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Maeght

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Re: Man fined $200 for using speakerphone in French train station
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2025, 09:14:28 PM »

Because of my hyperacusis I make all phone calls using speakerphone.

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Re: Man fined $200 for using speakerphone in French train station
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2025, 04:50:05 PM »
What do you call a male Karen?
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Re: Man fined $200 for using speakerphone in French train station
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2025, 05:30:52 PM »
What do you call a male Karen?

Why do you ask?

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Re: Man fined $200 for using speakerphone in French train station
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2025, 05:37:24 PM »
Because of my hyperacusis I make all phone calls using speakerphone.
Unless it could be proved that the user had a condition like yours, I'd confiscate their bloody phones. I'd much rather just shove them up their arses. I think you can guess I have strong feelings about these now ubiquitous antisocial numpties.
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Re: Man fined $200 for using speakerphone in French train station
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2025, 08:33:40 PM »
Why do you ask?
Because this bloke sounds like one.
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
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Maeght

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Re: Man fined $200 for using speakerphone in French train station
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2025, 08:36:19 PM »
Because this bloke sounds like one.

Can't see that but at least it wasn't about me  :)

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Re: Man fined $200 for using speakerphone in French train station
« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2025, 06:54:41 AM »
What do you call a male Karen?
I hare the inbuilt misogyny and ageism of the term 'Karen'

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Re: Man fined $200 for using speakerphone in French train station
« Reply #8 on: February 11, 2025, 09:50:41 AM »
What do you call a male Karen?
Donald
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