ALL YOUR TEXTINGS ARE BELONG TO US
Brian 'Jarai' Chase
Why is it that people in the UK are so completely enthralled with SMS text
messaging? I usually get my news from the BBC, and it seems like every
few days there's some article on their website covering the important
topic of text messaging. From what I gather, you UKians are obsessed with
this concept like it were some sort of Pokémon phenomenon.
The BBC even has a whole section of their website dedicated to text
messaging titled The Joy of Text! http://www.bbc.co.uk/joyoftext/
And call it "Texting"? I'M TEXTING YOU WRITE^H^H^H^H^HRIGHT NOW, BABY!
Is this happening elsewhere in Europe, or in Austria? I know its used to
some extent here, but it doesn't seem to be such a prominent form of
communication. In Amerka when people have cell phones, they actually use
them to "speak" with other people. Is SMS messaging with your phones
significantly cheaper than calling?
I bet it has something to do with you all being shy, and using lots of
public transportation. Either that, or your gov't has brainwashed you all
to think this is a good way to communicate. It makes it easy for them to
profile you with very little in the way of computing and storage
resources. Somewhere deep in the bowels of Thames House, Millbank,
London--there's a hard disk filled with ASCII piggys and monkeys.
-jarai.
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Ben Wolfson
> The BBC even has a whole section of their website dedicated to text
> messaging titled The Joy of Text! http://www.bbc.co.uk/joyoftext/
> And call it "Texting"? I'M TEXTING YOU WRITE^H^H^H^H^HRIGHT NOW, BABY!
This *will* be the premise of mentos commercial in the near future.
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> Why is it that people in the UK are so completely enthralled
> with SMS text messaging?
Because it's the only text messaging with extra electrons!!!
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Zixia
> Why is it that people in the UK are so completely enthralled with
> SMS text messaging? I usually get my news from the BBC, and it
> seems like every few days there's some article on their website
> covering the important topic of text messaging. From what I
> gather, you UKians are obsessed with this concept like it were
> some sort of Pokémon phenomenon.
I don't get it.
There is an ad for a mobile 'phone company, or something like that, in
the cinema. The ad appears after the rest of the advertisements and
the trailers, probable because they have paid extra money. But it
shows woman in her pyjamas and nightgown walking to what appears to be
the South Pole, where some scientists are preparing a UFO^H^H^H weather
balloon.
When she gets there, she walks over to some frosted-over packing boxes
and writes 'Night night' on one of them. One of the scientists then
gets a peck on the cheek from her, and it almost brings a tear to his
eye. I think some sort of writing appears on the screen extolling the
wonders of text messaging.
I keep on wondering why she just didn't call him to say goodnight.
That would have been much more personal.
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James Vandenberg
> Is this happening elsewhere in Europe, or in Austria?
Austrian experience:
SMS:
ME) u want get pised tnite?
THEM) saloon 7pm?
ME) ok!
Talkies:
ME) Hello?
THEM) Gday mate
ME) Wanna go get pissed?
THEM) What? You're breaking up!
ME) What was that? I can't hear you!
THEM) Hello? James? Hello?
ME) Hello! Hello?
*Telstra cuts out*
*I call back*
THEM) What's this about Quilts?
ME) Get drunk?
THEM) Yeah! when?
ME) What?
THEM) When?
ME) Saloon?
THEM) Okay, 7pm?
ME) Send them where?
THEM) 7pm!
ME) Oh! Ok, see you there!
THEM) Seat you hare?
*Telstra cuts outi again*
*They call back*
ME) Hi, 7pm?
THEM) Ok!
ME) Right, seeya!
THEM) O-ay, s-e y-u the-e, reme-ber the-
*Telstra cuts out*
Ja-love-telstra!-mes
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Joseph Michael Bay
>I bet it has something to do with you all being shy, and using lots of
>public transportation. Either that, or your gov't has brainwashed you all
>to think this is a good way to communicate. It makes it easy for them to
>profile you with very little in the way of computing and storage
>resources. Somewhere deep in the bowels of Thames House, Millbank,
>London--there's a hard disk filled with ASCII piggys and monkeys.
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