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Are Sympatico and I alone in our preference?
quote:Originally posted by Malcolm @ cruisepage:No disrespect intended, but I find it odd that anyone should want to watch TV/Sport on a Cruise. I like to escape the TV and the Newspapers completely for a week or two! Although, I appreciate that we are all different! Are Sympatico and I alone in our preference?
I agree - it's on a par with taking a cell-phone or lap-top computer with you on vacation.
quote:Originally posted by M.S.Grumple:I agree - it's on a par with taking a cell-phone or lap-top computer with you on vacation.
I'm in agreement too. I'm not a sport watcher at the best of time. For avid sports fans there should perhaps be a small TV room. they could spend the day there. The Casino Bar on HAL ships seems to have little other than sports - on both the big screen and the one behind the bar.
As for cell phones, they should be banned from all restaurants, movie theatres and public lounges and most certainly from Lifeboat drills. On our last two cruises I had 'cell phone' junkies on either side of me yakking like magpies "We're at Lifeboat Drill, you should see everyone in the orange vests,blah,blah,blah..." Rude as it may be, I have no problem telling such people to 'shut up'
Don't really have a problem with lap-tops, except when the user hogs a Lido table!
I agree with the TV/Sport comments. I want to get away, but their are occasions when there is something I am interested in and want a bit of updated news, ie in aug 2 years ago when the Russian Sub sank we were cruising.
But I always take my laptop if going somewhere for more than a few days, just for the photos from the camera. I will admit to taking my cellphone too, but that was when my dad was in hospital and just for Mum to be able to contact us urgently if we were shore somewhere for a day.
It did also come in very useful last summer when we skipped Guernsey due to bad weather. We were meeting up with my sister-in-law who lives there and haven't seen for years. We were able to talk, while her husband and daughter came out on their boat to wave and knew where to pick us out, and she was able to point out their house ashore to us where she was waving from. Better than not seeing any of them.
Pam
quote:Originally posted by Green:As for cell phones, they should be banned from all restaurants, movie theatres and public lounges and most certainly from Lifeboat drills.
They should be banned from everywhere someone else can hear what you're saying I find it irritating. I don't want to listen to what they are saying, neither would I want people to hear what I say. I don't use phones for mindless chit chat.
Like the walkie talkie things. Fine for a quick, where are you, meet me in xxx in 20 mins, but people chat endlessly on the things, about nothing, even their step by step progress through a queue.
Cellphones are great for emergencies, but that's about it.
I am an avid sports fan and while I usually avoid TV and news while cruising, if there was a playoff game on one of the sports bar TV's aboard ship that my home town team was participating in, you can be damn sure I'd be sitting there watching it!!
Especially if it was my beloved "World Champion New England Patriots" kicking Dolphin butt up and down the field!!!
Now I'm only teasing (a little anyway), but I've got till next superbowl to brag about the Pats until a new champ is crowned...or we repeat, then I've got another whole year to do it again!!
GO PATS!!!
quote:Originally posted by PamM:They should be banned from everywhere someone else can hear what you're saying I find it irritating. I don't want to listen to what they are saying, neither would I want people to hear what I say. I don't use phones for mindless chit chat.Like the walkie talkie things. Fine for a quick, where are you, meet me in xxx in 20 mins, but people chat endlessly on the things, about nothing, even their step by step progress through a queue.Cellphones are great for emergencies, but that's about it.Pam
Dave
Not us, Yanks.
By the way, just how did your town fool us Brits??
For some reason I though this was a forum about the joys and pleasure of cruising. Not a political site for anti British (English) rhetoric, as your comments and 'from address' would imply. I though we were all way past that and on the same side now. Obviously wrong.
"On the morning of August 10, 1813 residents of Saint Michaels having been forewarned of a British attack hoisted lanterns to the masts of ships and in the tops of the trees. The height of light caused cannons to overshoot the town. This first known blackout was effective and only one house was struck and is now known as the "Cannonball House." The town has been known as the town that fooled the British since this historic event. "
Not at all!!
You Brits should have learned it from your former Prime Minister: NO SPORTS !!
(Winston Churchill)
By the way Amerikanis ... 5-1! 5-1! ;-)
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