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23 December 2005

Talk about sucky cellphone service.
posted by loquacious 23 December | 16:56
Sucky-sucky.
posted by orthogonality 23 December | 17:00
Maybe you should give her a call
posted by dodgygeezer 23 December | 17:02
As long as it's not on vibrate :-\
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 23 December | 17:22
That's phony.
posted by mr_crash_davis 23 December | 17:41
You want to date the one that swallows the phone. ;)
posted by arse_hat 23 December | 18:00
<groan>

I'm not sure the ability to choke on a phone is sufficient to overcome why she came to the conclusion that she needed to keep the phone away and why she thought that hoovering it was a good idea.
posted by porpoise 23 December | 18:21
Ok, look I wrote "date", but I didn't mean I was planning to "talk" to her or anything like that.

Indeed, in the ideal situation, all she'd be saying is "mmmph umpph mmmph ack."

Who cares how she comes to conclusions?
posted by orthogonality 23 December | 18:27
Yeah, really. It's not like she has to meet ortho on an intellectual level. I mean... she voluntarily swallowed a cell phone.
posted by Specklet 23 December | 18:34
"Think with your brain, not with your mouth."

I think her punishment (aside from long term peer humiliation) should be to have that tattooed on her arm.

Crash, it might be phony but for how much longer? You know it will have to happen eventually. Cellphones are getting smaller, people are, obviously, getting dumber. Hell, I've seen that guy swallow and then regurgitate an entire rack of billiards balls. He could even hurk back up a specific number ball.

Still, eating a cellphone qualifies for town dunce for life.
posted by fenriq 23 December | 18:38
She attempted to swallow it and choked. She can call me when she completely swallows it. Or rather, I guess I'll call her.
posted by puke &amp; cry 23 December | 18:38
Am I the only one who finds ortho totally repulsive forever now?
posted by dame 23 December | 18:50
Am I the only one who finds ortho totally repulsive forever now?


No, that's most of MeFi.
posted by orthogonality 23 December | 18:56
Yeah, but that's cause you lied to people's faces. This is because you are a boor.
posted by dame 23 December | 19:06
The Spirit Of Christmas lives!
posted by mr_crash_davis 23 December | 19:14
Look, one of the things I like about this place is the lack of lame-ass computer jockey boorishness that pollutes everywhere else. I'd like to keep it that way.
posted by dame 23 December | 19:24
One thing I like liked about this place is that I could put my hair down and not worry about being politically correct when making smutty jokes.
posted by orthogonality 23 December | 19:33
There's a difference between being "PC" and just being a scumbag: and the not-talking comment is way past that line. Besides, on Metafilter and Fark and every other website on the internet you can make degrading jokes about women. I don't think I'm really preventing you from doing something you can't do anywhere else.
posted by dame 23 December | 20:18
while the thought of some 24 year old chick deepthroating orthogonality's orthogonads repulses me to no end, i can't say his comments were that far off from, say, this gem. personally, however, i respect everyone's right to say whatever degrading or shallow thing that pops into their little reptilian brains... as well as our right to point and laugh at all of you.
posted by Wedge 23 December | 21:01
If you can't tell the difference, then you're pretty fucking dumb. Also, trolling someone's old comments to come up with that lame of a rejoinder is pathetic and pretty decent evidence that you came to this a little biased.
posted by dame 23 December | 21:43
At the risk of inducing a cry of boyzone, hows about cutting us boys a little slack, Dame?

Christmas truce?
posted by porpoise 23 December | 21:57
Also, trolling someone's old comments to come up with that lame of a rejoinder is pathetic and pretty decent evidence that you came to this a little biased.

Whether or not it was pathetic for Wedge to do that has no bearing on the matter; in absence of more knowledge about Wedge it's not actually very good evidence of bias; and even if Wedge were biased, that wouldn't mean that Wedge was incorrect or that the old comment isn't worth whatever consideration Wedge thought it was worth.
posted by kenko 23 December | 22:03
Porpoise, I am actually pretty happy to joke with people about sex when it isn't degrading; there are plenty of people around here who can attest to that. The problem isn't the sex; it's the dehumanization.

Further, I'm not the only sex-happy girl here who found that over the line. I'm just the only one who spoke up in thread, because pretty much every girl knows what happens when you bother.

And kenko, I'll repeat myself: if you can't see the difference in the two, you're so fucking dumb I can't believe you can walk a straight line.
posted by dame 23 December | 22:10
Uh, that posted before I meant it to. Kenko, it is a totally worthless ploy and proof of bias. It's an attack based on who I am, not on what ortho wrote was demeaning, which is the question here. And even if the two were the same, it would make me a hypocrite, not wrong.
posted by dame 23 December | 22:13
you're pretty fucking dumb // you're so fucking dumb I can't believe you can walk a straight line.
relax. i didn't claim the two comments were exactly the same; just close enough for a valid comparison. if you really think i'm *that* far off, then please, break it down for me. (i am dumb.)

trolling someone's old comments to come up with that lame of a rejoinder is pathetic
my longterm memory is impeccable; i honestly dont give enough of a shit about this to actually sift through anyone's comment history. i.e., i did (and do) agree w/ you re: the repulsiveness of ortho's sexual musings; i just don't care.

you came to this a little biased
no more than anyone else; you ALL disturb me!
posted by Wedge 23 December | 22:32
Social context, Wedge. But you'e being much nicer than I am. So, I apologize.
posted by dame 23 December | 22:48
Fair enough, Dame.

Although for full disclosure, I read ortho's comment as capability if the woman in question were to offer rather than ortho forcing himself. <shrug> It's not out of the possibility that I'm just being naive.
posted by porpoise 23 December | 22:56
I was riffing on the fact that the cell-phone, as of the time of the posting, was still stuck in her throat. Not about forcing anyone to do anything.

Anything else anyone read into it, is an assumption they brought to it.

Some woman, in an ill-considered moment, purposely swallowed a cell phone. That's unfortunate, but funny.

Dame, you're lashing out quite a bit, and not just at me. I'm going to assume that you're having a an ill-considered moment too, and leave it at that.
posted by orthogonality 23 December | 23:11
As much as it pains me, I'm with ortho here. Well up to the mmmph umpph mmmph part at least. The ack may be a little bit TMI.

I don't think he really meant the ideal romantic situation is to be unable to connect on any meaningful level, just that it wasn't necessary in this specific case.

I'll take gagging fantasies over whining about that damn keyboard any day.
posted by danostuporstar 23 December | 23:30
No, I still think you're a cock. I'm just sorry Wedge got caught in the crossfire, and I think he's awesome for having a better temper than I do.
posted by dame 23 December | 23:32
!
posted by orthogonality 23 December | 23:35
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posted by flopsy 24 December | 14:59
Oh, Good Lord, flopsy, my heart just burst wide open.
posted by Frisbee Girl 24 December | 15:05
I find this softcore bunny porn inappropriate and offensive.
posted by matildaben 24 December | 15:25
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