We got them after concern over cell use=brain cancer, but I can’t say that I use it all that much. It’s convenient in the car, but otherwise uncomfortable. I can’t seem to make it go around my glasses earpiece and earrings properly. It would be nice to use while walking if you liked to chat on the phone while exercising, it just now occurs to me.
Bingo. Sorry I was not more clear.
I’m not really that angry, just wanted to direct some ridicule their way and say “shit -heel”.
Maybe I’m the only one that thinks this way, but…
Why do you care what other people wear?
I can see being upset if they run into your car because they’re using the phone (studies show accident rates are approximately the same whether you’re using a headset or just holding the phone to your head), or because they’re talking on the phone while you’re trying to find out what kind of coffee to serve them.
But you’re ranting because they have something in/on their ears? Sheesh. Who cares?
I’m not saying it’s new. I’m saying it’s not common practice. So the ‘early adoption’ in question is - adopting the habit of wearing it in public, all the time. Or prefering it to holding the phone up to your ear. The OP’s point is that it’s pretentious (I assume)
I have one, so obviously I don’t mind them. I use it when driving – in fact will not take a call without it if I’m driving – and very occasionally when I’m walking. But just to show I’m not immune to the rant, I’ll blow a raspberry in the general direction of those who THINK THEY HAVE TO TALK VERY LOUDLY WHEN USING A HEADSET. “BOB, I’M GETTING IN THE ELEVATOR WITH FOUR OTHER PEOPLE WHO THINK I’M A DOUCHE FOR MAKING THEM LISTEN TO OUR CONVERSATION ABOUT THE SCHMEEMAN CONTRACT.” If you can’t converse at a normal tone, use your phone directly or get a better headset.
I also freely acknowledge that using a headset as you walk down the street leads many people to reasonably believe you are mentally ill and talking to yourself.
What the heck is a four-flusher?
I have a co-worker who works with his bluetooth thingy for his cell phone in one ear, and his wireless headset for the work phone in the other ear. I can’t look at him, it’s like working with the Borg.
I don’t like using hands-free devices, because the physical act of holding the phone to my ear is the cue my brain needs to censor the crap coming out of my mouth - if I’m just talking, without my hands engaged, I’m liable to forget I’m on the phone. I suppose I’ll have to get used to it, though; we’re getting new equipment at work soon, and they’ll be taking away my handset and making us all use wireless. 
A four-flusher is a person who tries to pass off four cards out of a five card hand, as a flush. A flush in poker is all the cards in the hand of the same suit, and poker commonly has a five-card hand. So a true flush would be, say, five diamonds. A four-flusher would put down four diamonds and one heart and say he had a flush, in the hopes that people not looking too closely would see all red cards and believe him. A stupid, obvious cheater, IOW. A term from the Old West, I believe, or from movies about the Old West.
Ah, thanks.
I’m a poker player and I’ve never heard that phrase before. I figured it was something to do with taking a dump.
Something I’ve always wondered about…isn’t the part your voice goes into way back by your ear? How does it pick up what you’re saying when it’s headed in a different direction from the device?
Your speech resounds through your cheeks, too, and enough of the sound waves coming out of your mouth make it to the microphone to make up the difference.
Wired Magazine had the same rant three months ago.
My brother uses them, but he’s behind the wheel of his car nearly all day and I’d much rather he look like a douche to Mooch than drive with one hand. He’s on the phone all the time - one month he consumed 9950 minutes.
i’m not crazy about them because the soccer-mom type ladies around here chatter on them at Target (and EVERY.other.retail.establishment.), and cannot bring themselves to stop when they come up next to someone, or go through a checkout line. Dissing some other parent from the team is fine, if that’s what blows your hair back, lady-- but you don’t need to bellow your opinion into my ear while I’m pricing swiffer refills.
But there have been enough gags about this. They talk, you answer, but they’re on the stupid thing. Then they talk, you don’t answer because you think they’re on the phone, and they’re all like, “ExCUSE me!! I was talking to you!”
You know it doesn’t make any difference, right?
It does when you drive a manual transmission car.
I swear you make less and less sense every day. People were wearing them all of the time as soon as they first started selling them. Secondly, of course it’s preferable to use one instead of holding a phone to your ear in many situations because it frees up one of your hands. Thirdly, you also made the absurd claim that people wear those cheap little pieces of plastic in order to look flashy and like they can afford expensive things.
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
In late 2009, a bluetooth earpiece is hardly “early adopter.”
You have issues, evidently.
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What is so special about writing a novel on a laptop in a coffee shop? And how the bloody fuck does that map on wealthy early adopting people you’re jealous of.
Jaysus, you need therapy mate.
Quite.
Otherwise, just to note, when I was experimenting with mine before returning to more basic technologies, I sometimes would forget to take the bloody thing off.
Both OP and Lobsang are off on a queer bender on this. Perhaps c. 2000 or so it made sense.
Re the accident study, I rather wonder if there is benchmark against drivers who are blithering on with their mate in the seat next to them. I think the non attention item probably is rather generic.
Jesus! Just the title of this thread made me laugh like a hyena!:D:D:D
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