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   Andrew Klossner, Jun 14th, 2004 @ 3:49pm

   
   

   Same old question: how is this different from two people in the next row having that same private conversation? Clearly it's not the words themselves that are bothering you, so what is it?
   
   I think you go nuts because you hear only *half* of a private conversation. As a society, we need to get over this.
   

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   Mikester, Jun 14th, 2004 @ 4:08pm

   
   

   For me, it's not the 'words' but the volume. Unfortunately, those on the mobile phone tend to be quite a bit louder by themselves than two people sitting beside each other.
   

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   Fight back.

   

   Alex Halavais, Jun 14th, 2004 @ 7:30pm

   
   

   Cees Hamelink has the right idea: he insinuates himself into the conversation. I don't have the nerve, though sometimes I wish I did.

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   Jeff R, Jun 14th, 2004 @ 8:29pm

   
   

   Of course, I'm not overly concerned about keeping the fact that my plane has landed and I'm ready to be picked up at the airport from the other passengers on the plane. I'm sure that most of them have figured that fact out for themselves...
   

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   SIDETONE

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jun 14th, 2004 @ 9:39pm

   
   

   Back in the day, Bell (and company) had to figure out how to keep people from YELLING into their phones -- the stronger signal would damage their equipment. Their solution: pipe some of the customer's voice back into their own earpiece. People yell because they hear themselves less than they're accustomed to when they don't have a piece of plastic shoved up to their ear. (This is one reason why people with hearing loss often talk louder than they need to.) CELL PHONE MAKERS need to put SIDETONE in MORE OF THEIR PHONES, and then PEOPLE WILL YELL INTO THEIR CELL PHONES LESS.
   [wait, why is everyone on the plane looking at me?]

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   Not the same situation but funny.

   

   Rootman, Jun 15th, 2004 @ 6:53am

   
   

   Once while visiting the cinema there was a dude in one of the stalls screaming at a business associate over the cell phone. Not just the normal cell phone shout, this guy was venting, actually SCREAMING!
   They guy in the next stall had enough of it and kicked the stall door and screamed back to shut up. The guy next to me in the next urinal joined in harrasing the guy, in a 'mob moment' we all joined in yelling at the guy and banging the stall doors and walls loud enough so his caller could hear; "Hey does he know you're taking a dump while you're calling him?", "Hey dumba$$, some of us are actually trying to concentrate!". Suddenly, every stall flushed almost at once. The redfaced dude stumbled out and ran out of the restroom - kinda creepy that he didn't even wash his hands.
   We were all pretty satisfied that we had evicted the nuisance and everyone smiled, chuckled and nodded as we left, satisfied that at least this bastion of 'non cell phoneism' was again preserved.

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   Re: Not the same situation but funny.

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jun 15th, 2004 @ 11:08am

   
   

   I'd rather hear a man screaming about business than hear the "gurgle, fart, plop" that is normally a man's business in a public restroom.

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   blacknight, Aug 21st, 2005 @ 5:20pm

   
   

   hey dudes

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   Re: Not the same situation but funny.

   

   blacknight, Aug 21st, 2005 @ 5:22pm

   
   

   your not that funny!

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