If I go to a library to study, I expect to be able to do that in peace
and quiet. Indeed some students may only have the library as a quiet
place to work. I find it very hard to concentrate on complex ideas when
other people constantly have their phones ringing and my experience -
both as a user and an employee has been that phone owners have no
consideration for others wherever their phone happens to be to ringing.
One of the reasons why I never reserve a seat on the train is that I
could be sat next to some selfish business-person who thinks that the
whole world wants to know about their affairs for the whole of the
journey. The sooner mobile phones are banned in public communal areas
the better.
As a general comment, it's quite obvious that some people are unable to
exist WITHOUT noise. it iued to be a stereotype that this was something
found on the factory floor but it has now permeated to other areas. It's
interesting to be in Hyde Park in London when the football players
arrive with their ghetto-blaster. They're not actually listening to it.
They just need background noise.
I am glad to be a philistine - I've been called much worse!!!!!
> At the risk of sounding like a Philistine aren't we running the risk
> of confirming some rather hackneyed stereotypes about ourselves?...By and
large most of
> the students met halfway like this respond fairly positively.
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