[stosh]

On my drive to school I noticed about 10 different people talking on their cell phones while driving, walking, waiting, smoking, etc.... I'm sure I missed another 100 people using their phones.

I often think about life pre-cell phones and today I was wondering what the ability to contact/communicate with friends, family, work at any time anywhere has actually given us. I mean in my life the single greatest thing it's given me is the ability to be reminded to bring home sour cream for taco night. It has made my job go much smoother when i'm not in the office which is a big deal too. In all seriousness what do you think the cell phone has given us? Is it a tool for human kind or one more idiot box.

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

Cocaine is a helluva drug.

 

[stosh]

Ha no but my Dr. did give me a scrip for these great amphetamines I took this AM.

KIDDING!

Cocaine is a helluva drug.

 

[kingbee]

My phone lets me post on RM. So I guess it has that going for it.

 

[stosh]

My phone lets me post on RM. So I guess it has that going for it.

I'm waiting for class to start and started this thead on my phone.

 

[laura]

Ha no but my Dr. did give me a scrip for these great amphetamines I took this AM.

KIDDING!

You better watch out with that bottom quoting. (or top posting) It gives off the wrong impression.

I like my cell phone. Now I don't have a house phone.

 

[jimmydean]

Tetris on the bus.

 

[BigMike]

I often think about that as well. What did we do before email? How did people in offices communicate? How did you keep in touch with your friends? Can you imagine a life without email?

I get probably 20-50 emails a day, and they come to my phone, and I can answer them from there. I have a friend who is a high up exec in Wachovia Securities, and he gets 100-500 emails a day. All right to his phone. What did we do before this stuff?

 

[4xBoy]

I get probably 20-50 emails a day, and they come to my phone, and I can answer them from there. I have a friend who is a high up exec in Wachovia Securities, and he gets 100-500 emails a day. All right to his phone. What did we do before this stuff?

Had friends, played outside without caring what else is going on.

 

[geargrrl]

What did we do before this stuff?

Have peace and quiet? Pay attention to the car in front of us while driving? Not broadcast our personal problems in the supermarket checkout line?

 

[jimmydean]

My wife was confused when the Mercedes-Benz we test drove didn't have cup holders. I had to explain to her that German's don't do anything but drive, while driving. The last thing you want is someone trying to sip a latte while doing 180mph.

The new Honda Fit has something like 10 cup holders and seats 5

 

[Colonel Angus]

sour cream for taco night.

sour cream on tacos = FAIL

I have no cell phone, no cable, no HDTV, no internet (I post from work) and I don't feel like I'm missing anything. I do stuff, not look at stuff.

 

[Westy]

Cell phones and email would be usefull if they were not abused so heavily. Of the hundreds of emails I get a day only a few are worth reading. I gets numerous calls a day from people on cell phones asking for help doing things they are too lazy to do themselves but since they have a cell phone on them it is easier to call me up.

 

[SkaredShtles]

<snip> Pay attention to the car in front of us while driving?

No way. People have been not paying attention since the invention of the automobile.

 

[Rockland]

FFS. 100+ e-mails a day? Chain letters?

 

[geargrrl]

we have a new hands free law here in WA. It's a secondary offense: they can only pull you over if you are doing something else that would be a ticket. I don't see that it's made any difference at all.

 

[geargrrl]

No way. People have been not paying attention since the invention of the automobile.

ok, cell phones give more and better ways to not pay attention.

Drive by a high school parking lot when school lets out to see what I mean.

 

[Rockland]

The new Honda Fit has something like 10 cup holders and seats 5

I'm mentaly counting them... It's just more room for my coffee!

 

[TN]

THINK ABOUT THIS:

What if cell phone waves, radio waves, microwaves & all that high frequency **** was visible to the human eye. That would be far out. :thumbs:

 

[jimmydean]

I don't feel like I'm missing anything.

Internet porn doesn't watch itself, you know.

 

[IH8Rice]

THINK ABOUT THIS:

What if cell phone waves, radio waves, microwaves & all that high frequency **** was visible to the human eye. That would be far out. :thumbs:

ask and you shall receive...these are land lines
youre welcome
http://gizmodo.com/5036052/traffic-from-space-videos-blow-our-minds-pants-and-socks


check the third video...a million calls a minute in England alone

 

[TN]

ask you shall receive....although these are land lines
youre welcome
http://gizmodo.com/5036052/traffic-from-space-videos-blow-our-minds-pants-and-socks


check the third video...a million calls a minute in England alone

Solid brother.

 

[Colonel Angus]

What if cell phone waves, radio waves, microwaves & all that high frequency **** was visible to the human eye.

What, you mean you can't see them? I can see them just fine.

 

[TN]

What, you mean you can't see them? I can see them just fine.

Will you share your magical spices?

 

[laura]

ask and you shall receive...these are land lines
youre welcome
http://gizmodo.com/5036052/traffic-from-space-videos-blow-our-minds-pants-and-socks


check the third video...a million calls a minute in England alone

My mind has been blown.

 

[JohnE]

I have no cell phone, no cable, no HDTV, no internet (I post from work) and I don't feel like I'm missing anything. I do stuff, not look at stuff.

Then what are you doing posting in the lounge, Mr Highandmighty? Must not be any stuff to do.

 

[IH8Rice]

My mind has been blown.

thats what they all say

 

[Colonel Angus]

Then what are you doing posting in the lounge, Mr Highandmighty? Must not be any stuff to do.

Getting paid $45 an hour. Really.

 

[ire]

I don't like cell phones, even though I own one. My wife recently went back to college (been out a couple of years) and she was talking about hard it is to make friends because everyone is talking on their phone right up till class starts and then they get back on their phone as soon as its over

 

[SkaredShtles]

ok, cell phones give more and better ways to not pay attention.

Drive by a high school parking lot when school lets out to see what I mean.

My kids will lose driving privs for at least a month if they're ever caught using a phone when they're driving.

 

[DirtMcGirk]

I only have a cell to talk to my wife while she's deployed. Otherwise leave me a message on my home line, and if its pressing I'll get back to you. I get internet from the library, don't have TV. Its liberating.

 

[IH8Rice]

im on my phone all day during the workday answering emails and calls even whilst driving. i refuse to use blueteeth devices.

 

[jimmydean]

I get internet from the library...

I could never jerk off in the library, that would just be weird.

 

[IH8Rice]

I could never jerk off in the library, that would just be weird.

you dont know what youre missing.

 

[maddog17]

I could never jerk off in the library, that would just be weird.

good thing they have a lot of books there, plenty of places to hide the "evidence"

but stay away from the childrens section ok, lets keep something clean!!

 

[BigMike]

I could never jerk off in the library, that would just be weird.

Your library doesn't have that "special" section in the back left corner where all the high school kids go to get knocked up?

 

[Toshi]

neal stephenson has a new novel, anathem, and one of its many plotlines involves cell phone-type gadgets and proper decorum...

http://io9.com/5046316/neal-stephenson-explains-whats-wrong-with-mobile-phones

 

[stinkyboy]

I turned my phone off for the commute tonight and put it in a zip lock bag since we got a little rain. 4 voice mails in an hour and a half? None of them were important. Leave me alone, I'm riding...

 

[jimmydean]

you dont know what youre missing.

Jeff Ross's new special had a bit about hotel wifi access in the lobby, but not in the rooms.

 

[roamingoregon]

E-mail on my phone makes my life easier. My phone has saved lives and enabled arguments.

The first time my son get's sent a n00dz from a girlfriend I will high five him.

The first time my daughter sends n00dz to her boyfriend I will take away the phone away and beat the hell out of the boyfriend.

double standards are great!