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Try a long distance relationship sometime.  You'll appreciate your cell a lot more.
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Exactly. It's easier to pay a flat rate each month than to have to run up HUGE long distance phone bills.

Although I have to agree that they should not be used in places that are supposed to be quiet.

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this is an actual quote that I heard once when i was walking to class ....there were these two girls behind me, and they were talking..one said this: "I was like going through my bag like yelling WHERE THE HELL IS MY CELL PHONE? and I like realized I was like talking on it"..........



no further words are needed
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omg....::) lol  :)

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I once saw a couple of girls at school walking to their next class together, talking on their cell phones.
After a while I realised they were talking to each other.
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I've seen something similar to this.  I was on a bus and I heard one girl say "I'm on the bus, where are you?"  "You're on a bus too?  Hey there you are!, Come and sit up here with me".  By now they were within sight of one another but they still talked to each other whilst they sorted out where they were sitting.

I have a mobile phone but it is purely for emergencies.  If I'm away from my desk at work then I take my phone in case my children's school or nursery need to contact me (people at work can use my answer phone  :D )  I also have my phone on in the car going home so my husband can phone if necessary.  Although the conversation has gone  him "Where are you?" me "Just parking the car in the garage"

So I think mobiles are a necessary evil.  I use one for emergencies only and definitely switch it off (or ringer off) in meetings, theatre etc.

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Have your car break down on a interstate highway on a summer day where the temp is 98 degrees with a heat index of over 105 degrees and no shade around and the closest exit over 3 miles away in an area where a lot of people have "vanished" (with either bodies showing up later or never to be seen again).  You'll be plenty happy to have a cell phone on hand.

There are a lot of idiots with cell phones, and sometimes I wish they could be made to go through some kind of training for the proper use of cell phones...  But cell phones can be useful, especially if you have a sick family member, or if your car breaks down or you're in an accident.  I have a friend who was biking in a secluded area and had an accident which left him with his ankle badly broken.  Because he had a cell phone he was able to get help a lot quicker than if he had waited in hopes of someone wandering along.  And look at the use of cell phones during the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks...


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Yes Whimsys Ghost, it's sad that those bunch of jerks tend to ruin it for us....the ones that use them responsibly :(

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Free long distance is great ;D

Of course, cell phone use should come with some form of common courtesy.  For example, cell phones should never be on in:

1.  my classroom (oh, the cell phones I have confiscated...)
2.  movie theaters/playhouses
3.  anyplace "quiet"

And people should be smart enough not to talk aloud about stuff like personal hygiene or potentially "juicy" details of relationships and what not :P  Nobody wants to hear about your yeast infection, lady :P
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>:( >:(Well said,and another thing---keep them the &%$# out of public libraries!Cheers!

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Plus, they increase one's risk of brain tumours.

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No they don't. But they do increase your risk of being involved in a car accident or of being physically attacked when you use one at the movies.

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or of being physically attacked when you use one at the movies.
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When you're in the same theater as me, anyway ;D

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I once saw a couple of girls at school walking to their next class together, talking on their cell phones.
After a while I realised they were talking to each other.
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I saw that on "Clueless".  I find that so pointless and a waste of minutes.

Anyway, I find guilty of talking on my cell sometimes while I'm driving. But (and this is a big "but") I only talk on my phone while I'm driving when I'm in a bit of an emergency such as running late for something, and I keep it BRIEF---not one of those drivers who have long conversations while driving. There's a difference.

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Like that's going to stop people doing it. Using a mobile phone while driving has been an offence here since they became popularised, but no one cares. Like anything to do with driving offences (speeding, drink driving, running red lights, general automobile stupidity), no one thinks they'll get caught, then when they do, they complain about "revenue collection".

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people should stop walking and talking.They're gonna bump their heads one day! :o >:(


Howard
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Then you can just laugh at them. ;)

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Then you can just laugh at them. ;)
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Then you can bump their own heads with their cellphone.maybe smash it in pieces. :D

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Here's something to think about:
Last month in the New York Post's "Weird but True" column, there was a story of this lady who had an accident while she was on the cell phone. She crashed into a CINGULAR WIRELESS store!!!!

I know it's not supposed to be funny but I nearly died of laughter on that one.
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That's funny! I think fate might of played a role.

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Fags.
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Hehehe...every time I saw that word while reading The Hobbit and LOTR I couldn't help but snicker ;D

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At least it's not as bad as having everyone smoke around you.
Lots of people at my school smoke, even one or two of my friends. So I cut out a picture of a dying lung cancer patient from a medical journal and showed it to them. Heck, the only reason why I didn't want to start dating one of the lads I know is that he smokes (urrgh!).
Which does everyone hate more, fags or phones?
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I agree with you on that one @sskicker.

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I agree with the people who are against the actual users not the phone.The users make the phone look bad.Now I dont think they should be called "cell phones" maybe portable entertainment centers.With all the features like camera phones,internet accessibilty etc. it defeats the purpose.
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call it anything you want.Everybody just wants to be special.I see it all around. ::)Nothing new. >:(



Howard