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Is it just my wife? In reality she deserves nothing more than a 20 quid pay as you go phone. Current incarnation is somehow an I phone, it's battered and cracked. Several of it's predecessors have been for a swim in the toilet or bath, several have been "lost".
Last night's events? We had a quick sit down outside Notts arena after the gig. We then walked a good 5 mins towards the city, "where's my phone" she exclaims, I give the all knowing look and my wallet twitched, "I've left it on the wall" she says. How that is possible is beyond me when it looks at times as tho it's been surgically grafted to your ****ing palm!
So we walk back in silence to said sitting spot, and there in full view in white on a wall bang outside the arena with thousands walking by is the IPhone , probably wishing to itself that it had been picked up by anyone else other than my wife!
So thankyou Nottingham for being as unobservant as my wife!
Me: lost one. Left it on bench. Was rescued by a very nice woman who returned it to me after I activated the lost phone app thingummy.
Have upgraded twice since 2010
Mrs MR: Destroyed one. Dropped/fell/gravitated to toilet. Has upgraded once since 2010.
A draw?
Wife: lost one. Fell in toilet. Has upgraded once since 2010.
The lost wife, was that the same one that fell into the toilet? The upgraded wife any new useful features?
Mrs B phone resides in the bottom of handbag on silent making contact with her is nigh on impossible.
Mrs B phone resides in the bottom of handbag on silent making contact with her is nigh on impossible.
@bruneep - yup. Same.
I had 7 screens on my last iPhone...
My Wife has had one stolen from her, so I think I'm probably worse.
🤣* edited now. Have not lost wife. Upgrade denied.
I was expecting this thread to be about driving and mobile phone use. Activities many young ladies seem to feel go hand in hand.
No it's me doing the damage here. My wife doesn't break much. I break about one phone a year. When I used to have blackberrys it was one every 6 months. No matter what case I use, they just break at some point, usually because of a fall and it is in my pocket. I don't even ride with the things usually - I have an old non-smart nokia for that. TBH if tech had stopped evolving at the stage of non-smart phones I would be happy.
I'm astonished by how much damage people seem capable of inflicting on their phones. I'm even more astonished how often people replace/upgrade them.
Mrs B got out of her car, put her handbag on the ground (complete with phone inside, on silent, obviously), decided for some reason that she had to move the car and reversed over the bag. There were also two pints of milk in the bag. Milky glassy carnage.
I think Apple took pity on her - they just replaced it without too many questions.
how is this thread and it's casual sexism acceptable on STW ?
Turnerguy
how is this thread and it’s casual sexism acceptable on STW ?
Because it's operating on the premise that gender is just a social construct and all differences between the sexes are a result of social conditioning and female suppression so by commenting on women's ability to break phones it is merely an observation of oppressive patriarchal female hating white male culture and is therefore OK.
@turnerguy - because a ‘Humans and phones’ thread would be as dull as ****?
In reality she deserves nothing more than a 20 quid pay as you go phone
I want to say something but I just don't know where to start with this.
My missus has fortunately realised that she is basically the grim reaper of phones and as a result she now encases hers in a massive Otter box SAS-spec apocalypse-proof case thingie which seems to keep it just about kicking until upgrade time.
Me : 1 phone every 2 or 3 years, Usually because Google fill my current phone to overflowing with unwanted bloatware that can't be removed. Never broken anything since I dropped my old Motorola RAZR in the Gym on tile flooring and the corner shattered. Now have a Motorola G4
Wife : Various I Phones she got bored with, Various Samsungs S2-S6 (some dropped, 1 down the toilet & multiple failed USB ports), Currently a Sony Xperia XZ Premium. She only uses it for Facebook and ignoring my calls god knows why she thinks she needs the latest, shiniest, most expensive phone in existence!!!
Although in contrast her MTB is still on it's original tyres, bearings, pedals etc and mine.....isn't 🙂
@Turnerguy - its humour.
You will have to put up with it.
I'm sure the opposite sex can come up with a thread or two to take the micky out of blokes in an equally stereotypical / humorous way.
I’m sure the opposite sex can come up with a thread or two to take the micky out of blokes in an equally stereotypical / humorous way.
Something to do with needing the very latest MTB equipment* costing £1000s to get muddy around the tame tracks in the local woods. The ones that kids ride on their £100 Apollo’s. Perhaps.
*if not MTB stuff it could be stereo equipment, golf kit, surfing gear (despite living in Surbiton), THE best tent that Go Outdoors can supply....
Jeez don't ever go on mumsnet then turnerguy.
On average I get the “can you call my phone, not sure where it is” call once a month.
Me on the South Coast, her near Harrogate..
Quite why she needs me to call it when she’s just dialled me from a landline, why doesn’t she cut out the extra call and inevitable “why don’t you call it” and the “tut” ???
. The ones that kids ride on their £100 Apollo’s. Perhaps.
I’ve just returned to this thread and found that I put a random apostrophe in Apollos! That’s appalling. I’m assuming that my phone corrected my post and I didn't notice it. I can cope with random mis-spellings but that.... I may not be able to return.
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Quite why she needs me to call it when she’s just dialled me from a landline, why doesn’t she cut out the extra call and inevitable “why don’t you call it” and the “tut” ???
OT but my wife, driving back from Buxton a couple of years ago, diverted off the M6 because of a huge jam and got lost. She rang me to ask for directions. “Where are you?”..“How should I know!”...
Yeah - just because only women who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a phone are the only ones daft enough to marry you, doesn't mean all women are hopeless. I think you call this self-selection bias.
Anyway - I would add as the case for the defence, women's clothes don't come with quite so many pockets.
Mrs B phone resides in the bottom of handbag on silent making contact with her is nigh on impossible.
This plus the fact that she wears a Fitbit 24/7 which shows phones call and text messages and she still fails to return my calls.
Apparently the reason so many women drop their phones in the loo is because the have their phone in their back pocket and upon taking their trousers down to wee they forget it's there, the phone pops out the pocket and *SPLASH*
You see it's all the fault of their sex, is that stereotypically sexist?
My wife's another one with phone on silent at the bottom of the bag. Split up in Debenhams... 'I'll call you when I'm done' ... went to find her eventually, 'the phone hasn't rung, why are you so angry' ... gets the phone out... 15 missed calls... 'Oh sorry' 😐
Think it's a bit of both, phones aren't robust enough to not be wrapped in cotton wool.
drop their phones in the loo is because the have their phone in their back pocket and upon taking their trousers down to wee they forget it’s there
do you need to be reminded of the toilet threads?
My OH is on a par with me... but I have a friend who loses a phone with astonishing regularity.
Anyway – I would add as the case for the defence, women’s clothes don’t come with quite so many pockets.
Yes... however the person referred to has handbags ... the mysterious thing being the link between losing her handbag when the phone is in it. Luckily she doesn't drive or I'd expect she'd lose a car if she left her car in the phone.
just because only women who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a phone are the only ones daft enough to marry you, doesn’t mean all women are hopeless.
More seriously ... women tend to spend more time with their kids and often under time limited schedules... (obviously not all women and not my friend above) ..
Especially in our house Mum teaches at the same school so she does 99% of school runs, after school etc.
Based on simply getting Jnr to somewhere he wants to be (like Race Registration or just out to the trails) I could lose my own head!
I've turned up at registration with no wallet or cash at all... (luckily meeting a friend)
I've driven 30 mins home without my Maxle then back again and miraculously still there
Turned up with no jacket despite me putting one (physically) on him.... (1.5 hour drive in winter... he did the race wearing just a cycle top then I dragged him off home before he got his medal or caught his death instead of being able to spend a few hours cycling)
there are a few more... but the worst one was setting off back after taking him to the toilets and him saying he didn't need a pee.... then 10 minutes later hearing he was going to pee his pants... I knew a place to park.... I just forgot I had the bikes on the roof and it had a height restriction!
Careful you guys, someone will be along in a rage to accuse you of deity induced spousal abuse
Hels: Yeah – just because only women who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a phone are the only ones daft enough to marry you, doesn’t mean all women are hopeless.
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Rachel
As someone said above, some of the stuff on mumsnet about the less attractive sex would make your head wzplodw (should have read 'explode' but I quite like wzplodw - probably Polish for explode) a la Millie Tant in Viz. Anyway, my missus loses her phone 3-4 times a day, it's just become BAU in my house. However, my speciality was dropping them and breaking the screen. Managed to mitigate that by buying a full wallet cover. Works great, unless you leave phone on roof of your old man's car day after your wedding and he drives off with it, never to be seen again. But as I explained to the missus that's a completely different kettle of fish and as a complete anomaly should be forgotten about so we can all move on..
...these conversations when someone's saying "women are like this...". but they're actually telling me what their missus (in the parlance) is like.
That said, my wife's phone is outgoing calls only. That or she screens ones from me. Because that's what all women do. (It is.)
My g/f has a very basic phone, but it’s pointless trying to contact her on it, because it’s usually sitting out in the kitchen, regardless of where she happens to be. At least she hasn’t broken it...
I've had a whole bunch of mobile phones, starting with a Sony ‘Mars Bar’, Nokia 3110, Sony Z600, Sony K710i, an O2 PDA-type thing, and a succession of iPhones, a 3G, 4G, 5 and 6+. I’ve yet to break a phone... I did lose the 5, though, along with a small case containing an expensive Gerber multitool, powerpack and a bunch of connecting cables, findmyiphone traced it to somewhere in London, it moved a couple of times then disappeared. I was more pissed at losing the Gerber.
My wife isn't a serial phone breaker but like others she insists on having it on silent as she doesn't like the ring tone. I have pointed out that you can alter the ring tone, there are apps for that. It's not just me that she ignores, I've had her friends phone me because they want to get hold of her!
do you need to be reminded of the toilet threads?
Special trousers for going to the toilet?? Cool!
Careful you guys, someone will be along in a rage to accuse you of deity induced spousal abuse
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The sand must be deep into your vagina.
If you can't take it, don't give it. Here endeth today's lesson. 😉
My GF is no better or worse at killing things with screens than me.
So for balance if a phone or tablet isn’t in a case I find them the most slippery things known to man. I dropped and cracked a brand new I phone c after taking it out of its box to put it in a case once.
a good few years ago I hurled a Nokia into the passenger seat of my van and it bounced straight out the window.
I killed one of those rugged rubber cased Nokia’s too.
Ive killed loads of phones but these few stand out.
Just swapped my cracked work tablet for the last one that has been repaired and promptly sat on it after leaving it on the sofa.
The IPhone I’m typing this on has a cloudy screen due to me answering it in the pissing rain and putting it wet into my waterproof pocket for a 4 hour bike ride.
I wont list any she’s killed but she does have a knack of ringing me when I can’t get to the phone in time then not answering the immediate returned calls, so I put the phone away. Then the cycle restarts 10 minutes later as I’ve put the phone away again and can’t reach it in time to answer.
Yes mate, it’s not ‘women’, it’s just your wife. You picked her 😉
I’m astonished by how much damage people seem capable of inflicting on their phones. I’m even more astonished how often people replace/upgrade them.
How else do you think Apple have eleventy-billion-trillion dollars in the bank..?
I'm a woman - with a theory (although I've never broken a phone). I don't' use a handbag as I have pockets, but most pockets in women's clothing are too short/small to keep a phone in whilst sitting down. Back pockets are better size, but obvs can't sit down with a phone in there. So any sitting down means phone/ wallet out, on table, floor etc therefore much easier to leave behind. The back pocket toilet flip also becomes very likely. So bigger pockets please, and problem solved!
The sand must be deep into your vagina
The rage is almost palpable 😜
I hurled a Nokia
Well we we can all see how you break so many phones then!
I treat my phone exactly how I would like a £6-800 item that be treated - reasonably carefully. I don’t understand why people would expect them to be very durable when the manufacturers don’t really tout them as being such and more importantly experience shows them them not to be.
I went through a few phones before my iPhone 3 and I’ve had every one up to my 7. I’ve never even cracked a screen on a phone never mind smashing one. I’m not super careful and I don’t have a military grade case - sometimes use an Otter box commuter case but now I have a Quadlock case all the time. I mount my phone on my bike, the car dashboard, I take it on all cycling and running adventures and never had a problem with one.
Maybe it’s because I can’t afford to replace my phone - it makes me more careful with it! Some people must spend a fortune every year replacing phones.
Some people must spend a fortune every year replacing phones.
IT at our place got so pissed off with people breaking phones that they changed the process, break a phone, without a decent excuse, that's less than 12 months old and you get a returned/refurbished/last gen phone. Depending on what they've got in the box behind the desk when you walk in. We (normally) have a 2 year cycle. Or until battery failure. (They get hammered.)
One of my colleagues has gone through ~30 in the last 5 years. Apparently was exactly the same with personal phones. Now rocking an iPhone 4s. 3rd or 4th one this year.
Bucking the trend, Mrs B and the two eldest boatettes have never managed to so much as scuff a phone, let alone lose one. No matter how much alcohol is involved.
I put this partly down to the fact all three of them have a fascinating ability to ensure that whenever they leave the house their phone has less than 5% battery left. This and an apparent unwillingness to accept that things like data, bluetooth or GPS may have an impact on battery life, ensures that within 10 minutes of leaving the front door the phone's become purely ornamental and remain neatly tucked away in a pocket or bag.
Bucking the trend, Mrs B and the two eldest boatettes have never managed to so much as scuff a phone, let alone lose one. No matter how much alcohol is involved.
My wife is the same, shes never damaged a phone. And her name is Louise too. Make of that what you will.
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I hurled a Nokia
Well we we can all see how you break so many phones then!
I treat my phone exactly how I would like a £6-800 item that be treated – reasonably carefully. I don’t understand why people would expect them to be very durable when the manufacturers don’t really tout them as being such and more importantly experience shows them them not to be.
Yes it was a fairly bad day involving 24hr callout, rubbish hands free kits that clearly weren't designed to work in the hell that was an early nineties Diesel Escort Van. It was probably quieter in the engine bay than the cab.
A Nokia of that era was pretty bomb proof so hurling it at a soft chair in a moment of displeasure wasn't really that unreasonable.
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Go to bog, undo belt, Pager clipped to belt (remember those?) falls straight in bog.
Switch windscreen wipers on and watch phone lift up the screen and fly off down the road.