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Please can we have some sanity in the office because these stupid ringtones on mobile phones are driving me nuts! This crazy frog thing is the latest in a long line of irritating tones, and it has got to be the worst so far I reckon.
Once upon a time I found them amusing, but that was before the advent of the polyphonic ringtone. Since sometime around 2002 life in the office has been hell with Beyonce, The Darkness, Black Eyed Peas and all the other crap they're churning out these days. A real nice touch that, take a perfectly useful piece of technology and make it as irritating as hell.
OK, so we can't exactly bring back the old beep beep ringtones, but in my opinion they were a lot less obtrusive than the new polyphonic ones. To make matters worse, you've had these things driving you up the wall during the day at work; you get home for some peace and quiet, only to find you have these bleeding chimes going through you're head!
They're not clever you know! I lie awake at night with this modern day elevator music going through my head. Another thing that really bothers me, is when colleagues go off to lunch or to a meeting and leave their mobile on their desk. You can guarantee it will ring a dozen times before they return, and then stop just as you are about to go pick it up.
A bucket of water for rogue mobiles
And why, please tell me why do people insist on having their phone on the highest volume setting? Surely they can't all be deaf? I still think the idea of having a bucket of water for rogue mobiles is a good idea. Any offending mobile left unattended and left constantly ringing would be deposited in the bucket. Good riddance!
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It does the job though - I always hear it, and I didn't have to pay for it!
To be deleted by the admin: (like everything else I wrote)
Complaining or 'moaning' NEVER solves problems, it just airs them for people to argue over. Problems are solved by people getting off their backside and solving them, ie. not moaning on some stupid website. If the mobiles are REALLY that loud in your office (and you're not just an irritable prat), then tell them that it bothers you, nicely, or just listen to music, problem solved!
Surely you agree that it's in our best interest not to feel the need to moan or complain? Yes? So DO SOMETHING about that problem, don't just sit about and complain about it. I just feel compelled to try and get that through to the people on here. Weekly Gripe needs things to bother you, if you didn't have problems this site would DIE.
What have you actually done about things that annoy you, nothing I would think except ridicule people who let loose with a good gripe to get things off their chest.
You say nobody likes a know-it-all, I don't know it all but what I do know I try and pass on to other people that's my job since I'm a school Learning Mentor.If I see a mistake I try and help someone correct it.That's the way people learn by their mistakes not by having it all done for them by Windows spell check.
How do you get on when filling in a form or when applying for a job and the employer askes you to apply in your own writing.
Even the Government is concerned about peoples standard of spelling and literacy amongst adults.
Try learning for a change, there are plenty of people out there to help you.
What did people do before ringtones,sing each other silly songs over the phone?
I'm a ringtone composer it's a good living. I resent your anti-ringtone attitude. I'm also high up in the Labour GOVERNMENT, YOUR GOVERNMENT. I know Tony.
Would that be Tony the Tiger from the breakfast cereal adverts.If you want to join in a discusion then try and make sensible comments.You have fooled no one.By the way, I corrected your english so you may know in future.
Mobile phones and silly ringtones seem to be a silly habit at the moment.I have one and all I use it for is to comunicate when needs be not as a games machine, camera, computer, calculator etc. etc.
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It's just a fad, cool for the moment give it two years for the novelty to wear off and the bandwidth to be gobbled up unless you are in an area where CDMA systems rule the roost (N. America and Asia)
Banning the mindless things along with most other noise pollutants would make the world a far better place.
I never made anything worth a sou on my VOD shares anyway.
James