Super scientific poll on a new(ish) pet peeve!
Super scientific poll on a new(ish) pet peeve!
Driving home with my family from the other side of the state today it occurred to me just how much having someone on the phone while I drive annoys me. I was wondering if anyone shared in the aggravation
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
Re: Super scientific poll on a new(ish) pet peeve!
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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I would have chosen "Kill the motherfucker" if it was there...
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May prove difficult while driving.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
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Thank you, RayThom; I was going to post something along the same lines myself.
You just beat me to it.
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Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
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You would need a very powerful & expensive jammer to have the ability to jam the cell phone in a car on the road. Besides, they'd probably start playing with it to figure out what's wrong and then crash. Oh wait... that would be okay.
The best jammers are the ones you can carry in your pocket. If I had one, it would work very well on people within 30 feet and I would carry it with me and have fun using it often. It would have cost me about $100.00 on sale online and I would have had it for about 5 years now and it would still work fine.
The best jammers are the ones you can carry in your pocket. If I had one, it would work very well on people within 30 feet and I would carry it with me and have fun using it often. It would have cost me about $100.00 on sale online and I would have had it for about 5 years now and it would still work fine.
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Man there's an awful lot of supposition there. Thankfully most normal and sane people wouldn't dare entertain such folly for fear of being viewed as a Trump voter, or worse -- it that were possible.Joe Guy wrote:The best jammers are the ones you can carry in your pocket. If I had one, it would work very well on people within 30 feet and I would carry it with me and have fun using it often. It would have cost me about $100.00 on sale online and I would have had it for about 5 years now and it would still work fine.
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
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At one time I had a cloth that, when wrapped around a cell phone, created a Faraday cage effect and blocked the signals to the phone. And it can be done on a larger scale —
A bar owner in the UK has built a Faraday cage to stop customers using their phones.
So while auto manufacturers could, in theory, build a Faraday cage into their cars to block external electromagnetic signals, something like that would create far more problems with the rest of the electronics in the car — GPS, electronic ignition, even the simple dashboard radio — than it would solve.
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A bar owner in the UK has built a Faraday cage to stop customers using their phones.
So while auto manufacturers could, in theory, build a Faraday cage into their cars to block external electromagnetic signals, something like that would create far more problems with the rest of the electronics in the car — GPS, electronic ignition, even the simple dashboard radio — than it would solve.
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Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
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As others have posted (in fact, I already knew) that interfering with cell phone signals is against the law in the US.
As far as I know, these so-called jamming devices are legal in the UK.
As far as I know, these so-called jamming devices are legal in the UK.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
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rubato
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That is why they are called pet peeves -- not everyone is bugged by this (including myself). Which raises the question of people who get cars that don't have the turn signal package -- if it bugs everyone, then is it really a pet peeve?Crackpot wrote: how much having someone on the phone while I drive annoys me. I was wondering if anyone shared in the aggravation
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If I had one, it would look exactly like that one.RayThom wrote: Man there's an awful lot of supposition there. Thankfully most normal and sane people wouldn't dare entertain such folly for fear of being viewed as a Trump voter, or worse -- it that were possible.