Bluetoothin on the can

hey, I understand the advantages of bluetooth over hand-held cellphones for many reasons, and how it's made things for culture slightly less crazy and dangerous. I don't hate on bluetooth. but I mean, fuck, why do people feel they can just bust into a public bathroom stall in conversation and just let er rip while going about with business?

at least with cell phones, there was some vibe of shame or awkwardness involved, but now it's just "Allow me to restate. We must ensure success in convinc...*PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFAAAAAAAOoooooooooooooooooBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP* *PLOP!* the end, we'll be in good shape, and we can close the deal. Are you clear on this?" with the expectation that the recipient heard every word.

/ andy lookout

ppl who do this must be stopped

it's made things for culture slightly less crazy

No way! We now look like a nation of crazies, men in suits all loudly muttering in the corners of parking garages and arguing, seemingly to themselves, in city plazas.

My concern is more over toilet paper habits. Usually those who have a difficult time flushing are the one's who treat the toilet paper roll like cats, batting at the thing with their claws non-stop until there's a mountain, then dropping it into the bowel.

Fold people, fold.

― Toilet Painter, Wednesday, September 28, 2005 10:59 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

xpost to Abbott: Oh, I don't mind the whole David Cronenberg aesthetic reality has runnin' right now. That's been slowly gaining over the past decade or longer.

well, the non-violent aspects of the aesthetic, obviously

OH SHIT MY BLOOTUETH HAS MERGED WITH MY EAR AND IS SHOOTING CANCERS EVERYWHERE

"Instruments for Operating on Mutant Blackberries"

i choose to believe that people aren't really doing this, but they probably are.

http://dvice.com/pics/BT_etiquette.jpg

Those are exactly the two kinds of guys you see using BT headsets. Either male models with stupid facial hair, or bald guys who look as hard as a box of bricks and are probably criminals.

see, I even like the bluetooth logo! (it's like some folded-in Deak Kennedy's logo, which for a major tech logo, is progress imho)

but yeah, what Dan said, we must stop bluetooth bizshitters

haha "Dead" Kennedys

(xpost) I always thought that it looked like a Viking Rune. Perhaps it really is, and means something like "stay away from this dickhead"

I witnessed this for the first time last week, although it was actually a cellphone and not a bluetooth. I was still pretty weirded out. And unnecessarily reminded of an old episode of "Ellen".

I think it looks like a butterfly.

And I better not EVER get a call from someone in the loo! yeech!

Isn't Bluetooth a protocol, not an earpiece?

Wireless mobile phone earpiece is probably the most conspicuous use of Bluetooth though. Particularly when Bluetoothing bald hard man walks straight into you on the street because, you know, he can't talk and see at the same time...

hang on, is mackro mackro andy lookout? HEY ANDY!

It seems like a lot of black dudes and asian dudes are really into the bluetooth head sets. And radio shack employees.

Stevie, no mackro^2 = bri3n who visited you and others in Oz and NZ in early 2006.

The andy lookout close tag is there to honor the man because this is the type of thread he would start today, albeit with more grace and less technological context.

there's one guy at work who is always feverishly texting whilst on the can, which I think is far more heinous.

ha, no worries brian! tho i am in the UK, so perhaps i am not the stevie you think i am... andy should always be honoured, thats for tootin.

Oh, wait, are stev1e ch1kk? then you know the Ned. I thought you were let's-get-incredible stev1e reprazentin auckland.

Isn't Bluetooth a protocol, not an earpiece?

Bluetooth is like "kleenex", er, "Charmin".

ay that's me, brian!

the london one who knows ned, that is...

lol you tooth on the can