What's your ringtone?

MagicSailor · Post by **MagicSailor** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 6:58 pm

Hi

Discuss.

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Post by **Dale** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:12 pm

Your poll answers aren't going to get you a job in research.

Ringtones are, of course, an abomination. People's phones ringing in public is a minor annoyance. People's phones playing loud, tinny, and obnoxious songs is a major irritation.

MagicSailor · Post by **MagicSailor** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:14 pm

Dale wrote:Your poll answers aren't going to get you a job in research.

This is for entertainment only...

Owen

Coffee · Post by **Coffee** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:20 pm

I'm with the stickman in the comic...
brrrr brrrrr... brrrrr brrrrr

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:38 pm

I answered that it is okay, seeing as how a couple of my favorite ringtones have been the Mission Impossible theme and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
So how can I deprive anyone else?

Sadly though, my current phone, a Palm Centro, does not play downloadable music ringtones. (unless--in theory--you buy/install a program called Ringo, which may well frack up your phone, as it did mine. They gave me a refund.)
Anyway, my Centro ring of choice is a ragtimey blues riff of no particular pedigree.

But for all practical purposes it doesn't matter anyway since when I'm out and about I have it in my pocket on vibrate.

Thomaston · Post by **Thomaston** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:44 pm

What if it's a cool song? Mine is the beginning of the guitar solo from Stairway to Heaven.

Flogging Jason · Post by **Flogging Jason** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:50 pm

I like using my favorite song as my ringtone. Currently it's one of the new Alkaline Trio songs.

What annoys me is people who have a different ringtone for different callers! I've thought about doing it to be cute....but nobody calls me enough and those bloody ringtones cost about 3 bucks apiece!

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:10 pm

I hate electronic make-believe "ring" tones. All modern phones make this phoney wrrt wrrt noise. What was wrong with the real ringing of a bell on the phone? I like the sound of a real bell on the phone. If I were going to pay for a ring tone, it would be from a recording of a real phone bell ringing.

djm

ketida · Post by **ketida** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:29 pm

I use one of the pre-set tones, it's very subdued. I think its named something like "rain forest" but really, who needs so many choices? I think a phone should just ring like a phone.

But, honestly, I did have a brief indulgence. I had Conway Twitty, singing, "Hello, Darlin....."

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:50 pm

mine is a musette

I really want my daughter's--- I wanna be sedated

Coffee · Post by **Coffee** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:09 pm

Okay... I might make exceptions in my overall stance for the Ramones. Maybe.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:17 pm

cowtime wrote:mine is a musette

I really want my daughter's--- I wanna be sedated

That's practically my theme song

In terms of ringtones, mine is the theme from the X-Files

MagicSailor · Post by **MagicSailor** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:22 pm

djm wrote:I hate electronic make-believe "ring" tones. All modern phones make this phoney wrrt wrrt noise. What was wrong with the real ringing of a bell on the phone? I like the sound of a real bell on the phone. If I were going to pay for a ring tone, it would be from a recording of a real phone bell ringing.

djm

That's what my Sony Ericsson has. A recording of a ringing phone is one of the built-in choices. (Or if it's not a recording, it's a very well done synthetic bell.)

Owen

Charlene · Post by **Charlene** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:41 pm

I would like to have a neat song for a ringtone, but the only one that's pre-programmed that is loud enough to hear is the old fashioned ring. Even at that, if I'm in the other room or someplace noisy I can't hear it. If I'm expecting a call I'll program the phone to vibrate as well as ring and put it in my pocket where I can feel it.

My old phone rang nice and loud, but everytime my purse fell over the buttons got pushed and I kept calling people without meaning to.

I can't send text messages for some reason, but I can recieve them. I did e-mail tech support and they said take out the battery and replace it, but that didn't help and I never followed up. Sometimes it would be handy to be able to text.

chrisoff · Post by **chrisoff** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:11 am

I voted no because my phone plays annoying Rock music, not pop

At the moment it's Sabotage by the Beastie Boys but it's been Faith No More, Pantera, Refused and Guns and Roses in the past.

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