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[ST] re: Mobile Phone flame war - TORCH ON!

I just wanted to say that I truly hope I'm not in the vicinity of Black Dawg when he's ridin' n phonin'.

Comparing usage of a mobile phone with intercomming a pillion is foolishness.  The pillion is keenly aware of the focus and attention needed for operating a motorcycle, your wife/boss/client/girlfriend/boyfriend/daughter/mother etc, etc, on the other end of a mobile phone call doesn't have a clue.  You and the pillion have extremely similar vantage points, so if you say "look at that!", the pillion can look.  Phonebuddy will have to have it explained.

Using the Formula 1 (and, dare I say it, NASCAR) examples is also poor rationalization.  The crew chief isn't going to ring up Jeff Gordon (or Michael Schumacher) to ask them to pick up some Coke on their way home.  (Of course, if Jeff did that, he'd be in trouble with the sponsors, but that's another matter.)  The crew chief is focused on the same essential task as the driver, keeping safe and winning the race.  The driver is operating on a closed course where everybody is going the same direction.  There is no cross traffic, no kids or deer jumping out in front, no rivulets of spring water crossing the roadway in the midst of a shadowed decreasing radius turn, no manufactured housing being transported on the OTHER side of that bend, etc.

Human transportation managed quite well for thousands of years without the constant availability of the cell phone.  Methinks we can manage a bit longer....




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