[Misc] Women on mobile phones....

[The Clamp]

As a women, I can't answer your question as I don't do it. Infact I get moaned at by my husband becasue I will regually leave the house without the phone. Not on purpose it's just that keys, purse, face mask all take priority and I sometimes forget it.

I guess like men not all women are the same.

You are of course correct. Not all women are glued to their phones but most people who are glued to their phones are women.

 

[Justice]

My mate and I chat every Monday for about 1.5hrs about football, he’s a massive Wolves fan Interestedly he can’t stand the manager and when you here his reasons why I kind of agree. Another clubs supporter who thinks Potter would do wonders there.

 

[ozzygull]

So many times I’ve looked at a bus go by and see girls staring down at their phones.

Brad Pitt (or whoever they fancy these days) could walk right past and they wouldn’t have a clue!

They can’t just stare out of the window watching the world go by. How sad. They have a fixation that the world on their phone is so much better than the one around them.

I think phones have totally destroyed their attention spans and gave them a ‘there’s always something better on the next page’ attitude. Dating apps probably have something to do with this too.

A lot of women use it to issolate themselves from being approched, before phones it used to be a book or magazie.

 

[dazzer6666]

Well I can vouch that when I'm out running, something like 90% of women pedestrians are looking at their phones and have no idea that a lumbering middle aged bloke with the turning circle of a transit van is about to crash into them.

 

[ozzygull]

You are of course correct. Not all women are glued to their phones but most people who are glued to their phones are women.

As mentioned prevoisly

A lot of women use it to issolate themselves from being approched, before phones it used to be a book or magazie

 

[The Clamp]

I have to say that about 90% of people I see on mobiles while driving are women. I had a girlfriend who was always picking up the phone at the wheel and I had no qualms about taking it out of her hand.

 

[ozzygull]

I have to say that about 90% of people I see on mobiles while driving are women. I had a girlfriend who was always picking up the phone at the wheel and I had no qualms about taking it out of her hand.

They should be locked up. There is no excuse for using a mobile phone and driving.

 

[The Clamp]

A lot of women use it to issolate themselves from being approched, before phones it used to be a book or magazie.

It’s a very dangerous tactic but totally understandable . I’m forever reminding the vulnerable women I work with to have their wits about them especially when walking at night and don’t get glued to the screen .

 

[ozzygull]

It’s a very dangerous tactic but totally understandable . I’m forever reminding the vulnerable women I work with to have their wits about them especially when walking at night and don’t get glued to the screen .

It's a pitty it still like this, but do women stiil feel vunrable just going about their own busness.

 

[The Clamp]

It's a pitty it still like this, but do women stiil feel vunrable just going about their own busness.

I get it. Not pleasant at all.

 

[Peteinblack]

Ah, I've commented on this before; glad it's not just me who's bewildered by this.

Seems that no woman under the age of, say, 30, can walk down the street, cross the road, queue at a supermarket check-out, travel on public transport, or spend an evening with their friends in a pub or restaurant, unless they are constantly either staring at their phone reading or replying to texts, or chatting to someone (and gesticulating with their free hand too!).

I've seen women walk several 100 metres along a street and never look up from their phone once - they are totally oblivious to everything and everyone else. I've had women sit opposite or next me on a train and spend a 60-90 minutes non-stop texting or chatting. It's as if they think they'll die if they put their phone down for a minute!

A few years ago, on a Friday evening, me and Mrs Peteinblack were in our local pub, and 4 young women sat at the table next to us. Having got their glasses of white wine, they spent the next 90 minutes all playing with their phones, or running outside to have a natter to someone else. Me and the missus wanted to say "Put your ******* phones away, bimbos, and talk to each other - why else have you come out on a Friday night?"

I've also seen a woman nearly fall between the edge of the platform and the train, because as she went to board the train, she was looking at her phone, rather than where she was putting her foot - she missed the step onto the train, and was only saved by the quick-thinking guy behind her who grabbed her arm to save her; otherwise, she'd probably have fallen and smashed the back of her head on the platform-edge - possibly fatally.

What's also annoying is how tedious and vacuous many of these mobile 'conversations' are: "I was, like, so she turned around and says to me, and I'm, like, ohmigod, and she said, yeah, know what I mean, and I'm, ohmigod, like, that's so funny, I literally died laughing."

 

[LamieRobertson]

Sorry bit busy chatting on the phone ..get back to u later

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

Totally with you on this new phenomenon of unnecessary speakerphone in public places. WTF is that all about? There is literally zero rationale. Me & a mate got in to a miniature row on the train a few months ago when we decided to join in with the loudspeaker conversation with the woman opposite us on the train. She totally did not get it

I have a very unfounded theory on this odd trend. If you’ve ever had the misfortune to watch a reality show, The Kardashians for example, every call they make is on loud speaker so that the audience can be privy to conversation, I think our incredibly easily lead wags have just adopted from there. I think it looks ridiculous when you see people walking along with the speaker pointed at their ear with the phone pointing at a 90’ angle, just use it properly and you’ll be able to hear them you massive weirdo.

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

What I cannot get my head around is the missus is constantly glued to her phone. Either on the phone or just staring and scrolling through social media. 99.9% of the time.

Yet whenever I call her for whatever reason does she ever answer? Does she ****.

I can relate to that 100%!

I also get annoyed when she puts on a TV programme that she wants to "watch", then sits on her phone looking at social media all the way through!?
If Im on the sofa with her, I will get the remote & scroll through the TV guide to see if theres anything else on - but you can guarantee I will hear...."Im watching this".... within seconds

 

[The Clamp]

I have a very unfounded theory on this odd trend. If you’ve ever had the misfortune to watch a reality show, The Kardashians for example, every call they make is on loud speaker so that the audience can be privy to conversation, I think our incredibly easily lead wags have just adopted from there. I think it looks ridiculous when you see people walking along with the speaker pointed at their ear with the phone pointing at a 90’ angle, just use it properly and you’ll be able to hear them you massive weirdo.

Ah! That’s sounds like it might be the answer.

 

[Grombleton]

I do spend a fair bit of time on my phone, but that's more as i use it for work a lot (checking sites, scheduling content etc) however I don't call people 'for a chat'. It's weird. Don't do it, kids.

I have one friend who will be driving from work and will call me for a 'chat'. Still don't get it, as i'm not chatty in person so the idea of an actual PHONE CALL usually sets my anxiety off and they get screened. Text me, send me a message via carrion, write it in the flippin' sky for all I care - just don't call.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

I am feeling a distinct amount of sexism in this thread.

If any ladies are struggling with this please call me on...................................

 

[swindonseagull]

Whatsapp is useful for free international calls.

and sending picture messages free

 

[Seasidesage]

Phone conversation with my mates can only consist of one of the following;

1. Making arrangements - short to the point, hang up or better yet text.
2. Taking the piss out of others - This can be a longer conversation but cannot be the reason to commence the call. Unless they have done something really stupid
3. Football but this is really making arrangements to go to the football or abusing another team - see call 1. Discussions on the Albion MUST be conducted in the pub.
4. Women see call 2 - you can take the piss out of them or discuss their relative er merits. Care should be taken over location and again brief and to the point. Walls have ears....
5. Getting stories straight - Rarer but sometimes it may be necessary to establish an alibi or excuse for going out etc again like Steve/Simon/Stuart is having a bad time with insert as applicable and wants cheering up in the pub /friday night. Short and to the point especially if others may overhear.

I have never rang a mate to see how they are, they would think I had lost the plot or needed to discuss the above and someone else had entered the room. Asking how someone is? Deflection tactic If they needed help, they would clearly arrange a meet in a pub or alternative appropriate venue.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Is it just women that are constantly chatting on their mobile phones? No-matter what else they are doing? Phone on speaker and doing other things while chatting nonsense with their chums?
I don’t know any blokes that do it anywhere near as much as women.

Apart from relatives I only ever use the phone to make quick arrangements and that is usually by WhatsApp.

I am in my 40’s, perhaps the younger generation are different? Are the younger generation of men on the phone the whole time?

I beg to differ, but we have a local lad who goes around the area picking up bits of rubbish etc and puts them into his cart.
He's locally known as OddJob, who everytime we see him, he's on his bloody phone.