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At last.......I got a Life

Costas2008

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Costas2008 Ruby Member

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Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m proud to announce to you that I got a life.

In the past, I was watching my wife and her kids going up and down, left and right, with their fingers on their mobile phones and I was feeling depressed and left out, also anywhere I used to go, I could see all people of all ages engaged in the same activity.

So yesterday, went to Khon Kaen to look for a new camera and instead I bought a new mobile phone.

One of those with the big screen and a camera front and back.

So took it home and started fiddling with it, so I know what that super thing can do for me.

It took me half an hour to switch it on, another half hour to set the day and time and by 11:00 in the night got fed up and through it on my desk.

The bigger problem is that my wife rang me this morning, but for the life of me I didn’t know how to answer the bloody thing……..not so easy as to push a button as I have done with all my older mobiles.

So I had to rush to one of her sons, and I was amazed to see his finger going up on the screen and answer the phone.

Didn’t realize, I need a PhD, to operate this thing.

But even after all my troubles; I’m determined to master the thing.

It can take me years, but at the end I will succeed in my quest………. I’m really determined.

But at least, I won’t feel left out any more.

I can always pretend that I’m doing something important, by moving my fingers up and down, left and right on that awkward contraption.

Thank you for listening to me and there is no need any more to tell me to get a life.

I got one now, the only thing don’t know what to do with it.w00t.gif

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Brit_Doggie Silver Member

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All the mod phones are all touch screens or swipe to answer, thats the easy part keeping the darn things charged for more than 10 hours is the difficult part.

When i saw the post i've got a life i thought you was leaving so i had to say goodbye lol.

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I think you should have stuck with buying a camera...

Diao, diao, as the Thais say (Wait, Wait)

I will get the camera in the very near future.

Can't get 2 lives in one go...................

snottgoblin Silver Member

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I think you should have stuck with buying a camera...

Diao, diao, as the Thais say (Wait, Wait)

I will get the camera in the very near future.

Can't get 2 lives in one go...................

Are you going to do a version of big brother?

Could be very interesting

Costas2008 Ruby Member

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I'm guessing you didn't create and post your OP on it?

You must be joking.....it's next to me on my desk, looking pretty at me.

It's the first steps of our lasting love affair.

The only problem is the wife keeps asking me to give it to her and she will give me hers.

No way, Hose..............this is my new life.

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pgrahmm Platinum Member

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Have fun with your new toy....you can really drive your post count up now....

Thoughts from every room in the house....every mood - with instant pictures !!!!! Sadly - your life will never be the same - just ask Google.....

I'll miss your creative posts since smart phone keyboards seem to be made for pixies, gnomes, and fairies....

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noahvail Gold Member

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Costas, when you said you finally got a life, I thought you had some success on a computer game. But no, you have bought a swipe phone...you will be assimilated....

Tywais Star Member

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I think you should have stuck with buying a camera...

Then we will never hear from him for days as he tries to figure out how to operate that. I have a smartphone but my camera options/features make it look dumb. biggrin.png

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I think you should have stuck with buying a camera...

He did.

Just that the camera (s) he got had a phone attached to them.........................tongue.png

Songhua Platinum Member

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I'm guessing you didn't create and post your OP on it?

You must be joking.....it's next to me on my desk, looking pretty at me.

It's the first steps of our lasting love affair.

The only problem is the wife keeps asking me to give it to her and she will give me hers.

No way, Hose..............this is my new life.

Do not give it to her. It is yours and never should it be released from your grasp.
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Costas, a word of warning when you master your new device, don't show off with it.

When I got my first smart phone, a friend came round and asked if he could borrow a newspaper. I told him I didn't get newspapers anymore as my smartphone now substituted many newspapers and I insisted that he borrowed the phone to try it.

Twenty minutes later he returned my new phone in four bits and said it didn't work very well.

He wanted the newspaper to kill a fly.

Never, ever forget low-tech...........................wai.gif

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thehelmsman Silver Member

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I always get a chuckle when I use my simple basic Nokia I've had for 7 yrs. with people around I tell them its an I-Phone. When the new phones can cook and wash clothes perhaps I'll get a new one.

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I think you should have stuck with buying a camera...

Diao, diao, as the Thais say (Wait, Wait)

I will get the camera in the very near future.

Can't get 2 lives in one go...................

Don't bother with a camera, these days they are redundant and more complicated than the phone. blink.png

I have a compact camera and video camera, just a few years old. We used to go out and I would be snapping and filming away for the family album.

Now don't need them anymore.

The kids have camera tablets and the wife a smartphone and they do all the snapping and filming.

I and my cameras are redundant.

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krisb Ruby Member

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Smartphones are brilliant.

Pay my bills, rego my car, book a hotel room, even talk to someone on them.

Once you get one you can never go back.

Costas2008 Ruby Member

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I think you should have stuck with buying a camera...

Then we will never hear from him for days as he tries to figure out how to operate that. I have a smartphone but my camera options/features make it look dumb. biggrin.png

No, no nothing will take me away from my beloved keyboard.

Just to update the members, I managed to set it up with wi-fi.

I've put my Email address in.

Now looking as to how to put this Thai Visa application in.

I'll let you know later as to my progress.

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so the shop you purchased it from did not turn it on and set the time and date for you ?

I call bullshite.

Bought it at Tesco.

They just checked that it is working, after my request.

Don't just call.......eat it also.

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tifino Ruby Member

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My first TouchPhone got last year, and I made sure it also had a keypad. (nokia asha300)

Pretty rare to find phones now that have both touch and keys.

We'd had a few different all-touchies, that the touchscreen fails within a year, and you are then s.t.u.c.k.

but good luck, and don't forget to make a future appt with doctor to separate your chin from your chest smile.png

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carib102 Senior Member

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Sadly by the time you figure out how to use it the damn thing will be obsolete as both iOS and Andriod will have been updated umpteem times, requiring you to get the latest all singing, dancing, picture taking, gaming, socializing phone which will have just enough differences to drive you finally to the brink of madness. Enjoy your new venture into the world of high-tech!

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so the shop you purchased it from did not turn it on and set the time and date for you ?

I call bullshite.

Bought it at Tesco.

They just checked that it is working, after my request.

Don't just call.......eat it also.

Yeah when you first turn on a new phone you need to set the time/date/language which tells me they never got as far as slipping in a sim card.......

What did they check that was working other than the on/off button ?

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