h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hmm, the best folks I've found are Planet Talk for UK to USA... three pence a minute (prepaid) and absolutely no annoying little clauses...

We have yet to find any comparable deal for USA to UK calls... which is a real pain. All the companies over there seem to pull lousy tricks like charging before it even connects, charging per minute, charging to connect, and they're almost all more expensive per minute anyway...

Has anyone found any other decent deals?

I must spend about £600 a year on calls to the USA ... so a better calling account would be a godsend

Makes note of for her boyfriend to look at... phonecalls are so sadly absent from our relationship. Not that it's that detrimental, cause half the time the static gets in the way and we're always saying "can you run that one by me yet again? I didn't catch a bit of it."

sad but true.

Ah, you have to hate bad phone lines... ours have been playing up more than usual lately. Generally we find redialling works if there's lots of static... but sometimes it's just completely cut one of us off, which is very annoying. Well, *half* cuts one of us off, actually, resulting in a one-way phone line...

Definitely worth looking into, though... text has many wonderful qualities, but tone of voice is a far more natural method of expression... and having the sound of laughter (or of fits of giggles ) is a big plus too

Heehee... I miss those fits of giggles.

Do I take it you and yours are a UK/US couple as well, then?

Mhmm...

Aww...

We're also one of these... A827237.

Aww, that's so sweeeeeet...

We met here: http://www.cardea-rpg.com

(the game, not the website)

Speaking of the game, her character and my brother's got married... that was before we knew each other, though

When I started the Thingites - me and Amy were joking somewhere about the 45th post that we should get married.


Who knew!??!

(that we'd end up being in love, I mean...we aint getting hitched yet. the small matter of the atlantic ocean. ho-hum.)

Hehe...

Interestingly enough, Pearl and I (it's about time she got a name around here ) joked about agreeing to marry each other if we were both still single when we were thirty-something... that was around six months before we decided we should be a couple

Yeah, I know, that darn atlantic ocean... I'll be looking for work over there as soon as I leave uni, is the current plan... ('over there' being the USA)...

Well Amy, if I may speak on her behalf, is still at uni in america. I've graduated this year from my uni in good old Hull, England. but am looking to go on to post-grad at Warwick so were just playing things by ear really. *fingers crossed* plans are afoot to get her over here next summer for a holiday.

Addendum to post 11: Do you realize how many *more* people were asking me when we were getting married since last I told you??!

And I'll be over there next summer... "if I have to swim." And definately playing the rest of everything by ear... I have absolutely no clue when I'll be graduated by considering the whole transfer thing. Theoretically I have 2 more years, but you can never be sure... I'll be done sometime before next century, I hope.

Well there you go.

*needs a way to fast foward through time*

Not that we are desparate to see each other again or anything.

O not at all...

*pounces and refuses to let go*

Yeah, we know that feeling, too... 's been sixteen months since our first and only real-life meeting...

Aiming for one around easter this year, though

*is pounced*

16? wow. This will be about 12 months for us.