they come up with products like this one.
Flic your bic after you’re done calling home
Desperately hoping not to become known as the “disposable phone company” BIC, wellknown makers of disposable razer blades, lighters and ballpoint pens have just launched the first ‘off the shelf’ mobile phone in France.
The BIC phone will cost 49 Euros (US$78) and is capable of just making phone calls and sending text messages. It comes with a SIM card, 60 minutes of free calls, a phone number included in the packaging and a fully-charged battery. Extra minutes can be bought through the use of a mobicarte and works the same way as most pay-as-you-go schemes. The phone will initially only be available to buy in France.
The BBC has a video announcement while others wonder how the phone will be disposed and whether there are any recycling facilities. A disturbing product to join the “throwaway and replace” category, although one could muse on the benefits of catching a lobbed iPhone 3G…
[photocredit Geek.com]
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lessee, if a grrrlll catches the bridal bouquet at a wedding, she’s gonna be the next one married (personally, i usually hid behind a pillar or something) … if ya catch a lobbed iPhone, hmmm, i’d join the mosh pit for that one
And you like green phones, right NDFG?
A certain criminal element will love this puppy. I’m betting these phones can’t be traced like a subscription cell phone. Just plunk down some cash, use the phone for your nefarious business then chuck it.
How’s your Sunday going Madmom?
Hi folks.
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Just finished folding 3 loads of laundry. Hubby decided to help by putting the loads through. Trouble is he doesn’t check to make sure they are completely dry, and he doesn’t fold. He throws each load onto the couch so I can fold them. SO I had three loads that weren’t completely dry and wrinkled to hell and back.
Madmommy: There’s a great book called Raising a Family that you and the hubby might like to read out loud together (by Elium and Elium. They also wrote Raising a Son and Raising a Dau.) Looks at gender issues, biology, social learning etc in a fun and non-defensive way that helps folks take a looky at how better to row the boat as partners. (the raising the kid books are also good, looking at things from above perspectives as well as developmental issues specific to the age. v. good)
Real men never fold.
Maybe its time to teach the madkiddies to fold.
… They go double or nuthin’.
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sharonlee-there’s the rub. They want to help, and I give them easy things like towels and dishrags and such. Unfortunately, like many of their gender (
) they have the attention span of a fruit fly and give up before the laundry is folded.
Laura-I’ll check it out. Hubby’s not too much of a troglodyte, and he’s quick to remind the boys that there’s no such thing and girl work or boy work.
madmom – a perennial favorite is washing windows. When I think of how easily an entirely well-meaning and helpful child can undo hours of work… I think about … revenge.
madmom i think it’s something genetic
mm–”sharonlee-there’s the rub. They want to help, and I give them easy things like towels and dishrags and such. Unfortunately, like many of their gender (
) they have the attention span of a fruit fly and give up before the laundry is folded.”
But just think, at least that’s some you didn’t have to fold.
Back in the earlier days of women’s lib (the 1970s), I attended a lecture of being superwoman. Thrust of the message, you can’t do everything and if you want help, it may not be how you would do it but it gets done in some fashion. I don’t fold towels the same way my sister does–but we both get the job done. And the message of letting someone else do it differently is one I keep repeating to myself at the office.
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