Women and texting

One More Toy

What is up with women texting all day? The missus practically live tweets me her day, I pretend to be asleep sometimes just to get some peace

Samaris

I don't even know where my phone is at the moment (it probably needs charging).

So I raise your anecdotal evidence with my own and suggest it may be more your missus than her reproductive organs doing the texting.

IvyTheTerrible

It's terrible how all women are all the same all the time. Don't know how anyone puts up with us! :P

Fleawuss

Sharing is caring.

Lia_lia

I'm a woman and I hate texting. I usually start typing out a message and then just give up and call someone instead. But yes, many people I know text all day. Do you reply to her OP?

Doctor DooM

I have a phone and I'm on it all day.

It's a portal to the entirety of the accumulated knowledge of humanity, via the internet, a way to communicate with all my friends world wide, and has tonnes of my memories and media on it.

Oh I have a penis too.

GLaDOS

I suggest getting a less annoying girlfriend

Fleawuss

GLaDOS wrote: »

I suggest getting a less annoying girlfriend

There's a thought! Should people come with labels like electrical good! You know Abc for energy efficiency. You could get a rating for annoying, whining, craic, intelligence, etc. more headings?

One More Toy should maybe have one less toy.

Your girlfriend =/= all women.

gifted

Careful what you wish for...if herself stops texting that means I'll have to listen to her...why god why????

Capt'n Midnight

Women on average have smaller fingers then men and so find it easier to text. Men by comparison frequently have a testosterone fuelled primordial battle with autocorrect.

The flying mouse

Samaris wrote: »

I don't even know where my phone is at the moment (it probably needs charging).

So I raise your anecdotal evidence with my own and suggest it may be more your missus than her reproductive organs doing the texting.

I always thought you were a male :P:o sorry

Specialun

Dont they say that women have smaller brains

biko

No they don't

Your Face

Can you tell her I can't make it tonight?
Thanks chuck.

corner of hells

Specialun wrote: »

Dont they say that women have smaller brains

Anyone seen my flak jacket?

LorMal

How do they manage to do all that texting when there is ironing and cleaning to be done?

LorMal

LorMal wrote: »

How do they manage to do all that texting when there is ironing and cleaning to be done?

:pac:

Stigura

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Women on average have smaller fingers then men and so find it easier to text.

We have a young girl behind the bar in my local sometimes. I've seen her texting. It's something to behold! She does it with just her thumbs and the speed of them is just incredible :eek:

hatrickpatrick

FFS OP, it's only Saturday. The weekly woman bashing thread isn't supposed to happen until Sunday, when dozens of spurned Coppers-goers come here to vent about how all Irish women are clearly stuck up b!tches because they don't find beer-breath alluring.

Get with the feckin' programme!

munsterlegend

LorMal wrote: »

How do they manage to do all that texting when there is ironing and cleaning to be done?

You let her away with murder if she is not doing the cooking as well.

Tasden

Stigura wrote: »

We have a young girl behind the bar in my local sometimes. I've seen her texting. It's something to behold! She does it with just her thumbs and the speed of them is just incredible :eek:

Does everybody not text with just their thumbs?

hatrickpatrick

LorMal wrote: »

How do they manage to do all that texting when there is ironing and cleaning to be done?

munsterlegend wrote: »

You let her away with murder if she is not doing the cooking as well.

Stigura

Tasden wrote: »

Does everybody not text with just their thumbs?

Good lord; Do they? I honestly never knew that. I'm a two fingered typist. If I need to send a text, on my phone? I pick out one character at a time, with my index finger. Just figured everyone did that.

Wow! Hell, no! I just opened the text bit on my phone. If I tried to use my thumb, I'd be writing a complete sentence of gibberish with every, attempted, key stroke!

Tasden

Stigura wrote: »

Good lord; Do they? I honestly never knew that. I'm a two fingered typist. If I need to send a text, on my phone? I pick out one character at a time, with my index finger. Just figured everyone did that.

Wow! Hell, no! I just opened the text bit on my phone. If I tried to use my thumb, I'd be writing a complete sentence of gibberish with every, attempted, key stroke!

I dunno, I've only ever used just my thumbs. I type on a normal keyboard with just fingers, no thumbs. If you hold the phone with your fingers/palms and type with the thumbs it's alot easier. And I have fat thumbs!

s4uv3

LorMal wrote: »

How do they manage to do all that texting when there is ironing and cleaning to be done?

We're deadly at multi-tasking dontcha know...

cantdecide

There is this text piety thing- I know you hate texting but I text you anyway. Now I'm bitterly disappointed in you when you don't reply satisfactorily. For me, texting is only a way of communicating essential information:

'I'm on the way/ been delayed'.

'Pick up milk'.

'I'm on a bus that will blow up if it slows to less than 50mph'.

'Look, we've had our ups and downs but I think we need to break up... byeeee [I'm in bed with your sister, btw]'.

That kind of thing

STB.

Would certainly explain why they are such bad drivers.... :eek:

Autosport

STB. wrote: »

Would certainly explain why they are such bad drivers.... :eek:

Whoa now, Steady there

XR3i

women are better at fingering the buttons on the keypad

FizzleSticks

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lazybones32

One More Toy wrote: »

What is up with women texting all day? The missus practically live tweets me her day, I pretend to be asleep sometimes just to get some peace

2nd last gf used text so much that we had nothing to talk about when we actually did meet (didn't stop her from talking though).

Almost every activity a woman engages can be traced back to some sort of insecurity.

STB.

Autosport wrote: »

Whoa now, Steady there

I'm guessing this a bad time to mention the Harry Enfield sketch about knowing ones limits.

endacl

Samaris wrote: »

it may be more your missus than her reproductive organs doing the texting.

That would be some trick...

learn_more

One More Toy wrote: »

What is up with women texting all day? The missus practically live tweets me her day, I pretend to be asleep sometimes just to get some peace

Their not texting , their trying to turn their phone on.

Surreptitious

lazybones32 wrote: »

2nd last gf used text so much that we had nothing to talk about when we actually did meet (didn't stop her from talking though).

Almost every activity a woman engages can be traced back to some sort of insecurity.

So you had nothing to talk about but she was talking? How does that work exactly?

NikoTopps

Nothing beats an actual chinwag!

arayess

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

It's terrible how all women are all the same all the time. Don't know how anyone puts up with us! :P

men do seem to have similar complaints about their ladies ....


so yeah women are pretty similar...you have good points though, that's why we put up with you

Teyla Emmagan

Just tell her it's annoying and to stop.

aaronjumper

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Just tell her it's annoying and to stop.

Text it to her.

Winterlong

aaronjumper wrote: »

Text it to her.

On facebook. Nothing should be private.

Samaris

Stigura wrote: »

Good lord; Do they? I honestly never knew that. I'm a two fingered typist. If I need to send a text, on my phone? I pick out one character at a time, with my index finger. Just figured everyone did that.

Wow! Hell, no! I just opened the text bit on my phone. If I tried to use my thumb, I'd be writing a complete sentence of gibberish with every, attempted, key stroke!

I text so infrequently these days that I had to give that definite thought (and indeed find my phone to see how I text). Back when mobiles had the raised pads for letters, I'd text with my thumbs. With the screen-typing though, thumbs are just a menace to me.

Wigglepuppy

lazybones32 wrote: »

Almost every activity a woman engages can be traced back to some sort of insecurity.

Wow, no hiding the bitterness there.

Eramen

A lot of women have low self-esteem and it's given rise to these sort of addictions. Texting people their day every-day is a paradoxical pick-me-up.

Sound Bite

It would be great if someday on boards there could be a thread about women that didn't include references to:

- being in the kitchen
- poor driving
- any other stupid sexist remark


It's so frequent on boards & is continually raised as an issue but nothing changes. Casual misogyny is always acceptable on boards it seems. No wonder the site is dying.

Wigglepuppy

The stuff about the kitchen is only a joke in fairness, and overall I haven't seen much actual hostility towards women but certainly on this thread and the one about overweight children there is some "Women" or "mothers" do/are xyz, when stuff that applies to both genders is what's being referred to.

Sound Bite

Wigglepuppy wrote: »

The stuff about the kitchen is only a joke in fairness, and overall I haven't seen much actual hostility towards women but certainly on this thread and the one about overweight children there is some "Women" or "mothers" do/are xyz, when stuff that applies to both genders is what's being referred to.

It's a very poor joke if that's what it is.

Can you explain where the humour is? Do you think it's acceptable?

There is a continual undercurrent of misogyny on boards and it is tolerated. I'm not even a fan of the feminist agenda & think it's damaging in a lot of cases but there is no denying that misogyny is accepted on boards.

Sound Bite

Sound Bite wrote: »

. Casual misogyny is always acceptable on boards it seems. No wonder the site is dying.

You mean like when men text it's communicating, but when women text it's a pathology?

Wigglepuppy wrote: »

The stuff about the kitchen is only a joke in fairness, and overall I haven't seen much actual hostility towards women but certainly on this thread and the one about overweight children there is some "Women" or "mothers" do/are xyz, when stuff that applies to both genders is what's being referred to.

Or 'females'.

Wigglepuppy

Sound Bite wrote: »

It's a very poor joke if that's what it is.

Can you explain where the humour is? Do you think it's acceptable?.

Just using irony. It's not a great joke but not meant literally.

I agree "Women are terrible drivers" is not a well substantiated claim. In my experience bad drivers are mostly old people, and 50/50 male/female. Occasionally a younger person is a dreadful driver and could be male or female. And dangerous drivers are more likely to be young men. Maybe that was a joke using irony too though.

diomed

Sound Bite wrote: »

There is a continual undercurrent of misogyny on boards and it is tolerated. I'm not even a fan of the feminist agenda & think it's damaging in a lot of cases but there is no denying that misogyny is accepted on boards.

I'm denying it.

tomwaterford

Sound Bite wrote: »

It's a very poor joke if that's what it is.

Can you explain where the humour is? Do you think it's acceptable?

There is a continual undercurrent of misogyny on boards and it is tolerated. I'm not even a fan of the feminist agenda & think it's damaging in a lot of cases but there is no denying that misogyny is accepted on boards.

It's a poor joke. ...but not one to be offended by imo

Much the same as the joke/pop at male posters is that they are fat,30 somethings,living in their parents basements,sitting in only dirty white y-fronts on a PC,with no social skills to speak of

Its A poor joke and viewpoint that noone really believes