"Personal" stereos

scottishminnie

The_One_Who wrote: »

Have you asked if they will turn it down? People are usually quite nice about it.

I've had the misfortune to be present on 2 occasions when the same offender has been asked, once by another passenger and once by the ticket collector, to turn it down and both received a mouthful of abuse for their trouble. I noticed this morning the ticket guy just skipped past said moron and didn't even check his ticket - he's obviously had experience of the ignorant pig before.

Fiddlestick

The_One_Who wrote: »

Have you asked if they will turn it down? People are usually quite nice about it.

I used to live in Glasgow.

I would not recommend asking the "locals" there to turn it down.

[Deleted User]

Earplugs? Or you could buy some of these - http://www.bose.co.uk/GB/en/home-entertainment/headphones-and-headsets/acoustic-noise-cancelling-headphones/index.jsp

Don't even need to plug them in to music... you just turn on the noise isolation and the world goes quiet

vyle

My friends and I once got so tired of some chavs pumping out their "phat beats" (or whatever the yoofs call them now) that we decided we'd annoy them for a change. We all put our phones onto their loudest, playing different songs ranging from J-pop to death metal, and sang along with them as loud as we could. The poor chavs couldn't compete and left the bus in a huff.

We then apologised to everyone on the bus and turned our stuff off. Oh it was so satisfying. I'd do it more often, but usually I'm on my own and would no doubt be stabbed or made pregnant... yknow how chavs are.

Kaleidoscope27

I listen to my MP3 (with headphones) but don't have it that loud because I don't like it thumping down my ears, it gives me a headache. So I despise it when I am forced to turn up my own music in order to drown out someone elses! If I'm wearing headphones, listening to music, I shouldn't be able to to hear anyone elses over the top!

marleyboy

You haven't been upstairs on a double decker bus, no matter what time it is, there's a mobile phone musical disco goin on upstairs, none with headphones.

Dreamnine

No-one can hear my mp3 player because I have very good iems that don't need to be turned up loudly.

The_One_Who

scottishminnie wrote: »

I've had the misfortune to be present on 2 occasions when the same offender has been asked, once by another passenger and once by the ticket collector, to turn it down and both received a mouthful of abuse for their trouble. I noticed this morning the ticket guy just skipped past said moron and didn't even check his ticket - he's obviously had experience of the ignorant pig before.

Some people are like that, unfortunately. I have found that most people are nice about it.

Fiddlestick wrote: »

I used to live in Glasgow.

I would not recommend asking the "locals" there to turn it down.

I travel into and out of Glasgow daily. Most people (unless they are clearly neds) are usually fine with it. Half the time they don't even realise it was so loud.

juno

It's not necessarily that loud, it's just they have cheap headphones that aren't designed very well and thus the sound escapes

Becles

ivylinn wrote: »

Have you seen the ones who use portable speakers instead of headphones :mad:

Someone on holiday had one of those. The hotel had activities time where they had music playing and pool games going for a couple of hours, and then quiet times where there were no games or music for the people who wanted to chill and relax. Worked well till some idiots turned up with portable speakers and blasted their crappy music out during quiet time :mad: Hotel asked them numerous times to turn it off but apparantly it was their "rights" and they "wernt doing nuffink wrong" and if anyone else dared tell them to turn it off they got a mouthful of abuse. Thankfully we left two days after they arrived!

Hermia wrote: »

My friend used to have that on her bus journey to work every morning. A group of schoolkids would have their RnB blaring out of some tinny speakers every single day. One day she had the bright idea of borrowing a Flanagan and Allen CD from her grandfather and she played that at full volume on the bus. Most of the passengers were regulars and realised what she was up to and were killing themselves laughing whilst the schoolkids got more and more annoyed!

I love that story. I wish I'd seen the school childrens faces