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Hope for male 'pill' breakthrough

What happened to the one you put in your shoe and it makes you limp? :hysterical:

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As corny as that was, it did make me :lol:

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I use a landline and as long as one is in existence, I always will. I dislike speaking on a cell phone and use it solely for emergency purposes. I know that I'm one of the few, as is my husband, my Canadian in-laws and my sister, but we are all more comfortable with a landline than having to constantly be charging a phone, worried about incurring over the limit charges, and frankly, limiting out consciousness of life around us because we are talking or texting on a mobile phone. We don't need to be connected to the world 24/7. So why is my choice depressing for you?

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:thumbs_up: :amen:

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The depressing part wasn't your choices. It was the fact that somebody made a big deal out of just using a phone as a phone and had to go on the equivalent of a juice cleanse to rid themselves of texting, snapchatting, twittering, instagramming etc on the phone instead of just using it as a phone.. The phone as a communication device for one on one discussions can be excellent. I do find though with text conversations there are so many misunderstandings and if somebody goes away from their phone the other person doesn't know why they aren't getting responses.

Our landline is rapidly becoming the place for duct cleaning calls, supposed windows virus solutions, miracle credit card rate type calls. However keeping a landline saves more money on the bill than getting rid of it. Somewhat similar to a return train trip costing less than a single.

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Should know by end of next week.

We have tried a couple times to move into places that are cheaper but so much competition in the rental market we have not managed to get approved anywhere yet.


As for landline we still have one, and as long as the $20 charge is credited each month making it essentially free, I'll keep it, cheaper then a 2nd cell phone, and good to have a phone at home when the other has the cell with them out and about.

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:thumbup: and :fingerscrossed:

We have a landline. In the event of an 'event' mobile/cell phone services are immediately overwhelmed . A landline makes sense.

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I don't listen to voicemail. I google the incoming number and, if it seems that it might matter, I return the call but I don't bother anymore with listening to sequentially stored messages. Hundreds of them are backlogged. If the message is important the sender will email it.

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+1

If they think it's a message that needs to get through, they'll email or text. If it was a phone-call thing then they might have thought it was time-sensitive, but it can't be that important if they're going to leave a voice message that might or might not ever get picked up.

I actually can't remember the last phone call I got that wasn't 'CRA need your bitcoin NOW', 'We're conducting a survey' or what I'm guessing was one of those (or their ilk) but performed in Chinese (turns out according to my phone it was while apartment hunting in August). Not had a landline for many years - last time I had one (2008) its main use was for the debts of the previous user of that number. I think we may have theoretically been paying line rental in 2015-17 because it made the internet cheaper, but never even looked for the phone jack never mind bought a handset to plug into it.

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Should have read the article but I didn't. I text on the mobile but I don't snapchat, twitter, instagram or anything else on it or my pc.

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I listen to voice mail.

Most calls are from doctors, job interviews, government, and so on that generally wont be emailing or texting.

Our plan only allows 3 voice mails at a time so cant exactly pile up. Lol

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Just finished watching The Godfather part III, thanks to my new-found cable provider. That's the first time I've seen it since its original release in 1990.

Superb to my mind, although it got voted down a bit according to IMDB. Can't see that at all, we're in it for Al Pacino after all, aren't we? :confused:

Edit: Post was potentially unclear, I did originally see the film in a moving picture theatre back in early 1991.

But my sound system here is better. :p

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Weird thing for me...had all the ingredients. Great director, great writers, great actors....possibly I expected too much.

Much preferred Goodfellas.

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Goodfellas is great film...but not as good as The Godfather I & II.

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