Thread: YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED...RESISTANCE IS FUTILE...

2 of the old great ones returning. Now only Lou and Justin need to come out of hiding and we can all have a 'Yabba Dabba Gay Old Time'

Welcome back.

Originally Posted by Bruno

I'll do you one better.
My company had some Americans over from corporate HQ to visit.
So I am in the bathroom, using a urinal, minding my own business, and one of the Americans comes to stand next to me and starts to have a whole conversation using the hands-free earpiece...

I cannot flippin' STAND people that talk on the phone in the restroom.. or locker room, especially when they are in the middle of their bodily function. I have to resist the urge to toss their offending electronic device into the toilet/urinal.

I don't even like it when people try to talk to ME at the urinal (it's creepy)

Originally Posted by Cyclophile

I cannot flippin' STAND people that talk on the phone in the restroom.. or locker room, especially when they are in the middle of their bodily function. I have to resist the urge to toss their offending electronic device into the toilet/urinal.

I don't even like it when people try to talk to ME at the urinal (it's creepy)

I was once at a rest stop in Wisconsin at 2AM when in walked a man with all the bad men's room habits. With an entire wall of urinals, and the two of us being the only ones there, he picked the one right next to me, and gave several enormous groans of relief, all while carrying on a conversation on the phone.

Originally Posted by foundlingofdollar

I was once at a rest stop in Wisconsin at 2AM when in walked a man with all the bad men's room habits. With an entire wall of urinals, and the two of us being the only ones there, he picked the one right next to me, and gave several enormous groans of relief, all while carrying on a conversation on the phone.

I CANNOT stand the people that walk around with those on. I want one for when I'm driving or riding my bicycle, but otherwise I would keep mine out. When driving, it's just such a distraction to hold the phone up. Speaker function is fine, but I don't really have a place to put it.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think it's a good thing to require hands-free talking while driving. I can't count the number of drivers that are talking on the phone and doing a horrible job of driving around here. It's really really scary sometimes. In fact, I'm most afraid of someone running a stop sign or a light around here, simply because it happens so often. The funny thing is, most of the stop sign runners are on their phones.

In South Australia, you have to use hands free, and it's a bloody good idea- I don't know what drivers are like in the states, but there are many intersections where they had to add dashes across it because people couldn't manage to stay in their own lane while going across the intersection. And not allowing people to turn right down a street with a tram down the middle because they WILL stop in front of moving trams (I saw a taxi blocking a tram last night, it was trying to do an illegal U-turn). Quite frankly, with the stupidity that's displayed every day here, any distraction needs to be prevented.

In Washington State, it's illegal starting next month to talk on a cell phone without one. It's also illegal to send text messages while driving!
I remember seeing some otherwise-forgettable news story about texting while driving--some idiot woman was doing it while being filmed! " "Oh, yeah, I like to stay in touch..." She looked to be about 30, so poor judgement shouldn't have been an excuse.

Personally, I have zero sympathy for drivers like that if they get in an accident since they're putting other people's lives at risk. Probably too selfish to care either. Your own life is one thing; taking people with you is inexcusable.

It’s been the law here in the UK for a number of years now but you still see idiots weaving across the road with the bloody phone jammed in between shoulder and ear, but strangely it’s not against the law for me to use my microphone (radio amateur) whilst driving or for a taxi driver to use his (used to be one) microphone, I believe this loop hole is so the emergency (police) services are not breaking the law when using theirs, so let's me off the hook as well

actually, I like the headsets. mine fell out of my pocket the other day and now I'm out a hundred bucks, but that's life

they are helpful to me because I can talk on the phone more safely when driving, plus I can voice dial instead of fumbling around with a keypad while trying to keep one eye on the road. I'd rather not talk while driving at all, but that's not always practical. I also don't like it when the passengers in my car talk, as it is equally distracting. sort of makes the wife angry when I tell her to shut up so I can focus on driving, but it's only necessary when there is a lot of traffic or something tricky like that. don't mind talking when we're on long road trips or something, big empty highways don't require the same level of concentration as city driving.

I was talking to a sherriff's deputy a couple of months ago and he said they get so many calls about drunk drivers and usually they find the person is sober but they were weaving while on the cell phone.
Hands free is okay in my book, but your vision should not be blocked with a phone to your ears.