AIBU to be astounded at people’s shamelessness?

Perhaps it will stop when eventually "everyone" is doing this and the cacophony will be such that even the CF's will be forced to wear headphones to hear anything, lol.

Was on a train from Bedford to London last week and there were a couple of lads doing this and it was bloody annoying. Fairly elderly lady asked them politely to turn it down. The response was ‘oh fuck off grandma’ while smirking at each other

her response was quite something. She leapt up with a ‘what did you fucking say to me you little shit? You want to fucking make something of this?’ With a full on gangster style, wide eyed lunatic look. Right up to them and in their faces. They went absolutely white and silent and left the carriage. Was brilliant!

not an approach I’d have the nerve for but pretty awesome.

Bus Chav is brilliant😂

It’s bloody human rights - everyone has the right to be as twatty as they like.
And CCTV works against normal people - if you threatened anyone nowadays you’d be in court being fined.

It’s annoying but so are old people who punch endless text messages and their phone makes a click or beep sound for every letter they type

drives me mad

Remember the good old days when youths played music on ghetto blasters on the bus?

YANBU. When I see this behaviour I usually say something if I think it's safe to do so. A few years ago that would've worked the vast majority of the time. Nowadays either a full mouthful or 'complies for a couple of mins then decides to be a PITA again' seems to be far more common.

Yeah it's definitely not just young people. Some of the worst behaviour I've encountered has been in the 50+ age group. Like the woman who told me to move out of the way in Seville cathedral, because apparently I'd been standing in one place for too long and she wanted to take a photo.

(I replied in my best Mongolian that I didn't understand her, rude bastard.)

@HotRootsAndNaughtyToots I've seen plenty of older people having conversations on speaker phone with the volume high. Very irritating indeed.

This isn’t a new behaviour but it does drive me nuts. DH and I having been calling it ‘being a bus chav’ for years (yes I know mn hates the word chav).

If either of us briefly put the sound on our phones at home on the sofa or in bed, we get told off by the other for being a bus chav.

I actually don’t know how people watch as much TikTok as they do, how is there that much time in the day when it’s suitable to have the sound on your phone!

That'll be me looking for whatever I need to press/tap/swipe to turn the f***g thing off. 😉

I didnt commute in the 80s (too young) but i did go on buses or trains fairly regularly and people with stereos or ghetto blasters were not regular occurences. And certainly not multiples of them , in one train carriage.
whereas now its not unusual to be able to hear multiple people's media - it could be 3 people with "leaky" headphones, 1 person without headphones, 2 people on speakerphone etc...all in a confined space!

I was about to say much the same….. I was trying to have a nice quiet breakfast in a cafe. There was one other customer- a woman of about 70. She had a 45 minute FaceTime call on full volume! When I complained to her she said it was ok because it was a special occasion because her son had just arrived in Australia. Well, strangely, having a peaceful breakfast in a cafe was supposed to be a special occasion for me.

New level of obnoxious behaviour unlocked in the supermarket today. Couple with several children. One child aged about 2 in the trolley with what was some sort of karaoke microphone blasting out Disney tunes that she could also sing into I think. It was an awful noise which I could hear 3 aisles away. I kept trying to move on so they weren't close to me all the way around.

YABU to act like rude people who don’t care about others are a new thing that hasn’t always been the case.

People had to make a deliberate choice to carry around boom boxes though. Not so with phones - they're everywhere and everyone has one.

Normal conversation from pensioners or otherwise isn't the same - there is a distinct acoustically intrusive quality to electronic noise and general media broadcasting that isn't present in the human voice.

There should be a fine for that sort of behaviour.

I suspect the OP would have said exactly the same about a man twattishly playing TikTok videos - the only difference would be that she wouldn't risk asking him to turn them down.

I have to say it’s ALWAYS young women who plonk themselves in the first available seats on the bus - the disabled/priority ones.
Someone will probably now tell me that they have hidden disabilities. All of them.
Then I have to wonder why I have literally never seen any young man doing this.

And I use buses a lot.

Happens all the time. I was in a hospital waiting room today - very quiet, many people w cancer (not me thankfully) and some woman w phone on full blast.

It's entirely true.