halfband
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2 edits | How is this working out overseas
Some other countries allow cell phone use in flight. Anyone know how that is working out. Personally I do not want to listen to cell phone conversations in the confined environment of a plane.
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| said by halfband  : Personally I do want to listen to cell phone conversations in the confined environment of a plane. Do you mean "do not" or did I overlook sarcasm?
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NOCMan
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People in other countries are generally more reserved when having conversations in public. Most people keep it short and hang up.
However, American teens and people who thing they're important will talk so damn loud over the plane that someone's gonna get their butt kicked. I've had to deal with listening to people using the Airphone and that sucks. And at least it's mostly gone now. |
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Why does a phone conversation bother you? Do two people talking on the plane bother you? If so, do you want a law that says the whole plane must be silent? If not, is it the fact that you're only able to eavesdrop on half the conversation that bothers you?
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halfband
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Yeah, Do Not Want. Thanks for pointing that out.
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said by BeesTea :Why does a phone conversation bother you? Do two people talking on the plane bother you? If so, do you want a law that says the whole plane must be silent? If not, is it the fact that you're only able to eavesdrop on half the conversation that bothers you? Because when people typically talk on the plane they aren't shouting over the engine or other noises. On the phone they almost do. Thats the HUGE difference. The latter is much more annoying. |
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Yep. You got it. They want to hear both sides of the conversation. Maybe people who DON'T talk on cell phones annoy me? Maybe I should go cry about it until they make it a requirement everyone must talk on cell phones while on a plane? That'd be pretty stupid right? Well that's how I feel about the anti-cell phone people. Get an iPod. Learn to stop being so damn nosey. It's not my problem. |
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rhexis
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said by BeesTea :Why does a phone conversation bother you? Do two people talking on the plane bother you? If so, do you want a law that says the whole plane must be silent? If not, is it the fact that you're only able to eavesdrop on half the conversation that bothers you? are you really this stupid or just trolling? i guess you have never been on a plane before but the background noise would make it difficult if not impossible to have a normal conversation on a cell phone. |
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said by Mchart :said by BeesTea :Why does a phone conversation bother you? Do two people talking on the plane bother you? If so, do you want a law that says the whole plane must be silent? If not, is it the fact that you're only able to eavesdrop on half the conversation that bothers you? Because when people typically talk on the plane they aren't shouting over the engine or other noises. On the phone they almost do. Thats the HUGE difference. The latter is much more annoying. Hey, I'm all for legislating etiquette. The next time you eat, better use that fork in the left hand and keep your napkin in your lap, or else I'm fining you $1000.
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anono
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Make it work for everybody
I say cell phones should be fully operable on commercial flights if only as a security/safety aid. That said, there should be some rules in place as to their use, to insure common courtesy to other passengers. |
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Re: How is this working out overseas
Uh, where have you been living?
At least in Vancouver we have many different ethnicities talking at the top of their lungs and having very long conversations on public transit all the time.
Mostly these people aren't even from North America to begin with.
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Usually people control their voices when talking to another (maybe you don't) person close by. This does not work when using a telephone. Using a cell phone in flight could be permitted but the lenght of the call should be regulated but since this may not be possible the only option will be not to allow it. Will you be willing to listed to music being played by the person sitting next to you? |
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said by rhexis :are you really this stupid or just trolling? i guess you have never been on a plane before but the background noise would make it difficult if not impossible to have a normal conversation on a cell phone. Thanks for your thread participation. Next time, before calling people stupid, maybe try to not look like an uneducated idiot yourself. In the future, you can find shift keys in the lower right and left hand corners of your keyboard.
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BeesTea
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said by Mchart :Because when people typically talk on the plane they aren't shouting over the engine or other noises. On the phone they almost do. Thats the HUGE difference. The latter is much more annoying. People on the plane talking to each other don't talk over the noise around them but people on a cell phone do? I'm pretty sure that's not the case. In order to be heard, everyone must talk over noise around them. This is simply the nature of acoustics.
I argue that loud people are just loud. Regardless of an ear listening or a microphone. Legislation will not change this.
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said by dlr_graph :Usually people control their voices when talking to another (maybe you don't) person close by. This does not work when using a telephone. Using a cell phone in flight could be permitted but the lenght of the call should be regulated but since this may not be possible the only option will be not to allow it. Will you be willing to listed to music being played by the person sitting next to you? We can't regulate length of calls, it's simply unrealistic. Even if we had a person watching a stopwatch for every passenger, you then need someone to count how many calls people get etc. This isn't something that can be legislated.
As for people listening to music? I ignore them, and the people talking to one another around me, by bringing my mp3 player and headphones. If you don't care for music, there's always noise canceling earphones. If that's not your bag, use earplugs. Simply put, comfort is not a right, don't pervert our legal system to provide crap like that. Just as you have the right to silence, others have the right to speak. If it's someone sitting there talking to themselves, or into a cell phone, either way it's simply speech. In the USA, this is something you have no choice but to accept. The current FAA regulation isn't there for the sake of comfort, it's there for the sake of safety.
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lesopp
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Wait a minute!
Don't those that believe the government was behind 9-11 list as one of their talking points that cell phones don't work on airplanes? |
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