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by activists "of silence, but not enough to challenge the phone when users in a quiet car
When I travel in a Virgin train, I always reserve a place in the calm. I do not know why, because the warnings seem to have little visible impact on the use of mobile phones and other noisy equipment. However, the Minister of Transport, Norman Baker, and a number of MPs who represent constituencies in London commuter now want to see those areas most widely applied, and have asked Transport for London to discuss the possibility of silent wagons in trains metro and train. They cite the example of U.S. railway lines near Boston, where passengers are not allowed to use the phone or talk out loud during peak hours.
The car has always brought to people in a strange mixture of tolerance and irritation. Its precursor, diligence, was a talkative mini-community in comparison. In 1818, William Hazlitt said, "is heard more good things out of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to spend twelve months with students or leaders of this famous university colleges."
When the car came in the 1830s, more comfort and encourages meditation facing window, and became silent and solitary activities like reading and sewing possible. In 1862, handy book of passenger complains: "Overall, the occupants of a train car to travel together in silence ... This is the most natural and reasonable ... Why what an Englishman is to become like a ghost, not to speak until about? "
expects that others should be quiet seems to be an arbitrary matter, to change. Actors increasingly complain about cell phones on them in mid-soliloquy, but the theater audience is not always expected to be quiet. In its recent history of celebrity, Fred Inglis traces the convention to sit in a religious silence again the actor Garrick, David, who in the mid-18th century, "has taught the public in London, gradually , to remove his talk, the sounds of zoo and obscene outbursts of song, his bombing of the fruit on the scene. "Maybe noisiest spectators
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