Phone Bashing! Wanna LOL?
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Originally posted by StrangeDaze
Seriously, though, if you think about it, isn't the motive behind these phone bashings pretty much the same as that which drives morons to key "nice" cars or park next to you when you're at the back of the lot all alone?
Seriously, though, if you think about it, isn't the motive behind these phone bashings pretty much the same as that which drives morons to key "nice" cars or park next to you when you're at the back of the lot all alone?
A "nice" car sitting at the back of a parking lot isn't hurting anyone.
Whereas people who wander the streets and sidewalks and aisles of supermarkets jabbering into cell phones about nothing important annoy everyone around them. They bump into strangers because they're distracted, and they pace back and forth, getting in the way of other people. Also cell phones ringing in movie theaters anger me intensely, and don't get me started on using a cell while driving. You know how wrong that is.
Face it: Cell phones are the devil.
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It's still basically the same thing. Someone else is doing something in public that, while perfectly legal, is something that you and I don't like, so they need to be punished by having their personal property harmed or destroyed simply because you and I don't like it.
Consider this: in pretty much all of the cases you listed, it's not the cell phone, but the person that is the problem. A cell phone ringing in the middle of a movie is just as rude as that guy sitting next to you who can't stop talking to his girl during the movie.
Here's my point: There are morons everywhere. Take away their cell phones and they are still morons.
Consider this: in pretty much all of the cases you listed, it's not the cell phone, but the person that is the problem. A cell phone ringing in the middle of a movie is just as rude as that guy sitting next to you who can't stop talking to his girl during the movie.
Here's my point: There are morons everywhere. Take away their cell phones and they are still morons.
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I agree with Cbeyond though, you can't compare this with keying a car or something like that.......
It is arrogance and a lack of respect and/or thought for others that makes people on cell phones annoy others. Very different to the jealousy that is usually the driving force behind people keying cars!
I do agree though that if you take the cell phone away they are still morons!!
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by tokyo_james
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I agree with Cbeyond though, you can't compare this with keying a car or something like that.......
It is arrogance and a lack of respect and/or thought for others that makes people on cell phones annoy others.
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I agree with Cbeyond though, you can't compare this with keying a car or something like that.......
It is arrogance and a lack of respect and/or thought for others that makes people on cell phones annoy others.
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Originally posted by StrangeDaze
For what it's worth, I might have thought these videos were funnier (still wrong, but funnier) had they started with a scene that demonstrated the person's arrogance, lack of respect, thoughtlessness, etc. Give us the cause and effect otherwise it just seems mindless. Take the case of the guy leaning into his BMW. He wasn't even using the phone in public, but he was involved with a BMW and a cell phone, so he must have done something wrong?
For what it's worth, I might have thought these videos were funnier (still wrong, but funnier) had they started with a scene that demonstrated the person's arrogance, lack of respect, thoughtlessness, etc. Give us the cause and effect otherwise it just seems mindless. Take the case of the guy leaning into his BMW. He wasn't even using the phone in public, but he was involved with a BMW and a cell phone, so he must have done something wrong?
