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CreamyPretzel's TOP-10 Reasons Why Cellphones Are Great!

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Started 13 years ago by CreamyPretzel
Latest reply from Whiterabbit-uk

CreamyPretzel
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10 - I don't have enough brain tumors as it is.

9 - As I take a bite of my Jumbo Jack at Jack-In-The-Box, I really enjoy hearing the guy at the table next to me discussing his recent hemorrhoid operation.

8 - Driving on a freeway full of people who are paying more attention to texting than they are to steering makes the trip much more exciting!

7 - Why get games free on THIS website, when I can pay $7.99 for a game app for my cellphone and then pay $10,000 for an electron microscope so that I can actually see the game to play it?

6 - The cellphone comes in handy if you are sitting in the bathroom and come up with a brilliant posting for Twitter.

5 - I can make crank phone calls to people in Mongolia, and it doesn't cost me anything extra.

4 - It's a quick and easy way to notify a friend when GOTD actually decides to post a game on their Game Giveaway site.

3 - Cellphones are great for testing Laws of Gravity from atop a skyscraper, or for testing the pulverizing abilities of a steamroller.

2 - While sitting in a movie theater, hearing annoying ringtones helps break up the monotony of listening to the actors voices in the flick you just paid 12 bucks to see.

1 - They are conveniently shaped so that the guy in the library yelling on the phone can easily follow your instructions on where he should put his cellphone.

Posted 13 years ago #
Inas
Member

Cell phones do have their pluses and minuses - I use them primarily for potential emergency purposes - if I get stuck somewhere on the road and need to call for help, etc., though I do very much enjoy my iPhone - more than any of my other cell phones to date - playing games, surfing the net, watching funny videos...

What did we ever do before cell phones were invented? Hard to imagine indeed.

Posted 13 years ago #
copmom
Member

What did we ever do? Well, we had fewer accidents on the road.. the only time we've had a close call (like an oncoming car in my lane), is when the other driver is blabbing on a cell phone. People paid attention to their driving. They didn't have to report each and every move they make like: "I'm in the post office at the moment". People actually answered their land line phones! When I leave the house I don't want to be anywhere near a phone! If there's an accident, everyone else has a cell phone so let them make the call! Plus we don't get any reception where we live anyhow!

Posted 13 years ago #
Inas
Member

You do make some good points, CopMom - though cell phones do come in very handy for people who are stuck on the road (after all, cars do break down sometimes) - and I would never ever want to rely on others to make the call for me if I need help (not with all the weirdos and crazy people who are out there nowadays. LOL!

So, even though cell phones can be a distraction (as you rightly say), cell phones also do have their advantages and good points - as they say, we don't want to throw out the baby with the bath water.

By the way, the cell phone distractions are due to people's irresponsible use of the cell phones, and not a direct cause of cell phones themselves - it's just like guns and weapons - the danger in using these items is when people use them recklessly.

Posted 13 years ago #
CreamyPretzel
Member

As you can probably tell by my list, I do not like cell phones at all. I did have one in the mid 1990s when it was $50 for 200 minutes a month and 25 cents a minute after that. I feel like CopMom.....I don't need to be bothered when I am out. And besides, if I wanted to be connected to everybody I know 24-hours a day, I would live in a freakin' commune.

Posted 13 years ago #
copmom
Member

Something else to think about.. there's more and more evidence that constant use of cell phones can lead to brain tumors, etc. Heck, it's not supposed to be safe living in a house directly near all those electric towers. If you have a lot of static on your car radios when passing those you'd know what I mean.. bet it does the same thing to our brains!

Posted 13 years ago #
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru

Hey Copmom, my wife and me have refused to buy cellphones for this very reason. I read some research on it many years ago, but i believe the Cellphone companies have tried to quash most evidence, usually by non peer reviewed articles. Gotta go otherwise we will miss our coach to Magic Kingdom

Posted 13 years ago #
goodgotd
Member

I'm helped in my decision not to get a cellphone by the fact I live in a dead zone for service. (back side of a hill from the towers, and dug into the hillside) And we don't *have* anyone to call if the car breaks. if not for that, if I could get a no-plan cell that doesn't ever have the minutes expire, I'd get one to stash under the seat in the Saturn and set it up to trickle charge until needed.

OTOH, terri's daughter over in yoncalla just dumped the landline entirely since they all use cellphones. Only.

She gave us a nice feature set, fairly new 3 handset + answering machine V-Tech cordless phone set since she didn't want to just throw them out. we use them more for an intercom than actual calling, but that's beside the point.

And they use the wi-fi from the folks across the street (with permission) for what little internet they use.

(I do still keep one hardwired, phone-line powered handset hooked up for power outages.)

As for those high voltage AC lines- take a burned out but unbroken florescent lamp bulb under 'em and watch it light up. fun.

Posted 13 years ago #
CreamyPretzel
Member

I think what people in general don't realize about cellphones is this:

A cell tower sends out a strong signal so it can reach all phones for many miles, and you can hear the person you are talking to. But it does NOT reach out and "grab" the signal from your cell phone when YOU talk. Your phone has to send a strong signal in order for that signal to reach the tower. And the phone does not know where the tower is, so it sends the signal in all directions, including straight into your head.

There are many people who don't want to stand too close to a microwave oven when it is on, because they are not sure if it might harm them in some way. Yet those same people will put a cell phone right up against their ear for hours every day.

Some people think that if cell phones ARE dangerous, that they can alleviate the danger by using a separate ear piece, and wearing the phone on their belt. Well, if it turns out that cell phones CAN cause tumors, I certainly hate to think of what could be damaged by wearing one on my belt while I use it!

Posted 13 years ago #
Archangel
Member

When I was a kid when we sat down at the diner table and the phone rang dad forbid anyone to get up and answer it. He said that if it was important they would call back. Life was at a much more relaxed pace back then. I wished it was that way now.

Posted 13 years ago #
copmom
Member

Archangel... you've just hit on one of my pet peeves. Invariably whenever I'm putting food on the plates or just sitting down to eat the dang phone rings! Let the machine take it!

Posted 13 years ago #
Archangel
Member

That was back in the 50's and 60's. My father never carried a cell phone and wouldn't have one. If he was alive today I'm sure he'd preach to me about mine because I carry one 24/7 LOL but really he was right, there are times that we should have just our own time. (BTW when I posted earlier it was from my cell phone LOL).

Posted 13 years ago #
The Archsangel
Member

Archangel is right. He would even sleep with his if he could.lol

Posted 13 years ago #
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru

That happens to us as well copmom; virtually every meal time we get calls from salesmen or other unsolicited calls. It really annoys me.

As for cell phones, the only time I've ever owned a cell phone was when I wored as a motorcycle courier. I read too much research on the negative aspects of microwaves while I was doing post graduate work that I've been put off using them forever.

Unfortunately mobile phones are a multi billion dollar buisness and consequently too much rouge research has tended to negate the genuine research that can be found in the peer reviewed research periodicals. (I can attest to big companies trying to quash or falsify research because I was offered money by a well known British power provider while a researcher at a British university for my research into acid rain back in the late 80's. The strings attached to the money was basically to ignore any results that could indicate their industry was a contributary factor for increased levels of acidity. (b.t.w. I declined the money)

The detrimental effects of long term use of mobiles has yet to be proven; but I'm not going to be one of the unfortunates that find too late that their brains have been fried. (besides I've got enough problems with my thought processes due to the opiates that I have to take)

Posted 13 years ago #
copmom
Member

Can you imagine all the fried brains that are going to be discovered from these? Just think..when we drive under power lines the car radio suddenly goes static.. those are 'waves' in the air. These phones are picking up those 'waves'. What are people really doing to their brains?? We've got enough going on with information overload, accidents happening from people being distracted while on their cell phones, what next?

Posted 13 years ago #
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru

It's a very insiduous thing, and will probably take many years for it to becom obvious, but then it may be confused with many of the problems associated with growing old. apparently it's those that tend to have long conversations that are more at risk.

Posted 13 years ago #

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