Letters to the Editor
Cosmic Mojo
Published Letters: 687 Editor's Choice: 13
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"evict the roommate"
[Read the article: My roommate bounces my cats the wrong way]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]are you KIDDING me? you can't evict a roommate because they don't do everything a control freak wants! Honey wait til you get married: people you live with dO NOT do everything you want. They are their own people and have rights.
I can see it now: "officer, I want you to forcibly remove my roommate and her belongings because I INSTRUCTED her to use margerine on her toast and she purposely ignored me and used marmelade! Evict her!
There are actually very few isses where there is one right way. People accused of doing things "the wrong way" are berated because they don't do what the controller wants. The old saying "there's my way or the wrong way" actually only works in movies. In real life, we have to learn that OUR way works for us only. Everyone else has their way.
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People who are forty and above are not made for the rigors of coping with kids who are already mobile and verbal but not yet rational.
[Read the article: Are men spoiled rotten?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]what an incorrect, hateful statement. I know lots of people in thier 40s with young kids and they love it. THEY keep in shape, so chasing a toddler around is no more taxing than it is for a 30 year old.
Maybe colonial people were aged in their 40s, but most people today in their 40s are in the prime of their life: healthy, active, mature, wise, financially secure. It's a great time to have kids.
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I'm wondering
[Read the article: Are men spoiled rotten?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If maybe, it's not so much that these guys decided they wanted kids and dumped 40+ LW for younger fertile women,
BUT,
that they wanted younger women, who then insisted they have kids.
And maybe the retreating guys tell the older LW they left for kids cuz they don't have the nerve to say they're leaving for a younger kitten.
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Control Freak Week at SYA
[Read the article: My wife is terrible on the cellphone!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So she's not a phone person, and particularly not a cell phone person. I'm not either. Hate both of them. To me, phones are not for connecting, but quickly setting up appointments to meet and communicate in person.
Why do you care? LET GO. She's got the phone for emergencies since she works late and that's enough.
This whole FALSe since of connection of people blathering about idiotic stuff on their cell phones is out of hand, giving banal relays of their daily logistics. Hang up that phone and connect for real in person.
LW has to let go of needed to make his wife be a certain way on the phone. Does he really want her to turn into a Paris type chattering away on her pink rhinestone phone about inane things? It's an emergency communication device to her, not a way to connect with her husband. Lucky for you she'd rather connect with her partner in person.
Ask yourself why you NEED her to be a certain way. Why?
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oh yeah, I forgot to add
[Read the article: My wife is terrible on the cellphone!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I DON"T have a cell phone either! I do fine without it. They make me have one at work, which I take to meetings outside the office and site visits, but I leave it at work at the end of the day. I NEVER USE it.
In my personal life, I do not own a cell phone and don't miss it. I like connecting with people in person, it's authentic.
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you're old enough to remember the kinds of super-clear phone calls you could make on phones so solidly built that criminals could use them to cold-cock Mannix
[Read the article: My wife is terrible on the cellphone!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]OMG Jazz, thank you for that hearty laugh much needed in the AM, topped with some lovely nostalgia. Well done. I still have one of those heavey black bakelite rotary dial phones, by the way, and it was the only phone on the block that worked during the last hurricaine. The cell phone towers were out and the touch tone cordless ones wouldn't work without electricity.
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Fertility doesn't "drastically decline" in your 30s just because of age
[Read the article: Are men spoiled rotten?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well, actually fertitilty doe drastically decline at 35. Sure, there are always exceptions, women who easily have kids in their 40s, but the data shows that fertility drops significantly at 35. Look at the statistics, it's pretty common knowledge, particularly to someone who's been there and researched it.
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The Facts
[Read the article: Are men spoiled rotten?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]According to the Mayo Clinic, a woman's fertility peaks between the ages of 20 and 24. However, fertility rates remain relatively constant through the early 30s, after which they begin to decline:
At age 30 to 35, fertility is 15 to 20 percent below maximum. From age 35 to 39, the decrease is 25 to 50 percent. From 40 to 45, the decrease is 50 to 95 percent.
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a world where everyone isn't constantly on the phone yacking about nothing.
[Read the article: My wife is terrible on the cellphone!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]yeah, it's like thier experience isn't valid unless they're relaying it to someone else over a cellphone, or texting. Phone calls, texting, email, are the primary expereince to these folks rather than support for the more authentic expereince of face-to-face contact, or even enjoying an experince in nature with NO other humans around. Being at one with yourself without needing the expereince validated by another person.
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hang on
[Read the article: My wife is terrible on the cellphone!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I didn't say I was too old to text. That's not why I love my rotary phone. You're really pushing the reading between the lines. I just have WAY more fun things to do than text "I'm on my way home." I just go home and then do real stuff, not text about it, or watch a tv show about it.
This isn't a issue about Luddites being afraid of technology. It's about a guy who critizes his wife for doing things "the wrong way", and feeling like he has to know where she is every hour. Control. That's what it's about: control. It's not aout technophobes.
I love new technology, new music, new clothes. I also love old retro stuff. Don't mean I"m heading for the nursing home just cuz I'm over 40 or I'm afraid to use one of those newfangled Ipods. It just means I am too busy having fun to text you about it.
stop trying to embarass people who are DISINTERESTED in texting, not afraid.
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and plusq
[Read the article: My wife is terrible on the cellphone!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]no one said they were scared of learned to text. They said IT'S DANGEROUS TO DRIVE AND TEXT AT THE SAME TIME.
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Cranky McLuddite
[Read the article: My wife is terrible on the cellphone!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'll tell you what technology I hate: ipods.
Why do people settle for such sucky sound quality? Whatever happened to stereophonic sound, big speakers, depth, sound quality, full range?
I think it's sad people have settled for poor tinny quality comparable to the Transister radio I had in 3rd grade.