I damn well hope there's a problem (Mobile phone safety)

Member Name: moronboy

Product:	Mobile phone safety
Date:	12/11/00 (14 review reads)
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Advantages: Radiation may be a good thing if mobiles start looking less attractive

Disadvantages: I may sound just a teeny teeny bit callous

I'm actually hoping that the mobile phone will prove to be a sort of Darwinian force in society - i.e., after the excessive mobile phone users' brains have all melted and run out of their ears, the survivors will all be a bit better off.

Example of why this scare should be true: I'm in a cinema on Friday night watching a film ('The Yards', excellent by the way), and towards the end, some complete loser's tinkly small-penis-indicator ring-tone echoes through the auditorium. And aforementioned mentally challenged user doesn't switch it off, or hastily kill off the conversation. He just starts gabbing. And as soon as he sees the consternation he's causing, he actually makes a call or two, just to show everyone that he's got a mobile phone.

The idea of placing a transmitter next to your head doesn't sound like too smart a notion. But I guess those people for whom a mobile is a useful tool, a way of calling home to say you're late, or calling the AA when you break down are probably OK. It's the girl who sat behind me on a bus just filling half-an-hour with conversations of mind-numbing inanity who's doomed. Or the people who are at one end of Sainsburys, asking the person who is evidently at the other end of Sainsburys what sandwiches to buy. Or the pair of clowns I watched using their mobiles to navigate towards each other in the Trafford Centre. I'm not making this up, it was hypnotic to watch.

You don't need a reassuring bubble of babble to surround you, it is actually possible to traverse the world either with another human beside you, or alone, rather than carrying around this haze of shouted conversation about absolutely nothing.

Or is the radiation already doing its work? Is the fact that you never overhear a mobile conversation with even the remotest hint of coherence or thought in it because the users are already succumbing to a mobile-induced version of Altzeimers?


I guess I don't really want hordes of dopey phone addicts to start dropping like flies.... no really, I don't, but whether the brain cells are being zapped or not, I really hope the chance might start putting people off using the damn things.

By the way, for all mobile phone users, who have found this discourse confusing because I haven't made gratuitous reference to where I am, I'm in the spare room. NO, THE SPARE ROOM.... THE SPARE ROOM.....

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