Every time I go to the movies lately, there is a sea of lights from the rows ahead of me of people with their cells and blackberries texting incessantly throughout the entire movie. Then of course, whatever ultra important person that is on the other end has to text back every other minute and I get to hear whatever clever chime you have on your phone to alert you that you have a message. This is not only the young people, I see older couples that have come to the movies together both texting someone else. Are they scared to actually talk to each other?
—people should be able to survive two hours without texting
This article appears in Nov 26 – Dec 2, 2009.
I bet they were sexting.
Most people are texting their other friends they’re going to be meeting the next night they go out. Then when they meet these friends, they’re texting the group of friends they were just with the night before about what’s going on the next night they’ll see them. It’s a never-ending cycle of texting. It just doesn’t stop.
If I had friends, I’d probably text a lot too. Instead I just fiddle around with my crappy old phone to make it look like I’m cool and have friends.
I wants to be your fwend, guy.
Cool, give me your number so I can text you. Then when people ask what I’m doing, I’ll tell them I’m texting a friend, which makes me more desirable and will help me gain more friends. Then I take over the world… or at least stop posting here because I finally have better things to do with my time, like texting my friends.
Put your feet up on the chair in front of you. It solved the problem for me.
If they complain, ask them if they want to fight about it.
First tell them to fuck off. If they don’t, complain to the workers, they’ll get kicked out and you might get a free pass out of it.
Tell them to turn the thing off in lessening degrees of politeness to refusal to comply. It will work, and acb123 is right thar.
find one and don’t tell anyone about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_…
your life will be so much better.
I agree with zZz. theatres should have jammers in them to prevent the use of cell phones.
Peg them with a handful of pennies
I mean really… if you’re awaiting an important call should you really be at the theatre anyways? too bad they’re illegal for the most part… so far.
You can buy cell phone jammers online. It’ll kill the signal of anyone within a certain range, which depends upon which one you buy. I’ve been considering getting one to take into theatres and restaurants, but they’re not cheap.
They should install cell phone jammers in every fucking classroom at SMU. Including the one at the WTC.
Fuuuck sakes TURN YOUR CELL PHONE OFF WHEN YOU’RE WRITING AN EXAM, FUCKHEADS. Every time I write a fucking exam someone’s cellphone goes off. If I was a prof I’d take a good % off someone’s exam if their cellphone went off. Or kick them out. Either or.
may not be cheap… but likely a worthwhile investment if you consider both the peace and quite you will get along with the humoristic side of playing with people addicted to their stupid phones.
um… a jammer isn’t going to stop someone from flipping their phone open during a movie… they’ll just be confused as to why their phone doesnt work and fucking flip it open and closed incessantly wondering if they’ve missed a text.
I hear actually yelling at these people[during the movie] to turn their phones off works well 🙂
in any case ushers should just kick them out… but they can’t cuz theyre just kids. Personally- i wouldnt be opposed to literally stopping the movie and having a text offender publicly humiliated until they leave.
its too bad they don’t sell popcorn in boxes anymore, when you flatten them out they make great flying weapons…of course we would get kicked out but it was fun