cellphones and the people who don't answer them

i've realized that the cellphone is the most useless invention of the 20th century.

why is it that the people you really need to get a hold of that have cellphones never answer them?

why is it that only people that shouldn't be on the phone are using theirs? i.e: people driving, teenage girls, those irritating business people trying to close a deal in the middle of an elevator yet still insist on using their "power deal" voice.

i hate the cellphone with a firey passion... i think everyone should burn theirs... WE WONT BE SLAVES TO THE COMMUNICATION AGE!

haha, "power deal" voice. i fucking hate that. my sister uses that voice ALL THE FUCKING TIME.

i'm not burning my phone though. no way, dude. how am i supposed to send/receive sexy text messages if i've not got a phone? duh

i understand not the text message... whatever happened to good old fashioned phone sex? so we have to speak to each other in really poorly spelled ebonics now?

i thought that's what the internet was for anyways.

one house, 2 other roomates... try sharing a phone line... cells your best friend.

thats like saying food was a bad idea because people eat loudly and sometimes choke on it.

Its a good thing, people just dont use best way.

Whatever happened to those studies that dealt with cellphones and the links to cancer/tumors?

At the moment I have no need for one, but I figure when I get my own place I'll just have a cellphone and no landline.

funny, cos those are the situations in which i can never get ahold of anyone... especially those with cellphones

i think my true dislike of them lies in people's ringtones.

now that i can definatly understand... how hard is it to get a ring that... *gasp* rings, fuck la cuca racha

true, but carhorns that play la cucaracha may be very wet back, but are also very cool... mostly because of the grandpa in lost boys.

i don't understand why people get so pissed if i don't answer mine. just because i have a cell phone does not mean i'm 'on call' 24 hrs a day to everyone who has my number.

this is where the logic escapes me though... if you carry a cellphone, isn't it to make yourself more readily available to the people you know? i mean drug dealers always answer their cellphones, why can't your best friend answer theirs?

mine is Sepultura - Refuse/Resist

then i say that you deserve a cellphone more than anyone else i know and i would like to subscribe to your newsletter

newsletter. hmm. i could work on that idea. i'm not going to pay you for it though. i'm going to turn the tables on my usual train of thought, and play the bad guy for once.

I AM MICROSOFT! YOU ARE APPLE!

i steal your idea and make it my own!


ugh, i feel dirty now. good thing i'm wearing an Apple t-shirt, surrounded by Macs, sat on a chair with an Apple logo on it.

yeah.

shouldn't that make you feel dirty

or is brand loyalty a good thing again and not selling out

this new world confuses me so.

the loyalty thing, yeah. i like loyalty.

i suppose brand loyalty is a good thing... but i tend to look at it as more of an anal retentive thing... simply because thats why most people do it

and back on the topic... people that don't answer their cellphones when they should suck balls...

those big red utility balls you used to play dodgeball with.. they suck those ones.

This is exactly why I threw my cellphone down a flight of stairs. I got tired of people being able to call me all the time, and I realized that that was because I had a cellphone. If you have one and don't answer it when someone calls, they get pissed at you. "Why didn't you answer my call? I could have been bleeding to death!" Yeah, right. So I threw mine down a flight of stairs.

"Why didn't you answer my call?"
I show them my nifty three-piece cellphone. "Uh, I think my phone's broken."

Then there's my coworker, who buys a new cellphone every two months or so. Right now he has this stupid little blue thing with a color screen that plays mp3s (it can store five of them, I think) that we always steal to play his games on. Everytime someone comes in with an interesting phone, he says, "I almost got that one."

Cellular phones are a tool of the oppressed.

ringtones in general are freaking annoying!!!!!! there is a vibrate mode. use the damned vibrate. one time when i was t band camp my phone rang and the vibrate wasn't on. that was freaking embarrasing. cellphones are really good things, but people have no etiquitte. i hate talking on my phone in public. but i have to say that i cannot remember what my life was like before i got a cell phone. "where in the airport are you?" stupid crap like that has been completely resolved. when i fly into kennedy and such i can always find my family, where as before i had a 50/50 chance. but, i think that alot of people's future looks not so bright. as soon as the can implant a speaker in your head i think a lot of people are going to be fucked. i have a friend that constantly listens to his fucking ipod. then is on the phone. ipod phone. phone. ipod back and forth all goddamned day. hmmm.... where am i going with this. the matrix i guess, but maybe a little scarier. and way less "cool". people like that will be blanketed in a warm electronical cocoon. ok i am shutting the fuck up now cause i have completely forgotten how this started. oh yeah, vibrate!!!!!!!

Define "wet back".

Someone who cannot dry him- or herself off properly after a shower. They get that patch of water between their shoulderblades on their shirt, and they look really dumb.

Acceptable. I'll just assume that's what he meant.

If I don't answer my 'celly' (thanks Nick McDonnell's 'tour-de-force' Twelve), it's because:
a) My phone sucks and is too quiet and doesn't vibrate (what's the point of technology that doesn't vibrate? Totally!), and hence I don't know anyone is calling.
b) The person calling is a goon.
The latter is the more common reason. So now everyone turns off number sending when they call me so my phone says 'Incoming: Private Number' or something, and I have to pick it up because the mystery burns.

See, there's your problem. I carry a cell phone for my convenience, not anyone else's. That means I'm free to answer it or not, depending on what I'm doing and what my caller ID says.

My reason for loving cell phones is that it costs the same as a land line but I can take it with me when I leave the house. Land lines are so 1990s.

My thoughts exactly. If you want me to answer my phone every single time that you call me, you can pay my monthly bill.