when ringtones attack

[burntcopper]

snow falling outside in tiny flakes and there was pavement ice in Shepherd's Bush/Kensington. But not settling. Bah. Apparently it's deep, deep snow back home. Hoping like hell I can get back tonight since I want to mess around in the snow. 'Specially considering tomorrow is birthday. (snow is normally only a february or Easter thing in

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[silly_swordsman]

I can recommend "Engel" by Rammstein as a ringtone. Intro is whistling, so penetrating and non-grating. And if you miss that, the guitars kick in after a little bit.

[cangetmad]

I have Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder as a ringtone, and I recommend it. Noticeable right from the intro and awesome. Has the advantage of completely earworming one of my colleague, who ends up singing it almost all the time at work.

[sbp]

For a long time I used the theme from Buffy - starts off quiet and gets more urgent and loud.

[peterjevans]

Mine just rings. Like a phone.

Because it’s, you know, a phone.

[burntcopper]

Pah. you, sir, are not living in the future.

As several have put it, they may have predicted tiny communicators but they didn't predict that we'd be using them to look at badly-spelt captioned pictures of cats. Or that porn would drive most of the media innovations.

[peterjevans]

Ah, but are you sure? We have no idea how many LOLcats Kirk kept on that little flippy-cover communicator of his. And why else would Mr Spock have that hood over his monitor so no-one on the bridge could see what he was looking at? Hot Vulcan-on-Andorian action, betcha.

Anyway, my lack of a ringtone is my protest at the future being, so far, a big disappointment. When my jetpack and my giant robot arrive, then I will make my phone play ‘Vin-Da-Loo’ by Fat Les. Until then, it shall be Bakelite.

[gmh]

Mine plays a sample of a church bell from Spain. It's a shame my phone has such a tiny speaker, or it would make impressive 'CLONG!' noises when people rang me.

However, anyone who didn't see porn driving the mass media has no-one but themselves to blame; the French Revolution was built on pornographic libelles.

[cidercupcakes]

We don't use "ta" where I am, or at least not in my circles -- lower-middle-class mid-Atlantic -- and I don't think I've heard it much if at all amongst people from other regions/sets. "Eejit" is more dependent on the accent, so that's a regional thing.

[burntcopper]

I predict 'Ta' will be the next thing that American script-writers have the English stereotypes using. Since they're steadily burning through cheers and bollocks.

re: eejit, that makes sense because it is just 'idiot' filtered through regional accent. But more satisfying to say. Any idea what part of the country Bobby's supposed to be from? I don't think it's Illinois, Oklahoma or Kansas.