RedRocket191
Senior Member
Just out of curiosity, how many of the people on this forum actually filled out the survey?
My active noise cancelling bud earphones really help. I paid $80 US a year ago, they are a sound investment.
...It's hardly the end of the world either way.
...no pun intended?
I agree, one can shut onesself off from the hubub. I just think it's not a big deal for people to go a few minutes without phone service when they're already en route. It's not like a hotel not having wi=fi or something - it'll just lead to (as myself and others have alluded) teenage yapping and more to do for Blackberry addicts.
Along with those doodads, this is really about our culture and the misguided need to always be attached to everyone else rather than, say, the need for TTC-riding brain surgeons to reachable, lest lives be lost while they're between Eglinton and Lawrence.
Maybe that's being judgmental but I can't imagine too many "important" calls are now being lost to the tunnels...It's hardly the end of the world either way.
As we further mediate and control our own personal micro-worlds, our planet and our society are getting progressively more screwed up.
Re: noise-canceling earphones
I have to say that I find this "solution", and the underlying way of looking at the world, to be quite a damaging force in society. Because you can somehow "solve" the problem for yourself, you can afford to ignore the wider problem and let it spread and grow in the world outside.
I see a direct analogy between this and the fundamentally antisocial nature of the worldview behind suburbia: "I don't have to worry about the world getting uglier and more polluted and highways and industry destroying the landscape if I can just have my own little chunk of an idyllic, pastoral dreamworld."
As we further mediate and control our own personal micro-worlds, our planet and our society are getting progressively more screwed up.
People have been conversing loudly in public for tens of thousands of years. The cellphone conversation is just a new version of it - but really, its nothing new.
Really, it is new, because cell phone conversations are one-sided, and more annoying and difficult to ignore because of that. Eavesdropping on them is also highly unsatisfying.
Well, if you're the type that eavesdrops on everyone's conversations, and resents when you can't understand what they're saying (what's your opinion of people talking loudly in another language?) then I can see how you're bothered by this. If you're looking for a commute without the hassle of loud talkers, buy a car - they're wicked.
Amazing...Now BobBob can basically copy and paste his previous reply. Except replace "Noise canceling earphones" with "buy a car".