Mobile phone earpieces...lol

Tha Gopher

I know theyve been around for years but is it just me or over the last two odd months have the amount of middle aged men walking the streets with them multiplied? (for whatever reason this normally technophobic group of luddites seem to be the one and only market for these things that, unless you are driving or working in an environment like a building site, are completely pointless)

MooseJam

they are definately becoming more popular and they do look very silly I don't know why people need them, it's not to hard holding a phone up to your ear

Ruu_Old

Some of the bluetooth ones I have seen people wear look very odd and have a very bright blue flashing light, almost like some wacky device from a sci-fi film.:eek:

Similar to this has happened on more than one occasion!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfJb1E3fnHs

jimmycrackcorm

I don't know why people just don't lift them and put them to their ear when the phone rings. After all isn't that what they do with the handset???

Mr. CooL ICE

People were probably also giving out back when wrist watches started to replace pocket watches. They may look silly, but its simply a matter of convenience IMO.

Alanthroneus

i reckon its because they brought in the driving while on the phone law....so they use them so they dont have to have them in their hands...

jimmycrackcorm

LordChessington wrote:

People were probably also giving out back when wrist watches started to replace pocket watches. They may look silly, but its simply a matter of convenience IMO.

Sticking a bluetooth on your wrist is even more wierd.

JohnCleary

Alanthroneus wrote:

i reckon its because they brought in the driving while on the phone law....so they use them so they dont have to have them in their hands...

What he said. I reckon the majority of people use them because of the mobile phone while driving ban. Then they either forget to remove them or just leave them there for the convenience of it. But yeah, they do look silly

Naos

I have seen a major increase in these also, but to be fair, most are attached to the ear of a black man.

Is it a fashion statement I wonder?

Alanthroneus

Mear wrote:

I have seen a major increase in these also, but to be fair, most are attached to the ear of a black man.

Is it a fashion statement I wonder?

i have never seen a black guy with one...ever....its moslty fat deliverymen and taxi drivers i see with them

The_B_Man

ye more black men. only whiteys i've seen is taxi drivers.

Hermione*

I've only noticed this phenomenon in the last few months but it quite annoys me. I always think at first that the person is talking to themselves before I realise that they're on the phone!

BKtje

its moslty fat deliverymen and taxi drivers i see with them

Surprising that seeing as they spend most of their time driving

dade

just back from Florida and the number of people i saw walking about with blue tooth headsets was ridiculous. OK ya get out of the car and its on fine ya then take it off. But getting on a bloody rollercoaster at a fun park wft?

seamus

Yep, here and in the UK, usually black dudes I've seen wearing these while walking down the street.

Had there been no ban while driving, I don't think these would have really taken off in the way they have. I would say most people that you see using them in public, use them for work and just don't take them off when they get out of the car.

jobonar

before the bluetooth ear pieces came out lots of people just used the old hands free connection so they are just upgrading from them i'd say..... i have gotten past it looking weird at this stage.

another reason is that alot of phones came with a free 1 for a while so its a novelty for these people to use them. a new toy for them to use

Jip

Is the OP is talking about Bluetooth head pieces, don't undertand that myself but he did say moblile phone earpieces which could mean headphones ?

If it's headphones maybe they're listening to the radio or MP3 on it ? I use my radio on the phone all the time such as on a bus etc, doesn't mean I'm sitting there waiting on a bloody phone call.

dbnavan

I use mine when I am out pushing my sons buggy, its not that easy to push a buggy one hand and talk on the phone, also handy if I am doing a network job and stuck under a desk or up a ladder

bytesize

i thought it would have been common sense/knowledge that people wear them to have less of a chance of their phone being robbed. as in if you're holding your phone to your ear and a scumbag runs by and grabs it out of your hand. this has happened to a few p[eople i know and people i know have also been witness to it.

basically id rather a 15 euro, or there abouts, bluetooth earpiece to be stolen than my few hundred euro phone.

sioda

I use mine the odd time coz its bloody awkward to get on and off. But now have the bluetooth headphones with the built in mic I get awful weird looks

Canis Lupus

I use them. Not always but I do it for convenience, it's particularly nice if you need to do something with your hands when you're chatting to someone... eg when making dinner etc. What's the point in complaining about it? Too cool for it?

Jigsaw

If you can demonstrate a rationale for using a bluetooth headset (delivery driver, taxi driver, both hands always in use etc so needed for work) then they are perfectly acceptable and indeed very useful.

If you use a bluetooth headset and cannot demonstrate its necessity to you then you need to be made aware that you are a lot less important than you think you are, and that you are a twat.

thefinalstage

They can be useful in town to prevent people from running up and yoinking your phone .

Sarn

I must admit it does look odd. The point about people using them for music is a good one.

Jigsaw wrote:

..and that you are a twat.

I agree although remember the time when people who used mobile phones were considered twats?

Tha Gopher

thelastangryman wrote:

They can be useful in town to prevent people from running up and yoinking your phone .

Id imagine its alot easier to pull a wireless receiver off someones ear than try and grab it out of a hand

aye Sarn, it was only around 1998 or so "real people" started getting them. Before then the opinion was that unless you were a doctor, lawyer or businessman you were a knob for having one By the start of 2001 you were a stuk in the past weirdo if you didnt have one.

Washout

sioda wrote:

I use mine the odd time coz its bloody awkward to get on and off. But now have the bluetooth headphones with the built in mic I get awful weird looks

just ave a pretend conversation walking down the street with it...should be fine then

Sparky

I use mine when I happen to be using the xda exec.
You dont wanna be seen using an exec on call mode up to your ear tbh

00112984

They only bother me when people have their bluetooth in their ear, nattering away but still hold their mobile in their hand. Why, people? WHY?

Terry

00112984 wrote:

They only bother me when people have their bluetooth in their ear, nattering away but still hold their mobile in their hand. Why, people? WHY?

Saw a guy in town one day.
Exact same phone and headphones as me. (I used the phone as an mp3 player.)
Anyway, this guy was walking down the street with the headphones in ears, phone in his hand and talking to someone.
How ****ing hard is it to unplug the headphones?

monument

LordChessington wrote:

People were probably also giving out back when wrist watches started to replace pocket watches. They may look silly, but its simply a matter of convenience IMO.

That's why mobile phones were invented.

It was all a conspiracy by the Anti Wrist Watch Group to get people back to digging into their pockets to find the time.

Black Swan

Reading the History of Psychiatry. Until mobile phones, when people walked about talking (as if to themselves), they put them in rubber rooms. Now the phone company sends them a bill. Makes ye wonder?;)

Tha Gopher

Mear wrote:

I have seen a major increase in these also, but to be fair, most are attached to the ear of a black man.

Is it a fashion statement I wonder?

I dunno, all of them Ive seen have been Irish "your dad and uncles" types i.e. Irish between 43 and 55, usually with a bit of a stomach.

As someone said, half the time you think they have said something to you and turn around to reply until you see that dopey thing hanging off their ear.

Quatre Mains

Jigsaw wrote:

If you use a bluetooth headset and cannot demonstrate its necessity to you then you need to be made aware that you are a lot less important than you think you are, and that you are a twat.

true lol! A friend saw a guy driving along with his 'cool' bluetooth headset the other day - in a Fiat Uno. These headsets are extremely popular with certain types in the US - usually 30-40 something men who try to dress as tho they're loaded but smack of desperation at the same time...

Gran Hermano

Funny how the comments about the type of people who use these
bluetooth headsets are the exact same negative comments that
were made about the people who first used mobile phones back in
the early 90s.

kittenkiller

I dreamt I was wearing mine last night. (It's a pink one!)
How very odd!

_Kaiser_

I have a Bluetooth speaker that's clipped to the sun visor in the car. Find it a lot better than an earpiece myself

Nehpets

I want one now

Stephen

I use one in my car. Tried a bluetooth speaker thing but found it rubbish. Can't be arsed spending a load of money to get a proper car kit.