People Who Want To Talk On The Phone Socially

[quote]Why would anyone want to talk on the phone for fun?

People who actually have friends, maybe.

To be able to dial numbers with a pencil.

They're attention whores, mainly women. They're purposefully doing that for attention. I've seen women walk around stores holding the phone away from their face on speakerphone, and talking at the top of their lungs like they're holding an impromptu conference call.

[quote]Why would anyone want to talk on the phone for fun?

We. Are. Doomed.

EM Forster: "Only connect."

OP: "Only disconnect."

OP is a troll and a cunt.

Most of the people I see on the phone in public are men calling about work or to make some kind of arrangements. Otherwise it's older people calling relatives when at a restaurant or at the store. Just yesterday this poor 20-something girl had to take her half-deaf dad's (or granddad's) phone away from him and end a call while we were standing in the checkout line, she looked mortified that he was being so rude.

I also talk on the phone sexually and financially. Old obese troll like OP must talk on the phone geriatrically?

OP sounds like a bitter old queen. Nobody wants to talk to you because you sit around in your caftan all day, drinking mimosas and being a big old bitch. Even your Lhasa Apso doesn't love you. Sad! x

Congratulations OP -- you are a talented troll who knows how to push the buttons here. May your whole life consist of nothing but excellent trolling.

Well, I can't see OP's point.

If you have a extremely limited vocabulary and very simple thoughts and ideas, it's probably much less stressful to text a few words, than actually speak, especially if you have poor grammar.

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

I haven't talked on the phone for fun since I was about 8 years old and my friends and I were really into making prank phone calls. I don't listen to voicemails anyone leaves me. I only talk on the phone when the situation is urgent and otherwise unresolvable and those are almost all business, not personal, situations. At a maximum, I will speak to my closest friends on the phone between once a month and once every two years, depending on the person. But I would absolutely never try to force someone into regularly talking on the phone with me. Someone is doing that to me, lately, and being super passive aggressive about not responding to texts. No one talks on the fucking phone for fun. Everyone hates the phone. That's why they invented texting. It's not 1994 anymore. I don't fucking get it.

I like to talk on the phone with some people. I only do it at home, though. I hardly ever talk on the phone in public. I just hate it. I never, ever do speakerphone in public. Those people deserve to die.

op mistakes the lack of interest that others seem to have in him for something normal.

I hate to talk, in general. Even I talk on the phone, at some point, though never in public.

OP, are you real?

Texting with a pencil doesn’t have the same appeal.

[quote]R10: ... you have a extremely limited vocabulary...

The joke writes itself.

r14, I'm real.

I love talking --- in person. I like talking during sex. I talk in my sleep. I talk to my cat. I talk to myself. I love talking to strangers. I hate fucking talking on the phone.

[quote]People who actually have friends, maybe.

NAH. I’ve got plenty of friends and most of us hate talking on the phone. Of course, we’re not 60, so texting is practical. Talking on the phone is limited to the job, parents, etc.

[quote][R10]: ... you have a extremely limited vocabulary...

[quote]The joke writes itself.

r16 - thinks that that is an error of vocabulary.

If we discount it from merely being a typo, then it would, of course, be a grammar, not vocabulary error.

If you're going to correct people, do it correctly.

Nonetheless, it is an error - admittedly.