I spent yesterday evening in the company of Black Forest Girl. Normally this would have been a pleasant experience, yesterday however, the air was filled with “All Englishmen are bastards!” well, that was what I said, she was far more polite and forgiving – although I was a little dismayed to notice she didn’t manage a “Present company excepted” rebuttal.
It was a trifle odd, sitting there with her in a disturbingly fashionable bar, obliquely discussing how her latest relationship with an English guy had gone wrong. In the end, I just told her to tell me the whole story from the beginning. Of course, I interrupted her after her third sentence with a “What! He just sent you a text message and then wouldn’t pick up the phone when you called him?” because that truly is appalling. One can’t have a real relationship with someone, decide that it’s not going so well, make sure Caller ID is turned on and then work out a way to finish in it 160 characters or less. Well I couldn’t, although I’m not sure whether it has more to do with my unnecessary verbosity than to not being a completely spineless, cowardly twat.
German Phrase For Today: “Wir müssen reden” – The caller you have dialled is not available at the moment.
Song playing as this was published: The Clash “I Fought The Law”
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Don’t confuse the not bilingual readers 
Hey …. that’s not the same thing
american: Don’t call me, I will call you ;-P
Joolez
–Wir müssen reden” – The caller you have dialled is not available at the moment.–
I shouldn’t have put the citing in brackets , ah well, learn something new each day
Text-dumping has become quite normal nowadays, I’ve heard. I was the first person I know (!) to experience it, in November/December 97, when living in Helsinki. I’d only had a mobile for a few months. The action had all the typical traits: no prior warning, and the offender in question refusing to answer his phone. The words ’spineless bastard’ raced through my mind, I can tell you that! But now I’m almost proud of it, as it’s a way of showing off that I was using a mobile before they were really commonplace outside Finland!
(How times have changed - I’m planning to become mobile-free at the next opportunity!)
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What a blessing these “new” technologies are!
Fortunately I’ve never been dumped via sms but I bet that’s just a matter of time! Anyway,everyone over 18 doing that is a coward and who wants to be with a coward in the first place?
Joolez: I was wondering if anyone would notice I’ve “translated” the same phrase differently in the past….
David and that_girl: I’d presumed it must happen - I’ve watched bad soap operas - but thought it was limited to teenagers. The guy in question is 33, I’d met him and had him marked down in the “decent bloke” category (see, I’m not a good judge of either sex). Call me old-fashioned, but I think you really have to let the other person have an opportunity to throw her drink over you in public and storm out after you’ve told her that you’ve “got to work somewhere in Tierra del Fuego and communication will be impossible - so it’s probably for the best if you don’t see each other anymore.”
dumping through a text is pretty damn lame and cowardly. that said, i am pretty sure i’ve read of cases where women were DIVORCED via text messages…in fact, i just googled it, and apparently, it was considered legal in Malaysia until recently.
and actualfactual, i have ALWAYS wanted to dump my drink over a guy in public, but i’ve just never been given the opportunity!!