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Is this US ?
March 08 2010
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RHP User
16 years ago
In any office in Australia the same thing will occur - if the computers go blank, work stops. People have forgotten how to work without them, the very act of writing on paper seems alien to some.I remember going to a computer expo for work back around 1990. Bill Gates gave the keynote address via video and the expo theme was 'The Paperless Office'. His comment - 'The advent of the paperless office will come just after the western world's acceptance of the paperless toilet"!!!Thanks to the net, people have become lazy, even speech and the written word has suffered, is 'b4' really that quicker to type than 'before'?
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RHP User
16 years ago
But you know what ? we would not have met if it werent for the internet and rhp !! We would not have had some great encounters with random people..We mix in different social circles that in would never of led us to here.. But this is no different to fast food..We eat on the run , where are the sunday baked dinners etc.. I like the way the world turns ..Lets look at the positivse we can webcam and say hello or whatever else we want to do .. Lets enjoy this ride ..a deep Taipan !!
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RHP User
16 years ago
when was EVERYBODY writing and communicating with each like before?They didn't. We weren't out there all hand writing wonderfully formed letters to each other - letters were something special. You spoke to people in person, or waited till you saw them - maybe someone special got a phone call. So while I always like to use full words and sentences in my texts (yay for unlimited text phone plans) because I don't have to worry about fitting it into 164 characters or it costs extra - I'm still using it just like talking. I dislike textspeak, but it isn't meant to be well formed English, it is quick slang communication - digital chatter.Most 'blogs' are junk, don't think of them as publishing as such - they're more akin to the loud kid in the group that likes the sound of their own voice.Now, I read technical blogs - and most new software development information comes out first via well written, easily found and consumed blogs. I'm grateful for these modern day equivalents of the self-published pamphlets that writers (or dissidents) used to distribute - but now I can read them, not just the few people in the local distribution area.(That all said I dislike text-speak, and worry about kids who cannot read/write at a higher level. Just like I worry about the inability of many people to do maths without a calculator.)Mooka: on the paperless office - I received a test plan from a woman via email, I'd sent it as an excel file she just had to check boxes and send back electronically... instead she'd printed out 40 pages, circled each box, scanned it back in, emailed it to me... the kicker was the email signature " be green, please think of the environment" *facepalm*
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RHP User
16 years ago
I've had a lot more disagreements since using txt messaging and MSN than I did when I used to speak to people ! It seems that everyone will go for the easy route ... and choose MSN over phone. I've had 5 MSN chats going at once, I can't do that with the phone... well I could but it would be more awkward. The problem is that I'm frequently distracted so what I'm trying to say is often badly expressed. When I use the phone I give the person all my attention (unless I'm on chat at the same time, oh and sometimes camming too). My husband won my heart with the most incredible love letters I've ever read. I would be blown away if ANY man could write so well on paper today AND have the confidence to send it. Perhaps this is why women are frequently left wondering if a man really cares. All we get is, "c u lata babe xx". I'd much prefer, "the depths of my heart will shudder in the cold without your warmth surrounding it" (I just made that up... no one's ever said that to me... but if they did then I'd never let them go and probably give them the most incredible blow job they've ever experienced!) xx Miss Saturn
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RHP User
16 years ago
yes! yes it's us!!! i agree completely, and it pisses me off!!! ... but i could never live without my iPhone... what we used to be is pretty irrelevant... we also never used to drive cars, or have medical... the internet has alot of pro's aswell... for example, i have the internet, and now i can steal poetry from someone i dont know (thnx Saturn!). with access to fast information everything else tends to speed up with it... as we're bombarded with information, our attention span gets less and less (really really!)... communicating, relationships, jerk-off sessions, food... it sucks, and rocks at the same time!!! i agree with Taipan... it's the year 2010... adapt! ...and write poetry!!!
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RHP User
16 years ago
Okay on that side of the discussion i understand where your coming from Miss Saturn.. We do get carried away the short cuts.We abbreviate too many things these days..bad habits perhaps .I think these bad habits then creep into day to day life, and relationships.. A simple i love you, says alot for 3 words x
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RHP User
16 years ago
"I love you".... does NOT say a lot in my opinion !!! It is the most over rated and misused word known to human kind ! I can think of a recent experience when it was said to me and I knew it wasn't possible... you can't fall in love with someone after a few hours !!! (even if the sex is THAT good !) Sorry, but I'm cynical. I've fallen for it too many times and been hurt as a result. If a man loves me, he will know how to express it with more than "I love you". xx Miss Saturn
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RHP User
16 years ago
But i believe you can see it in their eyes ..I havent been in love for a long time..And we all know that feeling when we are with someone that you think about all the time, you cant wait to see them or something funny happened so you ring them to share it.. We are all different , i still have a love letter from my ex wife that blows me away.. I know the next time i hear it said to me i maybe sceptical too..I have not said it for a long long time..So the next time i say it , it will mean so much.. Sheez you have to stop getting me so deep !!
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RHP User
16 years ago
Oh My God, Yeah sure i don't have perfect punctuation and grammar or anything but when you have a parent that is a teacher boy do you get told about it,it gives her shits no ends.I have to tell her off at me.One classic example for me is once when i said ours and she said theirs no 'h' in ours so drop it and try again.
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RHP User
16 years ago
Quoting 'Miss_Saturn' I've had a lot more disagreements since using txt messaging and MSN than I did when I used to speak to people ! ....... My husband won my heart with the most incredible love letters I've ever read. I would be blown away if ANY man could write so well on paper today AND have the confidence to send it. Perhaps this is why women are frequently left wondering if a man really cares. All we get is, "c u lata babe xx". I'd much prefer, "the depths of my heart will shudder in the cold without your warmth surrounding it" (I just made that up... no one's ever said that to me... but if they did then I'd never let them go and probably give them the most incredible blow job they've ever experienced!) xx Miss Saturn *jotting down corny phrases*is that tapping into the old "women love drama" thing?A book I read that was interesting and not OTT love letters was "A lifelong passion", it is the story of the last Russian Tsar and Tsarina told using their recovered letters and journal entries (unlike most married aristocracy these two were very much in love with each other, and it showed in their writing). Just for anyone who likes that sort of stuff without having it bunged on so thick you'd need a shovel to dig through it like in chick lit that oriented that way.Back onto MSN disagreements, I think a lot of people forget to adorn their text with pointers as to how something should be read."you stupid fucker", "you stupid fucker :( ", "you stupid fucker :) " the same thing three ways, but the first is ambiguous, while in the other two one is clearly angry and the other is joking.
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Letsgetcrazy09
16 years ago
Miss Saturn, I can relate to the Californication quote you made. Before the billy lids had tried to get me to speak more SMS speak or at least reply to their text messages, I resisted, I gave in. When I first came to RHP I tried to type everything properly, using the Kings English (as best I could), but alas, the rooms moved too fast so I start to use even more the now common SMS type speak. What a shame we are too busy to sit and write or type things in full. Life has become so busy. As for writing on paper, I love it. My hand is not as neat as it used to be, or should I say my hand is only neat when I sit down and concentrate on my writing. With schooling and then work, writing fast becomes a way of life, the only problem, with speed comes splopiness, abbreviations, illegible hand writing. Oh can we not just take a step back, take a breather, let us catch our lives again. Things are moving so fast, too fast, what is this technology really providing us with? I agree, one on one talking is much better, writing is becoming a lost skill. As to Taipan's "I Love You", is it a throw away line?, is it really meant? I think only the person saying it knows fully how heart felt the words spoken are. Hopefully the recipient is there to hear the heartfelt warmth of the words spoken. I guess you could take apart the meaning of "I'm sorry", isn't this really just something to say at a funeral when words just swirl around anyway, when what else can you say. If sorry is used for an apology, then why not elaborate more as to what you are sorry about. Oh here I go again on a rant, on a philosophical tangent. Customer69, Yes let that hair out of the librarians bun will you please. Seriously though, how so true about the kids though. If you sit and tell them how hard you had it at school, how you were not given the opportunities they are given they just find it funny and laugh. Perhaps we have all spared the rod too much. All in all, if it wasn't for the internet I would not have met all you wonderful people. To that end I do hope to meet some of you in person at the meet and greets in Melbourne and perhaps some others at other state meet and greets in my travels. Then we will add the personal touch, sum up our judgements of how we have perceived one another on the net and hopefully have a great time together. Until then, play safe in the jungle. Cheers Lets
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RHP User
16 years ago
Quoting 'sexyme21' Oh My God, Yeah sure i don't have perfect punctuation and grammar or anything but when you have a parent that is a teacher boy do you get told about it,it gives her shits no ends.I have to tell her off at me.One classic example for me is once when i said ours and she said theirs no 'h' in ours so drop it and try again. ...lol sexyme21....absolutely, what one person says and the other person hears and understands can be 2 different things. Jx
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RHP User
16 years ago
Yes I totally agree, life sped up, distance means less and manners take up too much time. The English language isn't suffering as much as you'd like it to, it is the most taught language in the world as a second language, and they are teaching it correctly. I do think its funny that my local restaurateur, who is from India, knows more English than my siblings. Our language is the most fluid on the planet as well! Think of what the people in Shakespeare's circle would think of the way we talk, but we follow some very strict grammatic rules, and there are some ways you just can't take that way is to get someone to understand talking a word is from your mouth. In answer to the quote yes very witty. Still I am communicating with more people without having to get through all the "Oh how was your day; Yes terrible weather; So how's your mum; yes the mujahideen are doing shocking things to those people" etc. etc. So I get more direct transmission than small talk both ways. U say I luv U is ovausd bt I ment it wen I sed it!. The depths of my heart will shudder in the cold without your warmth surrounding it Oops brb gtg pizza pocket Random
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