Cell phones are for posers. Is a land line not enough? You look like a twat whenever you use one and you gotta have you head examined to pay THOSE bills! Really, do you think having an electrical device around your head and groin all day and night is a good idea? Muppet, you body runs on electricity! Ever swing a phone around a compass? Perhaps I may suggest a carrier pigeon? Smoke signals?
—Michael
This article appears in Apr 9-15, 2009.
Who wants to bet me $5 this guy has a rotary dial phone to go with his pickle jar beer mugs and handlebar mustache.
& probably a tin-foil hat too!!
He probably thinks that cameras steal your soul too.
He’s prabably getting calls through the fillings in his molars. Free of charge too.
He never used one and would rather rationalize a character flaw into the people who use them because his superiority complex need’s it’s ego stroked.
I wonder if he gets his air imported and pumped through a special tube from a tank?
I think it’s kinda sad people just don’t talk face to face anymore. No man is an island until he/she has a cellphone in his/her mitt. Downtown is full of assorted islands oblivious to where they drift or crash.
I have a cell for my car and have a two minute rule. Any call that’s going to take more than that, I’ll do on a land line at home or go see the person. Call me retro.
Anyone see the story of a girl in Toronto couple weeks ago, walking and talking on her cellphone, walked straight into a truck. BAM! Natural selection.
Definitely a Darwin Award Winner.
It’s 2000 and 9. Get with the fucking times. Everyone and their grandmother has a fucking cellphone!!!!
A cell phone is a part of our culture that like anything else is subject to its own variety of etiquette.Cell phone users, as with users of any other publicly used device, are expected to perform some basic common courtesies. People that don’t act accordingly when their cell phone use is public, are being anti social. Calling all cellphone users ‘posers’ is also anti-social. Cell phones are here to stay. All people who talk on their cell phones are not trying to be fucking cool. They are simply putting to use the very thing that THOSE BILLS charge them for!!!
No, a land line isn’t enough. It would be hard for me to make an emergency call from my home phone if I’m lying in a ditch somewhere. My cell is also my business line, and since my top 5 numbers are free ingoing and out going, the bill doesn’t go above 40 bucks. PS Cell phones have now been around for more than two decades.
I don have a cell phone because of stephen kings cell. When the zombie army arrives Im not gonna be like you suckers. oh and I also can’t afford one.
yeah, you have fun when your car decides to die in the middle of butt-fuck nowhere. You must really like the ‘adventure’ of being an impromptu survivorman or something….
and for $40 a month, I’ll take the cell and worry about the cancer later. Plus, it lets me check the coast at work where message boards are blocked.
Not to mention that you’re picking on a good portion of the population there chico.
I personally am going to go cell phone free as long as I can, I don’t like being tracked down everywhere I go. I admit that sometimes I am somewhere and think, if only I had a phone right now… but those times are few and far between, so I will hold out. I don’t think that everyone who has a phone is a sucker or poser, but that they need/want to be in contact with people a lot more than I do. I don’t really even like using my home phone. Of course, I do fall into the categories mentioned above, as I still use a walkman, like, with cassette tapes…
Am I the only one that thinks a rotary cell phone would be the coolest thing ever?
“Really, do you think having an electrical device around your head and groin all day and night is a good idea? “
Groin?
PDG, presumably you put your phone in your pants pocket.
Personally, I keep it in my front left shirt pocket and most women keep it in their purse’s so you may as well chalk up the time spent to read that sentence as time you’ll never get back.
I agree with you TTFN, I have spent the majority of my life without a cell phone. That is not to say that I haven’t had them, and it is extremely hard to get use to not having one, but honestly once I’m use to it, I find it better. People are too depended on shit like cell phones, it’s ridiculous. And Onetime: just because it’s a part of our “culture” doesn’t mean that we have to get one…It’s called questioning and not being a sheep. Your saying people are being anti-social for not using a cell phone, I find that interesting since it is nearly impossible to have a descent conversation with someone who keeps taking “phone calls”.
how about if u have roomates sharing a land like with 4 or 5 people sucks… also no facebook, gmail, msn, the hockey news etc etc etc on the go.
Fuck a land line, and fuck all the people who still have land lines i mean where do they get off not being able to make a call from the bus or store…maybe they just need a land line so they dont remember no one wants to talk to them… *not really but it’s just as rational as the op
he probably has one of those rotary dial phones with the 2km long cord that he takes with him around the yard just in case he might miss a call
Recently, I watched a ten year old trying to use a rotary dialer – couldn’t get the hang of removing the index finger at the right time – I probably developed a gall stone repressing the laughter bubbling up to my throat. I still have one from the 70s – jaundiced yellow and ready for wall hanging.
in respinse to 1fallenangel: i absolutely cannot believe, that you have posted on this board on over 200 occasions, yet literacy still seems to be a skill you have not yet acquired. before you motherfucking reply to a post, why dont you actually READ the thing first. That way, what you say might actually express SOMETHING. When you repky to something that does not exist, you are in effect, saying NOTHING.
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A radiophone phone is a try of our society that same anything else is master to its own tracheophyte of etiquette.Cadre phone users, as with users of any otherwise publically victimised pattern, are potential to fulfill several staple uncouth courtesies. Fill that don’t act accordingly when their radiotelephone sound use is world, are being opposing gregarious.
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john
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