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Originally Posted by kutulu
I'm so fucking sick of people bitching about mobile phones. Mr Self Destruct and Analog said it best here.
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My complaints were not about cell phones, but about their being used in a place or manner in which doing so is impolite or dangerous. It isn't about the phone, but it's manner of use.
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1. Teachers need to realize that the class they are teaching is not the most important thing in the student's lives. They paid for the class and can come and go as they please. If someone wants to answer the phone in class, fine, just say 'hold on a sec' and immediately go outside.
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When you sign up for a class, you are making a commitment to make that class first priority during the time for which it is scheduled. You are further agreeing to abide by the policies of the University and that particular instructor. If you cannot be there and devote that time to that purpose, and follow the rules, you shouldn't be in that class. If you find a "no cell phones in class" policy unduly interferes with your life, the solution is simple: Don't take that class.
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The old guy was being an ass. The kid wasn't making a call or anything. He just looked at his phone. Maybe he wanted to see what time it was. If a fucking 1"x1" screen distracts you from a giant fucking movie screen I don't want to know what you'll do if someone gets up to piss. God forbid someone next to you eats popcorn or slurps their drink!
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Another poster said basically the same thing, that the cell phone screen is so small it shouldn't be a distraction. Perhaps it shouldn't be a distraction, and maybe it isn't for you, but it nonetheless is a big distraction for many others. Having a conversation during the movie is also something many people do as if they were in their living rooms, and they apparently don't think it should be a distraction to others, and because they think it shouldn't be, they don't care that it is. A movie's soundtrack is quite loud sometimes, but that does not prevent talking fromm being an unnecessary distraction. The same goes for the movie screen as compared to the cell phone screen.
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3. This lady did the right thing. She got up and went to the tunnel. Ifthe sound of someone talking quietly at 40 feet away is more distracting than a 10,000 watt super sound system, stay home.
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The movie screen and the soundtrack aren't a distraction. They are the reason people are in the theater in the first place. If a conversation or cell phone screen diverts a person's attention from what they are there to see and hear, it is a distraction. Disrupting someone elses activities unnecessarily to attend to your personal business is rude.