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Originally Posted by SarahMB

LOL

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heh...we do the same thing ALL THE TIME on forums...IMO :D

i got my 1st cell phone when i was 15 i think. i didnt have texting back then, but i do now. i dont text much though,only if someone i call and doesnt answer, i send them a text to call me back.i find it to be a pain to text on my hpone since it can take a long time.

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Originally Posted by Snakeman

i got my 1st cell phone when i was 15 i think. i didnt have texting back then, but i do now. i dont text much though,only if someone i call and doesnt answer, i send them a text to call me back.i find it to be a pain to text on my hpone since it can take a long time.

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theres probably a feature you could set to make it easier to text like T9Word or predictive text or something :)

Text messaging kills bees and makes kids senile......and will eventually bring about the apocolypse!

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Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious 'colony collapse' of bees
By Geoffrey Lean and Harriet Shawcross
Published: 15 April 2007
It seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. But some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food shortages, as the world's harvests fail.

They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world - the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops. Late last week, some bee-keepers claimed that the phenomenon - which started in the US, then spread to continental Europe - was beginning to hit Britain as well.

The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees' navigation systems, preventing the famously homeloving species from finding their way back to their hives. Improbable as it may seem, there is now evidence to back this up.

Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) occurs when a hive's inhabitants suddenly disappear, leaving only queens, eggs and a few immature workers, like so many apian Mary Celestes. The vanished bees are never found, but thought to die singly far from home. The parasites, wildlife and other bees that normally raid the honey and pollen left behind when a colony dies, refuse to go anywhere near the abandoned hives.

The alarm was first sounded last autumn, but has now hit half of all American states. The West Coast is thought to have lost 60 per cent of its commercial bee population, with 70 per cent missing on the East Coast.

CCD has since spread to Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece. And last week John Chapple, one of London's biggest bee-keepers, announced that 23 of his 40 hives have been abruptly abandoned.

Other apiarists have recorded losses in Scotland, Wales and north-west England, but the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs insisted: "There is absolutely no evidence of CCD in the UK."

The implications of the spread are alarming. Most of the world's crops depend on pollination by bees. Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared, "man would have only four years of life left".

No one knows why it is happening. Theories involving mites, pesticides, global warming and GM crops have been proposed, but all have drawbacks.

German research has long shown that bees' behaviour changes near power lines.

Now a limited study at Landau University has found that bees refuse to return to their hives when mobile phones are placed nearby. Dr Jochen Kuhn, who carried it out, said this could provide a "hint" to a possible cause.

Dr George Carlo, who headed a massive study by the US government and mobile phone industry of hazards from mobiles in the Nineties, said: "I am convinced the possibility is real."

The case against handsets

Evidence of dangers to people from mobile phones is increasing. But proof is still lacking, largely because many of the biggest perils, such as cancer, take decades to show up.

Most research on cancer has so far proved inconclusive. But an official Finnish study found that people who used the phones for more than 10 years were 40 per cent more likely to get a brain tumour on the same side as they held the handset.

Equally alarming, blue-chip Swedish research revealed that radiation from mobile phones killed off brain cells, suggesting that today's teenagers could go senile in the prime of their lives.

Studies in India and the US have raised the possibility that men who use mobile phones heavily have reduced sperm counts. And, more prosaically, doctors have identified the condition of "text thumb", a form of RSI from constant texting.

Professor Sir William Stewart, who has headed two official inquiries, warned that children under eight should not use mobiles and made a series of safety recommendations, largely ignored by ministers.

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Originally Posted by AzureN1ght

I guess I just think that kids younger than that are at an age where their parents should know where they are/what they're doing anyway? So why do they need a cell phone? My 8-year-old cousin has one. Blows my mind.

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Well, Courtney has had one for years, but I originally got her one because she was working summers in downtown at the Dallas Zoo. It gets very hot here, and at the end of her shift she would walk down to the front gate to wait for me to get her. Some days there would be traffic backups on the highway to the zoo, so I wanted to be able to call her and tell her not to leave the youth office and wait in the heat. And then it just became a convenient way to contact her when she was at her dad's on weekends, or at the mall, out with friends, etc.
A while back, she repeatedly ran up the bill with game and ringtone downloads. After warning her 2 months in a row, she had her phone taken away. Now she has her own account, bought her own phone, and pays the bill with the allowance and babysitting money she earns. I like it!

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

Text messaging kills bees and makes kids senile......and will eventually bring about the apocolypse!

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I saw that article the other day....I should email it to my daughter!

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Originally Posted by SarahMB

I saw that article the other day....I should email it to my daughter!

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You should....tell here "It is all fun and games until you get a wicked case of 'text thumb'".....LMAO...

I read another article about how keeping cell phone near the 'private' areas (i.e. your front pockets of pants) can lead to sterility.

Fun stuff...

...I see alot of people throwing fits about global warming these days....but I bet everyone of them pollutes the world with cell phone radiation.

Truth is....Until people start dropping like flies (or bees), the population could care less about the problems cell phone can create down the road.

Oh before I forget Christie another pearl of mothering wisdom for ya hon. This one is tried and true just ask the three oldest kids. If they are acting up in the grocery store and since you have to put up with the piped in muzak that some stores play, starting singing along, loudly, badly and off key. If they don't immediately desist acting up in the store and bugging for treats....toss in some lovely but very poorly executed choreography. In seconds my dear you will have very obedient children, even the very threat of such action from mom will result in the best behaved kids in town.

This one I will say does not work with young Michael (the artist formerly known as Mikey). He unfortunately has called my bluff and will happily sing and dance along with me! ACK!

P.S. Funny how my husband dreads entering a grocery store with me?????

I wouldn't have to 'try' to sing badly. Fortunately or unfortunately (depending on your distance from me), I enjoy it anyway. :D I think it would work great with my son, but my daughter would just join in. We always sing with a hairbrush microphone while I dry her hair. (it's the only way I can get her to stay still long enough to dry her hair a bit)

Thanks for the tips Jo. Keep em coming. Any tips on getting dried caked on mud out of shoes? The kids went camping and I'm just scared to tackle the stupid things. (they're still sitting in a bag in the laundry room)

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Originally Posted by gibbrishclown

theres probably a feature you could set to make it easier to text like T9Word or predictive text or something :)

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it has that actually.but i still hate typing every word(even abbreviations) and then waiting for them to text back. i prefer to just call them where it's faster and easier.