I don’t agree with death penalty, but think I’d consider it for this…

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Woman on the train next to me is scrolling through reels with the volume on. No headphones. How socially inept do you have to be to think this is ok?

Immediate death penalty 😁

Justified. I just stick death metal on full blast on my phone to counter it, usually gets them to pack it in.

😂😂

Sadly I’m with two teens who I fear might send me to guillotine if I try that.

I think you needed to put ‘lighthearted’ in your title OP as some people think you are being unreasonable 🤣

I was prepared to say that those from the Epstein Files absolutely should have the death penalty on the table but we all know that money talks!

Anyway, YANBU! That is the height of inconsiderate behaviour on a train.

ETA - My DH does this at home whilst sitting on the sofa and it drives me mad there. I tell him to pack it in though.

I have just come from the GP’s surgery. Me and one other person sitting in the waiting room. Yup, you guessed it, she’s sitting there watching videos with the volume on. I gave her ‘the look’ and she snapped at me really rudely. I mean - a doctor’s surgery?!?

I had it last week in a waiting room in Harley Street as well. I cannot fathom why people think this is ok.

I wouldn't go as far as that. I would have their phones taken off them and crushed.

Same for phone zombies walking along completely oblivious to their surroundings.

Absolutely not at all unreasonable of you.

It's funny how death penalty threads usually bring out all sorts of moral objections. Not this one.

Cyclists who jump red lights at pedestrian crossings need to be added to the list

Agreed - I’d soon have the population thinned out to manageable numbers if I had a vaporising gun and had to travel on public transport very often…

Yep. Against the wall.

I think there are numerous things you could have referenced as a joke without using the death penalty which isn't really funny.

🙄 always one.

We could team up. If I had a zapper, ideally an invisible one so I could operate in stealth, I'd be patrolling the streets and all sorts of public spaces to prevent noise pollution, dropping of litter, flytipping, people blocking aisles with a trolley or stopping dead at the top of the escalator, kids on scooters or anything else with wheels whizzing around banging into other people. I'd be like a pig in clover.

The problem with a life sentence is we don’t really have the prison space.

I quite like the zapper idea.

My pet hate too. YA most absolutely definitely NBU!

And ‘lady’ who goes to the same cafe as me on a Tuesday morning - your son being in Australia may well be a special occasion to you but to me it isn’t and your 45 minute no headphone FaceTime call ruined my time relaxing in the cafe.

Why haven't you just told her to stop? That's what I do.

My cure for this, which is surprisingly effective is:

On public transport - play opera, hymns or organ music

Everywhere else - whistle tunelessly and persistently, right next to them

when I was a kid, spontaneous combustion was a “thing” remember reading about it in the paper…I imagine a slight wisp of smoke and all thats left is their slightly smouldering trainers😂

I see Rose is trying yo cause havoc on yet another thread😂

YANBU OP!

I have experienced people playing stuff on their iPads / phones out loud on every flight I’ve taken for about two years.

Absolutely insane behaviour

I'm not really a violent person so I would settle for a splat gun and blast them with a face full of custard.

My husband does this too. It makes me murderous and it doesn't matter how many times I ask him to turn his volume down it keeps happening. It's so bad mannered in my view

Accompanied by teen dd and her friend. Seeing as I embarrass her merely existing I thought it best not to make it worse 😂