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Why Mobile Phones Are Annoying

Posted by timothy on from the because-they-don't-reliably-explode dept.

griffinn writes "Jakob Neilsen recently conducted a study comparing the perceived annoyance level of two commuters having a face-to-face conversation and one commuter talking on the mobile phone. Interestingly enough, subjects were also asked whether the ring tone is annoying, and people didn't find the ring to be particularly bad."

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  1. i's pronounced karate by circletimessquare · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    don't worry i got a MILLION minutes

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    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  2. Insensitive clods... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...in Soviet Russia, cellphones answer YOU!

  3. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    tentacles are attacked by YOU!

  4. Slashdot missed a poll idea by jigyasubalak · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The "Best Office Weapon" poll was getting rather annoying by not getting updated to a new one. Alas! /. lost out on a good poll idea.

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  5. Re:my pet hate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I agree with this post.

  6. More annoying than mobile phones by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    are smokers.

  7. Re:Ringtones by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just thought I would mention that your "In Soviet Russia" sig doesn't make sense. An "In Soviet Russia" joke isn't done by negating the sentence and using Yoda word order. It is done by swapping the nominative noun with the objective noun, which means that you have to have a sentence with a subject and an object. "This is funny" does not have an object, and so there is nothing to swap, which is, I assume, why you just made the word order weird.