I could care less what people do with their money (unless it’s hiring a kangaroo with boxing gloves to re-enacty Rock 4 on me and the kangaroo is Drago, and I’m forced at gunpoint to train in Siberia to make the fight more authentic), but those things are silly looking. Everytime I see somebody wearing one, I want to walk up and place an order for a new Kingsize Sealy Posturepedic.
Getting harder to tell the who the crazy people are these days, everyone is pacing around talking to themselvs and gesticulating wildly.
I could care less what people do with their money (unless it’s hiring a kangaroo with boxing gloves to re-enacty Rock 4 on me and the kangaroo is Drago, and I’m forced at gunpoint to train in Siberia to make the fight more authentic), but those things are silly looking. Everytime I see somebody wearing one, I want to walk up and place an order for a new Kingsize Sealy Posturepedic.
Getting harder to tell the who the crazy people are these days, everyone is pacing around talking to themselvs and gesticulating wildly.
Actually, that looks a bit like my son’s very much needed Phonak over-the-ear hearing aid. However, he has not been assimilated, and would have no idea what the hell starving Brazilian HIV+ orphan goldfish are. He, in fact, needs his vaguely cyborg ear pieces so that he can fucking hear me. OK??
Haven’t you got anything better to do than rant about ear pieces?
An excellent point. “Elegance of design” has actually been an Apple value since the dawn of the Mac. Not only that, but if you pick up a computer system, cell phone, or any other piece of digital technology these days, futurism and modernism are going to be obvious goals in the visual design.
I don’t have much love for all the time connectivity, but it’s not based on the appearance as much as it is on the societal insulation.
VC03 I could not agree more with one small caveat for regarding the bluetooth earpiece – it’s not the wearing them to talk that I (and maybe VC03?) object to; it’s the wearing them the rest of the goddam time. First it was the fucking holster for the phone (okay, Batman, nothing accesorizes that $300 strap like a plastic cup), then the wire-earpieces that random douchebags would keep in all the time, now these.
Seriously, Absolute, you are kidding yourself if you think that some people don’t wear these for show. That, or just wrong. Some (not all) people wear these things conspicuously for a reason.
I am suprised at all of the number of posters that I generally agree with who can’t find the humor in VC03’s rant – god as my witness, I’ve said the same thing.
And the threat to staple it to his hear, you know that confirms it – you’re a douchebag aren’t ya?
Why do you care if they’re wearing them because they think they’re sexy? Say to yourself, “I will NEVER have sex with that fool,” and move on with your life.
If we all minded our own business, why would we be in the Pit?
A fine Pit rant is all about not minding your own business. And that was a fine Pit rant. It’s about taking a small irritation and blowing it up into full-blown outrage in a way that amuses and entertains and yet contains that original kernel of truth.
Truly, we are forgetting the purpose of the Pit, the art of the Pitting.
And yeah, those phones do look dorky. Nobody has that important a job.
To quote a wise old sage, “I care about people’s stylistic choices for three reasons: 1) They look cool to me; 2) They look stupid to me (in which case it’s funny); or 3) They look hateful to me (e.g., they’re wearing white hoods).”
This stylistic choice* falls squarely into category two. What do we do when we think something is silly? I don’t know about you, but I make fun of it. Sometimes, my method of fun is a hystrionic rant. So in additon to not having sex with a bluetoothin’ douchebag, I will also engage in some ridicule directed at said douchebag. It happens here all the time. I would wager that everyone reading this has at one time made fun of that which he or she finds silly.
I don’t know what is more sad: that some folks wear these gadgets in a pitiful attempt to attract attention, or that some SDMB posters can’t see the fodder for mean spirited humor that these douchebas provide.
BREAKING
NEWS:
THIS THREAD ISN’T ABOUT HEARING AIDS, OR TECHNOLOGY . . . IT’S ABOUT DOUCHEBAGS.
*I am referring to the stylistic aspect of these doo-dads, that which Absolute will not recognize, that some douchebags do wear these to show off.
No - no, they haven’t. Apple have stressed simple, minimal, elegant design. A proper comparison (to these douche-ear devices) would be Alienware’s stressing douche-tastic designs on their computers, all vents and molded plastic and neon lights to appeal to only the least discriminating and least self-aware geeks.
These robotic ear-douches are all Alienware, no Apple.