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This newspaper article in the Daily Mail today really annoyed me, it seemed really stupid, and I didnt like it one bit, there were massive generilastions and overlookings of basic facts!
"Sending and recieving emails and texts temporarily knocks ten points off someone's IQ" This seems stupid to me because thy are doing something, so of course they cannot concentrate on something else, multi-tasking is harder than some people say!
"Fifty percent always respond to an email 'immediately' or as soon as possible" This doesnt seem like a bad point, like they imply, because it seems polite to me to reply to someone as soon as possible!
What do you guys think, maybe some of you read the article?
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I avoid the Mail at all costs.
Tis rubbish. Read the Guardian or Indo instead
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Ye I just saw the headline and wanted to see what it was on about, turns out it seemed like crap just like i thought
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Daily mail, like most tabloids, is a complete piece of crap... unsupported crap at that...
it just uses smear campaigns to destroy anything they dont like... gypsies, 24hr pubs... its a bunch of crap.. dont listen to em, and they might go away...
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apparently someone's found out though that multitasking is less effective than doing one thing after the other and concentrating on it. Not sure... but for my computer (and Windows) it's certainly true. One window after the other, NOT 25 HoP-screens at the same time
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thats what i do... but crsework and hop doesnt quite work out
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dont listen to em, and they might go away
they'll NEVER go away
i only wish text and emails fogged your brain as much as cannabis. id have used them and saved myself a lot of money
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altho texts cud still cost a bit of a bundle
if only pikeys could have decent taste, then the daily mail and all tabloids wud die!
i am so not interested in what celebraty is smoking what brand of cigs, or whos wearing burberry... if i want trivia, ill go to a pub quiz night thanks...
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What annoys me is recieving an email that's business related and there is more slang and abrvtns than anything else.
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I can see how that wud be annoying...
i read sumwhere probably in a tabloid, that a young girl had no idea how to write proper english, she only knew txt chat...
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that is just wrong, when i was younger, not much younger mind, i always thought it was cool to not like lessons and school uniform, but not knowing english is plain wrong, thats only if you are english of course!
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txt spk fogs my brain.... i cnt mk hd nor tail of it... dnt lk it 1 bt. sure it kills brain cells, mainly the ones containing vowels, they die from underuse...
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