20 Feb 05
It sometimes seems to me that I am one the few people left on this planet that doesn't own a mobile phone. When I'm out and about I see all too often that "Mobile phone look". Head bent forward, Mouth half open, gormlessly looking into hand whilst the thumbs are moving frantically, texting. What a load of tosh. I say throw them away before you get RSI, fry your brain, or ruin your street cred with that crappy novelty tune that you have just downloaded.
20 Feb 05
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Originally posted by Jay PeateaGood on you Jay.
It sometimes seems to me that I am one the few people left on this planet that doesn't own a mobile phone. When I'm out and about I see all too often that "Mobile phone look". Head bent forward, Mouth half open, gormlessly looking i ...[text shortened]... cred with that crappy novelty tune that you have just downloaded.
I don't own one either, but it is because I am pretty much anchored to my office six days a week, right next to a good old "very good quality" land line. When I leave that space, I don't and won't tolerate a phone.
What do you think of the argument of "Cell Jammers"?
It is in the news today. Seems the govt. guys are trying to make them illegal because they MIGHT prevent a true emergency call.
I say, jam away. If a few hundred people die each year and two hundred MILLION loud abnoxious people are kicked out of my favorite restaurants... GOOD DAMNED DEAL. LET EM' DIE!
<edit> Though it would be more "moral" and stuff to just have the right for me to pull out old bertha and shoot them on the spot!!! grin. Or at least have the right to slap them with a glove and meet at dawn to settle it.
20 Feb 05
Originally posted by StarValleyWySorry I'm very familiar with the Cell Jammers argument, something happening in the US in guess ? But I can't see where it might prevent a true emergency within a restuarant or cinema, its not as if there won't be a land line to call for help. Unless of course you get mistakenly locked in over night and have to watch endless cycles of a film & the popcorn machine has run out.
Good on you Jay.
I don't own one either, but it is because I am pretty much anchored to my office six days a week, right next to a good old "very good quality" land line. When I leave that space, I don't and won't tolerate a phone.
What do you think of the argument of "Cell Jammers"?
It is in the news today. Seems the govt. guys are tryi ...[text shortened]... ot!!! grin. Or at least have the right to slap them with a glove and meet at dawn to settle it.
20 Feb 05
Originally posted by Jay PeateaCell Jammers are all the rage here. they are available on the internet and "instantly kill" any cell phone conversation within about 200 meters.
Sorry I'm very familiar with the Cell Jammers argument, something happening in the US in guess ? But I can't see where it might prevent a true emergency within a restuarant or cinema, its not as if there won't be a land line to call for help. Unless of course you get mistakenly locked in over night and have to watch endless cycles of a film & the popcorn machine has run out.
They just scramble the signals of all phones within that distance.
US govt is trying to address it before it becomes a pandemic panic.
21 Feb 05
The I-don't-have-a-cell-phone people are the I-don't-have-a-t.v. people of the new millenia. They look down their noses at you while you use your phone and think themselves superior because they refuse to use new technology. They give you arguements like "I'm not gonna be tied to that thing" as if you can't turn a cell phone off or you have to answer every call like some kind of Pavlovian automaton. They obviously don't ever have to make a call somewhere that there is no phone, say, in your broken down vehicle. Jump feet first into the eighties and get a cell phone and quit borrowing everyones.
21 Feb 05
Originally posted by CliffLandinNot really. I actually have two of them. Somewhere here. I just have never had a need to use them. And they are worth exactly what they cost. Nothing. They came in the mail.
The I-don't-have-a-cell-phone people are the I-don't-have-a-t.v. people of the new millenia. They look down their noses at you while you use your phone and think themselves superior because they refuse to use new technology. They give you arguements like "I'm not gonna be tied to that thing" as if you can't turn a cell phone off or you have to answ ...[text shortened]... n vehicle. Jump feet first into the eighties and get a cell phone and quit borrowing everyones.
21 Feb 05
Originally posted by CliffLandinI don't have a TV but i have a cell phone i hate with a passion. I don't have a land based telephone so i don't really have a choice. I don't look down my nose at anyone for having either though. People like me don't 'refuse to use new technology', on the contrary, we have to feel that the technology is necissary, that's the difference! I used to watch TV when it entertained me, something it no longer does, ergo, i don't frickin need one, end of story.
The I-don't-have-a-cell-phone people are the I-don't-have-a-t.v. people of the new millenia. They look down their noses at you while you use your phone and think themselves superior because they refuse to use new technology. They give you arguements like "I'm not gonna be tied to that thing" as if you can't turn a cell phone off or you have to answ ...[text shortened]... n vehicle. Jump feet first into the eighties and get a cell phone and quit borrowing everyones.
I hate being expected to be on call 24 hours a day because i have a mobile. If i need to speak to someone i'll phone them, but chatting just for the sake of it? I can't think of anything more pointless, so i don't do it. I think you'll find it is you who is 'Looking down your nose' at people who don't follow all the latest trends and fads just to be accepted by others! So....😛
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