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> Can you imagine how goofy you'd look sitting at a coffee shop and just sort of staring into the middle distance and talking, as you take a Zoom call? Honestl
by xpl 2y ago
> Can you imagine how goofy you'd look sitting at a coffee shop and just sort of staring into the middle distance and talking, as you take a Zoom call?
Honestly, people used to say the same thing about Bluetooth hands-free devices years ago, and now no one even bats an eye when someone talks using AirPods.
- Kye 2y agoIt still looks goofy and takes me a moment to register they're talking to someone on a phone when they breeze by.
- stvltvs 2y agoIt still catches me off guard sometimes. Just a personal opinion, but it's a bit offputting because it's distracting to hear only one half of the conversation. My brain is dragged unwillingly into filling in the other half. Also we tend to talk kinda obnoxiously loud on the phone. But I guess that applies equally well to all public phone conversations.
- commakozzi 2y agowhy are you trying to listen in on other people's conversations? mind your business.
- dpassens 2y agoPersonally, I'd love to mind my business, but some people are so obnoxiously loud I don't have a choice.
- stvltvs 2y agoTo clarify, I'm able to ignore in person conversations. Phone conversations are more distracting especially when they're loud. I'm unwillingly drawn into conversations I'd rather ignore.
- Sohcahtoa82 2y agoWhen someone is talking loudly right next to you, they are MAKING it my business.
- shermantanktop 2y ago"...and then he had the nerve to tell me to keep my voice down!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!?! HAHAHAHAHA" Some people act like the rest of us are NPCs.
- vidarh 2y agoca. 25 years ago, I remember seeing the first comic comparing people with hands-free with the "village idiot" and making the point that we couldn't tell regular people apart from the village idiot any longer, because it'd implicitly already become normal. In other words: This was normalized a generation ago. And now I feel very old.
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- zombiwoof 2y agoYeah but those people still look stupid and are annoying (and selfish insecure) “look at me I’m in a coffee shop doing bidness” Almost as annoying as people in airports/planes now watching their phones with no headphones. All out giving no ficks to people around them
- bigstrat2003 2y agoI mean, I certainly do. People with airpids look incredibly goofy.
- ang_cire 2y ago> no one even bats an eye We absolutely do. And there are certain etiquettes that have evolved around airpods/ handsfree phone calls, that can make you weird or even rude to violate.