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Our Lady of The Two Towers

18:36 / 19.02.03

Now, I don't particularly like mobile phones, I don't have one myself and I get intensely irritated when say, one goes off in a cinema where you've had AT LEAST TWO REQUESTS TO TURN THE FUCKING THING OFF but, if I did have one and these jokers cam along and smashed it, I would be pretty fucking livid, wouldn't you?

And I think they've stolen the cstumes off of the KLF haven't they?

Linus Dunce

19:33 / 19.02.03

They're corporate muppets, I'm afraid -- the website name is registered to Virgin Records -- so they would probably cry like babies if you retaliated. If they threaten to sue, just kick them in the nads again and say, "nah mate -- self-defence, innit?"

Tezcatlipoca

19:34 / 19.02.03

Not really related to the morons engaging in theft and malicious criminal damage as such, but I recall reading an article about cinemas starting to purchase a form of chipboard with magnetic filings embedded into it with which they could encase the auditorium, thus preventing signals from entering or leaving.

Linus Dunce

19:56 / 19.02.03

Shielded auditoria would be cool. I'd gladly pay, say, a pound extra for that.

I do have a mobile phone, though. I find it very convenient, and it's fun to send cheeky text messages too.

Nietzsch E. Coyote

04:39 / 20.02.03

four of the six people that they robbed and destroyed the property of were women. I think that it was more than coincidence judging by the comments that accompanied the videos. One of those women the knocked down full on assault and battery.

Hattie's Kitchen

07:44 / 20.02.03

If those fuckers tried that with me, I'd karaticize their asses. I don't think it's even remotely funny, and I hate to say this, but I hope the next person they jump on pulls out a fucking gun and kneecaps them. Yeah, funny how they pick on mostly women isn't it? I'd like to see them try it on a building site, or somewhere like Dalston...

Jub

08:39 / 20.02.03

Oh C'mon - it's funny!
I'm not entirely convinced it is genuine though.
In a similar site albeit less overtly confrontational, these guys make me laugh so much: Dean and Nigel Blend In

Hattie's Kitchen

08:51 / 20.02.03

OK, I'll try and keep my sense of humour next time I'm getting mugged/attacked/having my phone robbed...

Jub

09:14 / 20.02.03

OK, I'll try and keep my sense of humour next time I'm getting mugged/attacked/having my phone robbed...

Ooooh someone's tired. Calm down! I wasn't advocating nicking someone's phone but saying I thought it was funny what they were doing in a sort of Trigger Happy way. Instead of keeping your sense of humour why not try karaticizing their asses? What was it that made you watch all of the clips if not that part of you found them funny anyway? (You knew most of them were women). Perhaps you were so morally distraught you felt you had to go through them all just so you could express the fullness of your anger?

Is your real name Outraged of Tunbridge Wells?

Hattie's Kitchen

09:35 / 20.02.03

Oh, chill out...I simply stated that I didn't find it funny - I didn't say no-one else could find it funny. As for morally distraught, my arse - I just don't think two blokes dressed as giant mobile phones going round attacking strangers is great comedy, it's not very original and it's not even in the realms of Trigger Happy. Hardly daring, were they? I didn't see any old ladies being jumped on...

Next week: two men dressed as giant cocks try to rape schoolgirls! Oh, the hilarity!

Jub

09:49 / 20.02.03

You didn't *just* say you didn't find it funny, did you? You said you hoped someone would pull a gun on them. Nice.
This is a humourous retort to annoying mobile phone users. Bit extreme granted, but so?
I hardly think giant cocks raping schoolgirls is a relevant comparison. Emotive rhetoric yes, but not really relevant. I can understand how you don't think either are funny: fine..... but the motives for doing each are separate and completely different, aren't they?
Anyway - you don't think it's funny. I do.
Fine.

Hattie's Kitchen

09:52 / 20.02.03

What.Ever.

Wow, two people on Barbelith have agreed to disagree without descending into sniping. Cool!

ONLY NICE THINGS

10:36 / 20.02.03

I'm not sure that hacking at one another with ill-sharpened battleaxes in a darkened cellar is necessarily *better* than sniping. Just different.

Hattie's Kitchen

10:49 / 20.02.03

Anyway, back on topic...

So is this kind of stunt just simple slapstick humour or is it pushing at the boundaries that Trigger Happy has previously explored?

Hattie's Kitchen

10:52 / 20.02.03

I'm genuinely interested to read people's opinions on this, s'all I'm saying.

Jub

10:58 / 20.02.03

Another thing: how do you know it's even real? I mean that they are genuinely doing it?

Hattie's Kitchen

11:15 / 20.02.03

Well, hard to tell, it could well have been set up - but if they're that serious in their hatred of mobile phones, then their stunt is pointless if they're using mates/stooges in the clips. (Now, if they went into Carphone Warehouse and trashed the place, it would be entirely different...)

Jub

11:21 / 20.02.03

Ah ha!! So you *do* understand the difference between their stunt and the big cocks thing!
(sorry - couldn't resist)

Hattie's Kitchen

11:23 / 20.02.03

Oooh, you naughty little goblin...

Physical violence against people I have a problem with, regardless of whether it's meant to be a joke or not...trashing Carphone Warehouse, absolutely not. I'd probably join them.

Dangerous

11:24 / 20.02.03

Now, I'm not usually one for mindless destruction, but if they went into Carphone Warehouse to trash the place... I'd sponser them.

I HATE THOSE GODDAMN PEOPLE. Carphone warehouse is like a virus on this planet, they are spreading and infecting towns and cities with their skanky pus-ridden employees. They can never ever help you with anything, they don't know shit, they don't do shit, they aren't ever going to amount to shit. All they do is eat, sleep and shit.

And on top of that, they won't upgrade my phone for free.

Bear

11:25 / 20.02.03

I think it's probably fake, the reactions don't seem real enough and isn't the same phone in each clip?

Hattie's Kitchen

11:25 / 20.02.03

But I really would deck those fuckers if they tried it with me...self-defence innit.

Regrettable Juvenilia

11:30 / 20.02.03

I think it would be perfectly acceptable to pull out the 4-4 cannon and cap these fools. Ante up, cap that fool!, etc...

Goodness Gracious Meme

11:32 / 20.02.03

So, is that a 4-4 cannon in your pocket?

w1rebaby

11:33 / 20.02.03

Er, nobody here honestly thinks this is real, do they? I'm a bit worried now.

As far as fresh original comedy goes, "mobile phones that ring in public places are annoying" is on the same level as "Jamie Oliver, what a twat" and "mother-in-laws, eh? eh?"

that

11:34 / 20.02.03

Not funny. Probably not real either. But fucking giant phones freak me out - it's like clowns or something. But Dom Joly's phone also scares me and that one's inanimate. I probably just have issues.

Ignatius J: would you really give an extra quid for a shielded auditorium? Even after having sat next to one person whose phone not only rang, but who picked it up and had a conversation on it during a film, I don't think I'd pay even more for the pleasure of cinemagoing. But then I have a knack of seating myself in the most unfortunate positions anyway - someone started having a go at me about rustling a chocolate wrapper once, in the middle of 'If...', so the shielded auditorium would do me no bloody good anyway.

Baz Auckland

11:39 / 20.02.03

There was a thread on this back in the fall of 2000... The whole thing turned out to be to help the video by Solid Gold Chart Toppers or whatever the link's to at the bottom. I think their video had the guys in suits in it or something. Pretty bad.

Loomis

11:59 / 20.02.03

What the hell's wrong with the Carphone Warehouse? They give out that magazine that lists all the tarriffs for all brands of phone and service provider so at a glance you can work out what you're looking for without having to go to each O2, T-Mobile, etc. store and try and figure it all out.

They do good work, is all I'm saying.

Bear

12:25 / 20.02.03

They're a company that makes quite alot of money this in turn makes them evil - Jeez Loomis where've you been?

Lullaboozler

12:27 / 20.02.03

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But then I have a knack of seating myself in the most unfortunate positions anyway

Last couple of times I've been, the person in front of me was sick - twice! and the bloke next to me in The Two Towers hadn't seen FotR and asked his mate who everyone was for the WHOLE FILM!!

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This whole thing seems to be a poor rip off of the 'Horn of Shame' hammer that The Chap magazine promoted months ago - simply apply two sharp taps to the offenders mobile to render it inoperative.

But done with less panache.

Loomis

12:27 / 20.02.03

I was trying to kill as many kittens as I could by masturbating furiously. Did I miss anything else important?

Dangerous

12:31 / 20.02.03

Carph... Wa.... must control anger.

If you were to go into a Carphone Warehouse and ask them to recommend you a phone, that won't cost you too much to buy or upkeep and that is simple to use. They won't be able to help you. The staff there are corporate drones, they know nothing about mobile phones, especially the new models.

You'd think that with only one topic in which to become au fait, they would have little trouble?

My real reason for displeasure is that they sold me a mobile 13 months ago, with a wireless headset... the whole shebang cost £300 and something. It perpetually cuts calls off and Carphone whorehouse won't help me, they simply say "It's a signal issue, see Vodafone"

Pffff

Bear

12:32 / 20.02.03

Depends on how long you've been killing kittens really?

As you can tell mobile phones are bad, mp3 players are good - not sure about mobile phones that play mp3's though.
Buffy is good again.
Mr. Perfect died

McDonalds are still evil unless your really hungry or drunk.
Pop Idol is out.

Tell you what I'll make a website about it :P

w1rebaby

12:44 / 20.02.03

Are Starbucks still evil? Are they more evil than depriving me of caffeine? I've been having a terrible time maintaining my anti-capitalist trousers since I got here, the only place I can get coffee 90% of the time is Starbucks.

Loomis

12:46 / 20.02.03

Dangerous - I don't quite know how I turned into an apologist for the Carphone Warehouse, but the thing is, they're just a shop, not a service provider. If you buy a phone from Sainsbury's, you wouldn't expect them to fix your phone when Vodaphone fucks up your signal. And I hate interacting with staff at stores, so I much prefer having all the info so I can go away and study it in my free time. I recently bought a new phone and spent many an hour studying the Carphone Warehouse brochure, which is something I couldn't do under the watchful gaze of an eager store employee.

Bear- you left out one important piece of info. What's the new black?

Fridge- the problem with Starbucks isn't just that they're evil, but that they make shit coffee. Why torture yourself?

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