But I like talking to my friends on the phone
Me too. It’s faster than texting and gives you a whole lot of missing context.
Can we come up with some Seinfeld esque way if describing people that do this please
Jerry: “Aren’t you going to see what the message is?”
George: “Nah.”
Kramer: “Why not? It could be important!”
Jerry: “It’s not like you to ignore a message…”
George: “Okay, okay! I’ll tell you. I was sitting at home.”
Jerry: “Doing what?”
George: “Nothing.”
Kramer: “Oh yeah! I love doing nothing! I love it!”
Jerry: “Nothing? Sounds boring.”
George: “Spoken like an amateur. I have it down to an art.”
Kramer: “We should compare notes!”
Jerry: “Anyway, then what happened?”
George: “I get a text from this girl I had lunch with.”
Jerry: “Lunch? Like a date? A” lunch date?"
George: “I don’t know, I don’t know! How can you know? Who suggests lunch when someone asks them out? I don’t know, but she did!”
Kramer: “Yikes!”
Jerry: “Okay, so you get this text message.”
George: “That’s right.”
Jerry: “From the lunch maybe date maybe not woman.”
George: “That’s right.”
Jerry: “What does it say?”
George: “What are you doing?”
Jerry: “I’m asking what the message said!”
George: “I know! The message said, ‘What are you doing?’”
Jerry: “Ooooo. Okay. And?”
George: “So I sent her a reply, that said ‘nothing’.”
Kramer: “Classic mistake.”
George: “Well I wish I had known! How am I supposed to know?!”
Jerry: “I don’t get it. What’s the mistake?”
George: “After I told her that I wasn’t doing anything, she called me!”
Jerry: “On the phone? What for?”
George: “To talk!”
Jerry: “About what?”
George: “Nothing! I wanted to do nothing, not talk about nothing!”
Kramer: “You got yourself a phone talker.”
George: “A phone talker!”
Jerry: “Seems like it. So what are you going to do?”
George: “What can I do? I’m going to have to tell her talking on the phone causes me migraines. It’s the only way…”
Kramer and George leave. Jerry sees a message from Elaine that says, “What are you doing?” He puts the phone down.
This is me lol. Sometimes I’m just not talkative lol.
That reminded me. Where did the buzzing sound go. Remember when you had incomming call, your speakers would buzz?
It was like super power: “Someone’s calling me” … Ring Ring
Che_Che_Cole on reddit wrote three years ago this:
simply that we don’t use TDMA anymore, time division multiple access. TDMA was a way for multiple users to share one channel (basically a radio frequency, not unlike a TV channel over the air or tuning your radio to a certain station). It did this by splitting up each user’s signal into short bursts of data. Those bursts/pulses of data are what you heard buzzing in your speaker.
If you’re American you may have noticed back in those days, only Tmobile and ATT did this. They were GSM carriers who used TDMA. Verizon and Sprint used CDMA which was a different technology that did not cause the buzzing speaker because it didn’t transmit in pulses of data.
Newer technologies don’t use TDMA either, so 3G, LTE, now 5G won’t cause a buzz. If you noticed the speaker buzz phenomenon started disappearing in the early 2010s (in the US), that’s why.
https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/slt8j4/comment/hvtdne2/
Buzzing? Couldn’t you compensate by just delaying playback by one cycle?
4G is on a different frequency, it’s out of the audible range.
The reason you used to hear it is that a speaker turns electromagnetic vibration, so the back and forth movement of electrons into mechanical vibration, so the back and forth movement of sound.
2G was on a frequency that you could hear, so when the wires in your speakers picked it up like an antenna, your speakers played it back. 4G is much higher pitched, so it’s still there, it’s just so high you can’t hear it anymore.
Edit: Read Milkyway’s comment, they sound like they know more about this than I do. It’s not the frequency but the amplitude.
No, the frequency isn’t necessarily all that different. Some 4G Bands are even below typical 2G/GSM Bands. The major difference is how the multiple access and Modulation is done. 2G uses short, narrowband, high power bursts. It’s the interval of these bursts that causes the interference, not the carrier frequency.
Thanks, TIL, edited my comment.
Behdehdet behdedet
I can still hear it.
Me too. I worked in a call center in the mid 2000s and you couldn’t hear yourself think for it. Everyone was told to turn them off but no one did. Every text, every call, the Razr made her call into the headsets.
Bloopadopp bloopadopp …“Susan please…”
Wait, were our poor doggies being tortured by the constant sound of our 2g communications?
are you a wizard 😨
Neat! Not really related to the meme though
Why don’t you pick up?
Because I said, I’m doing nothing?!
Yea man. Nothing is what I’m doing. Not “waiting for something”
The takeaway here is, don’t fall in traps like that. Be smarter about your answer.
What would you answer?
You can always say: ‘I’m reading a book or watch series x atm, why what are you up to / why do you wanna know?’
Choose a book or series you know by heart and you always have an alibi.
If they are the kind who asks are you free on day x? Without stating a reason ask ‘why do you wanna know?’ Or say ‘I think I’ve got plans that day why?’
I’m chilling. That’s the actual truth. Doing nothing implies being bored which invites activities.
Incoming call
panic
Stop interrupting my nothing. I was having a great time doing nothing. You are ruining my nothing!
I can press the volume down button and it’ll silence the incoming call. So I can go about my day.
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