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Does anyone actually still manually write out letters anymore?
The only people I know who do are over 80.

I intend to write a letter sometime soon but i have a procrastination period of at least 2 months.:p

Do computer typed and printed letters count? I send tonnes of those.

Do computer typed and printed letters count? I send tonnes of those.
I'm thinking more of actually sitting down with a pen and writing. Good point though. Hmm.

I'm thinking more of actually sitting down with a pen and writing.

Oh, then, well, I do send those around Christmas/Yule times to friends and family.

I was actually thinking earlier today how I kinda missed letters. Don't really know why, just kinda do.

I havent written a letter since Primary School and that was probably to thank the Zoo for a School trip.

I havent written a letter since Primary School and that was probably to thank the Zoo for a School trip.
I think I wrote to Jim Bolger or Jenny Shipley (former prime ministers of NZ) in primary school.

The last time I wrote letters regularly was when I was seventeen and living away from my girlfriend...*mists up* Love letters have to be just that.

Let's just say that you can't smell an e-mail, can you?

I think I wrote to Jim Bolger or Jenny Shipley (former prime ministers of NZ) in primary school.
I think i did that too.:p

I think i did that too.:p
Ahh good fun. Primary school was so awesome.

Does anyone actually still manually write out letters anymore?
I wrote a letter a couple of weeks ago to a girl I knew at university. I even used some posh writing paper I received for my 12th birthday. (So I clearly don't write letters very often.)

I wrote a letter a couple of weeks ago to a girl I knew at university. I even used some posh writing people I received for my 12th birthday. (So I clearly don't write letters very often.)
Posh writing people? What is that?

Posh writing people? What is that?
Argh, I woke up too early this morning. It's meant to say 'paper'. *goes back to sleep*

Argh, I woke up too early this morning. It's meant to say 'paper'. *goes back to sleep*
Ahh I see. Yea I had some of that ages ago. Never got used though.

I type and send a letter every month to my fiancee back in the US. While not nearly as romantic as writing the sucker by hand, I admit, it gives her a sporting chance to decypher my cryptic handwriting and terrible spelling.

Does anyone actually still manually write out letters anymore?
The only people I know who do are over 80.
Yo, letter writer here. Its nice to get hand-written snail mail once and a while, its got more character and thought to it. Most of my family and friends use e-mail as if it were IM or this forum. Not to fun to read. Anyhow, divide 80 by about 4.23 and you get my age.

Does anyone actually still manually write out letters anymore?
The only people I know who do are over 80.

I never wrote any letters before e-mail, so I'm sure as sugar not going to write any now! Besides, even if I did send a real, paper letter out to someone, I'd type it up on computer and print it out anyway -- my handwriting is obscene.

Anyhow, divide 80 by about 4.23 and you get my age.
*does maths* 18 years 333 days (and about two hours)

*does maths* 18 years 333 days (and about two hours)
Well, that depends on many conditions: quality of vision, rate of digestion, gravitational pull, blood pressure, air quality, genetics, I made up the divisor, ammount of physical excercise, daily diet, blood type, exposure to full moons, number of hours spent in a sauna, how many broken bones I have...my age is subjective to when I was concieved and my perspective on life.

:D

How'd you get the two hours? Did you like add up all the hours an 80 year old would be? Nuts, man, you're dedicated....

How'd you get the two hours? Did you like add up all the hours an 80 year old would be? Nuts, man, you're dedicated....
Well, that's fairly simple maths - 80*365*24. The craziest maths I've ever done in my head was one night when I couldn't sleep so randomly decided to work out on what date I will have been writing my diary for exactly half my life.