makes phone calls. If I want to watch cat videos, I have a computer. ?(?)?

Same here and for my buddies my age. We were all playing golf one day
and I said "let me see your phones". This is what we had.

http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Old%20guy%20phones.jpg

On 8/30/2017 8:39 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:10:46 -0700 (PDT), Uncle Monster
wrote:

I've had a TracFone for years then one day I received a notice from them that my analog phone would no longer work so they sent me a new digital one. It's a little Nokia phone and it's quite old now. I don't own a smartass phone and have no desire to. I just want something that makes phone calls. If I want to watch cat videos, I have a computer. ?(?)?

Same here and for my buddies my age. We were all playing golf one day
and I said "let me see your phones". This is what we had.

http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Old%20guy%20phones.jpg



I like the beer can phone. Did it hold a long charge?

On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 21:15:47 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 21:04:03 +0100, wrote:

On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:17:43 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

I'm self employed and have to fill in precisely TWO figures. Income. Expenditure. That's all. Sometimes if they think someone is filling them in oddly, they'll ask to check stuff, then you just hand them a huge pile of receipts and say, "you add it up".

That would be what we call the schedule C. You add up all of your
expenses and deduct it from your income. This is where you can really
sharpen your pencil to define what an "expense" is.

Then why doesn't everyone use schedule C?

It can only be used to offset business income, not wages.

So it's actually easier if you're self employed over there?

You can certainly write more off than someone only claiming wages. You
do have to pay both sides of the Social Security tax tho. Usually half
of it is hidden and paid by the employer but they understand it and
adjust your wages accordingly.

If you have a sharp pencil and a good imagination you can write off a
lot of things tho. (part of your home and car, phone, power, internet,
equipment depreciation, tools supplies etc)
Then you just pay taxes on what's left. The IRS does make sure you end
up paying some tax but it doesn't have to be much. If you constantly
lose money (pay no tax) they say it is a hobby and they might claw
back all of those deductions.

They even let you deduct the use of your home if it is your office.

Same here, well about a 1/4 of it.

Here it depends on how much of the home you can demonstrate was used
for the business.

Here they assume a fixed percentage. I can claim back for council tax, electricity, gas, water, all sorts. I even get VAT off the petrol I use (and of course all my petrol is used for business and none for holidays :-))

We get a percentage of all home expenses depending on the proportion
of the square footage you claim as "office".


It is best if it is isolated space. I actually got
audited once because I was not showing an office but I was writing off
office expenses. The IRS guy was great in helping me define what my
home office was and how to claim it. I got to write off my whole
computer room/shop. I ended up getting more money back.

What a waste of paperwork. I don't have an office, I have a huge open plan room which is a living room, computer room, office, and parrot aviary. God knows what your tax office would make of that. They'd probably want to see evidence of the parrots making money by breeding.

Here they might disallow the "office" deduction although I have never
heard of them actually coming out and looking at your office. I
offered a picture and he said don't bother, we believe you.

On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:39:04 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:10:46 -0700 (PDT), Uncle Monster
wrote:

I've had a TracFone for years then one day I received a notice from them that my analog phone would no longer work so they sent me a new digital one. It's a little Nokia phone and it's quite old now. I don't own a smartass phone and have no desire to. I just want something that makes phone calls. If I want to watch cat videos, I have a computer. ?(?)?

Same here and for my buddies my age. We were all playing golf one day
and I said "let me see your phones". This is what we had.

http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Old%20guy%20phones.jpg

Dig that "can-phone" How tight do you need to stretch the string?

On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:46:22 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 8/30/2017 8:39 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:10:46 -0700 (PDT), Uncle Monster
wrote:

I've had a TracFone for years then one day I received a notice from them that my analog phone would no longer work so they sent me a new digital one. It's a little Nokia phone and it's quite old now. I don't own a smartass phone and have no desire to. I just want something that makes phone calls. If I want to watch cat videos, I have a computer. ?(?)?

Same here and for my buddies my age. We were all playing golf one day
and I said "let me see your phones". This is what we had.

http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Old%20guy%20phones.jpg



I like the beer can phone. Did it hold a long charge?

There is nothing to charge, you just need to pull the string tight and
talk into the hole.

On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 21:22:33 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:39:04 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:10:46 -0700 (PDT), Uncle Monster
wrote:

I've had a TracFone for years then one day I received a notice from them that my analog phone would no longer work so they sent me a new digital one. It's a little Nokia phone and it's quite old now. I don't own a smartass phone and have no desire to. I just want something that makes phone calls. If I want to watch cat videos, I have a computer. ?(?)?

Same here and for my buddies my age. We were all playing golf one day
and I said "let me see your phones". This is what we had.

http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Old%20guy%20phones.jpg

Dig that "can-phone" How tight do you need to stretch the string?

Answered previously

On 08/30/2017 04:05 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
For example, I'm paying for the education of other people's kids. I don't have kids, and if I did I'd home school them. And I bet you they wouldn't give me a rebate for that either. I
never authorised the payment from my bank account to the local schools, yet it's taken anyway. Perhaps we need a rebellion?


You are an excellent example of why we need to educate our children.

On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:50:01 -0400, wrote:

FLUSH the two driveling idiots' endless idiotic drivel

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 05:13:47 -0400, Joe
wrote:

On 08/30/2017 04:05 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
For example, I'm paying for the education of other people's kids. I don't have kids, and if I did I'd home school them. And I bet you they wouldn't give me a rebate for that either. I
never authorised the payment from my bank account to the local schools, yet it's taken anyway. Perhaps we need a rebellion?


You are an excellent example of why we need to educate our children.
Thank goodness the dullest knife in the drawer didn't reproduce.

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 11:52:37 +0100, Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson"),
the pathological attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again:

You are an excellent example of why we need to educate our children.

You have given no reasoning as to why people should be allowed to have
kids that they cannot afford to educate.

....says, of course, the ****** who KNOWS he will never be able to procreate!
LOL

--
****** Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson" LOL) about women:
"I don't want one. Easy enough to get one if I wanted one."
MID:

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:58:07 +0100, Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson"),
the pathological attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again:


Thank goodness the dullest knife in the drawer didn't reproduce.

Unlike a lot of the population I would only reproduce if the following are all met:
1) I'm good looking
2) I'm 100% healthy
3) I'm rich.

Anyone who brings up kids with **** all money, or passes on bad genes to them, is a ****ing idiot. The world is VASTLY overpopulated, we don't want more dregs.

It's not so much about "reproducing" (which can be avoided easily) but about
being a ridiculous ****** for the rest of your pathetic life, Birdbrain!

--
More of Birdbrain Macaw's (now "James Wilkinson" LOL) deep thinking:
"Looking at a woman the wrong way is now illegal. Raising your eyebrow at an
inappropriate time gets you a jail term. At this rate there won't be any
kids being born soon."

posted for all of us...



On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:00:32 -0400, Ralph Mowery
wrote:

In article , says...


So in an emergency, someone uses a phone booth to call an ambulance, and they have to pay? Sorry, no coins, somebody dies.


Have not seen a phone booth in years.

I have not tried it,but they say most cell phones will call 911 even if
they are not activated.

I know it worked long after they supposedly dropped service on my old
Amps66 bag phone. If you dialed 911 it went through and if you tried a
regular number you got a recording telling you to enter a credit card
for a $3 a minute phone call. I carried that in my boat and car until
I stopped getting dial tone. It lasted about 2 years after the
official end of service. I never actually made a call but I would
check it now and then. One day it just stopped.
I thought it was the perfect phone plan and the old Amps66 phone would
get out when your little flip phone showed no service, particularly in
a boat with a marine antenna.

I had one of those too. Yes the phone really worked well. I felt robbed on
the flip phone too because it was terrible.

--
Tekkie

posted for all of us...



On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:10:46 -0700 (PDT), Uncle Monster
wrote:

I've had a TracFone for years then one day I received a notice from them that my analog phone would no longer work so they sent me a new digital one. It's a little Nokia phone and it's quite old now. I don't own a smartass phone and have no desire to. I just want something that makes phone calls. If I want to watch cat videos, I have a computer. ?(?)?

Same here and for my buddies my age. We were all playing golf one day
and I said "let me see your phones". This is what we had.

http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Old%20guy%20phones.jpg

I never had a Pabst phone and the opener on the upper right is long lost...

--
Tekkie

posted for all of us...



On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 19:46:55 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

So you're paying for other peoples' 911 calls? That's theft.

Nope, just socialism, something you must be familiar with over there.

Yes, our government steals money through taxes, but I don't expect private companies to do it aswell.

911 is the government, they just have the telco's collecting the tax.

Exactly, to fund the emergency call centers so they can Phase II your
location off the GPS. Approximately 80% of 911 calls are from cells and
callers don't know their location. All required by the FCC. There is a large
back story to all this...

--
Tekkie

Taxed and Spent posted for all of us...



On 8/30/2017 8:00 AM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:46:51 +0100, Unquestionably Confused wrote:

On 8/30/2017 8:34 AM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 08/29/2017 05:27 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 18:58:25 +0100, Mark Lloyd wrote:

On 08/28/2017 04:13 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

[snip]

So in an emergency, someone uses a phone booth to call an ambulance,
and they have to pay? Sorry, no coins, somebody dies.


Modern pay phones let you dial 911 without coins.

Anyway I don't mean a per-call charge, but a monthly charge on your bill
regardless of how many calls you made.

As in a surcharge (tax, a rose by any other name) to fund the toys and
goodies the emergency services require to perform their job (and then
some, a LOT of then some).

Maybe they don't do that in the UK, but I'll bet if you look hard enough
you'll find that all your free **** isn't free and, likely, it's just as
****ty as our "free" stuff.

Between the unions (public sector here which represent something on the
order of 34%-35% of the employees vs. = 6.5% of the private sector
workforce) and the notion that there must be some sort of tax or
surcharge affixed to everything the government provides, we at a point
where the bulk of the expense (salaries and benefits) are paid out of
the property and income taxes and everything else is funded by
surcharge. So we're paying all these folks to stand around and do
nothing but wait for our calls and then charge us for responding
(although we're paying, again, in advance).

Think about it. After you pay your income and property taxes, what
interaction with the government can you have that doesn't require
additional fees payable at the time of use/need or is prepaid, ala 9-1-1
surcharge, etc.

Indeed.

And half the time the firemen are just rescuing someone's stupid cat that got "stuck" up a tree. Rescue your own cat ffs! Even a 6 year old boy can climb a tree, you don't need a tax-paid fireman!


but they are sitting around doing nothing anyway. If they happen to be
on a real call, the cat sits in the tree.

As a long time volunteer emergency services disabled professional I really
object to these postings. Walk a mile in my shoes. Go ahead and make
assumptions. I can take it, I'm not a whiner...

--
Tekkie

On 8/31/2017 1:34 PM, Tekkie® wrote:
Taxed and Spent posted for all of us...



On 8/30/2017 8:00 AM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 15:46:51 +0100, Unquestionably Confused wrote:

On 8/30/2017 8:34 AM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 08/29/2017 05:27 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 18:58:25 +0100, Mark Lloyd wrote:

On 08/28/2017 04:13 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

[snip]

So in an emergency, someone uses a phone booth to call an ambulance,
and they have to pay? Sorry, no coins, somebody dies.


Modern pay phones let you dial 911 without coins.

Anyway I don't mean a per-call charge, but a monthly charge on your bill
regardless of how many calls you made.

As in a surcharge (tax, a rose by any other name) to fund the toys and
goodies the emergency services require to perform their job (and then
some, a LOT of then some).

Maybe they don't do that in the UK, but I'll bet if you look hard enough
you'll find that all your free **** isn't free and, likely, it's just as
****ty as our "free" stuff.

Between the unions (public sector here which represent something on the
order of 34%-35% of the employees vs. = 6.5% of the private sector
workforce) and the notion that there must be some sort of tax or
surcharge affixed to everything the government provides, we at a point
where the bulk of the expense (salaries and benefits) are paid out of
the property and income taxes and everything else is funded by
surcharge. So we're paying all these folks to stand around and do
nothing but wait for our calls and then charge us for responding
(although we're paying, again, in advance).

Think about it. After you pay your income and property taxes, what
interaction with the government can you have that doesn't require
additional fees payable at the time of use/need or is prepaid, ala 9-1-1
surcharge, etc.

Indeed.

And half the time the firemen are just rescuing someone's stupid cat that got "stuck" up a tree. Rescue your own cat ffs! Even a 6 year old boy can climb a tree, you don't need a tax-paid fireman!


but they are sitting around doing nothing anyway. If they happen to be
on a real call, the cat sits in the tree.

As a long time volunteer emergency services disabled professional I really
object to these postings. Walk a mile in my shoes. Go ahead and make
assumptions. I can take it, I'm not a whiner...



Are you saying firemen are always out on a call, with nothing held in
reserve? BAH.

posted for all of us...



On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 00:17:02 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

I've never understood your tax system. It's up to every single individual to do their taxes?! That only happens here if you run your own business. If I work fo someone else, my income tax is subtracted before I get it. Sales tax is removed by the shop, but it's included in the price of the bread. All I see is the bread costs 35p.

We have a very convoluted tax system and I certainly would not defend
it but there are plenty of tax attorneys and accountants who will
fight to their dying breath to preserve it.
It is the way politicians pay back their bribe money too.
People would raise holy hell if you said Exxon was getting a fat check
from the government every year but if they can hide it in the tax
code, nobody notices.
They prop up the real estate business and reward people rich enough to
buy a house by making the mortgage tax deductible. Renters get
screwed. The list goes on.
It makes the process of paying taxes just about as cumbersome as
possible. More than half of the people here need an accountant or a
computer tax program, just to fill out the forms and a good number of
those people will not actually owe any money.
About 45% do not end up owing any income tax at all but they still
need to file to get back the money withheld from their pay.

The ironic thing is we kicked out the brits to get away from unfair
taxes, Then we did it to ourselves.

+1 And thanks for the snippage.

--
Tekkie

On 08/30/2017 10:00 AM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

[snip]

And half the time the firemen are just rescuing someone's stupid cat
that got "stuck" up a tree. Rescue your own cat ffs! Even a 6 year old
boy can climb a tree, you don't need a tax-paid fireman!

and most (if not all) cats can get down if you let them.

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray." [Robert G.
Ingersoll]

On 08/30/2017 10:21 AM, Taxed and Spent wrote:

[snip]

I like Steve Martin's approach in Roxanne - just flick a can opener a
couple times, and the cat comes running.

I have an electric can opener that makes a unique sound. It is seldom
used for anything except feeding cats. The cats know the sound and come
running.

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray." [Robert G.
Ingersoll]

On 08/30/2017 11:48 AM, wrote:

[snip]

The strangest one here is gasoline. They always add a 0.9 at the end
of the price. It might have tricked someone when gas was 15.9 cents a
gallon but when it is $2.599 a gallon it is just unnecessary
complication.

If across the street you could get it for $2.60 instead of $2.599, where
would you go?

BTW, when I quickly look at those prices, the first one looks a lot lower.

On 08/30/2017 12:12 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 23:31:11 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

I'm self employed and have to fill in precisely TWO figures. Income. Expenditure. That's all. Sometimes if they think someone is filling them in oddly, they'll ask to check stuff, then you just hand them a huge pile of receipts and say, "you add it up".

That would be what we call the schedule C. You add up all of your
expenses and deduct it from your income. This is where you can really
sharpen your pencil to define what an "expense" is.
They even let you deduct the use of your home if it is your office.


I count my land as a business and use schedule C-EZ. It is that simple
(except you do subtract the numbers).

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray." [Robert G.
Ingersoll]

On 08/30/2017 12:27 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 23:16:28 -0400, Ralph Mowery
wrote:

Some
service stations would give you things from time to time just to get you
to stop in.

In the 60s, I would not have had any glasses if Shell did not give you
one for every fill up. I still have a few of the Christmas specials.
(stemmed things with painted christmas stuff on them)


"free with 20 gallon purchase". I remember a lot of those signs, until
economy cars became common and wouldn't hold 20 gallons.

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray." [Robert G.
Ingersoll]

On 08/30/2017 01:42 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:

[snip]

It probably stopped because the phone service went from analog to all
digital. Similar to what the TV stations did a few years back.

Terrestrial broadcast. IIRC some cable systems still have analog. Mine
stopped last year.

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray." [Robert G.
Ingersoll]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 21:27:23 +0100, Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson"),
the pathological attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again:

I never had a Pabst phone and the opener on the upper right is long lost...

Pabst is a brewing company. How does this relate to phones?

Look it up, attention whore!

--
More of Birdbrain Macaws's (now "James Wilkinson") strange world:
"Murder kills someone. Speeding does nothing of the sort."
MID:

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 21:26:53 +0100, Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson"),
the pathological attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again:


Why does the middle one look more like a taperecorder? What's with the play buttons?

Yeah, keep setting out those baits, you filthy troll! LOL

--
More of Birdbrain Macaw's (now "James Wilkinson" LOL) deep thinking:
"There should be no barriers, just big hard cow clearers on the front of
trains. Anyone can take their chances and get removed from the gene
pool. And the trains should be fitted with hi-res cameras so the
passengers can enjoy the carnage."
MID:

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 21:29:31 +0100, Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson"),
the pathological attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again:

Last time I called the police it was quite weird, I could hear them
telling each other my location while I was trying to tell them my
location.

Did you ever hear them discuss your psychiatric history in the background,
Birdbrain? BG

--
More from Birdbrain Macaw's (now "James Wilkinson" LOL) strange world:
"Oh dear. I wasn't sure anyone used trains anymore. They cost more than
cars."
MID:

On 08/30/2017 03:10 PM, Uncle Monster wrote:

I don't own a smartass phone and have no desire to. I just want something that makes phone calls. If I want to watch cat videos, I have a computer. ヽ(ヅ)ノ

[8~{} Uncle Digital Monster


I don't want one of those either, although it looks like it's getting
harder and harder to not need a smartphone.

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray." [Robert G.
Ingersoll]

On 08/30/2017 07:39 PM, wrote:

[snip]

Same here and for my buddies my age. We were all playing golf one day
and I said "let me see your phones". This is what we had.

http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Old%20guy%20phones.jpg

I know what the little green thing is. I STILL want to pretend it's a
USB flashdrive.

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 16:05:10 -0500, Mark Lloyd
wrote:

On 08/30/2017 01:42 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:

[snip]

It probably stopped because the phone service went from analog to all
digital. Similar to what the TV stations did a few years back.

Terrestrial broadcast. IIRC some cable systems still have analog. Mine
stopped last year.
I think virtually all North American cable suppliers have gone to the
encoded digital model - any also providing ultra high speed internet
over the cable HAD to -Just the way the system works.

On Thursday, August 31, 2017 at 4:02:17 PM UTC-5, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 08/30/2017 12:27 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 23:16:28 -0400, Ralph Mowery
wrote:

Some
service stations would give you things from time to time just to get you
to stop in.

In the 60s, I would not have had any glasses if Shell did not give you
one for every fill up. I still have a few of the Christmas specials.
(stemmed things with painted christmas stuff on them)

"free with 20 gallon purchase". I remember a lot of those signs, until
economy cars became common and wouldn't hold 20 gallons.
--
Mark Lloyd


My old Dodge van has a huge plastic gas tank and I think it holds 30 or 35 gallons. Back in the 1970's I had a little 4cyl car and it had a 10gal tank.. I don't know what size fuel tank my Jeep Grand Cherokee has. I'm more worried about the corn content of gasoline these days. ヽ(ヅ)ノ

[8~{} Uncle Corny Monster

On 08/31/2017 03:26 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

[snip]

Why does the middle one look more like a taperecorder? What's with the
play buttons?

I once had a phone that was also a music player. While playing music,
the phone would still show battery life and signal strength. However, it
would NOT show the time which is what I really wanted to see.

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray." [Robert G.
Ingersoll]

In article , says...

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 22:10:55 +0100, Mark Lloyd wrote:

On 08/30/2017 03:10 PM, Uncle Monster wrote:

I don't own a smartass phone and have no desire to. I just want something that makes phone calls. If I want to watch cat videos, I have a computer. ?(?)?

[8~{} Uncle Digital Monster


I don't want one of those either, although it looks like it's getting
harder and harder to not need a smartphone.

Really? I manage just fine with texts and calls on my phone. I see no urgency to use Facebook while I'm out.

On 08/30/2017 03:10 PM, Uncle Monster wrote:

I don't own a smartass phone and have no desire to. I just want
something that makes phone calls. If I want to watch cat videos, I have
a computer. ?(?)?

[8~{} Uncle Digital Monster


I don't want one of those either, although it looks like it's getting
harder and harder to not need a smartphone.

Really? I manage just fine with texts and calls on my phone. I see
no urgency to use Facebook while I'm out.

I don't use my smart phone for very much. I seldom make any calls.
Today I made 2 to the wife while I was out. First time I called
anyone on it in over 3 months..

I use it for 2 things. One is it has a calander in it I put my
appointments on. The 2nd almost pays for the phone. Walmart has an ap
where you take a pix of the code on the cash register paper and it looks
at advertisements of other stores in the area and if any are lower, they
refund you the difference. Not a whole lot, but usually around $ 2 a
week on about $ 200 worth of stuff we buy.

As Direct TV can be seen on the phone, I guess I could take it with me
to the bathroom while doing my business.

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 22:40:45 +0100, Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson"),
the pathological attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again:


I once had a phone that was also a music player. While playing music,
the phone would still show battery life and signal strength. However, it
would NOT show the time which is what I really wanted to see.

I thought all phones played music.

CUNNING bait, Birdbrain! So innocuous! You're a genius troll, ******! LOL

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More from Birdbrain Macaw's (now "James Wilkinson" LOL) strange sociopathic
world:
"I worked out that I often break TEN laws in one hour."
MID:

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 22:40:16 +0100, Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson"),
the pathological attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again:



That's for lighting the herbs.

Driveling idiot!

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More of Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson" LOL) strange world:
"I'm comparing being able to tell the difference between 21 and 12 to being
able to tell the difference between 21 and 12. If you think that it's easy
to think a 12 year old is 21, it's only fair to use it as a reason when you
get caught ****ing a 12 year old, which you mistook to be 21."
MID:

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 22:39:47 +0100, Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson"),
the pathological attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again:



Really? I manage just fine with texts and calls on my phone. I see no
urgency to use Facebook while I'm out.

IOW, you can't AFFORD one, you dole and welfare whore!

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More of Birdbrain Macaws's (now "James Wilkinson") strange world:
"Murder kills someone. Speeding does nothing of the sort."
MID:

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 22:04:59 +0100, Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson"),
the pathological attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again:



and most (if not all) cats can get down if you let them.

Indeed.

Yeah, keep your dumb Yank on the hook, Birdbrain! LOL

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More of Birdbrain Macaw's (now "James Wilkinson" LOL) deep thinking:
"There should be no barriers, just big hard cow clearers on the front of
trains. Anyone can take their chances and get removed from the gene
pool. And the trains should be fitted with hi-res cameras so the
passengers can enjoy the carnage."
MID:

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 22:04:49 +0100, Birdbrain Macaw (now "James Wilkinson"),
the pathological attention whore of all the uk ngs, blathered again:

FLUSH attention whore's insipid drivel

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More details of Birdbrain Macaw's (now "James Wilkinson" LOL) sociopathic
life:
"Because it's fun. I set loads of stuff on fire when I was a kid."
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