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[Misc] Are you a phubber?







Dec 15, 2014
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Phubbing is the practice of looking at your phone in a social situation instead of giving someone your full attentio

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/06/opinions/roberts-boss-phubbing/



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It reminds me of a guy who lived near me in Powis Square for about 2 months.
 










W.C.

New member
Oct 31, 2011
4,927
Occasionally yes, but I hope it's with the kind of friends and family members that I can say 'What?' to, instead of 'Sorry?'
 








Gullflyinghigh

Registered User
Apr 23, 2012
4,279
I try to avoid it simply because it really bugs me when someone else does it during a conversation.

Then again, if I were less dull...?
 


Reagulls

Well-known member
Jul 22, 2013
764
I don't as I hate people doing it to me.
My business partner does this really annoying thing, we'll be discussing an important job and he'll get a text "ping"
from his pocket.
He then sort of glazes over and you can tell that the most important thing is now what that text says and not what we are currently discussing.
It's a text FFS! , it will still be there and say exactly the same thing when we have finished our conversation!
 






fat old seagull

New member
Sep 8, 2005
5,239
Rural Ringmer
If this happens to you, reach for your own mobile and talk to someone about anything for as long as you feel it will take to pizz off the perpetrator. Or even just pretend to have a protracted conversation. Then perhaps say "sorry, I thought you were busy".
 








Wrong-Direction

Well-known member
Mar 10, 2013
13,395
I don't as I hate people doing it to me.
My business partner does this really annoying thing, we'll be discussing an important job and he'll get a text "ping"
from his pocket.
He then sort of glazes over and you can tell that the most important thing is now what that text says and not what we are currently discussing.
It's a text FFS! , it will still be there and say exactly the same thing when we have finished our conversation!
..sorry what?
 




swindonseagull

Well-known member
Aug 6, 2003
9,228
Swindon, but used to be Manila
Digressing slightly I think people who are on there phones at say a supermarket check out or some other situation where they need to interact ( petrol station/coffeshop) totally annoying and in my eyes bad manners.
If the call is that important you would not be at a supermarket or petrol station/ coffee shop...

HANG UP ignorant buffoons and dont talk so damn loud everyone can hear your conversation.
 




BLOCK F

Well-known member
Feb 26, 2009
6,317
Hate it when people do that.
I don't; probably because I have a basic Nokia flip top phone that doesn't even take photos!
If I wasn't retired, I would have had to get a 'proper' phone, but it is quite liberating to live one's life without being ruled by a poxy gadget.
 


Bold Seagull

strong and stable with me, or...
Mar 18, 2010
29,719
Hove
What is a reverse phubber called?

You know, you are deep in concentration regarding something on your phone, and they insist on talking you despite it being completely obvious you are engaged in something far more critically important..!?
 



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