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  • MrGongGong
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 18357

    #16
    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    Makes a well cool ringtone innit
    NO NO NO NO

    even though I use technology all the time (and do have an iPhone !)
    I think we should have a "North Korean" policy on phones

    ie

    There is ONE sound for it ringing, it's a ringing sound
    NOT crap music intruding in everyones acoustic environment

    If my phone announced itself using an unpleasant smell then people would complain
    but crap little tunes (and this does include bits of Bach etc ) are as antisocial as a gufftone


    rant over ........... as you were

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    • amateur51

      #17
      Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
      NO NO NO NO

      even though I use technology all the time (and do have an iPhone !)
      I think we should have a "North Korean" policy on phones

      ie

      There is ONE sound for it ringing, it's a ringing sound
      NOT crap music intruding in everyones acoustic environment

      If my phone announced itself using an unpleasant smell then people would complain
      but crap little tunes (and this does include bits of Bach etc ) are as antisocial as a gufftone


      rant over ........... as you were
      Best rant of 2012 so far, MrGG - bravo!

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      • Paul Sherratt

        #18
        >>Slaves even


        I think you're right, ff (again ! )

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        • Eine Alpensinfonie
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 20570

          #19
          Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
          NO NO NO NO

          even though I use technology all the time (and do have an iPhone !)
          I think we should have a "North Korean" policy on phones

          ie

          There is ONE sound for it ringing, it's a ringing sound
          NOT crap music intruding in everyones acoustic environment

          If my phone announced itself using an unpleasant smell then people would complain
          but crap little tunes (and this does include bits of Bach etc ) are as antisocial as a gufftone


          rant over ........... as you were
          I quite agree.

          But I really can't understand why the owner of the phone wasn't ejected by the ushers.

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          • Bryn
            Banned
            • Mar 2007
            • 24688

            #20
            Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
            ... I really can't understand why the owner of the phone wasn't ejected by the ushers.
            Norman offers an explanation.

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26540

              #21
              Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
              NO NO NO NO

              even though I use technology all the time (and do have an iPhone !)
              I think we should have a "North Korean" policy on phones

              ie

              There is ONE sound for it ringing, it's a ringing sound
              NOT crap music intruding in everyones acoustic environment

              If my phone announced itself using an unpleasant smell then people would complain
              but crap little tunes (and this does include bits of Bach etc ) are as antisocial as a gufftone


              rant over ........... as you were
              Oh now come along MrTwoGongs... Don't beat about the bush!

              In fact it's sometimes very useful to have a unique ringtone, in an office environment. Once in a while it's helpful to know (e.g. phone in jacket pocket on chair) that if I hear Ton Koopman tickling the ivories, it's mine...
              "...the isle is full of noises,
              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163

                #22
                Ever thought of getting the ringtone Adele put on Sherlock's mobile, Cali?
                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • MrGongGong
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 18357

                  #23
                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  Oh now come along MrTwoGongs... Don't beat about the bush!

                  In fact it's sometimes very useful to have a unique ringtone, in an office environment. Once in a while it's helpful to know (e.g. phone in jacket pocket on chair) that if I hear Ton Koopman tickling the ivories, it's mine...
                  I find it's sometimes "useful" to be incredibly rude and also to smell badly
                  that way I seem to get a seat on the train easily !!!!

                  I also find it useful to carry a Cimbasso with me at all times for use in the quiet coach or during lulls in the conversation

                  Caliban on the train ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCgYDsuR2xs

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26540

                    #24
                    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                    Ever thought of getting the ringtone Adele put on Sherlock's mobile, Cali?
                    I was going to make another indelicate remark about beating about the bush, deducing your thought process, Watson... But happily I thought better of it

                    (The answer to your question is: I hadn't...)
                    "...the isle is full of noises,
                    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                    • Bryn
                      Banned
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 24688

                      #25
                      It is also useful to have different ring tones for one's company mobile telephone, one's personal mobile telephone and the one reserved for one's nom de guerre.

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                      • Nick Armstrong
                        Host
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 26540

                        #26
                        Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                        I find it's sometimes "useful" to be incredibly rude and also to smell badly
                        that way I seem to get a seat on the train easily !!!!

                        I also find it useful to carry a Cimbasso with me at all times for use in the quiet coach or during lulls in the conversation

                        Caliban on the train ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCgYDsuR2xs

                        you're on fine fighting form today!

                        May I remind the honourable member for DoubleGong South that I mentioned earlier that my phone is almost never other than switched to 'silent'...
                        "...the isle is full of noises,
                        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                        • MrGongGong
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 18357

                          #27
                          Originally posted by Caliban View Post

                          you're on fine fighting form today!

                          May I remind the honourable member for DoubleGong South that I mentioned earlier that my phone is almost never other than switched to 'silent'...
                          ahhh yes but is your 4:33" ringtone a HIPP performance ?

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26540

                            #28
                            Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                            ahhh yes but is your 4:33" ringtone a HIPP performance ?
                            It's authentically quiet, certainly....
                            "...the isle is full of noises,
                            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                            • Paul Sherratt

                              #29
                              >>In fact it's sometimes very useful to have a unique ringtone

                              Indeed. And don't they make you appear to be much more interesting, if not quite fascinating member of the species ?


                              Actually my OH has asked if I could bootleg the pre-film announcent at ( the excellent ) Stoke Film Theatre, where the most gentle of male voices
                              enquires " Have you remembered to switch off your mobile phone ... "

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26540

                                #30
                                Originally posted by Paul Sherratt View Post

                                Indeed. And don't they make you appear to be much more interesting, if not quite fascinating member of the species ?


                                "...the isle is full of noises,
                                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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