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Didn't expect to see memes making fun of mental illnesses on Lemmy

Imagine meeting the love of your life and then finding out they talk on the phone ~~like this~~

When did this become a thing anyway? When out and about, I see everyone talking on the phone like this.

I don't want to hear your conversation.

I call this "pizza phone" because it looks like they are eating their phone like a slice of pizza.

I see a lot of kids/teens walking around doing this.

I think perhaps they don’t know how phones work as phones.

Man bun and v-neck weren't helping the case.

ITT a bunch of fucking losers claiming to have hearing problems and would rather be a dick in public than invest in proper headphones.

Note on the claim part, I don't believe a fraction of the assholes here, just trying to justify their assholery. People with legitimate hearing issues tend to accept the support technology that's readily available these days. I spend quite a bit of time around folks who are actually hard of hearing.

Wow I almost feel singled out by this. But I presume that this is supposed to be in public. Which by every account is a dick move.

However I do this in private, I.e. in my car or at home. And the reason I do it is because I can't hear a call without using the speaker phone. Hearing issues aren't fun.

However the easier solution is headphones, but calls over Bluetooth can make things worse, from battery life to sound quality.

Wired headphones are the preferable solution to this but we all know what happened to those.

TL:DR I do this because of my hearing issues. In public this is a dick move, but headphones aren't the solution they use to be.

In my defense, I've had a phone hang up or do weird stuff because it couldn't tell the difference between a fingertip and an earlobe way too many times. Like, a shitty phone has nearly altered the course of my life because of this, and that's not okay.

I do this when I'm on the phone and alone. Or I set my phone on my tits. But only when I am isolated. I don't want to bother people with my phone on speaker.

That's not the normal way to talk when you are alone in the room?

Guess no one will find out because I am alone.

I know this is a joke but if I found my match but they had a minor flaw I would probably try real hard to make it work and maybe even explain to them that their bad habit annoys me slightly. Nobody is perfect and theres always room to improve for those willing to try

What is worse is when people are wearing a Bluetooth headset and still holds their phone like this.