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Mike Maas
12-14-2007, 08:56 PM
Do you all get these. It feels like your phone is vibrating in your pocket but there's not a call when you check?
I've heard others complain about this and wondered if its the phone randomly vibrating or one's mind playing tricks.

cybergeek23851
12-14-2007, 09:02 PM
For me, it's the Nextel Direct connect beeps. I hear the beeps everywhere.

tblough
12-14-2007, 09:03 PM
Nope it's not your mind. It usually happens in the car or around machinery right? The vibrator motor is sensitive to sympathetic vibrations. It acts like a tuning fork and when other machinery around, or a the road, or any number of other things is vibrating at the correct harmonic, it induces vibrations in the phone.

sotc
12-14-2007, 09:06 PM
sometimes i think i hear it ring and it isnt

Skwerl
12-14-2007, 09:15 PM
Your phone may be set to give an occasional 'reminder ring' if you have unchecked voicemail.

sotc
12-14-2007, 09:16 PM
no thats an annoying beep!

stehansen
12-14-2007, 09:16 PM
I have the same thing.

Paul B
12-14-2007, 09:17 PM
I get it. I text, ALOT (like 300 to 500/month as my carrier doesnt do per second billing and I connect with people for silly little questions via txt vs voice), I get the phantom vibrations when sometimes I dont even have my phone on me. I read an article about it somewhere, becoming a phenomenon of sorts.

Stumper
12-14-2007, 09:18 PM
I get it also.

cybergeek23851
12-14-2007, 09:19 PM
no thats an annoying beep!

Ugghhhhh! :roll: If I run "late" on how long I'm taking on a call, I get paged every 5 minutes with a text message. If I don't read the message, the phone beeps every 30 seconds.

Paul B
12-14-2007, 09:21 PM
so drive faster! :D

cybergeek23851
12-14-2007, 09:24 PM
No I'm usually in a bank at that point, up to my shoulders in a dirty machine. The last thing I have time for is to answer the phone, so I'm a bad employee and set it to vibrate, and answer them all when I am done.

Paul B
12-14-2007, 09:25 PM
some light reading onthe topic at hand: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-06-12-cellphones_N.htm

sawinredneck
12-14-2007, 09:29 PM
I wear my phone on my belt loop. I have a spastic colon and my intestines are rumbling all the time. To make matters worse I use Motorola phones, the ones with the neato buttons on the side that at will change the ring setting for you!!
I am checking it constantly!! Most times it just a rumbling, but you never know!!!

Mike Maas
12-14-2007, 09:29 PM
some light reading onthe topic at hand: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-06-12-cellphones_N.htmThat's exactly what I was thinking, at least if I'm going crazy, I'm not alone.










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MasterBlaster
12-14-2007, 09:30 PM
Andy, have you/do you use Metamucil? I'm thinking no.

sawinredneck
12-14-2007, 09:38 PM
Andy, have you/do you use Metamucil? I'm thinking no.

I've tried it, as well as other fiber supliments, just can't get past the taste.
I've tried the "softners" as well, and, all did not go well there!!!
I've been using FiberCon with some success of late.

Paul B
12-14-2007, 09:40 PM
ok, from cell phone vibes to metamucil? thats about the biggest derail in a long time!

Skwerl
12-14-2007, 09:48 PM
Butch has been taking lessons from Rotax Robert... :lol:

Rotax Robert
12-14-2007, 09:57 PM
For me, it's the Nextel Direct connect beeps. I hear the beeps everywhere.


Same here, the machines (lathes/mills) we run have the exact beep as my nextel DC when we are setting tool lengths.

Rotax Robert
12-14-2007, 10:01 PM
Which face cut do you use, conventional V or humbolt ?

Rotax Robert
12-14-2007, 10:04 PM
which wheelborrow is best 1 wheeler or 2 ?

sawinredneck
12-14-2007, 10:06 PM
Sorry Paul!!!

Paul B
12-14-2007, 10:15 PM
sorry to me? hell, it aint my thread! :D

Skwerl
12-14-2007, 10:18 PM
Robert, it's counterclockwise!

sotc
12-14-2007, 10:35 PM
what is this? a netflix ad?

Blinky
12-15-2007, 09:04 AM
Damn... I thought it was all in my head. Happens almost every day.

Old Monkey
12-15-2007, 10:07 AM
I get it too, even when I know there is no phone in my pocket.

Andy yoo may be lactose intolerant. Stop eating dairy for a week and see if you feel better.

sawinredneck
12-15-2007, 10:18 AM
It's not that easy Darin. Too many years in machine shops with the stress/stupid hours, and too many years of heavy drinking have caught up to me.

Old Monkey
12-15-2007, 10:56 AM
OK. Stop drinking.

MasterBlaster
12-15-2007, 11:06 AM
It's not that easy Darin. Too many years in machine shops with the stress/stupid hours, and too many years of heavy drinking have caught up to me.


OK. Stop drinking.

Or at least cut back. I guarantee you that after one week drinking Metamucil your gut will be much more at peace with itself. And you can no longer say it's lumpy, gross, or tastes bad. The orange flavored surar free stuff tastes like watered down Tang.

Old Monkey
12-15-2007, 11:24 AM
I too have phantom cell phone vibration (see, not derailing).


I think we always know what we need to do to improve our health, its just a matter of having the will power to do it.

Stumper
12-15-2007, 11:24 AM
. The orange flavored surar free stuff tastes like watered down Tang.


You mean gross, bad, wierd and weak?:D

sawinredneck
12-15-2007, 11:42 AM
I have cut back a lot already, Scouts honor, I need to drink more water, that might help a lot as well. But.................

Skwerl
12-15-2007, 11:49 AM
Everything you say after the "but..." is an excuse. :P

sawinredneck
12-15-2007, 12:30 PM
Everything you say after the "but..." is an excuse. :P

And you notice I didn't say anything at all:lol:

Jonseredbred
12-15-2007, 02:37 PM
Andy, you been checked for Colitis??

sawinredneck
12-15-2007, 02:44 PM
Andy, you been checked for Colitis??

HUH????????????? Need to research that one I guess?:?


Yeah, Ok, thats not it, it's flu like symtoms with mild cramps, but tolerable. And the red stool comes from my internal hemroids. (Don't ask how I know I have them!!!)

Jonseredbred
12-15-2007, 03:09 PM
Uh, Andy those are all symptoms of Colitis. I have it and the symptoms will mimick other stuff, get checked out.

When I was told I had it, the toxins were at dangerous levels in my blood, made me feel like I had the flu, lethargic, no energy, ect.

sawinredneck
12-15-2007, 03:13 PM
OK!

sotc
12-15-2007, 05:06 PM
this thread has gotton crappy

MasterBlaster
12-15-2007, 05:08 PM
It's beginning to develop shitty undertones.

sawinredneck
12-15-2007, 05:18 PM
OH CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!