Ooh missus, get a grip on my notifications

My messaging apps are spouting lines from a Carry On script

Nov 24, 2023

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YOU LOVE IT YOU SLAG

Happy memories. “YOU LOVE IT YOU SLAG” was, as alert followers of my old column on The Register may recall, the first SMS text message that ever dropped into the inbox of my first ever mobile phone, sometime during the last century.

It came back to mind as I was fending o…

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