Who hates mobile phone ring tones?

. - .... .- -. .... · 7th June 2002, 10:56

Who works in an office or whatever, where everyone has mobile phones, and they all choose different, and seemingly the most annoying ring tone they can possibly find?

One of the girls here has the theme to "Black Beauty" - I hate it! And now, due to world cup mania we have every World Cup song under the sun being used.......

And who works in an office where your colleagues leave there desk, and they never take their mobile phone with them, and they always get called the instant they've left?

So post your most annoying ringtone here.....

rm' · 7th June 2002, 10:58

I hate them all.

griffinn · 7th June 2002, 11:09

New phones are coming out that can play real multipart melodies instead of the monotonic crap most of us are stuck with. My friend's phone has Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition - Promenade" as its ringtone.

Mr Jones · 7th June 2002, 11:12

Mine goes a little like this....

"Ring ring.... Ring ring..... Ring ring...."

Always know when it's my phone ringing in the office, mainly because it isn't a midi rendition of...

The Flintstones theme
The A Team theme
James Bond theme
The Simpsons theme.

Etc etc

Simplicity conquers all once again....

Matt · 7th June 2002, 11:57

They all annoy me. All I want is a normal ringing tone, like that of a standard phone.

But no, no mobile phone I get seems to have one.

. - .... .- -. .... · 7th June 2002, 11:59

Quote:

Originally posted by Matt
They all annoy me. All I want is a normal ringing tone, like that of a standard phone.

But no, no mobile phone I get seems to have one.

LOL - I had to download a normal ringtone. Took a few days of searching too...

Adil · 7th June 2002, 12:16

What I ahte most in cell phones, is that when I'm in the train listening to my mp3 player, I get to hear all the wave parazites from every single cell phone in the wagon

biiizzzzzeet bzzet sbbbeeeettttt titititi beeeeeeeeee

apollos · 7th June 2002, 12:51

Well my Nokia 8310 plays Private Eye which is really kewl methinks.

I love the Nokia ringtones, all the others suck.

At church a friend of mine is an idiot and never turns his phone on silent and I just laugh when it rings when everything is quiet.

Kaboon · 7th June 2002, 12:56

I like them to be anoying! I don't know why, I just like it!

Eg. I really like the "Rocket" tune on my nokia with the volume set to the highest level. My older Siemens has a very anoying beep also very great!

Atmo · 7th June 2002, 13:15

Mine goes ring--ring when its switched on....

Personally i hate mobile phones, but they seem to be a modern day necessity. I hate always being able to be contacted so its switched off most of the time, I turn it on check my messages and switch it off...

When i get reception that is....

John M · 7th June 2002, 13:17

my dad damn near went ballistic when i changed his ringtone to the mexican hat dance.

Bilbo Baggins · 7th June 2002, 13:31

I love ring tones, although some of them are pretty cheesy. I would love the Rhubarb theme tune for mine.

CremoNe · 7th June 2002, 14:41

I switch tones off when I'm at the university and always forget to re-switch on.

eleet-2k2 · 7th June 2002, 15:03

I hate the repetitive and musical ones. There are only a few that are good.

henry3k56 · 7th June 2002, 15:36

London Bridge is falling down....thats the most annoying ring tone.

I hear a bunch in the library, everyone has one of those idiotic things, they're supposed to be banned in the library, but people don't seem to listen with their head glued onto a mobile phone.

Xerxes · 7th June 2002, 16:14

All the cell phone carriers in my family use the trumpet "cavalry charge" theme... its a military thing.

As I have said before, do you think when Beethoven labored for weeks to compose the 5th symphony, quite possibly the height of musical accomplishment in Western Civilization (due to its emotion and amount of variations of the main theme) do you think he ever imagined that a century or 2 later it would be reduced to a simple beep song used to annoy people into picking up a phone?

Same goes with Mozart's 40th- my IDIOT brother actually comes into my room with that playing and says "Wait that sounds like that one cell phone ring"

Curi0us_George · 7th June 2002, 16:16

They are all crap. Every last one of them. My phone here doesn't even have a standard-sounding ring, though, just crap. I leave it on vibrate.

sgtfuzzbubble011 · 9th June 2002, 06:58

I usually hate all those crap-ass ringtones. They annoy me, too. But it makes it easier to know when it's my phone that's ringing because my phone is the only one around that sounds like a normal phone. Mine just goes "ring."

Trigear · 9th June 2002, 07:11

my old phone (qualcomm) had a ring that sounded like a sonar ping... it was simple, and VERY VERY quiet (most of the time, i could barely hear it coming from my own pocket)... but then the phone went into a coma (no joke) and had to be put down. so i got a samsung. it's got 15 musical tones, and maybe 5 real rings. and the 5 rings suck. what i want is a really simple, quiet ring, that i can recognize... you know that one ring that everyone seems to be using nowadays that basically is one tone just getting louder (riiiiiiiIING)? well, i had that a year before i ever heard anyone using it. and i stopped the second i heard another one. the only problem with it is that "disturbed" song "get down with the sickness" had a background noise in it that was exactly my phone ring, so every time i heard it i thought it was ringing...

i was just rambling wasn't i? i guess what i meant to say was, yeah, i agree. annoying ring tones are... annoying. yeah.

SSJ4 Gogitta · 9th June 2002, 07:25

how about a ringtone that sounds like a 56k modem dialing up? hehe

or a tone that actually says "ring... ring..."

sgtfuzzbubble011 · 9th June 2002, 07:45

[AOL guy voice]
"You've got a call..."
[/voice]

*smashes phone on sidewalk*

Vie · 9th June 2002, 18:42

I hate the bloody things

Spiffed · 9th June 2002, 19:25

personally, i hate cellular/mobile/wireless phones, but in the short time the company i was working for required me to carry one i had it set to either vibrate (when it was physically on my person) or the "wild eep" as stolen off of my mac classic (thank god for wave-enabled cellular phones) but none of thedefault rings were even slightly acceotable, they were all a damned sound.. why can't someone make a phone that rings?

telinstryata · 9th June 2002, 19:43

I find most rings on phones annoying except the basic ring...ring..etc. But I usually leave mine on vibrate.

and when I get bored I get a friends phone and call myself..

Sandman2012 · 9th June 2002, 19:48

I'm not a big fan of cell-phones. Well, actually, cell phones, being an object, are neither good nor bad, but I do have issues with a lot of people who use them. It seems that too many people forget to turn off the ringers in public places or, worse, talk on the phone while conducting a transaction in store or something (incredibly rude to the cashier). I'm with Atmo, i dislike being able to be contacted anywhere. I don't even answer my home phone half the time it rings.

Well, sorry for going off-topic there for a sec. On-topic, most of the rings are annoying. Hopefully there will be trend towards change sometime soon.

Xerxes, it seems that all great art in the 21st century gets reduced to advertising and soundbites. Oh well...

Bilbo Baggins · 9th June 2002, 20:17

Advertising and soundbites? I thought we were talking mobile phones here, not New Labour...

7th June 2002, 10:56	#1
. - .... .- -. .... Backpacking Moderator Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: საქართველო (Georgia) Posts: 10,104	Who hates mobile phone ring tones? Who works in an office or whatever, where everyone has mobile phones, and they all choose different, and seemingly the most annoying ring tone they can possibly find? One of the girls here has the theme to "Black Beauty" - I hate it! And now, due to world cup mania we have every World Cup song under the sun being used....... And who works in an office where your colleagues leave there desk, and they never take their mobile phone with them, and they always get called the instant they've left? So post your most annoying ringtone here..... Like my photography? Buy some here....

7th June 2002, 11:09	#3
griffinn Court Jester (Forum King) Join Date: May 2000 Location: Your local toystore Posts: 3,501	New phones are coming out that can play real multipart melodies instead of the monotonic crap most of us are stuck with. My friend's phone has Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition - Promenade" as its ringtone. The smiley slot machine! \| Quotable Blog

7th June 2002, 12:56	#9
Kaboon Moderator Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Netherlands Posts: 2,494	I like them to be anoying! I don't know why, I just like it! Eg. I really like the "Rocket" tune on my nokia with the volume set to the highest level. My older Siemens has a very anoying beep also very great! berkenpi.es

7th June 2002, 13:15	#10
Atmo The Freak (Forum King) Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 9,400	Mine goes ring--ring when its switched on.... Personally i hate mobile phones, but they seem to be a modern day necessity. I hate always being able to be contacted so its switched off most of the time, I turn it on check my messages and switch it off... When i get reception that is.... :Psykotech:

7th June 2002, 13:17	#11
John M Puts the Cuss in General Discussions (Forum King) Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Cincy, Ohio Posts: 3,624	my dad damn near went ballistic when i changed his ringtone to the mexican hat dance. missyob made me post this.

7th June 2002, 10:58	#2
rm' Banned Join Date: Jul 2000 Posts: 11,361	I hate them all.

7th June 2002, 11:12	#4
Mr Jones Nothing to say... Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: UK Posts: 23,098	Mine goes a little like this.... "Ring ring.... Ring ring..... Ring ring...." Always know when it's my phone ringing in the office, mainly because it isn't a midi rendition of... The Flintstones theme The A Team theme James Bond theme The Simpsons theme. Etc etc Simplicity conquers all once again....

7th June 2002, 11:57	#5
Matt Banned Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: England Posts: 3,396	They all annoy me. All I want is a normal ringing tone, like that of a standard phone. But no, no mobile phone I get seems to have one.

7th June 2002, 12:16	#7
Adil Major Dude Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 1,377	What I ahte most in cell phones, is that when I'm in the train listening to my mp3 player, I get to hear all the wave parazites from every single cell phone in the wagon biiizzzzzeet bzzet sbbbeeeettttt titititi beeeeeeeeee

7th June 2002, 12:51	#8
apollos Forum King Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Canterbury & Plymouth Posts: 4,176	Well my Nokia 8310 plays Private Eye which is really kewl methinks. I love the Nokia ringtones, all the others suck. At church a friend of mine is an idiot and never turns his phone on silent and I just laugh when it rings when everything is quiet.

7th June 2002, 13:31	#12
Bilbo Baggins Wind Chime of the Apocalypse Join Date: May 2000 Location: The Forest Posts: 17,228	I love ring tones, although some of them are pretty cheesy. I would love the Rhubarb theme tune for mine.

7th June 2002, 14:41	#13
CremoNe Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Italy Posts: 397	I switch tones off when I'm at the university and always forget to re-switch on.

7th June 2002, 15:03	#14
eleet-2k2 Forum King Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Mobil Ave. Posts: 5,381	I hate the repetitive and musical ones. There are only a few that are good. "Welcome to the Island of people who know too much."..."Did you really think balloons would stop him?!" See what I'm listening too.

7th June 2002, 15:36	#15
henry3k56 Forum King Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: The Internet Posts: 3 Trillion Posts: 4,241	London Bridge is falling down....thats the most annoying ring tone. I hear a bunch in the library, everyone has one of those idiotic things, they're supposed to be banned in the library, but people don't seem to listen with their head glued onto a mobile phone. henry3k56 \| Summer is here. My Flickr Page & Frontierra \| Posting Since September 2001.

7th June 2002, 16:14	#16
Xerxes Capitalist Alumni Join Date: May 2000 Location: my 4 Houses on Park Place Posts: 8,688	All the cell phone carriers in my family use the trumpet "cavalry charge" theme... its a military thing. As I have said before, do you think when Beethoven labored for weeks to compose the 5th symphony, quite possibly the height of musical accomplishment in Western Civilization (due to its emotion and amount of variations of the main theme) do you think he ever imagined that a century or 2 later it would be reduced to a simple beep song used to annoy people into picking up a phone? Same goes with Mozart's 40th- my IDIOT brother actually comes into my room with that playing and says "Wait that sounds like that one cell phone ring"

7th June 2002, 16:16	#17
Curi0us_George Forum King Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Oxford, MS Posts: -1 Posts: 5,179	They are all crap. Every last one of them. My phone here doesn't even have a standard-sounding ring, though, just crap. I leave it on vibrate. For the freedom to express myself in my own way without fear of being censored or banned. 47 65 6C 61 65 64 2E 63 6F 6D 00

9th June 2002, 06:58	#18
sgtfuzzbubble011 Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 60,839	I usually hate all those crap-ass ringtones. They annoy me, too. But it makes it easier to know when it's my phone that's ringing because my phone is the only one around that sounds like a normal phone. Mine just goes "ring."

9th June 2002, 07:11	#19
Trigear bear! Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 3,426	my old phone (qualcomm) had a ring that sounded like a sonar ping... it was simple, and VERY VERY quiet (most of the time, i could barely hear it coming from my own pocket)... but then the phone went into a coma (no joke) and had to be put down. so i got a samsung. it's got 15 musical tones, and maybe 5 real rings. and the 5 rings suck. what i want is a really simple, quiet ring, that i can recognize... you know that one ring that everyone seems to be using nowadays that basically is one tone just getting louder (riiiiiiiIING)? well, i had that a year before i ever heard anyone using it. and i stopped the second i heard another one. the only problem with it is that "disturbed" song "get down with the sickness" had a background noise in it that was exactly my phone ring, so every time i heard it i thought it was ringing... i was just rambling wasn't i? i guess what i meant to say was, yeah, i agree. annoying ring tones are... annoying. yeah.

9th June 2002, 07:25	#20
SSJ4 Gogitta Followed by Gnomes (Forum King) Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: West Virginia Googolplex: 10^10¹°° FB:/SSJ4.DominusDeus DeviantArt: DominusDeus XboX GT: A Wild Meeseeks Playstation 4: DominusDeus Posts: 7,162	how about a ringtone that sounds like a 56k modem dialing up? hehe or a tone that actually says "ring... ring..."

9th June 2002, 07:45	#21
sgtfuzzbubble011 Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 60,839	[AOL guy voice] "You've got a call..." [/voice] smashes phone on sidewalk

9th June 2002, 18:42	#22
Vie Forum King Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Thoron fields and Duranium shadows. Posts: Crap mostly Posts: 8,003	I hate the bloody things Member most in need of SpellCheck Lifetime Achievement Award I'm a Twitch Streamer these days, it's weird.

9th June 2002, 19:25	#23
Spiffed Major Dude Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Milliways Posts: 921	personally, i hate cellular/mobile/wireless phones, but in the short time the company i was working for required me to carry one i had it set to either vibrate (when it was physically on my person) or the "wild eep" as stolen off of my mac classic (thank god for wave-enabled cellular phones) but none of thedefault rings were even slightly acceotable, they were all a damned sound.. why can't someone make a phone that rings? the road to enlightenment is filled with much dark chat, stat, and be merry The best of IRC PM's

9th June 2002, 19:43	#24
telinstryata Junior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 41	I find most rings on phones annoying except the basic ring...ring..etc. But I usually leave mine on vibrate. and when I get bored I get a friends phone and call myself..

9th June 2002, 19:48	#25
Sandman2012 <3 foobar2k (Forum King) Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 3,203	I'm not a big fan of cell-phones. Well, actually, cell phones, being an object, are neither good nor bad, but I do have issues with a lot of people who use them. It seems that too many people forget to turn off the ringers in public places or, worse, talk on the phone while conducting a transaction in store or something (incredibly rude to the cashier). I'm with Atmo, i dislike being able to be contacted anywhere. I don't even answer my home phone half the time it rings. Well, sorry for going off-topic there for a sec. On-topic, most of the rings are annoying. Hopefully there will be trend towards change sometime soon. Xerxes, it seems that all great art in the 21st century gets reduced to advertising and soundbites. Oh well... pabook.net

9th June 2002, 20:17	#26
Bilbo Baggins Wind Chime of the Apocalypse Join Date: May 2000 Location: The Forest Posts: 17,228	Advertising and soundbites? I thought we were talking mobile phones here, not New Labour...

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