16th May 2005, 8:53 PM
Why would it be rude? If you aren't impressed, it's your DUTY to make it clear, not decieve them. Besides, there's lots of press conferences where no one cheers. It's not something that's "demaned" at all, nor should it be. If you hear, for example, a suspicious scientist claiming something illogical, you don't cheer them after their announcement. You immediatly start asking questions.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)