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people who blast music on public transportation..

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Considering people will kill each other over just about anything, most people don't want to get stabbed over annoying music. Hence why they don't say anything.

Personally, I pick and chose my battles so I'd rather just deal with an annoying douchebag that's not actually hurting anyone.

Last time someone blasted music like that a guy asked the kid to turn it down and the kid complied.
 
Kentpaul said:
lol public transportation.. get a car bro
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Get the fuck out of here with this childish bullshit. What a naive worldview. For some people a car makes no sense since the trains handle all of their transportation needs. Some people can't afford a car. Some people just don't want one. Some people do have a car and still take public transportation.

Myself for example. I own a car yet it's not realistic to drive it to work every day. Gas + Parking would be murder. It's cheaper to take the train to work. Which I do. As does just about everyone else on the train with me.
 
Teh Hamburglar said:
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Should have been first reply.
 
Riding a bus across the country when I was 19.

This guy in the back had a massive 1980s urban style "blaster" (no, he was white).

He wasn't allowed to play music when the bus was traveling.

But.

EVERY single TIME we stopped somewhere, he started this fucking boombox up and it was always the opening beats to "Superstitious" by Stevie Wonder.

And he NEVER finished the song...he would get up to "VERY SUPER---" and shut it off. This happened over a dozen times.

The bus slows down, "boing boing boing BOING boing BOING-BOINGA boinga-boinga boing...she's very SUPER---" and then the bus stops and the song stops too.

Every time.
 
earphones are not the solution. good earphones are. i FUCKING hate everybody who uses their damn crappy apple earphones, you might as well just use your speakers makes little to no differences.
 
I haven't experienced the blaring phone speakers thing. But nearly every time I've ridden public transportation, there's been somebody with headphones on rapping loudly along to music that nobody else can hear.

But I haven't been on public transportation in a few years, so maybe things have changed and I'd be annoyed by the phone stuff today.
 
Blair said:
I once sold a portable speaker to a guy who procceded to rip it out the packaging and plug his phone straight in. I hope his fellower travellers were partial to Tha Carter IV.
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Those guys make me fuckin' laugh. I wish I had owned an ipod/iphone at the time because there was this dude who was luggin' around one of those "portable" iphone speaker sets (looked to be at least 5lbs) and his music died so he pulled out a ziploc of a bunch of batteries and just started replacing them on the train. I was crackin' up so hard and he looked at me and i looked at him and just laughed in his face.

Shit was funny.
 
Diprosalic said:
earphones are not the solution. good earphones are. i FUCKING hate everybody who uses their damn crappy apple earphones, you might as well just use your speakers makes little to no differences.
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Maybe you should buy them some good headphones.

TheWiicast said:
I've been taking the train a lot lately and notice some people blasting hip hop through their phone speakers at full volume.

Its not an isolated thing. Each time the people in the train seems visibly annoyed but no one did anything about it.

Finally on the commuter rail a woman got into an argument with a person about it buy the guy just kept on blasting his music.

So what's the deal? Is this a cultural thing im not aware of? Do people just have a hard time not losing headphones?

Insight please, gaf.
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Didn't know being annoying on public transportation is a cultural thing. I take the bus and train everyday and if it isn't loud music, it is someone on a cell phone or a baby crying, or people talking. You want to know whats really annoying this couple i seldom see on the subway at 6am. One guy sits at the very front of the subway car and the woman sits near the middle and they talk to each other. WTF they cannot just sit next to each other they must annoying everyone on that subway car.
 
I love how high and mighty Kentpaul acts these days, when just a year or so ago he was on the dole and unrepentantly defending his mooching lifestyle.

I once told a teenager on the DC Metro to turn off his phone when he was listening to music through its speakers. My white middle-aged friends were aghast that I'd done such a dangerous thing.
 
KevinCow said:
I haven't experienced the blaring phone speakers thing. But nearly every time I've ridden public transportation, there's been somebody with headphones on rapping loudly along to music that nobody else can hear.
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I would not be able to stop myself from cracking up at this. The mental image alone is making me laugh.
 
You think it's bad in public transport? Imagine living with a person who does this 24/7 -_-' Brother woke me up countless of times with that crap.

It's made me very self-conscious of this "people can hear your music" stuff. One time I was listening to a news podcast (thankfully not my shitty music :P) and someone told me to turn the volume down and then I realized my earphones weren't even plugged in. Very embarrassing.

I used to take my earphones off once every 20 seconds to make sure that they're actually on and no one car hear them. Thankfully I got one of those earphones with volume control so now I don't have to.
 
Mammoth Jones said:
Get the fuck out of here with this childish bullshit. What a naive worldview. For some people a car makes no sense since the trains handle all of their transportation needs. Some people can't afford a car. Some people just don't want one. Some people do have a car and still take public transportation.

Myself for example. I own a car yet it's not realistic to drive it to work every day. Gas + Parking would be murder. It's cheaper to take the train to work. Which I do. As does just about everyone else on the train with me.
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Childish bullshit? I don't stay near a train station and busses cost a shitload of cash to get on in scotland.. A car is the best option for me.


Sir Fragula said:
I thought you were on welfare; how can you afford a car?
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Been working for a year now and got a huge tax refund.

I prefer a car. Each to there own.

Have to commute to work using a bus would triple my commute time with having to leave earlier and wait for the bus. Life is to short to waste it standing at a bus stop.

Keep in mind im scottish so im not in debt up to my eyeballs in student loans, buying a cheap used car is no biggie.
 
I once had to share a 2 hour bus journey with a woman who was listening to Heavy Metal whilst ripping up peices of paper, she looked like she was doing it for a purpose and wasn't just crazy, but she looked damn crazy.

People with music so loud that I can hear it over my own headphones always sucks aswell, I dont know how those people can stand it, must be insanely loud.
 
i run into this almost daily on certain bus routes. the best is when they take a call and talk so loud that the people with headphones on can hear them. sometimes they are slamming their face with a loaf of bread and gallon of orange juice. the bus is great.
 
I`ts the worst thing. It`s disrectful. why should someone in particular have the right to make everyone else in a bus or similar form of transportation hear what they want. if they want to disconnect they are in their right. everyone can listen to what they like, but without affecting third parties.
Just because I love the Beatles it doesn`t mean the person next to me likes them. heck I dont know them, they might even hate the band, so why should I (or anybody) make people listen to what I like in a closed public environment?

They invented headphones for a reason.

People who do this are just craving for attention in my opinion.
 
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