Cellphones at Mass

[Dhc8_Type]

Google maps sat view. The army parked helos the same way everyday. How the parked in the states. The taliban got literally up to the month recon off google.

 

[Pup7]

I had heard about something like that.

Yet we all get basically yelled at for OPSEC. (insert eye roll) They talked about banning us from FB a couple of years ago - and then it dawned on them most people do use that to stay in touch with their families.

I’m like, have any of y’all been on Google lately? SMH. The DOD is sometimes the biggest offender. They can actually mask areas, yet it seems they do it ex post facto more times than not.

(Right up to Wiki. Somehow I don’t think one should be able to see where most of our battle groups are at any one time - but you can. Really, no one needs to know this stuff.)

Sorry to those who say we’re derailing…we kinda are…

 

[Irishmom2]

(Pup, not because you mentioned derailing, but I actually think you should start a “military” any topic goes thread. I know a lot of people are members that would participate in it and we all can learn some things from the banter as well. I would read it. )

 

[JimG]

I expect that there will be cellphones ringing at the Last Judgment. What a distraction.

 

[DeniseNY]

Unless Sprint is your carrier.

 

[Pup7]

Unless Sprint is your carrier.

 

[kew_65]

I’ve gone to Mass that announces that all cell phones must be off during Mass.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Or maybe more people are using their phones as missals?

You can use your phone as a missal without its making noise.
I do this just about every Mass.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

I’ve gone to Mass that announces that all cell phones must be off during Mass.

Yes, many of them announce it prior to the opening hymn, or put a big sign on the door as you come in.

 

[MikeInVA]

Only until the goats and sheep are separated!

 

[ShowersofRoses]

 

[dochawk]

Remember your gps is better then civilian applications.

I doubt she gets that for her regular cell phone, though . . .

Serious question: really? (not smart, I promise)

The last few bits aren’t available to civilian use.

I was stunned the first time I got a direction from my cellphone that meant it could tell what lane I was in . . . (I was stopped at a long light, and it tole me to make a U-turn!)

You know, we support an international space station and can put a missile through the bad guy’s front door and never touch the frame (true story, by the way)

There was a great political cartoon in the first gulf war with a smart missile stopping someone on the street and politely asking for directions

Unless Sprint is your carrier.

I used to have sprint.

No coverage on the courtroom floor at bankruptcy court.

Not a good thing for a bankruptcy lawyer . . .

hawk

 

[angel12]

I agree. I hear a phone once in a while but it is not a regular occurrence. Usually the person who it happens to is very embarrassed and rushes to turn off the phone.

Same here, very rare in my parish.

Although there was this one time, at the Basilica, when everyone’s weather alerts went off at once (there was some really nasty stuff in the area). During Father’s homily, yet. He just ignored it and went on.

 

[babochka]

So, true story…

I just dropped my daughter off for youth group at a parish that isn’t ours. Mass had just ended and they were having benediction and adoration, so I popped into the church to pray for a few minutes. I actually thought that I had turned off my phone. I am thinking that I pressed the restart instead of off. Anyway, there I was in the last few praying and my phone started to ring. I quickly left the church to take the call. Yes, it was humiliating. Yes, it was distracting to everyone around. No, it wasn’t rude. It was an honest mistake and one I hope I never repeat. What would have been rude is if I had just let it ring and not left the church. Or worse, if I had actually answered it and tried to have a conversation in the church.

 

[Pup7]

There was a great political cartoon in the first gulf war with a smart missile stopping someone on the street and politely asking for directions

I actually remember that.

We’ve come a long way since 1990. Thank God.

I used to have sprint.

No coverage on the courtroom floor at bankruptcy court.

Not a good thing for a bankruptcy lawyer . . .

LOL! I should say not!

 

[dochawk]

LOL! I should say not!

And mores for bankruptcy than any other area of the law–we settle so much there in the inches waiting for our cases to be called, and there is generally a low murmur from hushed negotiations that would be unacceptable in any other court, and a traffic in and out to get authorization from instructions (or during the mortgage crisis, banks not calling to give their attorneys instructions until twenty minutes after schedule d hearings . . .). All of this is part of almost every area of legal practice (except appellate, I suppose), but bankruptcy takes it to new levels . . .

hawk