Bloody Predictive Texting
April 20th, 2004 at 8:37 pm by David FarrarYou all know that really cool feature with text messaging where it guesses the word you want. Well sometimes it gets it rather wrong!
3.33 pm text from Charlotte: “Boo! How’s work? I’m bored”
3.37 pm text from DPF said “I have just done my tax return” (March PAYE) and was meant to finish with “Fancy a meal after work?”.
Unfortunately my cellphone thought something else, and as I didn’t check it before I pushed send, it said “Fancy a neck after work?”.
Now’s that fairly unsubtle, even for me!
Note both use the 6325 combination.
Just to make things worse I phoned a mutual friend, Chris, and told him what had happened. Chris has no sympathy for my plight and then texted Charlotte saying “I hear Dave wants to neck you” but he mistyped and sent that to another mutual friend Wendy by mistake. Understandably Wendy (and I imagine her husband) was somewhat baffled and my reputation as a necking solictor gets worse.
New motto: Check before you send!
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April 20th, 2004 at 10:42 pm
At least the word was “neck” and not something
like “hump” or “shag”.
–Peter Metcalfe
Vote:April 21st, 2004 at 10:15 am
Someone less charitable than myself might point out that being in the blood-sucking career of politics so long, the difference between a delicious meal and an innocent neck starts to blur.
Or to stoop to the bad Dracula line – the neck’s a great place to grab a quick bite…
Vote:April 21st, 2004 at 3:51 pm
The real question is whether she said yes?
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