To think people should wear fucking earphones?

I had this from a fellow passenger on plane yesterday. It was like torture.

I don't understand how they don't feel mortified. Just yesterday on the train ide left my phone on loud because I was expecting a call. Completely forgot and clicked on a friends video on fb.
As chandlers voice screamed out my phone I couldn't turn it down quick enough and I felt embarrassed. Is it an age thing?

This. I sometimes wonder if I'm living in my own Enid Blyton world because it genuinely wouldn't occur to me to chuck my bottle into a hedge once I'd finished with it, or just abandon a half-eaten takeaway on the bus for someone else to boak at deal with. But going by the state of public transport, this is totally fine to some people.

We need the Wombles back - but this time, they MEAN BUSINESS.

Completely agree OP - it’s so inconsiderate, but seems to be the cool thing to only care about yourself.

I bring my noise cancelling headphones so I can read my book without having to listen to everyone else’s music / videos

I'm normally quite defensive of people being Mum-shamed but this is 100% the product of the iPad baby generation becoming of age, they're being given iPads as soon as they turn 1 to use 16 hours a day and then parents wonder why they have developmental problems and aren't socialised.

Don't reply to me defending this insidious practice, I don't care, it's bad parenting regardless of your children's neurodivergent status.

AIBU to think people should have more consideration and realise that the whole carriage doesn't want to listen to whatever shite they are playing/ watching?

But you are just an extra in their show. You don't get to tell them what to do.

For a huge proportion of the population, now, the world is the show they star in and everyone else is just an extra. Consideration for what other people want is as alien to them as consideration for what their electronic devices want.

I agree with all of the other comments on here. Because there are so many inconsiderate arseholes about, I just find it easier to put my own noise cancelling earphones in and either watch/listen to something or put pink noise on to block them out.

Some people phone call centres in publicly on speakerphone. Any fraudster could write down their various personal details and conduct fraud transactions on their cards.

I think some people have forgotten that phones have a non speaker non headphones option where you hold it up to your fucking ear. Genuinely.

We must get the same train. At this point I'm not even sure that earphones are helpful for the user or the people around them!!

In ye olden times (1980s) sometimes Walkmans were referred to as personal stereos....well its not really personal if half the carriage can hear the shitty music! Worst is when there's 3 or 4 people playing different stuff at volume level 600 on their headphones.

Oh I found a solution to that one - make as much work related noise near them as possible. Even my most clueless colleague learnt to use headphones after the other people on teams couldn’t hear him for the sound of photocopying/work chat/rearranging the stationery etc 😆

YANBU. When I was on the train home the other day an off duty guard was sat in front of me watching some football match on his phone with the volume on max. I'm guessing it's not part of their job description to ask people to wear headphones.

It's not only annoying, it's worrying that so many people can't be unentertained or alone for half an hour. Maybe it's a side effect of Covid but I wish they'd get over it

The 1% who voted YABU need go straight to the shops and get some earphones!

I hate sitting next to old people on the train when they're texting and their phone makes a high pitched beep with every single tap

On my train a lot of people wear headphones but have them so loud that the entire carriage can hear the annoying music anyway. I should really put shares in hearing aid companies as that stock is going to fly in 20 years.

I asked a 9 year old boy politely go wear headphones in the quiet carriage * and he told his grandma who was "supervising" from the other end of the not-at-all-busy carriage. She waited until the train was empty and came over and threatened to slap me because I'd made her grandson feel uncomfortable.

It's no wonder the kids are so entitled when the adults have their backs for shit behaviour.

And they never bloody lose signal!

I disagree that it’s stupidity or lack of self awareness. These people just don’t care, think its their right, and in my experience just tell you to fuck off

Agree

That's why I have ear pods. To drown out other people

Agree with everything here!
A lot of people seem to have become increasingly rude, obnoxious and self entitled with no respect for others.

Like others have said - blasting out music/videos without headphones, stupid talking into a phone on speaker and shouting as they can't hear - how about using a phone as it was designed and hold it to your ear! What a genius idea!

Also the language. F-ing this and that. I've had to ask people politely to mind their language as I'm sitting on public transport with my young child and am called names or sworn at. No need to swear every other word when you're talking on the phone (loudly on speaker!) or to the person next to you.

Ugh, think I'll just give up and move to another planet. Anyone want to join me?!

One day I will crack and treat the bastards to my 80s novelty hits playlist

There's klingons on the starboard now...

The last time someone did that I could hear nothing except the bloke behind him (my attendee). I made him go and find a meeting room.

Idiot

Yanbu. Also should be mandatory for the increasingly number of people who insist on FaceTiming in public.

If you did not want to approach them directly there are ways of contacting the train guard, or if the videos/games involved violence, foul language or racism, you could use the BTP text number.