To wonder if using iPADs on planes without headphones is now acceptable?

[policeandthieves]

2 recent flights both with lots of small children on board as holiday destinations and different sets of parents entertaining them with iPads (fine in itself) but volume blaring - is this now acceptable? i asked one guy very politely if he could just turn it down a little and he gave me a look like I was a child hater. Flight home different parents same thing - I just put up with it.
Do people think this is now Ok. I hadn't been on a 'holiday' flight for a while and there are not lots of small children on business type destinations so maybe I'm just out of the loop now my kids are a bit older. Saw a few with headphones though so some people seem to think the noise is unacceptable.
Hadn't really seen Peppa Pig much before but now think I could do it on Mastermind!

No, it’s not fine ever.

I will pull people up on it sometimes and they get really aggressive. Got called a nosy old cunt today on the bus for politely asking the man next to me if he could use a lower volume or headphones as opposed to the ear-splitting volume he started with.

@SnuggyBuggy

Do not get me started on this.

Parents who allow this should be shit through the knee.

Dd is happy enough to watch things on silent, she'd never expect to be allowed the sound up outside of the house without headphones. It really annoys me when kids have obnoxious YouTubers blaring especially. In Costa the other day a kid around 9 was watching Jake Paul or some other horrendous creature and it was OOOHH MANNNN, WOOOOO, YEAAAHH every five seconds

iPads didn’t exist when mine were toddlers, so they had to make do with the seat back screens. It can be hard for little ones to wear headphones, so they just watched with no sound. Still loved it! I can’t get over how rude some parents can be.

I was on a train recently where an adult was watching a film at full volume. Another guy asked him to use headphones and got a load if aggro back.

The complaining guy then moved to sit next to noisy man and played Handel’s Messiah at more than full volume on repeat and totally drowned him out.

Everyone was inwardly cheering. Noisy guy moved carriages.

We had this on a recent flight. Someone a few rows in front. Was sooooo loud and repetitive. Luckily we were near the back so there was flight attendants there who asked them to turn it down. My kids are told headphones or no sound. No one else wants to listen to baby shark for 4 hours.

I agree it's unreasonable BUT really how much can you hear above the roar of the plane?

Planes. Trains. Restaurants. Adults too. Boils my piss! Selfish twunts!

roar of the plane what planes are you going on?

Two people in the train near me doing this last week (at the same time). Infuriating.

It’s happened on the last two flights I was on too. Opening the plane door midair and throwing them out is too lenient a punishment. Selfish bastards.

Roar of the plane 😂 When was the last time you went on a plane?

Yanbu OP No child or adult should be watching an IPad or any device without headphones on a plane, why should every other passenger listen to fucking Peppa pig? I think people that allow dc to do it & adults that do it are just inconsiderate arseholes tbh

No not acceptable.

Actually got into an argument with a woman on our last plane trip, when I was distracted for a moment and DD4 took off headphones. She screeched at him though the gap in the seats.

I was on a long distance train recently getting silently angry at a nearby family because I could hear stupid iPad games being played at full volume... then realised the family were quietly entertaining their kids with a non computer game and the adult sat behind them was the selfish arsehole with the volume on!

YANBU. Told off a bloke for watching a completely unsuitable film ( swearing, gunshots etc) without headphones on the plane. He had the grace to look sheepish but I mean WTF? It was 11 am and he was sat besides children.

Absolutely not, it's the height of rudeness

I was in a packed fracture clinic waiting room yesterday where some numpties decided to play Baby Shark at full volume. And them singing along (the adults not the child) really enhanced the whole joyus experience.

On a recent business trip, got back to the hotel and decided to enjoy a coffee and cake in the hotel coffee shop to wind down. Except the couple on the next sofa we’re watching a football match on an iPad. No headphones and at top volume. Accompanied by yells of encouragement “cooooommme ON!” “Yes, yes yes, GOAL!”.

So much for being able to relax.

It's not just children and it's not just on planes. It's everywhere. We seem to be constantly surrounded by electronic fucking racket now. Banal radio stations blaring out in taxis/coaches/shops. TVs left on in the background in houses irrespective of whether anyone in the family is actually watching it. Awful, sentimental piped music on queued phone lines and in hospital or GP waiting rooms. Pubs full of inescapable giant screens everywhere instead of one screen in one area. It now seems increasingly.normal to play music from phones or watch films on ipads without headphones in public whether you are 3 or 33, but I think it's partly because the constant electronic racket everywhere is becoming so normalised that some of these people genuinely don't realise how intrusive it can be for others around them because they're inoculated to it themselves. I am beginning to have a theory that as a society, perhaps especially amongst the younger generation who've grown up with portable electronics and itunes etc as a basic fact of everyday life, we are becoming almost afraid of silence.