BS: I suck at texting

Subject: BS: I suck at texting
From: olddude
Date: 20 Nov 14 - 03:18 PM

so yesterday I text my kids and it goes down like this

HEY DON'T BUY YOUR MOM (-) I ALREADY BOUGHT THEM FOR HER AND
DON'T TELL HER .. LOVE DAD

Problem:

I somehow copied my wife on the text message. so she started teasing me

my next text message to my kids goes like this

YOUR MOM IS MEAN TO ME SO I AM BUYING HER SOMETHING FROM SOILED UNDERS . COM
IT IS WHERE YOU CAN BUY STUFF LIKE THE DRESS ROSEANN BARR FARTED IN OR THE SWEATY BRA WORN BY JENNIFER LAWERENCE ETC.
DON'T TELL YOUR MOM

somehow i copied her again
my wife replies

I WILL JUST WAIT AND READ WHAT YOU GOT FROM SOILEDUNDERS.COM IN A TEXT
FOOL!! BUT GEORGE CLOONEY'S SOCKS WOULD WORK

lol I SUCK

Subject: RE: BS: I suck at texting
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 20 Nov 14 - 03:35 PM

I don't even know how to text. maybe you should write her a song.....says I , hypocritically , with our 40 th coming up !.

Subject: RE: BS: I suck at texting
From: Ed T
Date: 20 Nov 14 - 03:38 PM

I have never texted-and don't see a compelling reason to start.

Subject: RE: BS: I suck at texting
From: olddude
Date: 20 Nov 14 - 03:41 PM

Hold that thought. My kids and wife are still laughing at me

Subject: RE: BS: I suck at texting
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Nov 14 - 03:56 PM

It's the main way I communicate with my kids most of the time. They'll always text back, but they aren't great at picking up the phone.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: I suck at texting
From: olddude
Date: 20 Nov 14 - 03:59 PM

I made up the website name so don't try looking for it. It was a joke.
I can't believe I told her one of her gifts. But I got her something else very special so I am not going to text my kids about it. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: I suck at texting
From: Mrrzy
Date: 20 Nov 14 - 04:13 PM

I text like a mouse reads. I am awful at it. And very, very slow. I basically don't do it.

Subject: RE: BS: I suck at texting
From: GUEST,Ian
Date: 20 Nov 14 - 04:21 PM

A friend of mine in Verona tried to send text "been to Juliets balcony"- predictive text changed it too - " been to Kylies balcony".

Subject: RE: BS: I suck at texting
From: Jeri
Date: 20 Nov 14 - 04:47 PM

You pick up speed if you keep doing it. Just let your thumbs fly like the wind, then go back an correct the autocorrect, and the stuff autocorrect didn't correct.

Think about this: I can do Facebook (and probably texting) on my TV, using my remote control. You want to see screw-ups, that's do it.

Of course, it might be a load of fun to try writing song lyrics via text (and autocorrect).

Subject: RE: BS: I suck at texting
From: Janie
Date: 21 Nov 14 - 12:20 AM

I'm bad at it also. Just got a smart phone about 3 months ago, and only because I figured I better get one before flip phones disappeared, probably at about the same time I am likely to have lost enough brain cells to not be able to adapt.

As Dan notes, it does make for lots of chuckles.

Have no need or desire to get good at it. In fact, it annoys me to text for the most part. In spite of all that, I am getting better (not good, just better) with forced practice. Son and Sis keep texting as a way of insisting I practice. Or so they say. I think it is for the entertainment factor provided by my frequent gaffs.

I am ham-handed and find the teensy keyboard on the iPhone renders me an even worse typist than I am on a computer keyboard. So... immediately went for dictating into the mike and watching my spoken word magically turn into printed word.

First time I used it was to respond to a text from Sum Yung Sun about an accomplishment. What I spoke was "Well done, Son."

The message sent was, "Well hung, Son."

Subject: RE: BS: I suck at texting
From: Hrothgar
Date: 21 Nov 14 - 03:54 AM

I am going to send a text message one day.

Subject: RE: BS: I suck at texting
From: Ed T
Date: 21 Nov 14 - 07:31 AM

Truthfully, I don't really know the difference between a smart and a not-so-smart cell phone (I have had cell phones for many years, and have emailed and regularily used the internet from them).

My current LG cell can access the internet through wifi, if needed. But, I need to be near a free site to do so. I have the texting turned off, as I dont want it buzzing unecessarily-or, some twit tweeting me about nonsense tgat I don't need to know immediately.

Does that make my cell "smart", though I may not be seen as such by some?

Subject: RE: BS: I suck at texting
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Nov 14 - 08:04 AM

My mum and I text each other like mad every Thursday night during Question Time and Andrew Neill's politics programme following. She's 86 and is on her third Nokia 3330, the only phone she can use. Every couple of years I have to track down another one on eBay for her. We manage to sort out the big issues facing the world, alternating with making politically extremely incorrect remarks about the participants. Last night there was a very attractive young woman on QT and my mum, texting, told me off severely for lasciviating. As it turned out the woman in question had nothing attractive to say whatsoever!

Subject: RE: BS: I suck at texting
From: mayomick
Date: 21 Nov 14 - 10:58 AM

try using your finger

Subject: RE: BS: I suck at texting
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Nov 14 - 11:02 AM

Try using my finger? But I always use my dictaphone!

Subject: RE: BS: I suck at texting
From: bbc
Date: 21 Nov 14 - 11:16 AM

It's hilarious when folks our age start texting. I just got an iPhone, last June, & I am texting with my younger friends. Lots of ways to go wrong. Better to laugh than to cry! LOL

bbc

Subject: RE: BS: I suck at texting
From: LadyJean
Date: 22 Nov 14 - 12:50 AM

I was negotiating with a very nice man about buying his Hyundai Santa Fe. He said he would bring it to my house for me to look at. I sent him a text that morning explaining that I was going to work and when I would be home. He missed it. I learned this when he called to say he was at my house, waitning as was a man called Mark who sometimes does yard work for me.

I told him I'd get home ASAP, and Mark to do the yard work.

I did indeed buy the Santa Fe. But I can't say that I excel at texting.

Subject: RE: BS: I suck at texting
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Nov 14 - 02:45 AM

Here are links to vetted mistakes posted by phone users via "Damn You Auto Correct."

Enjoy! Some of them really are hilarious. They're grouped by the type of sender and by year.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: I suck at texting
From: DMcG
Date: 22 Nov 14 - 03:15 AM

Not sure about my current phone but the last one always autocorrected 'mum' to 'nun'. I have to wonder who all these people are who text about nuns so often that it is the more likely word ...

Subject: RE: BS: I suck at texting
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Nov 14 - 04:01 AM

It is midnight here and I sit alone in my apartment with tears down my cheeks from laughing, trying to keep it quiet. I've never had autocorrect do all that!

Subject: RE: BS: I suck at texting
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Nov 14 - 05:59 AM

My wife once tried to send text "I love you" then managed to somehow send it to all contacts by mistake. some people got a real shock.

Subject: RE: BS: I suck at texting
From: frogprince
Date: 22 Nov 14 - 10:17 AM

I know I should be deeply ashamed of myself, but I keep imagining this saying "I suck while texting".

Subject: RE: BS: I suck at texting
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Nov 14 - 06:39 PM

Dew watt I doo and donut Tex.

I'm mean

To ghat I dodo in

Newer mime.

Subject: RE: BS: I suck at texting
From: LadyJean
Date: 22 Nov 14 - 07:31 PM

God gave my fine motor skills to somebody else. I need a larger keyboard. Oh, and the keyboard on the phone isn't like the keyboard I have devoted my life to using.