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Invading My Space With Your Foul Mouthed Banality

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Thursday, July 26, 2007 3:14 AM

JONGSSTRAW


Give me BACK smokers covering me with second hand smoke! I could always deal with that...but now there is a new, more disgusting habit permeating America...called rude & obnoxious cell phone users. Everywhere I go....bank, supermarket, elevators, stores, etc. there are guaranteed to be people on cell phones completely oblivious to anyone else around them....talking loud, screaming, using vulgarity, and generally worsening the quality of life in America. There must be laws passed someday to protect people from this epidemic of rudeness and incivility. If not laws, then certainly stores & restaurants would be wise to advertise that they're cell-phone free. I think that'll be the next big thing. Who wants to go somewhere to relax or have fun, or just handle your daily chores of life with some foul-mouthed, loud, obnoxious idiot retard screaming into a phone behind you?

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Thursday, July 26, 2007 6:53 AM

KANEMAN


I happen to enjoy people being loud and obnoxious in public..it is hilarious, however I can see how it would bother you in a restaurant and such. As far as people talking on cell phones, just pretend they are talking to another person next to them, and the reason you can't hear the other is because that person is talking back using telepathy. Works for me.

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Thursday, July 26, 2007 7:03 AM

JONGSSTRAW


I'm not surprised with your feelings on this Kaneman....I suppose these phone-jerks are a reality that I'm just gonna have to learn to live with as part of this new f'd up world, although there are many times I wish I had gone to karate training classes instead of college, 'caused I'd sometimes like to confront the worst offenders.

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Thursday, July 26, 2007 7:26 AM

GRIZWALD


The answer, of course, is to drive them crazy in return.

Scenario #1:

CellPhoneEater: "Yeah, so I was talkin to Shauna and she says, you know..."

Me: "What? What's that you said?"

CPE: (looks annoyed, turns away)

Me: (runs around to get in front of CPE) "I'm sorry, I just can't hear you. What was that you were saying?"

CPE: (spins around again)

Me: (Chases CPE in a circle, getting louder and louder) "I'm so sorry, I didn't understand that. WHAT DID YOU SAY??"

CPE: "Get away from me, you weirdo lady! I'm talkin to my friend here!"

Me: "Ooooooooh." (Disappointed slump) "I thought you were talking to me. I'm sooooo lonely. I was HOPING you were talking to me." (pause) "Well, maybe if you just want to talk to your friend, you should do it SOMEPLACE ELSE."


Scenario #2:

CellPhoneEater: "Yeah, so I was talkin to Shauna and she says, you know..."

Me: (I grab my OWN cell phone, flip it open, and start talking loudly on it like we're having a conversation, looking right at her.) "You're kidding!? No WAY! I can't believe that!!"


Okay, so I haven't actually DONE either of these but I have been so tempted, except my children would kill me if I tried it. I sure would like to, though.

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Thursday, July 26, 2007 7:29 AM

STARRBABY


I can easily handle people being rude in public. The part that distresses me is them being *unsafe*. I can't count how many times I've almost been killed by a driver who was paying more attention to the conversation on his/her cell phone than to driving.

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Thursday, July 26, 2007 7:49 AM

JONGSSTRAW


Well...you get into the driving aspect and it only gets geometrically worse. Some states have banned them on the road and I applaud them....not here in Florida...as if we needed more shitty drivers here...we already have an over-abundance of lunatic maniacs out there already...ya know what I mean?...people who drive like they're in a race, weaving in & out, cutting people off w/o signaling...in other words, people willing to risk everyone else's life on the road just so they can get somewhere 5 minutes faster...it gets me pissed and makes me sick, and I see it every day commuting on the dreaded 595 to Fort Lauderdale.

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Thursday, July 26, 2007 7:57 AM

PHOENIXROSE

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I've seen a few cute little 'no cell phone' signs at Subway. I'm sure the trend will spread. Cell phone use while driving here hasn't been banned, but it is illegal to drive without a hands-free, which seems to make it a bit better (most horrible drivers I've seen have not been talking on their cell phones or hands-frees) and the theaters are obsessed with keeping the 'silence cell phones and pagers' screen up for at least two minutes straight.
I have yet to hear someone screaming profanities into a cell phone, myself, but I have no doubt it happens a lot.
Did you read Nathan Fillions blog about cell phone use in restaurants? Hilarious stuff.


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Thursday, July 26, 2007 8:03 AM

MALBADINLATIN


Quote:

Originally posted by kaneman:
just pretend they are talking to another person next to them, and the reason you can't hear the other is because that person is talking back using telepathy


My twist is that they're schizophrenic, and it all makes sense then. The reason it's proabably still going to piss me off forever though is because I remember the days when cell phones first came out. I paid $500 at Weinstocks for a big old Motorola Bag Phone, and paid .25 cents a minute for service, $1something for roaming. The only people who could afford that were fancy pants folks who would look down thier nose at you while they proudly displayed thier snobby phones.....signed Old Man MalBad

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Thursday, July 26, 2007 8:30 AM

JONGSSTRAW


Quote:

Originally posted by MalBadInLatin:
Quote:

Originally posted by kaneman:
just pretend they are talking to another person next to them, and the reason you can't hear the other is because that person is talking back using telepathy


My twist is that they're schizophrenic, and it all makes sense then. The reason it's proabably still going to piss me off forever though is because I remember the days when cell phones first came out. I paid $500 at Weinstocks for a big old Motorola Bag Phone, and paid .25 cents a minute for service, $1something for roaming. The only people who could afford that were fancy pants folks who would look down thier nose at you while they proudly displayed thier snobby phones.....signed Old Man MalBad

If you're not on Malbadinlatin's side, you're with the terrorists.


Ah...you're refering to the " Gordon Gekko " phones....I had one of them, weighed 97 pounds & I used to keep it sticking out of my back pocket...and yes 20 years ago it was pretty cool, now it's like Chinese...every low-life speaks it.

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Thursday, July 26, 2007 9:10 AM

CAUSAL


Quote:

Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
There must be laws passed someday to protect people from this epidemic of rudeness and incivility.



Right, because we all know that the answer to any given problem is to legislate. Where's the eye-roll emoticon when you need it?

Don't know how other people do, but here's the rule of thumb that I've adopted: don't talk on a cell phone unless you're in a place where a pay phone could be. Table in a restaurant: out. Front lobby of a restaurant: fair game. Mostly, of course, I just ignore them. Unless it's in a movie theater. I'm a nice guy, really, but I look mean. I rarely take advantage of that fact--but for cell phones in movie theaters, I make an exception.

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Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:51 PM

FREMDFIRMA


That's another widget some of our resident geekers I deal with have worked on, but due to the uncertain legalities, have left off continued R&D.

Not to say certain folk don't have em, mind you, just mass production and sale would probably run up to some legal issues.

Imagine this...

Cellphone jerk : "WELL THEN HE SAID..."etc etc

And you sidle up real close, like within 5-12 feet in subtle fashion, reach into your pocket and *click*

Cellphone jerk : "HELLO ? HELLO ?"
STUPID &#%@$ PHONE...

Lather, Rinse, repeat as needful.

Now me, call me a luddite about it if you will, but the last cell type I actually had was job related, and it was technically a CAR phone and about the size of a lunchbox.

I hate pagers, and cellphones even worse, why hand people yet another way to annoy me ?
Especially with cell phone companies selling the number lists to dataminers, and then those scum sellin em to every slimy fly-by-night telemarketer in town who uses the do-not-call list as a set of "verified" active numbers, grr.

Not to mention the privacy issues of an open mike and/or GPS, not just from feddie wackjobs, but any joe haxor type who wants to be funny, or even random crazies or stalker ex's...

I carry one for real emergencies, but unless one crops up, the battery is in one pocket, and the phone in another - whatever they want, it can damnwell wait till I get around to it.

Why put YOUR life at some electronic devices convenience ?

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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Friday, July 27, 2007 10:08 AM

CRUITHNE3753


The ones that annoy me are people with Bluetooth... they may be talking to you one moment, all of a sudden they don't seem to make sense and then they turn their head and you see the earpiece and they are actually talking to someone else.

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Friday, July 27, 2007 3:12 PM

JONGSSTRAW


Our I.T. guy at the office, who's my buddy, told me recently he can get me a device that will disable all cell phones around me out to a good-sized perimeter for a few hundred bucks. I am so there, as soon as I sock away the scratch.

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Friday, July 27, 2007 3:30 PM

JONGSSTRAW


Quote:

Originally posted by Cruithne3753:
The ones that annoy me are people with Bluetooth... they may be talking to you one moment, all of a sudden they don't seem to make sense and then they turn their head and you see the earpiece and they are actually talking to someone else.


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Friday, July 27, 2007 4:22 PM

CRUITHNE3753


Or maybe they're from an alternative reality... it would be really worrying if they start wearing a second earpiece... then the two get joined together with a sort of squarish shaped connection over the head... before long there is the clank of thousands of metal feet marching down the street...

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Saturday, July 28, 2007 7:09 AM

03K64FF


On the lighter side, quoting Book from Our Mrs. Reynolds...

Book: If you are going to take sexual advantage of her, you will burn at the special level of hell. The level that they reserve for child molesters and people who talk "loudly on the cell-phone"!

I have decided to honk seriously hard if I see any driver in front of me on the cell-phone.

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Saturday, July 28, 2007 8:42 AM

CRUITHNE3753


On a side note, I wonder why we call them "mobile phones" here in the UK. It suggests that they can move around under their own power. Cellphone is more correct since they are based on cellular radio technology.

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Saturday, July 28, 2007 9:06 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by Cruithne3753:
On a side note, I wonder why we call them "mobile phones" here in the UK. It suggests that they can move around under their own power.

Mobile means something can be moved, not necessarilly that it can move under it's own volition. The term mobile phone denotes that it is a phone that can be used 'on the move'.
Quote:

Cellphone is more correct since they are based on cellular radio technology.
Bio-tech!



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Saturday, July 28, 2007 9:11 AM

FLETCH2


BT already had a mobile phone service before cellphones using so called "radio telephones" installed in vehicles. When cellular technology came along folks already knew what a mobile phone was and did, only techies knew about cellular systems.

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Saturday, July 28, 2007 12:10 PM

FREMDFIRMA


While we're on the topic of such annoyances...

Our local evil megastore (meijers) has taken to putting miniature televisions in the freaking register line, via some form of contract with ABC, hawking thier unwanted crap at a "captive" audience and invading "my space" in an annoying and unwanted fashion.

Although probably in the minority about it, I find this genuininely offensive, to the point of reflexive blacklisting - I had just picked up a candy bar from the handy shelf there and the damn thing starts trying a sales push for such things, to which I responded by simply putting it back.

Way to lose a sale, morons.

-F

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Saturday, July 28, 2007 1:40 PM

ANTIMASON


Quote:

Originally posted by Jongsstraw:

Give me BACK smokers covering me with second hand smoke! I could always deal with that...but now there is a new, more disgusting habit permeating America...called rude & obnoxious cell phone users. Everywhere I go....bank, supermarket, elevators, stores, etc. there are guaranteed to be people on cell phones completely oblivious to anyone else around them....talking loud, screaming, using vulgarity, and generally worsening the quality of life in America.

There must be laws passed someday to protect people from this epidemic of rudeness and incivility. If not laws, then certainly stores & restaurants would be wise to advertise that they're cell-phone free. I think that'll be the next big thing. Who wants to go somewhere to relax or have fun, or just handle your daily chores of life with some foul-mouthed, loud, obnoxious idiot retard screaming into a phone behind you?





i have to wonder.. would these same people be any less obnoxious without their cell phones? i dont own a cell personally, but i respect peoples right to use them. to simplify this, rather than legislating, if it is private property, like a business etc., you obide by their rules. otherwise, we need to acknowledge that like the 2nd amendment, we are free and have rights as long as we act responsibly. i dont really see the difference between someone talking on their phone in a restaurant, or talking to another person- it may be slightly louder, but yet only half the words(..right?). i would like to be free of rudeness and obscenity aswell, but i encounter it on the road, or in a store or wherever else.. so whats the difference? these are ethical or moral isses that no amount of centralized legislating can change

this is like the (non)smoking debate, and for practical reasons you just dont want government regulating our lives, that is strictly the job of the family and community and the private business owner(as in the above context anyways)


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Sunday, July 29, 2007 8:40 AM

SINGATE


Quote:

Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Our I.T. guy at the office, who's my buddy, told me recently he can get me a device that will disable all cell phones around me out to a good-sized perimeter for a few hundred bucks. I am so there, as soon as I sock away the scratch.



I know it's a cliche but this really would be the greatest thing since sliced bread. I really need to get in good with a tech savy geek who could build me one of these.

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Sunday, July 29, 2007 9:12 AM

JONGSSTRAW


If it really is available, for an affordable price, and it works, I would get it. What would happen if it works great, but you somehow get caught knocking out everyone's cell phone call around you? Could a cop arrest you for terrorism or something?

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Sunday, July 29, 2007 9:59 AM

LEADB


I believe you will be found in violation of FCC regulations. I'm sure you can be fined. I suspect that jail time is possible, but my -guess- is not (please see your legal representative ;-) ). Terrorism? Unless they can prove intent, no I don't think so... except as things are going lately, they don't seem to need to prove intent or much of any thing these days.

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Sunday, July 29, 2007 11:15 AM

STEPHS


I remember one time when I went to a movie when I was living down in Florida, and some idiot got a call on his cell phone while I was trying to watch the movie. I had to restrain myself from walking over to the jerk, taking his phone, and throwing it out the exit door!

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