kingoomieiii: Gecko Gingrich: eeeleeet: You read my mind. I didn't post that because I figured someone would say; "But..but... what if there's an emergency?"

Also, it's illegal.

Yeah, that. You need a permit from the FCC.

Also, I would assume that it could f'up any transmission the folks backstage needed to do.

kingoomieiii: You can silence a damn iphone by hitting "volume down" even when the screen is off. What was wrong with that guy?

clicking the power button works too. I think the guy might've nodded off.

Change the TOS for purchasing tickets to include a fine on your credit card if you are determined to have disturbed the performance. Half goes to the orchestra, and half gets evenly divided among the rest of the attendees as a credit on their credit cards.

Sin_City_Superhero: If that guy didn't get booted, he should've received a severe ass-beating in the parking lot afterward.

Mahler's Ninth: As serious as a baseball/football game.

kingoomieiii: You can silence a damn iphone by hitting "volume down" even when the screen is off. What was wrong with that guy?

He can afford primo seats at the NY Phil. So, he's rich enough to buy a round of iPhones for the whole family for Hanukkah. And, he's old farty enough to have no idea how to use his.

Everyone should get a refund, paid for by the man with the offending phone.

We've all been there at church/recitals/events and then the phone rings and the person with the phone does the innocent looking around even though we can hear the ring out of their pants.


Comedy.

Fark: and continued ringing even after the conductor stopped the orchestra and asked the man with the offending phone "are you finished?"

A friend of mine was trying his hand at stand-up in an open mic night. About 2 minutes in, after very little laughter was heard, someone from the audience shouted out "Are you finished?"

He responded "Is there cum dripping out of your ass? No? Then I ain't finished! I get 5 minutes up here and I am using every goddamn second."

I'd like to tell you that he fought the good fight and the audience was won over by this exchange, but stand-up isn't a fairy tale world. He bombed.

eeeleeet: That is terrible. I like the response- "Thousand dollar fine!" Ha!

A thousand dollar fine would go absolutely unnoticed by anyone with a seat in the first couple of rows. This is also why security didn't remove him... anyone up there could afford to nuisance-sue them individually into hell for the next 20 years if they laid a finger on him.

Oh "opera people." $1,000 fine? I will bet you $10,000 that it doesn't happen.

That phone call was probably super-important, you guys.

If the ushers won't do anything about it, I guess it's not that big of a deal.

The guy is probably some big shiat rich boy that can simply "U MAD?" himself out of any situation like this.

The audience's reaction, becoming more like an angry (sitting) mob than a hall full of concertgoers - that reminds me of tales of riots resulting from the original debut of The Rites of Spring.

I'd had a hard time understanding those stories of there being riots about such a thing, when I first read of it, during high school. I'm afraid it makes more sense, to me, now.

When I am God I'll immediately sterilize anyone who doesn't shut their cell phone off or at the last put it to vibrate during a movie, concert, etc. We'll end this breeding of idiots right here...

And kill anyone who doesn't take their call out of the auditorium if it MUST be answered.

Texters shall be turned into newts. And they won't get better.

/Had to work Python in there...

An orchestra performance is probably the only place left on earth that would be bothered by a ringing cell phone. It was probably keeping one of the decrepit old farks awake, so they raised a big stink. Sorry Grandpa Moses, but the world has moved on from party lines and Good Old Bessy connecting you to Dr. Anderson. Once that generation dies out, I don't think we'll have to worry about these complaints.

Cell phones ring all the time. Hell, mine usually rings three or four times during a two hour movie. It's part of living in the modern age. It cracks me up when someone biatches about it. I imagine them yelling at the cars on the freeway, "stop those noisy contraptions! You're scaring my horse!" These people are the exhaust spewed from the tailpipe of progress. If they don't like it, then go get a hose and close the garage door.

Old_Chief_Scott: I wish that some of the big concert venues would just install jamming equipment. No signals in or out equals no damn phones ringing and no bimbo sitting in front of me in the lower loge texting on that bright blue screen while The Pearl Fishers is being performed you farking coont.

The venues would love to do this but

a) Jamming is illegal

b) Somebody would sue the first time they couldn't call for help in an "emergency"

I have considered buying a pocket jammer for such events. It's illegal, but how would you get caught if you kept it covered?

Every phone should come with a mandatory tutorial on silencing it and/or rejecting a call. I saw one guy on a train look at his ringing phone and tell his wife he didn't want to answer it. He then stuck it in his pocket where it continued ringing again and again. To be that inconsiderate is dumbfounding.

Any surprise at all that this was an iPhone?

The Special Hell.

kingoomieiii: Gecko Gingrich: eeeleeet: You read my mind. I didn't post that because I figured someone would say; "But..but... what if there's an emergency?"

Also, it's illegal.

Yeah, that. You need a permit from the FCC.

Much easier - and better for people who do have to be in contact in case of emergencies - would be to have phone manufacturers agree to include an API that will switch the phone to vibrate mode upon detecting a predetermined signal in packets from the tower. Then you just put a microcell in the venue that includes that signal in its ID packets. Poof - spot areas with vibrate-only coverage.

I didn't realize there were so many ITGs who were orchesteral music fans!

spentmiles: An orchestra performance is probably the only place left on earth that would be bothered by a ringing cell phone. It was probably keeping one of the decrepit old farks awake, so they raised a big stink. Sorry Grandpa Moses, but the world has moved on from party lines and Good Old Bessy connecting you to Dr. Anderson. Once that generation dies out, I don't think we'll have to worry about these complaints.

Cell phones ring all the time. Hell, mine usually rings three or four times during a two hour movie. It's part of living in the modern age. It cracks me up when someone biatches about it. I imagine them yelling at the cars on the freeway, "stop those noisy contraptions! You're scaring my horse!" These people are the exhaust spewed from the tailpipe of progress. If they don't like it, then go get a hose and close the garage door.

8/10. Excellent work.

It was probably an ancient old guy who didn't know how to shut off his phone.

To put some context around this, imagine if John McCain's had been elected President, and if his phone had started to go off during a press conference. Now, assuming that McCain could even hear his phone, what could he possibly do about it to resolve the situation? He could pull out the phone and fumble with it for a few minutes, but the thing is nearly magic to him. He'd have to ask Sarah Palin for help to shut it off, and she probably just wink at it to try to seduce it into being quiet. It would be really embarrassing for everyone.

spentmiles: An orchestra performance is probably the only place left on earth that would be bothered by a ringing cell phone. It was probably keeping one of the decrepit old farks awake, so they raised a big stink. Sorry Grandpa Moses, but the world has moved on from party lines and Good Old Bessy connecting you to Dr. Anderson. Once that generation dies out, I don't think we'll have to worry about these complaints.

Cell phones ring all the time. Hell, mine usually rings three or four times during a two hour movie. It's part of living in the modern age. It cracks me up when someone biatches about it. I imagine them yelling at the cars on the freeway, "stop those noisy contraptions! You're scaring my horse!" These people are the exhaust spewed from the tailpipe of progress. If they don't like it, then go get a hose and close the garage door.

So...you're an unrepentant dick? That what you saying?

Use vibrate and stop being a douche.

What said "Thousand dollar fine!" guy might look like.

spentmiles: An orchestra performance is probably the only place left on earth that would be bothered by a ringing cell phone. It was probably keeping one of the decrepit old farks awake, so they raised a big stink. Sorry Grandpa Moses, but the world has moved on from party lines and Good Old Bessy connecting you to Dr. Anderson. Once that generation dies out, I don't think we'll have to worry about these complaints.

Cell phones ring all the time. Hell, mine usually rings three or four times during a two hour movie. It's part of living in the modern age. It cracks me up when someone biatches about it. I imagine them yelling at the cars on the freeway, "stop those noisy contraptions! You're scaring my horse!" These people are the exhaust spewed from the tailpipe of progress. If they don't like it, then go get a hose and close the garage door.

0/10.

Weak sauce is weak.

spentmiles: An orchestra performance is probably the only place left on earth that would be bothered by a ringing cell phone. It was probably keeping one of the decrepit old farks awake, so they raised a big stink. Sorry Grandpa Moses, but the world has moved on from party lines and Good Old Bessy connecting you to Dr. Anderson. Once that generation dies out, I don't think we'll have to worry about these complaints.

Cell phones ring all the time. Hell, mine usually rings three or four times during a two hour movie. It's part of living in the modern age. It cracks me up when someone biatches about it. I imagine them yelling at the cars on the freeway, "stop those noisy contraptions! You're scaring my horse!" These people are the exhaust spewed from the tailpipe of progress. If they don't like it, then go get a hose and close the garage door.

This up here ^^ is why your posts show up as green.

Old_Chief_Scott: I wish that some of the big concert venues would just install jamming equipment. No signals in or out equals no damn phones ringing and no bimbo sitting in front of me in the lower loge texting on that bright blue screen while The Pearl Fishers is being performed you farking coont.

That is illegal.

eeeleeet: That is terrible. I like the response- "Thousand dollar fine!" Ha!

He's lucky. In Philly they shoot people for things like that.