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Inappropiate cell/mobile phone ringing

Cell phone just disrupted a Broadway play and Hugh Jackman broke character and asked the offender to shut it off. Apparently this banter went on for a minute and of course there is accompanying cell phone footage of this exchange. Fuckin nimrods.

The story I read said that Jackman and his co-star told the guy to turn off the phone in character. :confused:

There are conflicting reports. I read both versions today.

I'm sure you googled the shit out of it so I'll just take your version as gospel. :techman:
 
I hate it when kids text in class. It's plain rude. The girls even think that putting their bag/purse on their desk, and hiding the phone inside of it will prevent them from being seen. Right...:rolleyes:

There's one kid who stands down the row from me in choir...who texts from behind his music during rehearsal. I can't wait til my teacher sees him, and he will see him, it's just a matter of time. Kid'll either get a good talking to, or be thrown out of the room, and the group for good. I'm hoping it's the second. Of all the classes to do that in, choir is not one of them.
 
I was interviewing a guy for a job and his phone went off.

He answered it, held up his index finger to me, and started to have a conversation about where he and his buddies were going drinking that night.

I stood up and left. And he was shitty with me when I told him, after his call, that we wouldn't be hiring him because of it.

Joe, not nice about it
 
So I'm in a fitting room of a women's clothing store, changing out of something, and someone with a wolf whistle as a ring tone gets a phone call. That gave me a nice little freak-out moment.

And just a week ago, one of my professors had his cell phone go off mid-lecture. Problem was, he was being observed by the assistant dean during that particular class session.
 
I don't care if someone's phone goes off in class or when I'm out to dinner so long as they don't stop everything for a stupid hello or text. Phones going off by accident will always happen.
 
I hate it when kids text in class. It's plain rude.

I remember the first time I got to tell a kid off for using her phone. I was directing a play with a bunch of 15-18 year-olds as actors and one girl started to text someone while I was giving directions to the group as a whole. I had to tell her twice to quit that, and had to threaten her with taking her phone away until she stopped. She honestly had no idea how rude it was.
 
I stood up and left. And he was shitty with me when I told him, after his call, that we wouldn't be hiring him because of it.

Joe, not nice about it

What the hell did he expect? If he's like that in the interview, what would he be like in the job?
 
I don't see the problem with texting in a boring lecture or something. My high school days were a little bit before the age of text messaging, but tuning certain teachers out and playing Tetris on my calculator was pretty much an act of self preservation!
 
I don't see the problem with texting in a boring lecture or something. My high school days were a little bit before the age of text messaging, but tuning certain teachers out and playing Tetris on my calculator was pretty much an act of self preservation!

:lol:

My math teacher would take my calculator away, because he knew exactly what I was doing with it.
 
I had so many programs in my TI-92 :lol: that I had downloaded or even made myself.

Drug Wars was the best! :lol:
 
I had so many programs in my TI-92 :lol: that I had downloaded or even made myself.

Drug Wars was the best! :lol:

OK, I'm officially old. I had no idea that there were calculators that could have anything downloaded into them.

The only thing we could do was hold 07734 upside down to say "HELLO" :(
 
I used to play that silly Mario-like penguin game on my TI-83.

Then I got a TI-89, and suddenly no one else could share programs with me anymore. Not to mention the calc teacher never let me use my own calculator on tests....

Of course, that's all 10 years past now. Nobody bothers with calculator games much anymore.
 
Today I was driving home and had to go through a two lane, 55mph tunnel, and some yahoo is texting on his phone and sorta driving his truck barely keeping it in the left lane. Ack.
 
I had so many programs in my TI-92 :lol: that I had downloaded or even made myself.

Drug Wars was the best! :lol:

OK, I'm officially old. I had no idea that there were calculators that could have anything downloaded into them.

The only thing we could do was hold 07734 upside down to say "HELLO" :(

"HELLO"? No "80085"?! You should be ashamed.

I love talking on my phone and texting dangerously while driving my SUV and destroying the environment. I also regularly enjoy going to a movie and playing on my iPhone the entire time the movie is going. Life is good.
 
I had so many programs in my TI-92 :lol: that I had downloaded or even made myself.

Drug Wars was the best! :lol:

OK, I'm officially old. I had no idea that there were calculators that could have anything downloaded into them.

The only thing we could do was hold 07734 upside down to say "HELLO" :(

"HELLO"? No "80085"?! You should be ashamed.

I love talking on my phone and texting dangerously while driving my SUV and destroying the environment. I also regularly enjoy going to a movie and playing on my iPhone the entire time the movie is going. Life is good.

I really like talking loudly, using off-color language and laughing boisterously while my two year old wails in busy, nice, restaurants.
 
^^^ The idea of you laughing boisterously with your two-year old child just made me laugh for the first time all day. :lol:

Edit: I feel compelled to admit that I really do drive an SUV and destroy the environment, though.
 
I must admit I wouldn't have thought twice about using a phone to text or check the internet or whatever in a cinema, provided it wasn't making noise. I wouldn't have figured the light would be an issue for some people; the light never bothers me when others use theirs in a movie. It only bugs me if it audibly rings and/or they have a voice conversation on the phone during the feature. I'll try to cover the screen a bit in future if it actually bugs people.

1. Yes, it really bugs people.
2. Why do you need to text or check the internet during a feature? Just have fun watching the movie, and forget about the world for a couple of hours.

Sometimes it's a shitty movie.

All about you much? If it's so shitty, leave. Why ruin it for everyone else?
 
I used to play that silly Mario-like penguin game on my TI-83.
I remember playing a game with a penguin (the linux penguin going by the title screen) named Slippy. Not really a Mario-like game though, it was a straight up puzzle game.
Then I got a TI-89, and suddenly no one else could share programs with me anymore.
Most of the calculators we had were... TI-82s I think... which were owned by the school. People would pretty much steal them and use them as their own. I was the one kid who bought that horrible serial port cable for these things capable of putting the high quality assembler(?) coded apps. I bought the TI-89 as well, but I was pretty much responsible for loading up at least 80% of the school's calculators with games :guffaw:
Not to mention the calc teacher never let me use my own calculator on tests....
My teachers were a bit clueless on the impressive feature set of the TI-89, and I wasn't about to tell them. I used that thing on my calc tests... in high school... AND college... I think I even had it with me when I took the ACT :lol:
Of course, that's all 10 years past now. Nobody bothers with calculator games much anymore.
Now my Nintendo DSi has downloadable calculators. Hrm.
 
I had the TI-92, which had a full-keyboard and many considered a tiny laptop. Programing that thing was fun but no teacher knew how to use the silly thing because the programing of it was different than the TI-8x models. Needless, I figured the thing out pretty damn well.

God, I loved that thing. I need to dig it out and play around with it.
 
I had the TI-92, which had a full-keyboard and many considered a tiny laptop. Programing that thing was fun but no teacher knew how to use the silly thing because the programing of it was different than the TI-8x models. Needless, I figured the thing out pretty damn well.

God, I loved that thing. I need to dig it out and play around with it.
I think I passed on the TI-92 because it didn't have the advanced stuff that solved some calculus for you. Though I think they put out a TI-92+ or something that had that feature. Also, since it looked more like a computer than a calculator I figured I would have less luck in using it on tests and the like :lol:
 
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