# I Pit real-life Borg **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 12, 2006, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-real-life-borg/356451 "2006-05-12T00:53:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-real-life-borg/356451/21 "2006-05-12T18:06:37Z")
[QUOTE=Lumpy] I dread the day they invent heads-up video overlay glasses. [/QUOTE] Why? Once these people’s last link to the real world is severed, they’ll all be dead of starvation inside a few weeks. Okay, the rest of us will have to pick our way carefully around the withered cellphone-clutching corpses for a while, but let’s face it, apart from that, there’s no downside. ---
**Author:** ![THespos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-real-life-borg/356451/22 "2006-05-12T18:21:31Z")
Everybody knows that to be properly distracted, you need not a Bluetooth headset but an iPod. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-real-life-borg/356451/23 "2006-05-12T18:25:59Z")
[QUOTE=Steve Wright] Why? Once these people’s last link to the real world is severed, they’ll all be dead of starvation inside a few weeks. Okay, the rest of us will have to pick our way carefully around the withered cellphone-clutching corpses for a while, but let’s face it, apart from that, there’s no downside. [/QUOTE] _snort_ Cracked me RIGHT up. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-real-life-borg/356451/24 "2006-05-12T18:30:36Z")
Okay, thanks for the explanation on the oyster wings, Never heard of 'em before. [QUOTE=Daithi Lacha] I’m seeing more and more delis, post offices &c. that have large, clearly-written signs that say “IF YOU’RE ON A CELLPHONE, WE WILL SERVE THE NEXT PERSON BEHIND YOU.” Still doesn’t stop the oblivious fuckknuckles from walking up to the counter, gabba-gabba-gabba.\*[/SIZE] [/QUOTE] Me, too. And I agree with them completely. It’s insanely rude to try to carry on two conversations at once. My only complaint is that the Baskin-Robbins near me has the following sign: > [@](#): > > If you are talking on a “cell phone” please step aside so we can serve the “next customer.” > We will be “happy” to serve you when you are finished with your “cell phone” conversation. All the extraneous “quote marks” make me “crazy.” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-real-life-borg/356451/25 "2006-05-12T18:36:07Z")
[QUOTE=Steve Wright] Why? Once these people’s last link to the real world is severed, they’ll all be dead of starvation inside a few weeks. Okay, the rest of us will have to pick our way carefully around the withered cellphone-clutching corpses for a while, but let’s face it, apart from that, there’s no downside. [/QUOTE] No, they won’t live long enough to starve to death. They’ll walk out into traffic and get run down by somebody talking on his cell phone. Lawsuits will ensue and then maybe we will finally get people used to the idea that there is a time and a place for everything and walking or driving around is not the time to be talking on the phone or surfing the net. ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-real-life-borg/356451/26 "2006-05-12T18:55:42Z")
Y’know, I know we are’nt supposed to wish death on anyone here, but still and all, I’d love to see like a video compilation of people harming themselves while talking on cellphones, such as walking into open manholes, into traffic, off the edge of cliffs, things like that. Set to, I dunno, the Benny Hill theme. People prattling into phones is a pet peeve of mine, especially mundane shit. Cellphone calls should be about close relatives near to death, or other such emergencies. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-real-life-borg/356451/27 "2006-05-12T19:11:31Z")
[QUOTE=bubastis] Y’know, I know we are’nt supposed to wish death on anyone here, [/QUOTE] Were not supposed to wish death on other Dopers. Knock yourself out. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-real-life-borg/356451/28 "2006-05-12T19:51:25Z")
When I bounced at the pool hall, I found it absolutely hilarious how many guys came in with these things attached to their heads, as if some young hottie would see it and think, “Ooh, he’s a high roller! I must fuck him!” To the best of my knowledge, it didn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-real-life-borg/356451/29 "2006-05-12T20:14:42Z")
[QUOTE=Daithi Lacha] I’m seeing more and more delis, post offices &c. that have large, clearly-written signs that say “IF YOU’RE ON A CELLPHONE, WE WILL SERVE THE NEXT PERSON BEHIND YOU.” Still doesn’t stop the oblivious fuckknuckles from walking up to the counter, gabba-gabba-gabba.\* [/QUOTE] Let me guess, your fancy-ass valet Publix? Heh. I have to admit I often talk to my Mom with the earbud while grocery shopping, it’s kinda become our regular talk time. But before I’m about to talk to the cashier or anybody else I inform my Mom that I’ll be giving my full attention to somebody else for a bit, stop speaking to her until after the transaction/conversaton, then only continue when I’m done paying (or whatever). That seems to work OK, and I haven’t noticed any dirty looks or anything. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-real-life-borg/356451/30 "2006-05-12T20:46:38Z")
[QUOTE=Mayo Speaks!] I think we should be working on jamming devices that make bluetooth headsets say, “Please take this dumb thing out of your ear when you’re talking to real people” once they get within ten feet of a cash register. How 'bout it, everyone? [/QUOTE] Add a series of painful electric shocks to the ear lobe for non-compliance, and I think we’ve got a winner! ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-real-life-borg/356451/31 "2006-05-12T20:50:49Z")
[QUOTE=Ethilrist] No, they won’t live long enough to starve to death. They’ll walk out into traffic and get run down by somebody talking on his cell phone. Lawsuits will ensue and then maybe we will finally get people used to the idea that there is a time and a place for everything and walking or driving around is not the time to be talking on the phone or surfing the net. [/QUOTE] Oh, Lord, I can see the lawsuits now … _Usher_: Court is now in session in the matter of _People of East Dakota vs. The Borg Collective_, the Honorable E. Ronald Mallu presiding, all rise. _Borg Drone_: … so I was talking to Shawna and she was, like, no _way_, and I was, like, yeah, it is _so_, dude, and … _Usher_: Be upstanding in court! _Borg Drone_: … She said _what?_ But I talked to Shawna earlier, and she was, like, yeah, well … _Judge_: All right, I’ve had enough of this. Sir, you are showing disrespect for this court and for these proceedings, and I am holding you in contempt. Bailiff, remove him! _Bailiff_: … I thought, maybe, if I go on to the store after this, and you go pick up Sandy from school, we can all meet up at the theater about six, yeah? … It could go on for years. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-real-life-borg/356451/32 "2006-05-12T20:50:58Z")
[QUOTE=saoirse] I think they ought to give these headsets to homeless people, so they’re not discriminated against. “Whoa, that guy’s scary. He’s walking around yelling and waving his arms.” “He’s on the phone.” Maybe to Björk, or Jesus, or Eleanor Roosevelt, but that’s none of my business. [/QUOTE] I work at a public library. It has definately made it harder to tell our good old fashioned crazy people from the just plain rude ones. ---
**Author:** ![galt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@galt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galt)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-real-life-borg/356451/33 "2006-05-12T21:02:34Z")
[QUOTE=BiblioCat] All the extraneous “quote marks” make me “crazy.” [/QUOTE] Then a tour through the [Gallery of “Misused” Quotation Marks](http://www.juvalamu.com/qmarks/) oughta drive you completely over the edge. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-real-life-borg/356451.md?page=1)