lol @ Gila River OR Why I will never marry again (LC)

[kailua]

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How do I look in that pic, btw? Really nuts, right? Great pic that one and they got it right on the first go-round.

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You look mad as hell, as if your not going to take it anymore!

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And I think Howard should go to his windows, open them, stick his head out and yell exactly that.

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Hollering out the window was perhaps how he communicated prior to cell phones.

Just wait till he asks the (female) manager at Gila River to unseal the thermopane. lol

[DesertCat]

The only reason I play poker every afternoon is that I have a cell phone. My wife allows me to go because we agreed that she can recall me in an emergency (3 week old and 2 year old kids) to help her. Otherwise my ass is planted at home. She's called me back once in 3 months.

I'll guarantee that many of the horrible players I play with who love to be distracted by their cell phones wouldn't be able to play if they didn't have cell service.

[czGLoRy]

what? I have alltel and it barely works inside my house and never works inside big buildings

[PLOlover]

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Apparently the federal government. Did you not look at the link? I knew someone would dispute me if I didn't include a reference, so I put it right there in the post.

Passive blocking of signals is fine. You're welcome to turn your restaurant or theatre into a Faraday cage and keep the pesky signals out. You're also welcome to post "NO CELL PHONE USAGE" signs and enforce compliance by tossing customers out who violate it. But you're not welcome to come to a poker table with a jammer and broadcast signals to jam the cell reception of everyone within 100'. That's illegal and in theory can land you in jail.

I'm no cell phone addict. Last month I had 7 minutes of usage. Month before was 2 minutes. But there are times and places that if I couldn't take along the cell and expect to be able to get a call, I couldn't leave the house. I don't use the phone at the table, I step away from the table to a corner of the room or out of the room to have a conversation. And yeah, I get just as annoyed as anyone else at folks who exhibit bad cell manners. But it's not ok for any random anarchist to decide he knows better than I whether or not I should be able to get a call.

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I'm definitely doing it now.

[PLOlover]

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I got one of these as a gift for a (mean, obviously) gf a few agos. You can get them online for a few hundred bucks. Let me tell you, we had more fun with that thing than you would believe possible.

Stuck on a bus with 3 morons blabbing about nothing on their phones? You flip this baby on, and watch as all 3 simultaneously say 'hello' about 12 times, try to redial, look confused...oh good times.

I really, really recommend these.

And yeah, they are illegal, but for some reason the FCC hasn't decided to send out millions of detection squads to hunt down blocking signals and arrest the users...

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Can you just leave them on all the time? I would think interrupting a persons call would be rude. Maybe that seems weird thinking for someone who has a cell jammer, but I think turning it on and off to screw with people is rude, but leaving it on to damper cell reception is ok cause people will just move to a nearby area where they can talk.

[Howard Beale]

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Howard, please forgive my hijack, but this midwesterner has a dumb question.

AFAIK, the tribals in AZ have been open several years, and they are surely making good money. Why are they still in tents????

The podunk little tribals in NE Oklahoma down the road from me have managed structures of some sort. Granted, one is a Quanset hut, and they are in tornado country, but still.....

Hearing about CAZ's tents has always baffled me.

Again, apologies for hijack, but really curious.

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No prob.

CAZ was in a couple of tents at 2 different locations until they built a pretty nice building at their McKellips Rd. location. The poker room was in it and it was very nice. When the new compact was signed a few years ago they put up 2 tents a few miles up the road at their Indian Bend location and threw us poker players out of the nice building and into the tents to make room for BJ tables in the nice building. They also have BJ and slots in the tents (which are pretty nice as far as tents go).

Now CAZ is building a hotel/resort/casino at the Indian Bend location. It will take a few years and I'm not sure if the poker room will be there or down the road at McKellips again. Either way (as decent as the tents are) it will be better.

[malo]

Thanks guys---saw the photo of the "sprung" structure and can see Howard's point about looking like a condom.

As far as cell phones go, don't mind cell phones per se, but really tired of all the rude usage. And think that's perhaps the underlying issue for people who don't like phones at the table. As far as Gila River goes, can't decide if they are just trying to prevent the annoyance of people who are rude with their phones, or if the casino is too cheap and lazy to install an antenna.

Would never really buy a cell phone blocker, but could have used one of these yesterday. Start to wheel down an aisle at the grocery store to grab some red wine vinegar for salad dressing, and planted in front of the vinegar is a woman yelling into her cell phone, oblivious to everything else. Fun to ponder shutting down that conversation (and would have saved me having to circle back through the store). I was too polite to interrupt her argument and ask her to move. [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img] Get to checkout, and the first line I hit has someone jabbering away loudly on their phone. OTOH, saw at least two other people speaking quietly on their phones, and paying attention to what was around them so they could move their cart out of someone's way if necessary.

Some folks have manners, and some just don't.

[goodgrief]

You know, I'm thinking you're correct. The hospitals (and at least one restaurant I'm aware of) must be Faraday cages -- passive jammers. In fact, I believe someone at my local hospital told me that. I also know of many large factories that are Faraday cages not by intention but simply because the metals used end up blocking cell phones willy-nilly.

However, still don't buy the argument that people need cell phones every minute of the day unless they're incredibly dependent or are allowing themselves to be taken advantage of by the incredibly dependent. I've just lived too long. It's so odd to me that a doctor can turn his business over to an answering machine and go play golf and then poker for 19 hours straight, but some Joe Blow drywall installer thinks he needs to be in touch 24/7. I'm like, people, get over yourself. You're not all that. Clearly, if you only use 7 minutes a month, you're not part of the problem, and this rant is not aimed at you. I'll dedicate this rant to the guy who spent several hours texting his wife at the poker table at Tunica. How pathetic and needy is that? But we just had to swallow hard and snicker at his lack of yarbles behind his back since he was such a huge donator to the game. :-)



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Passive blocking of signals is fine. You're welcome to turn your restaurant or theatre into a Faraday cage and keep the pesky signals out. You're also welcome to post "NO CELL PHONE USAGE" signs and enforce compliance by tossing customers out who violate it. But you're not welcome to come to a poker table with a jammer and broadcast signals to jam the cell reception of everyone within 100'. That's illegal and in theory can land you in jail.

I'm no cell phone addict. Last month I had 7 minutes of usage. Month before was 2 minutes. But there are times and places that if I couldn't take along the cell and expect to be able to get a call, I couldn't leave the house. I don't use the phone at the table, I step away from the table to a corner of the room or out of the room to have a conversation. And yeah, I get just as annoyed as anyone else at folks who exhibit bad cell manners. But it's not ok for any random anarchist to decide he knows better than I whether or not I should be able to get a call.

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[goodgrief]

Howard: While I sympathize -- very much so, since my Dad nearly died a few years back when I was in the bush for three days and I only got the barrage of missed messages when he was already out of danger -- the problem is that our parents will always, always be older than we are. They aren't getting any younger, and neither are we getting any younger. I can't give up the remaining healthy years of my life to stay where I can always be reached by phone. I can't ask my parents to give up their remaining healthy years of life to stay where they can always be reached by phone. Even as we speak, members of our immediate family are spread out over three continents, and I just realized that my mom is somewhere in Europe at the moment but I don't even know which country. Yes, in an emergency, it would take some time to pull us together. But, meanwhile, in not-an-emergency, we have actually lived. My dad is around your mom's age and I imagine he'd rather shoot himself than call anyone 368 times a day looking for attention. I realize your mom is not going to suddenly become self-reliant now, but honestly the world won't end if you don't take or receive all of her calls. I don't know how else to deal with a needy person without being overwhelmed. I would have thought that men with needy wives, girlfriends, and moms would be grateful for the excuse of, "Honey, the phone doesn't work in that room, and I got back to you as soon as I could." The best thing about cell phones is that sometimes a message doesn't wander in for hours and days and you can take your time about when, or if, to respond. Most emergencies aren't. And most real emergencies aren't particularly improved by a hysterical loved one on the scene.





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It's because of my dear, old mom! My dear, old, 78 year old mom (who calls me 368 times a day) is the reason that I have my phone! So when I go to Gila River she can't call me and tell me that the noodle pudding that she cooked and brought over to the American Legion was a success. Then, when I get up to go to the restroom and get 30 feet away from the poker area I see that I've got 42 missed calls. THAT's why I'm a cell phone nit. I'm also an 'that was the answer of an imbecile' nit. I can't help it and her answer was a doozy.

How do I look in that pic, btw? Really nuts, right? Great pic that one and they got it right on the first go-round.

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[bav]

I was at an Internet conference about 20 years ago, back when it was a newish sorta thing and only available to the military, universities, and research organizations. During a presentation some guy was telling us his dream was for the Internet to be freely available and he'd be able to be connected 24x7--he could imagine someday being able to use the Internet anytime from almost anywhere and he'd never be disconnected...

...Next guy gets up and begins his presentation by shaking his head. "Connectivity 24x7? Everywhere? At home? On vacation? EVERYwhere? Sounds like the most perfect definition of hell I've ever heard."

One person's heaven is another person's hell.