Is "burner phone" Aussie slang or something? Anyway, I like it :)
Substitute burner phone with "disposable prepaid phone" and you will get the idea.
I wanted to punish my daughter with a no-frills phone but it didn't go to plan
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Re: I wanted to punish my daughter with a no-frills phone but it didn't go to plan
#42This person sounds like an absolute control freak and terrible parent. Oh no, eating junk food in bed? Better... come up with a byzantine punishment?
Suspend disbelief, and don't be so hard on them. They may be exaggerating for comedic effect (the tone of the article is not exactly serious), or not wanting to bother the reader with actual details from their personal life.
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#43This is intended to be humor. Don't take it too literally. eating-uncooked-instant-noodles-straight-from-the-packet My sons learned that from me. I began doing it during my second pregnancy when even saltine crackers were not plain enough for my level of nausea. Yes, it's mind bogglingly messy.
this is a very popular south korean snack! https://www.theramenrater.com/tag/ppushu-ppushu/
Half Korean.
I thought I figured out some amazing snack when I started eating ramen straight out of the pack. My brother and I would mix it with microwave popcorn (two unhealthy snacks cancel each other out, right?)
So it came as a shock when my cousin from Korea came to visit and wasn't impressed with our ramen snacks.
"Doesn't everyone do this?"
Turned out my Half-Korean friends were doing the same thing (we were all Army brats). They were equally surprised to find others doing it.
Re: I wanted to punish my daughter with a no-frills phone but it didn't go to plan
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a common term in the US in my experience, although as the article indicates it is usually a phrase related to crime.
The article suggests criminality, but I think use varies a little by context. Buying a phone to do crimes? I imagine want to pay cash, get something that doesn't require a global account login, and is cheap enough to toss early and often. Going through security points where you suspect they'll try to force you to log into accounts, dupe the device's contents, possibly install malware, etc? You might just be looking f…
It just means disposable or difficult to track. You burn it when you are done with it to eliminate a link to you.
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#45One party trick some people miss about me is that for a number of years I carried around an iPad mini (with cellular) in my front jeans pocket. It was my primary and only mobile device. It was somewhat more inconvenient than a smaller phone, but not by as much as one would expect it to be. Having its bigger screen was an advantage in many situations though.
I downsized to a large phone a year ago (partly because Apple neglected the iPad mini and I gave up waiting for a better version to come out).
Re: I wanted to punish my daughter with a no-frills phone but it didn't go to plan
#46Is "burner phone" Aussie slang or something? Anyway, I like it :)
If you've never heard "burner phone" before, you probably haven't watched Breaking Bad, which was an American cultural touch-stone she mentioned, and an excellent show you'll likely enjoy (and I envy you being able to binge watch it now, instead of waiting week after week for the next episode): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad And then there's the "Breaking Phones" spin-off we really all wanted to see: http…
Not just Breaking bad. It's a very common term in all kinds of mafia/heist/drug dealing/espionage/etc stories, long before Breaking Bad.
Re: I wanted to punish my daughter with a no-frills phone but it didn't go to plan
#47I honestly wouldn't mind a minimal feature super lightweight long battery life cell phone most of the time. Basically phone calls and SMS.
They never stopped making them, they got better and better in terms of battery and weight. But you are not very likely to find them in a brick n mortar shop (at least not good ones), they only want to sell smart phones because that's where the money is. Shop online and there is plenty of choice... just don't cheap out on the £10-20 phones because they will really piss you off with bad UX, they might do mainly calls a…
Are there any that work with Verizon? I'm still using a phone that I got in 2011 because from what I can tell none of the feature phones work on Verizon towers.
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#48This person sounds like an absolute control freak and terrible parent. Oh no, eating junk food in bed? Better... come up with a byzantine punishment?
I took very much the opposite impression from the article - rather than allowing a lot of little grievances to fester into a big familial rift, the author did something that's kind of dramatic from a teenager's perspective but also essentially benign. The daughter faced some consequences for being a slob, but she learned something useful in the process and actually had some fun with her punishment. It seems like their bond was ultimately strengthened by this little charade. If that's the behaviour of a "terrible parent" then I can't imagine what you consider to be good parenting.
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#49I would like to try a dumbphone for a while but no one here uses phone calls and SMS anymore, they have all shifted to Whatsapp and sometimes Instagram, so that's a bummer.
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#50I would like to try a dumbphone for a while but no one here uses phone calls and SMS anymore, they have all shifted to Whatsapp and sometimes Instagram, so that's a bummer.
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