tightasadrum
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Administrator, could you please delete RetireeRobert's last entry? Duck and cover!
Even if it were true. Which it is, of course, not. It's not true.
Nope.
Come to think of it, I don't know what you mean after all.
.......... the gals are all miraculously CAUSING accidents while managing to actually AVOID said accidents?
shouldn't even take the bait, but.. I guess that's why insurance companies give women a discount? Because they are so 'crazy' when they drive?
This subject just gets my [-]thong[/-] panties in a wad. So much so that I've come out of hiding to add my rant.
I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to conk people over heads with their cell phones at the gym! WTF?? These idiots just carry on and on about a whole lot of nothing while I have my Ipod up on full blast to drown out their incessant chattering. The chattering women are usually the ones complaining that they can't lose weight. I wonder why? They're walking on the treadmill at 2.0 speed so they could concentrate on talking!
I run a tier one application for a fortune 500 company and I provide GLOBAL support. I don't even bring my cell phone to the gym floor. It's called managing my time. If I can't find a 90 minute slot in my day without the use of electronic communication devices then I have serious issue.
In other words, who do we blame for that type of "uselss, banal, pointless, chattering" cell call that seems to annoy an awful lot of us?
With a traditional telephone, when an individual speaks he hears his own voice in the earpiece (this is called "sidetone"), and this provides an important cue as to how loud me needs to speak to be heard. Mobile phones don't have this--
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I don't know why cell phone companies don't add this feature--maybe it's time to make it standard for everyone's benefit.
One thing that makes the cell phone use in public so annoying is the volume of the conversation. Most people don't know that cell phones have one key difference from a regular "wired" phone: There's no auditory feedback to the individual speaking. With a traditional telephone, when an individual speaks he hears his own voice in the earpiece (this is called "sidetone"), and this provides an important cue as to how loud me needs to speak to be heard. Mobile phones don't have this--when you speak into a cell phone, nothing comes out of the earpiece. This is a major reason people shout into their mobile phones (people used to shout into their wired phones, too. That's why sidetone was introduced). It would not be especially challenging to introduce sidetone into cell phones (it would take no bandwidth, it is done entirely within the instrument--though it would need to be turned off when in "speaker" mode). I don't know why cell phone companies don't add this feature--maybe it's time to make it standard for everyone's benefit.
Definitely the volume, and also the one-sidedness is somehow disconcerting.
Doesn't matter who makes the most calls, who initiates the call, etc. All that matters is the goofball bugging you at the time. Gender is irrelevant.
Or when the semi-loud music you hear is just the bass thumping, and you can't make out the song.
oh yeah.. them's the ladies!! (LOL).
CFB.. please.. for every two 'bad lady driver" anecdotes you have, I could easily offer ten "bad boy driver" anecdotes.
The perception of the "concentration" of such anecdotes obviously depends on which type of genitalia one has. Fortunately the ins. co.s are relatively immune to such prejudices.
Hmmm, I think the insurance companies have given us the data we need to end this gender debate. They wouldn't charge double to insure teenage boys vs. teenage girls if being male made you a better driver. :
If we must gender stereotype, it seems the poor driving I've seen with a woman behind the wheel has been from multitasking or being otherwise distracted. The men, however, drive like a**holes on purpose. Just the other day I got cut off by some...poorly endowed...young man in his lifted SUV that he had takend a sawsall to as to make a poor man's pick up truck. No muffler, and ten bumper stickers on the back saying things like, "Stronger than your man!" "Don't like my driving? Call 1-800-EAT-S***!"
All that having been said, people walking around with little bluetooth headsets that look like they're talking to themselves are creepy.
...All that having been said, people walking around with little bluetooth headsets that look like they're talking to themselves are creepy.