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johnboy
Trad climber
Can't get here from there
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Nov 30, 2006 - 10:01am PT
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You mean girls talk on those things at the mall? I thought that was their oxygen supply.
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MisterE
Trad climber
Bellingham, WA
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Nov 30, 2006 - 10:26am PT
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You think talking on your cell phone on the road is bad, now people are text-messaging while they drive.
It's gonna get ugly if that trend takes off.
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Aya
Uncategorizable climber
New York
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Nov 30, 2006 - 12:08pm PT
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I hate to admit, on long drives on boring interstates, I watch TV shows and movies on my ipod, with the sound coming through the speakers.
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Aya
Uncategorizable climber
New York
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Nov 30, 2006 - 12:13pm PT
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Oh, and FWIW, I have only a cell. I probably use about 80 minutes a month in calls, plus an average of about 45 minutes or so a night on the phone to my boyfriend (who lives 5 hours away). Free nights and weekens - it's way cheaper for me to have the cell than a regular phone.
He gets no cell reception in his house, but I've been trying to get him to get a prepaid one just to make it easier when we're meeting up places to climb etc. Although it's been working out pretty well so far (mostly because we're both reliable and if we say we're going to be somewhere at a certain time, we're there), there have been plenty of times where coordinating would have been easier with a cell phone - plus, it's hard to get a hold of him when he's on road trips, which is fine in theory, but hey, he's climbing, and stuff happens. I worry (especially because he doesn't wear a helmet...)!
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inhisfootsteps
Sport climber
Out West where the climbin's always good.
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Nov 30, 2006 - 05:59pm PT
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OR have you ever seen two people in a car in the front seat. One with a cellphone who is usually driving and another who is listening to iPods?
Please. Come on.
Or girls who are sharing in listening to songs on an iPod but are still talking to eachother? Why not just take the things out of your ears and chat.
Grr.
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
St. Louis
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Nov 30, 2006 - 06:11pm PT
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Woody, you and I use the cell the same way. Actually, I usually say I don't have a cell phone, because I don't feel I do. I have, instead, a car phone. It is used only for emergencies or when I'm in the car. It's dead the rest of the time.
But I got a question for you Woody....What were you doing in a mall? Dead god, I can't stand to go to a mall (or any store). ugh.
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WoodySt
Trad climber
Riverside
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 30, 2006 - 09:12pm PT
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Happie,
I go to the mall to practice my Spanish.
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Ouch!
climber
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Nov 30, 2006 - 10:38pm PT
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Serious note. Heard a highway patrol dude say yesterday that of the last 70+ accidents he was called to, 23 were talking on a cell phone when they crashed.
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Wonder
climber
WA
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Nov 30, 2006 - 11:38pm PT
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Yes locker, I would like to say that imo there should be areas where cell phones should not be able to work.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Nov 30, 2006 - 11:43pm PT
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Woody - You just had a senior moment, called Crimper Happie....
But, I WAS thinking, although it was last nigh.... "What was Woody doing in a mall????"
I bet you were shopping at Walgreens(or California equivelent) for....well, that's personal, I suppose...(really, I just can't think of anything that iss funny, but not over the top).
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WoodySt
Trad climber
Riverside
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2006 - 02:55am PT
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You're right Happie. I was in Walgreens getting some Vagisil; it's the best lube I've found for my bike chain. Thinking about trying it on cams.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Serious note. Heard a highway patrol dude say yesterday that of the last 70+ accidents he was called to, 23 were talking on a cell phone when they crashed.
Even more serious: a 7 year old was killed at a bus stop in Westminster Wednesday. The driver of an SUV lost control went he bent over to pick up his cell phone.
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WoodySt
Trad climber
Riverside
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2006 - 01:56pm PT
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Possibly adding a large monetary amount to a fine if ticketed due to an infraction while using a cellphone might work. Example: speeding while using a CP. $100.00 fine for speeding add $500.00 for cellphone use. It's becoming a serious problem so we should do something serious about it.
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dfrost7
Social climber
Ca
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"I just returned from the local mall, and this female cellphone issue is out of hand. Everywhere it's yakkitty yak."
"The driver, a MAN in his 40s, was taken to the Westminster Police Department for questioning, and investigators were also questioning witnesses, Woodson said.
"His initial statement was he was reaching for his cell phone and lost control of the car," the officer said. "You really need to pay attention to what you're doing while you're driving." Investigators do not believe alcohol was involved, he said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15958635/
What a freakin sexist thing to post when if you were anywhere in Southern
California this week you heard this all over the news. I drive the freeways
here and there are as many men on their phones as women. IT'S MUCH
SAFER for them to be yaking at the mall than behind the wheel.
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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I don't have a non-cell phone anymore.
I heard one of those Bud Lite commercials today saluting "Mr. Cell Phone Holster Man". Very funny...especially if he's also Mr. Blackberry Holster Man.
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WoodySt
Trad climber
Riverside
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2006 - 06:00pm PT
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Sexist. Oh yeah! Walk through a college campus or the mall or keep an eye on drivers. Women on cellphones outnumber men ten to one. In a recent study of female verbosity, there has been a connection shown between female verbosity and sexual twitches, for want of a better term. This is fun.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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That was truly funny, Woody,("greenhouse gases," etc) though the sisterhood will bring you down for that one.
I don't really see this as a sexually dimorphic issue. Cell abuse knows no ethnic, gender or discernable, other, barriers.
Today they sent the tech squad to my classroom, we were the only room on campus sans Internet. One member of the team seemed like a displaced klingon, or more likely a a yet to be described type of alien. Beautiful, young athletic female, warmup suit unzipped just so, pert blond ponytail streaming out from the back of her color coordinated vinyl baseball hat; and a bluetooth creation the size of a Borg™ mothership encapsulating her right ear. She would crawl under desks and tables, tracing USB lines, talking to the other techs and gawd knows who else, that thing was glowing blue with her pulse, seemed like.
And we were conducting class nearby.
My impression was Neal Stephenson's description of "Gargoyles," in the novel Snowcrash.
One time in Vail I was witness to a classic cellphone car accident. Pickup truck at a stop sign, late model subby wagon with chattering cellphoner (gender withheld) behind. Pickup enters intersection, but is quickly cutoff by by speedy car exiting hotel garage, pickup slams on brakes, subaru acclerates into back of truck, dropping both bumpers into the slush.... and she kept talking on c-phone all the way through it!! Even when they were both out of their rigs!!
I have definitely wanted to launch other peoples annoying cellphones off chair lifts.
I steped up to the summit plateau of Mt Langley, (southern most Ca 14-er) only to find some bonehead (a guy) talking in a loud voice to two different call waited peole on his unit.
Had the same thing happen on top of Mt Tallac.
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WoodySt
Trad climber
Riverside
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2006 - 09:27pm PT
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You could have shoved him off the NE face, and no one would have been the wiser.
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Ouch!
climber
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Woody, you might want to avoid any female belayers till this blows over.
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dfrost7
Social climber
Ca
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Woody, you bonehead. I teach life drawing four hours a stretch. I currently
have, for the first time, an all male class - sixteen guys who, when thir cell
phones ring, would rather answer them than study a female nude five feet
away. I could make similar broad brush strokes. It may be you are soundly
hetero and just DON'T CHECK OUT THE MEN! Don't expect to get a little
somethin any time soon if you're going to talk so stupidly. Just enjoy women
you sound a bit like you spend too much time wandering around the malls
alone. Don't be hatin.
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