{"id":151,"date":"2008-12-16T00:57:36","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T23:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2008-12-16T00:58:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T23:58:26","slug":"texting-is-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"Texting. Is. Evil."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miranda recently pointed me at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illwillpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Foamy<\/a> &#8211; an entertaining online animation series that more often than not is ranting about the stupidity of those around us. I recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>But it got me thinking&#8230; this is the Blog of Doom. A blog born out of a deep hatred for stupidity, ignorance, and people in my fucking way. A home for my festering rants on such lowlifes.<\/p>\n<p>But as of late, there have not been many such posts. It&#8217;s time to revive that! To return to our roots, so-to-speak.<\/p>\n<p>A few of the rants I&#8217;ve had on the back-burner Foamy has done. I wanted to avoid that, as it would be too easy to just slip into <em>his<\/em> rant. Then, in another conversation with Miranda, I remembered a true evilness I&#8217;d not yet exposed.<\/p>\n<p>Texting.<\/p>\n<p>Texting.<br \/>\nTexting is a great technology. It&#8217;s has a lot of uses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sending someone a short message that&#8217;s not worth a phone call over, such as &#8220;I&#8217;m on my way&#8221; or &#8220;stuck in traffic, will be late&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Getting someone a message when they cannot easily answer their phone due to class or a meeting.<\/li>\n<li>A quick addendum to a phone conversation that requires no response<\/li>\n<li>When someone doesn&#8217;t have enough reception to talk, but you have something urgent to tell them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, I&#8217;ll tell you one thing it&#8217;s <strong>not<\/strong> fucking good for! It&#8217;s <strong>not<\/strong> fucking good for having full conversations! If you send someone a text, and they respond, and you still have more to say, that&#8217;s a sure sign <strong>you should fucking call them<\/strong>! Yet people have 2 fucking hour conversations over a thumb-button technology! It&#8217;s like we&#8217;ve gone back to the telegraph for fuck sake.<\/p>\n<p>And to make matters worse, when one of these brain-dead fuck-faces sends you the third text message in a row, and you pick up the phone to call them, <strong>they don&#8217;t fucking answer<\/strong>! I know you&#8217;re next to the phone, <strong>you just fucking texted me<\/strong>! Pick up! How fucking stupid do you think I am, that I don&#8217;t realize you text from and answer your phone from the same fucking device?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but that&#8217;s not the even the worst of it! Oh, no. There are actually overgrown finger-mashing half-witted ass-hats who do things like propose, break up, and get divorced&#8230; via a <strong>fucking text message<\/strong>! Are you fucking kidding me?! How exactly does this conversation go?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No more luv, want divorce. sry.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;O rly? y?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;cuz&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;but, ilu!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;no luv u&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;h8 u!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Man, and people thought breaking up on the phone was bad.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, the people who would do this are clearly too stupid to live and should just be shot.<\/p>\n<p>But more to the point, if you&#8217;re dumb enough to know, much less date, much much less <em>marry<\/em> a douche-bag who would do this, then you deserve to get broken up with. Why? Because you don&#8217;t deserve to be happy much less procreate and polute the world with more of your pathetic, useless DNA.<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t give me any &#8220;that&#8217;s so cruel&#8221; crap. Go find someone to text you something nice if you can&#8217;t handle it.<\/p>\n<p>So to all of you carpel-tunnel-thumb, retarded, WoW-playing, useless wastes of space&#8230; <strong>STOP IT<\/strong>. Just fucking stop it. If you want to have a conversation, pick up the phone, or, if possible, perhaps try actually meeting up with people. I know, that&#8217;s a scary thought in today&#8217;s electronic age, but try it getting out of your mom&#8217;s dingy basement once in a while and you may actually experience life!<\/p>\n<p>Seriously. Knock it off. I&#8217;ll find you.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-3\">Thanks Foamy, for keeping me in check.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miranda recently pointed me at Foamy &#8211; an entertaining online animation series that more often than not is ranting about the stupidity of those around us. I recommend it. But it got me thinking&#8230; this is the Blog of Doom. 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