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Mobile phones to me are the scourge of the 21st century?
Everyone you see seems to be wandering around with there hand to there lughole!
And what's everyone's views on flaming 'text talk'?

Whatever happened to the 'frying your brain scenario' btw?

Alexander Graham Bell has a lot to answer for!

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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

Technology is neutral - people are the scourge. A woman driving on her own at night being followed by another car in a way to suggest she may be in danger would not agree with you.

As someone once said about weapons, "guns don't kill people, people kill people".

KK

After years of research I reckon the most common opening question when ringing a mobile is....."Where are you?" because the first thing out of the receipients mouth always seems to be...on the bus / train etc etc

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Geordie

Te audire non possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure

I annoy my OH because I turn my mobile off when I want to do something interesting, like gardening... I don't like being contactable 24/7, I like to unplug from the system

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~ What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea ~ Gandhi

Just as we have NO SMOKING zones we should have NO MOBILE PHONES zones in public places! Who the heck wants to listen to other peoples boring ringtones and conversations?

We could have 'Phone police' carrying a bucket of water to drop the offending contraptions into, or some sort of portable mincing machine!

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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

Snadge, you can buy a gadget that you 'zap' at the mobile, and it gives the user a mild electric shock ...

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~ What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea ~ Gandhi

I want one!! Seriously, though - we used to manage perfectly well with landlines and payphones. Who on earth wants or needs to be contactable 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Except me when I'm on call for work and then it's needs not wants.

The thing that gets up my nose is the people who get up petitions against mobile phone masts when they own a mobile themselves.
If we all did that we would have no network!
Ps I only spend about £15 a year on my mobile.

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There is no such thing as truth. People who really know what happened aren't talking. And the people who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up.
Tom Waits

Me too BW, I don't use mine much but I'd rather have one if I break down on a dark night than not

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A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot! (Thomas Edward Brown)

The person who put the "speaker phone" function onto the mp3 music playing phone should be made to listen to an endless loop of a Harrisson Bertwhistle composition.

Kids and teenagers wandering along or sat in a bus/train/waiting-area with their favourite track(s) blaring out.

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What's wrong with Birtwhistle? Stockhoussen!!! better

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There is no such thing as truth. People who really know what happened aren't talking. And the people who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up.
Tom Waits

Fifth rate rubbish.

I sat through a BBC World Premier at the Proms once, wondered before why I was sharing the Royal Albert Hall with a dozen other promenaders.

About five minutes into the work I realised why.

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I did mean rubbish give me Elgar or Mahler anyday

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There is no such thing as truth. People who really know what happened aren't talking. And the people who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up.
Tom Waits

Yeah................it's called a Tazer!

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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

Life wasn't quite so bad when mobile phones were used to make and receive phone calls and nothing else.

You can't watch anything anywhere these days without a dozen walking pimples pointing their bl**dy phones at it filming and photographing.

KK

There's nothing wrong with mobiles. It's some people who are the pests. I wouldn't be without mine. Great comfort toy.

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From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Having a mobile helped in a huge way when my dear and young brother-in-law was killed.
When Mum travels through London on her own, I would worry so much if she did not have her mobile.
When I drive back down country lanes late at night after committee meetings I feel a little more safe if I know i can call Mr H should I have any worries.
They are good, mine is not jammed to my ear, it's just there if I should need it. It spends most of its time on silent!

Technology eh, who'd have it!?

Lest not forget, we are on a digital device right now......

I take my phone down to the allotment - as someone recently suggested, if you get in a bit of a pickle and need help.Hoever, I do keep it on silent, and my conversations tend to be less than 30 seconds anyway - it's a male thing.

Plus, with mine it means I don't have to carry my camera with me every time on the off chance I might spot something interesting and want to share.

As has been said, it's the people that use them inappropriately that make them annoying.

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

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Agreed!

We got new phones a couple of months ago as both stopped working within a week of each other.

It was very hard to get the woman on the phone to understand that all I wanted was a phone that could make and take phone calls and had a camera on it.

She kept saying, "Oh, the 5385 has an mp3 player, and the 6754 has 3G capability, and you can watch tv on the 8972i"

If I wanted to watch tv I'd sit on my sofa and watch it! I have no idea what 3G technology is and I already have a (generic make) mp3 player which is about 4 years old!

I ended up choosing the phone I've got because it's pink and I like pink....

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"Its not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you" - Bruce Wayne

My first mobile phone was given to me by my daughter who works for one of the manufacturers. She gave it to me for my safety as I was spending a lot of time travelling to see to my mother who has altzheimers and was still living in her own home at the time.

This was just after they stopped being the size of a brick . They were very much a "man" thing at the time. I went into a pub one day to see all the phones on the bar, nonchalently placed there to show off that they each had the latest gadget. I proceeded to take the p**s out of them for showing off.

I was the one red-faced when mine went off (in my handbag) .

I went to a "no-mobiles" pub last night (to a Jazz Night).

Personally, all I want from my mobile is to make and receive calls. I don't have it permanently attached to me. It doesn't have a camera or any other "enhancements". This may change soon as I need a new phone. I really only want the facilities I have now, but I've a feeling that a new phone will have more whether I want them or not .

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"I prefer rogues to imbeciles as they sometimes take a rest" (Alexander Dumas)

Now, Crackberries - there's another story entirely.......

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Updated - 25th August

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definately a male thing!!! totally agree with you on this one

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