Sir Robert Winston Phone Woe's

[fender62]

who has not been in the same situation, on a bus, movie theatre, restaurant etc.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5339487/Professor-Robert-Winston-trolls-mother-phone.html

[Peter Pedant]

oh Lardy lardy !

he's a Lord by the way - it is in the article but I knew anyway. - he also narrowly escaped censure by letting the press know Shri ( her..... you know, Blair) was pregnant. And went on the run for a week

I mean what can one say
Heads up Lord W . .... or
heads down ! Lord W ... or
You've put your finger in it this time, m'lud

or - when you're in a hole - stop digging m'lud !

[emmie]

i have been in this situation, sat on a bus with a woman proclaiming at the top of her lungs about her every day minutiae, it was excruciating to say the least,

[Guilbert53]

Surely if he has many woes it is woes (plural) and not "woe's"

[Guilbert53]

Talking of noisy people.

I was in the hospital waiting room the other day waiting to have my eyes checked and one of the nurses was giving out lens cleaners for your glasses.

The lens cleaners had adverts on them for the RNIB (which is the "Royal National Institute for the Blind" but the lens cleaners only said RNIB.

Anyway this loud woman started having a go at the nurse for giving out these lens cleaners saying the RNIB should be spending their money on lifeboats and not lens cleaners (She had obviously confused RNIB with the RNLI).

She was there taking her husband (who was in a wheelchair) to have his eyes checked, nothing wrong with her eyes.

She reminded me of Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced Bouquet) from the comedy Keeping Up Appearances, loud and opinionated.

Anyway she kept going on and on about it and each new person who came in who was given one of these lens cleaners got the full story about how the RNLI was wasting peoples money and they should be helping save people's lives at sea.

I realised the mistake she had made, and was desperate to point out her mistake and tell her to shut up, but I did not have the nerve.

Eventually her husband got called in to the doctor and she went in with him.

But I still regret not saying anything to her and seeing the look on her face when she realised what an idiot she had been.

[sapelesam]

In my opinion, he was out of order posting her picture, even taking a photo of a stranger is not on. Like many people, her right to have a loud long boring conversation on her phone is paramount, to hell with everybody else. Manners need to be taught at home, no excuses.

[david small]

I’d just arrived back from India after an historical tour.
On the two hour journey by train from Gatwick sat two sari clad ladies gabbering away on the phone for the whole journey. It was as though India followed me home.

[andy-hughes]

I appreciate that this woman was being ill-mannered, but if it bothered LW that much, he could have had a quiet word.

Pillorying someone on social media is inappropriate and makes his Lordship look chippy, small minded and mean, which I am sure he is not.