Faking It (Fake Cell Phone Calls)

CBS News ^ | April 22, 2005 | Lloyd Garver

[srm913]

You know all those annoying people who talk into their cell phones as if you weren't standing right next to them? It turns out that many of them aren't really talking to anybody. The New York Times recently described research at Rutgers University as well as the Ethics and Public Policy Center that found that a great number of cell phone users are faking it.

A number of people make fake phone calls on their cell phones just for the benefit of those around them. Someone who's late for work may enter the office talking to "an important client" to cover her tardiness. Others pretend they get a call when they don't want to talk to someone who's standing right in front of them. Not surprisingly, some of those big deals you hear people negotiate on the phone are just done to impress those within earshot. Men will pretend to be on a call as they walk over to hit on a woman. Women will pretend to be on a call to avoid getting hit on by men.

Maybe this sounds like a creative use of technology to you, but I think it stinks. It was bad enough when I thought people were being rude, talking loudly about their personal lives to someone while looking right at me. Now I find out that they're being rude and not even talking to anybody!

[SoVaDPJ]

When I come out of anywhere late at night, I'm on the cell phone, and I'm not faking it. I don't care who I'm talking to, I figure it's a safety accessory now.

[SoothingDave]

Faking It (Fake Cell Phone Calls)
CBS News ^ | April 22, 2005 | Lloyd Garver

Well, CBS is the authority on fake.

SD

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

When I get a call I make sure I am talking directly into the phone and keep my voice down

YOU may do that, but nobody else does - thus, your tagline applies to THEM. < ;)

[Gingersnap]

You need to learn the Unfriendly Face. It comes in handy when you want to communicate the message that you are dreary and lifeless, have no soul and kill random people just for talking to you without authorization.

LOL! I thought I was the only one! If I'm ever caught without a book, I try to project the image of someone who might snap at any moment. Nowadays I find that flipping through a small bible has the same effect!

[meowmeow]

Sometimes when I don't want people to talk to me (in the elevator, on the train platform) I put the head phones on but don't turn it on.

You need to learn the Unfriendly Face. It comes in handy when you want to communicate the message that you are dreary and lifeless, have no soul and kill random people just for talking to you without authorization.

ROFL!! Alas, I am a small and fair of face, doomed to be "cute when she's angry." My brother, kb2614 is the master of the Unfriendly Face. It's a special gift I think.

[SoVaDPJ]

I hate to change the subject, but I saw this headline, and I had to tell someone.

"Wendy's Ends Internal Finger Probe"

Thanks for your patience.

[GraniteStateConservative]

So there - I listen to fake music.

You listen to songs on the Top 40?

[varon]

Fake phone calls

Fake boobs

Fake orgasms

Only in America :-)

[mdmathis6]

Hey...maybe those women are all into that "vibrator " thing built into those phones!

[mdmathis6]

"I hate to change the subject, but I saw this headline, and I had to tell someone.

"Wendy's Ends Internal Finger Probe"

Thanks for your patience."

What would be worse if the Headline went this way "Internal finger probe of Wendy's ends" or Wendy's internal finger probe ends!

[Misty Memory]

Faking It (Fake Cell Phone Calls)

Everyone already knows women fake it ;)

[Buggman]

Fake phone calls

Fake boobs

Fake orgasms

Fake pop stars made entirely out of plastic . . .

[JohnnyZ]

Fake pop stars made entirely out of plastic . . .

"Did somebody ask for me?"

[Van Jenerette]

...funny.

[SoVaDPJ]

Wendy's Closes Internal Probe of Finger
April 21, 2005 10:08 PM EDT
SAN FRANCISCO - Fast-food giant Wendy's ended its internal investigation of how a well-manicured finger wound up in a bowl of chili - declaring it found no credible link between the digit and the restaurant chain.

I think this is as bad as it gets.

[infowarrior]

Faking It (Fake Cell Phone Calls) CBS News ^ | April 22, 2005 | Lloyd Garver

Well, CBS is the authority on fake.

Priceless, simply... priceles!!

the infowarrior

[BenLurkin]

Loud cell phone users in public places (eg commuter train) should be stripped naked, coated with honey and placed on a fire-ant hill.