Dan Abel > scripsit in news:dabel-1795FA.17245731052007
@cor8-ppp5025.per.dsl.connect.net.au:

> it's
> irresponsible *users* of cellphones that cause the trouble.

Essentially the problem is that the concept of "responsible use of
cellphones" is very much left up to the beholder so that what may not
irrate most might cause a small minority to need Valium to unclench the
buttcheeks. You can try to be as courteous as possible, there's always
a tight-assed biddy who takes exception to the fact that you even HAVE
a cellphone. Personally, I don't give a toss if someone uses a
cellphone or not anywher near me. Cleaning your fingernails or blowing
your nose in a very loud manner at the next table in a restaurant, that
REALLY irritates me.

Before that it was "computers are taking over our lives" and way before
that "if we continue with this riding of domestic animals, donkeys will
rule the world". People have been complaining about something since
the invention of the stick. They should turn their attention to spam.
Now that's a pest.

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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's
oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the
search for a superior moral justification for
selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith