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I’m on the plane… the PLANE!
…Already we can hardly bear to travel on trains, owing to the prevalence of the kind of mobile phone user, usually male, who proves his virility by talking at the top of his voice for the whole journey…
…But I have already met Social Norm, and I know all too well that Social Norm never dissuades anyone from making mobile phone calls. Social Norm is the one making the mobile phone calls. The excessive background noise, on any form of transport, is made by a score of Social Norms shouting their thick heads off, and all it does is make them shout louder.
…The thought of making my next business trip to Australia in the company of Social Norm and his mobile phone, not to mention his vociferous wife Social Norma and her mobile phone, was enough to make me wish that whole business of flying could be brought to an end.
”Well said, Clive James, well said. Now, if only one were allowed to strangle Social Norm…
