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Old 16-11-2007, 12:01 PM   #31
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I have stopped calling people because txt is cheaper, yet if you count the cost of how many replies you do a quick phone call would be cheaper. My cap gives me $120 of call/txt which goes on txt messages. I always go over by waayy too much, thats a hell of a lot of txt msgs!!
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Old 16-11-2007, 12:04 PM   #32
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Your sending too many texts when.....your friends refer to you as Warnie
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Old 16-11-2007, 12:15 PM   #33
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If you hung out with your mates, instead of sitting at the computer all day, then you wouldn't waste your time SMSing!
Bit hard when you work in the IT industry! I have to sit in front of a computer all day :
That's why I prefer to use e-mail. Work pays for it, so it's free and you can convey so much more than 160 characters per text message. U dnt hav 2 shrtn wrdz which other people struggle to read either...
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Old 16-11-2007, 12:21 PM   #34
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are people to RUDE to speak to each other these days ?
i never text on my phone if i contact someone is voice
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Old 16-11-2007, 12:26 PM   #35
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I'd rather call but recharging or paying a monthly bill is too much for me. I used to get about 20 per day and that was irritating! I'd call after I receive the 3rd one!
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Old 16-11-2007, 12:31 PM   #36
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wot r u trn t say?

HAHAHAHAHA!! You are a clown!! text me!! HAHAHA
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Old 16-11-2007, 12:34 PM   #37
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you throw $250 dollars a month away on a phone.

Society is mad
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Old 16-11-2007, 12:47 PM   #38
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Old 16-11-2007, 01:01 PM   #39
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If anyone texts a great deal it would make sense for you to go to a telstra shop and get a hiptop. The hiptops have a special unlimited hiptop plan, that includes ulimited email, sms, mms, internet browsing and msn messenger for $30. I'm getting one today, they are great little devices!
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If anyone on brisbanes northside wants one come to the strathpine telstra shop and ill be happy to help out:P
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Old 16-11-2007, 01:07 PM   #41
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I get into trouble from the missus if I text over $50 of sms a month! going over $100 is sin. :(
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Old 16-11-2007, 01:27 PM   #42
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I dunno how many texts I send - I do know that my mobile bill runs to $600+ a month (for work), and I've spent just over 370 hours on the phone in the last 12 months (as at 12:18pm today, but I'm just about to call someone...)

Can anyone beat that? (I'm sure someone in the 13-16 age bracket can...)
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Old 16-11-2007, 01:32 PM   #43
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If anyone texts a great deal it would make sense for you to go to a telstra shop and get a hiptop. The hiptops have a special unlimited hiptop plan, that includes ulimited email, sms, mms, internet browsing and msn messenger for $30. I'm getting one today, they are great little devices!
Sounds good, I'm gonna look into that!!!
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Old 16-11-2007, 01:53 PM   #44
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Says it all really




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Old 16-11-2007, 05:29 PM   #45
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"Oh, that was easy", says man, and for an encore he goes on to prove that black is white and gets killed on the next zebra crossing.
QED..
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Old 16-11-2007, 05:35 PM   #46
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What a waste of money.
If your boss gave you a pay rise of $200 you'd be rapt, but to blow it on texting is crazy.
If I was an employer and my staff were texting as many times a day as some of you people you'd be getting the sack I'm sorry to say.
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Old 17-11-2007, 01:48 PM   #47
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I send about 2000 messages a month and have been known to send more than a 100 a day just while im at skool talkin bout crap and to people in the same room
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Old 17-11-2007, 01:59 PM   #48
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I send about 2000 messages a month and have been known to send more than a 100 a day just while im at skool talkin bout crap and to people in the same room
And the teacher says nothing about this? :
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Old 17-11-2007, 02:07 PM   #49
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Wow. So thats what the mobile telephone is for. To send text message, not acually speak into it. Awesome concept
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Old 17-11-2007, 02:07 PM   #50
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wow@!..
im on a $35 per month plan.....i never go over it lol....
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Old 17-11-2007, 02:34 PM   #51
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One thing I've never understood? Someone who sends 10 or more texts to the one person. The reason? It'd be cheaper to ring and say what you had to in less than 1 or 2 mins.

I drive a truck for a living. The last thing I need is a textaholic annoying me while I'm in the bowl of a court trying to reverse, not hit cars etc etc. It's quicker and less annoying to just ring.

I have two phones one with a $500 cap (never broke beyond the cap) & a $250 cap which I've never gone beyond either.
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Old 17-11-2007, 03:26 PM   #52
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