Christmas is a time for visiting family, which means that all the teenagers and teenagers at heart spend hours playing supposedly amusing songs from their mobile phones to each other, and then bluetooth them to each other, and then play them back again, and so on.
I have known for a while what I think about ringtones and other noises on mobile phones, but today I managed to put into words my philosophy of mobile phones:
If a ringtone is one which you would be embarrassed by if you were in a job interview and had forgotten to turn your phone off and then someone phoned or texted you, delete it.
One example, from my step-nephew:
You've got motherfucking mail… beeeyatch!
tyger // Dec 29, 2006 at 10:09 am
Brilliantly succinct, doncha’ fink?
Skuds // Dec 29, 2006 at 5:35 pm
And yet I have heard worse.