It's very simple. Theatres, cinemas, opera houses, even restaurants just need to ask everyone to hand in their phone before they take their seats. There's a restaurant somewhere in London having success with "phone free Tuesdays" or some such and Possum has tried a system with her friends where the phones go in a basket at the end of the table and theirs a fine for the first one to succumb. They have to buy the drinks or something.
There is a rule at dance classes that all mobiles be turned off unless you are a doctor/vet/whatever on call out and then you have to tell the teacher. Never had a problem in coming up to 18 years of dancing.
It will eventually become unacceptable, like smoking.
Now, can we please start a movement to sort out people who chew their food with their mouth open - noisy and very unattractive - and all those oiks of all classes who chew gum, especially with their mouth open?
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I am always moaning about something, no difficult in this day and age. I thought I was the only grumpy, wrinkly, moaner around so have been delighted to discover I am not alone.
Long may we continue. There is still plenty for us to get our teeth/gums into!
I had an argument with a cold caller today. He tried desperately hard to get my personal bank details out of me because someone had tried to withdraw £200,000 from my online bank account. I fell about laughing, good luck t them. I would like to get £200,000 out of my account, trouble is it is nearly empty. Eventually I managed to upset him and he put the phone down on me. Yeah! Success!
I do not usually talk to these callers, I just say yes to activate the call and then leave the phone on the table while they talk to themselves.
I know these poor souls are just doing their job to earn a crust but.
>> I did not have to impress family or friends, if the odd comma went astray so what.<<
Quite so. I love cooking my wife and my cats.
A few things that bug me (out of dozens and dozens) are the exaggerated ‘goldfish’ face people, especially girls and young women, make when told something mildly unexpected. Likewise when embarrassed they weakly flap their hand in front of their face. Why? Is it supposed to cool you down?
I also dislike sentences that begin with a superfluous ‘So ... ‘, the use of super instead of very, putting question marks at the end of conditional statements rather than direct questions, multiple exclamation marks, misspelled plant names, people’s inability to put the stress in the right place in sentences with the word ‘you’ almost always overemphasised, saying myself rather than me, putting a superfluous pause after the first few words of a sentence, using the salutation ‘guys’ in a gender neutral way, gonna and wanna, of for have or ‘ve, confusing less and fewer, number and amount, saying assemberly, Wemberley etc ... please (pleeeease annoys me, perlease even more so) let it cool down. Only then will I return to being a mild mannered pedant.
Picidae - you missed people using "of" instead of "have"!
B3 - I chucked out all hippeastrums long ago. Just as I gt a decent flower stalk some pussycat would come along and knock it off or over so broken anyway and all those weeks with just leaves. Not for me anymore at any time of year.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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There is a rule at dance classes that all mobiles be turned off unless you are a doctor/vet/whatever on call out and then you have to tell the teacher. Never had a problem in coming up to 18 years of dancing.
It will eventually become unacceptable, like smoking.
Now, can we please start a movement to sort out people who chew their food with their mouth open - noisy and very unattractive - and all those oiks of all classes who chew gum, especially with their mouth open?
I am always moaning about something, no difficult in this day and age. I thought I was the only grumpy, wrinkly, moaner around so have been delighted to discover I am not alone.
Long may we continue. There is still plenty for us to get our teeth/gums into!
I had an argument with a cold caller today. He tried desperately hard to get my personal bank details out of me because someone had tried to withdraw £200,000 from my online bank account. I fell about laughing, good luck t them. I would like to get £200,000 out of my account, trouble is it is nearly empty. Eventually I managed to upset him and he put the phone down on me. Yeah! Success!
I do not usually talk to these callers, I just say yes to activate the call and then leave the phone on the table while they talk to themselves.
I know these poor souls are just doing their job to earn a crust but.
>> I did not have to impress family or friends, if the odd comma went astray so what.<<
Quite so. I love cooking my wife and my cats.
A few things that bug me (out of dozens and dozens) are the exaggerated ‘goldfish’ face people, especially girls and young women, make when told something mildly unexpected. Likewise when embarrassed they weakly flap their hand in front of their face. Why? Is it supposed to cool you down?
I also dislike sentences that begin with a superfluous ‘So ... ‘, the use of super instead of very, putting question marks at the end of conditional statements rather than direct questions, multiple exclamation marks, misspelled plant names, people’s inability to put the stress in the right place in sentences with the word ‘you’ almost always overemphasised, saying myself rather than me, putting a superfluous pause after the first few words of a sentence, using the salutation ‘guys’ in a gender neutral way, gonna and wanna, of for have or ‘ve, confusing less and fewer, number and amount, saying assemberly, Wemberley etc ... please (pleeeease annoys me, perlease even more so) let it cool down. Only then will I return to being a mild mannered pedant.
B3 - I chucked out all hippeastrums long ago. Just as I gt a decent flower stalk some pussycat would come along and knock it off or over so broken anyway and all those weeks with just leaves. Not for me anymore at any time of year.
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