On Fri, 9 May 2008 15:49:37 +0100, d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne,
_the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
>Keith Anderson wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 9 May 2008 12:53:06 +0100, d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne,
>> _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
>>
>> >Tim C. wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Thu, 8 May 2008 07:58:05 +0100, d4g4h4@yahoo.co.ukDavid Horne, _the_
>> >> chancellor wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > And being disturbed by another driver tanking it past you. Yup.
>> >>
>> >> The motoring equivalent of the twat sitting next to you in the train with
>> >> his/her PC/MAC beeping all the bloody time. or the tss tsst tss of music
>> >> from walkman headphones.
>> >
>> >The quiet coaches here are generally fine. I usually sit in them.
>>
>> One amongst many plus point about living in Germany is mobile phone
>> etiquette. Every now and again there are the shouters**, but by and
>> large people seem far more considerate in terms of phone use in public
>> places. I noticed the difference on a trip to the UK late March/early
>> April this year - back to the Land of the Loud-Mouthed.
>
>You're probably right but people being loud with mobile phones here is
>not as bad on trains (in regular 'non quiet coaches) as it used to be.
I think you're right - the UK is generally not as bad as it used to
be, but definitely worse than here.
It's probably because I'm a miserable old fart (oh, OK, it's
definitely 'cos I'm a miserable old fart) that I can't understand how
mobile phones for many seem to be some kind of life-support system -
will they die if they're not twiddling with the damn things all the
time?
Keith (formerly of Bristol UK)
now moved to Berlin/nach Berlin umgezogen |
