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(Some Guy)   New study finds 885,000 people accidentally flush their cell phones down the toilet. Every year   (channel4.com) divider line 87
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2007-06-04 10:04:41 AM
Cellpoop thread!!!!!
 
2007-06-04 10:04:57 AM
Well, to be fair, at least a quarter of those aren't really accidents, but simply retribution for annoying ring tones.
 
2007-06-04 10:09:56 AM
This is in Briton alone!

I've done that before, but I've never been stupid enough to flush it afterwards. You tend to notice a cell phone in your toilet.
 
2007-06-04 10:10:02 AM
This explains the shiatty reception, anyway.

/ducks
 
2007-06-04 10:11:51 AM
`Dude, you should see this! It's shaped like a-' *splash*
 
2007-06-04 10:20:01 AM
oldfarthenry: You owe me a new keyboard.

...and that was the last of the coffee in the house, too...
 
2007-06-04 10:21:40 AM
absoluteparanoia: This is in Briton alone!

Just the one? Must be a hell of a guy.
 
Ni!
2007-06-04 10:27:59 AM
If they'd go back to the huge 80's style, there wouldn't be this problem.
 
2007-06-04 10:32:35 AM
Ni!: If they'd go back to the huge 80's style, there wouldn't be this problem.

Heh... Yeah, but there'd be a lot more broken toilets.

I do sort of want one of those phones, though. Too bad none of the old ones work now that the networks are switching from analog to digital
 
2007-06-04 10:46:40 AM
My Liver Hurts: Just the one? Must be a hell of a guy.

He is. Him and Richard Gere have endless fun re-enacting the "can you hear me now" scene with cell phones and gerbils.
 
Ni!
2007-06-04 10:54:02 AM
Well, there's this, My Liver Hurts. :) Out of stock, natch.
 
2007-06-04 10:54:20 AM
I lost one phone on the toilet. It was in my pocket and I was sitting down to take a grumpy and it fell into the can.
 
2007-06-04 10:55:03 AM
If my cellphone hits the crapper, it's going down with the...ship. No way in fark am I fishing it out.
 
2007-06-04 11:16:35 AM
roaming... roaming... roaming... roaming...
 
2007-06-04 11:21:23 AM
How did they determine this? Extensive signal-to-feces log analysis?
 
2007-06-04 11:27:14 AM
markie_farkie: How did they determine this? Extensive signal-to-feces log analysis?

Or just who had the fewest dropped logs calls.
 
2007-06-04 11:27:44 AM
i199.photobucket.com

/DRTFA
//it's poopturday
 
2007-06-04 11:28:08 AM
I would have been more impressed if the Center of Madeup Statistics had informed me that 885,000 people mistakenly wipe their asses with their cell phones ... every year.
 
2007-06-04 11:28:58 AM
Too bad it's not %100
 
2007-06-04 11:29:55 AM
It wouldn't happen if they had the carrier with the fewest dropped calls.
 
2007-06-04 11:30:21 AM
I have dropped a cell phone in the toilet twice so I am really getting a kick out these replies.
 
2007-06-04 11:30:58 AM
2 years agao, a few days before Easter (four, I believe), I was taking a piss when my phone rang. I was pretty drunk and decided I would flush and pull the phone out and cradle it with my shoulder while I washed my hands.

I flushed, pulled the phone out, and it fell into the flushing bowl.

I kid you not, on Easter Sunday morning, it reappeared in the toilet. Unfortunately getting any phone wet, even a Jesus phone, will void the warranty...
 
2007-06-04 11:31:09 AM
I have droped a pager into the toilet. It goes like this. You are doing your business, you stand up and pull up your pants.. the pager/cellphone that was hanging around your belt slips off 'cause your belt is no longer done up and it slieds off the end.... plop, doh.
 
2007-06-04 11:32:45 AM
When I worked at a shiatty grocery store chain, we had to carry these bulky wireless phones. We were instructed by the assistant manager to remove them from our belts before using the head. In his words, "They don't float."
 
2007-06-04 11:33:06 AM
885,000 people accidentally flush their cell phones down the toilet. Every year.

I wonder why they do it every year? I think, after a few years, we can determine that it's no longer "accidental".

I'd like to flush a couple carriers down the toilet.

\refuses to carry a cel phone
\\just don't want one
 
2007-06-04 11:33:39 AM
Cell phone? Nope, never done it.

But Better Half has accidentally sprung the toilet paper spindle in there. That was interesting to explain to the plumber.

I agree, pottie, especially in the store and on the road, so tired of people blathering...

//kinda like a train wreck at the store when you are hearing about their sex life... can't... get... far... enough... away...
 
2007-06-04 11:33:59 AM
It happened to me once. Fortunately i'd flushed already; i fished it out. Still, it was shot.

I'd have gotten a new one anyway,.

/ew.
 
2007-06-04 11:36:35 AM
The bigger question is how many dozen of these accidents were not alcohol related?
 
2007-06-04 11:36:43 AM
ScottMpls I would have been more impressed if the Center of Madeup Statistics had informed me that 885,000 people mistakenly wipe their asses with their cell phones ... every year.

This is not a "made-up" statistic. They have a very accurate count. When using public toilet facilities in England, on average, each person has 4 CCTV cameras watching them at any one time.
 
2007-06-04 11:36:52 AM
Every year?!

You'd think those 885,000 idiots would learn to be more careful after the first few years...
 
2007-06-04 11:37:04 AM
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2007-06-04 11:37:20 AM
that means at least 885,000 people every year are holding conversations while on the shiatter.

NO.

WRONG.

FAIL.
 
2007-06-04 11:38:41 AM
flushed mine down the toilet a few weeks back.
no lie.
 
2007-06-04 11:39:35 AM
snowdog2112 flushed mine down the toilet a few weeks back. no lie.

885,001.
 
2007-06-04 11:40:37 AM
When I got off a plane at Midway airport in Chicago, I made a quick pit stop in the men's room. I came out and remarked to my wife it was amazing to see so many guys at urinals while on phones. I said I'd be afraid of dropping my phone in. A janitor overheard this, and told us he was offered $100 by a guy to fish his Rolex out of a toilet. I wasn't clear on how it fell off his wrist in the first place.
 
2007-06-04 11:42:57 AM
MadScientist A janitor overheard this, and told us he was offered $100 by a guy to fish his Rolex out of a toilet. I wasn't clear on how it fell off his wrist in the first place.

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That uncomfortable hunk of metal wasn't on his wrist.
 
2007-06-04 11:43:13 AM
It has happened to me and it can happen to you. I found the whole situation rather humorous. Sure I ruined my phone but I got a story to tell out of it.
 
2007-06-04 11:43:18 AM
Broadcastdave
I lost one phone on the toilet. It was in my pocket and I was sitting down to take a grumpy and it fell into the can.


A grumpy?

/wow, just wow!
 
2007-06-04 11:45:06 AM
i185.photobucket.com
"Can you hear me now?"
 
2007-06-04 11:45:14 AM
I once lost a phone in a hooker's ass...so I assume that ultimately ended up getting flushed as well.
 
2007-06-04 11:45:57 AM
Left my cell phone in my pocket and my girlfriend washed it with the clothes.

Gave me an excuse to get a new one.
 
2007-06-04 11:46:22 AM
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
 
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2007-06-04 11:47:36 AM
They breed in the sewers, and eventually you get huge flocks of evil-smelling mobiles flying out of people's lavatories and infringing their personal freedom.
 
2007-06-04 11:49:52 AM
Motorasshola?
 
2007-06-04 11:50:35 AM
Maybe they're on the Friends & Feces Plan.
 
2007-06-04 11:51:14 AM
That's what happens where you're on Cheekerphone.
 
2007-06-04 11:53:32 AM
Lies.. all lies. We used to get out of uncomfortable phone calls with "What? I can't hear you, you're breaking up"? Can't say that anymore so now we gotta make up crazy lies "Sorry man, I flushed my phone down the crapper!".
It's a conspiracy I tells ya!

Side note: My sister was mowing the lawn on a riding mower and her cell fell off her pants. Yeah, she ran it over.
 
2007-06-04 11:55:04 AM
885,001

Yup, flushed it right down.
 
2007-06-04 11:55:32 AM
dan86turbo: Funniest shiat ever.
 
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