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’d vote for this guy!

I think that’s hilarious and I’d definitely do it 😂😂

I don't want to get into confrontations with people. I am not shy or anything but you just don't know how it will go and is it worth it if they kick off? You already know they are oblivious, selfish fucks. They could be aggressive as well.

I have new AirPods which are brilliant and block out lots of noise. It shouldn't be necessary, but it is.

I would love to have the confidence to sing along to any music being played (my voice is horrific) or put some kind of ballad on and start singing along to it.

I was on a train recently, and a woman got on and sat opposite me at my table. Immediately started playing crap on her phone. A guy nearby asked her to stop, and she said, "It's only TikTok!" I have no idea what difference she thought that made, but she did stop.

It was such a huge contrast it felt like the train company had made the standard class so uncomfortable everyone would pay for first.

I rarely use first class, but did so a little while ago as it was actually cheaper than standard. The peace and quiet was disrupted for hours by a drunk middle-aged man (I say his age as he was old enough to know better) who was declaiming loudly and trying to engage everyone else in conversation. I don't mind a chat on the train, but he was enraging.

Morning folks! Just to clarify for those who took me a bit too seriously - I was in fact indulging in a little fantasy/hyperbole. Hence the Bose ad suggestion.

I understand the sentiment that if we don't challenge it it will continue. However, on a fairly full train post Saturday night drinks I would have felt unsafe as a middle aged woman starting a confrontation, regardless of how politely I did it. I'm also not sure it should be our problem to solve. IMO the train and bus companies should all be publishing, advertising and enforcing rules around this. Above all though I find it depressing that such a large group of society just don't give a shit about their choices impacting upon others.

i asked a man in a cafe who was playing sports highlights out loud on his phone if he could put headphones on a few weeks ago because his audio was extremely annoying. He looked genuinely surprised. And he did turn it off.

I agree though OP I wouldn’t have done that on a train at night.

60 something granny here 😁. I tell anybody and everybody, very quietly and pleasantly with a smile on my face, to use headphones and stop annoying everyone. I’m generally met with silence and compliance but have also had a few genuinely bewildered people who can’t believe they are being annoying. Interesting and amusing conversations follow. Maybe being a retired lecturer helps 😂

This Scotrail ad gave me a very self-satisfied chuckle!

It is the constant sniffing that gets me 😡

I live in South London where this is endemic and people seem not even to realise that its rude and antisocial. Its rare that I get on a bus or train these days when someone isn’t watching something out loud without headphones. I fucking hate it.

I will call people on it if they don’t look like they are going to beat me up and the thing that is really striking is how baffled people look when they are challenged on it; as if its the most natural thing in the world to be watching TikTok videos at 2,000 decibels.

I think we are now into the second generation of people doing this because the kids doing it now have parents who were doing it themselves so it doesn’t cross their minds that it would annoy or upset anyone. My parents would have torn me a new one for behaviour like that. But if you grow up in an environment where everyone is constantly on a different device blaring out YouTube shite you think its normal. No wonder kids struggle with attention issues at school.

I am pretty live and let live but I think it should be illegal.

I think it's probably the "quietly and pleasantly" that helps!

I'm 70, and seemed to slide seamlessly from psychotically menopausal to angry old woman. I can start with a quiet "Excuse me, but would you mind..." but I get more and more pissed off and always end up at "because it's really fucking annoying and totally anti-social", delivered at something above "indoor" volume. And years of projecting my voice during drama lessons means it really carries.

I think rather than having designated "quiet" carriages on trains, it should be the other way round. All carriages should be quiet ones, with just a few designated for those who want to play music, noisy games or have telephone conversations in anything above a hushed whisper.

That’s brilliant ! Well done Scotrail!

Print out some flyers about the benefits and etiquette of headphones on public transport and hand those out instead.

😂

After seeing that Scotrail add I googled and apparently TFL run a similar campaign.

Here

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https://metro.co.uk/2026/01/05/spoke-commuters-dont-wear-headphones-find-25957340/amp/
Also found this.

Destroying it in front of them is marginally better than the poster who would sentence them to death and the later poster who would make it as painful as possible. 🤣

So funny this thread. 😆

I’m not criticising you, I would have agreed with you but I’ve tried it and learnt that someone unreasonable enough to play music out loud doesn’t respond well to polite requests. On holiday last year someone a few sun beds down from me was playing what sounded like Radio 2 out loud on their phone. I left it for a while but then decided to politely ask them to stop rather than seethe. It turned out to be a couple in their 70s who were very hostile when I asked politely, with a smile, for them to turn the volume off. I pointed to my teenagers, who were wearing headphones, as an example of being considerate, in the most friendly way I could. They said they would turn the volume down and I thought a compromise had been reached. Nope. They turned the volume back up and after a while I went back to ask them to turn it around again, they were incredibly rude to me. They did leave eventually but for the rest of the holiday they stared at me in the restaurant and the woman kept following me around the buffet, I didn’t imagine this, she was virtually touching me she was so close. Now I have to seethe because there’s clearly no reasoning with selfishness. If I found myself in the same situation on holiday again I would just leave the area as it really had an unpleasant impact on the rest of my stay. This was quite a’nice’ hotel.

What if the staff announce a bomb scare - you’d be happily oblivious?

Ive only ever challenged young men and they all seem embarrassed that a muddle
aged woman would even speak to them never mind ask them to do something. I swear they think they are invisible. Would I have asked the couple in holiday to turn it down? I’d have probably asked the staff to intervene on my behalf to be honest

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I love that Scot rail account. I follow it because it’s hilarious 😆

Well if you were on my train i'd tell you to get some fucking earbuds. There's a real problem with this on Public Transport. Folk blaring TikTok shite, Talking to some other twat on loudspeaker dishing their whole life for all and sundry to hear. Ten different songs on ten different devices at once, This is the age of the Utter Moron. Not enough folk speak up ( probably for fear of confrontation) but i'm one of the ones who does. Some Bus drivers in our area are challenging these idiots as well.