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stella41b -> Well cellphones don't actually bug me but.. (6/7/2009 9:36:14 PM)

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?



ThatDamnedPanda -> RE: Well cellphones don't actually bug me but.. (6/7/2009 9:58:23 PM)

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ORIGINAL: stella41b
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.
...

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?


You're damned right I feel the same way. I hate the damned things. If I remember to take it with me, I do, and if i forget it, then I check my voice mail when I get home. It's my phone, therefore it exists for my convenience and my convenience alone. I signed a contract obligating me to pay the bill every month, but there was not one single word in there about answering it every time it rings.

I used to have an obnoxious supervisor who would be furious when he called and I didn't answer. He never even left messages; he'd just call and hang up if it cut over to voice mail. Then he'd pitch a fit because I hadn't checked my missed calls and called him back. Seriously. He was too lazy and arrogant to even leave a voice mail message; he assumed that I ought to just regularly check my missed calls and call everybody back who'd called and hung up without leaving a message. I told him he was a fucking imbecile, and that sort of arrogant, self-centered attitude was exactly why I seldom answered the phone when I saw that it was him calling. He didn't call me quite as often after that.



YoursMistress -> RE: Well cellphones don't actually bug me but.. (6/7/2009 10:04:36 PM)

Stella,

While I share some of your same annoyances, I think there is some merit to the need for near constant communications in some circles.  While your comment regarding how things were done before sounds reasonable, the proliferation of cellular communications does put people that are out of touch with their teammates at a potentially large disadvantage.  I'm not arguing that everyone fits that bill, but there can be expectations of immediate response given the state of technology that could be of real concern to professionals of various businesses. 

yours



pahunkboy -> RE: Well cellphones don't actually bug me but.. (6/7/2009 11:14:02 PM)

Yeah they do talk loud.   Very annoying.   But there is good news.  The economic collapse will loose many cell lines.  I had 2- and now I just have a landline.

...one can deal with the loud mouths.   Cough alot. drop things.   whip out your phone and act like you are fighting with the e-coli inspector.

I am against any more laws.   We need to get rid of laws- not make more.

I live on a busy street.   I can look out right into the car. Almost close enough to touch it.    1 out of 4 are gabbing on the phone,

BTW- I can still carry and use my cell phone. It is no longer paid.   But a 911 call is possible.   So I carry it for that- as well as the cam feature.

If you are out and about- and a rude thing happens-  but you have no phone-  put your fingers near your ear. Say something earthshatterring and obnoxioux.   then fake like you hung up the ear peice to your phone.

....with me in control- a whole gandolar full of widgets can come crashinmg down.

.....whjereby I make a seceen saying the place needs to comply with ADA, and that My attotnney- Ira Goldstein will be on the case in the morning.     Mkae sure the liability insurance dec sheet is in hand.




pahunkboy -> RE: Well cellphones don't actually bug me but.. (6/7/2009 11:20:02 PM)

Oh and another thing.  During the urgent call be sure to assist the shopper.  Discreetly drop in items into his cart.   ....It could be usual items, it could not.  Just casually drop in a few items.  

Then later- accuse the guy of stealing your cart!!!!!

when he said he did not- thats when - lice spray roach motels, and scoooby doo lunch boxes end up in his cart.   Alsmo with  the most expensive items you popped in there.


So when he decideds his cart was stolen- that he- alas- will have a reason to call someone.



...see?



ShellyD -> RE: Well cellphones don't actually bug me but.. (6/8/2009 12:15:29 AM)

I'm with you Stella, I dislike the things and find them very intrusive, I don't want to hear other peoples lives via a oneway conversation. I think I am turning into a grumpy old woman sometimes as once something I would let pass, I now react strongly to things like this.....I can blame it on  two years of severe chronic pain, neurological pain is the pits, and (prescribed) drugs though...lol

Although they are useful, for years I resisted getting a mobile phone until I started doing agency (nursing) contracts for 3 month stints wayy out in the outback and I needed a contact point for family and friends. My daughter decided this for me and bought it as well....(no excuse mum [sm=onphone.gif].!!! )    Now they update it every year for my birthday present....[sm=gaah.gif]

My phone is a prepaid phone that I keep $20- on in case of car breakdown in the country (it takes forever to get through to RACV).  In a year I probably put $60- on it so it costs minimal amounts to maintain.



Arpig -> RE: Well cellphones don't actually bug me but.. (6/8/2009 1:19:21 AM)

I don't really like them. I don't own one. When I am out of my home I cannot be reached, and that's how I like it.



Musicmystery -> RE: Well cellphones don't actually bug me but.. (6/8/2009 1:25:39 AM)

Me too.



slaveboyforyou -> RE: Well cellphones don't actually bug me but.. (6/8/2009 2:00:52 AM)

I know it's popular for folks to decry cell phones, but I happen to like mine.  I resisted getting one until 2005, just like I resisted getting a internet connection until 2002.  Now I can't imagine doing without either.  I've got rid of the landline, and I find it to be incredibly convenient to have my cell phone on me.  I still remember having to walk 5 miles at 2 in the morning on a rural road when my car broke down to find a pay phone.  It sucked, and I don't ever wish to go through that again.  So I always have mine with me.  If I don't wish to talk to someone, I simply don't answer it. 

I understand your frustration with some folks' use of their phones.  I don't answer mine or use it when I'm driving.  I pull over if I need to use it that bad.  I excuse myself in restaurants, theaters, etc when I need to take a call, and I go outside.  I put it on vibrate when I am in those types of environments as well. 



BKSir -> RE: Well cellphones don't actually bug me but.. (6/8/2009 2:26:54 AM)

Okay, I hate my cell phone.  It's a good phone, yes.  I have one, yes.  It's my only phone, yes.  But I don't like using the telephone, period.  Never have.

Will I get rid of my cell phone?  No.  I use it, I need it for people to contact me, I need it to contact people, I need it at 3am if my car breaks down or I need to call the veterinarian for an emergency, or to talk with my pet or B. when they're away.  I still don't like telephones.

Will I get rid of someone elses cell phone?  Yes!  If I'm in the car with someone and they're driving and they pick up their phone, I will take it from them, and hopefully I'm in a particularly generous mood, or I'll drop it out the window.  I've done it before, and I'll do it again.  It's been proven to be just as dangerous if not more so, to talk on the cell phone while driving, as it is to be driving drunk. (Not counting headsets and hands frees).

Unless you're a doctor of some sort or something along those lines and it's imperative to be able to contact you in case of an emergency, please turn that damned thing off in restaurants or theaters.  Okay, maybe not off, but turn it to vibrate.  And if you get a call, excuse yourself from the table and go outside.  I HATE that shit in restaurants.  Possibly my biggest pet peeve of all.  I'm there to relax and enjoy myself, not hear your side of the conversation with your aunt Maddie about her golden retriever's blocked bowels shouted at obscene levels.  No one else is either!  Give me half a chance and let me get ahold of your phone, and you'll know what your aunt Maddie's dog felt like.  I seriously want to beat these people with their phones until the thing loses all of it's structural integrity and I physically CAN'T anymore.  And trust me, I'm not the only one in the restaurant that feels this way.  Damn near EVERYONE else there is considering going out to the parking lot and slashing your tires with your head when you do that.

That, and your aunt Maddie doesn't want to hear you slurping and chomping away on the phone while you're talking with her.  So please, either let it drop to voice mail and you can call her back in a few minutes when you're done eating, or go outside to talk with her.  It's NOT that much to ask I don't think. 

And using them in theatres, the talking, the light (even from texting, that's annoying too, especially if you're the prick that was in front of me at the Star Trek movie), you know what?  If I have to explain why you're a douche for that, you'll never get it anyway.

Disclaimer:  The use of the word "you" in the above posting does not pertain to any particular "you", but just the general "you" to anyone that happens to be reading this (or not) and is guilty of these things.  Just letting the general "you" know how annoying the general "I" find this behavior.  Thank you.

EDIT:  I do admit, I have my cell on/next to me 24-7.  I may or may not answer it though, depending on who it is.  But I keep it there because some people do know that, no matter what time they call, I'll answer.  The number that has this ability is extremely small, I can count them on one hand.  And if I don't answer, well, I guess you know if you're one of those people or not... unless I'm asleep and don't hear it...

The jerkoffs in stores... yeah, once in a while I will walk down an aisle on my cell, normally it's when I'm there with M., B. or the pet, and we've gotten split up.  Otherwise, the phone can wait, or I can get the hell out of everyone's way and go stand by the avocado bin or something.

Bluetooth?  I can't stand them.  Not comfy.  If you're driving or something, sure, fine, go ahead.  But if you're out and about, just pick up your phone and put it to your ear, ya lazy prick!  Not talking about people that it's physically truly difficult to do so or literally can't.  I'm not THAT heartless.  But you, Mr. Joe Lawyer, flapping your arms about in the middle of the deli and yapping at thin air...  10 years ago, we'd have tackled you to the ground and tossed you in the nutty house for that kind of fucking behavior.  Just because you have some plastic sticking out of your ear doesn't make you look important, it just makes you look like a pretentious prick and STILL insane... douche...



Lucylastic -> RE: Well cellphones don't actually bug me but.. (6/8/2009 3:51:51 AM)

I think I adore Stella and BK for making me laugh  like a drain,Ive felt many occasions I would like to do the same thing, its one of the reasons I wouldlove to have a discreet zapper, so I could pass them and zap the hell out of  them. ZZZZZZZZAAAAAAAAAAAP Thats for being a plonker!!
My  daughter has an Iphone and is permanently attached, drives me nuts,  everything stops if the bloody thing beeps at her. I find its bloody ignorant.
I have a cell phone but its not answered until Im in a space to take it or reply. I prefer to talk without distractions anyway, I can multitask, but prefer not to just for a phone call.
Right now mine costs me 15$ a month, Im fine with that, it does what I need it to do.
Its a wonderful invention, but as usual people are what makes it irritating.
Again thankyou for the laughs
Lucy




NYLass -> RE: Well cellphones don't actually bug me but.. (6/8/2009 6:27:15 AM)

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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy

Oh and another thing.  During the urgent call be sure to assist the shopper.  Discreetly drop in items into his cart.   ....It could be usual items, it could not.  Just casually drop in a few items.  

Then later- accuse the guy of stealing your cart!!!!!

when he said he did not- thats when - lice spray roach motels, and scoooby doo lunch boxes end up in his cart.   Alsmo with  the most expensive items you popped in there.


So when he decideds his cart was stolen- that he- alas- will have a reason to call someone.

...see?



When the loud talker is holding up the checkout line, and has all his items on the conveyor, casually add tampons, metamucil, midol, a pregnancy test & the new KY his/her lube.  Make sure the divider is between both orders. 

Last week at the post office, I heard the best comeback for a customer in line on a phone.  The clerk called for the next person, saw she was on a phone and said "No, ma'm, you stand there and finish your call, I won't disturb you.  I'll take the next person who's available, sir step up..."  By the time the lady told her friend she had to go two other people were helped. 

My cell phone is my alarm clock and my portable 911.  If people need me, they can call me on my work phone, or home phone, or email me. 

(Good rant.)



CatdeMedici -> RE: Well cellphones don't actually bug me but.. (6/8/2009 6:46:30 AM)

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---[8|]--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.



DesFIP -> RE: Well cellphones don't actually bug me but.. (6/8/2009 7:13:33 AM)

I always answer mine because I have kids and too often the call has been a medical emergency; bruised foot plate from football, 32 stitches from softball, 6 stitches from community service (while working in a soup kitchen she stabbed her thumb and not the potato). But if it's not an emergency I tell them I'll call them back in 5 and pull off the road.



LaTigresse -> RE: Well cellphones don't actually bug me but.. (6/8/2009 7:31:45 AM)

I have a love/hate relationship with ALL phones and especially cell phones. I have one, have had since 1998, and I have 3 people I talk to on it with any regularity. Those three people do not get angry if I do not answer, they know I either, am driving, have the ringer shut off or have left it in the car or in my bag and am not anywhere near it.

I almost ran over some little twit that was so busy yapping on her phone she walked right off the sidewalk into traffic. If I'd had the truck I might have.

I detest seeing people wandering through the store yapping on their phone and am now going to start sneaking weird stuff in their carts. Especially the annoying women that are ignoring their screaming rude little brats while they are wandering aimlessly talking to their, mother/sister/girlfriend/whomever, couldn't wait until they got home. I think rubbers, lube and pregnancy tests.... definitely. Thank you for the splendid idea!!



Vendaval -> RE: Well cellphones don't actually bug me but.. (6/8/2009 7:40:18 AM)

Like any other tool or technology cell phones can be useful but are also easily misused. I have mine set to vibrate or turned off entirely if in a work environment, class, theatre, etc. But it is necessary for communicating with many people in my life for both personal and career reasons now.

One of the most obnoxious inventions ever are those wall mounted phones for the shower. If there is ever a place I do not want to be disturbed it is in the bathroom.[8|]



Crush -> RE: Well cellphones don't actually bug me but.. (6/8/2009 8:40:14 AM)

I resisted until I had to take on the CTO role at the university for a few years to help out the university (financially.)  Then I had to have one, unfortunately.

But now, even though I'm now full time in the classroom again, I enjoy using it.  Not so much for the phone part, but because of the convergence of so many of my "geek toys" and such.   Plus, with my students I have to stay up with the tech!

I text.  I only sextext to Mrs C!  I calendar. Send multimedia.  GPS. Listen to Pink Floyd.  Etc, etc. 
I even became a Crackberry addict last month when my old phone died.

BUT, I really don't appreciate people being so discourteous all the time.  I like that PCA disorder, Stella...going to swipe it and use it in the classroom next Fall!

And, as someone who rides a motorcycle to work (40 mi/64k round trip), I'm ALWAYS watching...and like PaHunky said, it seems at least 1 of 4 or fewer are on the damn things during heavy traffic.  And definitely aren't paying attention to the road!

Love/Hate relationship.  Love mine; Hate theirs!





LaTigresse -> RE: Well cellphones don't actually bug me but.. (6/8/2009 9:03:40 AM)

I love that I can shut the ringer off on mine and ignore it.[:D]



subtlebutterfly -> RE: Well cellphones don't actually bug me but.. (6/8/2009 10:00:14 AM)

Can't live without it and gawd forbid it runs out of battery during a daylight hour..
I hate it when I get drunk calls in the middle of the night though[8|] "heeeeey honey are you downtown wazzaaaaaap o you in bed? you sleepin? o hey do you know what johnny did..blahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah"[>:]



slaveboyforyou -> RE: Well cellphones don't actually bug me but.. (6/8/2009 10:13:25 AM)

quote:

I hate it when I get drunk calls in the middle of the night though[8|]


I hate to admit it, but I've made a few of those calls before. [:D]  "Hey baby, what are you doing?  Sleeping?  What the hell are you doing sleeping?  Work tomorrow?  Fuck that, call in sick.  We can go do such and such tomorrow...I'm buying.  Oh c'mon, you know want to....."

Believe it or not, It actually has worked more than a few times. 



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