fluffythewondercat
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posted on June 10, 2008 10:48:49 AM new
...Icelandic or perhaps Tagalog. It certainly isn't English.
Sorry i was very upset at the time i recieved this alert..again read my feedback...I need ur mailing address as well as total amt due..i forgot about the ship cost. That's why i was 2 send 5.00..I shall send total amt. due. Since u say u have not recieved the m.o...I still want u to resell ur item..I DO NOT WANT THEM..we shall leave it at that..I shall wait 4 ur email 4 amt. due and ur address..Thankyou kindly..P.s I shall email u with the m.o# ok?
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ladyjewels2000
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posted on June 10, 2008 10:59:32 AM new
Well she doesn't want the item(s) but she want to send you a money order for something?
I would report her for non-payment (in case you have not already done so) and leave it at that. This could go on forever.
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coach81938
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posted on June 10, 2008 11:13:53 AM new
Urdu would be easier to translate than this e-mail. Perhaps she is hoping to confuse you enough to let her off the hook!
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hwahwa
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posted on June 10, 2008 01:16:36 PM new
She said '..... "I DO NOT WANT THEM."
Now lets look at it this way-she could have sent you the money order which does not include shipping ,and if you receive it,please do not return it back to her as she is going to send you another MO,so give her your mailing address PRONTO!
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hwahwa
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posted on June 10, 2008 01:22:20 PM new
This person 's mother tongue is English!
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on June 10, 2008 01:24:40 PM new
I've got a better idea: Let's not look at it at all.
I opened the UPI on 6/1, slammed it shut today. Good riddance to incoherent rubbish.
My policy has always been: People who want to pay always find a way to pay. Everyone else is a time-waster.
fLufF
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roadsmith
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posted on June 10, 2008 03:05:43 PM new
Some of us, over dinner recently (and I know we sounded like geezers) were decrying what the internet has done to spelling. Probably nothing can be done about it now.
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niel35
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posted on June 10, 2008 03:15:59 PM new
No Adele, Nuttin can B done about it now...........
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coach81938
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posted on June 10, 2008 03:55:06 PM new
"Some of us, over dinner recently (and I know we sounded like geezers) were decrying what the internet has done to spelling. Probably nothing can be done about it now."
You can add grammar and syntax to that list...
[ edited by coach81938 on Jun 10, 2008 03:56 PM ]
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on June 10, 2008 04:17:33 PM new
I don't think you can blame the Internet for that one.
There are even people of my generation who insisted all along spelling and grammar aren't important. At least I think that's what they said. One could hardly tell.
I blame cellphones. They've enabled rude and ignorant behavior, and I don't just mean treating a public place like it's your private phone booth, although that's appalling enough.
A friend had a minor emergency yesterday and needed me to meet him at a bank downtown. I'm in the car, one minute from there, and my cellphone rings. "I don't see you. Where are you?" I'm on my way. Geez. Hold your water.
Later, I mused that before cellphones this could not have happened. My friend would have just had to wait the one extra minute for me to arrive without being able to give vent to his impatience. Perhaps he could have used that minute to reflect on the fact that I was doing him a favor.
And I'm not even going to discuss all the people who think that since they're in downtime (in the car, waiting to see the dentist, in line at Starbucks) that must mean YOU don't have any pressing business of your own and would be thrilled to hear their meanderings.
Faugh.
fLufF
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pixiamom
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posted on June 10, 2008 07:11:56 PM new
Poor spelling isn't new - just read a few circa 1910 postcards to get some real dingers. I think one of the greatest advances in spelling came with spell-check. Far from perfect, it still has greatly reduced my participation in the proofing of my kid's papers.
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otteropp
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posted on June 10, 2008 07:16:56 PM new
Fluffy...now you have got me going!
I am right with you on the use of cellphones!
I carried one with me when I was still working but I kept it turned off. I carried a Pager so if someone paged me and I felt it was urgent I could call back directly on my phone (I was often in the middle of nowhere). If I felt it could wait until I returned to town then...it waited just like in the good old days.
No-one had the number of my cellphone. Some of my fellow workers could not understand why they paid $600 per month for their cellphone usage and I paid about $30.00.
The day I retired I was happy to put my cellphone in a drawer and there it remains.
DH carries one for emergencies only and we have used it a couple of times.
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pixiamom
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posted on June 10, 2008 07:48:04 PM new
I think cell phones are fantastic but never have understood the allure of text messaging (especially after my kid ran up a $200+ overage one month on his text messages- why not just call)? I feel much safer releasing the apron strings knowing he can easily call me if he needs help. When he dawdles after school, my mind is readily put to rest with a phone call to him. Drivers on cell phones drive me nuts- today, it reached a new low when I was stuck behind a bicyclist who was not paying attention - he was steering with one hand, with the other, he was talking on his cell phone.
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otteropp
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posted on June 10, 2008 11:29:54 PM new
pixiamom I can agree with your concern for your son.
If I had a teen now I would give them one of those phones that can only be used to call three numbers, 1. Mum 2. Police. 3. A Mum alternative.
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amber
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posted on June 11, 2008 04:57:59 AM new
I think spelling is going to get worse. We have 2 nieces in Britain (one is a teacher) and their spelling is appalling! Both have been to college. My daughter here in Canada tell me that our granddaughter brings home work with terrible spelling, and none of it is corrected. How are the children going to be good spellers is they are not taught? I guess everyone will be using computers and spellcheck.
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deichen
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posted on June 11, 2008 07:10:05 AM new
I agree with pixia I love being able to know where my kids are, etc... all four of mine have cell phones as well as my husband and myself. I would NOT want to go back to a time without them.
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MAH645
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posted on June 11, 2008 08:01:33 AM new
I think some of the word games on Yahoo would help kids with their spelling. Its like anything else if you never use it you forget. If I didn't type auctions all the time mine would be awful. I get amazed at the mispelled words on DVDs and Cds.
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neglus
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posted on June 11, 2008 08:17:29 AM new
Urdu? It's not that different from many of our posts on this and other Community Boards : WTF, LOL, IMHO, DH, BBL, UPI, NARU, SNAD, SIS, PP, EE, VD (just a few that come to mind).
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roadsmith
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posted on June 11, 2008 12:48:30 PM new
We have ONE Jitterbug cell phone, cheap and good, easy to use. We use it only when (1) my husband goes on solitary hikes in our mountains, (2) when one of us goes down the mountain for errands (in case of emergency), and (3)on our infrequent vacation trips. Period. We vowed long ago not to become dependent on them, and we haven't been.
If I had children at home now, I'd do what Otteropp suggests--just the possibility of making a few calls (parents, 911, and a close family friend). But how would you be able to limit calls IN on that phone, from alllll their friends? (I suppose it's possible.)
And, yes, people are amazed that we don't routinely carry a cell phone. Too bad.
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on June 11, 2008 01:36:36 PM new
Given your location, Adele, I would think you'd be more the amateur radio type, anyway.
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vintageads4u
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posted on June 11, 2008 03:02:25 PM new
My daughter and her friends use their cell phones in lieu of a land line. The have iphones or strawberries or something that does 10 things instead of just calling a friend. They text like mad.
They watch TV on their computers. Netflix, itunes and free tv from the major networks. They don't own TVs.
They live on the East Coast so they don't own cars. They use trains and subways and if they go on a road trip they rent a car.
No phones (land line), no TVs and no car. It's almost un-American 
Beth
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roadsmith
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posted on June 11, 2008 05:23:14 PM new
Amateur radio! Now there's a thought, Fluffy. Nope. However, we have some of them up here in oldtimers' homes. And we have a local radio station, WNKY, which we all call Winky, that broadcasts whenever there's an emergency or disaster looming (like a forest fire). We have our car radios set to Winky in case we need to evacuate from a fire.
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pixiamom
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posted on June 11, 2008 07:10:51 PM new
I disagree about limiting a teen's numbers only to call Mom or the police. When I was a kid, my privileged friends had their own "kid's line" (mostly children of doctors, who needed to keep their home phone free). Not only does my kid having his own phone free up my phone, it also provides me a record of who he is calling and who is calling him. I'll admit I freaked when I saw some unknown long-distance numbers on the bill - they turned out to be of a step-brother of his Dad's ๖ther family who moved to New Jersey. If he's having a bad day, he calls his long-distant older cousins on a whim, without my involvement. I can easily identify who he hangs with with his five picks for the "my faves" circle (I didn't make the cut).
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deichen
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posted on June 11, 2008 07:22:26 PM new
I disagree about limiting a teen's numbers only to call Mom or the police.
I do not limit, either. Sometimes with kids you have to pick your battles and this is not a "biggie".
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otteropp
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posted on June 11, 2008 11:26:32 PM new
OK...I guess I am just an oldtimer who grew up without a telephone of any kind.
Lived in the big bad City of London and roamed freely as a child on the Tubes (Subways)& Buses without ever having any incidents. There was only one area of London that my Mum told me never to venture into as I would likely be sold into the 'White Slave Trade'....I don't think she could bring herself to discuss Prostitution!
We lived in a kinder, gentler world then.
I know the world has changed drastically since I was young as I have a Granddaughter in her mid-twenties who doesn't even own an Iron!
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