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Just what the hell is it with women and mobile phones? The latter is a simple tool which enables us blokes to have a simple and brief conversation establishing a) where to meet or b) a yes or no decision. Simple. Dial or answer. Speak. End call. Put phone in pocket.

Meanwhile, the female of our species appears to sieze every opportunity to spend countless hours engaged in the most inane drivel shouting into this device. Be it the checkout queue at the local supermarket or a crowded bus, they insist on calling some likewise nincompoop to indulge in broadcasting meaningless natter to all and sundry about boyfriends/work/wrong time of month and whatever useless nonsense you can imagine. It is, quite simply unsocial beheaviour.

Given therefore, the logistical problems of issuing ASBO's to every mobile-carrying woman, would it not be much more simpler to ban women from the possession of mobile phones, thus increasing the quality of life for all?

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I think you are generalising quite a lot here Tealeaf. I have a mobile phone and have had £20 credit on it since January...I have just checked and i have £18:47 credit still on it. I hate mobile phones and only carry one to appease my husband and daughter.......I rarely use it to speak on. I prefer to send a text message....this does not have any impact on the people in the vicinity and they know nothing of my business either. Maybe I am in a minority.....but I am sure there must be other females out there who you do an injustice to.

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Well Margaret, you appear to be one of the very, very few sensible ones. Keep up the good work!

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I am not going to post on here Tealeaf i will text you or phone you later and we can talk about it:)

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Mick....you rascal!

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Margaret that's very good but I've put £10 of credit on mine on New Years day 2005 and I still have £4 odd left but that's as much to do with the fact that I'm a tight so and so as anything.

My other half spends much time and money sending text messages to her friends when it's simpler and, due to the BT package that we have, free between 18:00 and 06:00 on weekdays or anytime at weekend, to phone them landline to landline.

When I questioned my beloved about it the other night she announced that she couldn't be bothered getting up to get the phone, so I went and got the phone for her and as I passed it to her I mentioned, incase she didn't realise, that it's not one which is fixed to the wall with a short wire :p

I love my other half but really sometimes I despair.

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I tried to write a text message on mine the other day and gave up... what a pain..

Women who think its clever to go through junctions and roundabouts using one hand while the other holds the mobile phone.... and usually with a back seat full of kids jumping about...

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Tealeaf, you really are very wicked and intent on not meeting yer next birthday :nono8:

My experience of men on the mobile is completely opposite to what you have stated. If you have ever done a trade exhibition, sat on a train or any type of business seminar, you are constantly overpowered by the amount of calls the gentlemen reps make on their mobiles.. constantly ringing customers, the office and any other Tom, Dick or Harry that will talk to them. They are vociferous and walk around the floor whilst carrying out these communications with buzz words and an authoritative attitude just to impress the others in hearing distance. To boot, they are not short conversations.

Of the few calls I have had to do myself, I have sat myself down quietly, out of site if possible and not wishing any competitors around me to earwig.

To cap it all, lots of this breed still favour the Nokia ring tone .. funny to watch them when one is activated and approximately 6 look at their mobiles to see if is theirs .. tee heee. Constantly lookin at it anyway !

Yes, they do also make personal calls too, particularly towards the end of the day and give an account to their wives/girlfriends of their 'successful' day (aren't I a clever boy) and how their progress home will be attempted. Discuss their evening meal and ask how the kids are since the morning !!

Most of these calls can wait.. so please do not go on about women on the phone.

With my personal mobile, I am just like Margaret ... text rather than talk, and have it in silent mode all the time.:p

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I use my phone all the time in exactly the way you describe it Tealeaf. I AM that annoying person who is walking around Asda having a chat and you know what - I am completely and totally unrepentant.

It's multi tasking. If I'm chatting to a friend whilst shopping then it means that I don't have to ring her later whilst I'm trying to feed the kids and get some work done. It's what women do because we have so much to do each day that we have to double up!

In my defence, I do use hands free whilst I'm driving.

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Yep. I thought so. You are that annoying person, who when it gets to the checkout, insist on still yapping on the mobile while searching for the purse...(10 minutes)...having found the purse, you then discover you've missed summat off your list...so you disappear doen the aisle to return with can of beans (another 10 minutes and still yapping on the phone)..then it finally comes too payment, and still yapping, you can'y remember your pin number....then another card...then cash back and still yapping.

Meanwhile, I just popped in for a packet of sausages. Said sausages are now rotting with age and I'm another hour older.

"Multitasking"...give us men a break.

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Yep, that's me and I do it on purpose. The more the man in the queue tuts at me the longer I'm going to be. If you do one of those head shaking sighs then you can guarantee it's going to take me three times as long to pack the bags but I will smile nicely at you just to annoy you even more!

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Point is Tealeaf as Gayle's remarks, we are willing to admit to this, however, please do not suggest is just a female trait ... that's utter nonsense.

Ironically, as these posts were being entered ... I am out in the garden trying to get it to look less like a meadow ... a guy outside in his garden diagonally approx 40 yards away, answered a mobile 'phone from a call from a fella called Pete. Could hear every word although didn't take in the sense of it .. was about 20 minutes long.

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Have to agree with Gayle on the shopping and on the mobile at the same time as at least they are moving. If they (women and men) meet a friend in the supermarket their talking and non movement blocks the isle and even polite request to get through are sometimes met with distain. I have tried shopping and phone convo's at the same time but forget what I have gone for.:o

Better that they are on the phone in the supermarket than driving onehanded while on one. Both male and female drivers do it so aint singling either out here as I see it on a regular basis and for once those on deliveries aint the biggest offenders.

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my mobile is switched off 90% of the time because i am fed up of phoncalls that merely happen just to relieve the boredom of those calling me or ask stupid questions like "where are you"

i have much better things to do than chit chat and if its realy important get off your arse and find me :)

men seem to have their longest mobile phone conversations when driving but thats probably because they cant get off teh phone because a woman has just rang them :D

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Willow, why are you topping it up every month? if it's o2, give it a rest, don't put this months tenner on and use the credit up on the texts. Next time you top it up with a tenner you'll get your free texts back. also, if you join, by sending a text and you top up by 15, you get 150 free minutes a month, but again don't do it if you've got spare credit use that first then top it up 15 , and you get the free texts and minutes.

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[quote=Basher]Margaret that's very good but I've put £10 of credit on mine on New Years day 2005 and I still have £4 odd left but that's as much to do with the fact that I'm a tight so and so as anything.

Well done Basher.......I would have more credit left on mine too if it had not been for going away with my Mum earlier this year (Feb)....hubby had to ring me each night at 6pm just to let him know I was OK.....Oh yeah and we had Aussie rellies over in May so they used my phone a couple of times too....so as you can see i don't give it much use at all. In fact T-Mobile cut off my service because I had not made a call or text in 6 months.

I'm never going to be in Gayles league am I?

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I use mine lots but not in shops as I find it very rude to be serving someone and their phone rings;they answer it and you complete the transaction in sign language and silence ! Most of the people I have seen using mobiles in my store are blokes who then invariably say "Yeah mate,I'm just buying some tunes,what? No I'm in t'music shop,what? You'll have to speak up.....yadda yadda yadda" Turn it off you dummy!

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I try not to do tha lindsay, but sometimes it's not possible to ignore it or tell them to ring back. ridiculas amounts of money can be made or lost with a Phone call.

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Yeagh.. there not going to hold the 3.30 ay kempton just cus hatter is on the phone to his bookies.. ya ahve to get the bets on in time you know :)

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I just use mine in emergencies, and hardly ever dial out on it, text messages yes.,

My bug bare is the amount of people (usually men) that you see glued to their mobiles whilst driving.

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Now they are the real muppets!

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I was using my hands free speech to text phone this afternoon when I texted you while driving up New Lane. :rolleyes:

I use my phone a lot as well. I don't live on it but I used to make a living from it. All my business calls used to come to my mobile so if I did not answer it I did not get the jobs. You get used to using it wherever you are and think nothing of answering it anywhere. I have a mobile at work as well that is ringing all day.

I was stuck on hold for 5mins the other day (on my landline) waiting for Direct Line to answer. A short while after an operator started talking to me my mobile rang. It was an important call so I asked the Direct Line lady if she would hold the line for a minute. I then answered my mobile and sorted out the delivery I was waiting for. I thanked the Direct Lane lady and we carried on talking. Most satisfying to put them on hold for a change. When I apologised to her for talking the other call, all she said was 'No problem sir'. Very professional of her I thought.

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Visiting friends up there? ;)

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Nope I drive up/down their heading to the M65. Rhonda has a friend up their not me :p

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Blokes and women are both very bad with mobiles, to be quite honest. Though I would say it does seem to be women that are worse with them, in my experience. They drive onto the forecourt with them glued to their ears, look at me like I'm stupid when I ask them to turn them off at the pumps, look at me like I'm stupid again when I refuse to authorise the pumps, fill up their cars, and come and have a pop at me about whats just happened, whilst ringing up their friends to have another natter, then they struggle to sign or get their cash out, struggle again with the door, then drive off the forecourt with it glued to their ear...It really is quite astonishing. And don't even get me started about women, 4x4's and mobile phones! They struggle to even see the road, let alone have a conversation at the same time as driving the monstocity. The most 'off-road' they'll ever go is the garage to get 'em repaired.

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lmao, how very, very true diesel. They of course need the 4x4 to get over the rought terain outside the school gates.

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Ok, this thread is digressing again , but basically all the same theme really, most of you men (not all) just don't like us women, sad aren't you.

Tealeaf: think you must be the biggest woman hater on this planet .

4 x 4's combined with the school run is very sad indeed, however, behind all this, who is contributing to the payments for this car, and who has persuaded the wifey to invest in this mode of transport ? A MAN of course. :p

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Oh come on guys the mobile was invented for women, if they are rabbiting on the mobile they are not using the landline when we are watching footie.

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I use my mobile mostly for texting. In my contract I get 30 free mins and 100 texts. I tend to use the texts each month (and sometimes alot more) but end up using the mobile towards end of month instead of land line just to use the free mins up!!!

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I think this comment proves my point, even though stuffing hankie in mouth to smother my mirth.

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How could I possibly hate you kate x x

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It's very rare I use my mobile for ringing people, it's mostly used for texting. This also applies to most of my female friends.
In my experience it's the men that use their phones for ringing and most females are texters.

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Cant agree more with that Anne on the texting. My daughter texts like it is going out of fashion and as she has a free text quota its even worse bombared for 2 1/2 hours a few weeks back with texts. I am not an avid fan of texting but do it to save time especially at work though a lot of the guys at work would be lost without texting. They cannot just ring at anytime that suits as the person they are contacting might like them be working.

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I rarely use my mobile these days and I almost lost my number earlier in the year as I didn't realise there was a time limit on it. It's good to have in an emergency though.

The youngsters amuse me. I reckon that future generations will have mutant thumbs. My eldest grandchild can text for England and she's not twelve yet!

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i insist paris has a mobile, true they can be ruddy agravating sometimes but i think essential for women when out driving alone.:cool:

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Very good point Cashy and the same should apply to teenagers especially girls.

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Why women need to talk is one of the great mysteries of life.

However it does have its advantages.

A skeleton was found in the undergrowth and one of the attending detectives turned to his colleague and asked, “I wonder who it is?”

“It’s a woman” came the reply.

Astounded the first cop asked, “How do you know?”

“It’s got its mouth open!”

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HaHa very good.
How many of you have got more than one mobile?

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Oh Jambutty how facile and churlish you are sometimes. If I were not such an atheist, would reply that God gave us a mouth and we have honoured him by making use of it. :p

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great response katex, tried to give you karma for it but must spread it around before giving you any more, oh well I tried!!! :rolleyes:

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I've given her some karma for both of us HR.

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You never make the right use of it though:D

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You talkin' about my mouth ? Well, never had any complaints from the opposite sex up to now .:p xxxxxxxx

Cheers Gayle x

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prove it :D lmao

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For once my lips are sealed. :)

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Have a look at this:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_ne...826997,00.html

It turns out that half the time women are talking to no one other than themselves. I should have guessed; even when they are talking to someone, its invariably drivel.

Anyway, this is a serious study by the LSE reported in the Observer/Guardian, so don't blame me; I'm only concerned with facts.

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really girls using there mobiles to communicate is no different to you being on here communicating with us.

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I got a mobile because I drove long distances alone. There's no point in being with the AA if it's pitch dark and you've no idea where the nearest phone is. I don't even chat on the landline from choice, so there's little chance of my prattling on my mobile. I use it if I'm delayed and need to let someone know. That's about it. And don't get me started on the number of men I have heard on mobiles saying "Hi, it's me, I'm on the bus/train ...." and then blethering on about all those vitally important things like football etc.