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Do Cell Phones Make Us Stupid?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-like-the-purty-colors dept.

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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  1. Fallacy: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    post hoc ergo propter hoc. The morons with cell phones were morons before they got them. It's just that they haven't figured out that they ceased being status symbols once they could afford them.

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  2. The chicken or the egg by DavidLeblond · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cell phones don't make people stupid, they just bring a lot of them to light.

    1. Re:The chicken or the egg by TheBillGates · · Score: 5, Funny

      Kind of like how AOL brings out the idiots onto the internet?

  3. here's the thing... by digital_milo · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. Joke, people by The+Evil+Plush+Toy · · Score: 4, Funny

    dis iz gay i USZEE CEll fonnes ALL THE TIme nd I ARENT sTUpid!!!!!1111

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  5. Wrong! by r_j_prahad · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Wrong! by stubear · · Score: 4, Funny

      "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?"

      How many intelligent blondes do you know? You have to have brain cells to destroy first :)

    2. Re:Wrong! by r_j_prahad · · Score: 5, Funny

      More like, how many intelligent women do you know?

      At least one.... my wife. Any husband who would answer otherwise seriously lacks intelligence. Or a desire to live.

  6. I'm Seen it on Campus by omnirealm · · Score: 4, Funny

    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."

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  7. Re:Stupid Cell Phone Users by adagioforstrings · · Score: 5, Funny

    Soooo...

    Rats shouldn't use cell phones?

  8. Use a book instead by Michael+Woodhams · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  9. The Great Douglas Adams Once Said by Bastian · · Score: 4, Funny

    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. . .