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Smartphones have ruined concerts, pubs, etc

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    #122
    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    If your're a bit socially anxious as I am, having all these people with their faces stuck in phones ignoring you is a boon.


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    #123
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users Posts: 20,929 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    irelands favourite anti-rock band kodeline are on the box ringing in the new year, they are currently cringingly asking the audience to video a song and send them the vids.


    edit:
    gawd they're asking them to light the fn band with their phones now...we're doomed


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    #124
    mfceiling
    Registered Users Posts: 12,780 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    IamtheWalrus wrote: »
    And you wonder why you're excluded from social gatherings




    :)

    Huh? What are these social gatherings I'm excluded from? I actually had more nights out this Christmas than any other year. I'm of the generation who converse when we go out as opposed to spending our time taking photos and uploading our "brilliant" times to fakebook.


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    #125
    Ash.J.Williams
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    Arghus wrote: »
    I'm a hypocrite when it comes to my attitude to them - One hand I don't really understand how your experience of a concert is improved by looking at it through a tiny screen, as opposed to taking it in with your full attention. I don't get it.

    But on the other hand it's nice to have videos from a concert you've been too uploaded onto youtube.

    I'd hazard a guess that the experience isn't improved and the videos are never watched again


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    #126
    riclad
    Registered Users Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    i ca,nt see the point of people recording a concert on a phone,
    If you..re a beyonce fan for example theres loads of music video,s on youtube
    Who wants to watch a low quality video filmed on a mobile phone.


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    #127
    Assetbacked
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    Patww79 wrote: »
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    Should have knocked you out.[/quote]
    Small man, big talk. Don't go to a concert you dry ****e.


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    #128
    OldMrBrennan83
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    #129
    weldoninhio
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    Assetbacked wrote: »
    Recording at concerts irks me to the point where I "accidentally" bump into someone next to me who is doing it or wave my arms to block the person behind me and rock back and forth. One person managed to drop their phone when I did this but didn't say anything to me which proves the point that they know they shouldn't be doing this.

    Thats acting like a scumbag. On what planet would you think it’s acceptable to knock someone’s phone out of their hand?? And then think you are in the right?


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    #130
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    A child's birthday party is a very unsettling affair these days. All the little darlings at the table being paparazzi'd by the adults non stop. Stop telling them to look at the camera non stop. Stop making them re-take pictures because you didn't like that one. Just leave them to enjoy themselves.


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    #131
    Relikk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭Relikk


    http://www.nme.com/news/music/jack-white-bans-phones-gigs-2227093

    Fair play to him.


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    #132
    _Dara_
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    Omackeral wrote: »
    A child's birthday party is a very unsettling affair these days. All the little darlings at the table being paparazzi'd by the adults non stop. Stop telling them to look at the camera non stop. Stop making them re-take pictures because you didn't like that one. Just leave them to enjoy themselves.

    I don’t mind taking the odd selfie with friends if a few are just taken in quick succession and that’s it. But I just cannot bear the whole thing of taking selfies, checking them and keeping going with it until people are happy with the result. So tedious.

    The thought of doing that to kids angries up my blood even more. :mad: They’re kids, they’re gonna look cute in every photo. Do you have experience of this kind of carry on?


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    #133
    Ash.J.Williams
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    some poor bloke brought his SJW date to jim Jeffries last night and I had the misfortune to sit beside her, when she wasn't tuttin at the material she was texting....seriously annoying at a sit down gig.


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    #134
    wakka12
    Registered Users Posts: 9,786 ✭✭✭wakka12


    Omackeral wrote: »
    A child's birthday party is a very unsettling affair these days. All the little darlings at the table being paparazzi'd by the adults non stop. Stop telling them to look at the camera non stop. Stop making them re-take pictures because you didn't like that one. Just leave them to enjoy themselves.

    Im so glad I missed the start of the tech era as a child..I missed it so narrowly..by just a few years. Technology had a massive influence on my teenage years, unfortunately, but Im just glad I was able to enjoy my childhood without phones and laptops. My little brother and sister weren't so lucky


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    #135
    OldMrBrennan83
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