Party Vibe

@cheeseweasel 508129 wrote:

Yep, that was a mate of mine a few years ago – I vaguely remember posting about it. Sadly he never took that advice and is now pretty addicted to crack – last I heard there were dealers turning up at his mum’s house threatening to burn her house down as he’d bought stuff on tick and couldn’t pay for it. Not seen him for a couple of years now.

This sort of shit used to regularly happen down the road from me. At the time my mum was staying at my house for a bit before going back to MY, and there was still the analogue telly. because I live in the “nice” part of the estate and at the top of a hill the feds would get the Airwave repeater van parked not too far away (as the system was then quite new and without it would crash) so I’d always know if the estate was being turned over because my mum would ring me up at work and ask why there was buzzing and lines appearing all over the TV screen..

now the whole town is on zero tolerance and anyone who regularly travels to and from London is watched hard, which seems to have stopped the problem or at least pushed this kind of bullshit to other estates.

the 9800 has both keyboard and touchscreen – I don’t mind the touchscreen but it if I don’t press the lock button I find the phone either starts up on its own and dials last number, or randomly sets the text input language to something I do not understand. but it is handy for dealing with multiple email accounts (day job / personal / special email I get for the radio station) and I can even log into the telephone exchanges at work on it if I really want to (though I I’d much rather use a bigger easier to view screen on a real computer whenever possible).