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I always thought it was an unspoken rule, like the way most toilets don't have signs that say "Please urinate in the urinal or the toilet bowl", or the way pavements don't always have signs saying "don't drop your litter here".
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"Please urinate in the urinal or the toilet bowl"
"don't drop your litter here"
comparing written laws to public etiquette is a good way to have your argument tossed out the door. Personally, I don't care either way as to what people do in libraries. I use the internet to research what I need to research.
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I guess you think that people exercising at a gym who insist a smoke-free environment to be oversensitive too, or that the people who insist that their restaurant not smell like shit are oversensitive and can't eat without the slightest distraction?
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Insist, insist, insist and with a fucking documented reason, my cell phone isn't killing you.
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Gyms are smoke-free so people can exercise healthily and in comfort (as it was designed to be used). Restaurants don't smell like shit so people can enjoy their food. And libraries are quiet so people can study in peace.
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care to back this up? there are documented reasons for the rulings against smoking in public places, where is your documented reason for silence in public places?
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Mentally weak willed? Dude, seriously... are you trolling or something?
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You tell me who's trolling after your sorry attempts to compare written law to unwritten ceremony. Way to focus on that line when just prior I said the oh so flattering "the self righteous motormouth with a cell phone"
I don't invest a care into the outcome of this argument either way, my opinions will change no minds, turn no heads, and really, this thread would have been dead 2 pages ago had there been no devil's advocate such as myself to go and challenge the "norm" of acceptable behavior.
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If the OP got annoyed enough with the offender, it's likely that everyone else in the library was being quiet. So it is likely to be one of those libraries where quiet is implicitly expected.
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Her outburst was far more disruptive than a phone conversation, throwing shit that belongs to other people?
I mean seriously, 90% of the people in this thread are justifying this outburst because this girl was being "rude"
There are far more civil ways to get your point across.
No offense to the OP, I just don't see why you couldn't notify a library employee if it was bothering you that much and if there were signs in place.
again, libraries by definition are no more than a repository of books in a public building. Rules vary depending on management.
It's an unwritten rule to tip, but people don't always tip. Same category in my mind. It's an optional etiquette ceremony.