To be pissed off by people playing media from their phone speakers on trains

[CheshireSplat]

Okay, I am a little irritable this morning because the trains have been up the spout, but is it now acceptable to play media from phone speakers rather than through headphones. It is distracting me from work and really annoying me.

YABU - I'm intolerant, need to move with the times and the train carriage isn't your office.
YANBU - Yes it's selfish and a sign of an increasingly selfish society

Although the worst one was when there were four boys sitting on the table opposite me talking incredibly loudly and explicitly about the sex they were having with each other

With each other? That must have been a conversation worth overhearing.

It happens all the time now - playing music/watching stuff/having conversations/facetime etc calls on the train without using headphones and parents propping phones/ipads on tables in restaurants with the sound blaring out rather than getting the kid to use headphones. CFers the lot of them.

I can only agree. I cant believe how anti social and selfish people are. I know its not helpful but I dont use public transport so Im not subjected to it too much but even in shops or walking down the road, massively loud conversations or music playing. Not acceptable

This makes me feel murderous. I cannot bare to hear media off anyone's phones anywhere. Use headphones you selfish pricks! I was sat having a coffee in Costa a couple of weeks ago and a woman was watching netflix on her phone and everyone could hear. I mean, wtf. I also have a friend who will show me long/loud/boring videos when we are out in public. It makes me die inside.

I have got to the age where I think the only answer is to complain to the staff in places. I wont risk confronting someone themselves in case I get stabbed or walloped, such is society these days. But the more we hold establishments responsible for monitoring their customer's behaviours the better

My sympathies about your friend, theres nothing worse, 'oh look at this funny video, wait a minute the funny bit is coming up soon, nearly there, its this next bit......'

You get the picture

Yanbu. It’s always crap music that’s played loudest. Ditto loud music from cars.

Oh yes. I think the ringleader (literally!?) was enjoying being so loud and shocking. I'm so glad I di

..didn't have DD with me. Their descriptions were graphic!

YANBU.

I work for the Tube and sometimes I have to listen to tuneless bollocks as people move around the station. I also sometimes travel Kate at night when the inconsiderate scroats turn the upper deck f the bus into their personal nightclub.

Ffs if we can have silent discos why do we have to put up with this?

If I was elected Prime Minister I'd issue headphones to all citizens as standard, and bring in laws that playing music from your phone is illegal.

Kate? Late!

Completely agree OP, although there was a guy on my train this morning who was wearing earphones, but had his music so loud he may as well have been playing it out loud

See also walking around town with a speaker 🙄

And yes loud phone calls. One woman recently was practically shouting down the phone, it was on speakerphone so you could hear the whole convo, then some other bloke started taking what sounded like a work call. He obviously couldn't hear very well because of the woman so he talked even louder, then the first woman huffed and said down her phone 'hang on I can't hear you, lemme put my headphones in a sec' 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Bit different but I also feel this way about buskers with amps and microphones. I am fine with buskers in general, they improve my town experience on the whole but this new trend of blasting yourself across town whilst filming it for TikTok is really unpleasant and just more noise pollution. I’ve also seen videos online of people politely asking buskers to turn down their amps and being berated by the busker/other people and then called “Karen” in the comments section.

Totally agree. And also rude fucking parents that blast Peppa pIg at you on their kids iPad when they're on the sunbed next to you or table next to you at a restaurant. This baffles me. I made all my kids wear headphones on the odd occasion where I'd need to distract them by watching something on the iPad whilst out.

I think the bloke on the train is onto something though, out noise them. Yesterday I was in the park reading quietly on my Kindle keeping an eye on the kids and a woman next to me started blasting a movie or something from her phone so I put the news on on mine and she did shut hers off (so I then did the same).

It's just so rude and entitled to assume that others don't mind listening to whatever you fancy listening.

No, it's utterly disgusting.

I've had the exact same fantasy!

That was supposed to be a reply to the poster who fantasised about having psychic powers to control devices. Seems like I don't even have normal powers to accurately reply to a MN post...

That's ok, I have a psychic link to this thread so I knew it was for me without being quoted. One day we will evolve this power, I know it!

God yeah l HATE this!!

I was on a train early Sunday morning before 9am. Almost empty carriage. A woman entered, sat down made a call, put it on loudspeaker(!) then proceeded to bellow. I was shocked.
& so annoyed I went over and told her to take her phone off speaker, I dont want to listen to the 2 way noise especially early Sunday morning, go to an empty carriage if she wants to be loud.

I'm not in the habit of approaching people. I tend to just move. But the entitlement of it got to me. & its mostly not young people, I find.

Parents talking loudly reading a book to children whilst peeping around smugly to check they can be heard, shouty business people having phone meeting, parents who let their child play computer games on loudspeaker. All of them grind my gears. This thing of having to be loud - why?

I was on a night coach to France once. A woman got on, made a call, proceeded to bellow. She was shut down in less than 2 minutes by coach driver who said 'we dont do this, we respect other passengers - speak very softly, or get off phone, or get off coach, take your pick'. Quite right too.

Mobile phones have made so many journeys a nightmare.

Absolutely. That's what headphones are for.

Lazy and selfish. I have noticed as well that more and more people are doing this.

I was in the waiting room of a clinic last week and someone started listening to some really loud video stuff. One man got up and asked them to stop. At least they did and apologised. but I don't get why anyone would need to be told in the first place that this is not appropriate.

Same on the train, tube, restaurants, coffee shops.

I asked someone to stop playing loud music on the train. Her reply:''it's my phone so I can do what I want''. To which I responded ''But it is not your train carriage, you are sharing a space with others''.

''Me, me, me and my rights'' is pretty much the way these people see life.

This gives me the rage. People taking calls, facetime, music, podcasts all on speaker. Like they own the world. Get some flipping headphones!

I've seen/heard this so much recently - in quiet parks, on public transport. It's the worst noise pollution.

I was on a packed bus about a month ago and a woman was watching back-to-back Tik Tok videos on full volume while her children jumped around. I asked her to turn it off expecting a mouthful but she did, straight away. Interestingly, she also looked really surprised, as if she had no idea it was unacceptable.

I asked a woman on a train, watching TV, to use headphones recently, and she said, "Oh, I didn't think anyone else would be able to hear it". WTF? Some people live in a bubble of their own selfishness.

It is annoying and I don't understand why it's suddenly such a thing.

Although the 'I'm so important' laptop bashers are quite close behind.