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Bluetooth headsets as status symbols.

or; take out the lil' phallus, please.

March 2, 2007 7:10:45 PM from JoeUser ForumsJoeUser Forums
For the record: you don't look cool with a Bluetooth headset in your ear.

Contrary to popular belief, it just makes you look more obsessed with your constant need to be "connected" all the time. Guess what? You don't have to be connected all the time; it's simply something you like.

Think back, many couples of years . . . long long ago, in the before times, you didn't have that leash attaching you to everyone. It was a simpler time, when men were allowed to do as they wished and not be trapped by the viperous cell phone.

Then, along came the new 21st-century ball and chain . . . the cellular telephone! And we worshiped at the thought of constant communication, to not have to find a payphone to make our necessary calls.

Now, that's all fine and dandy; it's an annoyance, and I've spoken before of the need to TURN THE DAMN THINGS OFF OR AT LEAST NOT ANSWER while driving, but with the advent of the Bluetooth handset, now you can talk hands-free!

Does that mean that you'll pay more attention to the road? No, you'll be just as horribly inattentive as before. But at least you can say, "My phone was in my pocket the whole time."

But, I must admit, they are not cool. No matter how neat you think it is to have the little plastic penis sticking out of your ear, it's not.

And I say this as a user of one for a time. When I got my sexy new phone, which of course is Bluetooth enabled, I tried using one for a week or two that my buddy had laying around his house.

And I hated it! and I felt like a total idiot with the plastic thing hanging out of my ear!

I know it's become rather "cool" to have the Bluetooth, and it's become somewhat of a status symbol. The businessman with the unencumbered ear is a loser among his peers. (The people in my father's office have been trying to get him to use one for months; it's most funny, because my dad is especially technologically reticent.)

I think it's time that we make a movement to make people aware of the silliness of the look of having the Bluetooth in the ear. Everyone, sign my petition and we'll get some sort of governmental grant to combat the use of Bluetooth headsets!

And guys, just remember: no-one looks cool with a plastic penis in the ear.
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SanChonino
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Reply #1 March 2, 2007 8:01:44 PM
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toothpaste for dinner
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Reply #2 March 2, 2007 8:07:03 PM
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You mean that looking like a street air head is not cool? WHen I cant tell you (bluetooth)from the bum on the bench, that is supposed to be cool?

Guess I am not hip.
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Reply #3 March 2, 2007 8:52:21 PM
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I don't think anyone would look cool with any kind of penis in their ear...

~Zoo
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Reply #4 March 2, 2007 9:13:35 PM
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I was given a bluetooth headset free with my last phone but I've not even taken it out of the box. I think it is a status symbol for dickheads or at least, these are the only people I've seen wearing them.
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Reply #5 March 3, 2007 2:36:22 AM
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I think it is a status symbol for dickheads or at least, these are the only people I've seen wearing them.


Thus the phallic shape of the Bluetooth, methinks . . .
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Reply #6 March 3, 2007 8:10:36 AM
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Hands free units are for driving or doing some other task that requires having both hands free (hence the name) while talking on the phone.

Anyone who walks around with one of these things shoved in their ear needs to be publicly beaten before being permanently removed from the gene pool.

If you're too damn lazy to actually hold the phone while talking you don't need to be talking to anyone in the first place.

I see these morons wandering around the truck stops every day. Or sitting at a table. Hey, dipshit, pull that Borg implant out of your ear and use your opposable thumbs before you de-evolve.
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Reply #7 March 3, 2007 9:04:14 AM
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The ONLY reason I even have a cell phone is because my job supplies me with one and demands I have it with me 24/7. But if they ever want me to wear this blue-tooth-dick-in-the-ear thing then I'm quittin'!!!
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Reply #8 March 3, 2007 9:12:33 AM
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They are ridiculous.  I see the utility, and think they are appropriate for those times, but people who just wear them really have an inflated sense of self-importance.
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Reply #9 March 3, 2007 1:31:53 PM
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Am I the only one that will admit having one and liking it?

Okay, well that isn't entirely true. I got one for Christmas and lost it within the first few days. I think it is somewhere around the house but I have no clue where. And I did feel like a total dork the first time I wore it, but thankfully I have long hair to cover it so no one could see it. Although that made it even more weird the first time I got a call and was sitting on the subway jabbering to myself. Then of course I think they are used to people talking to themselves around here.

I rarely get calls on my phone, but I liked it (for one whole week) cause I could listen to mp3s at the gym without strangling myself like I invariably did with the cords from my headphones. Finally I just gave up and listened to the music they pump out over the system, but it's hard to kick butt on the elliptical trainer when they are playing, "I wanna know what love is...."
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Reply #10 March 3, 2007 2:36:37 PM
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I agree. They're ridiculous.

I never think someone wearing one is important. I usually think they are incapable of picking up the right brand of orange juice without a lengthy phone call from their wife.

There are some things that it would be useful to have attached to you. If I could attach a snack-dispensing device and had a built-in pair of scissors, that would be awesome.
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Reply #11 March 5, 2007 8:47:50 PM
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They ought to be shot, these wanna-be-Borg.


That's exactly my thought. I will NOT be assimilated.

And the people who use them look like they are crazy and talking to themselves. It will probably make life easier for the crazy people because everyone will just assume they have one of the ubersmall, very expensive bluetooths.
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Reply #12 March 5, 2007 9:01:40 PM
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Am I the only one that will admit having one and liking it?


Borg!
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Reply #13 March 5, 2007 9:15:47 PM
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That's exactly my thought. I will NOT be assimilated.


We are Borg! You will be assimilated! Resistance if futile!

(loved that one Loca! I am resisting! Us Humans are not Borgians!)
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