Simviation Forum - Can you text underwater?

Mar 22^nd, 2012 at 9:19pm

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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-buzz/woman-falls-off-pier-while-texting-wal...

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Reply #1 - Mar 22^nd, 2012 at 9:37pm

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I must admit that I am guilty of text-walking from time to time, though I would definitively think twice before doing it while only inches away from water...

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Reply #2 - Mar 22^nd, 2012 at 9:38pm

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Not a good showing for the West Side of the mitten! Come on, when you are on a Michigan Pier, PAY ATTENTION!!!!
I have to admit this does not surprise me, I have seen a lot of stupidity on the Holland and Muskegon piers in West Michigan.

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Reply #3 - Mar 23^rd, 2012 at 6:33am

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Even if the phone was waterproof you couldn't text from underwater. Tis a frequency thing, hence why submarines use ULF.
I saw the ultimate "stoopid" on the Edgware Road the other day, he had an iPad and was using it as a phone, two hands to hold it to his mouth Grin

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Reply #4 - Mar 23^rd, 2012 at 6:48am

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All the annoying folks who persist in "texting" whilst aimlessly walking, should be deported to Michigan, placed on a very short pier, and forced to walk off the edge.

Awful people!

(Importing White Sharks would be an excellent addition).

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Observing a person clutching a Mobile Phone, etc, is like waving a red rag to a Bull, for me!

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Reply #5 - Mar 23^rd, 2012 at 7:41am

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Fozzer wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2012 at 6:48am:

All the annoying folks who persist in "texting" whilst aimlessly walking, should be deported to Michigan, placed on a very short pier, and forced to walk off the edge.

Awful people!

(Importing White Sharks would me an excellent addition).

Paul... Angry

....(In my very angry mood!)...!

Observing a person clutching a Mobile Phone, etc, is like waving a red rag to a Bull, for me!

Please no more in Michigan!! I swear some of us in the Mitten state are intelligent! You gotta believe me!!! Grin

Just the other day a girl on WMU's main campus dang near walked into me because she was absorbed in her phone thinga ma jig. I am proud to say I dont text and am text retarded. My phone makes calls and takes pretty grainy pictures. No texting. No internet.

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Reply #6 - Mar 23^rd, 2012 at 7:54am

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Sorry, Adam... Roll Eyes

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I'm afraid that my recommendation has now been taken up by the British Government, and has now become law... Smiley

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.. so expect a sudden influx of brain-dead Texters into the State of Michigan...

...you will be very welcome to them all.....trust me!... Wink

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Paul... Grin

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Reply #7 - Mar 23^rd, 2012 at 3:53pm

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This story reminds me of one day when we were driving into Hastings, a cyclist was texting while riding & he was kitted out in all the flash gear. Even worse, it was a busy road.

Also the same day I saw someone texting while riding a horse. Shocked

Only in Havelock North. Grin

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