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ORIGINAL: stella41b

quite often other people using them do..

I have a cellphone, I have two in fact but they've just become a back up means of communication when the Internet or landline doesn't work. But then again I also keep postage stamps, paper, envelopes and pens. However I resent the fact that just because I have a cellphone I'm expected to be in contact with everyone everywhere at all times. Yes I do leave my cellphone at home, yes I do sometimes keep it switched off, and I cannot understand the irritation of those people pissed off because they can't get in touch with me at first attempt.

Cellphones screw up your driving. Not that this bothers the pricks speeding along in their 4WDs with a Nokia stuck to their earhole. I live near a main road, of which I have a possibility of dying on because some nomark in the flash car is wittering on a cellphone doing 70-80mph. Twice recently I've almost been wiped out on the pedestrian crossing near my home, which is also near three or four housing estates on which kids play. There's also the possibility of me serving life for murder if I ever get my hands on one of these divs. The speed limit clearly says 40mph, both the law and the Highway Code clearly state no driving whilst using a cellphone. There is no excuse. Unfortunately also there is no consideration for other people.

But it's not just on the roads. It's also on the pavements. How many of you here have been hit or have collided with someone who's been walking down the street... and texting at the same time. There are times when I really wish I was a tree or a lamp post. These are the same ones that pose a similar threat when pushing trolleys at the supermarket having a conversation about what they need to buy and looking round because they're of course nowhere near the right aisle. 'Coffee, you said coffee?' they say, 'Hold on there one minute, I'm by frozen foods..' And there's me wishing we were by the fruit and vegetable section so I could take a rather large zuchini or cucumber and shove it right in the orifice that's spouting drivel.

But it's like these people who cannot live without their cellphone for ten minutes or more. I don't see it as a basic human need to have to call and text all day. It's like these people who tell you that they cannot do their job or profession without needing a cellphone. Codswallop. Okay, well there's maybe a few professions or occupations where you do need a cellphone or where it makes things more efficient, such as a prostitute, truck driver, cab driver, a police detective or a doctor.

I was reading somewhere about a club which banned cellphones and the writer was arguing that all successful people need to have their cellphones in order to check their e-mails and voicemail messages every hour. Seriously? So what about the successful people who were around before cellphones even existed? And what about a secretary or personal assistant? Why the need to drop everything you're doing to appease some divvy on the other end of your cellphone?

I still remember back to when there weren't any cellphones. If you called someone at home or at the office and they weren't there, you either tried again (it's called effort) or left a message and they would get back to you. But apparently now we live in a society which has the patience of a neurotic housefly where a lot of people can't seem to grasp the fact that people like me are not willing to be accessible to everyone everywhere all the bleeding time. Nowadays it seems you cannot go anywhere, or even travel anywhere, without someone having to start up a conversation on their cellphone.

AND WHY DO THESE PEOPLE WHO DO START THESE CONVERSATIONS HAVE TO TALK SO LOUD?

I do not need to know what the doctor said to your Aunt Cathy. I don't need to know why your husband is unwilling to give you oral sex or why he spends so much time masturbating in the bathroom. I do not wish to endure a fifty minute monologue on focus group management or energy efficient sales projections. And I'm sorry that your retarded friend didn't check the location out on Google, take a Nicholson Streetfinder with them, or bother to ask directions. If they are so retarded so as not to do any of those they are also too fugging retarded to listen to your directions.

And what the hell is Bluetooth? Yes I'm talking about those loons with the plastic bits sticking out their ears walking along seemingly talking to themselves. I'm there in the supermarket and someone starts talking to me out of nowhere and so I quickly respond or ask them if they're talking to me and I get a dirty look in return. Excuse me for not seeing the plastic doofer sticking out your lughole you plank! I was only trying to be helpful. How about smiling at me and explaining that you are talking to someone on the phone and also add that you are a self-centred twat that has no respect for anyone else in your vicinity? Lucky I don't have a cricket bat to permanently lodge that plastic effigy in the space where you should have a brain. Can you hear me now dangleberry?

Have you ever tried to meet with someone who has PCA disorder (Permanent Cellphone Attachment)? You're sitting there talking, then you hear 'excuse me one moment' while their cellphone comes out and they're either texting, listening to someone telling them that they're driving back from some office, looking for advice on what coffee to buy in the supermarket, or who are connected to some dipstick on Bluetooth with the plastic doofer out their ear apparently jabbering away to themselves.

What do you think? Do you feel the same?

Care to share your thoughts, feelings and experiences with cellphones and other people who use them?

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ORIGINAL: CatdeMedici

 not to bring it with us! I was working in the library last week---the library, you know where people go for quiet and there were three damn people talking on their cell!! Funny they looked ok, didn't see a 911 need, and their conversations sure weren't a life or death chat--in the freakin library!
 

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ORIGINAL: CatdeMedici

Thank you! I could not be more with you---My 19 UM and I both have cell phones, just cell phones, not some applicance that does floors and windows---we only use them when we go out, as a back up--at home, we have these quite functional old fashioned land lines-----if I am at home-call Me at home, if its the weekend or after hours, try the cell. We don't do text hell, we don't live on the damn thing--in fact ours are pay as you go---
 
My UM once told someone, look when we are out of the house, its to get AWAY from all the chaos, not to bring it with us! I was working in the library last week---the library, you know where people go for quiet and there were three damn people talking on their cell!! Funny they looked ok, didn't see a 911 need, and their conversations sure weren't a life or death chat--in the freakin library!
 
The more, as a society, that we give in to the "on call 24/7" the more it will be expected. Sorry, I manage an international job, a stable, trainers, her education, etc and I can assure you the number of times I am on the cell when I am out for the past 5 years has numbered less than 20.
 
I think its technocrap.

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ORIGINAL: slaveboyforyou

I hate texting too.  It's almost always women that insist on trying to have a conversation with me via texting.  I have not mastered it, so it takes me forever to write out a simple message.  I don't mind simple messages like, "Call me," "Be there in an hour," "enroute to your place," etc.  But I am refuse to attempt carrying on a conversation with text.  I have an ex-girlfriend that did it all the time, and it irritated the shit out of me. 

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ORIGINAL: NuevaVida

I'm walking into enemy territory here, but I have a blackberry and I use it - often.  Email, texting, phone (and yes, even a bluetooth).  Our society is changing.  People use multifunctional cell phones now.  Some people are rude and inconsiderate about it, and others are not.  I have talked while grocery shopping (and yes, I'd see you putting stuff in my cart).  I don't shout into the phone, if I'm talking with the bluetooth and passing by someone who might mistakenly think I'm talking to them, I put my finger to the earpiece and smile at them.  My use of my phone will not intrude on your world.  So, call me....well I forgot all the names Stella used in her thread - call me what you want, but my blackberry isn't going away any time soon.  

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ORIGINAL: CatdeMedici

Thank you! I could not be more with you---My 19 UM and I both have cell phones, just cell phones, not some applicance that does floors and windows---we only use them when we go out, as a back up--at home, we have these quite functional old fashioned land lines-----if I am at home-call Me at home, if its the weekend or after hours, try the cell. We don't do text hell, we don't live on the damn thing--in fact ours are pay as you go---