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Your Tuesday Poll: Ring Tones
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006
2:40:00 PM EDT
Hearing Nothing at the moment
Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn perfectly sums up my feeling about ring tones:
That cell phone ringtone of yours that you think is so funny, cool or apt; so very distinctively you?
The one that announces your personality to all within hearing distance?
It's lame.
Maybe--maybe--the first time people hear it they smile or perk up. "Ah! A shrill, low-fi version of a TV theme or pop song I hadn't thought of in a while! An unexpected sound effect!"
Thereafter? Most of the time? Trust me. They're rolling their eyes. They're cringing for you.
Yes. YES. Yes. Thank you, Eric Zorn, for speaking truth.
For the record: My cell phone ring tone? A simple beep. Why? Because a beep gets the job done. That is, when I have a ring tone on at all; usually I set my phone to vibrate. Because that way when your phone rings, everyone else at the table doesn't have to check to see if they're vibrating. Because if they were, they would know.
My antipathy for ring tones is such that I have created a poll:
Yes, all right, maybe I'm a little irrational on the topic. But honestly, people. Ring tones. Evil. Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
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2:40:00 PM EDT
Hearing Nothing at the moment
Your Tuesday Poll: Ring Tones
Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn perfectly sums up my feeling about ring tones:
That cell phone ringtone of yours that you think is so funny, cool or apt; so very distinctively you?
The one that announces your personality to all within hearing distance?
It's lame.
Maybe--maybe--the first time people hear it they smile or perk up. "Ah! A shrill, low-fi version of a TV theme or pop song I hadn't thought of in a while! An unexpected sound effect!"
Thereafter? Most of the time? Trust me. They're rolling their eyes. They're cringing for you.
Yes. YES. Yes. Thank you, Eric Zorn, for speaking truth.
For the record: My cell phone ring tone? A simple beep. Why? Because a beep gets the job done. That is, when I have a ring tone on at all; usually I set my phone to vibrate. Because that way when your phone rings, everyone else at the table doesn't have to check to see if they're vibrating. Because if they were, they would know.
My antipathy for ring tones is such that I have created a poll:
Yes, all right, maybe I'm a little irrational on the topic. But honestly, people. Ring tones. Evil. Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
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finally! someone, well, a few agree with me.
Ring tones are so annoying....so annoying. I can't believe the loud, obnoxious sounds that assult my ears everywhere and the people who carry the phones that make these noises.
I regard my cell phone as a necessary evil. I hate talking on it. I hate when it does ring (actually mine is always set on manner mode so a little light comes on). Most cases, if it is not one of my kids or the school or daycare calling, it is Hector or raul still looking for Maria and they can't understand why Maria still doesn't have this number any longer.
See what you started?
LOL
I'll end this with a loud AMEN!!!
laura -
Even your simple beep would piss me off, but I'm French and crazy.
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My daughter's fiance's cell phone says (literally, the words) "Ring-ring. Ring-ring." in HIS OWN voice. If it's my daughter, his mother, or his boss calling, and if he doesn't answer by the third ring, it says "Answer you fool, it's [name]! Ring-ring."
It's cute at first, but stupid the tenth time you hear it....
Silk -
RING TONES SUCKKKKKKKK
6/14/06 2:27 PM
I actually hate the phone, but now that my daughter's old enough to start staying home by herself for short stretches, I sure do feel better having it along, just in case.