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What the hell is it with people, who may have paid a lot of money to see a performance, and then stand there with phones raised high and far away from the action?
Further, why do they post the shaky and crap sound clips?
Why not just enjoy the moment, in the knowledge that there may well be professional videos on line later?
Frankly, I would be well annoyed, if I was standing behind the morons responsible!
Further, why do they post the shaky and crap sound clips?
Why not just enjoy the moment, in the knowledge that there may well be professional videos on line later?
Frankly, I would be well annoyed, if I was standing behind the morons responsible!
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To show off.
So other people know they were there etc Them showing off is a better feeling for them than the actaul show itself |
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Thinly veiled....I went to a concert last night !
Who was it? |
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Aunty,
I am now at an age where my default position is that generally a person (in the general public) is stupid. It works for me - and what you describe would fit my theory. If I went to a concert (which I wouldn't because I would fear it being populated by morons) would just confirm my theory. Try it. (oh and by the way, morons also wave their mobile phones with lights on, it appears why, oh why? - WTF). Stick to barbecues. |
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Well,at a certain age, I have to agree and that's the stance I take!
Just looking at a few vids of Springsteen and there is an epidemic of the stupid tw@ts. A glaring example was at the "London New Year Fireworks Display" where it seemed like 20% of the idiots were at it, and again, they must realise that the event is always available to watch later! |
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Aunty,
I'm not in good humour this afternoon. I played golf this morning and got cold and wet and didn't play well. Only good thing is that there were no fooking morons on the course waving their phones about like, well, like fooking morons. |
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It is an extraordinary modern phenomenon - I was lucky enough to be at much of the Olympics. Couldn't believe how many people were watching the 100m final for example through their phones. Just watch it with your fcking eyes you morons!
 Easily available to view online on youtube with much better cameras at much better angles. |
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but they want to show their friends back in the pub what great lives their living and where they've been
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Hope those are Galaxy S7s ! .....Waterproof (for the over 50s)
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I've seen when Celebrities do these walkabouts greeting fans behind the metal fencing at premiers of whichever film...with fans having their back turned on the celebrity but holding up thier phone to get themselves and the filmstar in the same picture, even when them come close they don't turnaround but still scream
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Today’s modern phones are able to capture high quality video. There are a multitude of smaller events that will not have professional videos available ever. I'd say many people who can't make these events are delighted to see a video of the event.
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Have seen some half decent ones of the Kate Bush Hammersmith gigs, but they are soon taken down.
Please release a DVD, Kate x |
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I always wonder about people standing there and videoing a concert or other event too. It does make you wonder why people bother.
However, I have to say that there seems to be less people doing it when I go to gigs now - I guess that they are slowly realising what a waste of time it is. |
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I watched a really good, and rare, video of "Procol Harem" in Denmark.
Look how orderly and appreciative the audience are. Ok, I see that the audience seem to be older generation, for the most part, but not a phone to be seen! Either way it's worth a watch because it's sensational......  |
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A link would have been good.....
, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St6jyEFe5WM |
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Just watched it ... WTF Whiter Shade of Pale, sung by a white singer supported by a white orchestra, with a white audience. FFS where's the much loved multiculturalism we're told we must have? You'll get reported posting such blatantly racist stuff. Write out 50 times ... I must like other cultures |
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Yes, but leave your mobile phone with the warden.
We don't want you waving it about and annoying me. |
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Baffling behaviour.
One of the more satisfying aspects of having been present at one of Joy Division's final gigs in 1980, or having watched Somerset chase down 362 in two sessions to beat Yorkshire in 2010, was not just the fact that so few of us were there to see something so special, but also that there was no way anyone not there would ever get to experience the thrill, even at second hand. Instead they'd just have to tolerate us boring them with details for years to come. And what's more, we'd be able to embellish the event in the re-telling as much as we liked. I mean, I was a bit disappointed really when I found highlights of HSV coming from behind to beat Bayern 4-3 in Munich in 1982 available on YouTube. The game was as exciting as I remembered it, but a match that became immortal back in Hamburg just became a little bit less epic for being visible. |
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Be careful what you wish for. If an intrepid mobile phone journalist was not alert and on hand we, and future generations, would be denied important historical footage such as this.
. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4208546/Women-break-brawl-floor-fast-food-chain.html |
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Classic! I love the guy shouting "This is the best night ever!" |
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or having watched Somerset chase down 362 in two sessions to beat Yorkshire in 2010
I remember that well. Yorkshire's first defeat of the season. Generous declaration. |
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It was once Tino Best decided he didn't fancy bowling at Trescothick in that sort of mood, and decided to limp off to the dressing room instead.
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Martin Clunes being confronted in Waitrose car park a couple of days ago
https://youtu.be/sixkVZStSIE |
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'what you gonna do about it?'
'You're young you'll see stuff' Brilliant from Clunes behaving badly  |
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I thought Clunes was dyslexic.
So he wouldn't be able to read 'motorcycles'. Probably thought it said 'parking for celebrities only'. Easy mistake to make. |
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I'm a big fan of Martin Clunes but I'm with the motorcyclist here.
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MD, we all know that Clunes shouldn't have parked there but that young fella was way OTT with swearing at him and calling him nasty.
Clunes was right to say 'how nasty is this in the great scheme of things' He was good humoured and pleasant the whole time, unlike the biker. |
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I wouldn't say the biker was way OTT but yes, Martin Clunes was very good humoured, always the gentleman, but very wrong to park in a motorcycle bay.
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Not exactly a hanging offence. Are you a biker, MD?
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No, but Mr Makybe is
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Good on you for sticking up for bikers' parking rights then. Mr. MD would be proud of you, shame he doesn't know that this forum exists.
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Don't be silly, Crags.
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How? you said that you've never told him that you post on here.
if he knows it exists, who does he think is behind the Makye_Diva name? you don't have to tell me but it is quite confusing! |
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Mr Makybe has no interest in what I do on my iPad. The same as I don't bother what he does on his.
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So my comment of 4.01 wasn't silly at all then!
Thanks for clearing that up, mate. |
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Why are you so bothered about this, Crags?
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