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justcola posted:I was wondering if anyone knew why young people talk on the phone via the loudspeaker? I lent my phone to a lad and he put it on loudspeaker straight away then starting talking to it like a Star Trek communicator - I noticed it a few years ago when I was managing another guy on work experience and he was trying to book a venue - but it just seems odd to me. I could understand if their hearing was hosed or it was a way of having your friends hear a conversation or something, but I don't know really. That particular way of holding the phone with the screen facing the sky and talking into the bottom of it with the loudspeaker on *seemed* to coincide with the boom in reality TV. Quite often they'd have to capture both sides of a phone call, and the various ways of doing that properly (using special phones, clipping something to the phone, getting a film crew in to cover whoever's making the call) were much more annoying to set up than just putting it on speaker and floating a shotgun mic over the heads of the people on the phone. (Hence the phone being held at that weird angle). I've got no idea if this is just coincidence but I want to believe that it's totally down to people watching that on TV and just internalising "oh yes, that's a reasonable way to hold a mobile phone, of course" and copying it. Like once enough people were doing it it just caught on and became a thing. Edit: 48 is a mobile phone operator in Ireland and the international access code for Poland Isomermaid fucked around with this message at 15:48 on Sep 10, 2020 |
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Red Oktober posted:Yeah, I signed up weeks ago, was told someone would be in touch to schedule the appointment and.... nothing. Pity, I could use the cash (vouchers) right now! Same. I registered a month ago, haven't heard a peep from them since.
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I use my phone that way because for some reason iPhones have really really quiet phone speakers and I can’t hear poo poo without putting it on loudspeaker. Then again I’m also pretty deaf owing to a combination of loud music and large calibre weaponry during my teen years
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Miftan posted:Made it all the way to the Prager cameo before I had to close it. Only about half the things they said could be considered "jokes" meant to make people "laugh" and that's if I was being generous tbh Hilary Ambivalence Syndrome is pretty good, mostly because they accidentally stumbled into a left-wring critique of Hilary.
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Isomermaid posted:That particular way of holding the phone with the screen facing the sky and talking into the bottom of it with the loudspeaker on *seemed* to coincide with the boom in reality TV. Quite often they'd have to capture both sides of a phone call, and the various ways of doing that properly (using special phones, clipping something to the phone, getting a film crew in to cover whoever's making the call) were much more annoying to set up than just putting it on speaker and floating a shotgun mic over the heads of the people on the phone. (Hence the phone being held at that weird angle). So I do this, not holding it, but if I'm calling anybody I like to be able to move around and not be tethered/holding my phone. The point where I'd not put it on speaker is if it was a really serious conversation that I wanted to very much focus on.. Otherwise I want to be able to put my phone in my pocket, run downstairs to grab something and keep up the conversation without having to switch back and forth or have the phone nailed to my ear
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justcola posted:I was wondering if anyone knew why young people talk on the phone via the loudspeaker? I lent my phone to a lad and he put it on loudspeaker straight away then starting talking to it like a Star Trek communicator - I noticed it a few years ago when I was managing another guy on work experience and he was trying to book a venue - but it just seems odd to me. I could understand if their hearing was hosed or it was a way of having your friends hear a conversation or something, but I don't know really. I do it if I don't have headphones in already and I'm on my own. I just hate having my phone up to my ear. It also allows me to sneakily browse Twitter and forums while speaking to the GP or whoever.
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blunt posted:Yeeeeeees. Quite impressive just how bad most of that was. Not even offensive, just bad.
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StarkingBarfish posted:Same. I registered a month ago, haven't heard a peep from them since. The girl who has me as her boyfriend is doing this. They've had the first test, there's a month of weekly tests, then it flips to once a month for a year. They said allow two weeks for the vouchers which could be used all sorts of places, Amazon was the one she mentioned. Between her and the kids the money will pay for their Xmas.
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Mega Comrade posted:(I'm being nosey cos I'm Leicester alumni) I thought account sharing was banned
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Dennis prager is very funny if only in that he is indirectly responsible for prageru youtube edits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG_Ue3t17l0
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NotJustANumber99 posted:The girl who has me as her boyfriend is doing this.
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There are apparently UK threads in GBS and BYOB (and CSPAM I think too) so there are several which are nominally shitpostier than this one.
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This is the classy and intelligent thread where we post well sourced evidence and fire beans up our backsides.
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justcola posted:I was wondering if anyone knew why young people talk on the phone via the loudspeaker? I lent my phone to a lad and he put it on loudspeaker straight away then starting talking to it like a Star Trek communicator - I noticed it a few years ago when I was managing another guy on work experience and he was trying to book a venue - but it just seems odd to me. I could understand if their hearing was hosed or it was a way of having your friends hear a conversation or something, but I don't know really. Not just young people, my mother does it all the time. I don't think she realizes. It was very interesting one afternoon when she received a highly agitated phone call from one of my siblings concerning another sibling with whom relations are not good and who had turned up unexpectedly and was sitting downstairs. Mum took the call in her bedroom, directly over the sitting room. We could all hear every word. Let's just say it did not improve relations!
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OwlFancier posted:There are apparently UK threads in GBS and BYOB (and CSPAM I think too) so there are several which are nominally shitpostier than this one. The BYOB one got moved to chat threads then GBS. Fair warning I started it and Jose is mod. The CSPAM one I don't know about but is supposedly funnier and shitpostier.
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justcola posted:I was wondering if anyone knew why young people talk on the phone via the loudspeaker? I lent my phone to a lad and he put it on loudspeaker straight away then starting talking to it like a Star Trek communicator - I noticed it a few years ago when I was managing another guy on work experience and he was trying to book a venue - but it just seems odd to me. I could understand if their hearing was hosed or it was a way of having your friends hear a conversation or something, but I don't know really. I've often wondered this and the only conclusion I can come to is that "famous" people do it too and the youth like to copy them.
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I don't get the bus much these day but when I did my absolute favourite thing in the world was the young guy at the back playing music loudly through his phones mono speaker. VVV But that's in your own home yes? You're not sat on a park bench or in the office? Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Sep 10, 2020 |
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Dead Goon posted:I've often wondered this and the only conclusion I can come to is that "famous" people do it too and the youth like to copy them. That's weird of you. I do it because I can hear better that way, and can quickly rest the phone on something if I need to use my hands, and there are no downsides.
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Huh I never knew that "nuh uh, I had my fingers crossed!" was an actual cornerstone of English Law, glad the government is here to educate me! A friend is from Goa and if you mention Suella Braverman, flies into an immediate rage about her and how she is a disgrace to the country (her father and/or grandfather was Goan). I think the only person that angers him more is Priti Patel but I can't test this as I haven't seen him in person for 6 months.
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Oh dear me posted:That's weird of you. I do it because I can hear better that way, and can quickly rest the phone on something if I need to use my hands, and there are no downsides. Other than everybody in the vicinity being able to hear the conversation? I have no desire to listen to you on the phone, let alone the person on the other end too!
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Mega Comrade posted:But that's in your own home yes? You're not sat on a park bench or in the office? My phone goes on speakerphone automatically, wherever, and I don't change it. If a call would be disruptive to people around me I just leave the room or keep it short, and I'd do just the same if people around could only hear my side of the conversation because that's just as disruptive I think, so what point would there be in holding my phone as if it were a landline?
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The GBS thread is for discussing full English breakfasts and Jaffa cakes. This thread is the same, except sometimes it gets spoiled with politics.
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You can theoretically use a phone quietly, and in the process treat the person on the other end to an impromptu ASMR session, but you can't do that if you're yelling at it through the speakerphone.
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Guavanaut posted:This is the classy and intelligent thread purely by virtue of being minus one (1) particular poster
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Guavanaut posted:This is the classy and intelligent thread Oh dear me posted:My phone goes on speakerphone automatically, wherever, and I don't change it. Something wrong here.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:purely by virtue of being minus one (1) particular poster no this thread is the one i post in
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So the Attorney General has made a statement about the upcoming Brexit legislation. https://twitter.com/sebastianepayne/status/1304066214596153345?s=21 As has been pointed out by others, that if a First Year law student tried giving that definition of Dualisim, you’d fail them. Totally normal for 2020.
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Guavanaut posted:This is the classy and intelligent thread where we post well sourced evidence and fire beans up our backsides. Up?! Oh man I've been doing this all wrong
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OwlFancier posted:I mean, yes, we could also fund someone to bash a random thread member's ballsack in with a mallet and that would have a greater possibility of actually increasing the sum total of human happiness. 100% if I am either the "random" thread member chosen OR the mallet wielder!
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Ms Adequate posted:100% if I am either the "random" thread member chosen OR the mallet wielder! You can be looking in through a window shouting "YES! YES!"
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bessantj posted:You can be looking in through a window shouting "YES! YES!" Sicko
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The Question IRL posted:So the Attorney General has made a statement about the upcoming Brexit legislation. I don't think anyone ever challenged if it was legal or not? Just that it's a loving terrible idea.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Oo- er missus. I made a post on the support board about it and I will continue to see what kind of chain links my account to the phone (all I can think of is google accounts, but that shouldn't be possible IMO), it is really indefensible for the app to work like that regardless of how it's linked
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bessantj posted:You can be looking in through a window shouting "YES! YES!" I'm like an SCP but I always appear outside the windows of people doing BDSM
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Ms Adequate posted:I'm like an SCP but I always appear outside the windows of people doing BDSM 
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His Divine Shadow posted:I made a post on the support board about it and I will continue to see what kind of chain links my account to the phone (all I can think of is google accounts, but that shouldn't be possible IMO), it is really indefensible for the app to work like that regardless of how it's linked I missed the first go round with this but I remember reading a similar problem where it boiled down to the fact that the FB account was a personal one that had been converted to an account for a business, rather than a business account being set up, and this being copied into the standard build. I don't think it's fixable without FB involvement, so probably best to keep the bean-blasting PMs to a minimum until it's fixed.
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I like it when people hold their phones flat like they're carrying an invisible beverage, but then because it's a loud environment press the microphone end against their ear. Also: Guavanaut posted:I think so, but it's telling that she can think of two stereotypical poor Black areas and would base the merits of BLM on that but would not base the merits of whiteness on Tile Hill..
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Nothingtoseehere posted:I don't think anyone ever challenged if it was legal or not? Just that it's a loving terrible idea. Oh I know it's not Legal. More that this was the best justification that the AG (whose job is to be the Government's Lawyer to give.) could give. It's a stunningly bad description of what Duality for National/International Law means. Like this is some "Wesley Snipe's Accountant" level of wrong.
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