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Someone talks loudly in person, nothing. Someone talks loudly on the phone--outrage.
Someone weaves all over the road eating, drinking, applying make-up, excessive fiddling with the car's controls, staring at an attractive jogger--nothing. Someone does the same thing with a phone--outrage.
All of those selfies taken with a digital camera--no criticism of "experiencing your vacation through the viewfinder" or how "no one cares what you ate." The same thing done with a smartphone-- the criticism DOES occur.
Someone reading a book or magazine around others--nothing. Someone doing this using a phone--"self-absorbed people tuning out everyone not knowing how to talk to others who are WITH them."
Also, unless the person that you can hear talking is Bob Newhart, hearing half of a telephone conversation is considerably more annoying than hearing two people conversing (at reasonable volume).
There's actually a scientific reason for that. Studies show that when the brain hears half of a conversation, it scrambles, trying to fill in the gaps. It's sort of like that feeling you get when the answer is "on the tip of your tongue " but you can't recall it. Brainwave studies have shown that the brain goes nuts over this.
Someone talks loudly in person, nothing. Someone talks loudly on the phone--outrage.
Someone weaves all over the road eating, drinking, applying make-up, excessive fiddling with the car's controls, staring at an attractive jogger--nothing. Someone does the same thing with a phone--outrage.
All of those selfies taken with a digital camera--no criticism of "experiencing your vacation through the viewfinder" or how "no one cares what you ate." The same thing done with a smartphone-- the criticism DOES occur.
Someone reading a book or magazine around others--nothing. Someone doing this using a phone--"self-absorbed people tuning out everyone not knowing how to talk to others who are WITH them."
Sounds a lot like discrimination to me.
Oh, please. No one likes a loud talker whether it's on a cell or not.
Everyone hates a distracted driver, no matter the cause, but cell phones have driven disracted driving through the roof.
No one took selfies with regular cameras. They took pictures of the things around them without the narcissism of needing to be in every photo and instantly uploading it to social media.
As far as the books and magazines go- it would have been considered extremely rude to whip out a book or flip through a magazine while you were at dinner with someone.
Because it doesn't bother you, doesn't mean it's illegitimate or faked that it bothers someone else.
Everybody has their peeves\phobias that doesn't even phase someone else.
Besides most people aren't complaining about ALL cell-phone users but just the really loud and obnoxious ones. Heck, the comment would apply to two people just holding a loud in-person conversation.
Like I said, get a pair of headphones and get over it.
What a self-absorbed loser, to think that he's such a special snowflake that he gets to force everyone anywhere near him not to have a conversation.
And if that train is passing by someone make a call to 911? Oh, that's right... his self-absorbed need not to hear anyone talking is more important...
Raging.
Narcissist.
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Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady
Seems to me the self-absorbed losers are those who think that the whole rest of the car should be forced to put up with their need to carry on cell phone conversations and their inability to wait until they're not in public (can't cope with delayed gratification0. Now, THAT is narcissistic!
Like I said, get a pair of headphones and get over it.
Exactly. "Wait until they're not in public," please. It's a cell phone, their whole reason for existing is so you don't have to wait until you're home to return or place a call. It's 2016, not 1986. If you miss 1986 so much, have Doc Brown build you a DeLorean so you can be Marty McFly. Even then, guess what, you're going to encounter people who gripe about Sony Walkmans being "rude," and others who'd LOVE to be able to call someone anytime and anywhere.
Regardless, I'm using mine, and as discreetly as possible, and if you don't like it, feel free to gripe like a baby, but it will get you nowhere.
Exactly. "Wait until they're not in public," please. It's a cell phone, their whole reason for existing is so you don't have to wait until you're home to return or place a call. It's 2016, not 1986. If you miss 1986 so much, have Doc Brown build you a DeLorean so you can be Marty McFly. Even then, guess what, you're going to encounter people who gripe about Sony Walkmans being "rude," and others who'd LOVE to be able to call someone anytime and anywhere.
Regardless, I'm using mine, and as discreetly as possible, and if you don't like it, feel free to gripe like a baby, but it will get you nowhere.
NLVGal punked you pretty well, care to respond to her point by point? We don't have a time machine, that's a really dumb argument. So was the suggestion that you should be required to purchase and wear headphones just to shut out an A-hole We simply ask that you think of others instead of just yourself. If you really are going to use your cell phone "discreetly" then that's all we ask. Nobody is asking you to shut it off, just wait until you get off a train or checkout line to make the call
Oh, please. No one likes a loud talker whether it's on a cell or not.
Everyone hates a distracted driver, no matter the cause, but cell phones have driven disracted driving through the roof.
No one took selfies with regular cameras. They took pictures of the things around them without the narcissism of needing to be in every photo and instantly uploading it to social media.
As far as the books and magazines go- it would have been considered extremely rude to whip out a book or flip through a magazine while you were at dinner with someone.
It's not discrimination. It's manners.
This concept is entirely lost in the age of do what you feel is right. And PC.
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