Emailing someone who lives in the same house as you

Emailing is weird.

I think it's conclusive proof that people don't really like speaking to other people.

You would have thought with the success of phones and stuff that people do actually like speaking to other people but the success of emailing shows that that's not really the case.

Nowadays, given a simple choice between emailing and calling, people would rather email.

They like the sound of their own voice better in an email. And it means they can take their time yto make their voice sound better, more witty than it actually does in real life. When you're emailing you can look up words and facts and include them and think to yourself "I'm so fucking clever. Check out how eloquent that last sentence was. It was fucking great. And so am I".

But of course all emails are are speeded up faxes. Which is why they are so gloriously inefficient.

It's a bit like ringing someone up, saying something to them, then hanging up, then waiting five minutes for them to call you back, they say what they've got to say then they hang up.

Or they just call to say, did you get my email.

"No"
"Email me when you do"

You know the whole email culture has got out of hands when people who live in the same house, and retired people at that, start emailing each other.

My mum and dad, who are retired and live in the same house email each other.

And check this out, they both share the same computer so they have to wait 'til open person gets off it to email the other.

I'm not saying their marriage suffers from communication problems.

OK, scratch that. That's exactly what I'm saying.

Having said all of that, I don't want you to think that I'm anti email, that couldn't be further from the truth.

In fact, if anyone here's got any heckles, feel free to email them to me.

My email is I'matwat@I'mabigtwatwithnomates.com

No apostrophes.

And if you type that into a computer, hood luck to you.