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Krugger wrote:how about the new trend of using speakerphones on public transport to listen to radio/mp3s ?

THIS one properly kills me!

Oh yes. That's not even toeing the line of acceptable, that's overstepping it while laughing and waving your cock about.

I usually tell people to turn it off and if they don't I get pissy.

noisetonepause wrote:Actually, here they've been showing some ads before the films for a good few years that tell people to turn off their phones in a funny way, and it's more or less worked. Not that I go to the cinema that often, but I don't think I've heard a mobile ringing more than once or twice.

Funny - I had frequent bad experiences with cell phone idiots in movie theatres in Montreal - but when I lived in Ottawa, Winnipeg and Yellowknife (all English Canadian cities) it's never been a problem.

Odd. There's one of two possibilities... Montreal is larger than the other cities, so it could be a factor of urban size - bigger city, more idiots. Then again, it could be a subtle marker of the cultural difference between Quebec and the rest of Canada. Who knows? I guess I'll have to go to a theatre in Toronto to get a big English Canadian city theatre experience as a control variable.

what's worse, i was at the movies about 2 years ago and the guy in front of me was actually MAKING calls, not just answering them. he was dialing people up and shooting the shit with them, having a full volume conversation.

i know i sound like my mom when i say this, but i blame their parents. how else could you get to be a grown man/woman and have absolutely no respect for anyone else?

cell phones and people who let their 3 years olds tear around the theater (and $9 ticket prices) are the main reason i wait until movies come out on dvd to see them.

hoffman2k wrote:I make them do the "walk of shame"

I snatch their cellphone and throw it to the front of the cinema.

sure you do

snowtires wrote:

hoffman2k wrote:I make them do the "walk of shame"

I snatch their cellphone and throw it to the front of the cinema.

sure you do

It happened at least once though. People don't shoot in theaters overhere
Hell, i don't get out much. So i can get really bitchy if somebody tries to ruin my day out
It's usually 12-year olds who pull this sort of shit. Most people do have ethics.

Blame it on the parents.. Here's 10€, go bug somebody else

Ok, I got it...

To me, what's worse than cell phones going off in theaters, is when you are sitting in an R rated movie (I think the rating system is the same everywhere...) and fifteen minutes into the movie, a flock of underage kids pile somewhere into the first few rows, and cackle and giggle over their tom-foolery.

For the birds...

ILTK wrote:

M. Bréqs wrote:

ILTK wrote: I read about some device that can be installed that will block out mobile phones, read about it somewhere they were going to install it in school classrooms.

Gonna be hard to make a portable version then

It was some kind of signal it emitted that fucked up the mobile transmissions somehow, there was an uproar about the system because they wanted it installed in public schools so little timmy couldn't use his freedom of speech to disrupt the class.

I wanted one so bad for home use, it pisses me off that people come over, then the fucking thing rings and they spend 20 minutes yakking on it, now I just tell people to end the call or get the hell out.

http://www.redferret.net/?p=6447

http://www.globalgadgetuk.com/Personal.htm

Here's your answer. I've got it on good authority that they work well in a short range. The problem with them though is when there is a legitimate emergency use of the phone ie paramedics, fire, etc. Although the frequency of those is minute compared to the f#!ktards that use them with no consideration.

I guess you could carry a megaphone around and one up them.

I usually just get really close and start rambling loudly about something very boring (like my favorite kinds of bread) and they usually leave.

You think that's bad, the thing that REALLY annoys me is people on internet forums who sit on cell phones. That's just plain rude.

kennerb wrote:
http://www.redferret.net/?p=6447

http://www.globalgadgetuk.com/Personal.htm

Here's your answer. I've got it on good authority that they work well in a short range. The problem with them though is when there is a legitimate emergency use of the phone ie paramedics, fire, etc. Although the frequency of those is minute compared to the f#!ktards that use them with no consideration.

I guess you could carry a megaphone around and one up them.

I usually just get really close and start rambling loudly about something very boring (like my favorite kinds of bread) and they usually leave.

Awesome, thanks, time to mess with some cell phone tards that won't know why thier fancy phone isn't working, it's gonna be pure comedy

Don't get mad, get even!

just get one of those http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_phone_jammer

drq wrote:just get one of those http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_phone_jammer

I wouldn't recommend it.

wikipedia wrote:In the United States, owning, manufacturing, marketing, offering for sale or operating a cell phone jammer is punishable by an $11,000 fine and up to a year in prison for each offense.