Keeping up with the times

Can anyone tell me why some people hold their mobile phones horizontally in front of them when walking?

 

Microphone is at the bottom edge of a mobile so you hold it that way so as to be heard when you speak. as you haven't the the set to your ear and you use either earbuds or have it on loudspeaker to listen.

 

Oh! so that's why no one can hear me. Thanks

 

Oh, I thought it was because they wanted to look like %w@%s

 

I suspect that with some people it is a concern that holding a mobile to your ear might be damaging to your health in some way (e.g. microwave radiation) so using the speaker or ear buds would be felt to be preferable.

 

What’s more damaging to their health is not taking care with their surroundings.

And that too.

 

Some twits are probably also taking succesive selfies of themself

 

Yes that does come in to it as well, They are so divi, some of them.

 

A Bluetooth device in one's ear is not a problem, though?
We are still novices with the so-called smart phones. Difficult to find a comfortable way to hold it without accidentally hitting a physical button or a touchpad button by mistake. I think Hubby's next mobile phone will be a flip style with big buttons and display he can see.
Ah, technology.

 

A good word, much underused!

 

Divi? Not a word in common use down this way, as far as I’m aware. Please explain?

 

I've never heard it before either, but according to Urban Dictionary:

"Divi, Div, Divy A person who is not very smart or has just done a stupid thing"

 

Oh thank goodness I’m not alone in my ignorance, not that I’m saying you are ignorant @Philippa, far from it but so many words used here that I end up having to search for meanings. Thank you Philippa. My vocabulary is slowly becoming very diverse.
I would say the popular name down here for a divi is a $#&@%@#$.

 

Yer and being from East London that's how it would be pronounced,a div would be a person that would be an idiot, or not knowing what was going on around them

 

I've often wondered, when seeing people talking on the mobile with Ear Buds in place, what's the difference between the speaker in the mobile and the speakers in Ear Buds. To my mind no difference except the Ear Bud speakers are closer to one's brain, which would make them more dangerous. I've no doubt got hold of the wrong end of the stick and it's some gizzmo in the mobile itself causing the problem.

 

Sort of evens out over the long term, Sue, because I am sure there are quite a few words used down here (that don't need symbols ) that are definitely not understood by non-Aussies.

It's half the fun of communicating!!!

 

"Ayyyyy, yer divvy!" I didn't realise that people used it down south.

 

Around here it is just - a div

 

I think here the polite terms would be either drongo or eeeejit (or maybe just bl---y I D I O T)