To play audio on my phone on train?

I'm happy to be the one who asks people to turn it off/down but its the not being backed up that gets me,

I have had this same experience - apart from the bellowing. I was on a train and this young man was blaring music out of his phone. He kept looking around the carriage as if to dare any of us to challenge him. Of course none of us did. At one of the stops this very fit looking muscled man got on the train. The music was switched off pronto without the Muscleman even looking at him. Embarrassing.

I once asked two women sitting across the aisle from me on a train to stop blaring out techno music on their phones. One of them condescendingly explained that there was a quiet carriage and I was welcome to move there if I had a problem. A number of other passengers complained to them and they gave the same answer. When they stood up to get off the train, they loudly announced that the train was full of “miserable buggers”. No love, we just don’t want to listen to your awful music!

That’s what they are relying though isn’t it?
Your fear, the fear of retaliation.
I don’t think people that are playing music or games loud are violent people. They are the ones with cans or bottles, being rowdy and spitting.
non-headphone wankers are usually from this wet wipe generation that has never been told no and gets all their life skills from watching TikTok

i always ask them to use headphones or turn it down. I’m always met with anger and this sense of entitlement that seems to think I’m unreasonable for asking. I’ve come across people doing this round English Heritage property.

Some groups of people don’t seem to have been brought up knowing how to behave in civilised society.

Theres a certain song about an anchor by a band called Alestorm (warning it has very offensive language if you Goggle it - but is very funny) which I fantasise about blaring out.

No one ever backs me up, but often people thank me when the offender gets off. The British public need to grow some too and start calling out uncivilised behaviour.

Agree immediate £1,000 fine and 6 month ban.

Wouldn’t it be lovely if everyone had manners? I wear myself out trying to teach primary school children how to behave. I need an Ed Sheeran foot pedal so I can repeat the same instructions on loop.

Oh I hate this. Common courtesy and manners have gone to shit. I do regularly call people out or give death stares but more and more, people just don't care.

I find
‘can you turn that down or off’ hissed quietly and menacingly through bared teeth usually does the trick.
Shouting, weirdly antagonises the situation and the volume level is increased.

I rarely travel by train and the first section of the journey was in standard. A man over the aisle from me had a full volume video call with his girlfriend discussing his imminent appearance in court for robbery! She pointed out he was likely to go down as the last time he had pushed someone in the river and stolen their phone!

The second part of the trip was in first class every one was so quiet. One man got up to take a call and said ‘hang on I will go to where I can speak’. He left the carriage.

It was such a huge contrast it felt like the train company had made the standard class so uncomfortable everyone would pay for first.

They won’t care

This reminded me of a train ride recently where in a virtually empty carriage, the guy directly behind me was watching something on his laptop with no headphones. I moved to get away from him but I did think, the social contract is breaking down here as it used to be just the occasional anti-social idiot but now it just seems to be Okay not to consider anyone but yourself in a public space.

I know you’re not serious 🤣

I don’t understand some teenagers now using their phone on speaker, held out in front of them like they’re on the Apprentice. Turn the speaker off and hold it up to your face!!

50% sounds about right. In my experience 50% of humans are utter dicks.

The public announcement in cinemas is well known and most comply. That’s all that is needed.

I don't disagree with what you say @cariadlet but

A widespread campaign against noise pollution, like there have been to promote the use of seat belts and to stop drink driving, is a good idea and could potentially shift attitudes. I have seen a real societal shift in those 2 areas in my lifetime. There are still people who don't bother with seat belts and who drink and drive but they are outliers.

driving without wearing a seatbelt and drinkig and driving are both illegal and so there are penalties (stick) to back to the campaigns (carrot) is ppl playing their music out loud on public transport illegal? I genuinely don't know if it is or not or whether it comes under catch all public nuisance?

Do the train companies send out customer surveys?? I wonder if anyone who works for them is reading this thread. Such a simple thing to do. As well as See it, Say it, Sort it we could have Play it, Mute it, Sort it or Play it, Risk it, Smash it? 😂

Its so annoying isn’t it. I stand near the train doors now as cannot stand the selfish idiots who play volume out load and cough and splutter everywhere or do this disgusting sniff (get a bloody tissue).

Extremely rude and discourteous behaviour. It made me think though - why do so many people have to be 'entertained' the whole time? Do they never want to just sit in silence and think or read a book? I hate it that you can't go anywhere any more where there isn't music playing - pubs, restaurants, supermarkets, dentist or doctor, hairdresser, etc. It's not necessary.

There are people out there who think "policing" people's "right" to play their music/crappy tik tok videos out loud is massively unreasonable

they walk among us....

@landlordhell they'll be doing the nation a public service and should be nominated for an award! 😀

I might email their agents and suggest the topic for their next show! I hate listening to loud audio on the tube, I once had to listen to a bollywood film all the way to work. Oh and another horrific conversation was listening to a woman talk to her Dr about gynecology issues. Ffs on a public train, people have no self awareness nowadays.

I wouldn't go quite that far, but I think travellers enduring awful tinny music played by selfish arseholes should be allowed to grab their phones and stomp on them until the noise stops.

Just use headphones, for fuck's sake.

A widespread campaign against noise pollution, like there have been to promote the use of seat belts and to stop drink driving, is a good idea and could potentially shift attitudes. I have seen a real societal shift in those 2 areas in my lifetime. There are still people who don't bother with seat belts and who drink and drive but they are outliers.

Until that happens, people will only stop blasting out noise on their phones if other people step up and speak out. I understand that the thought of confrontation can make people anxious. I wouldn't expect anyone who has previously been abused for asking someone to use headphones to do so again if they didn't feel able to.

But I do get really frustrated when so many people hate it but just sit and seethe instead of using their voices. Those of us who do ask people to use headphones find that everyone/virtually everyone we ask will do so. Some will be apologetic. Some will be grumpy. But generally, they do as they're told.

I'm a teacher and we often get reminded on INSETs that behaviour we ignore is behaviour we condone. The same is absolutely true outside of schools.

“Parents did fuck all”
And what about you? I’d have been tapping them on the shoulder and asking them to turn the volume off or use headphones. No way would I have put up with it for an entire flight.

I was on a two hour bus journey recently and one of the passengers was watching game shows or something on his phone. No headphones, full volume. The entire journey.

Blew my mind. Of course no-one said anything because we’re British but there was lots of head-turning and glaring which he totally ignored.