Tuesday, May 31, 2005
The Tubes Turn Orange
Great News! You will now be able to babble inanely into your mobile while travelling on the tube. Transport for London has seen fit to allow mobile networks to install this facility on tube stations and in the tube tunnels later on.
Time was, you could take a bus or train, read a book, look out of the window or have a conversation with your friend or companion without some idiot butting in saying "I'm on the train...be reaching Ruislip in 10 minutes...oh stick it in the microwave..." Sometimes, you'd get to hear some quite intimate details of the caller's life - you can't but help eavesdrop - I think that this is intrusive and damn right rude to the inadvertent listeners.
What really makes me laugh is that Orange dole out a book prize every year. This has to be the biggest load of commercial crap in the UK. A mobile phone company encouraging people to read? They're having a laugh. Many people like to relax by reading a book to and from work; yet they have to the intrusions of the users of mobile phones. It's really frustrating trying to read Anna Karenin while hearing some idiot talk to his wife about how the builders have let them down yet again, the bugger can't wait to get home and discuss it, he has to fucking talk about it while in transit, and there's fucking Orange doling out prizes for books. Oh, Fuck Off!
Time was, you could take a bus or train, read a book, look out of the window or have a conversation with your friend or companion without some idiot butting in saying "I'm on the train...be reaching Ruislip in 10 minutes...oh stick it in the microwave..." Sometimes, you'd get to hear some quite intimate details of the caller's life - you can't but help eavesdrop - I think that this is intrusive and damn right rude to the inadvertent listeners.
What really makes me laugh is that Orange dole out a book prize every year. This has to be the biggest load of commercial crap in the UK. A mobile phone company encouraging people to read? They're having a laugh. Many people like to relax by reading a book to and from work; yet they have to the intrusions of the users of mobile phones. It's really frustrating trying to read Anna Karenin while hearing some idiot talk to his wife about how the builders have let them down yet again, the bugger can't wait to get home and discuss it, he has to fucking talk about it while in transit, and there's fucking Orange doling out prizes for books. Oh, Fuck Off!
