• umbraroze@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    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)

  • Nurgus@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I like to loudly say to my children: “Isn’t it sad that some people can’t afford headphones”

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        6 days ago

        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.

  • Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    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?

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      7 days ago

      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 life

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        7 days ago

        Thank you for sharing; yeah, that would be really irritating. Maybe I’m just lucky I’ve never experienced the same intensity.

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      7 days ago

      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

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          i mean thats fine i guess??? if it’s below cpnversational volume thats pretty much on mute for everyone except the watcher

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    7 days ago

    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.

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    7 days ago

    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.

  • Bob Robertson IX@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    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.

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      7 days ago

      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.

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    If more people acted like Everett True, we’d live in a much nicer world. We’ve given assholes far too much free reign.

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      8 days ago

      Being massive assholes to people you feel are being assholes. No contradictions there.

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      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.

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    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.

    • Sʏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 days ago

      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.

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      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??

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        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.

  • MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    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.

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      7 days ago

      It’s also sometimes transit, but that’s mostly because the public does not fund and prioritize transit as they should.

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      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,…

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    8 days ago

    That’s horrible. Think of all the blood someone else has to clean. For that reason I suggest strangle.

    • _____@lemm.ee
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      8 days ago

      “You haven’t thought about the smell, you bitch!” vibes.

      (from always sunny)