A Nextel phone chirps whenever the push to talk button is pressed on either end of the conversation. This leads to a lot of chirps during the course of a conversation (which is why I prefer using the phone, but I’m in a minority there).
Why bother- when all you really need is the shotgun itself? 
I susspect the volume is so loud so that the user can still use the phone after it has been anally inserted.
I think this needs a solid scientific test. I suggest we try it on at least 100,000 users for a good solid representative sample.
My, my, my, what an utterly civilized and urbane group we have here.
Why, it is with complete and utter amazement that I marvel at your collective ability to exist down here with the chattering peasants and their inferior communication devices :rolleyes:
The demand exists, ergo supply exists. Deal with it.
Ergo rude bahavior is now acceptable.
The demand for condems is higher than ever, but I don’t want to see them either.
Miss Manners once wrote “Manners are what you should do in public.” Screaming in public is rarely allowed. When a group of people are collected for a single person, the use of cell phones should be verboten.
In a theater, in your home, in a library, I can accept that someone using a Nextel is rude. But OUTSIDE?!? No, I don’t accept that using a loud phone or having a loud cellphone conversation outside is rude. I think it’s people who enjoy being offended who are the problem.
I have to agree, as long as “outside” is relatively loud to begin with. Someone using this chirpy thing in a national park would be annoying.
I certainly don’t enjoy being offended. I find it to be – well, offensive.
People talking loudly near me tend to give me a headache. And tend to interrupt my thought processes. I realize that in many situations there is no avoiding this. And some people just have to be making noise whereever they are. Yes, it is rude.
Fucking hilarious!!!
There is a demand (albeit a small one) for masturbation in public. Therefore, I will manufacture male and female vibrators with installed flashing lights and speakers which blare “LOOK AT ME! I AM MASTURBATING LIKE A MOTHERFUCK!” Since there is a demand, and I am supplying it, there are clearly no etiquette-related problems associated with this device.
/hyperbole
What is unacceptable? Can I go around with an airhorn, setting it off every 5-10 seconds? Can I set off fireworks in random places as long as I ensure nobody is harmed?
Look, I am not advocating outlawing Nextel phones. My day was not completely and utterly ruined by this individual. All I am saying is that I think it’s completely ridiculous to use such an inconvenient (CHIRP WHAT?! CHIRP WHAT?! CHIRP) and annoying (I’M ON A GOLF COURSE! YES, A GOLF COURSE! WHAT?!) device to carry on a conversation that could have taken place quietly using the normal cell phone function. Is it the worst thing that’s ever happened to me? No.
Are minor greivances out of bounds now for pit material? Crimeny.
And that last quote was from Who_me? not buttonjockey308. Sorry for any confusion.
Roger that.
What about people looking for a relaxing time in a public park? At the beach? Or out for a stroll in a relatively quiet part of town?
CHIRP
WHAT?!??
CHIRP *
WHERE ARE YOU?*
CHIRP
I’M AT THE BEACH. NO, THE BEACH.
CHIRP
Sometimes I wonder what we did for assholes before the advent of cellphones.
We managed, but it’s much easier now. :rolleyes:
WTF?! Yes, people speak outside. People do not yell outside, unless they are 1) in an emergency situation or 2) rude. This is true whether or not a cellphone is involved.
What I don’t understand is this: I’m a cellphone junkie at this point, and yet I contrive to use the thing 1) in a normal, conversational tone of voice; 2) after moving away from others, so as not to disturb them; 3) at times other than when I should be giving someone else my undivided attention; 4) using the vibrate function rather than the ring function, or turning the device off, when it cannot be permitted to audibly ring. I don’t understand what kind of major malfunction prevents this, if it isn’t the same that turns otherwise operational human beings into Giant Yelly Persons.
The Cellular Communication Networks in the USA must be appalling if you have to shout to use the phone effectively…
No, people are just assholes.