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Mobile phones are the work of the devil

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

08:38 / 19.03.04

Whoah! That was exciting! But I've realised... I've become one of the people I hate. I've become the sort of fuckwit who, while talking on a mobile, loses all ability to relate to the outside world.

I was just out walking the dogs in the cemetery, when I walked past a friend of mine who works there. I waved to him, and therefore MUST have registered the fact that he was chainsawing down a tree. However, when I saw one of the dogs run off the other way at the sound of the saw, I ran back under the tree, only to hear "NO! NO! GET OUT OF THE FUCKING WAY!!!" and jump back just in time to avoid... well, dying, I suppose.

This is proof that mobiles are evil. Fuck people using them in cars... pedestrians shouldn't be allowed to either.

Or maybe I'm just a twat. Who can tell?

Oh well, his last words to me as I left were "I'll buy you a pint later, Mr 9-lives", so this nearly getting killed thing's not all bad.

Nobody's girl

08:47 / 19.03.04

I gave up my mobile, it's fucking great.

rizla mission

10:18 / 19.03.04

I've never had a mobile, it's fucking better.

Saveloy

11:32 / 19.03.04

Hang on, it sounds like it was your chainsaw-happy pal that was being negligent here - had he not erected a plastic tape boundary or bollards or somesuch to prevent members of the public from walking into the danger zone?

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

11:40 / 19.03.04

It would, at least, have been a thoughtful and considerate place to buy the farm. No messy transport arrangements, just dig a new hole, and in you go.

Jack The Bodiless

11:44 / 19.03.04

Mobile phones are fantastic, and are both the present and the future. Carrying on relationships via mobile phones is shit, pointless, and stupid, especially via text message (which is the only medium of communication more obstructive to actual communication of ideas than a message board).

And stoatman, no offence dude, but as the King Of Untogether Shit you'd probably have missed the danger even if you'd left your phone at home...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

11:54 / 19.03.04

Technically, Saveloy, he should have... but as he himself pointed out, it was me, I'd spoken to him, and I obviously KNEW what he was doing. With nobody else around, I guess he felt, logically, that warnings weren't necessary. Obviously he doesn't know me well enough!

And yeah, JtB, you probably have a point... I did once escape a mugging (with knives and everything) in Amsterdam purely because I was too fucked to get what was going on... in the end, the guy stomped off in a huff, with the words "fucking tourists"! Ten minutes later, we all shat ourselves.

w1rebaby

11:56 / 19.03.04

Maybe you should get one with radar, that shouts "WATCH WHERE YOU'RE FUCKING GOING" in your ear when large objects move towards you at speed.

More gadgetry, not less, is always the solution.

Goodness Gracious Meme

12:30 / 19.03.04

Or maybe you should get an elf with radar, that shouts "WATCH WHERE YOU'RE FUCKING GOING" in your ear when large objects move towards you at speed.

8===>Q: alyn

12:59 / 19.03.04

No, robots, even robotic cell phones, are better than elves.

Goodness Gracious Meme

13:20 / 19.03.04

yes but the robot and the phone would get all into each other, and neglect stoatie's communication/spacecadet needs.

yr safer with elves.

8===>Q: alyn

13:26 / 19.03.04

There must be some middle ground.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

13:36 / 19.03.04

Well, as I'm sure Bengali in Platforms would agree, seeing as she's posting from MY flat while I'm at work, without mobiles our day would have been seventeen different types of unpleasant, and unworkable.

Goodness Gracious Meme

13:38 / 19.03.04

well yes. I'd be in Aylesbury by now, crying.

(Massy, there is no middle ground, this is a dichotomy, fool)

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

16:39 / 19.03.04

Here's a good use for mobile phones, and you don't even have to turn it on: pretend to talk into it while stealing things! I've done it plenty of times. I'll walk out of Barnes and Noble with two or three books in my hand chattering into my phone. If anybody attempts to talk to me I look at them crossly in a "can't you see I'm on the damn phone?" sort of way and keep walking until I'm out the door.

This may not work with cars.

rizla mission

17:48 / 19.03.04

No, robots, even robotic cell phones, are better than elves

fuck that.

Elves all the way.

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