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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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"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 ![]() |
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"Brimstone" wrote in message
... 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. |
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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 -- 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! |
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"BORG" wrote in message
... 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... ![]() -- 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! |
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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. Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free and checked by a leading anti-virus system - updated continuously. |
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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 |
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