Comments on: Mrs. Toad’s Mile High Mobile Manners http://songbytoad.com/2008/04/mrs-toads-mile-high-mobile-manners/ Independent and alternative music in Scotland - with a shitload of gin. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:09:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Drunk Country http://songbytoad.com/2008/04/mrs-toads-mile-high-mobile-manners/#comment-4473 Drunk Country Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:37:25 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1555#comment-4473 Or, you could clock the twat in the face with a housebrick & be done with it. Or, you could clock the twat in the face with a housebrick & be done with it.

]]> By: Eiron Page http://songbytoad.com/2008/04/mrs-toads-mile-high-mobile-manners/#comment-4472 Eiron Page Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:49:39 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1555#comment-4472 There are, of course, many defense mechanisms a non-user can play when somebody fails to understand the volume required to deliver their side of the phonecall to the intended recipient, rather than the person on the opposite corner of the train carriage for example. The science of the mobile seems to be misunderstood as though the distance between handsets is directly proportional to the volume required for your own voice to be heard. Hence conversation openers such as, "Hey, sweetie. Are you at home today, only I'm on my way into town and... YOU'RE IN CARDIFF?" One of the games you can play with other people's phonecalls if they are failing to oblige you with any degree of courtesy is by answering any questions they ask as though they are talking to you. Equally enjoyable is the recording, either by dictaphone or by taking notes of absolutely everything they say, telling them that you're researching an article on obnoxious phone use. With this last one, for added effect, you may wish to have a phony release form for them to sign. You may also like to play the Guess That Ringtone game: if you think you know what a ringtone is, continue to sing it even after the call has been answered, if you don't take potshots at it, asking the person whose phone it is until they satisfy you with an answer... then sing it anyway. There are, of course, many defense mechanisms a non-user can play when somebody fails to understand the volume required to deliver their side of the phonecall to the intended recipient, rather than the person on the opposite corner of the train carriage for example. The science of the mobile seems to be misunderstood as though the distance between handsets is directly proportional to the volume required for your own voice to be heard. Hence conversation openers such as, “Hey, sweetie. Are you at home today, only I’m on my way into town and… YOU’RE IN CARDIFF?” One of the games you can play with other people’s phonecalls if they are failing to oblige you with any degree of courtesy is by answering any questions they ask as though they are talking to you. Equally enjoyable is the recording, either by dictaphone or by taking notes of absolutely everything they say, telling them that you’re researching an article on obnoxious phone use. With this last one, for added effect, you may wish to have a phony release form for them to sign. You may also like to play the Guess That Ringtone game: if you think you know what a ringtone is, continue to sing it even after the call has been answered, if you don’t take potshots at it, asking the person whose phone it is until they satisfy you with an answer… then sing it anyway.

]]> By: Mrs Toad http://songbytoad.com/2008/04/mrs-toads-mile-high-mobile-manners/#comment-4471 Mrs Toad Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:30:00 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1555#comment-4471 That photo is slightly sick making. i remember I used to work with a guy who was into piercings and tats in a big way. Popped into a bar one night with a new date and bumped into the guy, chatted to him, introduced my date to him in that "this is so and so, top bloke" kind of way and asked what he had been up to that day. Turned out he had just been down to the tat parlour for the latest thing, a branding. He promptly peeled up his trouser leg and proudly unveiled the reddened, raised, skull shaped, weeping scar. Needless to say, it was a brief date after that and I didn't score that night. That photo is slightly sick making. i remember I used to work with a guy who was into piercings and tats in a big way. Popped into a bar one night with a new date and bumped into the guy, chatted to him, introduced my date to him in that “this is so and so, top bloke” kind of way and asked what he had been up to that day.

Turned out he had just been down to the tat parlour for the latest thing, a branding. He promptly peeled up his trouser leg and proudly unveiled the reddened, raised, skull shaped, weeping scar.

Needless to say, it was a brief date after that and I didn’t score that night.

]]> By: Dylan http://songbytoad.com/2008/04/mrs-toads-mile-high-mobile-manners/#comment-4470 Dylan Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:21:11 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1555#comment-4470 If that person in the picture hadn't shoved <i>both</i> halves of that clam-shell phone through their earlobe, then they wouldn't have to take the phone out to make a call. Beats bluetooth. If that person in the picture hadn’t shoved both halves of that clam-shell phone through their earlobe, then they wouldn’t have to take the phone out to make a call.

Beats bluetooth.

]]> By: Drunk Country http://songbytoad.com/2008/04/mrs-toads-mile-high-mobile-manners/#comment-4469 Drunk Country Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:24:08 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1555#comment-4469 Does intercourse with the Toad make <i>you</i> puke too? Does intercourse with the Toad make you puke too?

]]> By: Mrs Toad http://songbytoad.com/2008/04/mrs-toads-mile-high-mobile-manners/#comment-4468 Mrs Toad Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:02:15 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1555#comment-4468 If I shouldn't be checking emails in bed, you'd better give me something else to look at sweet pea ;-) You can all feel free to vomit after that. I would. If I shouldn’t be checking emails in bed, you’d better give me something else to look at sweet pea ;-)

You can all feel free to vomit after that. I would.

]]> By: Dylan http://songbytoad.com/2008/04/mrs-toads-mile-high-mobile-manners/#comment-4467 Dylan Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:59:05 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1555#comment-4467 Ah yes, I believe someone mentioned the 'vibrate' setting. Ah yes, I believe someone mentioned the ‘vibrate’ setting.

]]> By: Matthew http://songbytoad.com/2008/04/mrs-toads-mile-high-mobile-manners/#comment-4466 Matthew Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:53:28 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1555#comment-4466 Ask Mrs. Toad. She'll have mine shoved up her arse if she uses that bloody Blackberry in bed again. Ask Mrs. Toad. She’ll have mine shoved up her arse if she uses that bloody Blackberry in bed again.

]]> By: Dylan http://songbytoad.com/2008/04/mrs-toads-mile-high-mobile-manners/#comment-4465 Dylan Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:47:44 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1555#comment-4465 My contract's up soon, do you think I should get the new Nokia? The brushed aluminium one looks cool. My contract’s up soon, do you think I should get the new Nokia? The brushed aluminium one looks cool.

]]> By: Matthew http://songbytoad.com/2008/04/mrs-toads-mile-high-mobile-manners/#comment-4464 Matthew Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:38:58 +0000 http://songbytoad.wordpress.com/?p=1555#comment-4464 You have, on occasion, checked your emails before getting out of bed in the morning. How is sharing a dinner table with a mobile telecommunications device any worse than sharing a bed with it? You have, on occasion, checked your emails before getting out of bed in the morning. How is sharing a dinner table with a mobile telecommunications device any worse than sharing a bed with it?

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