I know this has nothing to do with VW's but I was wondering what everyone thinks of this Mobile phone texting thing.
We had a post on here yesterday that was written as though it was on a mobile phone.
"du u thnk mi car is cool, cuz i du"
Something like above.
I have no problem if it is on a small phone screen and you are in a hurry, but on a computer ??????
Now am I getting a grumpy old man or is it a bit too lazy to type like the above, for christs sake even spelling "my" with an i it isnt even shortening it .
I admit that my spelling or grammer isnt the best, but what is happening to the youth of today, I have even seen an advert on TV saying
"Sumer prices"
Also what is with calling Anzac biscuits "cookies"
Also on the news you see for a good old aussie "bushfire", they are starting to call it a "wildfire"
Just me having a good old pommy whinge.
Cheers
Dave
Have a read of some good old A.B Patterson poetry, that will give you a bit of colonial input. 🙂
Dave
Just let society degrade gracefully!
😉
Grumpy 'ol b@$t@#d.
And bloody proud of it.
Cheers
Dave
i know exactly what you are saying!!!!!!!!
YOU HAVE JUST BEEN DAKED
don't worry it's a VW thing
m8 txt lng is cpltly articul8 wen u r on da net.
I understand when it's on a mobile phone, but not when you have a keyboard in front of you. Is it that much of an ask for people to be coherent and articulate?
Jon
I can't understand it on a phone either!
Thats why I never text anyone, dont they understand,??
They text you, you text back, they text again, you text back.
Isnt it bloody quicker just to call and have a conversation.
O.K. some might get free text messages, but the person you are texting might not, so it costs them a hell of a lot more to answer you,
just bloody talk to each other.
We seem to be getting very insular, we prefer to buy things over the net, is this so we dont actually have to talk to a person??
I have seen people buy things on E-bay for more than you can get them at the shops, when asked they said, but it was easier than talking to someone??????
I am in a whinging mood today.
I just worry where its going to stop, I have spoken to some younger people and a hell of a lot of them havent even read a book all the way through??.
Yes I am a pom , but I love Australia, its the best country in THE world and I dont want it to become all American,i.e. Sidewalk, gas station, candies, ect, ect,
Cheers
Dave
[Edited on 19-5-2005 by 57kombi]
whats a book?:o
.....Dave but it's FUN!! :thumb
Hi
When did a blackout become a brownout or power outage and defactos become partners.
Steve
i know exactly what you guys are on about... people who talk like they text shits me.
having been around the internet relay chats for a great many years now, ive been shitted off by idiots who drop vowels out of words, among other things...
now, you wouldnt write an essay in txt tlk, so y du it online? fxn l4m3rz.
i think this is what you call de-evolution, the majority of the younger generation are now dumber than their parents 🙁
i have met so many people in the past few years who have not read a book all the way through, even a short paperback... and these people are expected to read textbooks at uni???!!!
i started reading at the age of 18 months, i could write my name and some simple words by the age of 2... i cannot image life without books... what would i have to keep me occupied on rainy weekend afternoons on the porch? tea is not quite the same without a good book!
the quest for knowledge has now become the quest for status, and every little dickhead wants to be a gangsta, with their little pimpin ho's and their blingy mobile phones that they can txt thr m8s on 2 lt thm kno how sic thy r.
the government is worried about illiteracy, yet people still give their 6 year olds a mobile phone... what a crock.
btw, im still considerably fresh out of high school... well, 7 years ago, so no, you arent getting old. Its people who are getting dumb.
[Edited on 19/5/2005 by Starbug]
in the beginning, the universe was created.
this made alot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move.
Ok Iam still young (well I hope so) and I can see the point in some of the texting abbreviations when using phone. But it gets me when I see kids write in txt. I know a few school teachers and they are starting to have a hard time trying to get kids to write properly for their assignments!!!
Starbuggy I couldn’t agree more, kids are getting dumber and dumber. I work a second job as a supervisor in a super market, as such we have a high proportion of high school and uni students working there. Each year they seem to be getting dumber and dumber and dumber. I have seen 5 groups come through my store in the last 7 years…………. Teenagers are trying to act older, yet they seem not to be able to cope emotionally and mentally with it.
I have no sympathy for my car, only the wallet that pays for it!
Go hard or go home!!!!
Lets face it......
Rages will be happening instead of discos and nightclubs.
We'll be eating American style hamburgers.
Coke and Pepsi will take over from Creaming Soda and Sarsperella.
Holden will be using Chevy engines.
Our government will become Americanised.
Watching nobodies on TV will become the norm.
Gollywog biscuits will have to be renamed.
Vegemite will be owned by an American Corporation.
Australian kids will Americanise themselves because they have no identity anymore.
It will no longer be safe to walk through the streets of Lakemba.
Police will get accused of assualt for giving a kids a flick around the ear.
Teachers will no longer be able to hug a kid when they fall down and hurt themselves.
Teachers will no longer be able to put on a bandaid without someone else being present.
Oh hang on....the future is here.
Couldn't agree more. Laziness and the, "instant everything" is going to come back and bite us in the bum.
Thank God its not just me.
My faith has been restored!!!
Just on from what Squizy said.
I have a mate who is 50 and a surf life saver, he is an instructor and teaches the nippers, under 14 year olds, Which he has been doing for over 30 years.
Now one day he was teaching a group of kids on the beach and a girl of 12 hurt herself and so he gave her a hug and helped her to the club house.
The surf life saving club recieved 5 letters of complaint saying that as an adult he acted inapropriatly(spelling) towards this girl,
He did not kiss her better or anything like that he just hugged her.
Now the thing is, this was investigated and he was found innocent, the reason he was found innocent was the girl was HIS daughter. They knew this, but still investigated?????
What is the world coming to.
I did warn you I was in a moaning mood.
Cheers
Dave
Hey I won't even go in to a shop unless they have a SELF OPENING DOOR...!!!😀...LOL...
kidding...
Dave I agree 100%... There's no cause for doing that shit on a computer..
I think it's a good indiction of the message being written by a Kid...!!
Does that make ME a Grumpy old man...??
You F#$@*^+G Bet ya...!!!
I hate to admit it, but man, I think you're right....
squizy wrote:Holden will be using Chevy engines.
They are Dodge engines...
squizy wrote:Teachers will no longer be able to hug a kid when they fall down and hurt themselves.
Thank god! How many straight male K-6 teachers have you seen in the last 15 years?
Got to get off here or the missus will moan at me.
I am supposed to be painting the ceilings.
Got Chisel on the CD player(wireless type thing for us oldies)and up a ladder.
Cheers
Dave
If you want to shop without talking to anyone; all you need to do is go into one of the larger department or hardware stores. If you are searching for a particular widget you will definitely encounter more solitude than a hilltop hermit..A particular hardware chain leaps to mind.
This post needs some splitty pics I reckon
[Edited on 19-5-2005 by lost]
are we there yet?
Funny, but I was thinking that myself.
So heres one before I go and get back up the ladder.
Heres one you havent seen before, my little girl at a wedding.
Cheers
Dave
J&SBlue wrote:Couldn't agree more. Laziness and the, "instant everything" is going to come back and bite us in the bum.
it has. it called obesity. laziness on the increase, overweight people on the increase. maccas etc with their we'll do the work for you attitude, which is no good.
and hrmatt, holden use a chev engine. ls1 or ls2 chev. used in the corvette etc. dodge use the hemi v8s.
early 60s beetle for sale - ex bush basher - spares - $100 or offers
Dave with a number plate like SPLIT 1 isn't this a case of the kettle calling the pot black 😉
I think although you didn't have all these labour saving/communication devices back in 50's 60's perhaps the quality of life was better than today. Oh! for a time machine!
Steve
57kombi wrote:Funny, but I was thinking that myself.
So heres one before I go and get back up the ladder.
Heres one you havent seen before, my little girl at a wedding.
Cheers
Dave
i'm gunna report this..she's not a decoration to be placed on the front of a kombi!
but i do have a question..how did you mount her :P
(gee that reads terribly :P)
MOB: 0423890217
squizy wrote:Teachers will no longer be able to hug a kid when they fall down and hurt themselves.
Thank god! How many straight male K-6 teachers have you seen in the last 15 years? [/quote]
We need more male k-6 teachers & male high school teachers...
Less male photographers, thats where all the slease is...
....gooodness I'm not going to ask any of your ages cos I'm gunna feel REALLY old....but I txt
Yes....the thing about adults who give a young kid who's fallen a hug is scary....My dad who has been dead 9 years ago now used to always sit outside the shops while my mum was inside.....he was a very social chatty man....and would talk to adults and children alike.....he said one day that he was too scared to talk to the kids because of all the child sexual abuse propaganda (my word).....he didn't want anyone to think he was trying to tempt them away if they saw him talking.... 🙁
It was so sad to here dad tell me that....he loved talking to kids and his grandchildren adored him
Yes it does happen but we can't hug our kids in public anymore...(well I can cos they are adult) The number of teachers that are too frighten to touch a child...it's all gone a wee bit too far as it usually does....it will probably turn back again slighty in time....things go in cycles
personally, i think its totally F*cked that adults cant talk to children anymore, and teachers cant console an upset child, for fear of being called a paedophile...
actually, adults cant even strike up conversations with eachother on the street, or ask someone who is obviously upset/in trouble if they are ok and need some help (i.e. myself when i was having an asthma attack in the middle of roma st. station, in PEAK HOUR... i could have been dying and no-one asked me if i was ok, they just stared at me while i was trying to breathe!!) thats why i am so happy when i get the chance to talk to an older person, back in those times people were friendly and social!!
last time i looked, humans were social animals. thats how we got to be the most intelligent beings on this planet (though theres a bit of argument over that one)... take away our socialisation, and we go back to being stupid, primitive animals. the most intelligent animals on this planet only became that way through socialisation... get rid of social skills and your species is about as smart as an amoeba.
all this txt-ing is effectively lowering our knowledge, and all this fear of eachother is effectively de-evolving our species...
for f*cks sake people, cant we all just get along, and improve ourselves in the process?
[Edited on 19/5/2005 by Starbug]
in the beginning, the universe was created.
this made alot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move.
THE AUSSIELANDERS UNITE!!
You have to admit the sue or be sued mentality is just adorable don’t you think!.
When you can get sued because a burglar gets cut trying to climb thru the skylight that he smashed you know that society is on the way up.
Less people want to help because of the repercussions, If you remove someone from a car because you are concerned they are going die, yet something goes wrong and they become a paraplegic your screwed!
I must say suing like the YANKS would bake the diggers hang their head in shame.
ATTN DISCLAIMER : No above content is intended to cause offence any American nationals, Its just that your all daft with a money hungry “screw them for all their worth mentality!!, its not your fault its you cats, so don’t get your ‘Jocks’ in a knot!
cheers!
dub.
Starbug.
Totally agree with you.
Matra. SPLIT1 was the only number plate I could get without having to pay yearly and it is not like a text message as it is a split and its number 1 (in my eyes).
It is not meant to read splitI as in splity.
Oh by the way, finished the painting for today.
Walls tomorrow.
Not that your interested but thought I would tell you anyway.
Cheers
Dave
