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I live in New York City and there are very few places outside the home where you can hold up your phone like a pocket mirror and speak into it without looking l
by atdt 10y ago
I live in New York City and there are very few places outside the home where you can hold up your phone like a pocket mirror and speak into it without looking like an asshole.
- sigmar 10y agoI've seen tons of people video chatting throughout public spaces in NYC, usually with headphones on so they can hear the other person. None of those people looked "like an asshole"
- flukus 10y agoI always think they're assholes, annoying me with their boring conversations. At least put the speakerphone on so we can hear both sides of the conversation.
- obmelvin 10y agoHow is it any different from talking on the phone? Something that probably millions do daily in NYC.
- flukus 10y agoIt isn't. I think your an asshole if you use your phone on public transport.
- netrus 10y agoHow is it different from having a conversation with the person next to you? Wait, are those assholes too? Or just when you can understand one of them, but not the other? Oh the misanthropy ...
- flukus 10y agoThe phone is generally a lot louder, and filled with a lot more "SORRY I MISSED THAT, I'M GOING THROUGH A TUNNEL".
- wutbrodo 10y agoSo your problem is with "loud conversations", but you decided to use the very fuzzy proxy of "phone conversations" because........?
- flukus 10y agoBecause it's the because subset of loud conversations I'm subjected too. I also find it much more distracting when you can only hear one side of the conversation.
- orangecat 10y agoIt really is more distracting to hear only one side of a conversation compared to both, e.g. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0058579 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
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