Life without a mobile telephone

[Geno_Mariner]

Originally Posted by Graf Paper

Cell phones can be convienient but they can sometimes be a pain.

The thing I dislike most is those people who yak-yak away on their phones, oblivious to their surroundings until they nearly hit you with their shopping cart or run over you with their car...and some of them have the nerve to look at you as if it was your fault!

I do have to wonder what the consequence of the global spread of cellular phones will be to the human race, in about ten or twenty years, after having half of your skull bombarded by high-frequency microwave radiation.

Yeah, I hate that. And especially on buses when I want to get off and I get stuck with window seats. I had to give the person a real good poke to let them know I have to get off. Darn near missed my stop once.

lol, I wonder about that. My phone apparently communicates via wireless unlike others. Discovered that when I checked the 'Aircraft Mode' button out. So I don't really know how much radiation wireless devices spit out.

[kiwi_2005]

I dont own a cell phone never have never will, if anyone needs to get hold of me they can get me on the main phone line, msn, email. Thats it. Sons own cell phones and all they do with it is txt - what a waste of time.

[3Jane]

Originally Posted by Geno_Mariner

Yeah, I hate that. And especially on buses when I want to get off and I get stuck with window seats. I had to give the person a real good poke to let them know I have to get off. Darn near missed my stop once.

lol, I wonder about that. My phone apparently communicates via wireless unlike others. Discovered that when I checked the 'Aircraft Mode' button out. So I don't really know how much radiation wireless devices spit out.

And now we have them on airlines. 'I'm on the plane' etc

[kurtz]

I had a cracker on the train in this morning, some middle management lady banging on loudly about how she was going to investigate some people, she gave the 4 forenames out, that they worked shifts in a care home, how she was going to solicit written complaints about one in particular, and how she was going to do this formally in an informal way and about how one in particular had already been spoken to about this but had started backsliding again...So if your manager gets the train into London Euston, getting on somewhere after Tring you know what's coming

I had another one saying to the office,"tell them we've posted it, but post it to x as he's been complaining for weeks"

I think we should start a thread and put in these overheard conversations just so people know they're being shafted.

Yes I have a mobile but then I freelance so need to be available. It's also to text Frau Kurtz pick me up from the station and my MP3 player for the 2miles I have to walk when she doesn't pick me up

[HunterICX]

I have a Mobile phone too,
but the only time I carry it is when I'm out to work.
for example when my Scooter breaks down or have a accident.
(handy buggers to get fast to work)

when at home I have it mostly switched off

HunterICX

[XabbaRus]

Have one and hardly use it. Hence it is out of charge most of the time.

I won't start having it on all the time until work demands it and even then if I am on holiday I'll tell them to stuff it.

[3Jane]

A nobel prize to the inventor of the mobile phone box

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by 3Jane

And now we have them on airlines. 'I'm on the plane' etc

There I was no S***.

I landed at good ole Dulles Airport at about 0300 one morning. During the transport back to the terminal I was standing next to this guy who made five cell phone calls, left five voice mail messages, all saying the same thing "Hey, we just landed".

I wonder if cell phones are becoming a social crutch. People seem to have lost the capability to wait. Now it seems that they simply must make a call just to pass the time. Heaven forbid should you ever talk to the human next to you

One of the few good things about air travel is watching all the addicts. :rotfl:

First it was the smokers. They could not wait to deplane before feverishly lighting up.

Now it is the cell phones. Like Pavlov's dog as soon as the seatbelt light goes off, they have to light up. Listen to some of the conversations sometime. It is not difficult as many cell phone users have no courtesy about their neighbors. These people are talking about nothing, but they have to use the cell phone. Pretty comical at times.

From a social standpoint, I think Cell phones were a technology that created the need instead of the reverse.

[Graf Paper]

At least now smokers have someone to laugh at for being addicted to something that will probably eat you up with tumors by the time you're in your fifties.

I just wonder if , in a decade or two, cell phone companies will be facing the same legal attacks as the tobacco companies did in the 1990s?

Wouldn't it be a real wrench in our society to also discover that all man-made electromagnetic transmissions are mainly responsible for the rise in cancer rates over the last 50 years? :hmm:

There is some evidence to support this theory, but noone has had the nerve or funding to find out for sure.

The way we think, people would scream for a cure rather than eliminating the cause and living without T.V., radio, satellites, computers, etc. :p

I agree that "texting" has to be one of the most useless features of a cell phone. It's a phone, people! You want to talk, then call me, not waste my time trying to type back and forth on those twelve dinky little keys!

[STEED]

STEED HATES THE BLOODY MOBILE PHONES, THEY MAKE PEOPLE TALK SHAT.

[Tchocky]

I loathe talking to people on the phone. The idea of a telephone call is just about the rudest mode of communication.

NOISE! NOISE! I'M GOING TO MAKE LOTS OF NOISE UNTIL YOU PICK ME UP AND TALK TO ME! NOISE! NOISE!

I love text messages. You don't have to answer them immediately, or even at all. And the annoyance factor is nil.


I'm not sure about the anti-mobile sentiment here, a lot of it seems to be of the you-know-how-to-contact me variety. Look at it the other way. Having a mobile line of communication is nothing but beneficial in unexpected situations.
When's the next bus?
Where the hell are you?
Police, help me plz.
And believe me, no matter what the method of communication is, people will always talk rubbish. It's who we are, guys.

etc

Oh, and txtspk is incomprehensible.

[clive bradbury]

Hey, notice I most of us here don't like mobiles (me included), but we nearly all own one!

In common with most men, I don't like telephone conversation, and getting me to answer any phone, mobile or landline, is not easy. However, I do travel quite a bit in my work and I have to admit that a mobile is useful for that. Trying to find a payphone in the UK nowadays is a bit of a challenge! So they do have their uses, and texts are also useful at times. In common with several others here, I certainly don't use it often, and can't justify an account, so use pay-as-you-go.

You can fall into the trap of using them more and more, though. A few years ago I would have said that I would only ever use a mobile for work, but that is no longer true. I play friendly cricket for a local club, and we go to pretty out-of-the-way grounds in villages. Well having a mobile has got to to many a match I would have missed when I get lost!

[DeepIron]

Life without a cell phone would be ... heaven.

[Takao]

Ah yes, a mobile line of communication is beneficial in unexpected ways.
It does provide me with brief minutes of hilarity to get me through the day.

1. Do not threaten, in a loud voice on your cell phone, to beat your child, and then proceed to do so. People will overhear you and call 911 on their cell phones to report you. The police will come and you will be arrested.

2. Call your S.O. to inquire on the spelling of your child's name. If you don't know, it's probably not your then, is it.

3. Do not reagle the world in general with tales of your sex life. I don't care and besides there are children present.

4. People have forgotten what a pen/pencil and paper are for. If you can't remember a simple shopping list without calling for help, how the hell do you expect to find your way home.

5. Those people who have the "hands free" headsets/ear clip-ons. Don't you wonder about all those strange looks you get as you walk around talking to nothing.

6. Wait until you get home to argue with your S.O. The government has classified this argument as "Need to Know" and I don't need to know.

7.One cell phone rings and four people search desperately for their phones, find them, but only one answers.

While there is a need for cell phones. It is very small compared to the number of self-important people who use them.

No, I don't have one. Not until I get a job that requires something other than a land-line.

Yes, I wish cell phone jammers were legal to own in the U.S.

I think there have been exactly 4 times when I really needed a cell and had to use a pay-phone.

But without cell phones we wouldn't have "Cellular Degeneration" by Sudden Death.
http://www.thefump.com/fump.php?id=29

[kurtz]

A great one I've seen twice on the last train home is a couple who've sat in seperate carriages and argued via mobile phones taking it in turns to put the phone down on each other, before meeting up to carry on the argument face to face.

ps I'm a big fan of texting for when you've got a short simple message which doesn't need a reply..."I'm on the 1934 train from Euston" is the one I'm most looking forward to sending right now