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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

I was using a flip phone up until last year. I only moved over because I wanted to be able to use the phone as a navigation device for a very remote, multi-week, bike ride.

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I retired my old Nokia last year after two buttons went bad, the 0 and 9, but I still have the phone. My Samsung now is pretty nice, but it's one of the cheapest models you could buy. I mostly just use it for phone calls.

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Originally Posted by wes4dbt

Yeah, for many years I'd just buy $20 worth of minutes and they were good for three months. I never needed more than that.

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I still do that. I buy my minutes at a local supermarket, which is enough for about 3 months.

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Originally Posted by wes4dbt

But I just keep the phone in the car for emergencies.

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I use to keep my old Nokia in my car for emergencies, like yourself, but I don't do that with my new smartphone, specially to protect it's data from the heat over the summer.

My old flip phone had been repaired with JB Weld, but I managed to break it again, so it was barely hanging together.

I'm so cheap that I don't pay for navigation in my car. Not that I need it much. If I'm heading into unknown territory or a long enough drive to worry about detours navigation assistance can be helpful.

Instead I just plot the route via Google Maps on the PC, and send it to my phone. Then turn on the phone using home WiFi and accept the map data as an "offline map."

Then I can plug the phone into the car, and via Android Auto I can get maps and even turn by turn voice prompts as I go. Usually I leave it set so the map shows on the infotainment display and the turn information pops up on the "instrument display" behind the steering wheel within the arc of the tachometer scale just below the digits of the speedometer.

I'm so cheap that I don't even do THAT. I just drive. If I get there, I get there.

Yeah, I hear that. If I could have left more gadgets off the car and saved money I would have. Fancy electronics are another point of failure anyway, and can cost enough to fix that this is probably something that can sideline an aging car before its time.

I remember when my in-car navigation was a book of county-level maps supplemented by road maps for adjacent states and provinces. Updating those every 4 to 6 years was pretty inexpensive or even free.

To long without a post.

Man, we've went from highs of 114 to the highs in the low 70's. I like the 70's much better. Come to think about it, I liked the 70's Show. Coincidence??? I don't think so!!!!

I like turtles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y

Remember when Witis decided to post binary?

ESPN's Scott Van Pelt uses "I like turtles" sound bite during his shows a lot. Wonder if that's where he got it.

Oh absolutely! That was one of the OG viral videos, back when it was spread via MySpace and people were told to go to google.com to search it (and not told to simply “Google it”).

It's a good, useful, statement.

This one made me laugh. Trump says

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“Were they looking for the Hillary Clinton emails that were deleted, but they are around someplace?”

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he was able to declassify documents just by “thinking about it.”

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That brightened up my day, thanks Donald.

Oh he is an excellent entertainer!

I saw fish today. The most amazing was an enormous sculpin.

When it comes to sculpin, 'enormous' is a relative term.

Actually, that is true for all types of fish. Sculpin are just small.

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

I saw fish today.

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What a coincidence. I ate a fish today.

Alaskan Salmon

Or is it pronounced "salmon?"

And as a public service I'd like to remind Browns fans that there is no drinking allowed in the Muni lot. Strictly enforced!

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I was thinking of you today because I saw they were bringing the old mascot back.

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Originally Posted by dday9

I was thinking of you today because I saw they were bringing the old mascot back.

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Brownie never really left the scene, he just went underground and unofficial after Art Modell (spit) bought the team and got rid of him. You know, being the advertising genius that everyone said he thought he was.

How could they NOT allow drinking at Browns games? How else are the fans supposed to get through the games???

I thought that team might be good...ish, this year...and then they lose to the Jets.

They beat the Steelers but not without some drama at the end.

Was glad to see that. But without Watt the Steelers are at best an average team.

Unfortunately, they are both just average teams. The Browns never fail to disappoint.

I just painted one of my toes...well, the end of the toe, and it was with liquid bandage. That toe has never fully healed up from some damage I did to it this summer, so now I'm trying something new. Conventional bandages caused it to heal mostly, but not entirely. Soaking it for days on end didn't help it heal any, either, but it's getting annoying. Doggone hard to bandage a toe all that well, so now I'm trying liquid bandage.

Smells like nail polish, though. Same solvent, I suppose.

Have you been seeing a Dr.? If it's an ulcer, then open toe shoes and getting it to dry out, form a layer of skin and then start building from there. Just make sure to avoid an infection. I know a lot of people with SCI's and ulcers (or pressure sores) are common. They can be simple but turn very serious.

It started out as a blister. It almost entirely healed, but never quite finished. Drying it out was getting me so close...and then I went out and walked up streams for a week, or so. Then I did it again...and again...and again. My feet haven't had a real chance to dry out since sometime back in August. They get a couple days, then I'm back in the water. At least I should be done with that for the year, so it can finally dry.

Was watching a show about a girl in the UK that had been murdered. The officer described the suspect as an Asian man. He was from India.

Is that really how people in the UK describe people from India? I've never heard that description used here in the US. I realize India is part of Asia but it just struck me as odd.

I've heard it used that way, but mostly only when written.

I guess I haven't 'heard' it, if it was written.

Yes. Commonwealth Pidgin more than superficially resembles English but isn't exactly the same language. Divergence seems to have begun under George IV (The Fop King). People remaining under the thumb of the monarchy slavishly began to imitate his attempts at English as a second language.

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

I guess I haven't 'heard' it, if it was written.

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I think the voices in your head count.

I wonder if the UK also refer to Russians and Iranians as Asian.

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Originally Posted by wes4dbt

I think the voices in your head count.

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They only talk about squirrels...in a ridiculous Italian accent, no less.

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

They only talk about squirrels...in a ridiculous Italian accent, no less.

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Damn Euro Squirrels.

Yeah, nuts to them.

I think storing up nuts for the winter is pretty big across all Europe right now.

Europe has had enough nuts over the years. No need to store them up, another will come along soon enough. Heck, we would be happy to give them a few of ours.

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Europe has had enough nuts over the years. No need to store them up, another will come along soon enough. Heck, we would be happy to give them a few of ours.

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The best we can do is a swap deal !

What have you got in a used Prime Minister?

I suppose that would be a 'past-his-prime' minister.

This made me laugh.

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I'm not even on FB and I get it.

Of course, a virtual funeral might have been much better attended...virtually.

That reminds me of individuals like Gruff. He was a good man, but his only outlet was social media (and I’m limping VBForums in there) because of increasing health issues.

Had I known that he passed before his funeral, I most certainly would have taken a trip up to Oregon.

Yeah, there are probably a lot of older people in the same boat.

Might even be a lot of people on here that are in the same boat....or casket, depending on your perspective.

My insurance company just gave me a month's notice they'll start packing on a billing fee for both my home and auto policies. Does anyone know how much notice I must give them before I begin deducting my new paying fee for each?

I think it's a negative number of days.

I got wondering why I didn't get a new insurance card for my auto insurance. Turns out, they went online, apparently. That seems like a really bad idea.

When I left Allstate they were pushing the paperless option very hard.

In Louisiana you got a discount to go paperless. Then about a year before I left, they revoked that discount.

Companies like Allstate would save millions if everyone went paperless. You can see how they would be incentivized to encourage people to go paperless.

Paperless billing always reminds me of Micky Mouse/Sorcerer's Apprentice in Fantasia.

https://youtu.be/oPDSoFgivPA

I have no problem with paperless billing. Because of my tendency to disappear into the mountains for weeks on end, I set up all of my bills to auto-pay, a long time ago. Whether I get a paper bill or not matters not a whit, so long as the bill gets paid automatically.

In this case, what I didn't get was the card I carry in the car to show that I am insured. I thought you had to have one with you. Perhaps that's not the case.

I assume they are thinking that I will remember my phone at all times.

They are wrong about that.

Yeah, I hear that.

I guess "they" view your "phone" as a financial/social/carbon credit score tag.

Not to drift off onto the WEF's plans to institute personal carbon credit scores. You know, the ones test flown as "COVID tracker apps" you paid obeisance to daily.

Usually you can go online and print out a card. Though my insurance sends me a paper card. I don't like that they changed to every six months billing. I liked paying a year at a time and get a new card once a year.

I also have been using autopay for everything I can for years. Never had a problem. No more late fees. It was never not having the money but just postponing or forgetting.

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Originally Posted by dilettante

You know, the ones test flown as "COVID tracker apps" you paid obeisance to daily.

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Hadn't heard that anywhere in the US had those. We certainly didn't.