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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Sara on July 07, 2006, 12:43:28 PM
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I was standing in line at the bank today, and no less than 4 people were chit chatting on their cell phones. One person even answered it while in front of the teller. WTF, can\'t it wait? Everyone shuffles through their pockets and their purses like it\'s a grenade about to go off.
The advent of the speakerphone option only adds to my hatred. I cannot tell you how many people I\'ve seen (and heard, unfortunately) chatting it up on speakerphone whilst holding the phone about 6 inches from their head. Would it be so hard to talk the old-fashioned non-speakerphone way and hold that bad boy against your head? The only time ANY speakerphone should be in use is if more than one person on the other end needs to hear the convo, or if you absolutely must use both hands and don\'t have a headset. I make lots of calls to IT managers, and if you put me on speakerphone for no particular reason, I will automatically assume you\'re a prick and will secretly loathe you until your upgrade is complete.
I admit, it was kinda cool to have a cell phone for the first year. Now...I really miss my privacy. Yes, I can turn the damn thing off, but the only worse thing than a cell phone is voicemail. I have a large family, and god forbid I don\'t have my celly ("celly"...I hate that) ready and waiting should they buzz me. And no, your number on my missed call list isn\'t reason enough to call you back.
I hate you bluetooth - don\'t tell me the blue-led-eared 40-something housewife at the grocery store is expecting a call she just CAN\'T miss. What it is, a god damned fashion accessory now?
Text messaging - "R U going out 2nite? srsly? O-rly? lol" STAB
Wasn\'t it great when you could go shopping or to a movie and if someone wanted to get ahold of you, your answering machine would be flashing? Wasn\'t it nice when you could run out the door without a phone and still feel like a whole person? Is it okay if I mow the lawn without my phone or if I don\'t keep it next to the bedstand? Can I cheat on you in peace without you vibrating my conscience and my pocket?
It doesn\'t "own" me. I have free will. Of course now I feel bound by the one REAL advantage of owning a cell phone - the emergency, and the despair of seeing 39 missed calls. Okay, maybe there are two advantages of owning a cell phone - the "I\'m lost" or "where the fuck are you" call.
I hate you, cell phone. I especially hate you, pink RAZR.
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i like cell phones... even more... i like speakerphones... but now i\'ll like them for another reason. this time, when i use 2way or speakerphone, i will do it to annoy others around me and hopefully, if i\'m lucky, you will be one of them.
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Anyone wearing that when off looks like a total prick to me. It always seems to be some trendy asian or black dood trying to look cool.
I\'m at work, will probably add more hatred later.
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I have yet to buy a cell phone. Screw \'em.
I saw a girl today riding a bicycle, she was maybe 12 years old. Riding her bicycle, talking on a cell phone!
Or in a car when people are sitting next to each other but talking to other people.
Or people who text back and forth even though... You\'re both holding a gotdamn phone!
People..
-Dan
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Now we have cellphones that store mp3 files and videos. I fucking hate it when some high school kids on the bus take out a cell phone and start playing back an mp3 or a video on their cell phone, and I have to hear that crappy sound coming out of those miniature, shitty, tinny little speakers. Is that supposed to be enjoyable for someone? To me it feels like an chrome rod being pounded into my ear.
Oh yeah how about the time some asshole was sitting in the movie theatre one row in front of me with his bluetooth headset stuck on his ear. That little blue light flashing in a darkened theater was incredibly distracting. Fortunately the flashing light thing eventually timed out, but WTF? Why do you need to wear a cellphone headset in a movie theater? Are you actually planning to receive a call? If so I will beat your ass with a torque wrench when I hear you answer the phone.
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All that could be fixed if people weren\'t so fucking retarded.
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I agree completely...
I hate cell phones.
I hate people who feel like they have to YELL into them or the person on the other end wont hear. I dont need to hear your conversation dingleberry.
Those wireless ear things are they gayest thing in the world. There was this douchbag in line at the gas station today in a crappy suit, buying a red bull, yacking into one of those and I stood there and wondered if he knew what a complete toolbox he looked like.
Your not as important as you think you are.
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When I started fighting with my family (because I wouldn\'t *rush* to answer my cell or return an unimportant call when I was busy) they eventually got my point when I threatened to not only go back to a phone, but even to no phone at all (and use email for everything). Cell phones make you feel like your at other\'s beck and call, unless your careful to simply use them as an advantageous technology.
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it actually took me awhile to get one,..but they really can come in handy for emergencies...only me and the wifey has one...i don\'t see how or why parents buy one for their teenagers....:confused:...they just better be home at a certain time or call me from a pay-phone for emergencies,...kids and people in general act like they cannot function without a cell phone,...i mean what were you doin\' before cell phones, even existed?....the beeper?....and don\'t even get me started at how many people use their cell phones while driving....it\'s scary...
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i just use mine every now and then..my lifetime use says 19 hours and iv had my cell phone for a while. Usually just emergency(ish) or a call from a friend, which usually takes like 2 minutes...are you busy, where we going, what time, hang up.
The ear piece thing bugs the shit out of me. Looks so damn preppy-gay. I had a customer come in with one of those, talking to me AND the person..so when i was trying to help her and she\'d respond i have no idea if she was talking to me or the person on her phone. Wouldnt be that hard to hang up for 5 minutes.
I also kind of hate when im in a store and i get a random call, so i try to be polite and talk quietly, but the person who called me gets all pissed off because i \'mumble all the time\'..cant be like "IM IN A FUCKING STORE!"
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There\'s lots of vitriol in this thread.
I love it.
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I work in tech support too so if ANYBODY gets ahold of my cell phone number they call me for anything.
Ive gotten calls at like 10 at night from podiatrists not knowing how to use a printer....
Yeah, I hate my cell phone.
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I personally love my cell phone. I don\'t use it that often but its a nice insurance just in case my car breaks down or anything like that. Plus I don\'t have a land line so its really the only way to contact me.
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It\'s not the gun that kills, it\'s people!!!111
So it\'s better to hate the stupid people who just have to answer their phone while at the bank or whatever. And usually it\'s just "hey what u doin\'" - "nothing, just chilling... u?" - "not much... blah blah FUCKING BLAH".
I just turn my phone off if I don\'t want to be bothered.
The sad thing is when you see kids down to like 5-6 years getting cell phones. Yes, I\'ve seen it.
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My friends daughter is 8 and has a cell phone and a 30g ipod.
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30GB iPod, eh?
I dunno... do you think that thing is big enough to handle the 3 or so albums worth of Top 40 shit she might own at that age?
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Don\'t own one and have on intentions of owning one. If I ever do, it\'ll be for emergency purposes only (family related stuff). The fiance has one, but only because we don\'t have a land phone. I can\'t complain about her\'s, as she turns it off whenever we go in any place and never pulls it out like it\'s a "gernade goin\' off".
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Text messaging - "R U going out 2nite? srsly? O-rly? lol" STAB
Heh, I just read that again. That cracked me up.
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What I don\'t understand is the purpose of text messages. By the time you peck\'n\'hunt for the right keys and then you still have to make every word short (really = rlly? HUH?), you could have actually called the person and said, "Hey -wanna go out tonight?". Ten times easier and faster, so why do we even have text messages? Pointless, I say.
Tasha\'s (my fiance) aunt never calls. She only sends text messages and I feel like I am reading some ancient language everytime I get one. By the time they sit there and type back and forth, they could of already done all this via actually talking. A five mintue conversation takes an hour with text messages. Friggin\' insane!
On another cell phone complaint, I will try and dig up a new article I read that said people who talk on cell phones are more likely to wreck than a drunk driver. A lot of states have passed mandatory seat belt laws (don\'t get me started on that..), so why not make talking on the cell phone in a car illegal? If the call is so important, pull over, take the call and then move on. Don\'t risk everyone elses life while you talk about your day to your best friend.
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I thought this was true everywhere, but in NJ you can get pulled over for talking on the cellphone. I believe it is illegal unless it\'s a hands-free device.
If they make hands-free illegal, then they should just outlaw talking in the car. Same thing.
But outlawing cellphones is ok, because you\'re supposed to have 2 hands on the wheel I guess...
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most cell phone related crashes are not caused by merely talking on it, but by dialing or looking thru the contact list.
then again, any car crash is caused by negligence (playing with the radio, staring at some hot chick on the corner, etc)
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Oh, gotcha.
I got cut off by a lady in a minivan on her cellphone once.
I had to swerve, two wheels off the road to avoid her and when I steered back, the thickness of the pavement messed up the steering or something and i ended up spinning out and sliding into the grass median.
She kept going, never saw me.
Lucky it was a Saturday afternoon and no one was on the highway at the time. It was a two lane highway that\'s usually full of traffic during normal hours...
Luckier still, it was my current car and I avoided smashing a stump and destroying the back fender/bumper by a matter of inches.
-Dan
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most cell phone related crashes are not caused by merely talking on it, but by dialing or looking thru the contact list.
then again, any car crash is caused by negligence (playing with the radio, staring at some hot chick on the corner, etc)
I will have to dig the study up, it was a very recent one, but anyways, it showed that people simply TALKING on the cell phone was more likely to wreck, if nothing else due to the fact they are slower to hit the break than someone who is NOT talking on a cell phone.
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I never use any slang in my text messages. And they\'re still plenty fast to write. I like text messages when you just need to say something short or get a quick answer to something, but don\'t want to start a whole phone conversation for something small.
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I always type words out in full and it doesn\'t really take much time anyway. I like text messages for when you just need to say something small or need a quick answer and don\'t want to start a whole conversation just for that.
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I have no problems with mobiles, just the types of rude knobs and uneducated knobs that use em.
Anyone with half a brain will be able to use T9 mode. Basically you can type out as quickly as if you were using a keyboard. I use the speakerphone option when driving. Sara, do u even know wtf bluetooth is? Doesn\'t seem like it.
Text messages are good, saves you lots of cash. If you\'re using it when having a full on convo, then you\'re a idiot anyway. Simple questions can be answered and its far cheaper then calling.
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it\'s not cheaper for me... $.10 per text message. I have so many damn rollover minutes and free "in-network" friends and family that don\'t count against my minutes, it makes texting a waste for me.
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I have no problems with mobiles, just the types of rude knobs and uneducated knobs that use em.
Anyone with half a brain will be able to use T9 mode. Basically you can type out as quickly as if you were using a keyboard. I use the speakerphone option when driving. Sara, do u even know wtf bluetooth is? Doesn\'t seem like it.
Soully - I know wtf bluetooth is. I was making a poke at the toolish-ness of wearing a bluetooth headset when you\'re not on the phone, or not immediately expecting a call.
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I like my cellphone. Sometimes it gets slow for some reason. Cingular reception sucks at my area (but just my house). I love the speakerphone option. I never use it in public. I use it in my car (still have to hold it but its more manageable. I just rest my arm on the window when its up and talk that way. I also use it in my house when I\'m on my computer or something). I like the camera feature. There\'s every so often I wish I had a camera and used it. Technology is fun. But I don\'t like those bluetooth headsets (and I\'m probably gonna end up getting one eventually to use in my car). They look a bit gay to me.
I do hate people who talk nonstop in public. I work in retail and its one thing if they\'re walking down the aisles talking when they are picking things out of the aisle. Its another thing when they\'re ringing up and chatting away and trying to talk to me too. Or they come by the photolab talking on their cell phone and asking me questions either of their pictures or something in the store. It really grinds my gears sometimes. People need to learn cell phone etiquette.
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it\'s not cheaper for me... $.10 per text message. I have so many damn rollover minutes and free "in-network" friends and family that don\'t count against my minutes, it makes texting a waste for me.
Oi, $.10 pr. message is rape. Do you guys pay to receive them?
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I have the option to pay an additional $4.99 a month for unlimited texts, but i\'d rather just not use it. I don\'t believe I get charged to recieve them, only sending. Cingular sucks btw
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Cellphones...I have one. I have had one for maybe a year and a half. I really don\'t care for it. I like to use it when I need to get in touch with somebody and I love not having to stop at a gas station to call somebody. I text message when I don\'t want to call somebody that I know will talk way too much.
I rarely use it while driving and I have the lowest minute plan. They are not that bad.
There are people that overly obsessed with getting the next "pc-in a phone" My manager at work(he is gay) is dying over buying a 750 dollar Dolce-Gabbana phone that is made out of copper...
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I wouldnt mind cellphones so much if they just stopped shoving so much technilogical shit into them and make them work properly. I\'ve had a cell phone for longer than I can imagine and the service seems to be getting worse while the phones seem to get more extra fuking retarded features added.
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I think after cameras and bluetooth, enough is enough. I mean, I was in the Cingular store and theres one in there that does everything but make your breakfast. Who needs shit like that? I like mine because I can make calls easy enough, text messaging is a breeze (and I make a lot so I don\'t talk to people too long, even though its 10 cents to send/recieve) and I like the camera and video feature (I actually use it from time to time and its fun to play aroudn with. Sometimes you just wish you had a camera and now I do. Not as good as my digital but cool enough). I like the bluetooth too. Me and my friend/coworker used it to transfer ringtones. But besides those small and meaningless features, I don\'t use anything else except the alarm and calculator (alarm if I\'m partying and need to wake up or somewhere sleeping without an alarm. calculator at gas stations to calculate my miles per gallon).
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i have no problems with extra features on phones. I use most of them, bluetooth, camera, mp3 for ring tones, alarm, calculator if i forget my calculator at school, and time to time i use the memo. I\'ve always had the attitude if you don\'t like it, don\'t buy it. if you buy it, don\'t use it. There are plenty of phones with a small amount of features. Choose one of them.
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I have the same attitude with extra features... why not? Technology pushes forward, it would be nice to have a video phone conversation with my future badass kid while I\'m in jail.
It\'s cool as hell what Acura is able to do with a Bluetooth phone and voice activation. When you get a call it automatically lowers your music and shows you who is calling on your dashboard, giving you the option to pick up or not.
Pretty soon I\'d like to have all that functionality and more in something as small as a wristwatch. Don\'t like carrying around a bulky phone.
I just *hate* bad phone etiquette, or even worse, when people try to show it off. It\'s just a f#cking phone.
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I like the size of my phone. If it gets any smaller, I\'ll be pissed. The smaller it is, the more of a chance on me breaking or losing it.
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Nice edit. I thought that was real til I looked at the original.
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I like the size of my phone. If it gets any smaller, I\'ll be pissed. The smaller it is, the more of a chance on me breaking or losing it.
I\'d kind of like to have a tiny zoolander phone. I always stick mine in my pocket - I don\'t like keeping it clipped to my belt or pocket. I don\'t want to look like a dork...okay, I don\'t want to look dorkier.
Although I\'ve lost (and found) my thumb drive about three times.
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I don\'t have a case. On my old brick phone, I used a clip but clipped it in my pocket so no one would really see it. Was gonna do the same wtih my new celly but decided to be cheap and not buy a case :)