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17 February 2010

I need a word to describe people who obstruct pedestrian spaces by stepping aimlessly around while talking on a mobile phone.→[More:]

"I would have got here sooner but the celligaggers were mobimooching around in my way. Why is everyone mobillydallying around these days?"

post by: TheophileEscargot at: 05:58 | 16 comments

I call them "boot fodder".

posted by gomichild 17 February | 06:15

or you could just go for the gusto and call them cellstands.

posted by funmonkey1 17 February | 06:29

"path kill"

posted by dg 17 February | 06:34

celligaggers is perfect. That's what I'm going to all them from here on out.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 17 February | 08:19

Hah. I read this earlier and just a few minutes ago when I was getting off the bus, the woman in front of me stopped dead right in front of the doors to check her Blackberry. I had to throw myself to the left to keep from running her over.

posted by octothorpe 17 February | 09:31

octothorpe, I've heard that referred to as a Blackberry jam. (I think it might only apply to the DC Metro though.)

posted by sperose 17 February | 10:02

In Moscow, if you're in the way of someone walking, they push you out of the way with their hands. I've been pushed that way. Maybe there's a Russian word?
(avoiding pun on name of country)

posted by Obscure Reference 17 February | 10:30

I think I need to buy some steel-toecapped boots and follow gomichild's lead...

posted by TheophileEscargot 17 February | 11:21

Wow, octothorpe, she would have gotten my elbow in her ear.

posted by gaspode 17 February | 11:22

Sometimes when I'm in a mood, I lean in to their phone and shout to the person on the other end of the line, "I fuck dogs!" leaving the moblivious with some 'splainin' to do. People generally react negatively to this.

Then I regret being a random asshole and go buy flowers for someone who needs cheering up, so it all evens out in the end.

posted by Hugh Janus 17 February | 11:28

Pluggers

Feature Creatures

Data blockers

Heh, from google translate:

obstacle (english)
przeszkoda (polish)
prepreka (croatian)
пречка/prečka (macedonian)
hindrun (icelandic)
перешкода/pereshkoda (ukranian)
hindernis (afrikaans)
bhac (irish)
...and I don't even know how to begin to pronounce this one: rhwystr (welsh)

...

We may need to bring back the phone booth. I smell a business opportunity. Have a stall set up, you pay a few quarters to get in, and nobody bugs you when you're telling your buddies you're on the way to the bar.

posted by lysdexic 17 February | 12:52

Is this the place where I can complain about people who talk on the phone while using the treadmill/stairstepper/elliptical at the gym? I'm trying to zone out while I train at 6:30 in the morning and I can hear your stupid conversation through my earphones.

posted by octothorpe 17 February | 13:45

Is there something wrong with "asshole"?

posted by deborah 17 February | 19:27

Not portmanteau-ish enough.

I think I rather like "moblivious."

posted by TrishaLynn 17 February | 23:32

This is just to note that I hereby favourite Hugh Janus's comment. I normally just bump right into them and yell "Sorry!" in a totlly un-sorry fashion but all that's gonna change...

:)

posted by ninazer0 18 February | 01:58

Ooh, "moblivious" is good.

posted by TheophileEscargot 18 February | 06:54

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