# I'm going to shove that cell phone up your ass. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 21, 2005, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-shove-that-cell-phone-up-your-ass/309199 "2005-06-21T15:04:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-shove-that-cell-phone-up-your-ass/309199/121 "2005-06-27T06:47:12Z")
On a total side note, this thread would be much better if the title was: **I’m going to shove that cell phone so far up your ass that you’ll be coughing ringtones.** But maybe that’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boo_Boo_Foo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-shove-that-cell-phone-up-your-ass/309199/122 "2005-06-27T06:48:46Z")
> [@Tracy Lord](#): > > “TURN IT OFF,” I say loudly and clearly. She mumbles “I’m in a movie theater” into the phone before hitting a button and putting it into her purse. > > Ya gotta _fix 'em_. Wait, wait, wait, wait… I got one better. Earlier this year, I was out training on my race bike at about 7:45 am riding behind this stupid young female coming up to a pedestrian crossing in front of a primary school. And I’m watching this idiot type in a text message as she’s driving. She’s so intent on what she’s typing into her fucking phone that she sails right through the crossing with little kiddies waiting to cross. I yelled out to the kiddies “STOP!” And they did, thank goodness. And the driver looks up in shock realising what she might have done. So I screamed at her real loud “YOU FUCKING STUPID IDIOT!” And I reached in her window as I’m riding along side her and grabbed her phone and threw it down the road. My goal was to try and break her phone. It sailed straight down a storm water drain. She was in shock, and rightfully so. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-shove-that-cell-phone-up-your-ass/309199/123 "2005-06-27T10:21:58Z")
> [@Q.N. Jones](#): > > My youngest sister is only six years behind me, but she’s grown up in the age of cellphones. They didn’t become ubiquitous with my contemporaries until I was in law school. > > She carries hers everywhere, and it’s on all the time. Even when she’s asleep. > > Even though I no longer have a land line, I don’t take mine with me when I go out for an activity (dinner, shopping, gardening, etc.) Because I’m going dinner, shopping, gardening, whatever. I’m not interested in a phone conversation then. > > Sis regularly tells me how stupid it is not to be “connected” all the time. Hell, she even answers hers every time it rings. > > While people are on their phones, they’re missing out on real life. So all those phone conversations I had with my now-husband while we were courting weren’t “real life”? And all those heart to heart conversations I have had with various friends and family over the years weren’t real life? I musta missed that memo. Phones aren’t evil. Phone conversations are not “missing out on real life.” Sure, people can be rude and take calls when they shouldn’t, but it is just silly to condemn them as “missing out on life.” ---
**Author:** ![stegon66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@stegon66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stegon66)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-shove-that-cell-phone-up-your-ass/309199/124 "2005-06-27T13:38:53Z")
What Brynda said is true of course, but some people DO get obsessed with their cellphones. In my experience it’s the punk-ass teenagers with whom I have to work. The little fuckers are CONSTANTLY on their cellphones, checking their messages or text-messaging their friends. Hell, it’s gotten to the point where some of them have been issued warnings. But at least one of _them_ circumvents this by hiding in the bathroom to do his “buisness.” I shit you not - I’ve went into the men’s room and found him just standing there playing with his cellphone. Sounds like an obsession to me. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Q.N.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3da27b/32.png) [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-shove-that-cell-phone-up-your-ass/309199/125 "2005-06-27T17:40:35Z")
> [@Brynda](#): > > So all those phone conversations I had with my now-husband while we were courting weren’t “real life”? And all those heart to heart conversations I have had with various friends and family over the years weren’t real life? I musta missed that memo. > > Phones aren’t evil. Phone conversations are not “missing out on real life.” Sure, people can be rude and take calls when they shouldn’t, but it is just silly to condemn them as “missing out on life.” Way to overreact. As I stated, I use a cell phone too. I was clearly talking about people who are letting their phone intrude on every area of their lives. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-shove-that-cell-phone-up-your-ass/309199/126 "2005-06-27T18:22:44Z")
I am seriously considering getting rid of my land line and going only with my cell phone. But that is only because I am very, very, very important, don’cha know. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-shove-that-cell-phone-up-your-ass/309199/127 "2005-06-27T18:40:35Z")
> [@Gangster Octopus](#): > > I am seriously considering getting rid of my land line and going only with my cell phone. But that is only because I am very, very, very important, don’cha know. Hell, I’m not important at _all_ and I ditched my land line. If I can do it, you can, too! 😃 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2005, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-shove-that-cell-phone-up-your-ass/309199/128 "2005-06-27T22:20:15Z")
> [@Q.N. Jones](#): > > Way to overreact. As I stated, I use a cell phone too. > > I was clearly talking about people who are letting their phone intrude on every area of their lives. Way to back off on what you said. :rolleyes: It was stupid, and you know it. ---
**Author:** ![Q.N.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3da27b/32.png) [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2005, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-shove-that-cell-phone-up-your-ass/309199/129 "2005-06-28T06:59:12Z")
> [@Brynda](#): > > Way to back off on what you said. :rolleyes: It was stupid, and you know it. Get a clue. I may not have stated my point in the most explicit fashion, but my meaning is clear to those who bother to think about it for a couple of seconds. I never said cell phones were evil–you made that up. I never said your heartfelt conversations were not real life–you made that up. All I said that by being constantly on the telephone during every life activity is making people miss out on some interesting stuff. You pulled the rest out of thin air. And I’m done with this childish argument. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-to-shove-that-cell-phone-up-your-ass/309199.md?page=6)