Why Can't People Turn off Mobiles when they go to the cinema

That'd be awesome. Can they put them on buses and trains too? Nothing worse than spending the entire journey into work listening to some idiot shout down the phone. Or worse, play music out loud. Whose bright idea was it to invent phones that could play music without headphones??? :mad:

Sorry for going OT - I really hate mobile phones! :rolleyes:
 
Im starting a mission. If I see a mobile phone being used in a cinema or just checking it, so the bright display catches my eye (which is very hard to avoid) I will smash the phone with my baseball bat and the owner if they are in the way. You will spot me as I will be dressed all in black with a black bat.
I will travel the uk and visit every cinema once and spend all day in there. You have been warned. Bat Man is BACK.
 
I'm not too sure about that......a couple of the lecture theatres at uni have lead roofs and padded walls (ok they were built in the 1940's) but nobody has managed to get signal yet!

Back to moblie phones in cinemas...they're now a substitute for a watch, so it's not surprising to see annoying bright LCD screens when films go on for too long.
 
yeah that annoys me too.. i'm going to start taking their phones off them and start using them to make international calls or just through them off the bus

the trouble is if you do that they might have a knife or something and then it's you in the wrong too
 
That's what always stops me saying something. You never know how someone might react. Whenever I see someone complain about loud music, the person usually just says 'I don't give a s**t if it's bothering you,' so what's the point?
 
There is always an ad saying Please respect others and switch off your mobile but people dont take any notice. even that clever Meet The Robinsons ad set to the tune of Heard It through The Grapevine which made a point about this seemed to go over peoples head. Personally i always switch my mobile off. Even when i am the only person in the cinema.
 
Now this is what I don't understand. You were halfway through the film, so if you'd cancelled the call you could have returned it within an hour. Is that really too long to wait? It was hardly a life or death situation, it could have waited, and you wouldn't have p*ssed off the other people in the cinema who all paid a fair amount of money to watch the film.

God, how did we cope before mobile phones?
 
ooo that was my big worry at a funeral a couple of months ago!! i sat there and suddenly though shit i didnt switch it off!!! knowing my luck it bloody well will now! luckily it didnt but someone elses did!!! :D :D but i did mention it to the widow a few weeks later at yet another funeral and she said it would have lightened the day up a bit if mine had gone off!!! :p :D :D
 
hmm i never turn off my phone i will turn it to silent in a film. often when im out i am also organising meets for after the cinema and a quick txt is useful while u are watching a film.
 
It might be useful to you, but the ridiculously bright LCD screen is annoying for everyone else.

Honestly, do people have such short attention spans these days that they have to be texting instead of just concentrating on the film?
 
A phone always goes off when I'm at the cinema I find it annoying but the worst incident was when one went off 10 mins into LOTR: The Two Towers. I expected the guy to be embarrassed and switch it off but he answered it and started a very loud conversation explaining what he was seeing and what he thought of it so far. When people told him to stop he told them to P*** off and then preceeded to slag them off to the person on the other end of the phone. What a tosser.

I always switch my phone off or at least put it on silent and would never answer it or send a text in the theatre as I know how much it annoys me, and therefor how annoying it must be for others.
 
Its not chavs though, I went to see The Devil Wears Prada and some horrid little middle aged chrone of a women answered her phone right behind me and started to talk really loudly, so all I did was turn around and say "Do you mind?" and she looked at me like I was a piece of shite and then muttered something about the youth of today, so I then turned around and glared at her and kept repeating "Do you mind?" until she shut up. Was quite funny.
 
It really gets on my nerves too. No matter what film I go to see, someone is always arsing around with a mobile- usually a pack of giggling chavs (but not always).

The cinemas ought to ban chavs- would encourage decent people back to the cinemas and raise their revenue :D
 
How do you identify a chav? Do they have an identity tag saying "I am a chav"? What differentiates a chav from a well-behaved young person who wants to go to the cinema to watch a movie, and will not chat, phone or text whilst the film is playing?
 
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