Shhh: Society for Handheld Hushing

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And the same people that complain about cell-phone users have the same 'private' conversations with people who are actually there.

People STILL have to listen to it! It doesn't make it any better that there are 2 voices talking about it.

People who can't use their 'inside voice' are annoying, no matter the reason. It isn't cellphone specific.

Cell phones do make it worse though, because you often have no idea if the other person can properly hear you.

There's this clever thing people do when they can't hear me well: They tell me.

There's no difference between them being there, and them being on the other end of a phone. The noise problem is the same.

Wait, there IS one difference: The other person can turn their volume up.

I used to just ask someone to keep it down, but now I can do it in a less effective, higher effort way that also makes me a gigantic passive aggressive douchebag too? I'm already printing!

Handing out these cards is a ruder and more offensive practice than the behaviour that the card-carriers seek to control/prevent. It's not going to work on any large scale.

Or, for ~30 with shipping, you could get one of [these](http://www.dealextreme.com/p/personal-cell-phone-signal-bloc...). I have one, it's awesome.

Awesome and also illegal in most western countries.

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