Rory informed me that she had about that many last month. I can't even begin to imagine.
Anyone who suggests counting numbers of comments left here in a typical month will be banned.
Are a lot of the messages things like "LOL" and such? You could drag an exchange into a dozen or more texts doing that. Just look at the length of many unfogged threads.
3: Yep. Not so much with the LOLs, but many an OMG, K, GTG, BRB....
Sent and received. A lot of those could be, I dunno, texts from news services you subscribe to? (I am out of touch with the kids. Do they do that?)
I have received five text messages in my life, all on the burner I was carrying during the first UnfoggeDCon. My entire texting history consists of Tweety, Fontana Labs, and SP.
A lot of people do route twitter to their cell phones.
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I came across a lawsuit that relates to the surrogacy abortion thread. In this case, the question is whether a Muslim truck driver can be fired for refusing to transport beer. In case you find it interesting, here is the link. It's being discussed at the Volokh Conspiracy so there are many links to other cases and statutes. Enjoy!
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I try to keep up on this stuff because it's so essential to my job. So I'm rather embarrassed with my first reaction to receiving a text on my iPhone, which was to think, "How did this box get here?"
Does the coaster/beeper thing that Panera gives you to say when your sandwich is ready count as a text sent? If so, the kids with jobs might be boosting the average.
Maybe I'm just too focused on lunch. But, in honor of Natilo, I skipped Jimmy Johns and that is the closest place to my office unless you count Arby's as a place to eat.
Panera sucks. Text that to your children
It doesn't suck as much as Arby's.
I suppose that depends on your level of interest in curly fries.
2: I'm not *suggesting* it, but the archives layout and comment scheme make it an easy number to estimate--which I've done.
I'm glad I read LB's #2 before posting the first thing that came to mind.
My kids buy their own phone credit. I.e. they are not sending 30 texts a day.
I know you're a mathematician, not an arithmetician or even statistician, but this is one of those areas where the median would probably be a lot more informative than the mean, if you had to pick just one.
In this case, the question is whether a Muslim truck driver can be fired for refusing to transport beer.
I hope so, because I hope that eventually somebody will rule that pharmacists can be fired for refusing to sell contraception.
But I don't believe there's any prohibition in Islam against transporting beer, or even selling it to non-Muslims. You can't drink it; what other people get up to is not your problem.
25: Later on in the post Volokh quotes cases stating that it doesn't matter if your belief isn't the majority belief of your religion as long as the claimant sincerely believes it.
Heretics deserve protection as well.
This is not right. Texting so much means that these kids don't have to call each other to set up dates. Which means that they are having a lot more dates and more fun than I did in my awkward teens, and probably my awkward twenties. I want to take all of these phones away.
In the interest of science, I checked my bill for last month. Since getting a smartphone, I'm pretty sure my texting frequency has gone up.
-Phone calls (total): 246 minutes
-Texts: 467
-Data: 1,100,700 Kb*
*I don't really know what to make of this number or why it's given to me, since the plan is unlimited. I'm supposed to brag about it, perhaps?
My entire texting history consists of Tweety, Fontana Labs, and SP.
I'll bet Sarah Palin sends very articulate texts.
In the interest of science, I ate three "Fiber Plus" bars because that added to 100% of the recommended daily allowance for fiber.
A lot of people do route twitter to their cell phones.
This is an excellent point.
but this is one of those areas where the median would probably be a lot more informative than the mean, if you had to pick just one.
This is not, since I'm most curious about the people on the high end.
14: Yay!
25: In the case here (which was made much of by local rightists, but was actually a tempest in a teacup), the issue was that one of the local imams (from basically the most conservative mosque in town) issued some kind of sub-fatwa ruling that taxi drivers whose passengers were *openly* transporting liquor home from the duty-free at the airport, should refuse those passengers. Other local imams disagreed, but there were some drivers who felt bound by that. The backstory is that what was really going on was that there was an organizing drive among the cabbies to get better rates for airport trips. Then, the organizing drive fizzled, the airports commission ruled that if you refused a fair, you had to go back to the end of the line, and it all came to nothing in the end, except for giving the rightists another club with which to bash local Muslims.
This is not, since I'm most curious about the people on the high end.
"The average. The average kid is sending an average of about 90 messages a day."
30: I like to compare the number to various use plans. I'm grandfathered in under the iPhone unlimited plan, but if I were to switch to their incremental use plans so far I would save a little bit of money. But I'm deeply suspicious of any plan that charges you extra when you exceed the data threshold so I'd never switch. What if I suddenly need to view YouTube videos 24/7?!
35: Okay, but what the hell else can you do when all I've got is the average to work with? You have information about how this graph is skewed?
To the OP, I suspect group texts can partially answer this: if you send a single text message to 30 people, that counts as 30 text messages for billing purposes. I believe group texts get used a lot to coördinate things.
38: The problem with group texts is, there's no reply-all function, so you miss out on the kind of accidental hilarity that ensues on big-group-of-people-CC-type email exchanges.
I would be less surprised by a median of 2 than a median of 90.
21: My kids have to pay too. They still send/receive many many texts.
I would be more surprised by a median of 2 than a median of 90, but more surprised by a median of 90 than a median of 30. If I were to rank my surprise, it would go: 2, 90, 30.
I'd be surprised by a median of 3.14159.
I'd be very upset to learn that text messages contain a hidden geometrical constant.
If you are often surprised by medians you should consider texting less while driving.
I'd be very upset to learn that text messages contain a hidden geometrical constant.
Shhh...the cognescenti know it as heebie-geebie's number.
else can you do when all I've got is the average to work with?
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There's a place in Puerto Rico named Ciales?
Unfortunate name, amigos.
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50: Yeah, I hear they're pretty hard up.
50: The resort there has two bathtubs in every room (so friends have told me. I wouldn't need, er, know first hand).
50. Presumably Cia/lis is a regular third declension Latin noun like "pen/is", so Ciales would be several of them, maybe a week's worth.
two bathtubs
Is there any explanation for the 'two bathtubs' thing? That always leaves me with my head cocked on one side like the RCA terrier, trying to figure it out.
That always leaves me with my head cocked
They don't list that one in the possible side effects to discuss with your doctor.
That always leaves me with my head cocked
You can use an erection whatever way you want.
The only thing I can figure on the two bath tubs is that obviously the people are naked, so, you know. Implied naked people implies sex.
What "two bathtubs" thing?
The "one shower" thing would seem to have more possibilities.
54: we are Google proofing pen/is now?
61. Dittography, dear boy, pure dittography.
56: Cialis (I think? Maybe Viagra) TV ads always or often finish up with the attractive elderly couple soaking in separate bathtubs somewhere outdoors. And, you know (a) how does the plumbing work and (b) how are you supposed to have sex, regardless of pharmaceutical enhancement, if you're not even in the same bathtub? I'm sure I'm just overly literal minded here.
What "two bathtubs" thing?
There's a commercial with an older couple looking lovingly at each other, presumably after he's all pilled-up and ready to go, while each sits in a separate bathtub (facing the sea, I think?). The implication is supposed to be that they're feeling randy, but the more likely end result is someone having a slipping accident (cue segue to Medical Alert "fallen and I can't get up" commercial).
On preview, pwned, but I added a dumb joke!
Perhaps it's the outline created by the negative space below and between the tubs.
Open, touchy, physical people who want the drug are customers already. The commercial is aimed at people who haven't yet started buying, modest well-groomed normal people just like the ones in the commercial, not people with questionable morals who use shared hot tubs.
I'm sure I'm just overly literal minded here.
You can watch your geezer porn on the internet, LB, if that floats your boat. But please keep it off my TV. I'm trying to watch a football game.
68: I'm still repressing the image of Mike Ditka throwing a football through a tire swing.
All other things being equal, I'd rather buy people with questionable morals.
In France, the slyly suggestive ads are a bit less subtle.
All of those commercials are really interesting-- there was one that seemed life-affirming (Viva Las Vegas as the jingle, except with the drug name, which my kid promptly started singing in a cheerful, innocent way for the next week or so. Anyway.).
But the guy failing to throw the football through the tire, the schmuck lovingly washing his antique sports car, the twilight-colored outdoor lighting, the emphasis on happy stable relationships. Just as liquor companies avoid marketing explicitly geared to heavy drinkers, none of these ads feature people dressed to meet Mr or Mrs right now.
To circle back to the OP, having a smartphone means having a way click on apo's links while at work without worrying about jeopardizing my continued employment.
74: Afraid you didn't stock enough one-use Viagra for your 36-hour Singles Cruise? Tired of leaving Tina and Stacey high and dry? Those ladies aren't going to fuck themselves... or will they? Take Cialis and forget it!
I'm just struck by the contrast between those ads and ads for cigs, beer, or sports cars, all of which seem much less focused on dignity and quiet.
Maybe you don't get fired from your job as a pharmacist for refusing to dispense birth control, but one does, apparently, get tossed from the cheerleading squad for refusing to yell your rapist's name.
I'm sure pointing this out makes me Captain Banality, but it is outrageous that Viagra and Cialis ads are acceptable during Sunday afternoon family sports programing, but the sight of an exposed nipple is not. Why, it's as if the world was run by rich old men.
It occurs to me that I can't think of the last time I've seen a cigarette ad. (Obviously it would have to be a print ad, but even those seems scarce nowadays. Maybe I'm reading the wrong magazines.)
Smoking causes cancer so no nipples are allowed on the TV?
Actors have no nipples. They're painted on when need be.
OT: In this election, Rhode Island is taking a vote to shorten its formal name (Rhode Island and Providence Plantations) to "Delaware 2.0."
"20+ pictures of Marky Mark's third nipple inside..."
86: I love RI's stupidly long name. Leave it be!
Further to 85: areola and aioli are two totally different things, and confusing them when ordering dinner can be quite embarrassing.
88: he dedicated his autobiography to it! ("'cuz the bitches like to suck on it", if I remember the phrasing right)
Further to 85: areola and aioli are two totally different things, and confusing them when ordering dinner can be quite embarrassing.
I walked past a newish restaurant in the Mission recently, whose menu noted that a certain dish involved "ailoi".
93: Was the restaurant named something like The Moorlock Arms?
94: Their Eloin chops are simple but just to die for.
I was afraid for some reason that 72 was going to be the unsettling Orangina ad with the hot guy and his half-cat, half-person boyfriend/trick/pet who shaves with Orangina and no I promise this is not me starting in about shaving cream again.
like the RCA terrier
|| Have we discussed Racist Fuckwit Charles Murray's op-ed (in the Washington Post, natch) about how liberals aren't Real Americans because they aren't Rotarians who read Left Behind and Harlequin romances? Ignoring the general fact that Murray has no idea what he's talking about, what was his bizarre claim that Jimmie Johnson, NASCAR driver, trumps Jimmy Johnson, former Cowboys and Dolphins coach, on the Real American scale? |>
Jesus Christ. Will someone clean that up for me? My mouse button stuck or something. Thanks.
98: Only because I'm feeling particularly magnanimous on a Monday when I've done several really dopey things, including locking my roommate out of the house when she was standing right next to me on the porch smoking a cigarette.
Jimmy Johnson, former Cowboys and Dolphins coach, on the Real American scale
Anybody hating on Jimmy Johnson can't be all wrong. Fucking Hurricanes.
Fucking Hurricanes.
How do they work?
Those text messaging stats seem weird. An average of one a day for the over-65 set? Really?
But I also boggle at the voice-minute numbers. I rarely break 100 in a given month. When is all of this talking going on?
whose menu noted that a certain dish involved "ailoi".
I certainly can't imagine eating more than one ailos at a single sitting.
I also boggle at the voice-minute numbers. I rarely break 100 in a given month.
I see where you're getting confused. Those are *metric* minutes.
If they would only get off our lawns while they text, it wouldn't be such a big deal, but my grass was just ruined last year by those kids.
I suspect group texts can partially answer this
Many problems can be solved by group texts, true, but then your usual text partner gets jealous.
When is all of this talking going on?
When? Well, judging from the people one sees gabbing on cell phones, it's going on while walking down the street, at the pharmacy, at the liquor store, in line at the bank, and so on. Possibly also in the evenings, at home, but we wouldn't really know about that.
When is all of this talking going on?
Personally, I wear one of those Bluetooth earpieces, just so I can get away with muttering to myself in public without raising suspicions.
110: you and legions of schizophrenia sufferers.
OT: Good takedown of Waiting for "Superman."
I suppose that depends on your level of interest in curly fries.
Someone just gave me some free Arby's curly fries, explaining that they were out of large containers so they gave him two mediums. This occurrence greatly increased my level of interest in curly fries.
8: Really? Sorry to say I can't remember texting you specifically (I remember trying to locate the bar but not using text to do so.) I'm not even sure I had a text-capable phone at that point- if I did, I had just gotten it and you were one of my first.
... The average kid is sending an average of about 90 messages a day. ...
45 actually since (as pointed out in 5) each message has a sender and a receiver.
45 actually since (as pointed out in 5) each message has a sender and a receiver.
LOL
95: 94: Their Eloin chops are simple but just to die for.
After the singularity, we'll all have eloins.
