I find boiling a clutch a fresh fleas into a broth makes things simpler in the kitchen.
You then run the broth through a fine strainer & settle back to enjoy a lovely flea-tea.
Nutricious, delicious & will faintly remind you of a wet dog.
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Flea tea would be better if it had a pleasant aftertaste. As it is the experience is far too fleating.
Boo if you must, just don’t throw things
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Good thing y’all aren’t charging for these or you’d be fleacing us!
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Diddle me this
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Kind of like New Orleans except they play zydeco and yodel
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Everything she says in that first sentence was more or less the reality within the next 6-12 years for nearly every home, first through piracy and then subscription when the industries caught up with the new model and stopped trying to sue everyone trying to innovate. Either way artists still get screwed 
I still remember seeing Marilyn Manson play live at an MTV awards show having never been exposed to him before and then spending the next three days downloading a 3mb mp3 in bouts on napster via 56k dial up (at £2 a minute).
If anything I was overchrged for my digital piracy, they should be taking this up with the ISP
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Copper telephone lines. They still have them running to my house. When I moved here 17 years ago, I was so disappointed. There was no Internet offered because all the lines were copper. I soon cancelled the phone service because it sounded like I was talking thru a bowl of Rice Crispies.
The town I moved from had already upgraded all phone lines. They are still not upgraded here and likely never will be. Who uses a land line any more for phone calls?
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Me.
The only thing I use a cell phone for is confirmation of banking transactions.
When I was working, I had two cell phones - one for work, and one for personal use. I came to hate them. The day I retired I took out both sim cards, and threw the phones in the bin.
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We still have a “landline” technically, but it’s coming in through the fibre broadband and is connected to the ISP’s modem.
For years, one of the ISPs in Ireland was only running fibre broadband up to a certain point, then it would reach houses through the old telephone copper wire, yet still advertised it as full powered fibre broadband.
They’re constantly getting fined for employee mispractices, selling packages in areas they aren’t established to old lady’s and just being the worst. They rebrand every ten years in the hopes people forget it’s them again 
I know some people who worked customer care for them years apart and their war stories are identical. Customer care generally is but this was a very tailored experience in that place. Run by sharks in the sales team, very little technical oversight or knowhow.
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My mom still uses one too and I would too if I had decent landline here. Though I think I might be able to get one thru my fibre optic. I should check because I really do dislike cell phones for phone calls
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Just FYI, in the U. S., AT&T will be phasing out traditional land lines for VoIP. No thanks. I’m cell phone only now. My traditional (troglodyte ?) wife likes that land line but also has a cell phone. Trying to get her to switch all health professionals to her cell is hard.
I hate still paying for the land line, n which will become obsolete anyway.
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I hear ya. It is just that out where I am, my cell phone jumps from tower to tower and I get a lot of dropped calls.
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From the 1950s to the late 1990s, if you wanted to phone me, you had to catch me at home, or in the office. If I was anywhere else, I couldn’t be contacted - you just had to wait. And that suited me just fine.
Then the cell phones arrived, and suddenly I was expected to be available everywhere, at any time, 24 hours a day. Anyone could call me, and everyone did. I was never on my own - I was never not at work. Everybody and his brother would call me for advice, at all hours of the day and night - Police, Fire Brigade, Coastguard, Armed Forces, Highways Agency, Environment Agency… the list goes on.
Then if I was prosecuting someone, defence lawyers discovered that they could claim the information stored on my phone formed part of my investigation - which entitled them to access it. And then they would read out texts I had sent to my girlfriend to the court. What fun.
I was overjoyed to get rid of my cell phones.
Then, about three years ago, my bank insisted on two-factor authentication for transactions. I was forced to get another cell phone - but banking is the only thing it gets used for. Nobody else has been given the number.
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Sounds like you needed a work phone but who wants to carry 2 phones around
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That came later - but it wasn’t really an improvement, because my job still expected me to be contactable 24/7. “We’ve supplied you with a cell phone - we expect to be able to call you on it at all times”. So even though I had two, I still had to carry both.
As I said, I came to hate them.
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That’s funny, here (northeast US) I always found our copper landline was superior - full-duplex (simultaneous bidirectional sound) clear and stable, vs half-duplex and temperamental stability for cell. I also had the option of DSL internet (originally AT&T then sold to Frontier) through the copper here.
Fiber showed up in my neighborhood a couple years ago, and Frontier quickly moved to force the transition to it and completely shut down the copper service. Eager to get away from Frontier’s poor customer service, I cancelled my services with them and switched to GoNetSpeed (the company mainly responsible for the local fiber upgrades in the first place, been a year of good service so far)…
… For the landline phone, I actually transferred my number (which I’ve had for many years) to Consumer Cellular, and got the device which converts the now-cell signal to work as a traditional landline. Just plugged the old phone unit into that and it’s almost like nothing’s changed. I like still having the old established line for shared household-related stuff, in addition to separate cell phones for personal use.
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Well, part of the problem here could be related to the line being repeatedly struck by lightning. 
I woke after one storm to find the door of the phone box on my house, laying out in the yard and the box had what looked like blaster fire. Too accurate for Sand People. Only Imperial Stormtroopers…
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I think this is the first time I have ever seen Imperial Stormtroopers described as ‘accurate.’
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