Shauk

Churches:
Funerals: I've seen cell phones used at funerals before, the U.S. is a large place, and the workforce isn't always going to allow for time off. Sometimes people need to call the person that missed the funeral to grieve with them remotely. This is kind of an exception, but I mean would you flip out at the widow who's on the phone crying to her daughter who's 2000 miles away?
Aside from the "ceremony" itself, funerals aren't always quiet, it's people talking in many small pockets about the person who died, and usually only briefly before it goes off on a tangent of some sort. The only "silence" is the ceremony of giving a moment of silence.

it's amazing what people don't hear if you think this is "silence"

School Classes: Theres no unwritten rule, it's generally quite fucking clear as to what is acceptable and not in classrooms.

wow what a passive aggressive post.

don't mention me by name or anything but still go on to be like "my 14 year old is better than you"

and people say i'm rude? for challenging people to provide a reason for silence?

Hell, for the sake of argument, lets take a look at a wikipedia entry for Library

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library


not once is there anything mentioned about being a place for people to quietly do anything. It goes on to state, the sole purpose of the library is to be a collection of information, it also goes on to state that "Library patrons may not know how to use a library effectively. This can be due to lack of early exposure, shyness, or anxiety and fear of displaying ignorance. In United States public libraries, beginning in the 19th century these problems drove the emergence of the library instruction movement, which advocated library user education"


I may be pissing people off in this thread but I think the way people are so "Matter of factly " posting stuff about libraries being quiet and saying that their sole purpose is to do stuff like homework, or write some paper about something that some teacher assigned to xyz student for no other reason than to have something to assign a grade to, without any information aside from their personal upbringing and opinion pieces to back it up is a bit bold.

I'm borderline insulted in return that instead of a debate, i'm met with a passive aggressive insult to my experience in life and my "respect" for others is put in to question.


If you must know, i've never even used my phone in a library, so keep that in mind before people start jumping my shit about this topic.

and that's exactly what I'd expect I'd do.