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#27 Jul 21 2009 at 4:45 AM Rating: Good
allenjj wrote:
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I can't imagine driving without one



Wall of text that states the common knowledge that people driving while talking on cell phones tend to be worse drivers.


Driving with a phone in your pocket or sitting in the passenger seat/console is completely different from talking on one while driving.

Edited, Jul 21st 2009 8:46am by Anobix

Edited, Jul 21st 2009 8:50am by Anobix
#28 Jul 21 2009 at 5:41 AM Rating: Good
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Is driving with a cellphone to your ear still allowed in the US? It's illegal here and will get you fined about 100$. If you cause an accident while on the phone it can end up to be much more.
#29 Jul 21 2009 at 5:48 AM Rating: Good
Professor Turicus wrote:
Is driving with a cellphone to your ear still allowed in the US? It's illegal here and will get you fined about 100$. If you cause an accident while on the phone it can end up to be much more.


I don't think it's completely illegal yet here. I know that some areas around here, you can get pulled over while on your cell phone.
#31 Jul 21 2009 at 6:03 AM Rating: Good
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Professor Turicus wrote:
Is driving with a cellphone to your ear still allowed in the US? It's illegal here and will get you fined about 100$. If you cause an accident while on the phone it can end up to be much more.


Depends on the city/state laws. So, it various widely from locality to locality. Some states say "No, not all." Others say, "Only with hands-free devices" (federal lands like US Army reservations are this way). Still others say, "No texting while driving.", while others say, "We don't really care what you do to get yourself killed. Have fun!"

Tl;dr - YMMV.

#32 Jul 21 2009 at 8:03 AM Rating: Good
My tavis is a bnet authenticator. Smiley: nod













We totally need to make that a WoW forums insider joke word for ***** now.


*waves his tavis around wildly!
#33 Jul 21 2009 at 9:17 AM Rating: Excellent
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Lady isyris wrote:
she's clearly convinced that men will die of terrible, terrible pain if not satisfied once aroused


She actually got that part almost right. Smiley: grin









Ok, who wants to roll up a Belf named Tavis?
#34 Jul 21 2009 at 9:34 AM Rating: Good
I'll roll a female Belf named Synthari , if you roll a male one named Tavis... Just sayin'.
#35 Jul 21 2009 at 9:47 AM Rating: Excellent
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Duchess xNocturnalSunx wrote:
I'll roll a female Belf named Synthari , if you roll a male one named Tavis... Just sayin'.


Wanna roll them both up on the same realm? Smiley: clown
#36 Jul 21 2009 at 10:03 AM Rating: Excellent
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Furlis the Shady wrote:
Duchess xNocturnalSunx wrote:
I'll roll a female Belf named Synthari , if you roll a male one named Tavis... Just sayin'.


Wanna roll them both up on the same realm? Smiley: clown


Smiley: lol
#37 Jul 21 2009 at 11:21 AM Rating: Excellent
Lady isyris wrote:
Furlis the Shady wrote:
Duchess xNocturnalSunx wrote:
I'll roll a female Belf named Synthari , if you roll a male one named Tavis... Just sayin'.


Wanna roll them both up on the same realm? Smiley: clown


Smiley: lol


I vote Sen'jin to bug Isy with our l337sauceness Smiley: grin
#38 Jul 21 2009 at 11:25 AM Rating: Excellent
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Duchess xNocturnalSunx wrote:
I vote Sen'jin to bug Isy with our l337sauceness Smiley: grin




Name's unavailable, so either somebody else here beat me to it, or.... Blizz reads crappy romance novels, too! Smiley: yikes
#39 Jul 21 2009 at 11:30 AM Rating: Excellent
Furlis the Shady wrote:
Duchess xNocturnalSunx wrote:
I vote Sen'jin to bug Isy with our l337sauceness Smiley: grin




Name's unavailable, so either somebody else here beat me to it, or.... Blizz reads crappy romance novels, too! Smiley: yikes


How dare they! I shall armory the names!!!!

*runs off*

Edit: Not a single Synthari ... but there are 107 Tavis' on the US realms...

So my next vote would be Draka... to bug Teddy Smiley: grin MUAHAHAHA

Edited, Jul 21st 2009 3:34pm by xNocturnalSunx
#40 Jul 21 2009 at 11:34 AM Rating: Excellent
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Ok, I created TavisZinged there, and he's wearing a pretty blue dress. Smiley: flowers <-- Flowers from his butt.
Smiley: lol


Further emotional development after the age of eight is highly overrated.


Edited to add: Ok, I rolled up a TavisZinged on Draka, too (Tavis was taken there, too), but this time I opted for the pretty red dress. Smiley: tongue



Edited, Jul 21st 2009 12:45pm by Furlis
#41 Jul 21 2009 at 11:46 AM Rating: Excellent
Must have been a below level 10 Tavis then because I didn't see one on the armory. I'll make a Synthari once I can get off work and get home =)
#42 Jul 21 2009 at 12:14 PM Rating: Good
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Teddy isn't on Draka anymore, Noc, just FYI. He transferred to a different server for some stupid reason. Smiley: rolleyes

(It was actually for arena purposes, but that's stupid in my book!)

BTW, that book sounds awesome.

...for a romance novel.
#43 Jul 21 2009 at 7:54 PM Rating: Excellent
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Bump: Noc still owes us a synthari on Sen'jin! Smiley: tongue
#44 Jul 21 2009 at 9:48 PM Rating: Excellent
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Furlis the Shady wrote:
Bump: Noc still owes us a synthari on Sen'jin! Smiley: tongue


Smiley: glare

Hehe I may have to actually log on to Sen'jin to mess around with you guys, I haven't been playing over there at all lately. Totally <3 Ursin, and mah baby drood I have there...
#45 Jul 21 2009 at 9:57 PM Rating: Excellent
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I'm leveling up TavisZinged now. He's at 7, and I figure I need to get the petal-pooting poofter up to level 10 so he'll show up in the Armory. Smiley: grin







In retrospect, I should have rolled a hunter instead of a mage, so he could summon his monkey, Sparkles.

Edited, Jul 21st 2009 11:00pm by Furlis
#46 Jul 21 2009 at 10:02 PM Rating: Good
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Furlis the Shady wrote:
I'm leveling up TavisZinged now. He's at 7, and I figure I need to get the petal-pooting poofter up to level 10 so he'll show up in the Armory. Smiley: grin







In retrospect, I should have rolled a hunter instead of a mage, so he could summon his monkey, Sparkles.

Edited, Jul 21st 2009 11:00pm by Furlis


You can always delete and re-roll, he's only lvl 7.
#47 Jul 21 2009 at 10:04 PM Rating: Excellent
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Ambrya wrote:
You can always delete and re-roll, he's only lvl 7.



Meh. Too lazy. Smiley: grin
#48 Jul 21 2009 at 10:07 PM Rating: Decent
I know places like California don't allow you to talk on the phone or text while driving. The only exemption to the former is if you're using a hands-free device, but even that, statistically, still isn't as safe.

Also, about the original topic...excellent! I know a few people with Blackberries who wanted the Authenticator app, so now they can finally get it! Still think that there should be more mobile carriers, though.
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#49 Jul 21 2009 at 10:10 PM Rating: Excellent
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The One and Only Davejohnsan wrote:
I know places like California don't allow you to talk on the phone or text while driving. The only exemption to the former is if you're using a hands-free device, but even that, statistically, still isn't as safe.



I have a bluetooth hands-free feature in my GPS thingy that works with my iPhone, but I still rarely answer the phone while driving; it just makes me too stoopid.
#50 Jul 21 2009 at 10:57 PM Rating: Decent
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Furlis the Shady wrote:
The One and Only Davejohnsan wrote:
I know places like California don't allow you to talk on the phone or text while driving. The only exemption to the former is if you're using a hands-free device, but even that, statistically, still isn't as safe.



I have a bluetooth hands-free feature in my GPS thingy that works with my iPhone, but I still rarely answer the phone while driving; it just makes me too stoopid.

Meh, it's just like carrying on a conversation in the car. I personally have a speakerphone bluetooth thing that I clip to the visor in my car, which is awesome.

I actually drive better when I'm on the phone, then I'm not bored and looking out the sides of my car on the freeway.
#51 Jul 21 2009 at 11:39 PM Rating: Good
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Overlord Theophany wrote:

Meh, it's just like carrying on a conversation in the car.


Jury is still out on that one. Study results aren't entirely conclusive, but seem to fall more heavily on the side of showing that a conversation on a hands-free cell-phone actually is more dangerous than a conversation with a passenger in the vehicle.

One study goes so far as to show that traffic became a part of the conversation with an actual passenger, resulting in both passenger and driver backing off the intensity of the conversation when the demands of driving increased. Such responsiveness to traffic doesn't exist on the other end of a cell phone.


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This study examines how conversing with passengers in a vehicle differs from conversing on a cell phone
while driving. We compared how well drivers were able to deal with the demands of driving when
conversing on a cell phone, conversing with a passenger, and when driving without any distraction. In
the conversation conditions, participants were instructed to converse with a friend about past experiences
in which their life was threatened. The results show that the number of driving errors was highest in the
cell phone condition; in passenger conversations more references were made to traffic, and the production
rate of the driver and the complexity of speech of both interlocutors dropped in response to an increase
in the demand of the traffic. The results indicate that passenger conversations differ from cell phone
conversations because the surrounding traffic not only becomes a topic of the conversation, helping
driver and passenger to share situation awareness, but the driving condition also has a direct influence
on the complexity of the conversation, thereby mitigating the potential negative effects of a conversation
on driving.



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I actually drive better when I'm on the phone, then I'm not bored and looking out the sides of my car on the freeway.


I do drive better while conversing, which was a fact that became known to me way back in driver's ed. During the road portion of the class, we would drive with a different instructor each time we went out, and only one of them either made the effort or had any aptitude for conversing easily, and it was with that particular instructor that I always did my best, because I was able to relax and stop over-thinking what I was doing, letting muscle memory and reflex play their roles.

{checks calendar}

Okay, it's another day.

My main objection to cell phones mainly stems from the fact that when they ring, people tend to forget all about common-effing-courtesy. Not just driving, but everywhere. I can be walking along the street and nearly get bumped off the curb by some bimbo with a friggin' phone growing out of her ear because she couldn't be bothered to turn her head and see if there were other people around her. Yo, sweetums, maybe your oh-so-important discussion about your brother's girlfriend's roommate's cousin's one-night-stand should wait until you're not juggling a latte, an egg and cheese bagel, three shopping bags and a purse the size of Milwaukee, mmkay? I'll be sitting at a park with my kid and have to listen to shouting from some chucklenut on the next bench trying to get his message across while dealing with a crappy signal. I've been known to make my excuses in social situations where my presence is clearly so unimportant that the person I am with will interrupt our conversation in order to have a conversation on the phone with someone else (excepting business calls and the like.)

The kicker, however, has to be last Valentine's day. Mr. Ambrya and I went out to dinner, and at a table near us was a middle aged woman and her husband/significant other who were obviously also out for V-Day. During the ~hour we were there, the woman's phone rang FIVE times, and she answered it each and every time, interrupting her conversation with her companion as she did so, much to his very visible irritation. And they weren't important calls, from what I could overhear--not business related, or life-and-death emergency stuff. No, it was just friends calling to gossip. FFS lady, turn off the damn phone and have a romantic dinner with your husband.

Anyway, yeah. Hate 'em.

Edited, Jul 22nd 2009 12:40am by Ambrya
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