Page 7 | To play audio on my phone on train?

ThreeWordUsername · 2026-01-17T23:00:27+00:00

Would IBU to start loudly playing some ads for headphones from my crappy tinny phone speakers on the train? Given the number of other people blaring shite from their own they are unlikely to be affected much tbh.

WhatILoved · 18/01/2026 07:21

OSTMusTisNT · 18/01/2026 01:05

I did it in a restaurant once after losing patience with little Damien playing god knows what game on his tablet at full volume. His parents were obviously used to ignoring him and were totally oblivious to it.

This was a small restaurant for enjoying a wine, decent food and having adult conversations not somewhere noisy and kid friendly like Frankie and Benny's.

This happened to me at The Savoy!!! They didn’t even give kids a chance to behave. Tablets out immediately

Philandbill · 18/01/2026 07:17

ilovesooty · 18/01/2026 01:43

I asked someone not to do it in the waiting room at the dentist. She said I was rude to speak to her. When I told reception they said they couldn't do anything about it.

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I'd be really tempted to respond to this by singing "If you're happy and you know it" repeatedly...

EmpressaurusKitty · 18/01/2026 06:54

I think that if someone doesn’t stop after the first time of asking, it should be compulsory to remove their phone from them & throw it out of the doors at the next station.

There’s a scene in one of the Thursday Murder Club books where a bloke in a cafe refuses to stop making a racket on his phone & someone threatens him with a gun under the table, making the point that any jury would agree she’d been provoked into killing him.

DeftGoldHedgehog · 18/01/2026 06:40

CharlotteStreetW1 · 17/01/2026 23:48

Blame the phone manufacturers, especially Apple who started it, for removing the headphone jack and making people have to buy earbuds which are stupidly expensive. I haven't bought any (but I don't play stuff out loud).

At least you can get headphone adaptors for phones now.

Rubbish. Wireless headphones are inexpensive and no-one has to buy fiddly and expensive earbuds where you will inevitably lose one of them.

cariadlet · 18/01/2026 06:37

Jugendstiel · 17/01/2026 23:06

I was on a train recently when I big man stood up and bellowed down the carriage: I don't like your music mate, and I don't want to listen to it. Get headphones or turn it off.
Whoever was blaring their music turned it off. But I did think they wouldn't have if the person complaining hadn't been built like a heavyweight boxer.

I got on a very busy train last summer and someone's phone was loud. I was travelling home from the airport after a very long flight and was knackered so it annoyed me even more than usual.

Usually, I quietly ask people to turn their phones off or use their headphones but I couldn't work out who it was so I stood up, turned around and loudly asked whoever it was to turn the sound down because the rest of us didn't want to listen to it.

I'm a physically unimpressive, middle aged woman but the phone went quiet.

ShowMeTheSea · 18/01/2026 02:57

Yes, you would..I absolutely hate people playing loud music or whatever on their phones. So by this logic I should play stuff loud and do the same just because some people do that to me? We're not all the same, we're all individuals. Don't be a dick just because others are. Otherwise where does that stop?

NotMeAtAll · 18/01/2026 02:06

They should suffer.

Evieatthebeach · 18/01/2026 01:52

And now there’s the new hell of this happening on planes as I recently discovered on a long haul flight when trying to sleep so had my own headphones off. The cabin crew did deal with it but the passenger argued back briefly!

ilovesooty · 18/01/2026 01:43

Ellie56 · 17/01/2026 23:43

We are living in the Age of Entitlement.

There are entitled twats everywhere, not just on the trains.

I asked someone not to do it in the waiting room at the dentist. She said I was rude to speak to her. When I told reception they said they couldn't do anything about it.

Allisnotlost1 · 18/01/2026 01:08

This is why I never travel without headphones. I don’t want to listen to other people’s music, conversations, kids or breathing.

OSTMusTisNT · 18/01/2026 01:05

I did it in a restaurant once after losing patience with little Damien playing god knows what game on his tablet at full volume. His parents were obviously used to ignoring him and were totally oblivious to it.

This was a small restaurant for enjoying a wine, decent food and having adult conversations not somewhere noisy and kid friendly like Frankie and Benny's.

heartsinvisiblefury · 18/01/2026 00:27

Driftingawaynow · 18/01/2026 00:01

Cunts

nailed it

BogRollBOGOF · 18/01/2026 00:11

One day I will crack and share my novelty hits playlist...

The version I'm subjected to most is kids on tablets either while waiting in activities or in "family friendly" pubs restaurants. Bloody annoying when you have teenagers but still have to go to places that now sound like soft play with a dose of CBeebies. And it doesn't bode well for the manners of the next generation...

BunfightBetty · 18/01/2026 00:07

Far too much of this around - I think some are entitled, others are just oblivious, and haven't been brought up properly.

Instant £1000 fine would sort it.

Driftingawaynow · 18/01/2026 00:01

Cunts

Copperoliverbear · 17/01/2026 23:56

Yes

ItsSlipperyWhenWet · 17/01/2026 23:56

No that’s horrific

AutumnClouds · 17/01/2026 23:56

At least no one here has yet said ‘of course I only play audio quietly in public’

TitsInAbsentia · 17/01/2026 23:55

In the supermarket the other day I had to listen to at least four phone calls on loudspeaker...one woman was basically talking her mother down the midlle of aldi aisle....insufferable...I have started to think that next time I'm on a train or supermarket and that happens I may just start blasting out some obnoxious death metal

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ThreeWordUsername · 17/01/2026 23:53

CharlotteStreetW1 · 17/01/2026 23:48

Blame the phone manufacturers, especially Apple who started it, for removing the headphone jack and making people have to buy earbuds which are stupidly expensive. I haven't bought any (but I don't play stuff out loud).

At least you can get headphone adaptors for phones now.

Whilst that may not have helped, a set of Bluetooth headphones can be bought for £20ish which is surely affordable for people with iPhones?

Even if I genuinely couldn't afford headphones/earbuds I can't imagine a scenario when I would willingly inflict my choice of audio on a carriage full of strangers around me.

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TomatoSandwiches · 17/01/2026 23:51

God I fucking hate people 😂

CharlotteStreetW1 · 17/01/2026 23:48

Blame the phone manufacturers, especially Apple who started it, for removing the headphone jack and making people have to buy earbuds which are stupidly expensive. I haven't bought any (but I don't play stuff out loud).

At least you can get headphone adaptors for phones now.

Ellie56 · 17/01/2026 23:43

We are living in the Age of Entitlement.

There are entitled twats everywhere, not just on the trains.

OhBobbins · 17/01/2026 23:41

I was pleasantly surprised to hear announcements on the bus recently reminding people to use headphones and not play audio out loud.

Sadly that doesn't stop people or prevent people from having excessively long, loud phone conversations, but it shows that the bus company are at least trying to do something.

I started taking actual earplugs when I used to commute to work by bus and the complete silence to read the news/a book in the morning was bliss!

CrispySquid · 17/01/2026 23:10

ThreeWordUsername · 17/01/2026 23:05

I'm not seriously going to do it but for fuck's sake they're driving me insane. Who the hell thinks this is an OK thing to do in a shared space? (Answer: about half the train apparently)

I know. It’s bizarre how often people do this in public spaces. It’s so selfish and braindead. They’re not even deterred by hard glaring or staring. I’m always secretly pleased when someone tells one of these nuisances to turn it off/down as I’ve never been brave enough to do it myself. What has suddenly happened to so many people becoming void of civic sense?!