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 Maybe its a comment on the quality of the music!  Much more civilised than 
 throwing things! 
  
 P 
  
  
 "Vibeke Fr€yen"  wrote in message 
 news:X%d2e.462034$PH1.453842@amsnews05.chello.com... 
 > Hey! 
 > 
 > Yeah, that pisses me off as well. I usually switch my phone off during 
 > concerts. I've usually spent a lot of money on getting there, and I don't 
 > want to be disturbed by a telephone. 
 > 
 > Another thing are those girls who stand all the way at the front against 
 > the podium (or even sitting on it in smaller concerts), with their back 
 > turned to the stage and screaming at each other to be able to cerry a 
 > conversation with all those booming speakers around them. 
 > 
 > Girls piss me off...and I'm one. Oh well, "only happy when it rains" :) 
 > 
 > 
 > "Dave Newt"  wrote in message 
 > news:3agkn0F69s90tU1@individual.net... 
 >> loobyloo wrote: 
 >>> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:39:31 -0000, John Rowland wrote: 
 >>> 
 >>> 
 >>>>I was at a Queen Adreena gig last night, and I noticed a girl stood near 
 >>>>me 
 >>>>had her face glowing in the dark because she was checking her text 
 >>>>messages 
 >>>>halfway through a song. I looked around and there was another girl doing 
 >>>>this on the other side of me. It happened repeatedly through the gig, 
 >>>>all 
 >>>>girls, I think nearly every girl in the audience checked her text 
 >>>>messages 
 >>>>during some song or other. How rude is that! Imagine being a singer 
 >>>>putting 
 >>>>your heart and soul into a performance, and every time you look up, 
 >>>>several 
 >>>>of the girls in the audience have glowing faces because they are 
 >>>>checking 
 >>>>their text messages. 
 >>> 
 >>> 
 >>> 
 >>> Same thing happened when I went to see Bill Bryson in Edinburgh last 
 >>> year. 
 >>> Dotted around the auditorium, all the way through his act, were the 
 >>> bright 
 >>> lights of mobile phone screens.  I find it absolutely inexplicable that 
 >>> someone should find texting more important than the gig you've paid to 
 >>> see. 
 >>> I even find people using mobile phones down the pub a bit rude, as if 
 >>> your 
 >>> conversation is never as important as a phone call that's going to come 
 >>> in. 
 >>> 
 >>> Anyway, glad to see you picked a gig with the right ratio of girls to 
 >>> middleaged men :) 
 >> 
 >> How rude is that! Imagine being a singer putting your heart and soul into 
 >> a performance, and every time you look up, several of the middle-aged men 
 >> in the audience are busy checking what all the young women in the 
 >> audience are doing! 
 > 
 > 
  
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