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Consider this: you're on an eight hours long flight and you need to make a really urgent call. There are no technical reasons why you wouldn't be able to do so,

Consider this: you're on an eight hours long flight and you need to make a really urgent call. There are no technical reasons why you wouldn't be able to do so, but it is forbidden because some people would abuse it and wouldn't be considerate to other passangers. It's not the phone that should be banned, it's being an inconsiderate prick that should be disallowed.

sbarre 16y ago
Need to make a short urgent call? Get up, go to the bathroom (which is conveniently sized like a phone booth), make your call, take a piss while you're at it, go back to your seat.
- pbhjpbhj 16y ago
  How long before there are signal detectors in the toilets alongside the smoke detectors?
  - sbarre 16y ago
    That wasn't my point. I meant if they allowed cell phones on planes, but you didn't want to be a disruptive jerk who talks on the phone on mass transit.
almost 16y ago
But until we figure out a way to ban being a prick I'll take the blanket phone ban. And what is this urgent call about anyway? Maybe to you it seems urgent and to me it just seems like you're being inconsiderate.
- cjg 16y ago
  Perhaps you are an eminent surgeon and someone is calling you for a life or death consult.