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more about #communication more comments → sydbarrettsaves, emissary of hell: My boyfriend and I are both semi-refuseniks. My cell phone is about 6 years old and hardly on. I don't want to answer calls or listen to messages beca... more » limber: I'm a texting refusenik (unless you're sending me a number, street address, or name that I would have to write down anyhow, fucking call me!). But th... more » TildeMarks: Boyfriend is a refusenik (snort), and perpetually late for everything. This makes me laugh uncontrollably. #cellphonerefuseniks more » alula: Also, since on rereading my comment I think I glossed this too much: for me, dealing with the phone is tough, and stressful, and highly-anxiety-induci... more » Suffragettestream the Office Hussy: I agree that pretentious Luddite types are annoying as hell, however, I think one must have a very spoiled sense of entitlement to demand that everyon... more » Arginusae: "be really hard to reach. That is, don't have a cell phone." About this: people who don't have a cell phone aren't necessarily hard to reach. If yo... more » Jack_Burton: A lot of this conversation is moot if people would simply give an indication of how and when best to reach them. #cellphonerefuseniks more » Helen Valentine: One of my housemates is like this. It is SO FUCKING ANNOYING. (She's kind of a bizarre strain of neo-hippie: never turns the heat on, won't use the dr... more » Cerridwen: Eh, I don't have a cellphone but I'm not hard to reach. Email me, Facebook me or call my landline. I had a cell for a while but it was an enormous w... more » Bunsen Honeydew: I don't have a cellphone because I can't afford one. It's not an effort to be cool, or annoying, or a refusenik. But thanks to this article and some o... more » egg cream: Gregory Han says, "It's a luxury not to be reached when I'm out and about." Dear Gregory, You can just turn off the phone. Love, egg cream I mean,... more » Odyssea: I have a cell phone, I just don't give the number out to many people. And I don't answer it if I don't know who's calling. Basically, I can be availa... more » JinxyMcDeath: My 90 year-old grandfather has a cell phone, and has had one for like 8 years now - so everyone else can suck it up and figure it out. It's not diffi... more » kithkin: Ever since I got one, I've loved having a cell phone. Then, this week, my phone was stolen from me. Right out of my hand! So I was without one for a c... more » rixatrix: Ugh, this is ridiculous. I have a cell phone as my only phone, but pretty much everywhere I am, there's another one. Should people really be REQUIRED ... more » -
#missedcalls
Cell Phone "Refuseniks" Are The New Contrarian Assholes
Today's Times identifies yet another way to be both hip and annoying: be really hard to reach. That is, don't have a cell phone. More » -
#girlguytalk
Oversharing, Undersharing, And Why People Should Have Opposite-Sex Friends
Today's Wall Street Journal has a pretty simplistic take on how men and women talk about their relationship problems. But underneath the annoying Mars/Venus language, does the Journal have some (sort of) good advice about oversharing? More » -
#dailyhatemail
Gossip Girls
Oh, brother. (Sister?) "Women don't listen to what's being said around them - unless they're eavesdropping or gossiping, according to new research." [Daily Mail] -
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Does It Really Make Sense To Bleep Out Swears On Television Anymore?
After watching NBC bleep out the words "tits" and "fuck" during a recent broadcast of their new drama, "Southland," the folks at AdAge wonder if bleeping out profanities on network television shows is really necessary. More » -
#talktalk
Men With Impressive Language Skills Have A Better Chance With The Ladies
Women may not fall for a smarmy sweet talker, but they may, in fact, find themselves falling for a man with an impressive vocabulary, according to a recent study taken at the University of Nottingham. More » -
#flipthescript
When Your Dad Speaks To You Through Random Movie Quotes
When Anna forwarded me this Onion piece about a father messing up a Princess Bride quote, I could not stop laughing; like the best Onion pieces, it was funny because it was painfully, painfully true. More » -
#orly
When Your Boyfriend Isn't Fluent In LOLSpeak
For those of us who spend countless hours clicking around the internet, the language of websites, comment sections, and silly internet jokes comes quite naturally. But what of the souls who don't speak fluent Interweb? More » -
