To play audio on my phone on train?

I sat next to a woman on the train yesterday who had ear phones on but talked about a potential inheritance she was about to receive. A grandparent had left her £300k in their will with another £300k - £500k+ due to her after the sale of property and assets.

All this was discussed on a busy commuter train with little concern for her security or privacy. I was amazed at how little concern the woman had about who else was listening in and that she'd made herself a target.

I put my air pods in and play music to block out the noise from other passengers who do not seem to realise they are being antisocial!

Years ago an iPhone came with a charger and headphones, now you just get a cable!

I bought my Daughters new iPhones for Christmas and air pods so they wouldn’t be ‘those children’ on the school bus!

And we can all sing their favourite play aloud music as it happens.

Agree.

And then they argue that it's noisy screen or crying, like their child only has 2 states of being

I’d describe the bloke in this article who says he listens to podcasts without headphones because he wants to spark debate as a self-important wanker but the Metro probably wouldn’t allow that in their comments.

The worst for me is when someone has a toddler who they are pacifying with a tablet. I get that repetitive content is good for their development but my development is already complete and I have no need to hear it!

What a nutter!

Well if you were on my train i'd tell you to get some fucking earbuds. There's a real problem with this on Public Transport. Folk blaring TikTok shite, Talking to some other twat on loudspeaker dishing their whole life for all and sundry to hear. Ten different songs on ten different devices at once, This is the age of the Utter Moron. Not enough folk speak up ( probably for fear of confrontation) but i'm one of the ones who does. Some Bus drivers in our area are challenging these idiots as well.

I love that Scot rail account. I follow it because it’s hilarious 😆

What does CHAV mean?

Ive only ever challenged young men and they all seem embarrassed that a muddle
aged woman would even speak to them never mind ask them to do something. I swear they think they are invisible. Would I have asked the couple in holiday to turn it down? I’d have probably asked the staff to intervene on my behalf to be honest

What if the staff announce a bomb scare - you’d be happily oblivious?

I’m not criticising you, I would have agreed with you but I’ve tried it and learnt that someone unreasonable enough to play music out loud doesn’t respond well to polite requests. On holiday last year someone a few sun beds down from me was playing what sounded like Radio 2 out loud on their phone. I left it for a while but then decided to politely ask them to stop rather than seethe. It turned out to be a couple in their 70s who were very hostile when I asked politely, with a smile, for them to turn the volume off. I pointed to my teenagers, who were wearing headphones, as an example of being considerate, in the most friendly way I could. They said they would turn the volume down and I thought a compromise had been reached. Nope. They turned the volume back up and after a while I went back to ask them to turn it around again, they were incredibly rude to me. They did leave eventually but for the rest of the holiday they stared at me in the restaurant and the woman kept following me around the buffet, I didn’t imagine this, she was virtually touching me she was so close. Now I have to seethe because there’s clearly no reasoning with selfishness. If I found myself in the same situation on holiday again I would just leave the area as it really had an unpleasant impact on the rest of my stay. This was quite a’nice’ hotel.

Destroying it in front of them is marginally better than the poster who would sentence them to death and the later poster who would make it as painful as possible. 🤣

So funny this thread. 😆

https://metro.co.uk/2026/01/05/spoke-commuters-dont-wear-headphones-find-25957340/amp/
Also found this.

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After seeing that Scotrail add I googled and apparently TFL run a similar campaign.

Print out some flyers about the benefits and etiquette of headphones on public transport and hand those out instead.

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That’s brilliant ! Well done Scotrail!

I think it's probably the "quietly and pleasantly" that helps!

I'm 70, and seemed to slide seamlessly from psychotically menopausal to angry old woman. I can start with a quiet "Excuse me, but would you mind..." but I get more and more pissed off and always end up at "because it's really fucking annoying and totally anti-social", delivered at something above "indoor" volume. And years of projecting my voice during drama lessons means it really carries.

I think rather than having designated "quiet" carriages on trains, it should be the other way round. All carriages should be quiet ones, with just a few designated for those who want to play music, noisy games or have telephone conversations in anything above a hushed whisper.

I live in South London where this is endemic and people seem not even to realise that its rude and antisocial. Its rare that I get on a bus or train these days when someone isn’t watching something out loud without headphones. I fucking hate it.

I will call people on it if they don’t look like they are going to beat me up and the thing that is really striking is how baffled people look when they are challenged on it; as if its the most natural thing in the world to be watching TikTok videos at 2,000 decibels.

I think we are now into the second generation of people doing this because the kids doing it now have parents who were doing it themselves so it doesn’t cross their minds that it would annoy or upset anyone. My parents would have torn me a new one for behaviour like that. But if you grow up in an environment where everyone is constantly on a different device blaring out YouTube shite you think its normal. No wonder kids struggle with attention issues at school.

I am pretty live and let live but I think it should be illegal.

It is the constant sniffing that gets me 😡

This Scotrail ad gave me a very self-satisfied chuckle!