# Attention bluetooth wearing shit-heels **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 22, 2009, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-bluetooth-wearing-shit-heels/511120 "2009-09-22T19:12:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-bluetooth-wearing-shit-heels/511120/41 "2009-09-23T00:21:25Z")
Quick story: A few years ago I took a new client out to lunch at a fairly swanky restaurant. He had one of those damn things in his ear the whole time. When I checked my blackberry for emails he said, “I don’t know how you can be so tethered to that thing.” Not two minutes later his phone rang and he answered his little bluetooth thingie, carrying on a conversation with me sitting across from him. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-bluetooth-wearing-shit-heels/511120/42 "2009-09-23T00:23:45Z")
> [@Mooch](#): > > Suspenders AND belt. Clueless as to something’s purpose and worn only to show others you are wearing it. I threw in the cigar thing because when they became trendy 15 or so years ago every numbnuts seemed to be doing it. Dunno why that in particular stuck in my head. > > The bloody problem is that I am the self appointed arbiter of what makes you appear to be a douchebag regardless of how helpful it may actually be. Suspenders AND belt, you say? It never occurred to me that you would omit the belt when wearing suspenders, since the suspenders and the belt serve different purposes. The suspenders hold your pants up, the belt is a device to attach phones, radios, and tools to for easy carrying. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-bluetooth-wearing-shit-heels/511120/43 "2009-09-23T00:26:23Z")
Oh how exciting, another lame rant about bluetooth headsets. It’s probably been a about a whole two months since we did this before, thank goodness the OP saved us from being without one for too long. These are the same kind of lunatic ravings that people had when hardly anyone had a cell phone. This is even more bizarre to me because bluetooth isn’t exactly new technology and to invent attitudes and class warfare fantasies about someone because they use a CELL PHONE HEADSET makes me question how thin the thread of sanity is for some. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-bluetooth-wearing-shit-heels/511120/44 "2009-09-23T00:33:37Z")
Don’t worry, they’ll get what’s coming to them when the Cybermen invade, they’ll be the first to be “Upgraded” the rest of us will have to be Deleted, as we are Not Compatible ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-bluetooth-wearing-shit-heels/511120/45 "2009-09-23T00:49:54Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > the rest of us will have to be Deleted, as we are Not Compatible No, you’ll be assimilated. Resistance is futile. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-bluetooth-wearing-shit-heels/511120/46 "2009-09-23T01:13:05Z")
So far I’ve avoided Bluetooth headsets. Nothing against it specifically, I am very likely to get a headset if it ever becomes required for driving around here to go handsfree. But I’ve not yet really needed it. But yeah, just walking around with a dongle hanging from your ear is inelegant and can look silly (and looking at your Blackberry every 45 seconds during our meeting will make me introduce you to my latest desk toy, which I call a “hammer”). ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-bluetooth-wearing-shit-heels/511120/47 "2009-09-23T01:24:05Z")
I spent last week in Georgia at one of our lab facilities. One of our salesmen was working in the lab as well. He wore a bluetooth headset the entire time. I mean literally, I never once saw him without it on - and I spent at least 40 hours with him. I didn’t mind, except when he’d start talking and I’d assume he was talking to me. Only to feel a bit foolish when I tried to reply. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-bluetooth-wearing-shit-heels/511120/48 "2009-09-23T01:57:04Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > The ‘problem’ is that in most cases the wearer is an ‘early-adopter’. Someone who likes to be seen as [a] flash [git] who can afford high-technology. Way too late for early-adopter status. Real EAs are people who have a gadget before anyone else would even _want_ it. They’re routinely thought of as nutjobs, when they’re thought of at all. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-bluetooth-wearing-shit-heels/511120/49 "2009-09-23T01:57:20Z")
I had a friend who used=s Blue Tooth. His cell phone already drops half the connections mid-call. Then his Blue Tooth started dropping his cell phone, leaving the connection in place and using up minutes of his plan in mute total non-communication – or a hang-up and re-dial. Net result: about 1 call in 5 completed without interruption. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-bluetooth-wearing-shit-heels/511120/50 "2009-09-23T02:07:57Z")
It was an alien attempt at asymmetric warfare. The idea was to get the enemy to buy a device that would extract useful information through mind reading technology. Unfortunately only old white men and young black men were willing to wear it on their heads all day so the only information gathered was a desire to have sex with Halle Berry. If you see sexbot’s that look like Halle Berry then the invasion has begun. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-bluetooth-wearing-shit-heels/511120/51 "2009-09-23T04:28:24Z")
By the way, in California it is **illegal** to talk on a cell phone while driving so if you ever want to talk on your phone legally during the many hours you will spend in our ridiculously soul-crushing traffic, you **have** to use one. ---
**Author:** ![Mooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooch)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-bluetooth-wearing-shit-heels/511120/52 "2009-09-23T12:59:07Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > Suspenders AND belt, you say? It never occurred to me that you would omit the belt when wearing suspenders, since the suspenders and the belt serve different purposes. The suspenders hold your pants up, the belt is a device to attach phones, radios, and tools to for easy carrying. Who are you, Batman? ---
**Author:** ![justrob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@justrob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justrob)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-bluetooth-wearing-shit-heels/511120/53 "2009-09-23T13:37:16Z")
> [@ryobserver](#): > > In stud poker, a four-flusher is a player with four face-up cards of the same suit who proceeds to bluff as though he has a flush, while knowing his hole card does not, in fact, complete the flush. Not stupid\* or obvious, and not cheating under the rules, but still a deceit. > > \*Well, it may be stupid; depends on how short-tempered the other players are I’m not sure what you’re getting at here. That sounds like pretty good poker playing to me. If you can get everyone to believe you have a flush when you have pretty much nothing you are doing it correctly. I’m also not sure how other players having short tempers factors in. If they call you they win, if they fold you never show. No need to give them insight into whether you’re bluffing or not. **Jodi** ’s explanation makes more sense to me. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-bluetooth-wearing-shit-heels/511120/54 "2009-09-23T13:40:37Z")
> [@Mooch](#): > > Who are you, Batman? Batman doesn’t wear suspenders. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-bluetooth-wearing-shit-heels/511120/55 "2009-09-23T15:35:21Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Batman doesn’t wear suspenders. 😃 Other than that, though, we’re pretty much the same guy. Yaknow, like a Harley Davidson Compatible motorcycle. Seriously though, I mostly wear a belt because it’s expected/required of me. I’m still pulling my pants up periodically due to the fact that my shape shares some similarities to a pear and thus, there is nothing for a belt to effectively hang on to except maybe my hind end. That said, I have, in the past, used the belt to hang my cell phone, flash light, pouches for carrying things, stuff like that. ---
**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-bluetooth-wearing-shit-heels/511120/56 "2009-09-23T18:29:33Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > It was an alien attempt at asymmetric warfare. The idea was to get the enemy to buy a device that would extract useful information through mind reading technology. There was a Doctor Who episode about this. Except the bluetooth headsets were mind-control devices. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2009, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-bluetooth-wearing-shit-heels/511120/57 "2009-09-23T19:32:44Z")
> [@Raguleader](#): > > Other than that, though, we’re pretty much the same guy. Yaknow, like a Harley Davidson Compatible motorcycle. > > Seriously though, I mostly wear a belt because it’s expected/required of me. I’m still pulling my pants up periodically due to the fact that my shape shares some similarities to a pear and thus, there is nothing for a belt to effectively hang on to except maybe my hind end. > > That said, I have, in the past, used the belt to hang my cell phone, flash light, pouches for carrying things, stuff like that. Sounds like what you really need is a bandolier, or maybe two crossed bandoliers. That’s gonna command respect. Now I’m going to get a lot of responses about how a bandolier would have been a great thing to talk about in the 18th century, but now it is old tech. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-bluetooth-wearing-shit-heels/511120/58 "2009-09-24T00:47:26Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Ah, thanks. > > . I figured it was something to do with taking a dump. And then from the same poster: “Your speech resounds through your cheeks,” I read it all as one- it is too early in the morning (and I must learn how to put two quotes in one post) ---
**Author:** ![smee\_goan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@smee\_goan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smee_goan)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-bluetooth-wearing-shit-heels/511120/59 "2009-09-24T01:29:28Z")
I play a recording at work, on an airport shuttle bus, about 30 seconds long, let me apologize in advance. For the 20 others who won’t hear your conversation, especially leaving the airport. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2009, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-bluetooth-wearing-shit-heels/511120/60 "2009-09-24T01:37:43Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > And then from the same poster: > > “Your speech resounds through your cheeks,” > I read it all as one- it is too early in the morning (and I must learn how to put two quotes in one post) I swear that was a total coincidence. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attention-bluetooth-wearing-shit-heels/511120.md?page=2)