We old people were raised well, dammit! We had wired earphones! Then Apple cocked up and tried to make expensive wireless earphones fashionable. And look where that lead us. That’s right, kids not knowing what earphones even are. Fuck you technobros, you can’t do anything right.
(Posted from my HMD Global Nokia 5.4, which does have a headphone jack, thank you very much) (Sorry if abrasive, mildly drunk)
I like to loudly say to my children: “Isn’t it sad that some people can’t afford headphones”
Just yesterday, I had to endure some mf with headphones loud enough to be heard by everyone around him on the bus
I mean, that’s fucked up. I’m just glad it wasn’t on full blast out of the device speaker, or heavens forbid, a Bluetooth speaker!
All of which are disgusting.
Aight, someone explain their point of view please. What level of volume severity have you commenters experienced? Someone listening to something has never bothered me, but it also has never been loud enough I can’t have a conversation with someone. Most restaurants play music louder than I hear from a stranger’s speakers. I don’t get what is rude about it. Even the Everett True comic below, several of you are that on edge about a person whistling or humming to themself?
I was on a 7-hr bus trip starting from 2:00 am until 9:00 am. A fucking cumsock sitting in front of me kept browsing Indian tiktok loud as shit for more than 30 mins and no one was saying anything. I tried to sleep and just let him be, but I couldn’t because it was loud as shit. I then tried to play similar bullshit on my phone loud as shit next to him to tip him off to how awful it is if someone else did that but still nothing and he was giggling watching tiktok on max volume. I had to tap him on the shoulder, and ask him “Do you have a headphone dude? a headphone? or shut that thing off. Thank you.” then he said ok, and that was the end of story.
Still I could not believe the level of obviously for a grown man to do this to everyone around. I thought he was mentally challenged at first but no, he was a grownup sober functional cumsock in his 30s. I still wish the bus driver just shot him twice and everyone pissed on him but that’s not how it works in real lifeThank you for sharing; yeah, that would be really irritating. Maybe I’m just lucky I’ve never experienced the same intensity.
like on the bus or metro and someones watching an already very loud tiktok video right next to you at full volume, thats really unfun for most people
Ok, I do get that, but what about if it is below conversational volume? Does it still bother you the same?
i mean thats fine i guess??? if it’s below cpnversational volume thats pretty much on mute for everyone except the watcher
Abso-friggin-lutely. Shoot them twice to be sure.
It’s such an annoying, disrespectful thing to do in public. If you do it, you’re either a giant asshat or too dumb to keep around.
I’m so old I remember when you’d get thrown out of restaurant if you used a cellphone
Back in the day when cellphones could only take calls.
Seems reasonable.
Can we have a special level for those who blast conspiracy theory videos? That was my last trip, and even with my headphones, I could still hear them droning on about some ignorant hot take divorced from any semblance of reality.
Let’s not shoot them. I prefer public censure.
I was in the surgery waiting room for 12 hours while my mom had spinal surgery and some piece of shit Boomer kept watching political commentary videos on his phone and would very aggressively say to people “This isn’t bothering you, is it?” And when we let him know it was, he’d just move a few seats away - not far enough to make any real difference. I wanted to beat the asshole to a bloody pulp, but I was equally as mad at the hospital who didn’t put an end to it.
Same with fuckers in restaurants watching sports on their phones, or on speakerphone calls, or kids playing their fucking preschool games with their volume turned up. If we can’t kill these motherfuckers then we should at least be allowed to smash their phones out of their hands.
I just tell people to please use headphones or turn their whatever to silent. I’ve only once had a guy react not so nicely to that.
I don’t think urinating on people in public transport is a good idea. But otherwise, spot on.
When else are you supposed to urinate on people?
;)
When they ask politely at home, after supper
Asparagus supper
In the privacy of your home? Like a civilized person.
What about furious masturbation? Because that happens whether it’s a good idea or not.
If more people acted like Everett True, we’d live in a much nicer world. We’ve given assholes far too much free reign.
Being massive assholes to people you feel are being assholes. No contradictions there.
The paradox of tolerance shows us that, indeed, there is no contradiction.
Um.
Does Ev have an Iron Cross on his hand?
The cross pattée has many heraldic uses, but this is more like an “x marks the spot” like on a treasure map.
Everett true began in the early 1900s as in 1900-1909.
Nobody had decided to co-opt it for their shitty ideals yet.
The iron cross is still used by modern German armed forces
Its the x mark from where he back handed the guy, the dotted line shows that
😵💫✨🤛🎩😤
We don’t just give them free reign, for the most part the world promotes being selfish.
Damn near everything we ever hear takes no one else into account. Living wage is less and less common, billionaires have all the money in the world and zero accountability, healthcare (Mostly US specific) is an overpriced scam with no guardrails, food costs whatever the fuck the people who control it tell us it costs regardless of production costs, housing costs way too fucking much, fake news is more and more prevalent and conning more and more fools.
Its easy to see why people focus on no one but themselves anymore, its just the way of the world, toxicity is winning.
I’ve been stuck on a train with a girl wearing headphones and singing along to Savage Garden. We all suffered.
She was even shutting her eyes tight and doing these ones…
If you’ve ever listened to just the vocals of a song without music, it was that, but also awfully off-key because she, of course, could not hear herself. Obnoxiously, I think she thought she was putting on a performance we were all impressed by. No one was impressed.
I wanna stand with you on a mountain
Following the sudden and catastrophic collapse of their bodily edifice, the faint crack of a sniper shot cut through the relatively short moment of peace and serenity only to resume forthwith.
I wanna bathe with you in the brie
I wanna slay like this forever
You just unlocked a repressed childhood memory from when I was 10 and we spent our lunchtimes playing MTG outside the school hall. Every day for months one year a group of girls decided to rehearse a dance they were choreographing to Animals by savage garden so we had to listen to it being constantly played, rewound, played again, stopped, repeated, ad nauseam. It made me hate savage garden for years after with an unrequited fury. I don’t think I ever fully recovered.
Ungh my manager at my last job did that shit all the time. Infuriating, because I wasn’t allowed to have headphones (inbound tech support), and it was really distracting when I was on a call.
And just like, so incredibly rude, who the fuck does that??
She’s just trying to get discovered
That’s exactly how it felt. Like her imagination had daydreamed the scene long enough, it was time to put it out to the universe and be approached by all those agents and producers crammed in the commuter carriage of the inner south line.
It feels like this is getting worse every year. If you’re going to do this, at least get a quality boombox with good music like Radio Raheem.
The problem with public transit isn’t the transit, it’s the public.
It’s also sometimes transit, but that’s mostly because the public does not fund and prioritize transit as they should.
It is not even that, it is a tiny minority of the public. In fact, come to think of it, that is the problem with a lot of systems that would otherwise work great, a tiny minority of exploitative rich people, a tiny minority of spammers, a tiny minority of people who vandalize public spaces,…
We’re all in that tiny minority at least sometimes. And that’s why I avoid people. Not just for me, but also for them.
This person should text-to-speech this tweet on public transport
That’s horrible. Think of all the blood someone else has to clean. For that reason I suggest strangle.
Automotive Keel-hauling is better, keeps the mess outside and feeds carnivorous wildlife.
“You haven’t thought about the smell, you bitch!” vibes.
(from always sunny)
