Smartphones have ruined concerts, pubs, etc

thelad95 · 12-12-2015 03:14PM #1

I don't understand people who stand there watching a concert, which they have paid up to €100 to see, through the screen of their phone. I'm sorry love but if you're putting it on Snapchat, nobody cares and if you're saving it to your phone you'll never look at that shït again.

People need to start rocking out again and remember how to live in the moment.

SimonTemplar · 12-12-2015 03:15PM

thelad95 wrote: »

I don't understand people who stand there watching a concert, which they have paid up to €100 to see, through the screen of their phone. I'm sorry love but if you're putting it on Snapchat, nobody cares and if you're saving it to your phone you'll never look at that shït again.

People need to start rocking out again and remember how to live in the moment.

They've ruined cinemas too with light polution and people answering calls.

Jim Bob Scratcher · 12-12-2015 03:16PM

Cameras phones have ruined more than concerts, they've ruined every social outing. You can't do anything without some Kunt uploading it to facebook, youtube etc...

GreatDefector · 12-12-2015 03:19PM

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

Cameras phones have ruined more than concerts, they've ruined every social outing. You can't do anything without some ****er uploading it to facebook, youtube etc...

Especially hostage situations and other life or death situations

NachoBusiness · 12-12-2015 03:24PM

Don't mind phones and cameras at gigs tbh.

The fcukers recording gigs by holding their iPads in the air warrant a slapping alright.

_Kaiser_ · 12-12-2015 03:27PM

Every idiot wants their 15 minutes of fame by having something go "viral" .. not helped by so-called "news" sites that promote this stuff at the same importance as actual REAL news.

The Internet has been great from the perspective of communications, retail, banking, information and so on.. but socially it allows every muppet to have a voice or be a "celebrity". That's NOT so good!

Fleawuss · 12-12-2015 03:28PM

Jesus lads were getting a bit grumpy aren't we!

How Soon Is Now · 12-12-2015 03:28PM

On one hand its nice to have some sort of visual memories of a gig or whatever. The thing is though the people who do it for the entire gig how the **** are they able to enjoy it??

I used to take the odd photo here and there but normally just save it for sightseeing etc now. If im gonna pay big bucks to go to a gig im gonna take it all in **** the phone.

suicide_circus · 12-12-2015 03:29PM

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Every idiot wants their 15 minutes of fame by having something go "viral" .. not helped by so-called "news" sites that promote this stuff at the same importance as actual REAL news.

The Internet has been great from the perspective of communications, retail, banking, information and so on.. but socially it allows every muppet to have a voice or be a "celebrity". That's NOT so good!

People who the Victorians would have locked away in a sanitorium now have a soapbox.

12-12-2015 03:33PM

...remember the time when there'd be a chat that would go off in a tangent, and that tangent would be followed up and would cause a mini debate in itself. So you'd be talking about the game next Sunday between Kerry and Galway, and some fellow would refer to the semi final in 76 or was it 77, and someone else would say Enda Colleran was still playing, and each sub topic would cause a big analysis in itself.

And that's all gone now cos someone whips out a mobile and verifies the matter, ending all debate in a matter of seconds?

Well I miss those times. I wonder did it contribute to the downfall of the pub? So have mobile phones actually altered the art of conversation?

12-12-2015 03:35PM

It's so pointless, someone else will put it online anyway. So when I think of the great concerts, Underworld in Dublin in 2009 or 2010, there are any number of clips on youtube to pick from.

Sonics2k · 12-12-2015 03:36PM

Maybe you're just boring?

Alien Haze · 12-12-2015 03:37PM

Hang on
just finding the answer on my mobile now

The_Valeyard · 12-12-2015 03:38PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

...remember the time when there'd be a chat that would go off in a tangent, and that tangent would be followed up and would cause a mini debate in itself. So you'd be talking about the game next Sunday between Kerry and Galway, and some fellow would refer to the semi final in 76 or was it 77, and someone else would say Enda Colleran was still playing, and each sub topic would cause a big analysis in itself.

And that's all gone now cos someone whips out a mobile and verifies the matter, ending all debate in a matter of seconds?

Well I miss those times. I wonder did it contribute to the downfall of the pub? So have mobile phones actually altered the art of conversation?

So, you prefer to spend your time talking sh*te rather than have an answer?

What has really ruined pubs is loud music that stops you from chatting with your mates

NachoBusiness · 12-12-2015 03:39PM

Fleawuss wrote: »

Jesus lads were getting a bit grumpy aren't we!

He who smelt it must have dealt it.

Menas · 12-12-2015 03:40PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I wonder did it contribute to the downfall of the pub?

We could have a whole subforum dedicated to what contributed to the downfall of the pub!!
Phones.
Greedy publicians.
Tax.
Too much sports on tvs.
Not understanding their clientèle.
12 pubs.
The recession.
Ear splitting music.

12-12-2015 03:40PM

The_Valeyard wrote: »

So, you prefer to spend your time talking sh*te rather than have an answer?

But getting to the answer was all the fun. Indeed usually it didn't matter if the question was unresolved.

Turtyturd · 12-12-2015 03:41PM

Given the amount of times I have been out in groups and watched people go through the exact same conversations/arguments as if they were some well the rehearsed play the use of a phone to put an end to it is welcomed.

saltandpepper10 · 12-12-2015 03:42PM

I think you make a very valid point which I fully agree with,but it also has the ability to stop an argumentative person or a compulsive liar in their tracts which has to be a good thing

Hammer89 · 12-12-2015 03:42PM

I'd rather be on my phone than be in a conversation about Kerry playing Galway in 1971.

warpdrive · 12-12-2015 03:43PM

It's funny because no phone is good enough to record the sound well enough to be enjoyable when played back.

And then we have the issue of vertical recorders...there really needs to be something done about these morons. Why aren't phones incorporating suggestions or something into their cameras when the video setting is chosen? Something popping up on screen saying "turn the phone horizontally you fuking prick" would help

NachoBusiness · 12-12-2015 03:44PM

Well, what people tend to forget and which I feel is quite an important factor to consider is that.. oh hang on, am getting a text here.

12-12-2015 03:46PM

saltandpepper10 wrote: »

I think you make a very valid point which I fully agree with,but it also has the ability to stop an argumentative person or a compulsive liar in their tracts which has to be a good thing

But again the argument was part of the fabric of the pub 20 years ago. Not blazing rows, but the "no no you simple clown, sure how the f*** was Colleran playing then, he broke his leg in 70 in the Sigerson Cup...and incidentally UCG haven't won it since but they had a good run in was it 96 or 97..." and off we'd go again.

KERSPLAT! · 12-12-2015 03:46PM

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12-12-2015 03:47PM

Deleted User wrote: »

...remember the time when there'd be a chat that would go off in a tangent, and that tangent would be followed up and would cause a mini debate in itself. So you'd be talking about the game next Sunday between Kerry and Galway, and some fellow would refer to the semi final in 76 or was it 77, and someone else would say Enda Colleran was still playing, and each sub topic would cause a big analysis in itself.

And that's all gone now cos someone whips out a mobile and verifies the matter, ending all debate in a matter of seconds?

Sod that, i want a world where everyone has the correct information. Nothing as bad as the truth getting lost amongst the Chinese whispers.

Deleted User wrote: »

Well I miss those times. I wonder did it contribute to the downfall of the pub? So have mobile phones actually altered the art of conversation?

Yep, the extortionate price of drink had nothing to do with it nor the unappropriate racket purporting to be music coming from a jukebox/cat being strangled on stage

Fleawuss · 12-12-2015 03:48PM

warpdrive wrote: »

It's funny because no phone is good enough to record the sound well enough to be enjoyable when played back.

And then we have the issue of vertical recorders...there really needs to be something done about these morons. Why aren't phones incorporating suggestions or something into their cameras when the video setting is chosen? Something popping up on screen saying "turn the phone horizontally you fuking prick" would help

Or given the way human beings hold them that the camera lens or software be adjusted / designed to automatically record video in landscape. It's not as if the image is being recorded in an analogue way.

12-12-2015 03:48PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Sod that, i want a world where everyone has the correct information. Nothing as bad as the truth getting lost amongst the Chinese whispers.

Yep, the extortionate price of drink had nothing to do with it nor the unappropriate racket purporting to be music.

But the truth didn't really matter, I mean ultimately who cared if they played in 71 or 72, debate about facts that could not be ascertained at that time and in that place was the lubricant that kept many chats going.

Alien Haze · 12-12-2015 03:58PM

Fleawuss wrote: »

Jesus lads were getting a bit grumpy aren't we!

NO WE'RE NOT

Lights On · 12-12-2015 04:02PM

Saw this the other day and it sums up the OP, Ed Sheeran playing two feet away from you in a private show and what's the first thing they reach for? You guessed it

12-12-2015 04:02PM

Deleted User wrote: »

But the truth didn't really matter, I mean ultimately who cared if they played in 71 or 72, debate about facts that could not be ascertained at that time and in that place was the lubricant that kept many chats going.

I get completely what your saying and technology has definitely impacted society in many ways.

The so called 'social' media phenomenon has spawned a generation of spoilt egotistical attention seeking morons and effectively people are so much within their own bubble or up their own arse now that human interaction is suffering.

From the point of view that you are describing of mates having a few jars and putting the world to right with endless debates i do see what you mean in terms of maintaining that closeness and bonding with friends. Sometimes i suppose the bigger picture is greater then the actual facts getting lost in the debate.

This old pedant though is glad to have a fallback in a debate.:D

12-12-2015 04:06PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I get completely what your saying and technology has definitely impacted society in many ways.

The so called 'social' media phenomenon has spawned a generation of spoilt egotistical attention seeking morons and effectively people are so much within their own bubble or up their own arse now that human interaction is suffering.

From the point of view that you are describing of mates having a few jars and putting the world to right with endless debates i do see what you mean in terms of maintaining that closeness and bonding with friends. Sometimes i suppose the bigger picture is greater then the actual facts getting lost in the debate.

Put very well.

I'd say you won a few of the pub debates!

The conversation has changed. Points are quickly developed and facts established in an instant, not analysed and talked over.

Smartphones have ruined concerts, pubs, etc

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