From World Wide Words;
"To exhibit "carborexia" is to have an extreme "dark green" attitude to environmental issues. This can show itself in several ways, such as excessive recycling, but in particular it refers to an obsessive desire to reduce one's personal carbon footprint. The term first appeared in an article in the New York Times on 17 October. The adjective is "carborexic"."
I think we have a new word chaps :-)
A new word to go along with the new physical condition that doctors (actually, orthopedists) are calling "Texters Thumb." I don't think you need an explanation of how the condition is caused, do you? :-)
Same as wankers cramp innit?
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I wouldn't know. :-)
......a tendency often found in posters to Freecycle groups.
DeQuervain's tenosynovitis apparently. Its a real condition!
Donotknowhathehellitis. I was told that kids are growing thicker, harder thumbs because of the text craze that goes with mobile phones et al. And now it even has a Latin name. :-) WOW!!!
When my youngest daughter was about 14 I can remember one of her friends calling round for her. Instead of ringing the bell, she sent her a text message saying she was outside :-)
ROFL !!! Same here. Daughter says "Dad, why don't you just text him?" I told her I preferred to call on the phone and talk to the person. But it doesn't seem to be anti-social to use this texting stuff now-a-days.
And I thought we were making it better for our kids. :-)
Not much chance of texting that once you've got it. I wonder what the texting abbreviation for it is? (n)
I've seen teenagers texting each other from opposite sides (not ends) of a railway carriage. The whole thing baffles me. But then, I am very old.
But he was Swiss not Latin. :-)
KHUF, I H8 it 2 M8. T2Go, L8trs.
Well if you have 500 "free" texts to get through every month you may as well use 'em. I've called people on their mobile from my mobile when they have been only 10 yds away and I could see them but couldn't attract their attention due to noise, them having their back to me and there being a physical barrier between us.
KHUF Definition: ICAO code for Terre Haute International Airport, Terre Haute, Indiana, United States
WTF? :P
Andy
It just amazes me that it works at all.
Some texts I've sent have taken *hours* to arrive.
No 1 son works close to the Orange data centre. He says you wouldn't believe how often they used to run out of hard disk space.
Derek
As I understand it, the popularity of SMS took the Telcos very much by surprise.
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