To play audio on my phone on train?

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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.

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!

They should suffer.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

Thats ridiculous. A pair of earbuds is a fraction of the price of your telephone. Mine cost £20.
Also, I know its hard to comprehend but watching videos on your phone in the train / tube / bus isn't mandatory. A book or doing nothing is good too.

I have thought the same! Not re death metal but that’s genius.

In fact I did do it once on a bus when the lady in the seat next to me was watching videos on loud I just started blasting my Instagram reels at full volume while looking at her. She turned it off, I turned mine off and we had beautiful silence the rest of the way. 😬

We need to start using our voice and asking people to turn it down/off. Granted you can’t do half a train but if it one person nearby I always ask politely if they will turn it down, much to the chagrin of my kids.
If people just sit there quietly seething, nothing will change.

@CrispySquidand indeed everyone else on this thread, please DO ask 'offenders' to switch off their audio. Passive stares and waiting for someone else to say something are not sufficient. I always ask people and they always comply. I'm a small woman. My recent favourite was a middle aged man conducting a group teams call at full volume. Everyone was looking at him. I said put loud ' we can all hear your meeting. Its extremely anti social for you to do this please use headphones.' His answer 'oh, you can hear me?'. Me 'yes we all can'. Twat. IMO the more we speak up its not just that person but others around us who realise its not acceptable.

Looks like it’s just me and you @Twattergy trying to change the world. Come on women, join us!

You get a lot of sound leakage with cheap headphones which can be just as irritating as someone playing audio without them.

I completely agree but recently asked a man to turn his volume down on a train and he went absolutely spare and started threatening me.

Now I just simmer angrily in silence!

Oh I’m with you OP. After listening to a speakerphone conversation consisting mainly of ‘I’m on the train’ ‘it’s a bad line’ ‘what?’ etc - nothing of substance was said - I told the man responsible that the rest of us didn’t want to hear his conversation and why did he have to have it on speaker! He seemed completely amazed, and offended. I mean WHY?!

Why is everyone having calls on speaker?

I find the people who walk round the shops or down the street with their phone held out FaceTiming with loud speaker on the most annoying.

• Put the phone to your fucking ear and just use it like a phone, or put your headphones in, that way at least we only have to hear one side of the conversation
• No one actually needs to real-time video share their entire life
• The conversations are usually so inane and dull they really shouldn’t be happening at all, they clearly have nothing to actually say to each other
• They get in the goddamn way all the time, walking slowly, stopping to show a sign they’ve seen or a new shop, stumbling into people because they’re too focused on the screen in their hands, they have no respect for other people desire for a bit of peace or the ability to enjoy the atmosphere of the venue they’re in.

I work full time, have a child, have all the normal busy-ness that everyone does. I am able to survive without needing to be on the phone at every moment of every day, everywhere I am. If I need or want to have a conversation with someone then I do that in the privacy of my own home or car where I can focus on that conversation.

One of the many reasons I love Japan.

The only noise on trains is from the actual train movement, the announcements, or the occasional hushed conversation. Oh and the odd group of kids or teens talking at normal conversational level.

Bliss.

I recently played music out loud for about half an hour in a public place by mistake (I thought it was coming through the headphones) and now I am too ashamed to ever go there again.

You know it’s not actually mandatory to play audio on your phone in public places right?

Working on the assumption that the phone owner can afford several hundred pounds for a phone but not £20 for some blue tooth headphones, or £1 for an audio jack adapter, they could just not watch videos or listen to music or make calls while they are in a public space. They could save that for when they get home.

I listen to audiobooks through my Bluetooth headphones at the gym & normally check 2 or 3 times that they’re working properly.

I hate that this is a thing. I dont get it. I see people walking down the street with phone calls on loud speaker. Put it to your ear, thats how its designed! 😂

Kill them.

Huge sympathy. If you’re alone, all you can do is move. BUT If I’m with someone I have a loud conversation with them about train etiquette, including reading loudly from advice guides on how people shouldn’t play audio from their phones on the tube. This causes my companion to squirm with embarrassment but about 50% of the time the oik playing audio on their phone switches it off.
it’s hideous and I’ve seen everyone from three year old to 90 yr old do it, so it’s not generational.

its rude and annoying