Texting while driving is great advice?

if you think of them tell them you are explicitly by texting them

Well, yeah. It's why I cross posted. If you find wholesome content on Lemmy, showing it here is a great thing. I don't mind wading through the swamp that is a 4chan green text community to curate a bit of wholesome content when I find it.

At least with a physical numpad people could text without ever looking at their phones.

Physical buttons are the only way to type blind though, I still know the numpad layout by heart.

Youre either pretty young and never used numpad texting, or kinda old and never got used to it.

Mate anyone worth their salt could speed text on a t9 blindfolder under their desk and the teacher or police would never notice!

Is it that much of a leap to think they texted either in a traffic jam or even when they arrived at work after hearing this on the radio?

I’m all for being sceptical, but T9 texting could be pretty quick.

I don't get your point about it being fake. Why would a 10key phone preclude texting while driving?

gay marriage wasn’t legal in 2004

Not the the USA, but anon could get Dutch

Ah yes, the good old 15th month of 2004. I almost forgot!

wait. oh no.

says partner, could be gay.

Texing while driving is wholesome?

You're underestimating people's ability to text on those old number pads. When it was all that was there, people got good at doing it. They were physical buttons so it was easier to touch type on them than today's touchscreen phones. It was just a different layout that needed to be memorized, but it was a pretty simple one, if annoying to use.

A lot easier to one handed blind text with T9 than with a touch screen

I could text from my pocket using a T9 keypad on Ericssons, Nokia or Motorola. Blackberry was the only handset I had to look at.

gay marriage wasn’t legal in 2004

US defaultism? Totally legal since april 1st 2001 in my country.