FYI - if you're going to see an orchestra play, turn your phone on silent.
New York's Philharmonic Orchestra stopped mid-performance after an audience member's iPhone just kept on ringing.
Conductor Alan Gilbert called a halt to the final movement of Gustav Mahler's Ninth Symphony to sort out the issue of the iPhone, Fox News reports.
After several minutes of intermittent buzzing from that distinctive iPhone "marimba" ringtone, Gilbert stopped to face the owner.
"You have a phone ... Fine, we'll wait," he said, according to the WQXR's classical music blog.
Well now you really know what I think of these bloody phones - only good for one thing, an emergency!
ReplyDeleteI watch them going off to work here every morning - all are madly texting (SMS or whatever?) - if a body was lying dead on the footpath in front of them, they would probably try to kick it aside so as to pass.
Not in theatres, not on trains or planes and not when walking in the street, talking garbage. Bring back the pigeons!
I an fed up to the teeth of hearing the "so-called" sexual exploits of 14 year old males and females on trains! One can only hope that they have over the top fantasies - or GOD help the honest taxpayers!
Don't hold back now, Colin, just say what you think.
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Get with it Col...you cannot live in the '60's for the rest of your life...what the audience member did was unforgivable, but I am sure he/she did not plan it...just a case of more thought needed...Mobile Phones???...great communication device making contact with friends so much more easier.
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ReplyDeleteI don't know how people --- yes, old farts, too --- live without their mobile phones. No need to even ring. Just text or if you have time e-mail from your iPhone device. Of course actually phoning someone is also an option.
As someone who has worked in the print media for 40 years, and continues to do so on a casual basis even now, I have read the next day's news on my iPhone apps after midnite most evenings.
So don't really need the hard copy newspapers, but still enjoy the Sat. and Sun. editions of The Age for columns, editorial or leader pieces, and analyses.
That's the Fairfax print media, Sir Rod. --- not the troglodyte News Corp. stuff.
Incidentally, the lack of mobile phones by some key members apparently hindered the hard-working Brisbane-based ASOPA reunion committee in 2007. It's a tribute to them all that it went off so well, considering there were large-ish gaps in time when some folks were un-contactable.
That was in 2007, just 4 1/2 short years ago. Not 1997 !!.
Mobile phones are going to be the only piece of technology we will need soon. Everything will be done via Mobile phone. Already we have phone banking, plane boarding, shopping, reading the news, blogging, internet, entertainment, and oh yes communication via text, voice and video. It is like in Dick Tracy comics. Unfortunately I am getting left behind in learning all the new phone technology as I don't have an iphone yet,and I am finding it harder to learn new stuff. I can barely work out out TV and recording system but that maybe because I'm not interested in that very much.
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