Cliff Ton 10,466 Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 I totally support this Sainbury's worker. And so, it seems, do most other people in the country. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/10156070/Sainsburys-apologises-for-worker-who-refused-to-serve-customer-on-mobile-phone.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,508 Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 Me too Cliff Ton. Everywhere you go you see people talking or texting, holding you up in supermarket queues, while sitting in restaurants or on the bus and train. It's just so ignorant in my opinion. My own family are just as bad ...... we were out for a meal in town with our son, daughter-in-law and grandson a few months ago and all three were texting and checking Facebook while sitting at the table. I've even been standing waiting to pay for goods in a shop and the girl BEHIND the counter was gassing on her mobile. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
banjo48 928 Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 I totally agree, very bad manners and I can't abide it. When we visited a couple of our grand daughters in the uk, an 18 and 16 year old, I took offence, as they seemed more interested in the bloody mobiles, either texting or answering one, while we, the grand parents had travelled for 3 hours from Nottm to Bexhill on sea, just to see them ! When I explained to the older one, she switched it off for around 15 mins, then in a panic had to put it back on as in her words "she might miss a text, which may have been important !" My other pet hate is dodging the texters on any city street who are oblivious to others and just walk into you if you do not move first. The other annoying one, in doctors surgery's where there is a sign saying please turn off your mobile phone in the waiting room, but there is always one or two who consider it does not apply to them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Limey 242 Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 Have you noticed how people talk more loudly on a cell phone - it is because they do not have a "side tone", that is, you do not hear your own voice through the phone like you do on a land-line. It annoys the hell out of me, so if somebody close to me is talking loudly on the phone, I assume they are talking to me - and I talk back! It might get me locked in the looney-bin one day, but it sure does get some funny looks - AND it gets the message across! I DO NOT wish to listen to your inane conversations! How ever did we manage without them? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 The last part of this video refers to the UK! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl0JojWH1rQ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 I don't have one, I don't need one and I won't have one. Hate phones of all sorts with a vengeance......Very rare I answer the phone here at home, I let the answering machine do it.... Phones ruled my working life when I worked for a living.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 I'm right with you on that one Ayup,it is kind of sad to see such a reliance on this latest technology. I have met people who would rather go hungry than give up their cell phone. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,508 Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 It certainly helps to have a cell phone when you're lost in Ft Pierce though Mudgie :-D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fch782c 144 Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 People answeriing their mobile whilst half way through a conversation with you, sheer ignorance Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 I have a company phone, that gets left at work ! My daughter bought me a mobile phone a couple of years ago for Father's Day, that one stays in the car, in case of breakdowns ! A few years ago I went to a funeral at Wilford Hill, half way through the service a phone started ringing belonging to a chap near me. How disrespectful is this ? On a train last week I looked around and every one but me was on their phone, I must be getting old ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 I used to keep a 2 metre/70cm ham radio in the truck at one time with a repeater directory. If I got lost all I needed to do was give a shout on one of the local repeaters and either a fellow ham would talk me to where I wanted to go, or tell me to stay where I am, drive out to me and escort me to where I want to be.... The wife is also a licensed ham, problem is with her truck, there's nowhere to mount a radio!! Her radio has a detachable front plate, but still no decent flat part of the dash to mount it on..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 That was 'Dennys' fault Lizzie,if they had not closed the place down, it would have been a breeze. Denice now has a cell phone,next time we will meet up at your place or ours. Tell Roger the 'Lone Ranger'is almost finished. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisB 150 Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 The sad thing about mobiles is that they've taken away peoples capacity to think for themselves. No one ever makes a decision anymore, they just get on their mobiles. A chap at work got a call from his wife in the supermarket: 'They havn't got any steak and kidney pies, will minced beef do?' - True story! But people can't bear to put them down for a single second, even if they're not making calls they're playing games on them! I completely agree with catfan, certain places, churches, crematorium, designated quite places, libraries etc. should be allowed to install phone blockers so that no signal is available. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 "Phone blocking" devices contravene just about every communication law in most countries, they even contravene international law, using those is classed as jamming. Now there's nothing illegal about screening a building internally, stops all signals from all sources, technically called a "Faraday Screen". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MELTONSTILTON 452 Posted July 6, 2013 Report Share Posted July 6, 2013 No problem with mobile phones where I live, for one simple reason, no signal. It is quite amusing, when people come to visit and find they find they have no signal, at first, they seem to do some sort of dance, waving their phone all over the place inside the house and out in the garden, secondly, they ask questions, like, "how do you live without a mobile phone", or "where is the nearest signal", but the best one to date is "how do you contact people without a mobile phone" I just pointed to the fixed telephone. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted July 6, 2013 Report Share Posted July 6, 2013 A fixed phone? How quaint - it'll never catch on! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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