Poor Man About Town

This dutch clip says it all about mobile phones - the dutch commentary is interesting in that I can understand most of what is being said. It's hilarious



It's sad to note that with the advent of reality television and lifestyle programmes, there is not much room for comedy in the UK, we are fast becoming a sad bunch, literally.

Labels: comedy, mobile phones, Television

This young woman passing me by the bus stop, she was babbling away into her mobile, this is what she said

"He's evil. Not only did he cheat on me but gave me chlamydia as well..."

Nothing seems to be private these days.

Labels: conversations, mobile phones, trends

I was on a bus journey through London's West End a few days ago. This woman sat opposite me on the back seats, she was babbling into a mobile. Middle class accent, well heeled; she should have been driving around in a Porsche rather than having to cope with the indignity of travelling on a smelly London bus*. I guess she must have been disqualified from driving hence her reduced circumstances in transportation. The babble was the usual public exposure of private life, names of friends, what they did last friday; with whom she intends to have to suppernext Saturday; Jocelyn getting quite legless on Sunday night and attempting to paw at her...Then came the discussion about when she should meet up with the person with whom she was speaking "No, can't do next Saturday, attending a wedding...can't do that either...no, no...no...fully booked in June; as for July, I am going on my hols. August, now let's see..." This was getting excruciatingly tedious and I felt like saying to her "Why the fuck don't you tell that person that you can't meet up until 2035 but that you can still keep in contact on the mobile". This woman's life was so fully booked that it caused me to wonder whether she had any life at all. This phone call was intrusive, it ruined my concentration for the book that I was reading. Maybe I was too polite by not saying anything. Maybe the etiquette is such that we have allowed people to babble on ad-nauseum into mobile phones - the die has been cast in that regard. Can anyone suggest from where I can get a mobile phone zapper?

Labels: Lifestyle, Manners, mobile phones

I am becoming increasingly pissed off with people who use mobile phones on public transport. You have a hard day at work, you're on the bus - looking at the world moving outside, your mind gets reset to 0 and you just be and absorb, passive and peaceful. Then you hear this dreadful ring tone that provokes an old ache in one of your teeth - your mind reaches for annoyance mode and then resignation - chit-chat and verbal bollocks. Sometimes intimate information. Tonight, I wanted to buy a mobile phone signal zapper - so I did a search on the web but could not find one, but came accross this article by the BBC. According to this article the instrument is only available in the far east - they'd make a packet selling them here.

Labels: mobile phones, signal zapper