Just realised another good reason to go sailing.
- Thread starter Twister_Ken
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jhr
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Yes; I read this the other day and thought it was well written.
Apropos of nothing, I was sitting in the "mobile free zone" of a train the other evening surrounded, as usual, by people conducting noisy conversations on their mobiles, about their banal home lives or deeply uninteresting jobs. I am normally the kind of Englishman who seethes inwardly and says nothing but it was a Friday evening, I was knackered and I'd had enough.
Without singling out an individual (because it seemed like half the carriage was on the phone) I raised my voice and asked everybody to turn their phones off. I got a number of extremely disapproving glances and "tut tuts" for my temerity and a neighbouring passenger asked me to keep my voice down "because this is a quiet carriage, you know". Words failed me - probably just as well because it's not nice to swear in front of ladies.
It was a Weymouth train, hence vaguely boaty /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif.
Apropos of nothing, I was sitting in the "mobile free zone" of a train the other evening surrounded, as usual, by people conducting noisy conversations on their mobiles, about their banal home lives or deeply uninteresting jobs. I am normally the kind of Englishman who seethes inwardly and says nothing but it was a Friday evening, I was knackered and I'd had enough.
Without singling out an individual (because it seemed like half the carriage was on the phone) I raised my voice and asked everybody to turn their phones off. I got a number of extremely disapproving glances and "tut tuts" for my temerity and a neighbouring passenger asked me to keep my voice down "because this is a quiet carriage, you know". Words failed me - probably just as well because it's not nice to swear in front of ladies.
It was a Weymouth train, hence vaguely boaty /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif.
Clive_Rigden
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Gosh, you're right, Ken, it is long! A reasonable article though and I admire your verbal stand on the train. Having spent a long part of my career in aviation - before ending up in the sh-one-t - however, it is worth think about how much our economy benefits from Heathrow being one of the biggest "hub" airports in the world. It certainly does help to maintain London's pre-eminence as a financial centre and we must be careful not to throw the baby out with the bath water. Having lived at Twickenham, though, I also know what it can be like to live under a flight-path and have been known to go outside and shout and shake fists at the aeroplanes - barking or what! My pet noise hate down here is the constant hum of traffic one hears from just about anywhere in the New Forest, which is the largest area of open countryside in the south of England. Allied to noise nuisance is light nuisance - but I suppose that's another thread completely. . .
ChrisE
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Sailing quiet? You must be bloody joking
The amount of earache I get everytime I meet up with fellow SBers I think that there might be a good case for a generic SB noise ASBO.
The amount of earache I get everytime I meet up with fellow SBers I think that there might be a good case for a generic SB noise ASBO.
