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Post by AlanS on Jun 14, 2015 8:35:27 GMT
I suppose I'll have to relent at some point - the sentence "Get a phone!!!" is regularly uttered by my partner. If we move out of the city, or have kids, then it might become necessary, but for the time being I'm safe  After your previous post I was going to ask if you lived outside a city but you do. I find it hard to imagine a city dweller not ever experiencing people using phonos when they were walking about |
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Post by dvh on Jun 14, 2015 9:36:53 GMT
I used to have a Blackberry but that was just for work; I now have just one basic mobile for emergency use only. What amuses me is people walking along blethering on to someone on a hands-free device. I wonder if they realise what plums they look.
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Post by Dave on Jun 14, 2015 12:38:31 GMT
Exactly Tim, my smartphone is a handheld computer that happens to be able to receive and make phone calls and this is very much how I use it. In my case hat is it's primary purpose, in fact I rarely use it to make calls, much to the annoyance of family, friends and acquaintances.
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Post by Slinger on Jun 14, 2015 13:33:54 GMT
I have a phone which I use to make phone calls, I have a camera to take photographs with and I have a computer (and a tablet) to, well, compute with I suppose. I used to work in I.T. so I'm by no means technologically challenged, I just happen to think that you can get a better product if it's been designed and streamlined for a single purpose rather than having bits bolted on and shoehorned in. The only "exceptions that prove the rule" I will accept are the Swiss Army Knife and the Leatherman Multi Tool.   |
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Post by MartinT on Jun 14, 2015 16:11:21 GMT
I have had a Smartphone ever since the early days of XDAs, after a Sharp IQ and a succession of Palm computers. No, Apple did not invent them. It has always been my address book, calendar, organiser, browser and phone. I have no hang-ups about using it but I am always respectful of not using it inappropriately. I reserve the right to not answer it and I am not a slave to the thing.
I don't know why so many people struggle with this or think of them as evil devices. It's down to behaviour, not the technology.
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Post by Tim on Jun 16, 2015 17:17:47 GMT
I am always respectful of not using it inappropriately. I reserve the right to not answer it and I am not a slave to the thing. Unfortunately (IME) you are in the minority there Martin, if only more people could kick the addiction. Drives me nuts when in a group and at a restaurant and the first thing that happens when folk sit down is out come the phones  |
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Post by MartinT on Jun 16, 2015 19:14:24 GMT
It's teenagers mostly who are addicted. Ruth's daughter may as well have it surgically attached to her hand.
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Post by Tim on Jun 16, 2015 19:22:54 GMT
Hmmm, I just spent a long weekend with a group of people, none were much under 50 - they couldn't put the dammed things away! They were mostly girls however and out of the group, the girls were by far the worst offenders - I don't think it's just teenagers Martin. I really don't get it and find it rather rude when in company. Maybe I'm just a dinosaur?
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Post by MartinT on Jun 17, 2015 5:47:32 GMT
I can only relate from my experience and my peer friends don't do it any more than I do. The girls at school, however, are hopelessly addicted.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jun 17, 2015 14:27:37 GMT
A lady who works with us comes in with her phone stuck to her ear
If we didn't start the meeting when she arrived she would carry on talking, possibly forever.
Being polite I could not possibly speak of her age, but it is certainly north of 40
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2015 13:30:24 GMT
I find it odd that people cannot function without a Mobile phone. I was sat on the bus coming home from work i noticed that virtually everyone on thet bus was on a mobile phone! weird behaviour man..
I have a mobile phone that i don't use i use the alarm clock on it because my job has to be done in three phases by a certain time scale, i have to make sure myself & workers are finished by a certain time... i use the alarm calls to tell me without taking it out on the job.. Does that make me reliant on one?
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Post by MartinT on Jun 19, 2015 9:18:06 GMT
If I had to sit on a bus every day I would be using the phone rather than staring into space. I mostly read the news, so it's just an electronic newspaper.
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Post by Dave on Jun 19, 2015 12:25:24 GMT
ShOCK-HORROR!!! Mobile phones no longer exist! Powerful, portable computers which can also make and take phone calls most certainly do. As Martin has pointed out, these machines are not only this eras newspapers, they are its books, Walkmans, portable TV's, maps, Tourist Information outlets, theater guides, social networking hubs, CB radios, cameras, game consoles etc, etc. For a certain generation which grew up in the 1960's and who marveled at Star Trek communicators on their B&W TV's, these gadgets are totally cool and step well beyond our wildest expectations, and there's more to come. Watch that screen... |
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Post by ChrisB on Jun 19, 2015 14:39:16 GMT
....but don't watch it while you are crossing the road, or walking across someones path. Also don't suddenly stop in a doorway, or likewise conduct any other forms of utter twattery while you are doing it, which is what the premise of my OP was. I've no problem with the actual machines or software, it's the thoughtless, selfish and stupid behaviour of some of the people who use them that I am railing against.
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Post by MartinT on Jun 19, 2015 15:57:35 GMT
The ones who do it on an escalator are sometimes trying to cause a major human pile-up.
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Post by Tim on Jun 20, 2015 11:27:28 GMT
I've no problem with the actual machines or software, it's the thoughtless, selfish and stupid behaviour of some of the people who use them that I am railing against. Absolutely. |
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Post by MartinT on Jun 20, 2015 11:41:15 GMT
When we were in Rome I could not believe the number of utter twats using selfie sticks, so much so that I had to start batting them out of my path while walking. There were signs everywhere with the 'no selfie sticks' symbol and yet the tourists just took them right on in and proceeded to look like total pricks posing for them inside the monuments. It was laughably bad in the Coliseum.
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