Men! How Manly Is Your Cellphone?

[Fulcrum]

http://www.doubleviking.com/-man-up-your-life-cell-phones--2190-p.html

[Spock]

LOL

I have to send that to my younger brother. His phone is just not manly.

[blackieC]

I didn't think that that was funny.

How funny can gospel truth be?


I actually applied all of those rules on my last cell phone purchase.

"What kind of features are you looking for in a phone, sir?

"I want a phone that allows me to call people, and for people to call me."

"Would you like to hear about our unlimited texting and internet plan?"

"No."

"But if you go with this plan, you can download all kinds of great ringtones."

"NO."

"Would you like a phone that can play back MP3's?"


"AW, HELL NO! Just give me the ugly cheap one that functions as a FUCKING PHONE!"

"Yes sir."





Still, the truth of the matter is that there is no such thing as a manly cell phone.

There hasn't been a butch mobile since Motorola stopped making those ten pound bricks with large antennas. I miss those days. The sheer inconvenience of lugging one of those monsters around assured that no one that didn't really need it, didn't have one.

You sure as hell never had to stand behind some brainless git in line at the grocery store while they yamered away about thier useless existance into one of those big bitches.

[Tim Halligan]

There hasn't been a butch mobile since Motorola stopped making those ten pound bricks with large antennas. I miss those days. The sheer inconvenience of lugging one of those monsters around assured that no one that didn't really need it, didn't have one.

You sure as hell never had to stand behind some brainless git in line at the grocery store while they yamered away about thier useless existance into one of those big bitches.


I still have my analogue "brick".

Double-duty device...

Communications and truncheon.

Fuck the techno-weenie stuff.

It's a phone, for suck's sake...

:Twisted:

Cheers,
Tim

[jerryskid]

My cell phone RINGS....then I talk to people.....
no games
no internet
no text....

the way I like it....

[bunnerabb]

Ringtones make me want to kill.

Kill.

KILL.

KILL!

[Starfucker]

It surprises me how kids can be so excited over a fucking phone. Which brings me to... How did the cellphone kill the music? Kids aren't into music anymore, they're into cellphones. I waited for a new record to come out, they wait for a new nokia. Why do you think there are so many cellphones in music videos these days.

kids should learn how uncool and nerdy those tiny gay phones are.

[McAllister]

When my cell phone rings it sounds like a rotary phone.

I want a phone that is: easy and intuitive to use (a minimum of sub-menus and shit); works great as a PHONE - fuck the camera, text, games, etc. bullshit; won't break when dropped.

Panasonic has found a niche by making durable laptops - how come no one is making a durable phone?

M

[CurtZHP]

My cell phone RINGS....then I talk to people.....
no games
no internet
no text....

the way I like it....



That's my phone all the way. It's got the generic ring, the generic voice mail greeting, and I only use the headset thingy when driving in NJ, where talking on your cell phone while driving is illegal. (Feel free to scream at your kids, apply makeup, drink coffee, and stuff greasy hamburgers in your face while behind the wheel, though.)

I have no patience for those stupid earpieces that make the user look like he's talking to himself in public.

[gabby garcia]

but I'm bettin you wouldn't pass up one o these
:icon_eek:

[CurtZHP]

but I'm bettin you wouldn't pass up one o these
:icon_eek:



:lol:

I would not, however, want to see most of the people I come in contact with naked.

[Johnny]

I have to have a detailed voice mail message for my clients. Other than that, I have an ancient phone that rings in a most obnoxious manner.

I don't like the Lt. Uhura earpiece thing either. Call them back later.

[CurtZHP]

My other telephone pet peeve is when I get someone's voice mail, and it says.....

"Hi, this is "John." Blah, blah, blah, blah......."


I'm thinking, "No, it's not. If it were John, I'd be talking to John, not listening to this stupid message."

[st robert]

next up we have people who bring phones into restaurants and make sure to have the most fucked ring tone cranked to 11 so everybody knows how important they are, then they can’t even be bothered to order with the rest of the table because they are busy solving what can only be assumed as world hunger or something that crucial.

i’ll leave it to your imagination as to what i think of those little borg-like implant thingies that clip on their ear and make the wearer appear to lose touch with anybody else in the room. they essentially walk around talking to themselves and we assume there is someone on the other end of the conversation. i have suspicions that the earpieces don’t actually work, but look just stupid enough to lure the tommy bahama sharper image crowd out for some good ol’ fashioned one-upmanship from the cell phone feaux pas division of marketing.

ok, you can use your imagination now.

i have to go make lunch, but will return soon.

here i quote myself, from a blog i wrote a while ago.

my phone: small, no camera, stock voice mail, which cuts off the caller at two minutes flat. this annoys the shit out of a long-winded drummer friend of mine, but i like it for just that reason.

in a nod to my vagina, the phone meows when it rings.

i'm okay with this.

rob

[Scodiddly]

I need to get around to making a parts order from Mouser, but... here's the new housing for my Bluetooth headset:

http://www.scotthelmke.com/handset-raw.jpg

$10 at American Science & Surplus! How could I possibly leave the store without it?

[burnsy]

Being of the younger generation I suppose my opinion on this could be different. I owned 4 phones in my time all fast working and tough as pig sh*t my latest one I got given for free which has some kind of shit on it but I just use the call feature. Phones annoy the hell out of me and the way everyone in work competes to have the biggest pda and the latest ring tones.

[lebouche]

I'm allergic to phone calls that last more than 10 seconds if work related...I want to know what the person wants and when, where how and how much.
I am also allergic to voice mail...I call it and press delete until I am told I have no messeges. I get a missed call for *****sake! I know you rang!:Mad:
I gave up having a mobile for three months this year...I was still paying for it (or my A/V company was), my biz partner decreed that because I had lost it I should pay for it....fair enough but I took advantage of having no money and decided to go without.
My main client/bread provider laid down the law recently and a few of the people that work with me were getting stressed so I had to concede,but it was amazing to only be contacted when I had time to check my email. I have since treated myself to a very manly phone with a tarzan ringtone.
I will hopefully give it up again as soon as possible...its a filthy habit.
Phones and music don't mix well for me...

[Unfcknblvbl]

Ringtones make me want to kill.

Kill.

KILL.

KILL!

Me, too, but maybe it's due to my ringtone being the intro. to the MANLY "Dead Skin Mask."

[volthause]

And if you wear your phone on your belt, you are seriously going to fellate another man willingly and with great vigor.

PUT THE FUCKING PHONE IN YOUR POCKET!

[Fulcrum]

And if you wear your phone on your belt, you are seriously going to fellate another man willingly and with great vigor.

PUT THE FUCKING PHONE IN YOUR POCKET!

Amen. If you have a belt clip or a holster, that does not make you a fucking gunslinger.