Do people still put their phones on the tables in pubs?

Cosimo · 17 Dec 2012 at 14:17

Can't stand people doing this because they spend lots time looking for notification of some very important arrival instead of enjoying the company/conversation.

MooMoo444 · 17 Dec 2012 at 14:18

OhEsEcks said:
17 posts in and someone had to start the Android / iPhone debate I suppose.

That's because iPhone users are far more classy and don't drink in "pubs". :cool:

antijoke · 17 Dec 2012 at 14:18

Always assumed it was a way of just showing off what phone you had.

Never did it myself, but plenty of my friends did.

BoonMonkey · 17 Dec 2012 at 14:20

anticonscience said:
Always assumed it was a way of just showing off what phone you had.

Never did it myself, but plenty of my friends did.

I used to do it when I had my Blackberry, that was a god awful phone! I wasn't proud of that! Just I find them uncomfortable in my pocket.

EdGey · 17 Dec 2012 at 14:20

Edrof said:
Surely the only reason people ever did this was because sitting down with phones and cigarettes in your pockets was annoying. I imagine people do it even more now with slimmer jeans being a la mode.

This...

Certainly don't think it's rude.

OhEsEcks · 17 Dec 2012 at 14:21

MooMoo444 said:
That's because iPhone users are far more classy and don't drink in "pubs".

I'm an iPhone user and drink in some of the grottiest Loyalist pubs in the country I'll have you know. I wouldn't be caught dead in a wine bar / cocktail lounge or gastro pub. I like my floors sticky, the clientele with the minimal amount of teeth and a one eyed dog curled up on the tatty benches of a corner nook being fed pork scratchings by a woman akin to one of the fat ****s from the Viz.

antijoke · 17 Dec 2012 at 14:23

BoonMonkey said:
I used to do it when I had my Blackberry, that was a god awful phone! I wasn't proud of that! Just I find them uncomfortable in my pocket.

You were just hoping somone would steal it weren't you?

Skidder · 17 Dec 2012 at 14:23

MooMoo444 said:
That's because iPhone users are far more classy and don't drink in "pubs".

they are all too busy in massage parlours, the ones with rainbow flags outside

wannabedamned · 17 Dec 2012 at 14:26

Note II, I do not take it from my pocket very often, and when I do everyone around me becomes a potential mugger. My alertness goes off the scale!!

Yaayuh! · 17 Dec 2012 at 14:26

I don't get it. Why do people do this?
I keep all my valuable on me. I don't want to advertise a £500 phone to the pub and my wallet also.

doofer · 17 Dec 2012 at 14:28

MooMoo444 said:
That's because iPhone users are far more likely to be in Starbucks and have Man-bags.

No1newts · 17 Dec 2012 at 14:29

On the table be ause it's uncomfortable, I tend not to bother with my phone when with mates and I admit it irritates me a little when people do.

randomshenans · 17 Dec 2012 at 14:30

I do it because my willy is so big, it has no room for phone in there too while seated.

LOAM · 17 Dec 2012 at 14:31

Ive always empty my pockets onto the table in a pub otherwise A. Things get broken in your pockets and B. Its v.uncomfortable.

Malevolence · 17 Dec 2012 at 14:32

I simply leave my phone in my coat/jacket pocket.

Lysander · 17 Dec 2012 at 14:34

simulatorman said:
Can't stand people doing this because they spend lots time looking for notification of some very important arrival instead of enjoying the company/conversation.

Absolutely. You go out with people and then spend half the time looking for notifications from other people. If you then went out with those people you'd spend half the time looking at notifications from other people.

Voltar · 17 Dec 2012 at 14:35

I know lots of people who do this. I usually just leave mine in my coat pocket. If someone's arrival is imminent I'll leave it out and then once arrived it goes back in my coat pocket.

Mikeyboy · 17 Dec 2012 at 14:37

'Harry said:
Not really. For the most part people are too scared they'll either forget it, or have it swiped by a *****. Phones have gone up in prices since the early 2000's though. Back then a new phone was max £100-150. Nowadays that'll get you a cheapo android phone.

There were quite a few phones back then that cost far more than £150. The Nokia 8000 series of phones were regularly over £350-400.

Lysander · 17 Dec 2012 at 14:38

Voltar said:
I know lots of people who do this. I usually just leave mine in my coat pocket. If someone's arrival is imminent I'll leave it out and then once arrived it goes back in my coat pocket.

Precisely. My phone is always in my coat pocket if I'm out with someone. And even then it spends most of its time on silent.

I hate it when I go out with people, choose to leave my mobile at home and then get told by others "but why did you leave it behind, that's why it's called a mobile". Yes, I bloody know, and I chose to leave it behind.

Rroff · 17 Dec 2012 at 14:44

Rossi~ said:
I don't get it. Why do people do this?
I keep all my valuable on me. I don't want to advertise a £500 phone to the pub and my wallet also.

Same - my phone mostly stays in an inside jacket/coat pocket unless I'm in a place where they collect coats on the door. Showing off a £500 phone around here has a high chance of ending only one way anyhow.

Lysander said:
I hate it when I go out with people, choose to leave my mobile at home and then get told by others "but why did you leave it behind, that's why it's called a mobile". Yes, I bloody know, and I chose to leave it behind.

TBH don't entirely get this - tho each to their own - when I'm out is the time I use my mobile as a phone the most... that said if I'm out drinking I'm more likely to take an older phone with me aka the "stunt" phone as a colleague calls it as alcohol and expensive phones don't always mix well.

Do people still put their phones on the tables in pubs?

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