I'm an advocate for utilising every hour of the day, even now my naked loins are being warmed while my face is lit by led. Texting Mum while bathing the kids is a favourite, on hold with telstra during a whiz is a must. Flatulence rumbles, the slight echo or the familiar lid bounce gives the game away...should we be left red faced with the strain of embarrassment?
If someone is on the phone in a cubicle next to me I do my best to let the person on the other end know where he is calling from. I hate it when someone is on the phone whilst I am in deep thought trying to do the buso and they are ruining my environment.
Sometimes you just need a bit of peace and quite. Imagine if you took a swab of your phone. Think of all the culture that would grow.
There is always time on the dunny to whip the phone out and play a game of solitaire or surf Seabreeze. Not a big fan of conversations on the dunny, the echo is too much of a giveaway.
If you get one of those annoying calls from an Indian call centre you're in the right place to deal with it with appropriate sound effects.
Using someone elses phone would be the same as using their toothbrush. No thanks.
Why not convert your lunge chair to a bogger so you don't even have to get up[}:)]
I read a book from the future that outlined why video calls failed.
At first it was very popular. Everyone had video calls and used it.
But soon people realised that the little things you used to be able to do on a normal phone no longer cut it; things like yawning, reading a magazine, examining your cuticles and the like while you were supposed to be giving your complete and utter attention to the person on the other end of the phone call. People also soon realised that nobody was giving them complete and utter attention either.
After a while people became tired of giving the impression into the camera of complete and utter attention to whatever drivel the person on the other end was going on about, and companies started marketing prosthetic masks that you could wear while on a video call that would give the appearance of you giving your complete and utter attention to the other person. A shiny, attentative, expectant face. However this failed when people accidentally put on the wrong mask and the caller became disoriented by your voice coming from your wife or child's face.
This was solved by virtual reality avatars. Now when you answered the phone you not only appeared to be giving your complete attention to the caller but you looked your absolute best, maybe a little less grey, maybe a little fitter. Soon people began to have anxiety about their appearance because everybody now looked so damn good on the video calls. C-grade actors where employed to replace the virtual avatars and were set in beautiful surroundings. Eventually people became too anxious about appearances to ever actually meet their friends face-to-face as all their illusions would be shattered.
Finally video calls were abandoned en masse, left to be just a quaint trend from the past.
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^ Panda, I use skype for some client &/or consultant calls at work. I've deliberately not installed a cam for the exact reasons you mention, but it's hilarious when talking to another person (with a cam) and they can't see me. It appears to be face-to-face but you can pull whatever face or do whatever you want - they can't see you! 
As for phones in the loo - that's just disgusting!
Ha! Phone rang on me whilst in the 'office' today.
Bah! It's enough to give ya the sh!ts. 
your not alone...
...what you'd like folks to think you look like...
...what you really look like...
Did you know you can sing in the loo while having a crap, me I'd go the humming route...it's the ingestion of fumes while banging out 'heat seeker' that gets me every time
Mobile phones should have a "loo mode" (like the plane/outdoor/etc modes) that suppresses the echo and doesn't catch the noise of the dropping bomb in the water....
cause you squash your balls otherwise..
you'd know if you'd hadn't been 'fixed' already pitbull
