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    A Memo for My Favorite Rude Cellphone Users

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    Image of IronicSans IronicSans
    12:07 PM

    In reply to A Memo for My Favorite Rude Cellphone Users
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    Image of N@tedog N@tedog
    10:37 AM

    In reply to A Memo for My Favorite Rude Cellphone Users
    Wow, self righteous much? Talk where you want. Why is there this stigma that talking on a phone at a reasonable volume in a public place is a vice and frowned upon while talking with a physical person at the same volume is accepted?

    I personally think it's because the effected only hear one side of the conversation from one voice pattern, so it's harder to tune it out.

    Get over it.
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    Image of Helen McGee Helen McGee
    10:52 AM

    @N@tedog: Yeah, exactly. No one gets all bent out of shape about people talking to each other in person in public. Why the frak is people talking to each other via phone in public such a no-no, if they're otherwise being socially acceptable (not loud etc)?
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    10:57 AM

    @N@tedog: I'd use it for the assclowns that talk on the phone while at the register. Get off the phone and fucking pay already! Otherwise, I don't care.
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    Image of psychiccheese psychiccheese
    11:39 AM

    @N@tedog: "talking on a phone at a reasonable volume."

    No one does that. They feel the need to shout, probably because they're so far away from the other person. That's what annoys me. Also, people who talk on the phone when they should be doing something else (talking to the checkout person, getting married, etc.) are simply being rude and inconvenient for those around them.

    Not to mention the people who don't pay attention to what they're doing when they're on a cellphone and will simply walk into you (and not even apologize after).
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    Image of Coolmodo Coolmodo
    04:42 AM

    In reply to A Memo for My Favorite Rude Cellphone Users
    I have no problem with people using their phones in the restaurant, in public, in their car or any other place as long as they do so quietly (or appropriately i.e. in a loud place you can be loud, in a quiet place you should be quiet). I do so myself and have never had problems.

    After all its 2009 and these gadgets are supposed to make our lives easier not harder by creating social constraints as to where we should/should not use them.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    01:36 AM

    In reply to A Memo for My Favorite Rude Cellphone Users
    Worse than the person screaming into their phone is when they do it using the speaker-phone function. So not only to you get to enjoy the idiot near you at full volume, you also get whomever he or she is yelling at...
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    Image of Segador Segador
    12/01/09

    In reply to A Memo for My Favorite Rude Cellphone Users
    The bighorn has the right idea.
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    Image of PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:
    12/01/09

    In reply to A Memo for My Favorite Rude Cellphone Users
    I'm still one of the few people who prefers for no one to hear any of my conversations on the phone no matter whom they are with. I rarely have a phone conversation where someone can overhear me. I typically like to go somewhere quiet but I'm probably a rare example.
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    Image of TYg3r28 TYg3r28
    12/01/09

    @PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: I'm the same way. The government probably listens in on my conversations; I don't need regular people to also.
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    Image of ubmic ubmic
    12/01/09

    @PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: you are not alone i can't stand people in earshot of my conversations. I also hate it when the person on the other end starts talking with someone other than me, at that point i hang up they can call me back when they want to talk to me
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    Image of Stndsh0 Stndsh0
    12/01/09

    @PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: Don't worry, you are not alone. Even when people look at me oddly, I will still refuse to have a phone conversation in an open, public place. I also sleep with a bowie knife next to my bed, so it could be that I am just paranoid. Damn you, George Orwell!
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    Image of Genetic_Bloom Genetic_Bloom
    12/01/09

    @PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: I'm the same way, even in my own home I go into a corner room so that no one can hear me talking. Even when I'm not talking to anyone important or about anything personal, I still don't like anyone to hear me talking, I'm not sure what it is.
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    Image of Cody Rybolt Cody Rybolt
    12/01/09

    @PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: Right there with you. I hate talking on the phone where people can hear me. It's not like I talk about things that are so important they shouldn't hear, I just don't want people listening in, and I know people do that.
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    Image of Illundiel Illundiel
    12/01/09

    @PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:: I'm completely the same way. I'll leave the room because I don't want people to hear what I'm saying and I'll speak lower...but also, I don't know why people feel the reason to yell/talk so fucking loud on the phone.
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    Image of PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:
    12/01/09

    @ubmic: That is absolutely true. I hate being put on hold or being told, hold on a second.
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    Image of bornonbord bornonbord
    12/01/09

    @PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: I find this particularly at work. I know that I can be heard because I hear everyone else, and I hate hearing anyone on the phone. So I'm super paranoid about what I'm saying, thinking that people are either pissed that I'm too loud or people are listening in.
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    12/01/09

    In reply to A Memo for My Favorite Rude Cellphone Users
    Yes, no problem, I have copied your note and will be distributing it to some 35 million Californians.

    And to the woman that was in line at the grocery store that put me another ten minutes behind because you couldn't get off your damn phone and handle you transaction properly... Well, while you weren't paying attention, per usual, I wiped a booger on your loaf of bread.

    Oh, and your sisters advice, forget it. He's not calling you back because you can't shut your yap long enough to swipe your credit card.
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    Image of FightingChance FightingChance
    12/01/09

    @Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: My own 'california person on phone' story: at Whole Foods during lunch rush, in the hot foods self serve area, a (Isreali? east European?) woman in fashionable clothes is talking into a blackberry with one hand and scooping chicken breasts and wings into a container with the other, but not very well and very slowly. I couldn't hear what the other woman said to her, but the woman on the phone freaked and basically just started shouting about how I WILL BE ON THE PHONE AS LONG AS I WANT, etc etc. She was pretty self-righteous about talking away in a public place *and* holding up other people from the space where she was at the hot bar, during lunch rush.

    So, not really a phone problem, more of an attitude problem. Still!
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    12/01/09

    @FightingChance: I have found it most obnoxious in grocery stores. It use to be screaming kids that made it bad, now it's the gabby adults. I understand the quick phone call home to see if milk is needed, but that's not often the case.
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    Image of bornonbord bornonbord
    12/01/09

    @Shamoononon: Most of the folks in my hood are wearing iPods at the grocery. Trying super hard not to make eye contact.
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    12/01/09

    @bornonbord: Well, I'd go shopping there, but it sounds like I'd probably be shot.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    12/01/09

    In reply to A Memo for My Favorite Rude Cellphone Users
    Ever notice its never a juicy conversation that you might want to overhear...like "Mom, I am coming out of the closet" or "I just left you for your brother and he is better in bed than you". And what about all the millions of people having phone sex? They sure keep those conversations private, the selfish bastards.
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    Image of bagellord bagellord
    12/01/09

    In reply to A Memo for My Favorite Rude Cellphone Users
    People who talk in the library, restaurants, bathrooms, etc are rude. I can handle people in public as long as they're not too loud.
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    12/01/09

    In reply to A Memo for My Favorite Rude Cellphone Users
    Rosa, as a member of the public you always have the ultimate form of retaliation - ambient noise. Personally, I like flushing the toilet repeatedly when I hear someone in the next stall having an inappropriately timed conversation.
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    Image of Dahamma Dahamma
    12/01/09

    @Alfisted: Hmm, that gave me an idea... I think iFart may finally have a real purpose.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    12/01/09

    In reply to A Memo for My Favorite Rude Cellphone Users
    I had some idiot in front of me on the phone while at the post office. He was apparently trying to get a job, but like, it was another hour until the PO closed. He could have just waited in the lobby, rather than taking twice as long and constantly telling the person on the other end to hold on.
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    Image of bornonbord bornonbord
    12/01/09

    In reply to A Memo for My Favorite Rude Cellphone Users
    I don't really talk on my phone anymore. Maybe if there's a "I notice you're facebooking while at dinner with my parents. You can sleep on the couch" then it would work better...
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    Image of atrus123 atrus123
    12/01/09

    In reply to LG Arena Max With 12-Megapixel Camera to Launch Soon?
    Put Android on it, and I'll think about it. I'd love a phone with a good camera, but I'm not interested in dead-end mobile OSes.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/01/09

    In reply to LG Arena Max With 12-Megapixel Camera to Launch Soon?
    The HTC HD2 has a 4.3" screen, now this phone will have a 5" screen. How much bigger can they go with this one-upmanship and still call it a phone, not a tablet?
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    12/01/09

    In reply to LG Arena Max With 12-Megapixel Camera to Launch Soon?
    I'm sorry, but a 12 megapixel camera on a cellphone is like 12GB of memory on the computer you mainly use for Hulu and YouTube: there for nothing but the bragging rights.

    You tell me that phone has a sensor worthy of accepting 12 megapixels worth of light, then you might have my attention.
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    Image of veronykah veronykah
    12/01/09

    @OCEntertainment: Its also about the crappy quality of the LENS on the cellphone.
    As long as your lens is plastic, exposed to the elements 24/7 and lives in your pocket/purse with no cover I wouldn't wager, no matter how many megapixels, you photos are going to be any better.
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