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The stickers I’ve had a little circular ones , which come off quite easily.
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[Misc] Nightclub stickers over smartphone rule divides the dancefloor
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TWOCHOICEStom
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Listen, I get that this is a different world to the one I grew up in. We are old men yelling at clouds. Taking away the ability for someone to take photos at gigs is draconian and almost never going to work.
I would love to see some sort of concert etiquette emerge where people are allowed, maybe encouraged to get their phones out for the first couple of songs. Then, put them down and experience a show in a novel new way by using their EYEBALLS to take it all in.
I would love to see some sort of concert etiquette emerge where people are allowed, maybe encouraged to get their phones out for the first couple of songs. Then, put them down and experience a show in a novel new way by using their EYEBALLS to take it all in.
- Oct 17, 2008
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People (largely) manage to keep their phones out of their hands at the theatre, opera, ballet and so on. It’s perfectly reasonable for venues to enforce rules as a condition of being allowed entry. It largely comes down to the production/artist/band as to whether or not they enforce these rules. Most artists just don’t care because they know it’s the norm now.
At a big gig, like say Taylor Swift, it would be absolutely unenforceable purely due to the numbers of people present, no matter what they tried short of the performer walking off stage. Most big artists know this and play into it for their benefit on social media.
No one's stopping you taking a pic in the infamous bergy queueI’d love to send you a picture of my outfit but there’s a no camera policy
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I'll be wearing my special 20th anniversaty birthday suit next weekend....I'll see what I can do.
As an aside, I had tickets to see an early version of that staging, featuring Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne.
But I opted instead to see the Albion.
It was the 0-0 against Leeds. Boooooo!
Saw an older guy - and then his mate - tell an obnoxious, 20-something Yank to STFU at a Chameleons gig on Saturday. Was glorious.
Going to a concert next year with a capacity of 15,000 with no phones. They are using Yondr pouches, be interesting to see how it works out. How Yondr pouches work at concerts
I never became a 'gamer' because I could see how addictive it could be when I played Space Invaders in a bar on Croydon station in 1980 on the way home from work.
Fast forward 45 years....me and my brothers are willful phone disregarders.
I am the most modern, and use my phone to txt my pals on match day, and let the missus know when I'll be home from work.
But I 'forget' to charge it, and forget to take it with me when I go out. I don't use it to search the internet. I am a terrible disregarder of my school watsapp group (aren't I, @monty uk
)Little bro' has a smartphone because we bought it for him and maintain it. He uses it for work. But apart from receiving calls he can barely use it.
Middle brother has a work phone. It is switched off after work. He looks at his personal email once a fortnight. I can only reliably contact him via his landline, and even then he uses call screening and doesn't pick up until he can hear it's me, calling him an arse.
But our nipper spends every waking hour sending cat pictures and getting into snitty arguments with her 'friendship group' on her phone. We don't let her take the phone upstairs at night and she's fine with that. For now....
At the end of the day it is what it is. Perhaps humans will evolve with their phones. One day humans may look like this:
You saw the Chameleons? Tremendous! We saw them a few years ago, still excellent.
(Surprised Burgess didn't pile in to be fair, him being an obnoxious Manc
)(You're going to tell me now this is a different Chameleons, aren't you
)
- Oct 17, 2008
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It was really good to be fair (Cabaret, not the frustrating Leeds game)
The Clamp
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I’d love to be free of my phone. I’d bin it off if it weren’t for the fact that nearly everything at work is done on apps. Alerts, reports, book on and book off etc.
I wouldn’t even think of bringing it out of my pocket at a gig or a night out anywhere really.
As a complete aside, while I’m here. Do non patron people really put up with all these adverts all the time? It’s almost unusable.
I wouldn’t even think of bringing it out of my pocket at a gig or a night out anywhere really.
As a complete aside, while I’m here. Do non patron people really put up with all these adverts all the time? It’s almost unusable.
schmunk
Why oh why oh why?
Not a euphemism.
deletebeepbeepbeep
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- May 12, 2009
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I hate people filming at night clubs, some people just want to dance around off their face and not worry about some absolute tool uploading a video to Instagram. Or on the dance floor filming rather than dancing, it just kills the vibe.
Not too bothered about gigs to be honest although it is comical when you go to a stadium gig and you just see a sea of phones taking shitty footage they they'll watch once and never again.
Not too bothered about gigs to be honest although it is comical when you go to a stadium gig and you just see a sea of phones taking shitty footage they they'll watch once and never again.
Saw The Chameleons on Friday night!
Never understand people who pay good money to see a band, but then spend the whole gig having a loud conversation with their mate(s), and ruin it for the rest of us who are in earshot. Why not just go the pub for the evening?
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Maybe venues should put stickers on mouths as well as phones?