Beep beep! “Yo! Where you at?”
October 28, 2005
10:47 pm
I hate push-to-talk phones. They fill me with rage. You know those phones that decided that a loud, distorted rap song ringtone wasn’t quite annoying enough, so they upped the volume, introduced a shrill double-beep between each turn of the conversation, and oh… kept the annoying rap ring tones, for good measure. As annoying as it was to hear one side of the “Yo, where you at?” conversation, hearing both sides, punctuated with shrill beeps, brings it to a whole new level of annoying.
Let me break it down for you losers (who seem to be predominantly male): you’re not a policeman. You’re not a fireman. You’re not even a freaking construction site supervisor. You have no need for a walkie-talkie that broadcasts each transmission for all to hear. Not only are you an unimportant person, you’re a whole evolutionary generation behind the average annoying cell phone user. You are the pinnacle of banality, and yet you think your mind-numbing tripe is actually worthy of public broadcast. I’d kick you in the crotch if I weren’t sure that your lack of descension would result in your pelvic bone bruising my foot.
Carrying such a device marks you as a moron. It is automatically indicative of both a sub-100 I.Q. and a false sense of self-importance. Of course, the sort of people who use such hellish devices are probably not computer users. Most of the people whom I have approach weren’t even aware that they could turn the beeps and the extra-loud volume off and, you know, use their cell phone like a bleeding cell phone.
As a Nextel user (full disclosure: I worked on a construction site for two summers), I agree completely. I only use my two-way with one person now, but the beeping is ridiculous. Funny thing though, your comments of “banality” and “self-importance” about two-ways were the exact same comments about cell phones in general when they were first introduced. God help us where technology will lead us next.
Hey… I like my Nextel!
As A nextel user who has used them extensively in the workplace, I trust you are singling out the non-workplace conversations. Just like cell-phone users talk loud enough for the dead to hear, some PTT people just don’t realize how loud they are. At the same time, most have no clue that you can do all the “walkie-talkie” stuff through the headset or earbud, just like any other phone conversation. Feel free to point it out to them if they tick you off. You may be doing yourself, and them, a favor…
THANK YOU! I could not have said it better myself. Nextel advertising only makes it worse as well.
Chirp. That’s the sound of me saving money. This is a great system for those of us who would rather just not give people our cell phone numbers. This is also a good tool for people to use in the business industry and a quick way to communicate. It’s EXTREMELY cost effective and well if the chirp annoys you sure I’ll get rid of my phone but you’re taking over my phone bill :]
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Garrett, you’re missing the point. Your Nextel phone does not HAVE to make an audible noise for every PTT message. You can put the device on vibrate.
Amen. Although I doubt that the brain-dead morons who are guilty of this charge would have the slightest idea what the “pinnacle of banality” means.