texting

I've never been big on texting. Why not just call and have a conversation. If you're in a crowded bar where you claim you can't hear me then either go outside because you want to talk to me...and if that's to much trouble, than whatever you have to say is probably not that important. I think I see it as a living in the 'now' and being satisfied with where you are.

Anyway...I just watched an episode of the animated Boondocks by Aaron McGruder and on it the two urban-gangsta-wanna-be's have the conversation below. The first speaker (SJ) is voiced by Samuel Jackson doing his best Julius of Pulp Fiction style rant...

SJ: Man, I don’t get that.
EW: (texting) Get what?
SJ: That texting shit.
EW: What’s wrong with texting!?
SJ: You mean aside the fact that it’s the stupidest fucking thing in the world? I mean, why would anyone in their right mind spend 15 minutes trying to type some shit they cold have called and said in 5 seconds!? Plus it involves typing with your thumbs, which I just don’t approve of. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have time to read nothing a mutha-fucker typed with his thumbs. Point of fact – nothing typed by someone’s thumbs has ever been important. Its all just nigga technology anyway!
EW: Watchu call it?
SJ: Nigga Technolnogy! Technology for niggas; and don’t start trippin’ and calling me a racist, cause I don’t mean nigga in a disrespectful way, I mean it as a general term for ignorant mutha-fuckers. Anybody, of any race, can be an ignorant mutha-fucker.
EW: Shit, I be texting my ass off! Bitches like texting. I be texting them all the time. Matta fact, I also be texting my weed man too, cause he don’t like to be on the phone so I text him!
SJ: Case in point. So basically nigga technology is anything that doesn’t plug into a printer. Does that plug into a printer?
EW: No.
SJ: Know why? Cause niggas never have anything to print.
EW: Hold up (texting)…I sent that bitch a smiley-face; bitches love smiley faces! Well excuse me for being into computers and all!
SJ: First of all, just because you put a two way pager in the middle of your desk, doesn’t make it a computer. It’s a two-way pager, aight?
EW: OK, then what’s the difference?
SJ: The difference is a computer is something that does actual work! Nigga technology don’t do much more than let dumb niggas talk to other dumb niggas about dumb nigga shit.

I sort of like that take...plus watching it, it's hilarious.

Now on to the rediculousness of the walkie-talkie phone...