Give text messaging a break till the interval. Please. Photograph: Alamy
What could be worse than attending a classical music concert only to have the performance annoyingly interrupted every few minutes by the increasingly random collection of sounds we now call ringtones? The "collective flickering of multiple cell phone screens" is, according to this rant-astic observation, an even graver sin. Text messaging your mates or surfing the web while you have paid - presumably - to attend an artistic performance is "wholly unreasonable" when you can just as easily wait till the break. Bad techiquette is an unfortunate consequence of our tech-heavy times - but should we leave it up to individuals to respect the creative space or should venues wage a wireless war against mobile phone bad manners and install equipment that jams your signal to those always-on communication networks instead?
