Mundane Thoughts or Comments

[Guildedagain]

Youtube nugget of the day, you should be sitting down.

"Playing fast is just playing slow, but faster" ;[]]]

 

[FNG]

Well, duh.

 

[Canard]

It is funny how music triggers memories.

I am going through two large boxes of 78s I recently acquired. In them I found a very lovely 1926 recording of the Neapolitan folk song, Santa Lucia, sung by Tito Schipa.




One night in 1971 or 72, I found myself in an after-hours Calabrese-Canadian speakeasy. I was in the company of musicians, one of whom was an immigrant from Calabria. It was a very rough place, but we had our Calabrese spirit guide in our group.

There was a band with an accordion playing rough and raucous dance music. Our spirit guide explained some of the songs--quite risque-- some boasted of grosso male anatomy the size of pane francese.

The sax player in our group got the spirit guide to ask the sulky and very surly waitress if the band took requests. She said, "Yes," or "Sì." The sax player asked if the band would play Santa Lucia. The spirit guide looked embarrassed and uncomfortable.

The waitress snorted with contempt and said, "I'll ask if they know it." She went up to the bandstand and talked to the accordion player/singer. The band burst into laughter.

The waitress pointed to our table. The band looked at us with absolute scorn.

The spirit guide tried [edit: to] hide under the table. [Edit in brackets so the post below makes sense.]

 

[Guildedagain]

Hide.

Hiding.

Tanning a hide.

A bloody good hiding.

Mr Hyde, hiding his hide from a hiding.

 

[Guildedagain]

Where are we going with this?

 

[Guildedagain]

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[GGJaguar]

My kids are textroverts. They'd rather text than call or even talk in person.

 

[davismanLV]

My kids are textroverts. They'd rather text than call or even talk in person.

Sometimes you MUST have a real conversation, but mostly I'd rather people just text me. And if you're gonna call me, text me first and I'll let you know if it's okay. I'm not really a phone person.

 

[JohnW63]

With your phone, you can hang up to show your feelings. No so with texting. It just doesn't have the same force.

 

[Opsimath]

Slamming down the receiver was quite satisfying. Forcibly pressing the "end call" button much less so.

 

[Canard]

Slamming down the receiver was quite satisfying. Forcibly pressing the "end call" button much less so.

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[GGJaguar]

I love binge watching a TV series and the remembering absolutely nothing about the show the next day.

 

[Guildedagain]

Slamming down the receiver was quite satisfying. Forcibly pressing the "end call" button much less so.

I like toying with telemarketers though mostly computers now ;[[ If you have a cordless handset - antediluvian device associated with landline - and a base, you can bring the handset to the base, turn the speaker on and get excruciating feedback that is quite audible on the other end, then I pretend I can't hear it, even more fun than pushing dial tones ;[]

Otherwise I have trouble with phone calls, I fidget, I pace.

 

[davidbeinct]

Youtube nugget of the day, you should be sitting down.

"Playing fast is just playing slow, but faster" ;[]]]

Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.

 

[Midnight Toker]

I got an old friend of mine a few years ago w/ a phone prank. We call each other whenever either of us hear a really good joke. So I tell him I have a new one. I say, "What has a little pecker that hangs down?" He says huh? I don't know? I said, "A bat!....And what has a big pecker and hangs up?" He says, I don't know? <CLICK> I hung up!

Not 30 seconds later he calls back. "We must of gotten disconnected. I missed that last part. I said, "What has a big pecker and hangs up? He says, I don't know? <CLICK!> This went on 3-4 times before I had to explain it to him.

 

[Guildedagain]

Oh the subtlety ;[] Now I've got a new line to use on dinnertime telemarketers, lol.

 

[Wilmywood]

I need to invent a phone app that mimics the sound an old style desk phone makes when slammed down ...

Well dammit! There already IS one:

Slam the Phone - Apps on Google Play

Ever wish you could hang up by angrily slamming the phone? Look no further!

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[Midnight Toker]

I love binge watching a TV series and the remembering absolutely nothing about the show the next day.

During the height of Covid, binge watching series seemed to be all there was to do sometimes. It's happened to me more than once that a friend would suggest a series they really liked and I'd put it on. 2-3 episodes in, I'd start getting Deja vu and come to realize I had watched the entire series already! D'oh!! So now I am more prone to separating tv series into 2 hr blocks max! I think our brains are only trained to take in only that much at a time. Anything more becomes info overload and gets memory blur.

 

[adorshki]

Oh the subtlety ;[] Now I've got a new line to use on dinnertime telemarketers, lol.

I discovered recently that if I stick the landline's handset in front of the answering machine's speaker it makes truly piercingly painful feedback.

So no when the robo-caller says "Press 1 to talk to a live representative now", I do it. When somebody picks up, it's Hendrix time.

One more reason to keep your good old fashioned land line.

 

[Teleguy61]

I discovered recently that if I stick the landline's handset in front of the answering machine's speaker it makes truly piercingly painful feedback.

So no when the robo-caller says "Press 1 to talk to a live representative now", I do it. When somebody picks up, it's Hendrix time.

One more reason to keep your good old fashioned land line.

It's important to remember that more than half of what robo-callers are doing is locating, confirming buying and selling "valid, verified phone numbers".
Every time you press 1 for a customer service rep, you are verifying your number as valid, and guaranteeing that you will be on every robo-caller list until the end of time.