to want to stand of my b/fs iphone whilst wearing a pair of sharp stilettos?

[Ladyanonymous]

OMG...are these things THE most anti-social gadget known to man?

Is it just me? This is really beginning to fucking infuriate me!!!

What do you do without nagging?!

Every time I turn my head to look at my beloved he is transfixed by the bloody thing, updating himself on some score of a sport he doesn't even watch, or something on eBay he probably had no intention of ever buying?!

I have a colleague who has one too, who is constantly on bloody Facebook - to the point where at our Xmas dinner the sodding thing was sat on the table and she updated her FB status - constantly - in my book that is just plain fucking rude!!

And breathe.................

it seems iphones divide folk

those woh have them and who go on about them all the time rave about them

those who think "you sad bastard" when they hear "app"

The ones who think 'sad bastard' are invariably the people who don't have one and know they wouldn't know how to work one if the did

Probably

Ok, now im very greatful for the fact that its just BBC sport and not apps. Plus if its the only annoying things he does I can cope with that.

Seriously cant beleive adults play on phone games...

''Seriously cant beleive adults play on phone games...''

No, beause adults must be 'adults' at all times and not have any fun at all.

Personally I am hooked on Angry Birds, My DSs and I are driven POTTY by it!

I am a responsible iPhoner though, I reckon some have a worse Mumsnet habit than I do an iPhone one...!

And my four year old whips my ass at Connect Four!

But its so small, repetative and consuming...

YANBU. As well as it being surgically attached to his hand, my DH now refuses to look at a map because he has GPS on his bloody iphone. I don't know how many times we have to get lost before he realises that it's crap.

Eurghh google maps..! Worse than crapnav.

Some people are made for an iPhone, some are not. C'est la vie, I'm not gonna force ya. They are great fun and as long as used appropriately, what's the harm.

OMG YES MamaVoo the bloody maps... whats wrong with a bloody Ordnance survey ... or at least the Tomtom?

Went 40 miles out of our way on a weekend away because he was so busy insisted we program the fucking thing we missed the exit on the Motorway

I do love him really...he is wonderful apart from that...I guess foureleven is right..

I started a thread on the same thing today.
Probably against MN etiquette but I'll copy it and hope you have some ideas about what I should do,
It's acceptable to crush DP's iphone but surely noit a friends??
A good friend has been through a hell of a lot of stressful things over the last few years. DP and I have been there for her & the family and she has supported us too. (makes our lives seem very dramatic, it has been a "I could write a book" period)

"Friend has been an avid FB fan for ages but since she got an iPhone it is a real pain. She is constantly checking her phone, only gives half of her attention to you when you tell her something, insists on telling you what people you have never met are saying about situations you don't know about.
She has brought her phone to the table on the last two occasions she has eaten here and consulted it frequently.
So AIBU to be cross? We've teased her about it, hoping she would realise how rude she is, to no avail. I get so wound up at the sheer bad manners and the implication that DP are of no real interest to her.
But I love her dearly, she's a good laugh, intelligent and challenging in a good way.
What should I do? I am rubbish at confrontation."

Do you have DC's?

I find it easier to have a go in a jokey way at the table with my b/f and my children.

If he picks up his phone at the table I say something to the kids like "Isn't X naughty bringing his toys to the table" or "You're setting a really bad example to the kids as they aren't allowed their phones at the table" and basically try to humiliate him into putting it away

Can you adopt the same tac with you friend?

YANBU

drives me crazy. I do see that they are lovely and glorious and a miracle of modern design and technology

however, I don't see that said miracle has to be and go every bloody where all the time

Jesus didn't drag that fish and loaf about all the time did he? Going on and on about how amazing it was when they multiplied. He didn't put a fish on the dinner table, or fiddle with a loaf at the cinema or start contemplating the fish MID CONVERSATION did he? No.

Clearly, they're too addictive

grrr

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