Laurence Payne wrote:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:31:14 -0000, "Ivor Jones"
wrote:

But there isn't room for *all* of us in there..! The whole train
should be phone-free. As should buses for that matter.

Yes dear. Some of us are on that train not for the pure pleasure of
travel, but because we're rushing around trying to make a living.
Customers need attention NOW. Or they go elsewhere. It's a
privilege to have employment now. Let us get on with it.

I don't think anyone has a serious problem with you getting with your
business. It when you inflict it on those who are trying to go about their
business that problems arise.

Other people's business might well include trying to catch up on some sleep
because their self-centered/incompetent "business partner" has kept them up
all night.

There are mobile phone jammers available from electrical retailers, but
they cost up to £200.

Still, it would be worth the money just to watch the misery on the
callers face as they try and figure out why their call keeps cutting
out.

Try http://www.globalgadgetuk.com/yo50.htm

They're illegal in the UK and far too powerful for train use. I
wouldn't want to interfere with non-obnoxious mobile users (texting
with low volume ringers). I'd like something with a short range and
directional, so I could more or less disconnect one mobile at a time.

Meeeee wrote:
I should really get together some MP3s of very loud classical music to
counteract it, either that or develop a portable antinoise generator

I have a CD of Olivier Messiaen organ music kept in the car for just
that reason*. If an XR3i with bowel-worryingly aggressive speakers
pulls up alongside, "music" going "thud, thud, thud" in such a way that
you can hear it from the next county, I just roll back the roof
(Citroen C3 Pluriel) and let M Messiaen do his worst.

I suspect there are probably specific by-laws prohibiting the playing
of Messiaen on trains, though.

Richard

* I do rather like it, as well.

wrote:
There are mobile phone jammers available from electrical retailers, but
they cost up to £200.

Still, it would be worth the money just to watch the misery on the
callers face as they try and figure out why their call keeps cutting
out.

Try http://www.globalgadgetuk.com/yo50.htm

From that website:

Note for UK customers: Cell phone jamming equipment is illegal to use
in the UK as it violates sections 1 & 13 of the 1949 telegraphy act, we
are therefore unable to supply cell phone jammers to any UK customer
with the exception of certain military and government departments who
have the necessary authorisation from the UK Office of Communications
(Ofcom). Please note that no exceptions can be made on this policy.

Oh well, we can dream anyway!

Phil

"Andrew Yarnwood" wrote in message
...
There are mobile phone jammers available from electrical retailers, but
they cost up to £200.

Still, it would be worth the money just to watch the misery on the
callers face as they try and figure out why their call keeps cutting
out.

Try http://www.globalgadgetuk.com/yo50.htm

They're illegal in the UK and far too powerful for train use. I
wouldn't want to interfere with non-obnoxious mobile users (texting
with low volume ringers). I'd like something with a short range and
directional, so I could more or less disconnect one mobile at a time.

It's called a taser

"Brimstone" wrote in message
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Laurence Payne wrote:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:31:14 -0000, "Ivor Jones"
wrote:

But there isn't room for *all* of us in there..! The whole train
should be phone-free. As should buses for that matter.

Yes dear. Some of us are on that train not for the pure pleasure of
travel, but because we're rushing around trying to make a living.
Customers need attention NOW. Or they go elsewhere. It's a
privilege to have employment now. Let us get on with it.

I don't think anyone has a serious problem with you getting with your
business. It when you inflict it on those who are trying to go about their
business that problems arise.

Other people's business might well include trying to catch up on some
sleep because their self-centered/incompetent "business partner" has kept
them up all night.

Exactly

I don't care what people do on trains/busses/in public as long as it doesn't
affect other people. As soon as that happens, the perpetrator has
over-stepped the mark, and should stop.

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:29:55 GMT, "d" wrote:

"Ivor Jones" wrote in message
...


"Jon" wrote in message
et
declared for all the world to hear...
Suggestions?

Sit in the quiet carriage.

But there isn't room for *all* of us in there..! The whole train should be
phone-free. As should buses for that matter.

There should be a "Noisy carriage", with the rest of the train being silent.
That way screaming kids can go **** phone users off. Everyone wins.

Ivor




The trains here only have 2 carriages and there so noisy you can't
hear your phone anyway

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Some people are like slinkys....
no real use but it makes you smile when they fall down stairs!

"BORG" wrote in message
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On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:29:55 GMT, "d" wrote:

"Ivor Jones" wrote in message
...


"Jon" wrote in message
et
declared for all the world to hear...
Suggestions?

Sit in the quiet carriage.

But there isn't room for *all* of us in there..! The whole train should
be
phone-free. As should buses for that matter.

There should be a "Noisy carriage", with the rest of the train being
silent.
That way screaming kids can go **** phone users off. Everyone wins.

Ivor




The trains here only have 2 carriages and there so noisy you can't
hear your phone anyway

That's why phones have a vibrate option. Frankly, why people have audible
ringers on their phones when they're in their pocket is beyond me...

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http://Borg.no-ip.com

XJ900 Trike GS850 Trike
DIAABTCOD#29
DAMICRWIM

Some people are like slinkys....
no real use but it makes you smile when they fall down stairs!

But there isn't room for *all* of us in there..! The whole train
should be phone-free.
-----------------------------------

The development of this thread has taken me back 20 years
or so, to when I was British Telecom's Business Systems
Manager at Warrington and also an active writer/photographer
for RAIL and other rail enthusiast magazines.

I was on a BR (Provincial?) press trip from Sheffield to Liverpool
on the prototype Met-Camm Class 151 dmu --- during which we
ceremoniously 'opened' the then new Hazel Grove chord line.
I seem to remember that Bob Goundry himself cut the tape.

I had in my possession my then brand new Motorola 'brick' mobile
phone, which had just been distributed to BT managers, along with an
'open account', chargeable to publicity. It was called a 'brick'
phone because it looked like one, felt like one & was nearly as
heavy! We were encouraged to use it whenever we were out and about
and offer its use to anybody in business who might like to try it.

The maximum endurance of this early mobile phone was 30 mins
talk time and 10 hours standby but I had spare batteries for it so
I demonstrated it to both the BR management on board and
to fellow journalists. They flattened the first battery 'phoning the
office', but in the case of two evening paper hacks, this got their
'copy' into the last editions that same night!

I returned home with dozens of enquiries and business cards
in my pocket which I passed on to our BT Sales Dept. next day,
since I was an engineer. I also arranged for the loan of some demo
mobile phones to BR's Liverpool management, from which BT Sales
did extremely well not long afterwards. BT Engineers didn't earn any
commission but the sales people did, resulting in me and 3 of my top
technical staff being treated to a slap-up meal a few weeks later!

Next time you are overwhelmed by on-train mobile phone chatter,
remember who *may* just have started it all! :-) :-) :-)

{Sorry lads, I'm returning to my bunker now...}.


Regards,

DigitisED (Eddie Bellass)

Mythical Merseyside, in the Occupied Territories
of Old Lancashire, United Kingdom.

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"Eddie Bellass" wrote in message
...
But there isn't room for *all* of us in there..! The whole train
should be phone-free.
-----------------------------------

The development of this thread has taken me back 20 years
or so, to when I was British Telecom's Business Systems
Manager at Warrington and also an active writer/photographer
for RAIL and other rail enthusiast magazines.

I was on a BR (Provincial?) press trip from Sheffield to Liverpool
on the prototype Met-Camm Class 151 dmu --- during which we
ceremoniously 'opened' the then new Hazel Grove chord line.
I seem to remember that Bob Goundry himself cut the tape.

I had in my possession my then brand new Motorola 'brick' mobile
phone, which had just been distributed to BT managers, along with an
'open account', chargeable to publicity. It was called a 'brick'
phone because it looked like one, felt like one & was nearly as
heavy! We were encouraged to use it whenever we were out and about
and offer its use to anybody in business who might like to try it.

The maximum endurance of this early mobile phone was 30 mins
talk time and 10 hours standby but I had spare batteries for it so
I demonstrated it to both the BR management on board and
to fellow journalists. They flattened the first battery 'phoning the
office', but in the case of two evening paper hacks, this got their
'copy' into the last editions that same night!

I returned home with dozens of enquiries and business cards
in my pocket which I passed on to our BT Sales Dept. next day,
since I was an engineer. I also arranged for the loan of some demo
mobile phones to BR's Liverpool management, from which BT Sales
did extremely well not long afterwards. BT Engineers didn't earn any
commission but the sales people did, resulting in me and 3 of my top
technical staff being treated to a slap-up meal a few weeks later!

Next time you are overwhelmed by on-train mobile phone chatter,
remember who *may* just have started it all! :-) :-) :-)

{Sorry lads, I'm returning to my bunker now...}.


Regards,

DigitisED (Eddie Bellass)


WHY!!!! WHYYYYYY!!!! GAAAAH! :-P

hehehe