Random thoughts

[reno cool]

eh, it's not that bad

 

[reno cool]

Ah, remember when Big Rotary ruled the world?

those were the days

 

[MrX]

You used to rent your phones from the phone company. Crazy times.

 

[MrX]

Apparently, that time's not over for some people.

CANTON, Ohio (AP) A widow rented a rotary dial telephone for 42 years, paying what her family calculates as thousands of dollars for a now outdated phone.
Ester Strogen, 82, of Canton, first leased two black rotary phones the kind whose round dial is moved manually with your finger in the 1960s. Back then, the technology was new and most people had to rent telephones as part of their basic phone service. It was pre-AT&T when the telephone business was monopolized by the company known as "Ma Bell."

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2006-09-14-phone_x.htm

 

[MrX]

Muddy, you're not renting your rotary phone, are you?

 

[MrX]

Am I wrong to be pissed off that this seems discrimination against single people with no kids? Maybe I'm just not thinking this thru, but on the surface it seems wrong to me.

Not exactly a downtrodden class, the white-American-single-with-no-kids.

I'm guessing there's an economic reason why it makes sense for them to offer household rates. I doubt that they hate WASWNKs.

 

[IAG]

Maybe not, but I'm not the only one who feels this way. And before Mr. X finds a valid criticism of the article, let me preface this by saying I only scanned it.

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/nov/22/price-of-being-single



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nancy-leong/the-other-marriage-discri_b_5702032.html


http://www.cheatsheet.com/personal-...-get-screwed-over-financially.html/?a=viewall

 

[IAG]

I'm guessing there's an economic reason why it makes sense for them to offer household rates. I doubt that they hate WASWNKs.

For the life of me I can't think of one.

 

[Mudcat]

Ester Strogen? Really?

E. Strogen?


Or was that whole story planted by misogynist lobby?

 

[IAG]

hahaha I don't know, but when I googled that name, here is the first thing that came up.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2006-09-14-phone_x.htm coincidink

 

[FreeFall]

What happened to 'RogueScholar' ? I hope he's well.

 

[housepicks]

He's a faggot ain't he?

 

[Mudcat]

Rogue Scholar was a good guy to have around a forum, that's for sure.

 

[Badnina]

just gonna leave this right here

 

[IAG]

hahaha I don't know, but when I googled that name, here is the first thing that came up.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2006-09-14-phone_x.htm coincidink

Wow. I was so caught up in the single person discrimination debate, I failed to see that I was scooped on this story. Mr. X wins again.

 

[IAG]

Nm me. I'm clearly losing my mind. For some reason I thought E. Strogen was the name of the author of the single person article. Muddy took that from the post of Mr. X's I missed.

 

[IAG]

What happened to 'RogueScholar' ? I hope he's well.

Wow. There's a blast from the past. Seems like last I knew he was growing weed in Oregon or somewhere on the West Coast. Smart guy.

 

[bacon]

My back hurts, lower left increasingly going on 3 days now.

Who cares about that? Me, because it's my back.

Does that make sense?