Anyone out there without a mobile phone?

InkSlinger67 · 29-10-2011 12:30PM #1

Back in the 90's, when mobile phones became more easily accessible to the wider public, I resisted purchasing a mobile because I didn't want people knowing where I was all the time.....that's right - I was Hep, Daddio! Eventually, I had to give in and purchase an 088 brick for work reasons. I'm just wondering, are there people out there who refuse purchasing a mobile today for similar or any other reasons?

Today, they seem like they've become a need-to-have thing with the multiple functions they provide apart from being a regular phone. I suppose you could even call certain mobiles status symbols or fashion items these days on top of everything else. I still have a mobile but it's nothing spectacular.

"Sent from my Nokia 3210"

joshrogan · 29-10-2011 12:33PM

No I use interpretive dances as a means of communication.

Marcus_Crassus · 29-10-2011 12:39PM

Better get yourself to a doctor if you're positive you're "Hep"..

4leto · 29-10-2011 12:43PM

I was 3 weeks without one recently, I was better off, definitely less hassled, but I did get one again for the raw convenience of them, so I am now rewired to the world, and work, and people wanting stuff, and "what are you doing now", and could you do me a favour, etc. Does anyone ever ring for just a friendly chat. Maybe that's a 40s thing.

dxhound2005 · 29-10-2011 12:50PM

I only use mine to cook eggs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11uCPYb4a8w

orourkeda · 29-10-2011 12:51PM

joshrogan wrote: »

No I use interpretive dances as a means of communication.

Dave McSavage is that you?

bitemybanger · 29-10-2011 01:01PM

Anyne without a mobile in this day and age are usually trying too hard to be a "rebel" or just a Scrooge.
I knew a lad that didn't have on cause "they fry your brain" and thaught the Garda were listening to you 24/7 even when the phone was off:eek:

Yakult · 29-10-2011 01:11PM

Morse code ftw.

Savage Tyrant · 29-10-2011 01:23PM

Hate them. Wouldn't have one about me. Annoying yolks.

Posted from my iPhone

DEFTLEFTHAND · 29-10-2011 01:29PM

I don't, I just hang around everybody I know all the time.

Eve_Dublin · 29-10-2011 01:30PM

I resisted getting one for a few years at the end of the 90s because I thought they were for yuppies then finally got one when I opened a student account with AIB my first year in college in '99.

Didn't have one for a year when I was travelling and it was a massive weight off my shoulders (not because it was made of lead...metaphorically, silly!;)). Have a simple Nokia now..the cheapest one I could get and only use it to text to meet up with people. That's it. Never make calls from it and rarely answer my phone (hate talking on the phone). I value my own time and hate it being interrupted by phonecalls and everyone has got the message by now.

stovelid · 29-10-2011 01:32PM

InkSlinger67 wrote: »

I was Hep, Daddio!

No you weren't.

Dotrel · 29-10-2011 01:32PM

Have one but pretty much never use it. I top it up by €20 every six months (which I understand is the min you need to keep it alive). Never make calls or texts with it. Just have it for receiving calls.

punk77 · 29-10-2011 01:33PM

I refused to get my son a mobile but,due to his constant bawling,I've had a change of heart,and promised to get him one for his 1st birthday.

Dotrel · 29-10-2011 01:35PM

punk77 wrote: »

I refused to get my son a mobile but,due to his constant bawling,I've had a change of heart,and promised to get him one for his 1st birthday.

I think you should wait until he's 2. Show him who's boss.

Mike 1972 · 29-10-2011 01:36PM

bitemybanger wrote: »

I knew a lad that didn't have on cause "they fry your brain" and thaught the Garda were listening to you 24/7 even when the phone was off:eek:

Given the amount of halluciogenic substances in his system perhaps it wasnt an entirely unfounded belief ?

stovelid · 29-10-2011 01:40PM

I always expect the retro-luddite oneupmanship in these threads to reach such a fever pitch that somebody will claim to be using a coin op phone that they wheel around in a wheelbarrow.

punk77 · 29-10-2011 01:40PM

Dotrel wrote: »

I think you should wait until he's 2. Show him who's boss.

I know,I know.True that,but,though I've tried reasoning with him,he's just not making any sense.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 29-10-2011 01:41PM

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Given the amount of halluciogenic substances in his system perhaps it wasnt an entirely unfounded belief ?

Though in the late 90's that was a big topical issue with mobile phones. I remember people telling me that using one was akin to sticking your head in an oven. :eek:

punk77 · 29-10-2011 01:46PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Though in the late 90's that was a big topical issue with mobile phones. I remember people telling me that using one was akin to sticking your head in an oven. :eek:

....and they were giving you their benefit of experience,HOW? From beyond the grave????

Capt'n Midnight · 29-10-2011 01:46PM

joshrogan wrote: »

No I use interpretive dances as a means of communication.

Well I'll bee...

Capt'n Midnight · 29-10-2011 01:47PM

I know someone who doesn't use a mobile phone.

But he has a GSM base station :pac:

DEFTLEFTHAND · 29-10-2011 01:51PM

punk77 wrote: »

....and they were giving you their benefit of experience,HOW? From beyond the grave????

No, you know the types who believe everything they hear on the news and suddenly become experts on the topic.

mikemac · 29-10-2011 01:54PM

Yes, there were these little flashing things you put on your phone and they were supposed to deal with the radiation

That scaremongering story with the same way as bird flu and swine flu

But someone was making money out of it

Mike 1972 · 29-10-2011 02:01PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Though in the late 90's that was a big topical issue with mobile phones. I remember people telling me that using one was akin to sticking your head in an oven. :eek:

In fairness its not as stupid as those who own a mobile phone but object to the presence of masts.

zenno · 29-10-2011 02:08PM

you people are all walking around with bricks, the mobile phone i use is integrated into a finger ring and transmits a hologram screen on any surface for texting. looks like most of you are living in the dark ages with those awkward large heavy blocks.

Savage Tyrant · 29-10-2011 02:08PM

I believe there is something to the radiation stories regarding phones actually.
I get blinding vicious headaches when I've been talking on mine.

Come to think of it, the only people who ever ring me are my boss and my girlfriend. Wonder if that has anything to do with it?

Cee-Jay-Cee · 29-10-2011 02:10PM

I still use HAM radio and have a CB in my car.

ejmaztec · 29-10-2011 02:10PM

stovelid wrote: »

I always expect the retro-luddite oneupmanship in these threads to reach such a fever pitch that somebody will claim to be using a coin op phone that they wheel around in a wheelbarrow.

That's grossly unfair, I don't use a wheelbarrow.

zenno · 29-10-2011 02:11PM

the future is near... http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9201400/Holograms_on_cell_phones_coming_in_five_years_IBM_predicts

Yakult · 29-10-2011 02:12PM

zenno wrote: »

the future is near... http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9201400/Holograms_on_cell_phones_coming_in_five_years_IBM_predicts

The future was now, but it passed. So now its the present, but in another second it will be the future.

Anyone out there without a mobile phone?

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