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I'll start with dirty bastards sat opposite me in libraries or behind me on buses chewing their gum so bastarding loud that I can hear every squelch. Eurgh.

People playing music without earphones on public transport

People playing music through earphones on public transport so loud that I can hear. It no longer becomes a personal ipod or mp3 player because my ears can hear the damn tuneless drones of the tasteless music.

Spitting. Just eurgh.

bad day?

YANBU

I wish I had the guts to cut their earphones off.

sorry, but I'm the one with the earphones on the bus. I just can't help but put them in, LOUDLY, it's not the same if they're not loud. I can't help it. It's an addiction. I don't do it to annoy, honest.

My music taste, is great tho, so you won't mind.

Purple -

seriously, you are going to knacker your hearing, not now but for when you are middle aged I bet you're young

I'm young, and it's already knackered. Look, I don't smoke, I hardly drink, I'm an all round good girl, let me have one vice without being told how bad it is for me. Please don't be sad. My vice doesn't hurt others the way smoking does.

Ah the perils of public transport and the public library sitting with the hoy polloy

Sting should be banned. With his lute. Put in a prison cell and made to think how annoying he is.
Squelchy kisses, clacking sweets and snuffling.

Sorry Purple, but the sound of an ipod/MP3 from the back of a bus when I am in the front gets under my skin the way nails down a blackboard gets under other people's skin. Turn them down- its not for long!

i with purple im afraid, loud music is the only way, and a great way to block out the world
i am also one who plays fantastic loudly through my headphones, sorry!

The coolest woman I ever saw was back in the 80's when Walkman were all the rage. There was a kid on a train with the bloody thing hissing away.

This lady (who was in her fifties) indicated several times for him to turn it down and he ignored her. She reached into her handbag, pulled out a small pair of scissors and cut the wire.

Girl Power! The rest of the carriage were . The kid just sat there looking stunned

(Purply, honestly I'm the first to say " it's a free country, bog off" , but IME it's no fun being annoyingly cloth eared, particularly if music is so important to you. I will definitely keep my nose out as I do agree it is NONE of my business )

If I were Prime Minister, my first act would be to ban chewing gum. I'd turn us into Singapore on the spot.

It stinks, creates a mess and makes people look like cattle chewing cud. Hateful stuff.

Now, i'm not a total bitch, if someone asked nicley if I would turn it down because they can hear it, well i'm not going to say no am I? Try saying PLEASE.

purple, dustycups, why should an entire bus or train carriage full of people have to listen to your choice of music, whether tasteful or otherwise? It's inconsiderate and rude and makes commuting even more stressful than it need be.

The fact that you know you do it, and are just waiting for someone to pluck up the courage to ask you nicely, just makes it worse!

actually i must say i dont really go on buses or trains very much with headphones on so i only bug the people that walk past me in the street!

The wearing of vast quantities of perfume/aftershave/body spray should also be banned- especially if it's cheap crap.
And I mean vast quantities, as if someone has bathed in it.

And muzak played over the phone whilst waiting for someone to answer - don't mind a bit of classical but not "lift muzak" for goodness sake.

The bossy voice at the self-service checkout.

this is the kind of stuff that makes me paranoid that people can hear me when i play my iphone! however i do always make sure to take out my headphones and hold them in front of me to see if i can hear the music coming out... also no one has ever complained thus far.

but, i have sat next to a lot of people who play there music so ridiculously loud that they must KNOW everyone within a 5m radius can hear.

so YANBU on any accounts.

But why is it rude or annoying to make a little noise, in the middle of the day, outside, in a busy town, that's full of noise anyway? People are so intolerant of each other.

I wouldn't dream of listening to it on the quiet carriage of a train.

Are we all supposed to go around in absolute silence now? Just incase in bugging you?

If I am in a public place, I expect to see and hear other members of the public.

I agree with the playing music out loud - it's normally annoying teenagers who do it, trying to show off and be all "i'm so awesome".

I kind of agree with not listening to music with earphones so loudly that everyone else can hear. Even though you may think you have fabulous taste in music, other people may not agree. If you really want to check, post it on MN to see what the response is. It is something that people can turn down, and be aware of. It's about being considerate of others.

Ban spitting. And if people spit on the street, make them lick it up

Sometimes it is not just "a little noise". Sometimes it's loud enough (even through headphones) for people at the other end of a tube carriage to hear (I'm obviously not specifically referring to you, but have had this on public transport many many timeS).

{holds hands with purple as we r kicked out the country along with the spitters}

yy on the chewing gum, can we also throw in people crunching food (the person who sits next to me a work spends all day every day crunching polo mints... grrr).

Also people who 'taste' food on cookery shows and make a big deal of it. Makes me want to retch.

I'm not too fussed over leaking headphnes - can't me more annoying than listening to half a conversation as someone jabbers away on their mobile on a bus.

okay, okay.

BUT then can I say, can we please ban any kind of music being played in public? Because I don't like most of the crap played on the radio. I don't like anyone that stands in the street in town singing covers/ or playing an instrument. I don't like it in shops, I don't like in cafes.

IT BUGS ME.

I listen to my Ipod to drown this crap out.

I'm quite militant, as you might have gathered, about people listening to loud music on their earphones in confined spaces like buses or trains, but in the street, where I can escape it, it doesn't bother me, and if that's where dustycups and purple do their loud listening that's fine by me. It's just when I'm trapped and forced to listen to someone's tinny tunes.

That's when I get the urge to commit acts of sabotage...!