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a new development in Scotland
Last time I was travelling on a long-distance train, I found a 'quiet'
coach - so labelled. It was intended to be a refuge from mobile phone use. I think that's a really good idea. Snag was, one girl hadn't taken any notice and was carrying on a business meeting for almost the whole length of my journey - and no railway official happened by in all that time. Still, it is a good idea. I'm off on a long-way visit on Friday, I'll see if people are taking more notice on that train. It's the ones from the supermarket to someone at home, checking all the things they buy to see if they are right, that get me. I mean, honestly ..... .. In message . net, Polly Esther writes And could we get with the program on non-cell phones? In the library yesterday, there was a very annoying kid with his cell phone loudly talking sweet-nothings with someone while he read the titles of whichever section he was in with silly comments, we're subjected to business calls on hawg futures in a nice restaurant, or the plumber's laments on late deliveries and in the dr's office, we were forced to hear a very intimate description of the patient's pre-op instructions, something about 'don't' when the suds subside. Good grief. Wonder what ever happened to polite? Polly -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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Mobile phones was - a new development in Scotland
i'm with ya on that totally.
i was out to dinner with 4 other women, one of who was having her birthday. when her sister first answered her phone, i asked her to turn it off thru the evening and return the calls later or the next day. i thot she was being really rude to her own sister on her birthday. she laughed and thot i was kidding, i wasnt at all. she ignored me. oddly enough those types think that as long as they can talk to us and text at the same time its ok. its not ok !!!!ever!!!! to text while chatting with someone. grrrrrrr. i like how you handle those rude people, cher. ginger, do those people realise the danger of using a cell phone so much. there is some scientific evidence that prolonged use might actually cause brain problems. that is one time the funeral folks should be at the door and ask that every cell phone be turned off before they go in for the service. omg, the height of rudeness for a cellphone to ring then. there is no excuse. jeanne i have a phone but only have to use it when working/driving. i do take it with me when out but only for use if there is an emergency. i often dont even turn it on. i've had to ring when in a florist picking up and chatting with them and i always say, oops, excuse me while i see who is annoying me now while i'm enjoying chatting with you here -- san-fran at ihug dot co dot nz nzlstar on yahoo msg'r http://community.webshots.com/user/nzlstar http://community.webshots.com/user/VirtualQuilting "WOK- the ancient art" http://www.frappr.com/rctq Put yourself on the RCTQ map!!! "Cats" wrote ... Now that is not only rude, it's just plain outrageous! The last time I chaired a business meeting and a mobile phone went off I invited the recipient of the call to put it on the speaker phone for the whole room to hear rather than make us all listen to only one side of the conversation, . . . . . or else leave. He got miffed and left - to the applause of three of the other people in the room. He was not missed!! I teach groups of friends about quilting in my home, but IF they bring their phones to an organised class, and IF the phones ring during a class involving other people, I quietly and politely ask them to leave the room to take the call or message, and go on with the class. I HATE MOBILE PHONES!! The number of people in the world who are truly that important and indespensible to the welfare of humanity is simply not that high. I'm sorry - but I see 95% of mobile phones as just another load of ego enhancers. And that goes double for people who continually text messages, even as they speak to you. Neither of the people being communicated with is getting the appropriate degree of attention, and it is rude to both. Here it is illegal to use a handheld mobile while driving - but that seems to have made little or no difference to most drivers. How they can expect to drive safely while texting is beyond me! Now climbing quietly down of my soap box. Hope I have not pierced any eardrums with my rant. "Ginger in CA" wrote... : Oh, Polly, the most embarrassing thing yesterday - I went to the: funeral for my friend's daughter. She passed after a long battle with: brain cancer. : : Two people didn't set their cell phones to silent. You guessed it - they went off during the funeral Mass. : : Ginger in CA |
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a new development in Scotland
Record usage I have seen personally - three phone calls in
the length of one aisle in my local supermarket (about 55')! I don't think we will ever be able to prove or disprove whether excessive use of mobiles is really a risk factor for developing brain disorders. The "excessive users" are already brain deranged!!!! - so how would we be able to measure/quantify the difference before and after X-usage. -- Cats ^;;^ ^;;^ ^;;^ ( U ) ( U ) ( U ) Enness Boofhead Donut http://community.webshots.com/user/witchofthewest catsatararatATyahooDOTcomDOTau "Patti" wrote in message ... : Last time I was travelling on a long-distance train, I found a 'quiet' : coach - so labelled. It was intended to be a refuge from mobile phone : use. I think that's a really good idea. Snag was, one girl hadn't : taken any notice and was carrying on a business meeting for almost the : whole length of my journey - and no railway official happened by in all : that time. Still, it is a good idea. I'm off on a long-way visit on : Friday, I'll see if people are taking more notice on that train. : It's the ones from the supermarket to someone at home, checking all the : things they buy to see if they are right, that get me. I mean, honestly : .... : . : In message . net, Polly : Esther writes : And could we get with the program on non-cell phones? In the library : yesterday, there was a very annoying kid with his cell phone loudly talking : sweet-nothings with someone while he read the titles of whichever section he : was in with silly comments, we're subjected to business calls on hawg : futures in a nice restaurant, or the plumber's laments on late deliveries : and in the dr's office, we were forced to hear a very intimate description : of the patient's pre-op instructions, something about 'don't' when the suds : subside. Good grief. Wonder what ever happened to polite? Polly : -- : Best Regards : pat on the hill |
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a new development in Scotland
Batik Freak wrote:
Man I really wish the USA would get with the program on smoking Our county banned smoking in restaurants several years ago. It's so nice to be able to eat out anywhere and not even have to think about asking for a non-smoking section. A lot of Minnesota counties either have a smoking ban in restaurants or are considering one. Smoking is also banned in bars in some places, including Minneapolis. Julia in MN -- This message has been scanned for viruses by Norton Anti-Virus http://webpages.charter.net/jaccola/ |
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a new development in Scotland
Julia in MN wrote:
Batik Freak wrote: Man I really wish the USA would get with the program on smoking Our county banned smoking in restaurants several years ago. It's so nice to be able to eat out anywhere and not even have to think about asking for a non-smoking section. A lot of Minnesota counties either have a smoking ban in restaurants or are considering one. Smoking is also banned in bars in some places, including Minneapolis. It's banned in all of NY, for which I will be eternally grateful. I spent much of my weekend in PA where it is NOT banned. I also spent most of my weekend seriously ill. -georg |
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a new development in Scotland
I don't know if this was discussed but in Calabasas, Ca. a very strict no
smoking ordinance was passed. No smoking even in the outdoors in public places. I applaud the changes and go to alot more "pub" places to listen to music, now that I don't have to breathe second hand smoke. Here in Texas we are just fortunate to have restaurants that are no smoking. It is a tough sell here in the south. Linda in Tx |
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On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:45:50 GMT, Georg wrote:
Julia in MN wrote: Batik Freak wrote: Man I really wish the USA would get with the program on smoking Our county banned smoking in restaurants several years ago. It's so nice to be able to eat out anywhere and not even have to think about asking for a non-smoking section. A lot of Minnesota counties either have a smoking ban in restaurants or are considering one. Smoking is also banned in bars in some places, including Minneapolis. It's banned in all of NY, for which I will be eternally grateful. I spent much of my weekend in PA where it is NOT banned. I also spent most of my weekend seriously ill. Whenever we go out we now have a tendancy to go to Pennsylvania. I have always felt that it should be the buisness owners option as to whether smoking in the place that they own should be allowed. Truly public places are of course another matter entirely. NightMist -- The wolf that understands fire has much to eat. |
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"nana2b" wrote: I don't know if this was discussed but in Calabasas, Ca. a very strict no smoking ordinance was passed. No smoking even in the outdoors in public places. I applaud the changes and go to alot more "pub" places to listen to music, now that I don't have to breathe second hand smoke. Here in Texas we are just fortunate to have restaurants that are no smoking. It is a tough sell here in the south. Linda in Tx If you think it's a tough sell there, Linda, you should be here! The casinos refuse to put in no-smoking sections (except in most of the restaurants) for fear of losing a single gambler. Just walking through some of the casinos can leave you smelling as though you'd finished an entire pack yourself. :S Fortunately, the "local" casinos tend to be more understanding. -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1 AKA Dame Sandy, Minister of Education |
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OT Smoking sections (was a new development in Scotland)
Even the non-smoking rooms in casinos tend to be pretty bad. One of our
suppliers has a trade show in Reno every so often -- we're not going this year, and one of the reasons is that even with a non-smoking room, we wake up with teary eyes and blocked sinuses. No thank you. -- Kathy A. (Woodland, CA) Queen of Fabric Tramps http://www.kayneyquilting.com , remove the obvious to reply "Sandy Foster" wrote in message ... If you think it's a tough sell there, Linda, you should be here! The casinos refuse to put in no-smoking sections (except in most of the restaurants) for fear of losing a single gambler. Just walking through some of the casinos can leave you smelling as though you'd finished an entire pack yourself. :S Fortunately, the "local" casinos tend to be more understanding. |
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a new development in Scotland
Batik Freak - where do you live? We are so spoiled here in California - you
haven't been able to smoke in a restaurant in years & some time ago, smoking in bars was banned. Now, I'm noticing that you can't smoke within 6'? or so feet from the entrance of a building. I hated walking out of a building, into a cloud of cigarette smoke. A town, here in Northern California just banned smoking in any public place & a town in Southern California did the same thing, just a few weeks ago. I'm a proud ex-smoker. Can't believe people ever put up with me when I was a smoker. I've been smoke- free for almost 20 years now. Traveling in Europe is always such a shock, because smoking is more prevalent there than here in the States. Pauline "Batik Freak" wrote in message hlink.net... Man I really wish the USA would get with the program on smoking - I hate it. Slowly but surely most good restaurants around here are going to either totally nonsmoking, or smoking ONLY in the bar, but it will take (literally) an act of Congress (or possibly an act of the gods...) to get freedom from smoke in all public places. I keep hearing from restaurant folk all this whining about "O the smokers won't go out to eat and we'll lose business." That's just crap. In exactly NONE of the restaurants I've been to has this happened. Usually, in restaurants where there IS still smoking, there is a wait for the non-smoking section. Restauranteurs are getting the clue - last week, I saw a sign at a die-hard, "family style" restaurant that said WE WILL BE ALL NONSMOKING ON SUNDAYS. Hopefully it won't be long til every day is Sunday there..... L "Sylvi" wrote in message ... Aha - but Kiwiland passed that law last year.....good on the Scots for doing the same... but I can't see how quilts would smell any better with the aroma of beer wafting thru them Quilts in pubs??? Not down here I don't think...but then again, maybe in a quiet corner.... cheers Sylvi sylviald at ihug dot co dot nz "KJ" wrote in message news:M6HVf.51300$oL.35147@attbi_s71... Well, darn. We just missed it by a few months. That law would have certainly made our trip (albeit very nice) even more memorable. Congrats to the forward thinking Scots. Lift a glass to better smelling quilts! Cheers! KJ "Jack Campin - bogus address" wrote in message ... The ban on smoking in public places in Scotland came into force today. I was playing at an afternoon folk session, the difference was amazing (mainly, people talk much more quietly when they're not smoking, so we could hear what we were doing a lot better - more details in a post I made to uk.music.folk and rec.travel.europe). Marion has occasionally tried handquilting in Bell's while I'm playing. The problem is that it was so smoky the quilt ended up smelling like an ashtray, particularly since the player I described as the Fire Goddess joined us. Now, no smoke. Scottish pubs have become quilting-friendly. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 |
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