Mobile Phones On Planes

BribieG · April 19, 2007

Qantas announced today that they are going to trial allowing mobile usage on planes. Initially just texting or emails allowed.

God help us, it's bad enough on a 45 minute train journey now:

"Yeh f**k you'll never believe what that **** Kylie like did to me like the other f**king day, like who does that .."

"I'm like on the train like going to the doctaah like with my fathaah (female teen accent) and see you lataah ... like hayy guess like what like i did like at the weekend..."

"I f**ken paid that bill... now you listen here a**sehole the trouble with your f**ken company is that..."

Imagine having to put up with that crap for 25 hours to London! Maybe Qantas will offer suspended animation pods in the future so you wake up at your destination.

Santa1503559644 · April 19, 2007

Dont they already allow shytepods ipods? :blink:

Kent Rigel · April 19, 2007

Okay, normally I'm against terrorist fear driven resistrictions, like not being able to take more than 100 mL of water in a clear plastic bottle on a plane because it may be liquid explosives. But here's your opportunity to use the system's paranoia to your benefit... cry out about the dangers of the 'mobile phone grenade'.

Mobile phones are being touted continuesly as the terrorist's new ally, having been used as denotation devices in several bombs recently. If someone removed the innards of a medium sized mobile phone and replace it with C4 and then simply used the remaining electronics as a detenation circuit they could make a serviceable grenade. Surely some CIA desk jockey managed to conjure that up in a fit of donut-induced paranoia at some point.

If it stopped me from having to listen to James' Party last week or the Tight wad step dad or the [obscenity] [profanity] whoever I'd gladly push the fear and propaganda button.

50mxe20 · April 19, 2007

Que?

There is no ban on taking phones on planes and there never has been.

You are just asked to switch it off.

Who's to stop a terrorist from ignoring that request and blowing a plane to smithereens long before now.

I'm with BribieG, it would drive everyone nuts if you were allowed to talk loudly on a mobile phone.

Gas Man · April 19, 2007

there was an organisation that pushed the implimentation of "quiet" places (i can't remember the name. There was a story a while ago on them and it was that most people would prefer mobile phones to be banned on planes so that it remains one of the sanctums where you could go and not hear the babble of incessent chatter.

Aloysius · April 19, 2007

Maybe we could demand the "Cone of Silence" a la Maxwell S. for those availing themselves of this new found freedom to bore the pants off their fellow travellers.

Perhaps a massive reduction in those wanting to avail themselves of this "improved" Qantas service and moving to a quieter airline might sway the attractiveness of the idea. :blink:

FMB · April 19, 2007

Do the execs at Qantas not watch the Chasers war on everything? Have they never seen Clive, the slightly too loud commuter?

Surely that alone would be sufficient justification to continue the ban on using mobile phones on planes.

Kent Rigel · April 19, 2007

Que?
There is no ban on taking phones on planes and there never has been.

You are just asked to switch it off.

Who's to stop a terrorist from ignoring that request and blowing a plane to smithereens long before now.

I was merely suggesting that it is a pity that while banning matches, nail clippers, nail files, aersol cans, bottles full of water and the kitchen sink that they couldn't just lump mobile phones under the 'threat to national security' and ban people from carrying them onto planes... it's the one time I would welcome the paranoia.

Santa1503559644 · April 19, 2007

Mobiles are permitted in case of hijacking... :ph34r:

digitalm · April 19, 2007

Mobiles are permitted in case of hijacking... :ph34r:

yeah lol so true ,or mayb thats what the americans think !!

Mcrackn · April 19, 2007

Why not text and internet surfing only on mobiles, if it makes a noise or you talk on it it gets confiscated until the end of the flight :blink:

50mxe20 · April 19, 2007

Why not text and internet surfing only on mobiles, if it makes a noise or you talk on it it gets confiscated until the end of the flight

And if it explodes, no need to confiscate at all.

Austen · April 19, 2007