Video calling with no headphones
Oct 31, 2020, 7:08 pm
#61
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Nov 1, 2020, 1:46 am
#62
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Nov 1, 2020, 1:58 am
#64
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Nov 1, 2020, 2:23 am
#65
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i agree if you are travelling alone and wish to not interact with anyone, the suggestion of noise-cancelling headphones is sensible and gets around the problem. But, it does not fix the underlying issue which is the lack of basic good manners in some people.
Nov 1, 2020, 2:59 am
#66
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After a few US trips I once found myself with half a dozen of the small AA/Avis headphone sachets in my rucksack. They were fantastic to hand out to the video-players with a quick ‘since you seem to have forgotten your headphones I thought you might like these’. Funnily enough that tended to do the trick.
I have only once been brave enough to turn around and scream “Do you have to shout?!” at someone on obnoxious calls in a lounge. I scream it internally every time though. Must learn to be less British about that. Or invite Pucci to be my travel companion.
I actually think some people just don’t realise that other people can hear them. It’s as if they’ve grown up in a world that revolves only around them and that contains no other people. I hate it.
Oh, my other confusion... people who hold phones perpendicular to their mouth to have a conversation on speaker. It’s as if they’ve never realised that a mobile phone has noise at one end and a microphone at the other... you know, like a phone. I’ve never understood that one.
I have only once been brave enough to turn around and scream “Do you have to shout?!” at someone on obnoxious calls in a lounge. I scream it internally every time though. Must learn to be less British about that. Or invite Pucci to be my travel companion.
I actually think some people just don’t realise that other people can hear them. It’s as if they’ve grown up in a world that revolves only around them and that contains no other people. I hate it.
Oh, my other confusion... people who hold phones perpendicular to their mouth to have a conversation on speaker. It’s as if they’ve never realised that a mobile phone has noise at one end and a microphone at the other... you know, like a phone. I’ve never understood that one.
It started with the competitors. Doing this in the back of people carriers on group calls to another van.
Then the general populace started doing it down the street when it’s far easier just to hold it to their ears as per the desig of the phone for 100 years.
Nov 1, 2020, 3:06 am
#67
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With regard to the talking into the end of the phone habit; I blame the TV programme The Apprentice.
It started with the competitors. Doing this in the back of people carriers on group calls to another van.
Then the general populace started doing it down the street when it’s far easier just to hold it to their ears as per the desig of the phone for 100 years.
It started with the competitors. Doing this in the back of people carriers on group calls to another van.
Then the general populace started doing it down the street when it’s far easier just to hold it to their ears as per the desig of the phone for 100 years.
Nov 2, 2020, 5:05 am
#69
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A touch dramatic, but then I'm also not sure in which world going out and spending Ł200+ on a pair of headphones is an appropriate solution to something that can be fixed for free by the person causing a nuisance.
Nov 2, 2020, 6:33 am
#70
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Sitting in the F lounge. Three separate people have been video calling with no headphones on so we all have to listen to their conversations.
This seems to now be an accepted norm (along with kids playing video games with no headphones on board).
Am I in the minority that I don’t think this should be allowed?
This seems to now be an accepted norm (along with kids playing video games with no headphones on board).
Am I in the minority that I don’t think this should be allowed?
Nov 2, 2020, 10:07 am
#71
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Surely if it was 10 feet from the CCR Desk then it must have been in the open area that separates the Frequent Flyer's lounge from the real Fist Lounge (the Concorde Room!). Still not great behaviour but also not as tacky as doing tin the main lounges.
Nov 2, 2020, 10:09 am
#72
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Nov 2, 2020, 10:27 am
#73
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That was no lady my Dear - you are too well mannered. I'd have put up with three minutes of that nonsense. What was she dicussing - the party her coven were holding that night?
Nov 2, 2020, 2:23 pm
#74
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Nov 2, 2020, 2:31 pm
#75
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I had to endure two people in the AA lounge at DFW on a single very loud hands-free call to someone. I went and turned up the TV volume to a suitable level to both drown out their call from my perspective, and to make it impossible for them to continue the call. They went elsewhere to complete it, at which point I turned the TV back down. I was the only other person in the TV room (apart from my wife) so it didn't impact anyone, and the staff behind the bar thought it a novel way of dealing with the problem.
