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on Friday September 30 2016, @10:23PM
from the starting-the-weekend-with-a-good-drinking-related-story dept.
from the starting-the-weekend-with-a-good-drinking-related-story dept.
A cocktail bar owner has installed a Faraday cage in his walls to prevent mobile phone signals entering the building.
Steve Tyler of the Gin Tub, in Hove, East Sussex, is hoping customers will be encouraged to talk to each other rather than looking at their screens.
He has installed metal mesh in the walls and ceiling of the bar which absorbs and redistributes the electromagnetic signals from phones and wireless devices to prevents them entering the interior of the building.
Why you hating on millennials, Bro?
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Landlord Installs Faraday Cage to Block Phone Signals Because Social Media is Ruining British Pubs
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the supervision of a licensed engineer.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday September 30 2016, @11:33PM
The music thing really pisses me off as well, especially in restaurants. It's a lot like a laugh track in the sense that it's an organization trying to dictate to you how you should feel using an utterly misguided approach -- such as painting an operating room in cheery colors which only makes the dying more aggravated. If I'm out with somebody I'd rather hear them without all that bullshit noise in my ears.
No, that music doesn't make me associate a positive mood with your store and all others with its playlist so that I feel an overwhelming urge to buy more of your shit.
Yes, it makes me want to rip out your PA system with my bare hands, punch your manager, choke the living shit out of the whiny effeminate crypto-Christian artists who produce that crap and their marketers who get it everywhere.
Makes me yearn for the good ol' days of elevator Muzak. It was cheesy, but at least it was real honest background music, and not annoying.
Now the latest trend in bars is to allow people to download apps where they can play their own songs on the jukebox. This leads to such idiocy as morons putting on their theme song seconds before they walk in the bar (which loses its novelty after the first fifty-fucking-thousand times they do it, a hamhanded pseudo-leitmotif as cringy as WWE character intros) or using it to strategically cut off a conversation others were enjoying. I'd go for the geezer bars, but it's too easy to startle them. You have to be reeeeaalllll slooooowwwww with them or else they get jumpy and start stuttering.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 01 2016, @12:57AM
You don't really sound like a person that should be drinking much, if at all. You seem to be carrying a lot of misdirected rage. Did you have an unhappy childhood? Can you remember being dropped on the head when you were a kid?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 01 2016, @10:17AM
Ethanol-fueled may be an asshole, but his rage is anything but "misdirected". In fact he directs it at a lot of things ... and often.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 01 2016, @12:52PM
And every village needs one.
(Score: 4, Informative) by GungnirSniper on Saturday October 01 2016, @01:22AM
The Engineering department of about 500 people at my company threw a party recently, and the DJ was pointless and loud (and pointlessly loud) to the point that everyone sat as far from his speakers as possible. Nice going there, extroverted party planners. It's hard enough being the new guy, and it's even harder to talk and make those new connections if you can't hear half of what's said. #epicfail
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Saturday October 01 2016, @03:41AM
And why don't they play Chinese music in Chinese restaurants anymore?
Everything but!
Like driving a sports car while playing "the wheels on the bus". Sort of.....errm .... car analogy, mumble mumble
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Saturday October 01 2016, @04:05AM
That jukebox thing seems interesting and could have potential.. imagine if someone set it so that everyone could enter their preferred jukebox volume category* (silent, hushed, normal, loud+, deaf+) and have the thing sample the preferences every five minutes for a new volume-target to aim for with a slow (5min) ramping.
Just have it poll for wifi/bluetooth to see which devices' requests to consider.
Then again - I would love too see such a system everywhere.
* more options would cause excessive spoofing of preferences
+ what seems to be what is used today.