Didn't expect to see memes making fun of mental illnesses on Lemmy
Bro. You almost gave me a heart attack for a second there, making me think I somehow posted something VERY different.
LOL new prank just dropped
Plot twist: Dude is actually talking to the top of his phone, not the bottom.
Nerds might catch this joke a little quicker..
Imagine meeting the love of your life and then finding out they talk on the phone ~~like this~~
Imagine meeting the love of your life and then finding out they talk ~~on the phone~~
Imagine meeting the love of your life ~~and then finding out they talk on the phone~~
Imagine meeting the love of you~~r life~~
When did this become a thing anyway? When out and about, I see everyone talking on the phone like this.
I don't want to hear your conversation.
The theory I've heard is that people on reality TV shows would do this so the mics could pick up their conversations better. So naturally, ~~brainless idiots without an original thought in their dense godforsaken skulls~~ people who watch those shows started doing it in real life too because they saw popular people doing it on TV.
It's just a theory, but it seems plausible because it's clearly not how phones were designed to function on speakerphone or otherwise.
That's where the trend is putting books spine first into a bookshelf came from too.
The tv producers don't want to spend days asking for permission to use book spine graphics in the shot, not spend time blurring the film, so they flip the books around to hide all the spine art. It's on HGTV a ton.
I don't even want to hear my conversation, I just have to - but someone else's, wtf?
It should become socially acceptable to slap their phones, maybe from bottom up for a greater comedic effect.
Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
I call this "pizza phone" because it looks like they are eating their phone like a slice of pizza.
I see a lot of kids/teens walking around doing this.
I think perhaps they don’t know how phones work as phones.
A couple weeks ago I saw a high schooler asking friends to grab his phone, but they couldn't hear him. So he mimed typing with his thumbs.
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How did we lose holding a handset to your ear as the pantomime for phone???? I've heard Nirvana on the classic rock station and it didn't make me feel as old as this.
ITT a bunch of fucking losers claiming to have hearing problems and would rather be a dick in public than invest in proper headphones.
Note on the claim part, I don't believe a fraction of the assholes here, just trying to justify their assholery. People with legitimate hearing issues tend to accept the support technology that's readily available these days. I spend quite a bit of time around folks who are actually hard of hearing.
Even if they do have hearing issues, a phone pressed against your ear will sound much louder with much greater clarity compared to the speaker mode.
Man bun and v-neck weren't helping the case.
Damn. Are the cishets still going on about gatekeeping man buns and v-necks? I thought that tiresome rhetoric died off around 2010.
Wow I almost feel singled out by this. But I presume that this is supposed to be in public. Which by every account is a dick move.
However I do this in private, I.e. in my car or at home. And the reason I do it is because I can't hear a call without using the speaker phone. Hearing issues aren't fun.
However the easier solution is headphones, but calls over Bluetooth can make things worse, from battery life to sound quality.
Wired headphones are the preferable solution to this but we all know what happened to those.
TL:DR I do this because of my hearing issues. In public this is a dick move, but headphones aren't the solution they use to be.
In my defense, I've had a phone hang up or do weird stuff because it couldn't tell the difference between a fingertip and an earlobe way too many times. Like, a shitty phone has nearly altered the course of my life because of this, and that's not okay.
You should be able to hit the power button while on a call and turn off the display, then put it to your ear. Much less effort than the people around you have to make to keep from slapping you
I do this when I'm on the phone and alone. Or I set my phone on my tits. But only when I am isolated. I don't want to bother people with my phone on speaker.
That's not the normal way to talk when you are alone in the room?
Guess no one will find out because I am alone.
I know this is a joke but if I found my match but they had a minor flaw I would probably try real hard to make it work and maybe even explain to them that their bad habit annoys me slightly. Nobody is perfect and theres always room to improve for those willing to try
What is worse is when people are wearing a Bluetooth headset and still holds their phone like this.
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