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To: Chi-townChief

These things make it a lot more difficult to discern who is sane and who isn't. These people often appear to be talking to themselves like other mentally disturbed individuals in the city, until you get close and notice the earpiece. What I've never been able to figure out is how having this thing clipped on your ear allows the microphone to pick up your voice. Doesn't seem feasible, but I guess it works.

I spend about 10 minutes per week on the phone, if that, so I usually find a way to free up my hands for this short period of time.


4 posted on 10/15/2006 3:57:48 PM PDT by Axhandle
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To: Axhandle
These things make it a lot more difficult to discern who is sane and who isn't.

LOL. Years ago, I thought my neighbor was a bit odd because I would see him having long conversations; alone, in his car. Then I found out he had a speaker phone in the car (I didn't even know those things existed).
16 posted on 10/15/2006 4:10:24 PM PDT by Welsh Rabbit
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To: Axhandle
Doesn't seem feasible, but I guess it works.

It does work. I have one, not a Bluetooth or phone, that I use with my laptop to communicate via the Internet. Same deal: earpiece in my ear, with a microphone sticking about an inch forward of the earpiece.

26 posted on 10/15/2006 4:24:16 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (My book is out. Read excerpts at www.thejusticecooperative.com)
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To: Axhandle
>"These things make it a lot more difficult to discern who is sane and who isn't. These people often appear to be talking to themselves like other mentally disturbed individuals in the city, until you get close and notice the earpiece."

You noticed that also. I often wonder how many mentally disturbed citizens actually buy these devices, just to appear normal in public?

Buy Reynolds!!

44 posted on 10/15/2006 5:19:58 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (I'd rather be carrying a shotgun with Dick, than riding shotgun with a Kennedyl! *-0(:~{>)
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To: Axhandle

"Yeah, man you see guys
walking down the street
pushing shopping carts
and you think they're talking to allah,
they're talking to themself.
Man, no they're talking to ELVIS!
ELVIS! ELVIS!"

Mojo Nixon - "Elvis Is Everywhere"


57 posted on 10/15/2006 6:29:25 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: Axhandle

I am like you, I maybe make 1-2 calls per week, and may recieve 3-4 calls per week. I actually prefer not being in contact with the outside world 24-7.


71 posted on 10/15/2006 10:45:18 PM PDT by LukeL (Never let the enemy pick the battle site. (Gen. George S. Patton))
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To: Axhandle
These things make it a lot more difficult to discern who is sane and who isn't.

You're the first person I've seen who's noticed that. Most people I mention that to haven't noticed it.  How do you not notice that these devices are destroying tens of thousands of years of learned human behavior?

I can't stand bluetooth devices specifically because it's now so much harder to figure out who you need to cross the street to avoid.  The first time I ran into someone blathering away on a bluetooth device I was literally startled. 

These things piss me off to no end.

79 posted on 10/16/2006 5:35:11 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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