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Europeans: GET VOICEMAIL
Or at least frickin' answering machines! How hard is can it be? Aren't you considered first-world nations? Why is it no one I call in Europe--not even at major businesses--seems to have voicemail? It's the 21st century, for pete's sake!!!! I NEED TO LEAVE YOU A DAMNED MESSAGE.
AAAAAAARRRGGGggggggghhh!
Thanks.
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May 14, 2003, 14:44
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just send an sms
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May 14, 2003, 14:44
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I hate them both. Europe 
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May 14, 2003, 14:45
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Originally posted by Azazel
I hate them both. Europe
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When it comes to business needs, however, you will find it vital.
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May 14, 2003, 14:46
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Originally posted by Gangerolf
just send an sms
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Unless that's voicemail or some kind of intercontinental ballistic missile, I'm not interested in it.
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May 14, 2003, 14:51
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it's a text message, barbarian
don't you have mobile phones?
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May 14, 2003, 14:51
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Voicemail? How very 90's....
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May 14, 2003, 14:54
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Text messaging is for dorks who don't have voice mail. Why bother typing in a message on a tiny keypad when I can just say it in half the time?
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May 14, 2003, 14:55
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Originally posted by Gangerolf
it's a text message, barbarian
don't you have mobile phones?
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I need to leave a rather detailed message, which is a real pain on a mobile phone. Voicemail really would be easiest.
I don't understand these backwards folks...you'd think it was the 1960s!
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May 14, 2003, 14:56
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send an email then
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May 14, 2003, 14:57
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Now if these ludite Euros were really into the 21st century then they would have one voice mail box which they accessed via their mobile, home, or office phones like we Californians do. 
Call forwarding is another nice feature we have. You call one number and the persons mobile, office, and home number ring so you don't have to bother tracking the call ditching bastard down.
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May 14, 2003, 14:59
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We do some work with some Germans, they all have cell phones... Also, if there is to be a detailed conversation I usually just tell them to call me when they get back in the office, to which they ussually tell me at what time that would be.
Or, you could deliver the message the old fashion way; by mail 
Heck, maybe airmail, strapped to a bomb, that is dropped offer its destination would be quicker.
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May 14, 2003, 14:59
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Anyway, I think most people have voicemail on their mobiles..
But not at home. I really don't know why 
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May 14, 2003, 15:01
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Because at home people have answering machines
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May 14, 2003, 15:02
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Naw 1, that's to obvious. 
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May 14, 2003, 15:06
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Because at home people have answering machines
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I thought that was the same thing.
I mean, you receive voicemails on your answering machine?
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May 14, 2003, 15:07
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Originally posted by Oerdin
Now if these ludite Euros were really into the 21st century then they would have one voice mail box which they accessed via their mobile, home, or office phones like we Californians do.
Call forwarding is another nice feature we have. You call one number and the persons mobile, office, and home number ring so you don't have to bother tracking the call ditching bastard down.
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Is that why Europe is constantly two years or more ahead of the USA when it comes to mobile communications? 
I'm seriously considering getting a 3-phone. The video call stuff is sweet and the ability to download pictures and movies off of the Net to the mobile is kick arse.
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Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
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May 14, 2003, 15:08
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Not having voice mail is our form of protesting against the establishment.
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May 14, 2003, 15:11
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I've had a voice mailbox attached to my mobile somewhere in the 90s, as well as the built-in digital answering machine of my stationary phone enabled. I disabled both, when they got annoying. When I'm away, I'm away, live with it.
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May 14, 2003, 15:14
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I have voice mail on my cell... that's it. I might get an answering machine just so it will pick up after 4 rings when someone who I don't want to talk to is calling my home.
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May 14, 2003, 15:44
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Voice mail  I hate leaving message, always prefer to speak to a real person.
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May 14, 2003, 15:45
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I'm a bad message person. Usually I get frazzled and leave something stupid.
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May 14, 2003, 15:47
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Re: Europeans: GET VOICEMAIL
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Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Why is it no one I call in Europe--not even at major businesses--seems to have voicemail?
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Originally posted by Boris Godunov
I NEED TO LEAVE YOU A DAMNED MESSAGE.
AAAAAAARRRGGGggggggghhh!
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May 14, 2003, 15:48
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May 14, 2003, 15:52
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I love my answering machine. I use it to screen all my calls.
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