So here’s the next stage in my plan to be professionally angry. The inspiration for this comes from Dragonlady and Sandra telling me to video myself pranking my friend who did the annoying call six times without leaving a message. Then I thought of Revver’s promise to deliver videos to mobile platforms and pay the creators. I combined the two and came up with this.
These Public Service Announcements are made to educate idiots who can’t use mobile phones properly. Send these to morons (anonymously if you like) to give them the idea of what they’re doing wrong.
This first one is for the repeat callers with no messages. This is the family-friendly version.
Here’s the Revver URL for this PSA
http://revver.com/video/50681/20579
Send it around and make me rich.
Here’s the potty-mouth version of the same PSA – to let people know when you’re really pissed off.
Here’s the Revver URL:
http://revver.com/video/50682/20579
This PSA is aimed at those loudmouth idiots who have conversations on their mobile phone in public places at the top of their lungs. Send them this message and let them know you want them to shut the fuck up.
Revver URL:
http://revver.com/video/50683/20579
The fourth in this series of PSAs is for people who leave their mobile at their desk when they go somewhere. Then the rest of us have the constant annoyance of their phone ringing and not being answered. Send them this message to let them know how you feel.
Here’s the Revver URL:
http://revver.com/video/50684/20579
Make me rich. Or I’ll come looking for you.
10 Comments
August 21, 2006 at 10:24 pm
LMAO!! those are great!!! Especially annoying are the phones that have disgusting ring tones. Music (if you can call it that) that makes you want to barf. I would personally like to drown those in the toilet! Maybe I’ll send vlog #4 to those folks.
August 21, 2006 at 11:21 pm
As a person who has got the first mobile roughly half a year ago, I feel with you. However I find it far more annoying if a person who you talk to, suddenly interrupts the conversation to answer a SMS. I mean, it is the POINT of written messages that you don’t have to write back immedeatly.
May their fingernails rot and their mobiles discharge!
August 21, 2006 at 11:35 pm
Sandra: good idea, I might do another one, about 3 seconds long: HEY LOSER, YOUR RINGTONE SUCKS!
Webgirlie: you are absolutely right, a point I addressed in my recently published “Rules for mobile phones”
August 21, 2006 at 11:39 pm
Got a link? I didn’t make it through the rest of your babbling yet. (-;
August 21, 2006 at 11:45 pm
Oh geez, you want me to work now? OK it’s at http://angryaussie.wordpress.com/2006/07/27/mr-angrys-rules-for-mobile-phones/
it was part of my series where I decided I had to tell the world how to run their lives. Because, you know, people are incapable of behaving in ways I can tolerate without my help.
August 22, 2006 at 2:15 am
poor baby you know you love it.
August 22, 2006 at 2:50 am
Most of the time my mobile is either off or on vibrate. I rarely use it anymore and use Skype for longdistance. Loved the PSA’s.
August 22, 2006 at 6:12 am
YEAH! Tell’em about it!
You should also address people who drive and talk on cell phones. My daughter’s friend got killed by someone reaching down to answer their cell phone. It was a friggin’ tragedy. They buried her in the prom dress she had just purchased a few weeks earlier.
August 22, 2006 at 7:20 am
Sandra: I suffer for my readers
Range: that’s a sensible approach
dragonlady: That is tragic and it happens way too often
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