The SeaWorld False Advertising Lawsuit

[samsteele]

Again, way OT but . . . my bag phone was wonderful when I worked in the Rockies in Alberta. Great for work and great security if a car breakdown out in the foothills. At least I could call & get help in an emerg.

While the bag phone is long gone, I still use a phone card/calling card every once in a while at a pay phone. People think pay phones have vanished. They haven't. They are still in WDW parks and still in WDW resorts. Cheap & easy to use. Wonderfully less $ for international guests to make otherwise expensive long distance calls home (Cdns, Brits & Aus/NZ take note). But not as convenient or hip as a cell or smart phone.

 

[disneysteve]

People think pay phones have vanished. They haven't. They are still in WDW parks and still in WDW resorts. Cheap & easy to use. Wonderfully less $ for international guests to make otherwise expensive long distance calls home (Cdns, Brits & Aus/NZ take note).

Payphones haven't vanished but there are a tiny fraction of the number there used to be, even at Disney.

 

[SorcererHeidi]

This whole conversation is cracking me up now! And yes - I remember bag phones (and buying them at work ) too. Yes - the phone was bigger than a loaf of bread (not including the pull-out antenna for better reception!), and weighed about as much as a bowling ball!

Most pay phones in NE NJ are either gone, or broken and never fixed. I actually still used them (and the calling card I had attached to my landline home phone) until about 3 years ago, then I got my first flip phone, which was prepaid. I also did not get rid of my landline home phone until last year, when I finally got an Android cell.

 

[jcb]

I recall a time before mobile phones and pagers. it was a peaceful time, dinosaurs roamed the Earth, or at least attractions at Epcot. Doctors and other important folks could be assigned numbers when they went to concerts (real concerts, not that "get off of my front lawn" stuff played on AM radio) and the number could be displayed on a monitor in case the person was needed.

 

[disneysteve]

Doctors and other important folks

And by "important folks" you primarily mean plumbers. It always seemed to me back then that those were the only two groups that carried pagers and mobile phones in the early days.

 

[SorcererHeidi]

And by "important folks" you primarily mean plumbers. It always seemed to me back then that those were the only two groups that carried pagers and mobile phones in the early days.

Don't forget law enforcement, @disneysteve - that's who I was buying all the ones I did for!

 

[Alicenwonderment]

I remember pagers because I always babysat doctors children. They always left their pager number in case something happened.

 

[Aerin75]

I had a pager when I was on call for IT reasons - the system would send out pages if it hit an alert. That didn't stop me from sleeping through them on occasion though!

 

[gmboy95]

As an original listener of the podcast, and a big fan of the entire team....on this issue we part ways....I understand the lawsuit in the sense that it is an attempt to try and hold sea world accountable in any form possible....Anytime i hear anyone from Sea World or anywhere for that matter try to sell me on how well the orcas are treated at Sea World, the old line goes through my head "dont pee on my leg and tell me its raining"....I love the podcast, but i am one of those people Pete rants about...I tell people if you believe the corporate backlash against "Blackfish", then check out the move "the cove" and that should do it for you....It cannot be denied however that the movement against sea world has succeeded...so Hopefully they can get back to what makes them great, a conservation guardian of our ecosystem.....sorry to veer back on topic

 

[Atilley]

The turn this thread took is too funny. But why not add to it. When I started my new job as a research nurse in January one of the first things they did was issue me a pager. I'm pretty sure the look on my face was classic. I didmint think anyone even used them anymore except for maybe doctors.

 

[Aerin75]

The turn this thread took is too funny. But why not add to it. When I started my new job as a research nurse in January one of the first things they did was issue me a pager. I'm pretty sure the look on my face was classic. I didmint think anyone even used them anymore except for maybe doctors.

It is, but it's a fun discussion. (pun intended). Someone told me that pagers work better in hospitals (the basement particularly). No idea if that's actually true or not.

 

[Atilley]

It is, but it's a fun discussion. (pun intended). Someone told me that pagers work better in hospitals (the basement particularly). No idea if that's actually true or not.

I hadn't really thought about the possibility of pagers working better in the basement but now that I do that might actually be true. I can't say for sure because I never carry mine I just give everyone my cell number.

 

[SorcererHeidi]

I think reception on pagers might be better than a cell phone in most basements because first of all - pages only need to be "received" once (or once again, if paging again) whereas a cell phone conversation is ongoing. And most basements (especially older ones) had thick walls and maybe even some steel used in construction, inhibiting reception. This is all from a laywoman's understanding and experience.