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Do Cell Phones Make Us Stupid?
Noodleroni writes "I came across this article on MSNBC that discusses why it seems cell phone users are so stupid sometimes. A very interesting read." Absolutely no scientific basis in this - 'cept for the DoCoMo study, but it still seems true.
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Cell phones don't make people stupid, they just bring a lot of them to light.
Mostly, when you were at the grocery store before cell phones, you had an inkling that other folks were dumb, but they mostly kept silent.
Now with phones, you actually can hear them talk and they've removed any doubt about their intellect.
... not paying attention to the world around them makes them appear to be stupid. Mobiles phones are the enabler. The real cause is their parents. Think about it. Fat parents have fat kids.
Speak truth to power.
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Cell phones don't make you stupid. Owning a Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) makes you stupid, which then causes you to go out and buy a cell phone due to your dramatically decreased intelligence.
Just what is it about the combination of blonde hair, motherhood, a cell phone, and a big gas-guzzling SUV that destroys brain cells so completely? I'm not being arbitrary here, I had to fish one of these bimbos out of my front lawn last week... she didn't see the stopped schoolbus at the corner in time so she used my hedge as a deceleration device. She was still on the phone when the cops came.
"Why Do Articles That Claim To Be About Cell Phones But Actually Read Like Second-Rate Sex And The City Gossiping Make Us Look Stupid?"
At my university, the business college is in a building that is separated by the rest of campus by a road. Every Friday, all the business majors play dress up (the department has a policy that they all have to wear suits on Fridays).
They all have laptops and cell phones. They circle around tables in the building with their laptops open, busy hammering out assignments in Excel and taking important calls.
And they narrowly avoid getting sqashed on the crosswalk between the business building and the rest of campus. I see it almost every day with my own two eyes: a young man in a suit, busily yapping away on his cell phone, totally ambivilous to the fact that he is crossing against a green light. I saw a guy almost get creamed once; the driver slammed on his brakes and honked, stopping just inches from the business major. The business major didn't skip a beat in his conversation. He just waved and kept on chatting away as he crossed.
Someday, someone is going to get a "wake up call."
An unjust law is no law at all. - St. Augustine
Soooo...
Rats shouldn't use cell phones?
Here's my prejudice:
... but it still seems true
no scientific basis = seems false
You must not be religious either.
Score one point for your team!
By the way, have you ever noticed how "everyone" always says everyone else is stupid/an idiot/bad driver/etc? I'll be the first to say, though, that I may be that idiot on occasion. My problem is that most people who think they're "frickin' geniuses" are, sadly, not.
I'm a firm believer in the fact that the human race as a whole has a very low average intelligence (which can be lowered further when multiple low-intelligence individuals are placed in proximity). Thankfully, there are some people who decide to use their intellect for more productive purposes, one of which would be not posting this article on Slashdot.
Absolutely no scientific basis in this
Translation: Either you're not smart enough to understand what you're doing (go ask someone smart), or you're grasping at straws, trying to renew your grant money. At least try to be creative!
My question is, why do people need cell phones in class. I college I can sort of make the exception in that they aren't always in class through a set amount of hours, but I remember all to well hearing Cell phones go off in my highschool classes as well. My first reaction was always, what an idiot, why did they leave their cellphone on. My second reaction was, why do they even need a cell phone here. But I've also come up with a third question that's even more pressing than the above two: Who the hell is calling? My cell number is given to a slect few people all of whom know my basic schedual and who know when it would not be a good time to call (assuming the cell phone is on during those times anyway), are people truly giving their cell numbers to people that they don't know well so that they can be called at any time by anyone? That's just plain stupidity.
On the other hand, I will never forget my favorite cell phone mishap. I was in my psychology class when another student's phone went off. Realizing his serious mistake, the student quickly turned the cell phone off and apologized to the teacher (students with manners, imagine that). However, the teacher wasn't quite satisfied. He wanted to know the same thing I did, who was calling at a time like that. (keep in mind this was in highschool when durring a certain set of hours every day, you are in school). The teacher asked the student to take the phone out and call the person back. The student did so and then at the teacher's request turned on the speaker phone aspect and pretended to be the student. Much to the amusement of the class, the student and the teacher, the person on the other end was a college friend of the student who was completely drunk and had no idea what he was doing or saying. Needless to say it was an entertaining class.
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From the article:
But I cop to it: The use of the cell phone made me temporarily insane.
Er.. ah.. hey, works for me!
Judge: You are on trial today for killing 40 pedestrians while driving. How do you plead?
Defendant: Well, you see, Judge, I was on my cell phone at the time..
Judge: Ohhh.. our mistake. You're free to go.
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"The morons with cell phones were morons before they got them" Now they are morons that talk really loudly.
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Those are some smart fucking kids!
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People who walk and talk on cell phones are crazy. They should instead do what I do when walking through town - read a book.
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Well, they are talking to someone who isn't there ....
This is the classic sign of a madman.
The thing that disturbs me is people walking along the street having full-blown conversations, gesticulating, etc., all with no gadgetry in sight. Is it a hands-free kit, or only schizophrenia? Sometimes I'm too scared to get close enough to tell. :)
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Anyway, my girlfriend and my mother and I were all sitting around playing Monopoly when a friend called on my cell.
Monopoly? You're one of the ones who was dumb before s/he/it got the cell.
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The reason why humans talk so much is because of the danger that if their lips stop moving, their brains might start moving.
I think this explains it all. . .
They do, I swear, affect short term memory.
I have mine on now, its a little Nokia number with the changeable facia. Today its got its light blue facia, but maybe I'll switch to the tiger stripe facia tomorrow. Don't you just hate people who wear tiger stripes and leopard skin clothes? Its not the fur problem, even when the fur is fake it just looks sooo tacky. Speaking of which I spilled some curry on my desk and its still tacky, I'm hoping it will dry tomorrow. Maybe it will rain like today.
Oh, sorry, what were we talking about again?
We can see you're not married then...