Can we please ban Everclear t-shirts? I don't liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiike them.

Rifter I think Capt.Plywood was being sarcastic...

In that case, I am gay, and stupid. I have no ability to detect sarcasm. I hate myself.

Normally, I agree with what you people usually say, but this time I have to disagree with most of you.

I work in a job that REQUIRES me to be on call 24/7/365. I am also dating a doctor who obviously needs to be on call too.

How's this?
"Hello? Yes, this is Dr ABC, we tried to contact you, but you didn't have your cell phone. Sorry, your <insert importand person here> was in a terrible car accident, but was lucid for the last two hours of their life. They've passed away. Sorry you couldn't say goodbye. But hey! The good news is that you didn't bother any hypersensitive asshats in the theatre!"

I catch you using a jammer and both my girlfriend and I will beat YOU to within an inch of your sorry, immature life.

someone needs a nappie-poo

Should be a HERO tag...

Sprediletto my friend's dad, who is a police chief still has one in his civilian car!

Sparks

How did you ever get through life without a cell phone? Also, ever hear of vibrate? Get a pager, put on vibrate, go return the call outside of theater. Or you can be an asshat and bother 300 people.


I am very scared of your girlfriend.

Sprediletto:

I had one but it was bigger than that. Got it free with the pruchase of an Acer Acura computer many, many moons ago. Ah, the good old days...

I work in a job that REQUIRES me to be on call 24/7/365. I am also dating a doctor who obviously needs to be on call too.

Well, then, I assume that when you are in a place where quiet is expected, like a theatre, you put your device on vibrate and leave the room if you need to speak in it. Otherwise, I'm afraid I have no sympathy - if you can't behave properly and respect those around you, then you shouldn't go out at all.

It's the people who feel that their lives are more important than those around them and the etiquette of living in society, that a law like this would be aimed at.

Sparks You are a doctore then buy a phone the vibrate. There is NO excuse for ever having your phone/pager on ring mode

I say we outlaw indignant intolerance. If you have so little nerves left that you feel you have to kill someone for having a conversation that doesn't include you, you should be locked up for the safety of the human beings you interact with.

Sparks then put your phone on vibrate, and leave the theater/room/hall to answer it if necessary. There would be an exemption for emergencies, and I'm sure if you have identification that shows you are a doctor then you would not receive a fine. Your little scenario is totally preposterous.

Gator8387:

Yes, they managed. Now they can manage to save more lives at the price of your movie enjoyment. Damn them!

Everybody else--turn 'em off.

Sparks My moron-cell-phone-user-rage made my post a typo. Damn cell phone rings!

Right on gator

Screw the seft-important, selfish pricks!

I shouldn't have to mention that I put the phone on vibrate. Sheesh. We both are more considerate than the morons who leave the ringer on. My point is that we both need to be reachable 24/7.

next thing they will pass a law banning jerking off at the movies. Too many laws man.

"How's this?"

Sparks: How about you sit at home in a farking closet if you want to listen for your cell phone to ring 24/7/365, and don't bother the rest of us?

If you have so little nerves left that you feel you have to kill someone for having a conversation that doesn't include you, you should be locked up for the safety of the human beings you interact with.

It has nothing to do with "conversations that don't include you". It has everything to do with common courtesy. If I pay $16 to watch a movie, I want to watch the movie. I don't want to miss parts of the movie because someone is talking through the dialogue. If you can't sit for two hours without your cell phone on, or at least on vibrate, then you shouldn't go somewhere where quiet is expected.

The funny thing is, the people who are the worst offenders probably get SO angry when someone does the same thing in their earshot...

No fuzzymonkey, it is not "preposterous" It happens. She has tried to reach many a loved one while her patient was slipping away.

There is some darn funny stuff on this thread.

Kudos to all.

I don't care if a cell phone rings in a restaurant. If you do, you should probably stay home and put on your ear muffs to block out all the sounds in the world. Theaters on the other hand... I farking hate when people talk on their phones. I don't care too much if it rings because they forgot, but shut it off or for god's sake leave if you need to talk.

If you need to be reached in a theater, don't go. You can rent movies, you know. You don't have to see it right when it comes out.

Take away cars! They're smelly!

Take away cell phones! They're noisy!

Take away power plants! They're scary!

Jesus, it's only a matter of time until you people start gathering in mobs and go around smashing machines and lynching scientists.

Viva the Simplification!

I wish they could just say it's illegal to have the ringer on your cellphone on in public.

most movie theaters and theatres ban cellphones already. I went to the opera a few months ago and in their little intro they actually had to pause and ask anyone with a cellphone to please put it on vibrate and silent.

grr...we can't legislate common sense...and we can't smack people upside the head who refuse to show common sense, so what can we do?

I think that a proctologist may well need a cell phone so that he can be rung up to perform an emergency cellphonectomy.

At least, after reading this board I think the odds of one being needed are pretty high (not that I object to the idea, BTW).

Zchamu,

Yes, it has everything to do with common courtesy, but that isn't the point, is it? Should the government also make it illegal to put your elbows on the table while eating? Why can't these theatres and concert halls make their own fscking regulations? And if people are so upset by the thousands of inconsiderate bastards on their cellphones, then why don't they just stay inside their house?

Someone needs to start a jet ski thread so I can really vent.

How does everybody feel about this situation:

My friend is a volunteer fireman. He has a pager, and when he gets a call it beeps and then the dispatcher starts talking. When he's on call, should he avoid public places? Should he turn it down and hope that the other volunteers respond? Does a guy who runs into burning building for free really be subjected to the death satre for listening to the dispatcher at a bar?

"We managed without the internet for a long time too, whyncha give it up? It's obviously "evil technology" "

JohnnyAsshole: Don't be stupid. That isn't a valid comparison, 'cause no one is sitting in a theater surfing the 'net with their laptop.

Can someone put JohnnyLightwave on silent? Har har har...*sigh*

Oh, and for the morons who can't figure it out from the text of my Boobies, I am male and she is female.

All you lickknobs who can't fathom that someone may have a job important enough to be on call should just quiet down.

Some day your life may depend on a cell phone. Remember the story of the guy on the mountain who was trapped until his cell phone company called him to offer to recharge his minutes?

Hey Johhny Lightwave (that was a song wasnt it? No, that was Johhnny one note...anyway)

What you are talking about is what Frank Herbert called the "Butlerian Jihad."

People revolting against machines.

I say it will never happen as long a machines give us frappacinnos and help make our hair look good.

Technology is cool, but why have havent scientists invented the male equivalent of the vibrator? Something to replace women, like woman have vibrators to replace men. the entire fabic of society would come unravelled.

We can put a guy on the moon, but...

Sparks

As mentioned above--you have a vibrate function. USE IT.

And leave before you answer it.

My own personal cell phone horror story: While attending a solo violin performance...The musician had just begun, and tore off an amazing few measures of music. Then there was a pause (as per the music). Sure enough, in the split-second rest--BRRRRRRRRRRING! It tore through that auditorium.

The audience was torn between laughter and horror.

To his credit, the violinist acted as if nothing had happened, and managed to continue, while the cellphone creep slunk off, and never returned.

I like the point above about doctors functioning without cellphones. But it's not just been hundreds of years--how about ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY except the last decade or so?

The world won't come to an end because you found the off switch, really.

Fine, we don't have to make it a law, but then we shouldn't go to jail for punching the using-cell-phone-in-theater-ass.

Millay:
Tell him to get a vibrating pager if he wants to run into flaming buildings in his spare time.

Oh, and I better mention to all who also can't figure it out, we leave the theatre to take the call.

If I'm ever at a concert that I paid good money to see and some braindead twit gets a call and starts yakking it up about some inane BS I will snatch that cp out of his goofy little hand and throw it as far away as I can. (After asking nicely at first to kindly STFU). Fark them. Some people don't realize that there is a difference between a concert and a sporting event.

And I carry one. I just TURN IT OFF.

If you pay $16 to watch a movie, move. It not my fault you let the theatre rip you off. And this guy wants ban phones in more places than in the theatre. Whole classes of noisy children are taken to the museum. This is okay, but someone having a conversation with someone other than you isn't? Come on, get real. Get your own phone if it bothers you. Then you can whip it out, and make yourself feel better.

CheekyMonkey

Hm, I once saw a guy in a movie theater playing Quake on his pocket PC.

BAN 'EM!!!!

He has a pager, and when he gets a call it beeps and then the dispatcher starts talking. When he's on call, should he avoid public places?

Yes. Public places that expect quiet, and where something like this would be considered a disturbance, yes. A bar shouldn't be a problem, as it is not the same thing as a movie theatre or a play, which is what this whole thing is talking about.

Typos! Let me try this again.

How does everybody feel about this situation:

My friend is a volunteer fireman. He has a pager, and when he gets a call it beeps and then the dispatcher starts talking. When he's on call, should he avoid public places? Should he turn it down and hope that the other volunteers respond? Should a guy who runs into burning building for free really be subjected to the death stare for listening to the dispatcher at a bar?

Millay-

A simple rule for you. Stuff that is ok is fine and stuff that isnt aint. You be the judge.

Confabulat:

I like the point above about doctors functioning without cellphones. But it's not just been hundreds of years--how about ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY except the last decade or so?

Maybe we should outlaw automobiles too, since they cause many-a-death, and have only been around since the last century? Good idea, too, yes?

Although I agree that cell phone are annoying in public places, there seems to be a big oversight in the proposal. Who is going to give the person a $50 fine? In the movies, a little usher of all of 5'1 and 100 pounds? Or a 7000 year old museum attendant? I guess the councilman believes that police will be there all the time to give out fines.

Just smack the cell phone idiot, or if they are much bigger than you, call them a f.ucking a.sshole, kick them in the nuts and run. :)

"Hm, I once saw a guy in a movie theater playing Quake on his pocket PC.
BAN 'EM!!!!"

JohnnyLighwave: In case your reading comprehension is as pitiful as your reasoning ability, I'll recap the thread. No one is interested in banning cell phones. What we are interested in is for you self-important assholes to turn off the ringer and shut the fark up in a theater. That is all.