Unless it's a dire emergency I don't see your point, and I say that as a full time carer. If you're not around and they need to contact the emergency services then there are various types of 'lifeline' services available now. The other alternative, and the one I prefer, is to make sure there's someone else around if I'm not going to be there for any extended period of time.
The mobile phone
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Unless it's a dire emergency I don't see your point, and I say that as a full time carer. If you're not around and they need to contact the emergency services then there are various types of 'lifeline' services available now. The other alternative, and the one I prefer, is to make sure there's someone else around if I'm not going to be there for any extended period of time.
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
I don't and I'm not even though I have a mobile. I turn it off most nights, I leave if in the living room no matter where I am in the house, I frequently don't realise I have missed calls or received texts til I turn the thing off at night, etc.
It is not a necessity for me at all but it IS damn handy for keeping in touch with deaf inlaws.
Herbsman.
Nah Lotion, Pet, Nor Powder.
No, the expectation is clearly seperate.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
I remember that too. It was shit. You'd arrange to meet people and then go out and they didn't turn up and you'd have to find a phone box and call their house and leave a message, in the vague hope that (a) someone would answer the phone and (b) they'd then call their house back to find out what was going on, or had left a message with the people there that they weren't going to be able to make it. This usually took a few tries so you'd run out of 10ps and have to try to get change in arsey shops. And you ended up hanging around some random place for a whie not knowing what the fuck was happening, or heading home, pissed off.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
that was a typical saturday nightNow you still leave a message for them, or get busy and try to track them down with other mobile users... How dare they not be available to you.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Er, no, you text them and say "where are you you cunt" and they text back saying "be about ten minutes" or "got stuck in Earls Court theres a bomb scare" or "cant do it tonight no babysitter lol" or "u r in wrong place u twat".
And if they don't text back...
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
well fuck 'em 
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
You go home, and you cry and you want to die.
Wouldn't you want to to talk to them, and make sure they're okay. Maybe I am old fashioned after all.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Well then you call them, using your mobile phone
Well then you call them, using your mobile phone
Wouldn't that be pointless if they're not answering it?
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
No, you said they didn't text back, s'different.
So, in this situation, what would you suggest, were we to live in a world free of mobile phones? And, that is better than the alternative of having a mobile phone?
Sorry but that doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
If I had arranged to meet someone and they didn't turn up, and I was worried about them, then I would go in person to see if they were okay.
Is that so difficult to understand??
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
But how would you know where to go?!
Did they never make it from out of the house, or did they get stuck along the way? Or did they get lost in the arse-end of nowhere?
If you couldn't call them, what are you relying on to know where to go to find them?
Did they never make it from out of the house, or did they get stuck along the way? Or did they get lost in the arse-end of nowhere?
If you couldn't call them, what are you relying on to know where to go to find them?
I'm assuming this is someone I know, so if they don't turn up as usual I'd hang on there for a while, have a pint or two, and a moan to the bar staff, then go check if they're okay.
If it was someone I didn't know then I'd probably hang around for a while, have a pint or two, then either head off to meet my mates, or head off home.
That's life.
If it was someone I didn't know then I'd probably hang around for a while, have a pint or two, then either head off to meet my mates, or head off home.
That's life.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Fair enough, but isn't it more convenient to beable to call them, find out what's going on, then work from their. Fuck it, you can have your phone switched off, switch it on to make the call, then switch it off again after you've hung up, if the intrusiveness of it is that much of an issue for you.
"That's life" is a way of dismissing inconveniences, but in the case of mobiles you can do away with certain incoveniences, without doing away with the style of life you profess to liking.
The one point I will concede is that you may get people asking why you have the phone if you have it off a lot, but you just explain and if they're half way decent they'll accept it and it won't be an issue anymore.
"That's life" is a way of dismissing inconveniences, but in the case of mobiles you can do away with certain incoveniences, without doing away with the style of life you profess to liking.
The one point I will concede is that you may get people asking why you have the phone if you have it off a lot, but you just explain and if they're half way decent they'll accept it and it won't be an issue anymore.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
So someone who is stuck at home and has run out of T-bags should just sit there forever without a cup of tea?
How about someone who has memory problems like short-term memory loss or Alzheimer's?
So someone who is stuck at home and has run out of T-bags should just sit there forever without a cup of tea?
Forever?
You think they'd remember your mobile no.
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
It would be programmed into their contacts bit.
Mobiles with reminders are damn handy imo. I use mine quite often and tbh wouldn't want a phone without that facility.
I think you're just trying to be awkward about this
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
I've got one - paid all of 25 quid for it, but the battery is usually flat when I actually get called on it. I've mostly got it in case I get into trouble sea fishing. (it quite often even works in Cornwall !)
To be honest, they've more or less become a necessity. People managed in the days before cars, but they've made life so much more convenient that now the majority of people in the western world have one.
Anyone who refuses to use one/questions why people use them is just being awkward. And making a tit of themselves.
It would be programmed into their contacts bit.
Mobiles with reminders are damn handy imo. I use mine quite often and tbh wouldn't want a phone without that facility.
I think you're just trying to be awkward about this
So not liking the concept of mobile phones = awkward. I can live with that
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
So not liking the concept of mobile phones = awkward. I can live with that
Not not liking them, the way you have responded(or not) in this thread
I don't like them much and it pees me off when people have them 'surgically attached' but I can see that they do have some usefulness.
Not not liking them, the way you have responded(or not) in this thread
I don't like them much and it pees me off when people have them 'surgically attached' but I can see that they do have some usefulness.
Me too but I'm not going to make their argument for them
