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Have you seen these signs around town? We did, too. Apparently, so did some of our readers who asked us if we knew about the signs. A few Google searches didn't make it obvious. But then we stumbled across this and we're pretty sure these signs are part of HTC's YOU campaign.
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Guerilla marketing......ungh.
And Chicagoist bit the hook, line, and sinker.
Dude, someone asked, we answered.
Fuck Me, You
I like how a cellphone is simply a leash you pay for.
God, is that ever so true.
And yet most people jump right in and buy the things, and they're thrilled to do it. This is something I've never understood.
I have one, of course, but I never use it. I'm the least accessible person alive. People hate me because I never pick up.
That's not why people hate you.
I kid, I kid.
Let me have my delusions, dammit!
Bluefairline
omg...I'm the same way. It's like the ring of the phone doesn't even register in my brain. I'm always getting razzed for that!
I remember once, years ago, I was walking down the street and I actually did hear a phone ring and I said to the person who was walking up to me, a complete stranger "Your phone's ringing"...just kind of as a joke, because she wasn't answering it. And it wasn't her phone, it was mine.
I also find it amazing the things people will stop doing to answer a phone. There seems to be this trigger in people that they can't just let the thing ring. Enjoying a pleasant dinner conversation? Having sex? Diffusing a suitcase nuke? Doesn't matter. They MUST ANSWER THE PHONE!
THAT is of my biggest pet peeves....when I'm with someone and they answer their cell phone. Jeez...I would NEVER do that. It's like the height of rudeness.
I mean, it's called 'voicemal'....check into it, you know?
And don't even get me started on opening cell phones in the theatre...I am not a confrontational person at all, but I don't care who you are...if I see the light from your phone in my eyes when I'm trying to watch a movie, you're going to get a tap on the shoulder from me.
I've been at movies where these jerks will just open their phones and start looking at their photograph collection...once, these punks were doing this during an exciting part of one of the Bourne Identity movies!!!!! I couldn't believe it!!! It took all my strength to not jump over the seat and throttle them!!!
I tease friends about it when they do that: "Oh was that the hospital? Do they need you to perform neurosurgery stat?"
an alarm clock set by someone else.
Re: kids and cellphones, 2:38 in:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/99923/the-simpsons-bart-gets-a-z
Oops, let me link that for you:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/99923/the-simpsons-bart-gets-a-z
And most people don't need them. Sorry, not everyone is a pediatric neurosurgeon. Not every parent needs to be wired into their child's every movement and not every moment must be documented on grainy phone cams.
I don't have one and people my age (I'm 28) think I'm INSANE. Last year my boss offered to buy everyone in our firm phones for company use. I was the lone opt-out. Led to this weird closed-door meeting where my boss got all nervous like I was planning to quit or had some religious objection or something "Who doesn't want an iPhone?".
I have a phone at work. I have a laptop for the field (which has a broadband card) and I have a land line at home. A land line that gets perfect reception, never drops out, never loses service (like when a plane goes overhead or someone turns on a microwave) and just works. I get by just fine not being able to twitter my breakfast selections or take pictures of all the curious dog crap I saw at the park.
What a Luddite.
Do you know who the Luddites were? They were English textile workers who saw the mechanization of the process steal their jobs and impoverish their families. "King Ludd" was a symbol of working class rebellion. People whose livelihoods were annihilated by technology. Only the government in the UK making the destruction of machines a hanging offense (and hanging a good number of Luddites) stopped them.
Perhaps you mean "Neo-luddite", as in someone who opposes all technological advancement. Though the fact I'm typing this on a Macbook pro which cost more than my first car would seem to argue against that.
Now that you're legless, will you hop about on the stumps of your argument to make a point?
omigod, Nevins...relax for just once, will you? It was a joke. A joke.
I certainly don't think that you're really a Luddite.
Do you need a hug?
i, for one, am glad that chicagoist posted this. i was outside stanley's last night wondering why that billboard just said "YOU." i was half convinced someone just got happy with a can of spray paint.
i really kinda like these billboards. It makes me stop and think about "me"
Nobody's added "suck" to any of these billboards yet? Our graffiti vandals are getting lazy.
I got a cell phone in 2004 because it got to the the point where not having one was becoming a huge inconvenience and pay phones were becoming increasingly scarce. Now I only have a cell -- no landline. This works out fine. The ringer's usually off. My friends joke that I never answer it. It's because I'm screening. The thing I dislike the most about cell phones is that they allow people to be non-committal. Beer after work? "Maybe I'll meet up with you. I'll give you a call." Translation: I'll meet up with you if a better opportunity doesn't come along.
Typical Reaction to the Revelation That I Do Not Own a Cell Phone, By Year, by the brilliant Defective Yeti.