Bob Jones you are awesome and I hate you

**limbimtimwim** · 22nd October 2006, 07:55

http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3836570a10,00.html

If there were a show like 'The Osbournes' but 'The Jones'' we'd have the best television ever.

**apteryx_haasti** · 22nd October 2006, 08:27

Originally Posted by limbimtimwim

http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3836570a10,00.html

If there were a show like 'The Osbournes' but 'The Jones'' we'd have the best television ever.

Oh my! That is fantastic - and I have to say I agree...who hasn't been on a bus with some jerk screaming into their cell phone about nothing?

Ah - thanks limbimtimwim, you've just added another reason to why I love my bike....hardly ever need the bus now!

**Colapop** · 22nd October 2006, 08:54

Bob is a cool guy. Like most people that have a little bit of money he's an arrogant son-of-a-bitch though. In my opin...

wait a minute, I have to take this....

**Wasp** · 22nd October 2006, 08:59

he lives just down the road from me, cool house, cool driveway, cool 'lectric gates.

i wouldnt want to have lunch with someone who was on their cell phone the whole time either.

**trumpy** · 22nd October 2006, 09:18

Totally agree with Bob.
I love new technology. I had one of the first cell phones in town, never mind "the brick", this one had a separate handpiece like to the main unit and took up 3/4 of my (rather large) briefcase!!
But there is a time and place for everything and civility is still important. My pet dislike is for those people who insist on answering texts while I'm trying to have a conversation with them. Nowdays, I immediately stop talking (usually mid sentence) and walk away. Interesting thing is I am often the one accused of being rude!
As for those dorks who insist on wearing their blue tooth earpieces absoulutely everywhere, like they are that busy and important they need such a device every moment of the day?? Seem to see heaps of them driving around Aucks in Nissan Cedrics, Toyota Coronas etc.

Sorry..........it's Sunday morning, it's raining, there are things to do and I would rather be riding...........= grumpy.

**Beemer** · 22nd October 2006, 10:45

Have to agree with him - most people use their cellphones to 'prove' how important they are. What they don't realise is that if they WERE that important, they wouldn't be answering their own phones! I bet Bill Gates doesn't wander around with one pressed to his ear all day. As far as I am concerned, the only time you have a legitimate reason to leave your phone on night and day is if a member of your family is close to death and you will need to arrange to get there when the inevitable happens. Or you are on call, etc. Anyone else can and should turn it off when meeting other people or having a meal, it's just rude not to.

I like the way Bob gives the others arseholes on Dragon's Den - it's worth watching for that alone! I hate that young guy and Annette Presley - that voice of hers could strip paint at 50 paces and she laughs like a bloody witch!

**limbimtimwim** · 22nd October 2006, 11:22

Originally Posted by Beemer

I hate that young guy and Annette Presley - that voice of hers could strip paint at 50 paces and she laughs like a bloody witch!

She is quite a looser. See more of Annette being a fool: http://youtube.com/watch?v=BGuPK4-q_08 .

**Hitcher** · 22nd October 2006, 11:48

Like Bob Jones, I resent the rudeness many cellphone users exhibit. And inappropriate timing of texting is just as bad. How did people manage multiple relationships before these things were invented?

**limbimtimwim** · 22nd October 2006, 11:59

Originally Posted by Hitcher

How did people manage multiple relationships before these things were invented?

I'm wondering, because you asked that question in a kind of rhetorical sense, do you really mean you are some kind of expert?

**Colapop** · 22nd October 2006, 12:04

He'd have to be in some sort of national manager of communications type role to ask questions like that wouldn't he?

**Swoop** · 22nd October 2006, 13:09

Much like "call waiting" on the land line.
"I have another call coming in - hang on a second..." so I hang up.
They call back, "I think we got cut off?..." me - "No, I hung up on you". Morons.

**Skyryder** · 22nd October 2006, 16:26

Originally Posted by trumpy

As for those dorks who insist on wearing their blue tooth earpieces absoulutely everywhere, like they are that busy and important they need such a device every moment of the day?? Seem to see heaps of them driving around Aucks in Nissan Cedrics, Toyota Coronas etc.

It's an image thing. Like look at me..........I'm a wheeler dealer and so important that people need my decision making expertise......... etc etc.

I just see them as modern day Maxwell Smart's. Fuckwits with a shoe phone complex.

Skyryder

**apteryx_haasti** · 22nd October 2006, 21:42

SPeaking of people being rude fuckwits - how about going to a concert, yeah it's in a small venue (pub) but does that mean you have to talk all the way through it - you dumb bitch!!! Some of us are here because we actually want to listen to the singer....

**James Deuce** · 22nd October 2006, 21:55

Nah, Pub gigs are fair game. No one playing in a band expects anyone except their immediate coterie to pay any attention at all, and even then the coterie are usually bored to death with the same old, same old.

Phones though. Don't be surprised to wear a drum stick in the middle of a set if you answer your phone during an acoustic piece and then proceed to laugh loudly. I always throw them so the stick is spinning at about 300rpm and can be mistaken for an "oops, slipped" moment.

Still smarts though.

I've always like Bob Jones' style. Punching media up while being stalked when fishing was another great Bob Jones moment.