# cellphones **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 27, 2004, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphones/257033 "2004-07-27T02:35:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![scule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@scule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scule)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphones/257033/21 "2004-07-27T16:45:19Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > OK - cars, then. Plenty of ways to be obnoxious with them. > > Listen, I’d be the last person on the planet to defend rude cellphone users. Many a time I’ve felt the urge to stuff some assholes’s Samsung up his left nostril, especially in movie theaters. It’s just that people who criticize cellphones or cellphone users in general seem so, well, anachronistic. I know they aren’t all that popular in America yet, at least not as much as they are here (Israel has more cellphones per capita than any nation in the world except, oddly, Luxumburg), but I’m pretty sure that virtually every cellphone-hater on this board will be carrying one in his or her pocket ten years from now, if not before. They may still hate it (I’m kind of ambivallent about mine) but they’ll have one nonetheless, because their society will demand it. Everyone has them here too. It’s not the phone itself, it’s the fact that the phone has enabled the social defectives to have yet another outlet by which to annoy the world. That’s what it comes down to. Why pay to see a movie, or a concert or whatever, if you’re willing to forego it for a phone call? What’s the point? You’ve just annoyed everyone around you by taking them out of the experience with the interruption, and you aren’t going to be able to pay attention. And the drivers who refuse to signal or shoulder check because they’re too busy talking on their damn phone make me want to kill for a living. Or assholes who talk on their phone while being waited on, thus ignoring the person trying to help them. Or fuckheads who talk extremely loudly on a quiet bus about the fact that they are on the bus and will be home in 10 minutes. Or people who leave their shopping carts in the middle of the aisle… Oh wait, that’s for another thread. ---
**Author:** ![zephyrine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/35a633/32.png) [@zephyrine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zephyrine)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphones/257033/22 "2004-07-27T16:54:37Z")
> [@nonpolar](#): > > Everywere I go I see people with their cellphones,and I understand that we need to be in contact with eachother,but then looking at the women and teenage girls I see they are addicted to the cellphones . > I wonder if they would be able to give up those toys or not? No, I wouldn’t, and nor would my teenager daughter. And if you try to take them away from us, we’ll bite your fucking arm off. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphones/257033/23 "2004-07-27T17:00:23Z")
> [@scule](#): > > It’s not the phone itself, it’s the fact that the phone has enabled the social defectives to have yet another outlet by which to annoy the world. BINGO! ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphones/257033/24 "2004-07-27T20:15:20Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > What ever did people do before cellphones? We had jobs which made enough money to raise a family on _one_ income, so our spouse could stay home and raise the kids. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphones/257033/25 "2004-07-27T21:29:16Z")
> [@nonpolar](#): > > …looking at the women and teenage girls I see they are addicted to the cellphones … Are you somehow implying that only females are the one abusing cell phones? I don’t think so, pal. Most of the people I see walking around with cell phone-itis are of the male type. Every guy I see in a car is _always_ on the freaking phone. Who and what is that important? My cell phone gripe? I see people all the time in the grocery store or at the mall with those little tiny ear-bud hands-free things attached to the cell phone, while they’re walking and talking. Too busy to actually _hold_ the phone, apparently. And it makes it look like they’re talking to themself, or even worse, asking _you_ a question. It freaks me out whenever I see someone walking along, having a conversation seemingly with voices in their head, until I see the telltale cord trailing down their shirt to the phone attached to their hip. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphones/257033/26 "2004-07-27T22:54:20Z")
and what is it with the hair on those Beatles? My God they look like _girls!_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cellphones/257033.md?page=1)