What do you call those people that walk around staring into their phones?

mrcheez

Apart from "Millennials" of course :P

They are to pedestrians what ninja-bikers are to cyclists.

RainMakerToo

Smombies

Noddyholder

Phone stair us

Arghus

Phone Zombies.

SEPT 23 1989

a crime statistic

team_actimel

Brain dead

The embodiement of all thats wrong with the 2010s

osarusan

people that walk around staring into their phones.

cbreeze

Phonkers

BuyersRemorse

Phonies.

Add another 10000 twat points for the ones who have bluetooth earpieces and walk around having full-on conversations.

Winterlong

BuyersRemorse wrote: »

Phonies.

Add another 10000 twat points for the ones who have bluetooth earpieces and walk around having full-on conversations.

Worse is those who walk round with those earpieces in when not on a call.

castletownman

Don't be too quick to judge lads.

They may well be a "snapchat star" or one of those modern fads.

Tossers.

Bio Mech

Their first name followed by their second?

biko

Phone ****

Kimbot

Call them whatever you want, they arent going to notice cos they are too busy looking at their phone.

valoren

4Geebags

Mint Sauce

Road Kill

Sam Kade

jonnycivic wrote: »

Call them whatever you want, they arent going to notice cos they are too busy looking at their phone.

Not if they are on boards

mrcheez

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/287643/what-do-you-call-the-habit-of-looking-into-smartphone-while-walking

"Smartphone zombie" apparently. Bit of a mouthful.

"Text-walker" is a bit catchier... just wanted to know how to phrase it when saying "there was a text-walker on the bike path walking headlong into oncoming traffic" (as happened to me yesterday on the cycle home)

I don't know how anyone can walk and look at their phone at the same time without causing or being in an accident. I've walked into lamposts when I've just been chatting to someone beside me, not looking at my phone.

Once I walked into a bus stop because I tried to take a sip of water while I was walking. If I was walking around looking at my phone on the street, I'd be dead before dinner. I'm not one of these multi-taskers women are meant to be. I can walk and I can talk but I'm probably best left to do one at a time.

Isn't the word for biological beings augmented by technology "Cyborgs" or something? Elon Musk in a recent talk said we have basically reached the point where we are all essentially Cyborgs. The difference is merely a matter of location. We have integrated the technology into us in pretty much every sense other than actually implanting it into our body.

So yea I will go with Cyborgs on this one

fizzypish

preoccupied

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I usually use the now antiquated term 'prats' . I have got to the point that I no longer dodge and weave as they plot an intercept course with me. I just let them collide and I give an indignant grumble when they apologise.

dexter_morgan

Walker texter stranger

team_actimel

Esperanza Large Tooth wrote: »

I usually use the now antiquated term 'prats' . I have got to the point that I no longer dodge and weave as they plot an intercept course with me. I just let them collide and I give an indignant grumble when they apologise.

They're like some of the buggy brigade, they expect you to move when the buggy is about to ram into you!

Boom_Bap

What is the obsession with trying to label everybody?

endacl

mrcheez

Boom_Bap wrote: »

What is the obsession with trying to label everybody?

Because there is a significant number of people partaking of this moronic past-time to warrant it, and "person walking around staring into their phone" is a mouthful when you want to describe the idiot that blindly walked into you

BENDYBINN

A phone phucker

4068ac1elhodqr

luminesTEXTences

Special Circumstances

Moderators

BlinkingLights

I just call them "FFS would you watch where you're going!"

Nothing worse than a phone gazing zombie bumping into you while you're walking around typing on your iPad.

Boom_Bap

Boom_Bap wrote: »

What is the obsession with trying to label everybody?

Oh you a-labelists with your strident agendas.

Graces7

Never actually seen one bump into anything so maybe they have a kind of inbuilt radar so in fact they are like BATS, batty ... I feel sorry for them as they miss such a lot.

...And Justice

BuyersRemorse wrote: »

Phonies.

Add another 10000 twat points for the ones who have bluetooth earpieces and walk around having full-on conversations.

And elf shoes - like wearing elf shoes makes you important, "yaw yaw yaw, like do the deal loike", shut it you half baked intern..

B.A._Baracus

People like that annoy me
You'll walk into a pole if you're not looking.

BlinkingLights

...And Justice wrote: »

And elf shoes - like wearing elf shoes makes you important, "yaw yaw yaw, like do the deal loike", shut it you half baked intern..

I really don't like the current menswear trends : super skinny trousers, elf shoes and a shirt so fitted you look like the hulk about to burst out of it all topped off with a suit jacket about 4 sizes too small.

I had a meeting with a guy yesterday who quite literally struggled to sit down because his trousers were so utterly ridiculously tight.

Junkyard Tom

Peripheralvisionistas. I'm one.

endacl

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

People like that annoy me
You'll walk into a pole if you're not looking.

Never would have happened years ago before all the Poles moved over here. Of course, we didn't have phones to be staring at back then either...

...And Justice

BlinkingLights wrote: »

I really don't like the current menswear trends : super skinny trousers, elf shoes and a shirt so fitted you look like the hulk about to burst out of it all topped off with a suit jacket about 4 sizes too small.

I had a meeting with a guy yesterday who quite literally struggled to sit down because his trousers were so utterly ridiculously tight.

Funny thing it's supposed to be "casual" there's nothing casual about it, and it's not professional either. I have a boss that hates, and I mean hates that sort of get up. We were hiring a new specialist and one of the candidates was dressed like that, he said; " that fcuking clown isn't getting the job, I don't care how good his CV is, if you can't dress properly for an interview, then fcuk off"


Bit harsh I thought, but there is that point of view out there, particularly managers in their mid 40's. Not everyone is like that, but still..:pac:

darkpagandeath

Only thing I look at on my phone when Out is the Bus app, Boards.

DontThankMe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH1efYwfUcM

Lorelli!

Walkers

Beasty

The last one I saw I call Barry...

Anyway, I prefer them to be walking rather than driving

mrcheez

Lorelli! wrote: »

Walkers

I hate it when auto-spell replaces n with l too

Donal55

BlinkingLights wrote: »

I really don't like the current menswear trends : super skinny trousers, elf shoes and a shirt so fitted you look like the hulk about to burst out of it all topped off with a suit jacket about 4 sizes too small.

I had a meeting with a guy yesterday who quite literally struggled to sit down because his trousers were so utterly ridiculously tight.

You mean TV3 Weather Guy.

Badly Drunk Boy

mrcheez wrote: »

Because there is a significant number of people partaking of this moronic past-time to warrant it, and "person walking around staring into their phone" is a mouthful when you want to describe the idiot that blindly walked into you

And the majority of people in this thread have probably done it. I haven't (because I'm special, and Mammy told me). :pac: I hate phones, and had my first mobile phone foisted upon me as a 33rd birthday present from my family. That was 11 years ago. (For years, they had been trying to make me get one.)

I selected my current phone by the battery life, roughly a week. Also, maybe that's because I don't walk around staring into my phone.


(In summary, I don't like phones. I have a laptop and tablet that I use at appropriate times.)

Alcoheda

CyberBellEnds

Your Face

Its like a 2002 Jay Leno monologue.

the_pen_turner

organ donors

Bambi985

Morons, bellends, plebs, insta-pricks, take your pick