View Full Version : You have been warned!!!
Mardi_Gras
08-01-2007, 12:32 AM
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/07/ten-reasons-to-.html
Adam Jeal
08-01-2007, 04:57 AM
lol! - that is very true. Pretty much sums up my attitude to mobiles (cell) phones, although I think that it didn't go far enough - Novelty ring tones, inane conversations on packed trains and other offences should be delt with by public flogging in my book :biggrin:
Tom Lowe
08-01-2007, 07:23 AM
Haha, I agree with most of that.
David Mullen ASC
08-01-2007, 07:32 AM
I remember Garrison Kellior's comment that if God intended us to walk around in public having conversations by ourselves, he would have made us insane.
Kevin Halverson
08-01-2007, 07:36 AM
So, the only thing that differentiates us from the crazy homeless person is a bit of BlueTooth technology?
Kind of a scary thought.
I refuse to have a cell phone. Weird, cuz I love technology and tend to be an early adopter of all kinds of things. But I find cell phones to be a real headache and way too expensive. It's getting harder to find payphones though!
Kevin Halverson
08-01-2007, 08:51 AM
So what is the on center distance between pay phones nowadays; 30, 40, 50 miles?
Jeff Kilgroe
08-01-2007, 04:33 PM
They still have pay phones?
Hehe.
Anyway, I wish bluetooth bluetooth (or even wired) headsets could be outlawed. Or allowed just while driving or something. I was standing in line to get a sandwich today and a guy a few people ahead of me was having a heated argument with someone, presumably his wife. Completely inconsiderate and annoying to everyone around him. He had the bluetooth headset clipped to his ear and was screaming while he talked with his hands and even continued the conversation while ordering and paying for his food all the way out the door. I know if I were on the other end of that conversation, I would have hung up long ago.
Perhaps retail establishments should install cell phone jammers or insulate their spaces so people lose service once they walk inside. I wouldn't mind a bit.
Eirik Tyrihjel
08-01-2007, 04:37 PM
Donīt you just hate it when someone is seemingly talking to you, and you make an effort to figure out what they say, then they turn the other direction and you realise they are talking to someone on the phone...
I have to walk up to one of those one day and say loud and clear "SORRY, SAY AGAIN, I DIDNīT GET YOU THE FIRST TIME!"
Petr Dvorak
08-01-2007, 04:46 PM
Cell contact me with my family whenever I or they need.
In case of emergency it saves lives.
Priceless.
Everything else is just in intention of pandoras box.
Costelloe Michael
08-01-2007, 05:16 PM
Maybe they could ban phones like they ban smoking in public places. Special huts out the back of your local with groups of mobile phone toking types freezing their nuts off!:bleh:
Mike C
This is how I roll....
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=286
If thats too bulky for you pockets then theres always this one...
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8928/
Mardi_Gras
08-02-2007, 12:27 AM
My funniest cellphone story involves a dude whose "keylock" function was disabled and inadvertently dials his wife when visitng his mistress. She recorded the entire call which lasted about an hour (all of the gritty details) and submitted the tape as evidence in the divorce proceedings that followed.
He didn't even get to leave the house with "one suitcase". She gladly kept it all.