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vonPeterhof
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 Message 9 of 25
08 December 2012 at 7:47pm | IP Logged 
I also do that "pretend you're on the phone"-shadowing on my way from work. I do feel awkward doing it on the metro though, since there's no signal that deep underground and it's obvious that I'm pretending, so I usually stop vocalizing for the duration of the ride. I also once caught myself simultaneously shadowing Vietnamese Pimsleur and reading a horror manga in Japanese while standing in a tightly packed metro train, and thought to myself "Y-yeah, I think I might be overdoing this whole 'multitasking' thing just a teensy bit" :)

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 Message 10 of 25
08 December 2012 at 10:10pm | IP Logged 
Cristina, you're in safe company here! I make a habit of self-talking in several languages every morning on the way to work and it doesn't even raise an eyebrow. The great thing is that, in this day and age, nearly everyone on the street wears head phones, or walks and talks into their hands-free smart phone, so I no longer look like someone who escaped from the local loony bin anymore. :)

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 Message 11 of 25
08 December 2012 at 10:33pm | IP Logged 
vonPeterhof wrote:
I also do that "pretend you're on the phone"-shadowing on my way from work. I do feel awkward doing it on the metro though, since there's no signal that deep underground and it's obvious that I'm pretending, so I usually stop vocalizing for the duration of the ride. I also once caught myself simultaneously shadowing Vietnamese Pimsleur and reading a horror manga in Japanese while standing in a tightly packed metro train, and thought to myself "Y-yeah, I think I might be overdoing this whole 'multitasking' thing just a teensy bit" :)
Depends on the line. On Koltsevaya I even use mob net just fine:D
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 Message 12 of 25
09 December 2012 at 5:13am | IP Logged 
Serpent wrote:
vonPeterhof wrote:
I also do that "pretend you're on the phone"-shadowing on my
way from work. I do feel awkward doing it on the metro though, since there's no signal that deep underground
and it's obvious that I'm pretending, so I usually stop vocalizing for the duration of the ride. I also once caught
myself simultaneously shadowing Vietnamese Pimsleur and reading a horror manga in Japanese while
standing in a tightly packed metro train, and thought to myself "Y-yeah, I think I might be overdoing this whole
'multitasking' thing just a teensy bit" :)
Depends on the line. On Koltsevaya I even use mob net just
fine:D


I think he meant the Saint Petersburg Metro. I'm sure it's harder to get a signal in one of the deepest metros
in the world than in Moscow, although depth isn't always a factor--the New York subway isn't that deep at all,
but cell phones never work there.
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 Message 13 of 25
09 December 2012 at 7:59am | IP Logged 
espejismo wrote:
Serpent wrote:
vonPeterhof wrote:
I also do that "pretend you're on the phone"-shadowing on my
way from work. I do feel awkward doing it on the metro though, since there's no signal that deep underground
and it's obvious that I'm pretending, so I usually stop vocalizing for the duration of the ride. I also once caught
myself simultaneously shadowing Vietnamese Pimsleur and reading a horror manga in Japanese while
standing in a tightly packed metro train, and thought to myself "Y-yeah, I think I might be overdoing this whole
'multitasking' thing just a teensy bit" :)
Depends on the line. On Koltsevaya I even use mob net just
fine:D


I think he meant the Saint Petersburg Metro. I'm sure it's harder to get a signal in one of the deepest metros
in the world than in Moscow, although depth isn't always a factor--the New York subway isn't that deep at all,
but cell phones never work there.
I've actually moved to Moscow a couple of months ago. I take the Zamoskvoretskaya to work, and the signal is absent for me on most of it. I think it also depends on your mobile company. I have MTS and I don't get signal even in the lobbies of most stations, let alone moving trains, whereas Megafon users don't seem to have this problem. In Saint Petersburg it's the other way round, I didn't have any problems on any station there with MTS, though the signal still disappears between stations. Anyway, I never see anyone else talk on their mobile on the trains, so I just assume it looks weird.
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 Message 14 of 25
09 December 2012 at 9:00am | IP Logged 
I have MTS too and I love it! XD btw Wiki has info on what operators' signal is there at each station.
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 Message 15 of 25
09 December 2012 at 11:23am | IP Logged 
All cool people are weird!

Anyway, you're more likely to get a seat to yourself on the train if you're talking to yourself. Especially if you gesticulate, something I've been told Italians do a lot of.
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 Message 16 of 25
09 December 2012 at 10:54pm | IP Logged 
You're so right.

We're not weird. We're cool!


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