People who *aren't* embarassed when their cellphone goes off someplace meant for QUIET

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Also, COLDPLAY RINGTONE

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

They should be publicly executed.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

One of my friends noted that people at my school often let their phone ring for a while to LISTEN TO THE RINGTONE!!!

IN THE LIBRARY!?!?

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a girl eating a casserole out of a Tupperware in my literature class last week - as though she was on the sofa at home, watching Showtime at the Apollo.

― andy, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

People at my school wear sandals and sweatpants everywhere.

DESIGNER SWEATPANTS

GOD I HATE THEM!

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

was your lit prof doing a robot dance?

xpost

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

They should be publicly executed.

As a library employee, let me note I will happily man the gun (or guillotine or whatever).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

just so long as Mr. Hasselhoff isn't involved, Ned.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I can almost see Ned, poised behind a stack of reference material with a handcrank gatling gun.
with John Woo doves flying out from under his hair.

I would pay $10 to see that.

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe they should just be locked in a room with Aja. For eternity.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, some student cliques think the main computer lab on campus is their public social longue and sit SCREAMING with laughter all the fucking time there.

They're minorities though, so no one will tell them to shut up.

(What's wrong with Aja?)

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I can almost see Ned, poised behind a stack of reference material with a handcrank gatling gun.
with John Woo doves flying out from under his hair.

It's a vision.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Jon, that's a question for the ages. Perhaps science will find out one day.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

DESIGNER SWEATPANTS

Hey! My girlfriend just got some fancy sweatpants. Anyway, cute college girls in designer sweatpants are vastly preferable to hipster kids and skanky punker bitches--I feel sorry for all my friends who ended up at Sarah Lawrence etc.

That said, cell-phone etiquette does seem to have taken a turn for the more lax lately--I blame polyphonic ringtones.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

They will surely be the downfall of Western Civilization.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I recently saw The Taming of the Shrew performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. When I went outside for a smoke during the "interval" I checked my phone to see what time it was, and saw that not only was it on, but its ringer was as well. FFFFFFFFFFFAAACK. Holy God am I lucky. I would have like to have got fucking dealt with.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Yesterday there was a "punk" in the tube going through all the tones. I couldn't tell if he was an actual skinhead, but he did have red suspenders (sorry, "braces") hanging down off his jeans. His face looked fucked, like he'd just gotten a beat-down. I think he wanted his irritating ring-tones to actually provoke a reaction just so he could beat somebody down. I think we all sussed this. We all pretended like he didn't exist. BEEEDLOOO BOO BOOIIP CHIKA CHIKA ANNNNGT ANNNNNGT ANNNNNGT

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

They should be shot in the pancreas with a nail-filled blunderbuss.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I started to play "Hey Ya" at the lowest possible volume in the back of my CS class and ending up punching my COCK trying to turn it off.

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

i was very excited to get "eye of the tiger" as a ringtone for one of my phones, but what a fucking disappointment. it sounds like someone who's hooked up to life support flatlining. i was extremely embarrassed when it rang for the first time and will never again give my pence to those charlatans in the back of heat magazine.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Famous last words lauren.

― heat charlatans (tracerhand), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"i was very excited to get "eye of the tiger" as a ringtone for one of my phones...i was extremely embarrassed when it rang for the first time"

RATFLMAO. Serve you right.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to adopt you, Jon. You're really like the most adorable thing in the world behind Tom, Pikachus, and maybe Sven from Voltron.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:47 (twenty-two years ago)

ROFFLE!!!!!!!!
http://i.myspace.com/67/58/488576/1737401_l.jpg

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe they should just be locked in a room with Aja. For eternity.
This would be much worse for her.

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I was at a classical concert in Venice and someone's phone went off; they showed no shame. They also took flash photos during the performance. I wanted them to die.

The worst I ever heard was just after Christmas, 2 years ago; lots of teenies had got mobiles for Christmas and were busy going through every fucking headsplitting ringtone to decide which one was the right balance of street cred cool and annoy the fuck out of their elders and oh-so much betters. Imagine one doing it. Then make that 10 people. Please God make it stop we felt, and I felt that there was a chance that if they'd hadn't have gotten off the train at Bolton, they would have been done for as the remaining passengers brushed off traditional reserve and became ready for some mob justice.

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

A public call to action: When you're in a movie and someone's cell phone goes off, as they're coming up the aisle to answer it it's any moral person's duty to stick out their foot and trip 'em. I've tried this once, in the Loews Village East at 3rd and 11th during Mystic River--and to very satisfying results.

― antexit (antexit), Thursday, 19 February 2004 08:38 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

So i ws just reading energy flash in the Bodleaian library when this girl's ringtone goes off. She looked really embarassed and the staff gave her death stares, so I give her this vaguely I-feel-yr-shame look as she scrabbled for her phone. At which point SHE PICKED IT UP, ACCEPTED THE CALL, AND STARTED TALKING NOT WHISPERING NOTE, TALKING IN FRENCH ABOUT SHE HADN'T SEEN THE FRIEND FOR AGES ETC ETC. I left because i am kinda squemish about the sight of blood.

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Sometimes I wonder if these people are similarly blind to all other societal taboos. Is it one hardcore group accepting mobile phone calls in inappropriate places, talking during films, leaving pissy notes for flatmates and smearing shit over the walls in public toilets?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 22 July 2004 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Some folk just don't care.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 22 July 2004 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

some people are just jerks.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 22 July 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I was in the state gallery recently with my husband and his mobile went off. I was so embarassed and he couldn't understand why. Maddening!

― Every. Second. Post. (ipsofacto), Thursday, 22 July 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Part of the problem is that nice, law-abiding people are so afraid to cause a scene that they will not back each other up when this kind of thing happens. I was on the bus the other day and two guys behind me were playing one of those new Gameboys with the sound turned up. I was paralysed with annoyance, and I reckon everyone else was too, but I know that if I'd turned round and said 'you're really pissing everyone off, can you turn that off please?' then I would suddenly be the weirdo.

I do remember getting backed up once in the cinema and it works great. A couple of girls were chatting away and I asked them to be quiet. They immediately started talking about what a fat cow I was (it's a fair cop, but not really relevant to the situation, I thought). A guy near me turned to them and told them to shut up and stop being so rude to someone who had been fairly polite to them. So they left.

People. I hate them.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 22 July 2004 10:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you the famous Trisha of TV fame?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 22 July 2004 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Dammit, this fake mustache is no use. Everyone recognises me.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 22 July 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

When I went to Dachau (Nazi concentration camp outside Munich) a girl's mobile phone started ringing in the exhibition hall, and she went to the other end of the room and ANSWERED IT! That is absolutely one of the most disrespectful things I've ever experienced. It was on a guided tour, as if it wasn't bad enough already.

This was my first ILX post ever. I have OMD's Enola Gay as a ringtone, by the way.

― Åsa, Thursday, 22 July 2004 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

nine months pass...

In the middle of my Statistics lab last week my cellphone starts going off. I go "FUCK!" and since I was near the door I grabbed my backpack and sprinted out of the room, figuring it would be faster and less embarrassing than unzipping it and pulling the phone out to turn it off. Except the phone wasn't in my backpack, it was in my sweatshirt pocket. On the back of my chair. In the lab. And it was still going off.

I stood in the hallway in absolute confusion for a few seconds before figuring it out. Fortunately everyone seemed to think it was really, really funny rather than pulling out the torches and pitchforks; and of course I was very embarrassed and apologized like crazy. And also the instructor apparently hadn't even noticed, so that was lucky too.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

I'm with RJG.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

Reach over and tickle him for me.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

Dan thats hilariously classic =)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

This happens all the time in the library. And the people who are usually least ashamed are the ones with the most whoreanus ringtones. They should be put into stocks and have people throw rotten tomatoes at them.

― Leon Federline (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

On the train to Aylesbury on Saturday there was a guy playing music loudly through his laptop with NO INTERVENING HEADPHONES. I think it was a 'Best of the Bee Gees' compilation. He seemed to be totally oblivious to the fact that this might be annoying for other passengers. (Actually I got quite into it and started singing along to How Deep Is Your Love, until Matt insisted we move carriages.)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

ergh that would definitely send me over the edge (of the carriage, into another carriage)

― $V£N! (blueski), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

I was on the bus the other day and two guys behind me were playing one of those new Gameboys with the sound turned up. I was paralysed with annoyance,

Dude, fuck you! The bus is not a library. You clearly:

1) Are jealous
2) Hate fun

― jw, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

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