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FCD · (This post was last modified: 05-19-2025, 12:33 AM by FCD.)

So, this is good! In my continuing crusade against cell phones and the scourge that they are, there's this...

A recent Tik Tok video quickly rocketed to 50 million views showing a woman standing in a cafe holding and operating what appeared to be a crystal clear cellular smartphone. Practically overnight everyone on planet Earth wanted one (no surprise here, right?). Millions speculated about what it was and who made it. Well, it turns out the device was nothing more than a piece of clear acrylic plastic made in the exact shape and weight of a smartphone. The inventor had created it as a placebo of sorts to replace people's inherent need to grab their phone and look at it (ignoring the rest of humanity around them in the process). His thinking was the piece of plastic could help wean people off of their cellphone by replacing it with something of similar size and weight. I don't know if it worked or not (i.e. made people less addicted to that gawd forsaken device), but it was pretty obvious what the rest of the World thought about it..."I GOTTA' HAVE ONE OF THESE!!! RIGHT NOW!! GOTTA', GOTTA', GOTTA'!!!" And, people's reaction when they found out it wasn't really 'real' is just priceless. Snide and flippant reactions. The cellphone Borg of Earth got punked at their own game, even if this wasn't the intent. How ironic! How funny! How pathetic and immature people are in society today!

Internet Broken over Invisible Cellphone

NobodySpecial268 · 05-19-2025, 12:08 AM

Well, what a joke.

Ya know FCD, in the supermarket I see people walking around with those bluetooth things in their ears taking a call without a visible phone. People hearing voices and talking back. 30 years ago, they would have been diagnosed with schizophrenia and locked up.

FCD · (This post was last modified: 05-19-2025, 12:40 AM by FCD.)

If you want to try something fun, on your next flight somewhere opt to sit toward the rear of the plane (better overhead space there anyway). When the plane lands, just take a look up the aisle toward the front of the plane. Then just watch what happens. People are like robots, like the 'Borg' on Star Trek...all in unison you'll see 200+ people reach for their precious smartphone, like it was their last breath of air after being underwater, and desperately attempt to connect back to the online world. Gawd forbid, we absolutely can't miss a second on FAILbook, instaGANK, faceTOOL, KOK-BLOC, WhatsASS, WeCOOF, YouTOSS, etc.

FCD · (This post was last modified: 05-19-2025, 12:52 AM by FCD.)

(05-19-2025, 12:08 AM)NobodySpecial268 Wrote: Well, what a joke.

Ya know FCD, in the supermarket I see people walking around with those bluetooth things in their ears taking a call without a visible phone. People hearing voices and talking back. 30 years ago, they would have been diagnosed with schizophrenia and locked up.

Exactly!

Probably the only thing I 'sort of' like about cell phones. Now I can be schizophrenic and talk to myself in my truck and no one looks at me like I'm crazy!! Biggrin

FCD · 05-19-2025, 12:50 AM

I hope the chick who made this video makes a million dollars off of it!

Just illustrates, perfectly, the absolute shallowness of people today.

She could have re-written the Theory of Relativity and no one would have paid one bit of attention, but an invisible smartphone on the other hand, well now...DROP EVERYTHING!! THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT!!!

FCD · 05-19-2025, 01:01 AM

I just laughed at most of the comments, but at least one person had a practical comment...someone commented that losing your phone would make it a nightmare to find. True! I can think of a lot of other reasons not to get one, the primary one being...it's a fooking, gawd forsaken, cellphone, the bane of human existence! Other than that...YAY!

NobodySpecial268 · 05-19-2025, 01:54 AM

Just wait until the power goes out for a few days and the phones go flat.

Where I live, a few years ago the power went out for three days. Towards the end, people got out more often started walking their dogs and stopping for a chat, kids were even seen playing on the street again.

All that stopped when the power came back on.

Michigan Swampbuck · 05-19-2025, 08:24 AM

I never carry my phone, and when I do, it is for emergency use and is usually left turned off in my vehicle. I feel like a voyeur as I look around the waiting room of the doctor's office without my phone. Not so bad out shopping for groceries as everyone is looking at products mostly.

FCD · (This post was last modified: 05-19-2025, 05:17 PM by FCD.)

(05-19-2025, 08:24 AM)Michigan Swampbuck Wrote: ... Not so bad out shopping for groceries as everyone is looking at products mostly.

...AND their phone at the same damn time!

OR, the one which drives me nuts is, talking to someone else in real-time asking them what they want them to pick up. ...

"So, do you want Skimmed milk, or 2%? ... The Enemas don't come in gallon sizes. The largest in the mint flavored ones are 2 quart. ... I don't see the Ragu with the mushrooms and meat, only one or the other, but the Prego kind has one with both, but it's more $. Okay, I'll stand here blocking the whole (gawd-damned) section while you go out to the garage and dig through the garbage for last month's receipt. ... Okay, I'll hang on. ... Massengil, or the pressure-washer concentrate with Chlorox and the fresh lemon scent? ... Huh?...Say again? You're breaking up. ... No, they don't have any tartar sauce flavored lube; it's cherry, bubblegum or regular. ... Okay, love you too, snookums!"