Blue-Tooth People, what's it all about...

[bridgit]

so we're in this lounge (clearly not this one) having a quick one, everyone taking a break round lunch time, and this guy walks in; looks prolly too much like a tele-vangelis, 65+/-, tanned...hollywood tanned, trimmed little nearly-pencil mustache, dockers & a striped dress shirt ironed so tight i swear you could cut a diamond on that thing...sits down, with his Blue-Tooth (i am borg) thingy hanging out his ear, orders a :shrug: Coors in a bottle, requests a glass, pours...and just sits there, not drinking per se...again everyone else not so 'yo-ho yo-ho...', but socializing casually, light conversation filling the room...

then he gets a call on his Blue-Tooth...as though it could be foretold...

and proceeds to inundate the room with his "1.3 million dollar" deals he is putting together, "You need to do this Tony, and you need to do that, TONY! When I was a younger man I yada-fucking-yada (whatever the hell he was talking about nobody cared)..." all over the freaking place up & into the rafters, so here are my quesions...aside from maybe the obvious ones...

are these Blue-Tooth People aware of how loud they sometimes sound? are they as loud as they are because they have no faith that the technology can replicate their voices back to Tony without having to talk so damn loud? are they doing this to let the rest of us know what we don't need to know? do they think that we should know what they are doing?

or, OR...

are they, the Blue-Tooth People, the new 'sony walkman people' of olden times that used to sing so outrageously OFF & OUT of tune as to make bluebirds crap hummingbird turds?

x(

[Bunny]

1. I don't know, but they sure look dorky.

Really dorky.

[bridgit]

2. it makes you wonder, huh, i hardly ever see the behavior match...

the sophistication of the technology = dorky

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

3. My cellphone came with a free one. I don't use it.

It has this fucking stupid blue light that never goes off. I'm ADD, the last thing I need is a perpetual blue light out of the corner of my left eye, while I'm driving.

As for the blue tooth people, I've noticed that many of them seem to be assholes before they get that phone call. Once they get the call, their asshole-ness is confirmed.

[bridgit]

4. ours too, we never use it either it's all like whatever dude...

did you get with b_baby last night how's she do'n :hi:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

11. We talked for a couple hours on the phone.

She's doing better.

[bridgit]

13. cool...

:-)

[6000eliot]

5. I had a student who wore his in class all semester,

and then he had the nerve to ask why he failed his class-participation grade.

[bridgit]

6. heh-heh, well that is odd, couldn't he have had someone 'phoning...

it in' to him, i remember when everyone had to tuck their shirts into their skirts or pants...gee, just gave that one away age-wise, huh :hi:

[6000eliot]

7. I made him take it off for exams.

And I remember that, too. Remember when people cared about cheating?

[bridgit]

8. LOL, too phunny...also = good think'n...

:spray: :rofl:

[Sugar Smack]

9. FUCK! Tried 16 times on yr thread!

*slams mouse down* SIX-FUCKIN-TEEN!

[bridgit]

10. i tried posting in some other thread and the whole schlemiel went...

down for some reason...hold me, Czarina :scared:

[Sugar Smack]

29. *held*

Today's better, I suspect. :D

[bridgit]

34. goo't...

:donut:

[ForrestGump]

12. I think that these

bluetooth headsets go along with the same kind of behavior that accompanied the first generation of cell phones back in the late '80s. Seemed like many people then were so full of themsleves that they had a cell phone that they just had to loudly let everyone in the vicinity know the fact. "I've got a cell phone, and you peasants don't." Some of that was undoubtedly the same rude, intrusive behavior you see all around today, but I can guarantee that a lot (and when I cast my memory back it was always men) was just plain ostentatious showing off...incredibly obnoxious, but it makes some sense, in evolutionary terms, in that the male is displaying his reproductive potential (earning potential, in that case) in hopes of attracting a mate who'll want to jump his allegedly good genes.

Now that every person on the planet has a cell phone, the Bluetooth headset is among the new standards. "Look at me...I've got a Bluetooth headset. I'm important and, darn it, somebody loves me." Something else will take over soon (other than the Hummer, a tertiary sexual character that really only screams how f***ing stupid the bearer is).

Sure, the headsets can be useful for many who need to wear them basically constantly for work purposes, but -- just as with the superfluous SUV in today's USA -- it is obvious that most people who run around with the things permanently attached do not need them affixed in that way...how many phone calls do most people get, anwyay?

[bridgit]

14. there you go, that makes sense to me...

:D

[GoddessOfGuinness]

15. I'm not sure that they're always full of themselves...

It could be that having one ear plugged up and another ear picking up the noise from the surrounding area makes people instinctively go into loud mode. I'm not suggesting that's ok; but I think I can see where they're coming from.

That's why I can't use cellphones in public. I need a place where I can speak privately. The day they stopped putting doors on phone booths was a sad day.

[ForrestGump]

20. That's true, but the difference between you and the people who ARE

likely to be massively self-centered is that you would be conscious that you were sharing your conversation with the whole world, and cut it short or go somewhere more private, whereas I think some of those peoplel just don't care (or are trying to impress by doing so...not so much the very fact that they have a cell phone, these days, but that the content of their conversation indicates that they're 'important'...saw that a lot in the showbiz side of LA... :eyes: ).

[GoddessOfGuinness]

23. I'm always amazed at the way

people will use their cellphones in the middle of dinner for casual conversations, as if the little boxes were family members or something...

[Floogeldy]

16. I suppose he would have done the same thing with a regular cell phone.

He tried to impress everybody. I'm glad it didn't work. :)

[bridgit]

17. geawd you're prolly right, huh...

:rofl: :hi:

[Floogeldy]

18. He's like the guy in "Die Hard"

Who tried to make a deal with Hans, calling him "Boopee" and bragging that he makes million dollar deals for breakfast. That guy took a bullet. ;)

[bridgit]

19. jeepers, that is 'dying hard'...

:rofl: no wait x( naw...fuck it :spray:

[ForrestGump]

25. Here's some trivia

He doesn't look very similar -- much weedier -- but that smarmy dude was the same actor who played the Big Man On Campus, the swim-team captain, in Breaking Away.

[AzDar]

21. *SNORT* I used to be one of those "Sony Walkman People", singing

loudly and off-key(probably)in my teens.
Still am... however, I now sing loudly and off-key to my iPod.

[bridgit]

22. SEE! there...but i continue to sing off key just cause i can't sing...

three notes in a row with or without a walkman/iPod x( :rofl: :hi:

[NMMNG]

24. I was just talking about those with a friend of mine Tuesday night

We went out for dinner and a guy walked into the restaurant with a Blue-Tooth attached to his ear. I wondered aloud if the people who wear them constantly do so out of a need to seem important or a desire to seem "cool". My cell phone (I don't have a BT and don't plan on getting one) stays in a pocket in my purse until I need it. I never take/make calls in restaurants or similar places unless they are urgent, then I get up from the table and go to the lobby or outdoors.

I just don't get people who feel the need to fill an environment with their phone conversations (worse yet are the "walkie talkie" phones where you can hear both sides of the conversation).

[bridgit]

26. i hang my cell phone on my hip, and that is plenty immediate enough...

for any personal, business, or work related needs. my sense is that there is no work related conversation; outside of an EMT, 1st Responder, aircraft pilot, ER personnel, heart surgeon, etc, you get my drift; that needs to be all that 'in touch' to begin...OK, maybe some financial guy/gal, but even at that rate their Blackberry can stream their data live w/email capability if need be so :shrug:

i'm noticing these devices putting strange stressors onto certain stratas of our society. seen a woman in a county medical facility waiting area, utterly unkempt otherwise, but she had a Blue-Tooth, holes in her clothing & not CK Designer Holes either, real holes...

let me just say that i'm not convinced it was even working. one wire had Boing! out from the device and was just dangling there, and she was holding the unit itself in the palm of her hand and speaking into it, without any response, while holding it near to the dangling wire.

i tell you it's an oddity instead, there's the exchange from: Much Ado,

BEATRICE: "Do, do: he'll but break a comparison or two on me yada-yada..." Music wells up signaling the 'party-on', but then she mentions, "We must follow the leaders."

BENEDICK: "In every good thing."

i'm not convinced it is a 'good thing' to convince people even vicariously, they are not yet complete without some gadget they know even less about than the back of their hands. imo BT's fall too quickly into the 'spinner wheels' category, which, by the way, i have noticed cars already with 1 & 2 spinners not 'spinning', and so maybe Beatrice herself concludes across hundreds of years,

BEATRICE: "Nay, if they lead to any ill, I will leave them at the next turning."

[sbj405]

27. I'll admit it. I'm a blue tooth person.

I don't wear the headset all the time. I rarely talk on the phone in public. But the bluetooth is nice. You don't get your headset tangled in your seatbelt or whatever. Makes beebopping around the house while chatting much easier, too.

[bridgit]

31. naw, don't get me wrong, it's a marvelous technology with a place...

in today's society is my thought :hi:

[Buddyblazon]

28. "The Asshole Badge"

Thats what I call those Bluetooth earpieces.

I have one...but I only use it while driving...and only when I am having a hectic business day...or driving long distances.

At least I used to use it. It hasn't worked correctly for about six months. I use it for about 4 months. It was okay.

But I couldn't wear one in public. When I saw people with them on, it reminded me of people with their PULLOUT STEREO'S....or the gigantic SUITCASE PHONES or BRICK PHONES. They were just kept on ones person so that other people could see that they were somehow "successful".

Whatever.

[bridgit]

32. i see people with BT's of course, and headphones of all sort for...

that matter. for me i just need to be able to discern on a 360dg basis but that's just me :-)

[Midlodemocrat]

30. NO one is that important that they can't miss a call.

The ONLY time these might make sense is while driving.

You look like a moran coming in from your job laying Verizon cable with filthy clothing and a BlueTooth hanging from your ear.

[bridgit]

33. plus i don't much care for the notion of people i'd really maybe not...

care to talk to without screening first just streaming into my ear canal & onto my stirrup & drum system x( sometimes it is a good thing to be able to hold the ole timey receiver away from your ear for whatever reason to :thumbsup:

[Love Bug]

35. Pretentious gits!

[bridgit]

36. yup, cheers...

:toast: