Dear People Who Talk on Their Phone in Public Using Speaker Phone,
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Dear People Who Talk on Their Phone in Public Using Speaker Phone,
What the hell is *wrong* with you?
Sincerely,
The General Public@EdCates I seriously want to know why people do this. Like why actually? They know they're in public. They know they're blasting their conversation for everyone and everyone can hear what should be private. They know also the other person has to listen to everything because the mic is boosted as much as the speaker is. Yet they do it anyway.
What is going on in their brains?
Are these people actually human or are they, in fact, aliens in disguise who don't realize that human society is different from society on Garkon 8?
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Dear People Who Talk on Their Phone in Public Using Speaker Phone,
What the hell is *wrong* with you?
Sincerely,
The General Public -
Dear People Who Talk on Their Phone in Public Using Speaker Phone,
What the hell is *wrong* with you?
Sincerely,
The General PublicMany moons ago, there was in a train restaurant car this legal attorney, who kept on making phone calls in those public premises. No speaker, but his own part was loud.
At one stage he was talking to his client. It was about some long-standing legal dispute, and the attorney was not at all optimistic about their success. But his plan was for them two to go see the other part one more time that same day and make one Hail Mary pass kind final threatening bluff. If this would not make it, they would bow out from the matter.
Names etc. were mentioned. Did I say it all was very loud? You could not help hearing and being disturbed.
After several decades, I still regret I didn’t go to the next railcar, find out the other part’s phone number and give him a call.
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Dear People Who Talk on Their Phone in Public Using Speaker Phone,
What the hell is *wrong* with you?
Sincerely,
The General Public@EdCates I will never forgive reality TV for causing this madness.
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@EdCates these are same people that put the bottom of their phone horizontal to their ear and talk (on speaker phone)
At what point did society collectively forget how to use a phone properly?
This is one of the things that really annoys me
@viralobscurity @EdCates My theory is that it might be because of the 'smartphones cause brain tumours' stories that sprung up not too long after they became really popular.
Lots of people could still believe that nonsense so it might be why they hold their phones away from their heads and don't put them up against their ear on calls.
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@EdCates I blame Steve Jobs.
@antiaall3s @EdCates He was already dead when they showed "courage"....
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Dear People Who Talk on Their Phone in Public Using Speaker Phone,
What the hell is *wrong* with you?
Sincerely,
The General Public@EdCates there are many many things wrong with me, but the pertinent fact is that the phone hardware DOES NOT work, many phones are simply unable to make a normal phone call in the normal position.
The receiver volume is too low to compete with urban noise. I can't hear them.
The noise cancellation applied to the microphone also cancels the voice it's supposed to pickup. They can't hear me.
Going to speaker phone alleviates both of these problems. BTW I fucking hate phones and phone calls.
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Dear People Who Talk on Their Phone in Public Using Speaker Phone,
What the hell is *wrong* with you?
Sincerely,
The General Public@EdCates you're a really funny dude
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@ramiro
OMG I should start doing that. -
Dear People Who Talk on Their Phone in Public Using Speaker Phone,
What the hell is *wrong* with you?
Sincerely,
The General Public@EdCates There's a person who frequently does this in a small nature area where I like to hike. Drives me bonkers!
Fortunately I can hear them coming, and I can switch trails. -
@EdCates there are many many things wrong with me, but the pertinent fact is that the phone hardware DOES NOT work, many phones are simply unable to make a normal phone call in the normal position.
The receiver volume is too low to compete with urban noise. I can't hear them.
The noise cancellation applied to the microphone also cancels the voice it's supposed to pickup. They can't hear me.
Going to speaker phone alleviates both of these problems. BTW I fucking hate phones and phone calls.
@InarticulateOtter Headphones are the traditional solution and even more effective than speakers.
Headsets even, although I find phone microphones rather impressive. -
@EdCates there are many many things wrong with me, but the pertinent fact is that the phone hardware DOES NOT work, many phones are simply unable to make a normal phone call in the normal position.
The receiver volume is too low to compete with urban noise. I can't hear them.
The noise cancellation applied to the microphone also cancels the voice it's supposed to pickup. They can't hear me.
Going to speaker phone alleviates both of these problems. BTW I fucking hate phones and phone calls.
@InarticulateOtter @EdCates
To be honest with you I am kinda not buying this as a reason.
I have travelled A LOT on public buses and even in an above average noisy bus using the phone in a conventional manner works fine.
Also the circumstance under which most people get annoyed with public speaker phone calls is when it in a public place is quiet enough that you can hear the person having the call loud enough that it becomes intrusive so that whole it too noisy reason doesn't fly. -
@InarticulateOtter @EdCates
To be honest with you I am kinda not buying this as a reason.
I have travelled A LOT on public buses and even in an above average noisy bus using the phone in a conventional manner works fine.
Also the circumstance under which most people get annoyed with public speaker phone calls is when it in a public place is quiet enough that you can hear the person having the call loud enough that it becomes intrusive so that whole it too noisy reason doesn't fly.@raymierussell @InarticulateOtter
Oy now, let's not go denying others' lived experiences because they don't match our own.
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Dear People Who Talk on Their Phone in Public Using Speaker Phone,
What the hell is *wrong* with you?
Sincerely,
The General PublicTinnitus.
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Dear People Who Talk on Their Phone in Public Using Speaker Phone,
What the hell is *wrong* with you?
Sincerely,
The General PublicWait, hold on,
so you're saying we're not supposed to join in on the conversation? -
Dear People Who Talk on Their Phone in Public Using Speaker Phone,
What the hell is *wrong* with you?
Sincerely,
The General Public@EdCates You do know 30% of people are completely unaware that anyone else exists?
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@EdCates You do know 30% of people are completely unaware that anyone else exists?
@dpiponi That would at least explain why Trump's approval rating never seems to go below that mark.
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Dear People Who Talk on Their Phone in Public Using Speaker Phone,
What the hell is *wrong* with you?
Sincerely,
The General Public@EdCates Sorry. No cell phone use will ever disturb me as much as a woman in the stall next to me at a public bathroom sexy talking her boyfriend and snapping photos with her phone (presumably snapping photos, not just playing the camera sounds, I didn't wait around to find out)
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@EdCates last time when I had such situation I replied to question asked by the other side.
A woman holding phone looked weird at me and shout at me "how I dare to be so rude". I replied to her that speakerphone call in public transport is ruder...
She went red, ended call and dropped at the next stop.
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@EdCates I actually love this but I’m very chismoso and will occasionally join their conversations if I need additional details
@ramiro @EdCates yes you are fucking welcome to. Please. In fact, I strongly believe all conversations in public are moderately inclusive, in the ambient context. When the other is *not* on speaker, how jarring to loudly be subject to half a conversation? Should we *not* talk in public? You would rather half the conversation be missing? I would rather you interject.
