Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs
Friday, December 14, 2007

A Calgary man who mistakenly believed that a $10 "unlimited mobile browser plan" would enable him to surf the internet with impunity, "downloading high-definition movies and other bandwidth-hungry applications", was slapped with an $85,000 bill for his trouble. According to Canada's Globe and Mail, 22-year-old Piotr Staniaszek recently decided to renew his wireless contract with Bell Mobility, and got a new phone in return. He quickly connected the phone to his PC and hit the web.

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That stupid fucking DEADPOTATO aks DupSpud(tm) has been blogging here from his cellphone!!!!! With his constantly speaking in the third person and with his consistant baby talk we should have known.

I admit it. I was responding to Tadowe and got a little carried away. I can be a bit long winded at times.

Regards,
etc.

That stupid fucking DEADPOTATO aks DupSpud(tm) has been blogging here from his cellphone!!!!! With his constantly speaking in the third person and with his consistant baby talk we should have known.

Posted by ride_on


Thanks for that completely worthless post. Seven seconds of my life that I'll never get back.

aw come on rast.......what makes you think your time is so valuable??? thats a joke.......

when I first saw the headline I wondered if my exwife had moved to canada.....

but you know.....put this in with the thread about the warning......avoid death.......they are sort fo similar, arent they?

I mean I drink HOT COFFEE from macdonalds and it says right on the lid.......DANGER HOT COFFEE abd its a damn good thing......otherwise HOW WOULD I KNOW THE COFFEE WAS HOT???

That stupid fucking DEADPOTATO aks DupSpud(tm) has been blogging here from his cellphone!!!!! With his constantly speaking in the third person and with his consistant baby talk we should have known.

Posted by ride_on

Thanks for that completely worthless post. Seven seconds of my life that I'll never get back.

Posted by RastaCyborg at 2007-12-14 06:54 PM

Congratulations, you are so smart you extended that wasted time for a few more seconds....



















and your doing it again....





























don't you ever learn?

your=you're (that ensures even a few more wasted seconds)

I'm going to try and fight it because I didn't know about the extra charges. Nobody explained any of this to me.

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Buyer beware.

This guy was using his cell phone as a PC modem for an internet connection. Idiot.

Coupla things here.

First, this guy is an idiot. Even Spud the techno-peasant is bright enuff to know not to do this mad thing.

Second, the cell phone companies in Canada have got us by the short and curlies due to a virtual monopoly thingy. Canadians pay more fer cellular service than anybody else on earth with the odd exception of folks from Uganda.

Spud to Bell Mobility/ Rogers.

Cut It Out!!!

Be Well.

No kidding. The guys from India over here pay a fraction on cell cards they buy, and talk at the drop of a hat with back home. One guy tells about how his wife does over an hour a day (oddly, I think they've found more words for snow than an eskimo).

Regards,
etc.

Even Spud the techno-peasant is bright enuff to know not to do this mad thing.

Posted by dethspud at 2007-12-14 07:20 PM | Reply | Flag: Flag: (Choose)
FunnyNewsworthyOffensiveAbusiv
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....we ain't buying that schtick.

Thank the Great Lord Xenu for ride_on. Now I won't have to think for myself, I'll just ask the oracle of ride_on. You're so much better than anyone here, I can't imagine why you would stoop to interact with us feeble mortals. Why, you must have so many more important and rewarding things to do with your valuable time. I...I...I'm speechless with gratitude.

Thank the Lord all My soul that Jomama is NOT related to Me. I think I would get a frontal lobotomy instead of a bottle in front of Me if I found out we were related. No amount of alcohol would take care of THAT knowledge.

Larry Mohr

How do you know we're not related? You all omniscient and shit, too?

In a word YEP

Larry Mohr

In a word "ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ"
From now on your Maury Less.

That should be. From now on You're Maury Less NOT From now on your Maury Less. Just a FYI

Larry Mohr

Jealousy.....it's a nasty emotion. One day you MIGHT get over it JoMama.

Give me Animus or give me a million dollars cash, small bills, non-sequential serial numbers.

Maury.

Maury, your use of the period between "That should be" and "From now on" is not grammatically correct.
I must say I'm suprised at you sir - I mean your incompetence.

Let's be fair: in Canada, calling your neighbor can mean calling into another time zone.

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Hate to say I agree with Spud, but yeah, the guy's an idiot.

Here's my pet peeve of the day. I just bought a pre-paid cell phone at Wal-Mart for $10. But in the Philippines (where people make every centavo sweat) I can't find a pre-paid cell for less than $50. That's half-a-month wages for most people.

China is a lot closer to the Philippines than the US, so why aren't these poor countries flooded with these cheap phones?

Hate to say I agree with Spud, but yeah, the guy's an idiot

Don't think of it as agreeing with Spud think of it as failing to disagree. That's wot Spud does when ever Spud fails to disagree with one of Vern postings.

Works like a hot damn!

China is a lot closer to the Philippines than the US, so why aren't these poor countries flooded with these cheap phones?

Good question. In a sense the telecom market is like the legal drug market. It'll charge wot they think the market will bear. That why America pays too much for prescription drugs and Canada pays too much for phone service and especially cellphones as well as magazine based in the States.

Here's a cute one fer yas. Fer years American magazines in Canada have had two different prices on the cover the US one adn the Canadian one. With the two currencies having achieved sommat resembling par these days folks are starting to complain. The magazine worlds solution? Only one price on the mags. The Canadian one. Still a shitload more expensive than the American price.

Maybe that's why we call each others "hosers", eh?

Cos we're sure getting hosed by the telcoms and mag folks!

Be Well.

Because we are a consumerist society and poor countries aren't set up for cheap phones.


too easy Vern

Because we are a consumerist society and poor countries aren't set up for cheap phones.

Posted by coyote at 2007-12-14 11:47 PM | Reply

You're a retard. Poor countries are vacuums for cheap products.

I can walk into any appliance store in the Philippines and buy a "Snoy PalyStation" (that's not a typo) that runs bootleg video games.

In most poor countries they lack the infrastructure for landlines, and cellphones are the main form of phone communication. Though they mostly use them for texting, rather than talking. You see everybody with their nose against their phone, reading or sending texts. (My 2nd favorite street sign of all time is at busy crosswalks: "Do not text while crossing the street")

The phone companies make their money off selling phone cards, not the hardware. It would be in their interest to have as many phones deployed as possible.

But thanks, Coyote, for your deep insight into Third World economics. You have so much understanding, there, in your suburban cul-de-sac, 1.3 miles from a Starbucks.

I hate cell phone companies! Once you get into a contract with them, it is easier to get out of the mob, than it is getting them out of your life.
I had one that kept sending me bills for months after I cancelled the contract. It was easier to pay them off than try and fight them.
Now I just buy pay as you go phone cards.
fucking corporations are going to make slaves out of all of us if we don't do something!

One day I saw 3 Danish girls walking down the sidewalk shoulder to shoulder. All 3 were talking to someone on their cell phone, completely oblivious to the girl they were standing next to.

Oh God! It's Christmas shopping weekend! Ugh!

Here's my pet peeve of the day. I just bought a pre-paid cell phone at Wal-Mart for $10. But in the Philippines (where people make every centavo sweat) I can't find a pre-paid cell for less than $50.

It is called supply and demand dummy. Look it up.

Once you get into a contract with them, it is easier to get out of the mob, than it is getting them out of your life.


Try this one.....

Don't pay the bill. Done. Simple solution. I guarantee you will be "out of your contract" with that solution.



One day I saw 3 Danish girls walking down the sidewalk shoulder to shoulder. All 3 were talking to someone on their cell phone, completely oblivious to the girl they were standing next to.

Oh God! It's Christmas shopping weekend! Ugh!

Posted by JeffnDenmark


My favourite are the ones where they are standing at a bus stop, yakking on the phone.

They can't afford anything but public transportation but they will throw a hundred dollars a month (or more) to keep up on how all their friends' days are going.

My daughter once borrowed my wife's phone for emergencies while she was away at school. I go to pick her up one day and she is on it. I drive her back home and it keeps ringing. The conversations are

"Hi"

"Yeah"

"Nothing. Just going home"

"OK"

"Yeah"

"Ok"

"Nothing"

"Bye"

Ring.

"Hi"

"Yeah"

"No"

"Nothing. What are you doing"

"Yeah"

"Ok"

"Bye"

Ring.....

I took the phone back and found I'd a bill at the end of the month for over a hundred dollars of this.

Regards,
etc.

My life functioned perfectly well 20 years ago without a cell phone. Today it still does. How can this be?

"They can't afford anything but public transportation but they will throw a hundred dollars a month (or more) to keep up on how all their friends' days are going."

You don't know that they CAN'T afford it.

Maybe they're helping out the environment by taking the bus rather than having another vehicle on the road...maybe they don't want to fight traffic...maybe it's more convinient for them to take the bus. With the price of gas, it's probably cheaper to take the bus. And it saves wear and tear on your own vehicle.

There are a slew of reasons why people may opt for the bus.

Is this the same idiot who bought a van with cruise control then went to sleep thinking it would drive itself?

Never mind. He's dead.

Hey I have been known to cook wash My face and brush My teeth while utilizing the Cruise Control feature.

Larry Mohr

Bell Mobility sucks, and combined with this guy's idiocy, there's no wondering why this happened. I've switched all of my service (land line, internet, cell) to Bell competitors and now they call my house 3-4 times a day to try to win back my business. They do not care until after they have lost your $.
"Bell has since made a "goodwill gesture" and reduced Staniaszek's bill to a mere $3,243" Goodwill, my ass. They will find a way of recovering the remaining balance by double billing or upping costs with other loyal Bell customers.

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