Exercise and talking phones

[Crackle]

This seems to be a new phenomenon. Has some new app been released? I am currently being told, often, how far and long people passing me have been going and sometimes, how many calories they've used.

The other day a woman passed me who'd been running for ....18 MINUTES.... and then someone else walking just ahead of me, kept being told she'd walked another....0.25 OF A MILE....250 CALORIES BURNT.....I wanted to question the calorie calc as I'd been behind her for the whole 1 mile she'd walked.

Then someone else had one which kept telling her to.....BEGIN JOGGING NOW.... she was clearly struggling to turn it off as I don't think she normally jogged in high heels.

It's all a trifle bizarre, not to mention irritating.

 

[young Ed]

This seems to be a new phenomenon. Has some new app been released? I am currently being told, often, how far and long people passing me have been going and sometimes, how many calories they've used.

The other day a woman passed me who'd been running for ....18 MINUTES.... and then someone else walking just ahead of me, kept being told she'd walked another....0.25 OF A MILE....250 CALORIES BURNT.....I wanted to question the calorie calc as I'd been behind her for the whole 1 mile she'd walked.

Then someone else had one which kept telling her to.....BEGIN JOGGING NOW.... she was clearly struggling to turn it off as I don't think she normally jogged in high heels.

It's all a trifle bizarre, not to mention irritating.

my nokia brick doesn't do this? then again it doesn't do texting or anything else apart from telephoning (what the telephone was invented to do!)
Cheers Ed

 

[raleighnut]

This seems to be a new phenomenon. Has some new app been released? I am currently being told, often, how far and long people passing me have been going and sometimes, how many calories they've used.

The other day a woman passed me who'd been running for ....18 MINUTES.... and then someone else walking just ahead of me, kept being told she'd walked another....0.25 OF A MILE....250 CALORIES BURNT.....I wanted to question the calorie calc as I'd been behind her for the whole 1 mile she'd walked.

Then someone else had one which kept telling her to.....BEGIN JOGGING NOW.... she was clearly struggling to turn it off as I don't think she normally jogged in high heels.

It's all a trifle bizarre, not to mention irritating.

There ought to be an ap that says " stop being a bell end- stop being a bell end" until they turn their phone off

 

[snorri]

It's all a trifle bizarre, not to mention irritating.

If you are saying these messages are being transmitted to everyone within earshot then I sympathise with you, it most definitely must be irritating.
It's so windy here today I can hardly hear myself think above the noise of my Flymo

 

[snorri]

 

[Crackle]

I'd like to get one for the dog

...YOU HAVE CAUGHT THE BALL FIVE TIMES...........THAT IS YOUR 8TH PEE.............SQUIRREL!

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

........THAT IS YOUR 8TH PEE.......

Useful for the older man too...................

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Its just a form of posing - Do something and then try to get within earshot of everyone who can hear what you have done and hopefully they will all be terribly impressed!!

........ Admittedly something like that might be impressive if you are doing the LEL (London - Edinburgh - London) or similar, but not if you have just walked down the street.......

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I'd like to get one for the dog

...YOU HAVE CAUGHT THE BALL FIVE TIMES...........THAT IS YOUR 8TH PEE.............SQUIRREL!

THAT'S THE 12TH TIME YOU HAVE TRIED TO HUMP SOMETHING.......

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

THAT IS THE 133RD BLADE OF GRASS YOU HAVE SNIFFED..... THAT IS THE 134TH BLADE OF GRASS YOU HAVE SNIFFED....THAT IS THE 135TH BLADE OF GRASS YOU HAVE SNIFFED........