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.

I find
‘can you turn that down or off’ hissed quietly and menacingly through bared teeth usually does the trick.
Shouting, weirdly antagonises the situation and the volume level is increased.

Oh I hate this. Common courtesy and manners have gone to shit. I do regularly call people out or give death stares but more and more, people just don't care.

Wouldn’t it be lovely if everyone had manners? I wear myself out trying to teach primary school children how to behave. I need an Ed Sheeran foot pedal so I can repeat the same instructions on loop.

i always ask them to use headphones or turn it down. I’m always met with anger and this sense of entitlement that seems to think I’m unreasonable for asking. I’ve come across people doing this round English Heritage property.

Some groups of people don’t seem to have been brought up knowing how to behave in civilised society.

Theres a certain song about an anchor by a band called Alestorm (warning it has very offensive language if you Goggle it - but is very funny) which I fantasise about blaring out.

No one ever backs me up, but often people thank me when the offender gets off. The British public need to grow some too and start calling out uncivilised behaviour.

Agree immediate £1,000 fine and 6 month ban.

That’s what they are relying though isn’t it?
Your fear, the fear of retaliation.
I don’t think people that are playing music or games loud are violent people. They are the ones with cans or bottles, being rowdy and spitting.
non-headphone wankers are usually from this wet wipe generation that has never been told no and gets all their life skills from watching TikTok

I once asked two women sitting across the aisle from me on a train to stop blaring out techno music on their phones. One of them condescendingly explained that there was a quiet carriage and I was welcome to move there if I had a problem. A number of other passengers complained to them and they gave the same answer. When they stood up to get off the train, they loudly announced that the train was full of “miserable buggers”. No love, we just don’t want to listen to your awful music!

I have had this same experience - apart from the bellowing. I was on a train and this young man was blaring music out of his phone. He kept looking around the carriage as if to dare any of us to challenge him. Of course none of us did. At one of the stops this very fit looking muscled man got on the train. The music was switched off pronto without the Muscleman even looking at him. Embarrassing.

I'm happy to be the one who asks people to turn it off/down but its the not being backed up that gets me,

In my experience this is not the case. Young, muscular men in hoodies that I would t want to meet in an alley. I once asked a woman if she would move her shopping bags from the seat next to her and put them overhead as the carriage was packed and a young mum had a baby in her arms- I had a seat behind. She refused and carried on working on her laptop. She spoke to me in her own language and was aggressive. Several others backed me and she still refused. I gave my seat to the mum. It was a horrible. Not in a hurry for another confrontation.

Oh, I agree! Or they’d dismiss your complaints by trying to make you feel stupid for being bothered about a “little bit of noise”.

I was waiting outside DDs ballet class with another mum and first she had a long, loud and pretty personal conversation with her husband on loudspeaker. Eventually that mercifully ended and I was looking forward to quiet but no, she began to scroll through tik toks on loud. I was in disbelief.

This is a professional woman in her 40s. I think because of that I had expected her to take a similar outlook to me but she clearly didn't.

I agree. And it should be slow and painful

Its infiltrating flights now too. I was on a Qatar Airways flight recently, the first time since they've started rolling out Starlink WiFi onboard. To be fair, the Captain did make an announcement about Starlink and asking folk to be mindful of noise, wear headsets and keep voice call levels low, but it was a bit wishy washy. My flight was ok noise wise but the steward said there have been problems and complaints about noisy voice calls and streaming music and sports events - just what you want when trapped at 36000ft. 🙄

PP makes a very good (and disheartening) point about all these little kids with devices shoved in front of them on public transport and restaurants, they will be growing up thinking that behaviour is just the norm.

Why are they not embarrassed???

Absolutely unreasonable as is everyone else doing it. It is just plain rude. I have no desire to hear whatever rubbish you are listening too on my journey. In the same way I have no desire to hear both sides of a conversation when people video call on transport. Use headphones - it is not that difficult to be considerate of other people.

Of course you are unreasonable and it should be acceptable for other passengers to be able to open the door and throw you off the moving train.

Because these scummy individuals have no shame whatsoever.

A man on a train table at the opposite end of my carriage said 'I hope we're not going to listen to that all the way' to the mother opposite him whose child was playing a quiet tablet game (just the occasional muffled 'beep'). They switched it off. However, he talked to his companion the whole journey. His particular voice - at normal volume - was strangely piercing, and the whole carriage could hear him well above the background noise. He was also an irritating conversationalist. Unwittingly, he could have been singing 'Happy and you know it' on repeat for similar effect.

Once the tik toks started did you not ask politely if she had any headphones? I can’t think of a much safer environment to do so. An intimidating-looking man on a train is one thing but a professional woman in her 40s outside a ballet class should be non-threatening enough to say something to. We really need to start calling out this behaviour and making people think twice about the effect on others around them.

I bollocked a group on holiday speakers on a quiet beach fucking retards !
They did turn it off thou 😁
The mind boggles to think why would anyone want to sit on a beach and listen to your crap ruining peaceful reading and the sound of waves ! Entitled arseholes that's who !

Omg why do they , and facetime conversation why!!! Like we all want to know, bloody hell, 45 mins on a bus when someone facetime her friend 😡

I mean I’ve played peppa pig to make a point passive aggressively when on an empty ish train next to some bloke playing ‘banging tunes’ 🤷‍♀️. He turned his to headphones.

Honestly no, i didn't want to get into anything with her. She seemed like the sort of person who would have had no qualms in arguing back and I honestly can't face that aggro, also knowing I would see her week after week. I'm a peacekeeper and I just don't really have it in me to be calling people out.

Ah yes the bus FaceTiming - I do enjoy it when they're unfamiliar with the route of my bus and don't realise after the first 10 mins then signal disappears for the rest of the route

I totally agree about how annoying people not using headphones is. I've had success with asking people to stop. Obviously I'm not always brave enough but if it's a younger person for example then it's a kindness to them to tell them to stop in the long term. Or they'll go through life annoying people and wondering why people around them on the bus seem so grumpy with them...