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Well, not own and not wanting one. I loathe the little contraptions. I don't even like real phones, let alone those tiny little things you have to dial with the edge of a fingernail.


I considered getting one recently, but realized I don't need one. Few people really do. I'm the only person in my office who doesn't have one. I'm the only person in my family that doesn't have one.

What's so damn important people have to be able to talk to you right now?

Yes. Yes, you are.

I'm on mine right now.

Well, not own and not wanting one. I loathe the little contraptions. I don't even like real phones, let alone those tiny little things you have to dial with the edge of a fingernail.


I considered getting one recently, but realized I don't need one. Few people really do. I'm the only person in my office who doesn't have one. I'm the only person in my family that doesn't have one.

What's so damn important people have to be able to talk to you right now?

They're good for emergencies...like broke down on the side of the road or a major accident has happened and you need to call 911.

They're very handy and convenient to have.

I, for one, don't have a house phone. I don't feel the need to pay for 2 phone bills so I'll stick with the cell phone.

*high-fives*

I don't have a cell phone either! Well, anymore. I lost it and don't plan to get another one, because I simply don't need it.

I have one. Mainly because they're a hell of a lot cheaper than a landline phone. But I don't normally make or take calls in public, I do that at home if possible.

I went for 2 years without one, I did fine. I got one last quarter and spent like $40 on it and pre-paid air time, I didn't give the number to anyone but hubby and the babysitter, I hardly ever use it. I feel safer driving at night with it though, and this weekend when we were out of town I used it to check in on the kids, and knew that the babysitter would be able to phone me if there was an emergency so I liked that.

I don't take it to church, I don't take it to dinner, it's turned off most days, in fact unless I have a good reason to use it, or my kids are at the sitters it's basically not ever "on". When it is on it's on silent or vibrate, so I don't really even know what ring tones the cheap thing came with.

Cell phones annoy me because they are no longer used for the convenience of the owner most times, but so that the owner can be at the beck and call of their various acquaintances. I turned off my cell phone about 3 years ago, and didn't get a new one until recently because I got tired of people assuming that it was their "line to Smunkee"

"Where were you all day?"
"none of your business"
"I called your cell like 10 times"
"I saw that"
"why didn't you answer?"
"I didn't want to, I turned it off after the 2nd call"
"what if it was an emergency?!"
"it wasn't"
"how do you know?"
"I checked the voice mail"
"and you didn't call me back immediately?!"
"there was no need to"
"you hate me" :(

stupid people. I don't even answer my home phone unless I am expecting a call......leave a message, if I have time I will call you back. Better yet, email me, then I will respond when I damn well feel like it. I am not yours to control.......[/rant]

Well, not own and not wanting one. I loathe the little contraptions. I don't even like real phones, let alone those tiny little things you have to dial with the edge of a fingernail.


I considered getting one recently, but realized I don't need one. Few people really do. I'm the only person in my office who doesn't have one. I'm the only person in my family that doesn't have one.

What's so damn important people have to be able to talk to you right now?

rumor has it there are one or two Indians in the heart of the amazonian rain forest that don't have a cell either so you're not alone...

the convenience of cells make me wonder how I ever got along without one...

I went for 2 years without one, I did fine. I got one last quarter and spent like $40 on it and pre-paid air time, I didn't give the number to anyone but hubby and the babysitter, I hardly ever use it. I feel safer driving at night with it though, and this weekend when we were out of town I used it to check in on the kids, and knew that the babysitter would be able to phone me if there was an emergency so I liked that.

I don't take it to church, I don't take it to dinner, it's turned off most days, in fact unless I have a good reason to use it, or my kids are at the sitters it's basically not ever "on". When it is on it's on silent or vibrate, so I don't really even know what ring tones the cheap thing came with.

Cell phones annoy me because they are no longer used for the convenience of the owner most times, but so that the owner can be at the beck and call of their various acquaintances. I turned off my cell phone about 3 years ago, and didn't get a new one until recently because I got tired of people assuming that it was their "line to Smunkee"

"Where were you all day?"
"none of your business"
"I called your cell like 10 times"
"I saw that"
"why didn't you answer?"
"I didn't want to, I turned it off after the 2nd call"
"what if it was an emergency?!"
"it wasn't"
"how do you know?"
"I checked the voice mail"
"and you didn't call me back immediately?!"
"there was no need to"
"you hate me" :(

stupid people. I don't even answer my home phone unless I am expecting a call......leave a message, if I have time I will call you back. Better yet, email me, then I will respond when I damn well feel like it. I am not yours to control.......[/rant]

I think I love you!


I don't answer my home line either. I have an answering machine for that. Usually I hear my mother's voice "Pick up the phone Jay!". I too prefer the email method, though I respond promptly to those, usually. Mostly the only time people call me is if they want something. I don't see any reason for them to be able to impose their petty needs on me constantly.

I hate them, but have one for emergencies.

They're good for emergencies...like broke down on the side of the road or a major accident has happened and you need to call 911.

They're very handy and convenient to have.

I, for one, don't have a house phone. I don't feel the need to pay for 2 phone bills so I'll stick with the cell phone.

same here.

I also like the handy little texting feature you can get. Saves time when I don't actually want to talk to people..specially the ones that go on and on and on...if you don't want a lengthy convo..you can just not reply.

i have one, but only because my friends gave me one. it didn't change much. it's quite convenient, but not at all necesary (i can think of only a few occasions that i was gratefull i had one) and sometimes really annoying (especially the ringtones *shudder*)

I think I love you!


I don't answer my home line either. I have an answering machine for that. Usually I hear my mother's voice "Pick up the phone Jay!". I too prefer the email method, though I respond promptly to those, usually. Mostly the only time people call me is if they want something. I don't see any reason for them to be able to impose their petty needs on me constantly.

my mom leaves the same message about 5 times a day

"smunkee......are you there?......pick up if you are there......pick up pick up pick up pick up pick up........smunkee?........I hope you are okay........are you there?......if you are there pick up.......hello?........hello?........I hate these things.........smunkee?..........hello?..........if you are there pick up.....okay, well, call me when you get a chance, I need to know how to get to google again"


it's pretty annoying.

when my kid leaves a message she does it right

"hi, this is <first and last name> your oldest daughter, it's Tuesday at 10 am, I am ready to come home from dance class, we got out early, I will be waiting in the place you dropped me off"

everything I need to know.

I got a cell phone after I switched to cable internet and got rid of my landline. I leave my cell phone at home unless I am traveling out of town.

I went for 2 years without one, I did fine. I got one last quarter and spent like $40 on it and pre-paid air time, I didn't give the number to anyone but hubby and the babysitter, I hardly ever use it. I feel safer driving at night with it though, and this weekend when we were out of town I used it to check in on the kids, and knew that the babysitter would be able to phone me if there was an emergency so I liked that.

I don't take it to church, I don't take it to dinner, it's turned off most days, in fact unless I have a good reason to use it, or my kids are at the sitters it's basically not ever "on". When it is on it's on silent or vibrate, so I don't really even know what ring tones the cheap thing came with.

Cell phones annoy me because they are no longer used for the convenience of the owner most times, but so that the owner can be at the beck and call of their various acquaintances. I turned off my cell phone about 3 years ago, and didn't get a new one until recently because I got tired of people assuming that it was their "line to Smunkee"

"Where were you all day?"
"none of your business"
"I called your cell like 10 times"
"I saw that"
"why didn't you answer?"
"I didn't want to, I turned it off after the 2nd call"
"what if it was an emergency?!"
"it wasn't"
"how do you know?"
"I checked the voice mail"
"and you didn't call me back immediately?!"
"there was no need to"
"you hate me" :(

stupid people. I don't even answer my home phone unless I am expecting a call......leave a message, if I have time I will call you back. Better yet, email me, then I will respond when I damn well feel like it. I am not yours to control.......[/rant]

You should totally give us your number. Sure you'd get crap tons of calls, but we'd leave messages along the lines of "Wooooooo, Smunkee for the win! Woooo!" and other such silliness.

You should totally give us your number. Sure you'd get crap tons of calls, but we'd leave messages along the lines of "Wooooooo, Smunkee for the win! Woooo!" and other such silliness.

Eh, why should she bother? If we really want it we can find it ourselves. The other way might encourage annoying/creepy stalkers and the like.

Eh, why should she bother? If we really want it we can find it ourselves. The other way might encourage annoying/creepy stalkers and the like.

the creepy ones are drawn to me anyway.

I wonder how you think you would find my cell phone number?

the creepy ones are drawn to me anyway.

I wonder how you think you would find my cell phone number?

We can find your e-mail quite easily (you registered it to join this website after all), plug it into reverse e-mail search, extract the name, search for the name, and get the phone number (plus the address and how long they've lived there, dependencies, yearly income, criminal record, age, and a great deal of other things). Unless you use someone else's e-mail.

You could do the same to any of us if you were so inclined, as a side note. Ah, the wonders of technology. :)

On that note, I depart.

We can find your e-mail quite easily (you registered it to join this website after all), plug it into reverse e-mail search, extract the name, search for the name, and get the phone number (plus the address and how long they've lived there, dependencies, yearly income, criminal record, age, and a great deal of other things). Unless you use someone else's e-mail.

You could do the same to any of us if you were so inclined, as a side note. Ah, the wonders of technology. :)

On that note, I depart.

I signed up for this site with an anonymous hotmail account. There's no data linking it to me anywhere in it.

Good luck with that though. I suppose you could trace my IP then BS my ISP to get my name though, if you had my IP, which you don't.

I resisted getting one for a long time. When I changed jobs about 6 years ago, I determined I needed some means of contact with potential employeers, as well as various folks, as I don't have a reliable land line.

Even now, I hardly use it as a phone. In the last three months, I've made about five calls - twice to work, once to my union rep., and twice returning friends calls. I've received slightly more calls than, but mostly from those same sources.

Mostly I use it as an alarm clock, camera, PDA, English-Japanese dictionary, and all around email/computing device. I've also useed it as an e-wallet, GPS, TV, radio, MP3 player, and even a conversation piece.

i get free calls to and from my girlfriend with my mobile phone :)

and i wouldn't bother having a home phone/landline if i didn't need it for broadband

I use it purely as a means of communication, but only when necessary. I find it annoying peoples phones going off all the time, I always have mine on silent.

My cell phone, the electronic leash. Half the time I leave it home - then get to listen to my daughter say "what's the point of having one if you don't take it with you?"

It has a camera in it, though, so I get to take poor quality pictures of things that interest me.

I have one, but all it does is take/send calls and texts.

And in my opinion, that is all a mobile/cellphone should really do.

I have a Nokia 3110. I don't know whether that is considered a cell phone?

i do have a moblie (cell) phone but i never really call people on it, ive had it 5 years and only spoke to people for 26 hours 57 minutes and 36 seconds on it, most of that was to an ex-girlfriend about the time i first brought the thing.

im fairly sure i could cope with out, lets face it before 2001 nearly everyone did but it is useful to have mainly as an alarm clock/calendar

Nope, I don't have one.... I might buy "Katherina das Große", but only if I see a need for it :)

I have a Nokia 3110. I don't know whether that is considered a cell phone?

N Knochen! ;P

Apart from that.. I do own a mobile phone now after years of resistance. I use it for text messaging, as a watch (I have no such thing), for the odd call when I need to call form an otherwise phone-less place and to give me a feeling of safety in certain situations (no, I do NOT mean awkward social situations).

I don't see the "electronic leash" argument.. you can turn it off, you can have people leave voicemails like you can with 'regular' phones, you can have it on silent..

Why a mobile, then? Well, because my home landline phone doesn't allow me to tell my friend that I'll not be able to show up for our lunch date 15 minutes before we were supposed to meet because my prof chose to extend the lecture for half an hour. In fcat, it doesn't allow me to distance-contact anyone unless I'm at home, and there are many an instance where I need to contact someone at a moment where I'm not at home. And where there's no public phone.

Nope, I don't have one.... I might buy "Katherina das Große", but only if I see a need for it :)
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Okay, now that thing is even bigger than my old Nokia! And it looks like a remote control, too!

N Knochen! ;P
Oh ja!

And when thrown, it's a dangerous weapon, too!

But I can make phone calls with it and use it for text messaging. That's all I want, and all I need. :p

i have one but i could honestly do without it, i rarely get an phonecalls on it, and if i make a phonecall i use the landline cuz mobiles are too expensive. i use it mostly to tell the time cuz i don't like wearing watches. i also use it for texts but not nearly as often as most people i should think.

edit: i will probably need one when i finish uni though cuz in all likelyhood i will be living in a van so i won't have a landline or email or anything.

I am simply unable to grasp how it was possible for two people to go see a movie together without mobile telephones.

I mean, how are you supposed to know that they are just around the corner? HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO KNOW!?

Oh ja!

And when thrown, it's a dangerous weapon, too!

I know, I know. I may be young, but I'm obnoxious enough to be experienced.

You are not alone. I don't own one, and never plan to. If I had one it would just encourage people to phone me up and get on my case about things. Anyone who doesn't know where to find me is almost certainly someone who shouldn't be wasting my time anyway.

Every time I feel myself beginning to give in to the pressure to get one, I come across someone who tells me how much trouble their mobile phone has caused and how much they envy me for not having one. Strange but true.
For instance, someone who has spent nine months trying to persuade their phone company that they really haven't made 17 two-hour calls from Barbados to Kurdistan.

I have one, but it's more or less always off, and hardly anyone I know knows my number, including me.

*high-fives*

I don't have a cell phone either! Well, anymore. I lost it and don't plan to get another one, because I simply don't need it.
I win.

I have never owned a cell phone.

I HAD a Cell phone, but one of the assholes on my floor stole it along with my wallet. So I am not going to waste money on getting a new one.

I have a big ol' dinosaur of a cell phone, which is almost always turned off. I'm glad I have it, though - just a couple of weeks ago, on an extremely nasty day, my car's battery died in the middle of nowhere, about ten miles from the nearest gas station. I very much preferred being able to make one call to trying to make a ten-mile hike through freezing rain.

I refused to get a phone from the age of 12 (when it was cool to have one). I managed to keep that up until I turned 16, went on work experience in the City, regularly arrived home late (i.e. after 5pm!) and had my parents worried sick about their poor little daughter. They quite literally begged me to get a phone. So I traded my sister a pair of jeans that I had outgrown for one of her old phones.

Three years later I still have that phone; which is about 6 years old by now. That's right, it's a sturdily built (nigh indestructable) Nokia 3310 with no polyphonic ringtones, only a backlit yellow screen and memory space for about 13 text messages. But it's fantastic because nobody would want to steal it, so I can rest assured that it's safe with me! Is it me or do they not make them like they used to? I mean, my sister gets a new phone at leats once a year because her other ones fall apart - and here I am with a phone that I got for about €25 that's still working fine. I'd swear that the phone companies deliberately make them so that they fall apart after the guarantee wears out.

I rarely use my phone. I use it to arrange when and where I'll be picked up, etc. but I'll never have conversations on it. If someone wants to speak to me for longer than 30 seconds then they should meet me face to face or message me online. It can be really handy, but that's about the extent of it. I'm one of those unreliable people who doesn't feel a need to respond to people all the time. Most people, though, I find can't live without their phones. When I was 15 I went to Irish college (it's like an expensive camp where you go to some supposedly Irish speaking village, stay in local people's houses and speak only Irish/Gaelic) and there was no reception in the village. So you had people frantically passing on information like 'If you stand at the number nine crazy golf hole and hold your phone up you should get reception'... And there was me without a phone and therefore without that worry. Ridiculous, but true.

Well, not own and not wanting one. I loathe the little contraptions. I don't even like real phones, let alone those tiny little things you have to dial with the edge of a fingernail.


I considered getting one recently, but realized I don't need one. Few people really do. I'm the only person in my office who doesn't have one. I'm the only person in my family that doesn't have one.

What's so damn important people have to be able to talk to you right now?

I loathe them as well, and I'm glad Im not the only one here. I would be much, much happier if we went back to the days of no one having them. The world would be better off.

I don't have one. Pay phones are ubiquitous enough here in the city that I can use one if I really need to. I have decided that if I ever go for a long drive I'd get one, because phones aren't always available on the highway, but I'd really have to push myself to do it because I don't like them. I swear if they get any smaller they'll have to put choking hazard warnings on them.

I win.

I have never owned a cell phone.

Me neither! *highfives*

I loathe the little things. Leeches sucking the brain-cells out of people, that's what I say...and don't get me started on the drivers. :mad:

I dislike phones intensely, and not just cell-phones. I do not want OTHER people to be able to get in contact with ME whenever THEY feel like it.

I'll probably wind up being forced to get one someday for a job...but until then, I'm holding out.

No, you are most definately not.

Nope, I don't own a cell phone.

I have a cell, and I really don't need it besides it being the only phone I use since there isn't one in my apartment. It also comes in handy in emergencies, which I've been very grateful I've had a cell at that time.

When I was 15 I went to Irish college (it's like an expensive camp where you go to some supposedly Irish speaking village, stay in local people's houses and speak only Irish/Gaelic) and there was no reception in the village. So you had people frantically passing on information like 'If you stand at the number nine crazy golf hole and hold your phone up you should get reception'... And there was me without a phone and therefore without that worry. Ridiculous, but true.

I saw similar goings-on at a festival in a valley near the Welsh border a few years ago. Loads of people freaking out just because they couldn't get a mobile phone signal. Bunch of lightweights, quite frankly. Of all the things you shouldn't be worrying about when you're supposed to be spending five days living in a tent and partying flat out...

Well, not own and not wanting one. I loathe the little contraptions. I don't even like real phones, let alone those tiny little things you have to dial with the edge of a fingernail.I have neither a 'real' phone nor a cell phone. Nor do I desire to have either, though I will probably need to own one sooner or later.

Well, not own and not wanting one. I loathe the little contraptions. I don't even like real phones, let alone those tiny little things you have to dial with the edge of a fingernail.


I considered getting one recently, but realized I don't need one. Few people really do. I'm the only person in my office who doesn't have one. I'm the only person in my family that doesn't have one.

What's so damn important people have to be able to talk to you right now?

Here here though I have one.

I own one, but I don't text or anything like that.

Well, not own and not wanting one. I loathe the little contraptions. I don't even like real phones, let alone those tiny little things you have to dial with the edge of a fingernail.


I considered getting one recently, but realized I don't need one. Few people really do. I'm the only person in my office who doesn't have one. I'm the only person in my family that doesn't have one.

What's so damn important people have to be able to talk to you right now?

You don't have one too??? I thought I was alone *sniff* :fluffle:

My phone is an MP3 player and Solitaire interface. That's about it.

Am I alone in not owning a cell phone?
No! There is another.

I have none. I'd have no use of it.

I resisted for many years, until they began removing most of the telephone booths from the city. I can now walk twenty blocks in any direction and find perhaps a half-dozen or so seemingly forgotten (and rarely serviced) Bell phonebooths. So I relented and I now have a cel phone, but I try using it for things like the little in-built camera as well.

In fact, I made an entire comic strip out of cel phone photos not too long ago...

I only have a cell-phone so that I can call my parents to let them know where I am or if there is an emergency, and so that I can call for rides home. My parents got it for me when I was in ninth grade for that purpose, and that's all I use it for. The screen is slightly cracked and it's not a flip-phone or anything, but it's functional and that's all that is really important for this.

Well, not own and not wanting one. I loathe the little contraptions. I don't even like real phones, let alone those tiny little things you have to dial with the edge of a fingernail.


I considered getting one recently, but realized I don't need one. Few people really do. I'm the only person in my office who doesn't have one. I'm the only person in my family that doesn't have one.

What's so damn important people have to be able to talk to you right now?

I agree with you; I hate phones too, whether cell, landline, or otherwise. But I drive for a living, so I have to have one.:(

Just hearing the ^%#$@^*%(*^$(%^#%&%(*&%^(*^% things ring drives me up the wall!:upyours: :headbang: :mad:

Well, not own and not wanting one. I loathe the little contraptions. I don't even like real phones, let alone those tiny little things you have to dial with the edge of a fingernail.


I considered getting one recently, but realized I don't need one. Few people really do. I'm the only person in my office who doesn't have one. I'm the only person in my family that doesn't have one.

What's so damn important people have to be able to talk to you right now?

In the words of Jerry Seinfeld, a cell phone is one of the lowest forms of communication. I dont want too see you, I just wanna hear you statically murmur on a piece of plastic several miles away.

And this. (http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Cell_phone)

nope, not alone

i had a cellphone for about five years when i worked freelance - absolutely vital in those circumstances - but since going back into full-time employment i couldn't ditch the goddamn thing fast enough, and have been blissfully cellphone-free for about three years now

I've got a prepaid cellphone that I keep in the glove box of my car in case I find myself buried under 5 feet of snow in the ditch. Other than that, I don't have one.

I do not have a cell phone either and I do not want one.

I was once in the camp of "I don't want a cell phone." I thought they were annoyances. Overpriced annoyances that you got because your job forced it. Then i got one for Christmas in 2003, along with my service paid for from that time until last April. I use it for everything now, it seems. It's good for emergencies, and my wife and I can talk for free on them because we have the same service plan (she took my last name AND my cell phone company...she kept her own car insurance, though, and I took her religion, so it's about even.)

We were dating for about four months when my car died on the interstate. I thought it broke down, so I walked for a mile to the nearest 7-11 to call her from a pay phone. It turns out I just ran out of gas, and she got on my case endlessly for my anti-cell phone stance. When my folks got me and my brother cell phones for Christmas, she was very pleased and I used it as my only phone for about a year (digital phone brought me into the world of land lines, but I will NEVER put myself at the mercy of the telephone companies for anything.)

Simply put - I have a cell phone because the alternative as a copper-based land line is unacceptable. The alternative as an IP-based cable phone (with a private number, no less) is fine.