On Thursday, August 31, 2017 at 4:50:29 PM UTC-5, Ralph Mowery wrote:
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.


I used to take a newspaper or novel with me to the bathroom when I needed to drop a load of Ready Mix. Now I take my Amazon Fire tablet and watch Amazon Prime TV shows and movies. ヽ(ヅ)ノ

[8~{} Uncle Movie Monster

On 8/31/2017 3:37 PM, Uncle Monster wrote:
On Thursday, August 31, 2017 at 4:50:29 PM UTC-5, Ralph Mowery wrote:
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.


I used to take a newspaper or novel with me to the bathroom when I needed to drop a load of Ready Mix. Now I take my Amazon Fire tablet and watch Amazon Prime TV shows and movies. ヽ(ヅ)ノ

[8~{} Uncle Movie Monster



remind me not to borrow your tablet.

On Thursday, August 31, 2017 at 5:38:20 PM UTC-5, Taxed and Spent wrote:
On 8/31/2017 3:37 PM, Uncle Monster wrote:
On Thursday, August 31, 2017 at 4:50:29 PM UTC-5, Ralph Mowery wrote:
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.


I used to take a newspaper or novel with me to the bathroom when I needed to drop a load of Ready Mix. Now I take my Amazon Fire tablet and watch Amazon Prime TV shows and movies. ヽ(ヅ)ノ

[8~{} Uncle Movie Monster

remind me not to borrow your tablet.


It's in a waterproof hard case. I clean it often with Windex. I pick my nose while using it and must clean the smeared boogers off the screen. ヽ(ヅ)ノ

[8~{} Uncle Picky Monster

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 17:50:22 -0400, Ralph Mowery
wrote:

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.


I had my smart phone with no data plan for years. It was just a phone
with a camera and calendar.
I finally put data on it so I could use it as a hot-spot when working
on customer's computers - you need internet to do just about anything
today

In article ,
says...


I had my smart phone with no data plan for years. It was just a phone
with a camera and calendar.
I finally put data on it so I could use it as a hot-spot when working
on customer's computers - you need internet to do just about anything
today


The plan I have cost me $ 12 and some change per month, $ 10 and tax.
With it I have unlimiated phone and text. When I am around wifi it will
connect to the internet. If I am not near wifi and really need the
internet, I can punch in a code and get the plan upgraded, and when I am
finished I can go back to just phone, and only pay for a month of data.

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 16:02:11 -0500, 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.

I never saw that. It was 8 gallon minimum on a "fill up" for a free
glass. My 72 Ford van only had a 16 gallon tank but my 71 Gremlin had
a 25 gallon tank.
When I topped up my 69 Corvette it was $5 and 13.9 gallons of Sunoco
260.
In those days you never got out of the car, they checked your oil and
washed your windshield. You told them how much gas you wanted and
handed them the money.

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 21:26:53 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 01:39:04 +0100, 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

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

It is for the MP3 player function.

On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 16:18:13 -0400, Tekkie®
wrote:

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...

You use that to "vent" the can so the beer comes out better.

On 2017-09-01, wrote:

In those days.....

......we ladled gas outta a big bucket, then sat around the cracker
barrel and played our banjos..... yada, yada.

nb

On 08/31/2017 04:16 PM, wrote:

[snip]

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.

Of course they didn't need to ENCRYPT everything.

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

"What the mind cannot believe the heart can finally never adore." Bishop
John Shelby Spong, Rescuing the Bible From Fundamentalism, (San
Fransisco: Harper Collins, 1991), p. 24.

On 08/31/2017 04:40 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 22:14:35 +0100, notX wrote:

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.

That's for lighting the herbs.


OK. Those herbs have a nice smell.


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

"What the mind cannot believe the heart can finally never adore." Bishop
John Shelby Spong, Rescuing the Bible From Fundamentalism, (San
Fransisco: Harper Collins, 1991), p. 24.

On 08/31/2017 04:50 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:

[snip]

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

I know things on TV that would be appropriate there.

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

"What the mind cannot believe the heart can finally never adore." Bishop
John Shelby Spong, Rescuing the Bible From Fundamentalism, (San
Fransisco: Harper Collins, 1991), p. 24.