Last month, the Argentine opera singer Gabriela Pochinki was arrested at a French bistro on the Upper West Side when she allegedly scuffled with the restaurant's manager after several customers had complained about her loud cellphone chat.
Sit next to his cage every day for a few hours, reading out loud, absently chatting while you check your emails, even saying nonsensical words as you do something else.
Mitchell Johnson's chat was loud but a tad unconvincing.
He was described as "one of Britain's foremost experts on Dr Who" (loud laughter from the chat rooms) and it was said he had appeared in two James Bond films (he had claimed this elsewhere, but his name appears on no cast list - if he was in them it was as an extra).
The tall guy with the facial hair and the gruff voice and the big, loud truck -- who chatted with them for a good five minutes about the cookies, the sign, what they would do with their money.
So there he was, at the Design and Decoration Building, with the view of the Queensboro Bridge (so deliciously noir) and the too-loud jazz band, chatting them up.
Startled by a loud noise during his lunchtime chat with the Tory peer and pundit Danny Finkelstein, Jeremy Hunt quipped that it "might be Lynton Crosby" monitoring his on-message answers in his job as Tory campaign bully.
It seems I have been saying Bar Bacca for the last five years and that for five years Liz has been saying that Bar Bacca is too loud for the catching-up chat we want to have.
We're just fishing for excuses while paralysed in a sea of mixed-metaphor anxiety because we have that ancient fear that wherever we are, next door someone will be having a better time than us, what with their loud music, glass clinking, cheery chat, midnight countdown and all….
Alternating layers of air and thick glass can make a truck-jammed block seem no louder than a two-way chat, Mr. Miller said.
