Thank you for taking my money ASSHOLES!

[artist4perry]

I'm posting this from my phone at the movies. No one seems to mind. Hang on, let me go ask if they mind.

That would probably bug them more.

[Saint John]

Listen, there's no situation imaginable that renders anyone in absolute need of their cell phone when they enter a movie to watch a movie whose time length is predisclosed. Shut your fucking mouth, turn your phone off and watch the movie. If you can't do that stay home and rent the DVD.

[S2M]

Listen, there's no situation imaginable that renders anyone in absolute need of their cell phone when they enter a movie to watch a movie whose time length is predisclosed. Shut your fucking mouth, turn your phone off and watch the movie. If you can't do that stay home and rent the DVD.

Hmmm...what if i'm in the middle of that 2+ hour borefest that is Harry Potter part 87: The Cross-Dresser of Muggleville, and I get the urge to know at that very minute how many copies Eclipse sold? You mean I can't fire up the ole Cell phone web browser and check that number?

[Angel]

Listen, there's no situation imaginable that renders anyone in absolute need of their cell phone when they enter a movie to watch a movie whose time length is predisclosed. Shut your fucking mouth, turn your phone off and watch the movie. If you can't do that stay home and rent the DVD.

Someday, when you're about to be a daddy and the midwife is at the movies-you'll be glad she didn't read this....

[kgdjpubs]

Listen, there's no situation imaginable that renders anyone in absolute need of their cell phone when they enter a movie to watch a movie whose time length is predisclosed. Shut your fucking mouth, turn your phone off and watch the movie. If you can't do that stay home and rent the DVD.

Hmmm...what if i'm in the middle of that 2+ hour borefest that is Harry Potter part 87: The Cross-Dresser of Muggleville, and I get the urge to know at that very minute how many copies Eclipse sold? You mean I can't fire up the ole Cell phone web browser and check that number?

nope, but I doubt you would be watching that film with anyone unless under extreme duress. That said, the trailer for part 6, volume 2 looks pretty good.

[Rhiannon]

That would probably bug them more.

Probably.

As long as someone isn't having a gab-fest phone call, I say to each their own with their phones. In all my movie-going experience I've maybe encountered one or two occasions where someone actually annoyed me with their phone. For the most part, people are courteous. (Even teens!) And if someone wants to check a situation, no harm no foul. Small potatoes.

[Saint John]

Listen, there's no situation imaginable that renders anyone in absolute need of their cell phone when they enter a movie to watch a movie whose time length is predisclosed. Shut your fucking mouth, turn your phone off and watch the movie. If you can't do that stay home and rent the DVD.

Someday, when you're about to be a daddy and the midwife is at the movies-you'll be glad she didn't read this....

Men at births are pussies. And midwives are about as important as paper boys. Such a self-promotional tool for an everyday event. And save your response, notveryprettyface. You had to shoe horn your pussy fetish into this thread, so deal with the consequences.

[S2M]

Listen, there's no situation imaginable that renders anyone in absolute need of their cell phone when they enter a movie to watch a movie whose time length is predisclosed. Shut your fucking mouth, turn your phone off and watch the movie. If you can't do that stay home and rent the DVD.

Someday, when you're about to be a daddy and the midwife is at the movies-you'll be glad she didn't read this....

Men at births are pussies. And midwives are about as important as paper boys. Such a self-promotional tool for an everyday event. And save your response, notveryprettyface. You had to shoe horn your pussy fetish into this thread, so deal with the consequences.

^^^^ this and bag of dicks - gets me rollin' every time.

[bluejeangirl76]

Listen, there's no situation imaginable that renders anyone in absolute need of their cell phone when they enter a movie to watch a movie whose time length is predisclosed. Shut your fucking mouth, turn your phone off and watch the movie. If you can't do that stay home and rent the DVD.

Someday, when you're about to be a daddy and the midwife is at the movies-you'll be glad she didn't read this....

To some extent I agree with him. There's no good reason for most of us to be playing on the phones in a movie theater. Obviously there are going to be extenuating circumstances, such as what you said about being on call and othe things like that. Clearly that's a different story. If I got a call or text from work during off hours, chances are it's something that I'm going to have to deal with - they don't call when stuff is going *right* I don't have a problem with normal courteous people taking a glance at their business, or stepping out to take a call or whatever.

For all other situations, ok if you're not being obnoxious about it, then fine, do what you have to do, but really, why are you even at the movies, like Dan said... you're there to see a movie... We just can't put our gizmos down for two seconds anymore, I guess. And yes I do it too... but once the movie starts, I put it away. I seem to have bad luck at movie theaters... I used to ALWAYS get the seat kickers behind me, before cell phone days... now that's been replaced by the cell phone creeps - and I find, it's mostly adults, unfortunately. Hell, my old boss used to drive me insane with her cell phone rudeness, and we weren't even at the movies!

Still though, this thread started over a PSA made because of snotty assed little teenager cursing out the movie theater becasue she was thrown out for being rude, though, that was the topic at hand.

[artist4perry]

Listen, there's no situation imaginable that renders anyone in absolute need of their cell phone when they enter a movie to watch a movie whose time length is predisclosed. Shut your fucking mouth, turn your phone off and watch the movie. If you can't do that stay home and rent the DVD.

Someday, when you're about to be a daddy and the midwife is at the movies-you'll be glad she didn't read this....

Men at births are pussies. And midwives are about as important as paper boys. Such a self-promotional tool for an everyday event. And save your response, notveryprettyface. You had to shoe horn your pussy fetish into this thread, so deal with the consequences.

Geez Dan take the Midol and give it a rest!

[steveo777]

Young people have lost a lot of social skills because of this great technology. It fucking drives me crazy.
They ignore customers coming into an establishment because they are too busy texting to even acknowledge
the people who pay their fucking salaries. I can't count the number of times I'm waiting for something that
could have gone a hell of a lot faster, but didn't, because some jack was busy texting, instead of focusing
on the task that needed to be done. I recently worked for a company that banned cell phones in the workplace.
People can't even get off their porch and to their car without texting or getting a call. WTF are we, as a society
becoming? I liked it better when I was a kid. Someone called and if you weren't home, you didn't answer the
phone and life went on just fine. In honor of that, if I take a couple days off and don't want to be bothered I
just turn the phone off. It annoys friends and family, but it's my life and my choice.

[S2M]

Young people have lost a lot of social skills because of this great technology. It fucking drives me crazy.
They ignore customers coming into an establishment because they are too busy texting to even acknowledge
the people who pay their fucking salaries. I can't count the number of times I'm waiting for something that
could have gone a hell of a lot faster, but didn't, because some jack was busy texting, instead of focusing
on the task that needed to be done. I recently worked for a company that banned cell phones in the workplace.
People can't even get off their porch and to their car without texting or getting a call. WTF are we, as a society
becoming? I liked it better when I was a kid. Someone called and if you weren't home, you didn't answer the
phone and life went on just fine. In honor of that, if I take a couple days off and don't want to be bothered I
just turn the phone off. It annoys friends and family, but it's my life and my choice.

Do you ever shut up?

[steveo777]

Young people have lost a lot of social skills because of this great technology. It fucking drives me crazy.
They ignore customers coming into an establishment because they are too busy texting to even acknowledge
the people who pay their fucking salaries. I can't count the number of times I'm waiting for something that
could have gone a hell of a lot faster, but didn't, because some jack was busy texting, instead of focusing
on the task that needed to be done. I recently worked for a company that banned cell phones in the workplace.
People can't even get off their porch and to their car without texting or getting a call. WTF are we, as a society
becoming? I liked it better when I was a kid. Someone called and if you weren't home, you didn't answer the
phone and life went on just fine. In honor of that, if I take a couple days off and don't want to be bothered I
just turn the phone off. It annoys friends and family, but it's my life and my choice.

Do you ever shut up?

How do you fuck on? That might be better than telling you to fuck off.

[Melissa]

Young people have lost a lot of social skills because of this great technology. It fucking drives me crazy.
They ignore customers coming into an establishment because they are too busy texting to even acknowledge
the people who pay their fucking salaries. I can't count the number of times I'm waiting for something that
could have gone a hell of a lot faster, but didn't, because some jack was busy texting, instead of focusing
on the task that needed to be done. I recently worked for a company that banned cell phones in the workplace.
People can't even get off their porch and to their car without texting or getting a call.

I agree with most of this, and since it's about cell phones it's still "on topic" as far as I can tell? If not then I'm sure the thread police will let that be known, but anyhow, that stuff in workplaces goes both ways. We have parents at work who are constantly on their phones and the M.D.'s will tell them "I'll wait until you're done" and they'll go see another patient, lol. That usually gets most of them off the phone, and only on very rare occassion do we get one who gets all pissy that the doc went to see another patient first, but oh well, they get over it. To be honest the only thing with cell phones these days that I can say actually annoys me is people texting while walking in a parking lot and not watching for cars at all. There must be some statistic somewhere of how many people are hit by cars while texting and walking and not watching where the hell they're going. I guess because that's something dangerous is why it annoys me.

[Melissa]

That would probably bug them more.

Probably.

As long as someone isn't having a gab-fest phone call, I say to each their own with their phones. In all my movie-going experience I've maybe encountered one or two occasions where someone actually annoyed me with their phone. For the most part, people are courteous. (Even teens!) And if someone wants to check a situation, no harm no foul. Small potatoes.

Ditto. My only bad luck in theaters is someone who is 6 1/2 feet tall sitting right in front of me, happens all the time at concerts too

[Rockindeano]

Listen, there's no situation imaginable that renders anyone in absolute need of their cell phone when they enter a movie to watch a movie whose time length is predisclosed. Shut your fucking mouth, turn your phone off and watch the movie. If you can't do that stay home and rent the DVD.

Someday, when you're about to be a daddy and the midwife is at the movies-you'll be glad she didn't read this....

To some extent I agree with him. There's no good reason for most of us to be playing on the phones in a movie theater. Obviously there are going to be extenuating circumstances, such as what you said about being on call and othe things like that. Clearly that's a different story. If I got a call or text from work during off hours, chances are it's something that I'm going to have to deal with - they don't call when stuff is going *right* I don't have a problem with normal courteous people taking a glance at their business, or stepping out to take a call or whatever.

For all other situations, ok if you're not being obnoxious about it, then fine, do what you have to do, but really, why are you even at the movies, like Dan said... you're there to see a movie... We just can't put our gizmos down for two seconds anymore, I guess. And yes I do it too... but once the movie starts, I put it away. I seem to have bad luck at movie theaters... I used to ALWAYS get the seat kickers behind me, before cell phone days... now that's been replaced by the cell phone creeps - and I find, it's mostly adults, unfortunately. Hell, my old boss used to drive me insane with her cell phone rudeness, and we weren't even at the movies!

Still though, this thread started over a PSA made because of snotty assed little teenager cursing out the movie theater becasue she was thrown out for being rude, though, that was the topic at hand.

Hey, this shit doesn't just happen at the movies. Watch a sporting event on TV. Every other fan is rocking his cell. I agree with youhere, why even go to an event/movie/sports?

[Rockindeano]

Just to add- anyone notice when someone gets a call in public, be it at the supermarket, DMV, whatever...the ring tone is full blast, and they let the entire fucking song play, while looking at the call to determine who is calling. My God, people do not need to hear Eminems rap at full blast for 45 seconds. Fuck I hate that. When my horn rings, it's anwered within 2 seconds. The entire store doesn't need to hear Glory Days.

[Behshad]

That would probably bug them more.

Probably.

As long as someone isn't having a gab-fest phone call, I say to each their own with their phones. In all my movie-going experience I've maybe encountered one or two occasions where someone actually annoyed me with their phone. For the most part, people are courteous. (Even teens!) And if someone wants to check a situation, no harm no foul. Small potatoes.

Ditto. My only bad luck in theaters is someone who is 6 1/2 feet tall sitting right in front of me, happens all the time at concerts too :x

Maybe its about time we kicked Saint John out of our group!

[iceberg]

Just to add- anyone notice when someone gets a call in public, be it at the supermarket, DMV, whatever...the ring tone is full blast, and they let the entire fucking song play, while looking at the call to determine who is calling. My God, people do not need to hear Eminems rap at full blast for 45 seconds. Fuck I hate that. When my horn rings, it's anwered within 2 seconds. The entire store doesn't need to hear Glory Days.

buy them a windows 7 phone. you can't put custom ringtones on it.

as for the rest, the bigger issue to me is some people can't get away from "connectivity" for 2 hours w/o having to find some excuse to do it. a girl i go out with, when we get to the movies the iphone comes out and she's telling all of facebook we're about to watch a movie and then through the movie check to see who replied. or check on her kids. before the movie she was telling everyone we were at salt willys or whatever place we were at for dinner. she's a super sweetie with a lot of amazing qualities, but do you really need your iphone and ipad out while eating? if i'm that boring fuck it, i'll leave.

once at lunch she forgot her phone so i used my own phone to send her txt messages just to tell her she has no idea what i said. i could literally see the tension in her face as she had some strange form of online seperation anxiety. but as someone watching the movie, i have no idea if the person in the row in front of me 2 people over is checking on kids, on call and hoping to get away with it, or a dumbass being a pain. if you can tell me how to tell the difference then perhaps the 1st 2 won't bother me so much after spending $24 on movie tickets and $30+ on dinner to get lost in the theater experience.

[Melissa]

Just to add- anyone notice when someone gets a call in public, be it at the supermarket, DMV, whatever...the ring tone is full blast, and they let the entire fucking song play, while looking at the call to determine who is calling. My God, people do not need to hear Eminems rap at full blast for 45 seconds. Fuck I hate that. When my horn rings, it's anwered within 2 seconds. The entire store doesn't need to hear Glory Days.

Yeah that stuff makes me laugh all the time, some people's ring tones are just lol. I don't get that either, I just have mine set on the dumb little "classic ringer" and the volume down all the way where I hear it, no one else needs to.

[Melissa]

That would probably bug them more.

Probably.

As long as someone isn't having a gab-fest phone call, I say to each their own with their phones. In all my movie-going experience I've maybe encountered one or two occasions where someone actually annoyed me with their phone. For the most part, people are courteous. (Even teens!) And if someone wants to check a situation, no harm no foul. Small potatoes.

Ditto. My only bad luck in theaters is someone who is 6 1/2 feet tall sitting right in front of me, happens all the time at concerts too :x

Maybe its about time we kicked Saint John out of our group!

[Deb]

Just to add- anyone notice when someone gets a call in public, be it at the supermarket, DMV, whatever...the ring tone is full blast, and they let the entire fucking song play, while looking at the call to determine who is calling. My God, people do not need to hear Eminems rap at full blast for 45 seconds. Fuck I hate that. When my horn rings, it's anwered within 2 seconds. The entire store doesn't need to hear Glory Days.

Yeah that stuff makes me laugh all the time, some people's ring tones are just lol. I don't get that either, I just have mine set on the dumb little "classic ringer" and the volume down all the way where I hear it, no one else needs to.

I really should do that too. I have a few that I use mostly, the intros to Just Take My Heart and Take Cover. Also JSS's Testify. Forget to change it sometimes and I'll be down the hall in the conference room or the washroom and all of a sudden you hear coming from my cell on my desk "Bow Chica Wow Wow.....". Gave the gal in the office beside me a chuckle on more than one occasion.

[Michigan Girl]

Listen, there's no situation imaginable that renders anyone in absolute need of their cell phone when they enter a movie to watch a movie whose time length is predisclosed. Shut your fucking mouth, turn your phone off and watch the movie. If you can't do that stay home and rent the DVD.

Someday, when you're about to be a daddy and the midwife is at the movies-you'll be glad she didn't read this....

To some extent I agree with him. There's no good reason for most of us to be playing on the phones in a movie theater. Obviously there are going to be extenuating circumstances, such as what you said about being on call and othe things like that. Clearly that's a different story. If I got a call or text from work during off hours, chances are it's something that I'm going to have to deal with - they don't call when stuff is going *right* I don't have a problem with normal courteous people taking a glance at their business, or stepping out to take a call or whatever.

For all other situations, ok if you're not being obnoxious about it, then fine, do what you have to do, but really, why are you even at the movies, like Dan said... you're there to see a movie... We just can't put our gizmos down for two seconds anymore, I guess. And yes I do it too... but once the movie starts, I put it away. I seem to have bad luck at movie theaters... I used to ALWAYS get the seat kickers behind me, before cell phone days... now that's been replaced by the cell phone creeps - and I find, it's mostly adults, unfortunately. Hell, my old boss used to drive me insane with her cell phone rudeness, and we weren't even at the movies!

Still though, this thread started over a PSA made because of snotty assed little teenager cursing out the movie theater becasue she was thrown out for being rude, though, that was the topic at hand.

This is hysterical ....I won't do it, I'd get up and leave!!
My mother has a strict drop the cell phones at the door policy for family gatherings, it is wonderful
(as long as you have a landline) I've adopted the policy ...so peaceful!!

[Melissa]

Just to add- anyone notice when someone gets a call in public, be it at the supermarket, DMV, whatever...the ring tone is full blast, and they let the entire fucking song play, while looking at the call to determine who is calling. My God, people do not need to hear Eminems rap at full blast for 45 seconds. Fuck I hate that. When my horn rings, it's anwered within 2 seconds. The entire store doesn't need to hear Glory Days.

Yeah that stuff makes me laugh all the time, some people's ring tones are just lol. I don't get that either, I just have mine set on the dumb little "classic ringer" and the volume down all the way where I hear it, no one else needs to.

I really should do that too. I have a few that I use mostly, the intros to Just Take My Heart and Take Cover. Also JSS's Testify. Forget to change it sometimes and I'll be down the hall in the conference room or the washroom and all of a sudden you hear coming from my cell on my desk "Bow Chica Wow Wow.....". Gave the gal in the office beside me a chuckle on more than one occasion.

Now that would be a good one! I have mine just on a factory setting too because I've never attempted to download any song ringers to my phone, because knowing me and gadgets, I'd screw it up somehow

[Deb]

Just to add- anyone notice when someone gets a call in public, be it at the supermarket, DMV, whatever...the ring tone is full blast, and they let the entire fucking song play, while looking at the call to determine who is calling. My God, people do not need to hear Eminems rap at full blast for 45 seconds. Fuck I hate that. When my horn rings, it's anwered within 2 seconds. The entire store doesn't need to hear Glory Days.

Yeah that stuff makes me laugh all the time, some people's ring tones are just lol. I don't get that either, I just have mine set on the dumb little "classic ringer" and the volume down all the way where I hear it, no one else needs to.

I really should do that too. I have a few that I use mostly, the intros to Just Take My Heart and Take Cover. Also JSS's Testify. Forget to change it sometimes and I'll be down the hall in the conference room or the washroom and all of a sudden you hear coming from my cell on my desk "Bow Chica Wow Wow.....". Gave the gal in the office beside me a chuckle on more than one occasion.

Now that would be a good one! I have mine just on a factory setting too because I've never attempted to download any song ringers to my phone, because knowing me and gadgets, I'd screw it up somehow

It is rather pretty isn't it, almost don't want to answer the phone and let the guitar intro play through. Same with the kickass drum/bass/guitar intro on TC. It's a good thing I don't know how to set it up for texts, it's just a beep, otherwise I'd have a concert going on in my purse.

[Michigan Girl]

Just to add- anyone notice when someone gets a call in public, be it at the supermarket, DMV, whatever...the ring tone is full blast, and they let the entire fucking song play, while looking at the call to determine who is calling. My God, people do not need to hear Eminems rap at full blast for 45 seconds. Fuck I hate that. When my horn rings, it's anwered within 2 seconds. The entire store doesn't need to hear Glory Days.

buy them a windows 7 phone. you can't put custom ringtones on it.

as for the rest, the bigger issue to me is some people can't get away from "connectivity" for 2 hours w/o having to find some excuse to do it. a girl i go out with, when we get to the movies the iphone comes out and she's telling all of facebook we're about to watch a movie and then through the movie check to see who replied. or check on her kids. before the movie she was telling everyone we were at salt willys or whatever place we were at for dinner. she's a super sweetie with a lot of amazing qualities, but do you really need your iphone and ipad out while eating? if i'm that boring fuck it, i'll leave.

once at lunch she forgot her phone so i used my own phone to send her txt messages just to tell her she has no idea what i said. i could literally see the tension in her face as she had some strange form of online seperation anxiety. but as someone watching the movie, i have no idea if the person in the row in front of me 2 people over is checking on kids, on call and hoping to get away with it, or a dumbass being a pain. if you can tell me how to tell the difference then perhaps the 1st 2 won't bother me so much after spending $24 on movie tickets and $30+ on dinner to get lost in the theater experience.

I meant to quote this earlier ...I would not do this ^^^^I'd have to leave!! This is funny, though !!

[iceberg]

Just to add- anyone notice when someone gets a call in public, be it at the supermarket, DMV, whatever...the ring tone is full blast, and they let the entire fucking song play, while looking at the call to determine who is calling. My God, people do not need to hear Eminems rap at full blast for 45 seconds. Fuck I hate that. When my horn rings, it's anwered within 2 seconds. The entire store doesn't need to hear Glory Days.

buy them a windows 7 phone. you can't put custom ringtones on it.

as for the rest, the bigger issue to me is some people can't get away from "connectivity" for 2 hours w/o having to find some excuse to do it. a girl i go out with, when we get to the movies the iphone comes out and she's telling all of facebook we're about to watch a movie and then through the movie check to see who replied. or check on her kids. before the movie she was telling everyone we were at salt willys or whatever place we were at for dinner. she's a super sweetie with a lot of amazing qualities, but do you really need your iphone and ipad out while eating? if i'm that boring fuck it, i'll leave.

once at lunch she forgot her phone so i used my own phone to send her txt messages just to tell her she has no idea what i said. i could literally see the tension in her face as she had some strange form of online seperation anxiety. but as someone watching the movie, i have no idea if the person in the row in front of me 2 people over is checking on kids, on call and hoping to get away with it, or a dumbass being a pain. if you can tell me how to tell the difference then perhaps the 1st 2 won't bother me so much after spending $24 on movie tickets and $30+ on dinner to get lost in the theater experience.

I meant to quote this earlier ...I would not do this ^^^^I'd have to leave!! This is funny, though !!

theres' not too many times i'm called boring, but it really does get on my nerves we can't go out w/o her taking facebook with us.

[Melissa]

It is rather pretty isn't it, almost don't want to answer the phone and let the guitar intro play through. Same with the kickass drum/bass/guitar intro on TC. It's a good thing I don't know how to set it up for texts, it's just a beep, otherwise I'd have a concert going on in my purse.

Yeah I love that guitar intro, I'd let that play too And texts I'm so bad at missing some sometimes because I don't have a noise set for those I'll get texts that say "Hello?" because I missed the one before it 30 mins earlier

[Rhiannon]

Just to add- anyone notice when someone gets a call in public, be it at the supermarket, DMV, whatever...the ring tone is full blast, and they let the entire fucking song play, while looking at the call to determine who is calling. My God, people do not need to hear Eminems rap at full blast for 45 seconds. Fuck I hate that. When my horn rings, it's anwered within 2 seconds. The entire store doesn't need to hear Glory Days.

Yeah that stuff makes me laugh all the time, some people's ring tones are just lol. I don't get that either, I just have mine set on the dumb little "classic ringer" and the volume down all the way where I hear it, no one else needs to.

I really should do that too. I have a few that I use mostly, the intros to Just Take My Heart and Take Cover. Also JSS's Testify. Forget to change it sometimes and I'll be down the hall in the conference room or the washroom and all of a sudden you hear coming from my cell on my desk "Bow Chica Wow Wow.....". Gave the gal in the office beside me a chuckle on more than one occasion.

Smooth, Deb. Real smooth.

If mine isn't on silent, it's set to buzz. I hate ringtones. And I hate when my phone rings in public because then I'm that asshole with a phone making noise in the tomb-like silence of the dairy section. I tend to ignore all calls I get while I'm out somewhere like that. For one, I don't care for other people hearing me talk on the phone (and I'm sure they feel the same) and another, if it's not a quick 30-second call then I'm going to talk to the person when I can actually talk to them, respectfully, instead of mumbling a bunch of half-focused "uh-huhs" because I'm trying to do something else. I may be the only person under 30 who wishes they didn't need to have a cell phone (for emergencies).

[iceberg]

i just leave my phone in the car for 30 minutes while grocery shopping.