When did it become acceptable to.......

[Dave the Smeghead]

Hold up everybody in the queue in the shop because you are having some banal conversation on your mobile phone rather than paying attention to the assistant trying to serve you!
And to be reading your phone whilst walking down the stairs in the station getting slower and slower holding up the 200 people behind that just want to get home.
And to be reading your phone whilst walking down the street really slowly holding hands with your child who is also holding hands with a woman (presuming it's Mum) on the other side so you are 3 abreast taking up the whole pavement near Liverpool Street Station at 5.30 on a Tuesday evening.... We aren't there for fun and wanted to get past!
Low life feckers the lot of them. Rant over
Sorry

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

Can you hold on while I chat on my mobile to my wife's cousin's next door neighbour about the price of fish?

















Ok, all done - now what were you saying?

I am going to report you to my doctor as a source of my high blood pressure Rocky!

 

[ianrauk]

First world problems are a bind aren't they?

 

[toeknee]

Keep it to your self next time . So your a low life fecker if you dare talk or use a mobile phone whilst your out and about.....sad fecker.

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

First world problems are a bind aren't they?

Well I don't live in the 3rd world...... and neither do you, I would suspect.

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

Keep it to your self next time . So your a low life fecker if you dare talk or use a mobile phone whilst your out and about.....sad fecker.

No. They happen to be selfish and inconsiderate to every other person around them. Not too mention it is downright rude and demonstrates the poorest of manners.

 

[Dayvo]

No. They happen to be selfish and inconsiderate to every other person around them. Not too mention it is downright rude and demonstrates the poorest of manners.

Plenty of them here around!

 

[jefmcg]

Well I don't live in the 3rd world...... and neither do you, I would suspect.

"First world problem" means that your life has to be pretty sweet before these things would bother you.

But also, this is so English. If you have a problem, complain where it might do some good: the person who is causing the offence. Don't stew on it for a few hours then bitch about it in a cycle forum.

 

[John the Monkey]

You have neglected a more important concern; that of the popularity of the novel, which induces such rampant desire for more of books of its ilk that;

No one can have time for reflection, who reads at this rapid rate. And whatever may be thought, these devourers of books are guilty of abusing nature, to an extent as much greater than those who overcharge their stomachs, as the intellectual powers are higher than the animal propensities.

Mobile phones indeed! Look to the novel, I say, look to the novel!

 

[Puddles]

"First world problem" means that your life has to be pretty sweet before these things would bother you.

But also, this is so English. If you have a problem, complain where it might do some good: the person who is causing the offence. Don't stew on it for a few hours then bitch about it in a cycle forum.

FTFY



I woudl point you in the direction of https://twitter.com/SoVeryBritish to understand us better and be more sympathetic

 

[Lullabelle]

Hold up everybody in the queue in the shop because you are having some banal conversation on your mobile phone rather than paying attention to the assistant trying to serve you!
And to be reading your phone whilst walking down the stairs in the station getting slower and slower holding up the 200 people behind that just want to get home.
And to be reading your phone whilst walking down the street really slowly holding hands with your child who is also holding hands with a woman (presuming it's Mum) on the other side so you are 3 abreast taking up the whole pavement near Liverpool Street Station at 5.30 on a Tuesday evening.... We aren't there for fun and wanted to get past!
Low life feckers the lot of them. Rant over
Sorry

I once saw someone so engrossed in texting with his head down he didn't see the lamppost until he walked into it

It is rude Dave, I agree. I sometimes feel like tapping them on the shoulder and telling them to 'get off the f*****g phone and concentrate on what you are doing'.

 

[andyfraser]

Back when I worked in retail I had a staff member who was efficient, enthusiastic, helpful and patient. My best employee. He was trying to serve a guy who was holding a conversation on his mobile at the same time. My staff member got so annoyed that he told the customer that he'd be happy to help him but not until he'd finished his call and served someone else!

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

"First world problem" means that your life has to be pretty sweet before these things would bother you.

But also, this is so English. If you have a problem, complain where it might do some good: the person who is causing the offence. Don't stew on it for a few hours then bitch about it in a cycle forum.

I know exactly what it means. You obviously don't have a grasp of irony.
However, I had already been given a mouthful of abuse by some blonde bimbo because I told her to take her feet off of the seat on the train. Somedays the additional aggravation is not worth when bad manners abound

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

Back when I worked in retail I had a staff member who was efficient, enthusiastic, helpful and patient. My best employee. He was trying to serve a guy who was holding a conversation on his mobile at the same time. My staff member got so annoyed that he told the customer that he'd be happy to help him but not until he'd finished his call and served someone else!

Good on him! More of that please

 

[fossyant]

The OP's problem was he wasn't on his bike. Taking public transport like the rest of the losers !!!