Don’t be stupid.
There is, in fact, some area between not caring at all and being horribly outraged. :wally
Nope, it’s an either/or in this case. This has nothing to do with being horribly outraged. I think it just comes down to you not caring because it’s someone else, not because of any principles.
You simply can’t believe it’s not a big deal and then not wish to place yourself in the same position. If it’s not a big deal, then it would also not be a big deal if you were in the same position. This is what makes you a hypocrite.
Yeah, I hate those newfangled cell phones that automatically answer every call and can’t be turned off or otherwise ignored.
Agreed completely. I’m kind of attached to my phone number and it would be a bitch to have to inform everyone I know of the new one. Not fun, but do-able.
Yes, that would be terrible, and it’s a good thing that filmmakers don’t do this all the time, because it would be likely to happen before long. Not the case in this story, though.
So, once again for the overreactionists:
Annoying: possibly
Some inconvenience: likely
Something to throw a big ole hissy fit about: well, maybe you.
Give us your number, hypocrite.
I don’t think stubbing my toe is all that terrible either, but I’m not about to kick the wall.
If my number shows up in a movie and I get 20 calls an hour, I’ll answer a couple and talk to strangers, change my voicemail to something funny or set my phone to not accept calls from people not in my address book, and then change the number after a day or two once I get bored of it. Not the most fun thing in the world to do, but once again… NOT A BIG DEAL.
Mountain out of a molehill anyone?
Aaaaand you’re a moron.
Case in point:
The power window motor on my car is damaged right now. Doesn’t work. No fault of mine or anyone else’s. I didn’t wish to be in this situation, I certainly wouldn’t choose to be in it, but it’s not a big deal. It’s not a big deal, but I don’t wish to be in the position.
Another example: My home phone number is off from the cab company’s by one digit. Thus, I occasionally get late night, sometimes drunken requests for a cab. Again, not a situation I’d choose to be in, but also not a big deal.
You’re never just unhappy or disappointed with something but just choose to live with it?
If it’s a mountain out of a molehill, post your number.
You won’t, because it’s NOT a mountain out of a molehill.
By the way, you must have missed the cite about Ghostbusters, which intentionally ran a phone number and got 1000 calls an hour, all day, for six weeks (according to IDMB). I don’t know where you’re pulling that “20 calls” from, but it’s not from any reality the rest of us are aware of.
Do you not understand the sheer potential volume from having your phone number displayed in a popular movie?
Second, I’ll assume for a moment that you’re not an emergency worker, and that you can safely ignore every phone call you ever get. I wonder if it would be okay by you if the phone number in the movie had been a doctor’s phone, and he was suddenly inundated with hundreds of calls from people who had seen his number in a movie and thought it would be neato to call it. I’d pity the poor patients trying desperately to reach their doctor as he - to use your method - changed the number.
I hope for your sake you’re not actually this fucking stupid. Posting my number would result in some inconvenience for me. I choose not to do so for that reason. If my number were to be posted, it would result in some minor changes in the way I answer my phone for a day or two until I get a new number. In other words:
NOT A BIG FUCKING DEAL, OR CAN’T YOU READ AND COMPREHEND THAT, YOU DOUCHEBAG.
Once again, fuckface: There is an area between “I don’t care at all” and “OMFG what assholes! I can’t believe it! Let’s start a pit thread and go all ape-shit!”
Oh, and calling me a hypocrite because I’m in that grey area?
FOAKY.
You’re missing the point, garfield. What if it was someone elses fault that your motor was damaged?
This is the issue. The movie studio just didn’t give a shit about anyone else. This is going to be something that these people are going to have to spend their time, if not their own money, to rectify. It isn’t that it is nobodys fault. It is the studios, from either their pure laziness or negligence. Through no fault of their own, these people have to clean up a mess that the movie studio started.
Granted, its not effecting you or me personally, but I get pissed off whenever the little guy gets shit on through absolutely no fault of their own. Especially something as stupid as this. Why in the hell would they do that? They probably have people on staff to find problems like this!
That all makes sense, except this WAS the fault of someone. Can’t you see why the lady would be a little put out? If her number got in there accidentally - say it was on a billboard advertising her thriving law practice - then it wouldn’t be so awful. I mean, those are the breaks. It would have been a pain in the ass for her, but in that situation she couldn’t blame anyone. But in this one, she could - the number was intentionally put in the movie. Do you understand the difference?
Yes, you’re right, that’s not a big deal - again, not your fault, not the cab company’s fault.
And not the same as this situation.
Yeah, I got all silly and actually read the story.
I think I missed the part where she’s a doctor on call, and all her patients died.
Finally, you get it. I think.
Yes, you would choose not to do it. This lady did not choose to have her number in a movie. Therein lies the difference between your theoretical situation and her very real one.
Look around. The only person going “ape-shit” is you. You, you, you. Quit flinging poo.
Taking two completely opposite positions is hardly a gray area.
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If I recall correctly, it was you who suggested I post my own phone number here, right? I don’t seem to remember saying anything at all about willingly sharing one’s phone number. What’s my “theoretical situation” that you’re talking about? The one where I said my number would somehow end up in a movie, outside of my control? Yeah… that’s totally different than her story.
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My apologies, quit flinging accusations of hypocrisy.
Pretty pretty please show me my two completely opposite positions. I’d love to see where I post my number and tell people to call me because it will be a good 'ol time, and then the post where I bitch about how fucking terrible it is to be getting calls at all hours and how it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to me.
I’m pretty sure it’s been a fairly consistent “sort of fun, sort of inconvenient, no big whoop” thing. But by all means, show me otherwise.
You insisted that it was no big deal, but you refused to place yourself in the same position this person was placed in. Therefore your statement that it is “no big deal” is preposterous. If it is no big deal, then put yourself in the same position she was forced to be in.
We’re talking about several situations, I think. If you mean the situation in which your number was in a movie without your approval - like this person’s - then yes, you’re right, that would be the same story. But it wouldn’t likely be - as you claimed - 20 lousy calls; it would be more like hundreds. And, as I pointed out, whereas you yourself might have no problem changing the number later, someone who is identified by that number by many people - a doctor, for example - cannot do so as easily.
The other comparative situation is you posting your number here. The difference, as I said and you concurred, would be that you would have to do so willingly, while this lady certainly did not do so willlingly - and apparently did not have to.
Oddly enough, those aren’t the only two possibilities.
Position 1: People shouldn’t whine about their number being displayed in a movie.
Position 2: No way I’m posting MY number in a public place!
The reason they are incongruent is that although Position 1 implies that people shouldn’t whine because the consequences of the number being displayed are nothing more than annoying, Position 2 thinks enough of those consequences to avoid them altogether.
No one said she was a doctor. However, if by chance she WAS, what then? D’uh.
Are you really that fucking dense, Ooner?
http://home.earthlink.net/~mthyen/index.html
555-list
a listing of 555 prefix numbers given in the media.
for your consideration.
Um, you are aware that we’re discussing the story linked above, right? And that she is not, in fact, a doctor? Hypotheticals aren’t good arguments.
As I posted above:
So you have never received a call from someone who was using a phonebox, friend’s landline, different phone at work, friend’s mobile or anything like that?
Believe it or not people often want to answer a call even though they don’t know who is calling. Hell, what if it was a hospital saying my girlfriend had been admitted after a car crash or something like that?
And just changing your number is annoying and not non-trivial, anyone who has ever changed thei rnumber knows that there are always people who slip through the net and don’t find out about the new number. Also, why the merry fuck should they change their number? Why should they have to go through the hassle just because some lazy arsed directory breaks cinematic convention and hence fucks around with some innocent person’s life.
I’ll tell you what, why don’t we have a film where the director (or your) mobile number is shown openly. Maybe even his (or your) address.
“It is OK as long as it doesn’t happen to me” is an asshatted way to live.
BTW, one does not have to be a doctor for this sort of thing to be irritating. My GF had a similar, if much smaller, problem with a friend of hers giving out her number as a contact for an apartment rental, without asking. Call after call that she didn’t understand, she had to listen to every voicemail, start screening her calls, and even changed her voicemail message.
That was a big thing for her since she gets work calls on that line she really didn’t want an unprofessional message like that, but felt she had no choice. Changing her actual number was unthinkable, it’s on all of her business cards, and people all over the industry have THAT number, changing it could have a serious effect on her ability to get work.
Personally, I could change numbers without much problem, but many people cannot.